Prey Demo This Thursday

[HumpX]

Just a reminder to all you PC shooter purists that the long awaited demo for Prey (http://www.prey.com/) will be released thursday afternoon.

It'll be a big one too as we'll get 3 single player levels and 2 multiplayer. The first SP level will be the one we've all seen from the E3 2005 movie (http://www.3drealms.com/prey/index.html#videos) that blew everyone away (you DID see it didn't you?) which is the bar scene where Tommy gets abducted as well as the cigarrette machine, his grandfather, several bar stools and his girlfriend.

hopefully we can get a Wackbag deathmatch server up eh? :action-sm

-hump

[blackout-]

oh hell yea, been waiting for something besides oblivion to mess around with. the fucked up gravity and portal stuff in the demos looks awesome - have only ever really seen it in serious sam before, but nothing that advanced

[HumpX]

Oops!!

The demo release is actually TOMMORROW evening at 9 p.m. pacific time (Midnight for the east coast)

In case you haven't seen some of the portal and/or gravity tech, these 2 movies will have you drooling over the possibilities of the gameplay.

Number One (http://www.gametrailers.com/player_e3i.php?r=1&id=10384&type=wmv)
Number Two (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uEkzsVIWFg&search=prey)

[Monstercloud]

Really looks like a great game, almost like a HL2-esque game where they are really heading for the cool graphics/phsyics/sci-fi stuff. Will definetly have to try to demo and as long as it doesn't disappoint, reserve it.

[JonBenetRamsey]

i had no idea what was going on in those videos and i love it.

[HumpX]

It's finally out (http://www.fileplanet.com/164821/160000/fileinfo/Prey-Demo)

very impressive.

[TheJew]

i've been reading up on this a lot at work (where i currently am writing this) but i have not had a chance to d/l the demo; looking forward to doing that tonight. can anyone confirm the july 10th release date on ign?

[DoucheMeister]

A little off topic, but I can't start threads yet.....

Anyway, I was at EB Games, to check out the release date of Prey, and look to pick up something. I noticed that they redesigned the layout of the store, and only have a tiny section now for PC games. It was less than 1/3 of the space they had before, and no used PC games. I guess when the 360 launched, they needed another section.

Once the Wii and the PS3 launch, is that gonna spell the end of PC games at these stores? Are our nightmares coming true, and PC games being pushed to the side in favour of consoles?

[JonBenetRamsey]

A little off topic, but I can't start threads yet.....

Anyway, I was at EB Games, to check out the release date of Prey, and look to pick up something. I noticed that they redesigned the layout of the store, and only have a tiny section now for PC games. It was less than 1/3 of the space they had before, and no used PC games. I guess when the 360 launched, they needed another section.

Once the Wii and the PS3 launch, is that gonna spell the end of PC games at these stores? Are our nightmares coming true, and PC games being pushed to the side in favour of consoles?
they better not be. as much as i dig my 360 and want a wii i love me some pc gaming.

[blackout-]

demo is on newsgroups - if you don't want to wait for it on shacknews:

http://www.binsearch.info/?server=&b=Prey_Demo&g=alt.binaries.games&p=fvhbbbd%40fvhbbbd.com+%28fvhbbbd%29&max=250

if link doesn't work just goto the binsearch.info site and search for 'prey'

[HumpX]

demo is on newsgroups - if you don't want to wait for it on shacknews:

http://www.binsearch.info/?server=&b=Prey_Demo&g=alt.binaries.games&p=fvhbbbd%40fvhbbbd.com+%28fvhbbbd%29&max=250

if link doesn't work just goto the binsearch.info site and search for 'prey'

huh? Its on every major downloading site and bittorrent (one of these days I really ought to learn how to download shit from newsgroups tho.....)

PatBattlefield, any shot at getting a multiprey server going?

[Mindriot]

Try to grab it here @ http://www.gamedaily.com/.

I never wait for a download at that site and I always get Great DL speeds.

[TheJew]

Once the Wii and the PS3 launch, is that gonna spell the end of PC games at these stores? Are our nightmares coming true, and PC games being pushed to the side in favour of consoles?

we'll tell you at 11

[DoucheMeister]

we'll tell you at 11

:clap:

[blackout-]

just created my own server to fuck around a bit, player physics stink - wish it was more like quake3 ra or cpma, but with the cool gravity switches and portal tech that kind of jump-move- bunnyhop, curljumps etc. would probably be pretty impossible to code together. gonna hop on multiplayer later and singleplayer also.

weapons are pretty cool, remind me of the organic guns in eXistenZ heh. dunno what the spirit world stuff is for yet (was just messin around on my own) but thought it was something for after you die - a minigame or something.

[blackout-]

ack tried multiplayer, lowest ping server i found was 120, should be playable but could hardly even move, think it was someones home server or something. fired up the single player, the intro 'level' is fuckin sweet.

[MikeHimself]

ack tried multiplayer, lowest ping server i found was 120, should be playable but could hardly even move, think it was someones home server or something. fired up the single player, the intro 'level' is fuckin sweet.

yea thats what happened when i tried multiplayer. i thought the singleplayer was pretty cool.

[RandomNY]

I played it yesterday and HOLY SHIT!! those graphics are great.. The game has been in development since 1995. The walking up walls with fuck with your mind as you are going to have to kill monsters while you are upside down. Also the walls will shit on you as you walk around, also for a demo they give you over an hour of gameplayer in the single player mode.

I can't wait to totally rebuild my system so I can play this game at 1600 resoulution will all the eye candy on.

[RandomNY]

You can use the spirit to help you in the game. You can get into rooms with your spirit and help you open up locks and whatnot. When you die you go into SPIRIT mode and do a mini-game of killing some deamons and then back to the game.

How about the sound track of "Don't Fear the Reaper", while you are at the dive bad with the biker guys before the aliens attack.

[chumpy]

Looks really kick ass. I'll wait for reviews to see if I want pc or 360 though.

[TheJew]

i just finished playing the single player demo, and it made me nauteous. but it was really really good and i'll definitely be picking this up.

[blackout-]

How about the sound track of "Don't Fear the Reaper", while you are at the dive bad with the biker guys before the aliens attack.

that was really cool. also they had 'scotch greens' on the jukebox heh, fuckin cool country punk band i saw a couple months ago with flogging molly.

[blackout-]

just finished the sp also, very cool stuff. gravity shifts are pretty badass

[HumpX]

Looks like the full game got leaked. its all over every bittorrent site. Seeing how I pre-purchased it I just downloaded the fucking thing anyway.

I do feel bad for Human Head studios. They said if the game didn't sell enough they might end up having to close down....

Anyway, the game is pretty much what the demo implied. A little less exciting than I imagined but then again my expectations were probably a little too high to begin with (keep in mind I'm only about 1/3rd of the way through so it could get better).

Anthony should be a happy camper as theres lotsa puzzles involving the gravity switches and area portals. Some truly mind bending.

[Monstercloud]

Looks like the full game got leaked. its all over every bittorrent site. Seeing how I pre-purchased it I just downloaded the fucking thing anyway.

I do feel bad for Human Head studios. They said if the game didn't sell enough they might end up having to close down....

Anyway, the game is pretty much what the demo implied. A little less exciting than I imagined but then again my expectations were probably a little too high to begin with (keep in mind I'm only about 1/3rd of the way through so it could get better).

Anthony should be a happy camper as theres lotsa puzzles involving the gravity switches and area portals. Some truly mind bending.

That's a real shame. It'd be nice if people didn't fuck up the smaller developers, like some sort of unwritten pack. Of course like jimmy pointed out, there's alot of anonymus (i know...) douche bags that would leak the game without a second thought.

[Deadbent]

Never Pirate Good Code! Pay For It Sludgecocks!

[patbattlefield]

this is on my buy list now...amazing game.

[patbattlefield]

Never Pirate Good Code! Pay For It Sludgecocks!
but they only do it to "test" the game:icon_roll

rot in hell cheap fucks.

[TheJew]

yeah pat i reserved this a while ago...we should try and get a pestgaming.com server up.

[HumpX]

yeah pat i reserved this a while ago...we should try and get a pestgaming.com server up.

I concur.

Some of these deathmatch levels are mindbending. Kind of a bummer they only include two gametypes though.

One upside of the game is that a valid CD key is required to play so these warez monkeys won't get the game in its full glory.

BTW, I finished the game this morning. I'll have a mini-review up tonight or tommorrow.

[Screwtape]

this leak might explain some of the 'pc games are dissapearing' threads around here...............

[patbattlefield]

yeah pat i reserved this a while ago...we should try and get a pestgaming.com server up.
i'll see if i can find a place to host it.

[patbattlefield]

no dedicated server files yet. as soon as they release them I'll be able to get pricing. most hosting companies won't host it without them becasue it requires you to actually run the game which requires a good video card, which most servers don't have and if they do its rather pricey. i'll keep my self apprised of the situation.

[B54]

What are the PC requirements for this game? Even though I have 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, and 256 Nivida graphics card, I am worried that it will not be completely lag-free.

[patbattlefield]

fuck my last post. i got bad info. i just read on the 3D Realms forum that the windows version of the standalone server will be on the cd. w00t!

What are the PC requirements for this game? Even though I have 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, and 256 Nivida graphics card, I am worried that it will not be completely lag-free.

System Requirements

Minimum

CPU Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.0Ghz / AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor
RAM: 512MB system RAM
Video Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB video card with latest manufacturer drivers (see supported chipsets below)
Drive: 8X CD-ROM (standard edition), DVD-ROM (Limited Collector�s Edition)
Hard Drive: 2.2GB of uncompressed free hard drive space
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP with latest service pack installed
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)

Recommended

CPU Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.5Ghz / AMD Athlon XP 2500+ processor
RAM: 1GB system RAM
Video Card: ATI Radeon X800 series or higher video card with latest manufacturer drivers
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series sound card
Internet: Broadband internet connection or LAN required for multiplayer

Supported Video Card Chipsets

ATI:
ATI Radeon 9600 series, ATI Radeon 9700 series, ATI Radeon 9800 series, ATI Radeon X300 series, ATI Radeon X550 series, ATI Radeon X600 series, ATI Radeon X700 series, ATI Radeon X800 series, ATI Radeon X1300 series, ATI Radeon X1600 series, ATI Radeon X1800 series, ATI Radeon X1900 series, or better with latest manufacturer drivers. NVIDIA:
NVIDIA GeForce3/Ti series, NVIDIA GeForce4/Ti, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 5900 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 series, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 7900 series, or better with latest manufacturer drivers.

PREY takes full advantage of the Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ sound card. PREY supports OpenAL hardware acceleration, EAX® ADVANCED HD™ 5.0 features of 4 reverberation effects at once, and uses Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XRAM feature to load audio samples on the cards with 64 megs of RAM. For more information on the benefits of having one of the Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series, you can go to: http://soundblaster.com.

[HumpX]

you gonna run a pest server Pat?

[patbattlefield]

you gonna run a pest server Pat?


yea, seems to be enough pests interested to make it worthwhile. i have to wait for my hosting company to get back to me on pricing.

[TheJew]

mmm i'm so excited to pick this up................................................ .........after work

[HumpX]

The Triton app is going through some birthing pains. Hopefully it'll be straightened out by this evening.

[blackout-]

What are the PC requirements for this game? Even though I have 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, and 256 Nivida graphics card, I am worried that it will not be completely lag-free.

i have almost the exact same specs, running the game at medium settings and its been fine so far

[patbattlefield]

im headed down to gamestop to get my copy. as soon as i get back i'll upload the server files to wolfservers and should have a server up by tomorrow night. they are only 8 players max from what i hear so i might need to set up 2 if enough pests are interested.

[patbattlefield]

fucking LIARS! no dedicated server files on the disc. fucking cocksmokers. they said the standalone server files would be on the game disc....figures.