{"id":45791,"date":"2012-10-11T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45791"},"modified":"2012-10-11T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:40:23","slug":"crysis-2-fan-made-hd-texture-pack-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45791-crysis-2-fan-made-hd-texture-pack-launched","title":{"rendered":"Crysis 2 fan-made HD texture pack launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who simply couldn&#8217;t <em>bear<\/em> to look at the <em>absolutely disgraceful <\/em>Crysis 2 graphics following its controversial assault (and betrayal) on PC gamers everywhere last year will be happy to know that some brave fan has managed to control his gag reflex long enough to create an HD texture pack that improves the game&#8217;s visuals over their original disgusting&#8230;ness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45796\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45796\" class=\" wp-image-45796 \" title=\"crysis 2 screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot.jpg 630w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crysis-2-screenshot-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I mean, you can actually <em>see<\/em> the paravolumetric occlusion flux capacitor buffering. <em>Disgusting<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s assuming you&#8217;re still willing to give the game a chance. I mean, DX10? That&#8217;s going to be hard to forgive, Crytek.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to enhanced textures, the 1.5 GB mod by MaLDoHD adds a graphics control panel to the game so you can change the values for things like anti-aliasing, shadow blur, and view distance until your PC overheats and crashes, which is what Crysis 2 was <em>supposed<\/em> to do when it launched last year, but didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/maldotex.blogspot.com.es\/2012\/10\/maldohd-40-beta.html\" target=\"_blank\">MaLDoHD for Crysis 2<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2012\/10\/10\/pretty-up-crysis-2-with-this-mega-texture-enhancement-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\">PC Gamer<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38674-crysis-2-is-back-on-steam.html\">Crysis 2 is back on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37247-crysis-3-getting-exclusive-visual-goodies-on-high-end-pcs.html\">Crysis 3 getting exclusive \u201cvisual goodies\u201d on high-end PCs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30007-crysis-2-was-2011s-most-pirated-game.html\">Crysis 2 was 2011\u2032s most pirated game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shockingly hideous 2011 graphics made over for 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":45797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,1531,2228,7162,905],"class_list":["post-45791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-crysis-2","tag-crytek","tag-hd-texture-pack","tag-mods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45801,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions\/45801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}