Crysis Remastered PC Revisited: DLSS, New Content, Improvements - But Is It Fully Fixed?

Crysis Remastered has re-emerged - the Ascension level has been restored, DLSS has been added and numerous fixes have been made. There are clear improvements here but it's still not quite everything it should be. Alex Battaglia - of course - reports.

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[alyx]

I swear all we really want is the original Crysis but utilizing more than one core.

[kwedl]

I'm still disappointed that it's based on the console version because it means that most of the physics, wind interaction and volumetric clouds will never be a thing in the remaster.

[trblemayker]

Psycho still looks like a lump of clay in remastered.

[gbguthrie]

This game simply wasn't ready and was crippled out of the gate. The fact that it took this long to ammend a title critical in reinvigorating and gauging any further interest in not only the series, but also the game engine is astonishing. And even then it's not even fully fixed.
I hope Crytek don't cheap out next time and take care with their future Crysis games.

[johnsmith-ckqt]

Looks like implementing DLSS was easier than improving CPU utilization. Pretty good update, but the game still far from being perfect.

[resonatingraptorid]

Glad to see Ascension is back. I always thought it was one of, if not the most technically impressive level in the game.

[JMartinni]

Almost six months since release and the remaster is still inferior to the original in some aspects...

[steel]

DLSS is love, DLSS is life. I was one of the RTX skeptics, but DLSS made me a devout believer in these cards.

[konczdavid]

There are a lot of things that are still missing.
- No FOV and view model slider
- No leaning with controllers (even though it could be easily implementable)
- Broken binoculars on wider monitors than 16:9
- Controller auto-aim is badly implemented and only work 1 out of 20 times (and the game should use bullet magnetism with controllers anyway, similarly to Halo games)
- There's no option to toggle sprint
- The sensitivity options for controllers are limited (no ADS sensitivity)
- The CPU utilization is still extremely high

[Alex-ojpo]

Still can't sprint prone, 0/10

Seriously though I'm pretty damn disappointed with this "Remaster", they took the easy road and this is where it got them

[PatsHungryGaming]

Dlss is where performance, resolution and visual quality come to an agreement.

[callumdointhings]

Was gonna go buy this and then noticed its still Epic exclusive lmao. Dumb.
I aint playing this without my Steam features. Mostly the controller configurator that I use all the time.
That barebones launcher literally makes games worse

[Xyos]

That jitter on the foliage is because they removed a unique anti-aliasing technique that was only applied to alpha mask foliage textures. Its not present in the remaster and its a shame. It addressed that foliage jitter at a distance issue and also made foliage look more full and realistic at a distance. There is a presentation the developers did shortly after Crysis was released where they talk about it. They really should add it back in. I've never seen foliage rendered in game as good as it was in the original crysis.
It's also a shame we still don't have save states :(

[Voidward]

I personally find DLSS quality setting to be superior in terms of image quality than basically everything else. It has the right amount of smoothing of jaggies and stability in motion and sharpening compared to most other AA solutions. The fact that it does this while saving performance is kind of mind blowing, because I'd actually take a performance hit over no AA gladly to implement such AA.

[mbe]

This Remaster needs a Remaster. But honestly, Crysis needs a remake. Its a good freaking game and worthy of it.

[igodreamer]

Heard "console version" and "Crysis" in the same sentence just scream heresy to me. Good to see Cry Tech make good adjustments to the product tho

[cagencagen]

You guys should look at the enhanced edition mod from remastered studio

[karlzimmer]

There is a patch that fixes Ascension performance in the original, you can download it as a .pak, it was a problem with particle rendering but performance is fixed with the mod patch.

[germanCouchWarrior]

It becomes better yes, but was this type of remaster really cost and time efficient? Crytek needed a big boom to promote their engine and their expertise of graphics engineering. But meanwhile there are so many developers and engines which surpasses this remaster in terms of graphics. In my opinion Crysis needed a remake with mindblowing state of the art graphics to bring Crytek back in the minds of gamers. In my eyes the Metro series is the new showcase of modern first person realtime rendering.

[MassiveHappyClapper]

DLSS needs to be used in more games. Red dead 2 would be good.