Greetings everyone,

We present you today a major update on the critical points regarding Crysis.


Official Crysis Tournament Map Pack #1

As you all know Crytek released a new official map pack for Crysis at Christmas. This pack contains five brand new maps for the Crysis multiplayer mode.

* Crossroads (PS)
* Desolation (PS)
* Training (PS)
* Excavation (IA)
* Terminal (IA)

To install this map pack properly players should delete the old version of Excavation first. Otherwise the installer cannot update the level.

These levels were done for competitive game play and were tested with three European top teams:

* GT – Globalteam Esports
* 00 – Die Doppelnullen
* N! – N!nth Gaming

We hope to see these levels soon in all leagues once they are approved by the league admins.

Patch #1

Some days ago Crytek and EA released the first patch for Crysis. The most changes are addressing the performance of the game but there are still some multiplayer relevant changes in this patch.

Fixes

* Fixed: Infinite ammo hacks (This will block most SP trainers)
* Fixed: SP script loading in Multiplayer (This is fixing the Incendiary Ammo exploit so
players can use it again).

Tweaks

* Reduced LAW splash damage vs. infantry in Power Struggle mode
* Slowed Rocket projectile speed down in MP slightly
* Disabled automatic turret bounding boxes on vehicles to prevent issues with LAW hit
detection
* Reduced grenade explosion radius in multiplayer
* Clamped water tesselation to avoid cheating in MP (The cvar
“e_water_tesselation_amount” can be modified again)

Updates

* F12 (screenshot) now works in restricted mode as well (Everyone can make
screenshots again without entering con_restricted=1)
* Marked debug cvars as cheat (Less config tweaking possible)
* http/xmlrpc password protected remote control session (It is possible again to control a
Crysis server outside of a game with the CryRCON tool for example)

Many people have problems patching their game. If users encounter problems with this patch they should maybe take a look in our Official Modding Portal Crymod.com. There we have posted all known issues and workarounds for them: http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=15371.

Patch #1 won’t be the last patch. We are still working on the second patch for Crysis and we will address many multiplayer related issues with it.

Crytek Alliance with PunksBusted (www.punksbusted.com)

Crysis is out for some time and we have a serious problem with cheaters in our game. It seems it is very easy to hack Crysis what is very disappointing for us but to address this we forced an alliance together with the streaming site PunksBusted (Ps). PunksBusted was founded in 2002 and they are providing several games with the latest Md5 checks and a global master ban list. Most hacks out there can be detected with the right configuration and because of this we decided to work together with them.

Together with PsB we worked on a new punkbuster configuration and we are using the streaming technology to update the Master Ban List (MBL) for Crysis. Once a cheater was kicked on a streaming server he will be added to it. The MBL can be updated with the Auto MBL tool PsB is providing. Configured once a server administrator can update the MBL with it.

We are also using the Auto MBL tool to provide new cheat related Md5 checks to the game servers. These will be updated as soon as we have found a new cheat for Crysis which can be detected this way.

Several providers already updated their public servers and more will follow during the next days. But we want to extend this. It is not enough to just add this new configuration to all public servers. Because of this we would like to ask you to use this PB configuration as a default one for your league and to force all servers streaming to PunksBusted. This is needed to provide each server with the latest cheat related Md5 checks.

Updated PB configuration

As already mentioned above we have created a new punkbuster configuration together with PsB. This configuration contains 4 files:

* pbsv.cfg – You can find general PB settings, cvar checks and all Md5 checks in this
config file
* pbsvlog.cfg – In this config you need to add all needed informations for streaming
* pbsvuser.cfg – This is an empty placeholder file the Auto MBL tool will update with the
latest Md5 checks
* reloadbans.cfg – This file is needed to reload the ban list. So players which where
deleted from the MBL will be unbanned.

We hope you are using this config file as default punkbuster configuration for your leagues. Download the ZIP by clicking here.

Beta Tournament prizes

As already said in an earlier mail we will send out the prizes to the winners of the beta teams.

Today we sent out the graphic cards to 00 and GT and the Intel Quad Core CPUs will follow soon.

We are still waiting for the Intel Dual Core CPUs and the Fan package. These things will be sent by Intel really soon.

Hopefully I achieved my goal to update you with this mail.


Cheers,

- Sven

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