Your opinion of the Ghost Recon demo.

[MacMan]

GhR is ok, in my humble opinion, it doesnt work so great on my mac, but that is mainly a sys req. issue (not everyone is bulking with money jeb)

i wanna check out my framerate too, one of you not-so-noobs tell me how to enable please?

further, i am tempted to say the demo is kinda boring, but it's rather enjoyable actually, even with the few guns that are available. The one (big) downside is the huge amount of crashes. Though as long as it doesnt drag my system down with it, i will keep running GhR.

i think.

[ShadowBox]

I think that the GhR demo rocks and as soon as I have the money I'm going to buy the full version.

   As far as gameplay goes, the only thing that sucks is joining a host with respawning just after they started a new round and having to wait for the round to end. The demo is very buggy, but because of the fact the I can run it in OS X, I don't mind it that much, because it doesn't require a restart of my system after a crash.

   The demo runs very smooth on my system with all graphics except character and vehicle shadows maxxed out. And even on all but a hand full of servers there was very little lag, including servers where I was getting a 200+ ping in GR and 16 or more people were playing.

   Aside from not seeing your own weapon, they function about as realistic as a game can make them. It takes a little getting used to the fact that the mini-map and HBS are no longer there, but the treat indicactor has become a very usefull tool for me. Also there is a mapp that you can toggle that will let you know where you and you teammates are as well as where any confirmed enemies are.

PS: Mauti (or anyone else who's done it), how do you set-up the framerate display?

[*DAMN Hazard]

At first I absolutely hated it. I kept crashing and the maps where huge and little weapons to choose from. Then I realized I was a noob and played in OS X and I haven't crashed yet and the info from Assassin about more guns will probably lead me to buy the game.

[Brain]

just a quick question for mauti: are thos numbers for the frame rates in the news right? how are you able to pull 70 fps, i cant break 30 with my comp when everything is set to it's lowest setting, and everything looks smooth.  i'm confused  

[*DAMN Mauti]

First in response to Freak Shadowbox:

You can view your framerate if you open the options.xml at your Ghost Recon Data folder. There is a line where it says <ShowFrameRate>FALSE</ShowFrameRate>. Change it to <ShowFrameRate>TRUE</ShowFrameRate>.
The next time you start a mission you will see your framerate at the left top corner.


Brain: I get only between 50 and 70 frames in small rooms(houses). You can also look at the floor than the framerate increases. The less you see at your screen the higher the framerate.  Usually I play below 20 with my poor imac. However today I got my full version .

Bye,

Mauti

[.vooDoo.]

I too am under the system requirments with a g4 400. The only problem that I have encountered was with cqb it got a little slugish. I will modify my post with my fps soon if anyone is interested. In anycase, im off to go buy the full version right now.
 

[ShadowBox]

Thank you Mauti. I'll go home tonight and enable the frame rate display and post them later. I went on monday and bought the full version. You get @ 24 different kits for each specialty, so you do have a decent choice of weapons to play with. The best part about GhR and GhRd is that they run in OS X. I absolutely love the game.

[*DAMN Silent Killer]

well i originaly posted i hated it but now that ive played it a few times i find it fun

i really like the respawn thing makes the games more injoyable and fun and you can do stupid crap and dont give a flying poo about it,

-sk

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

Shadow, you get 21 kits for Rifleman...I have played the game for a long time now.

As for the fps, you should all get pretty high rates considering I get 35-50 fps (in action) on a 1.2Ghz P3 with a mobile radeon card in it.

Correction: It is a 1.2Ghz P3 Laptop....not a desktop as it may seem implied (or not).

[(SiX)Ben]

Dude... the fooking demo won't even run for me! Dumb gay ass old computer! I fugure ghr will take a while for everyone to get used to before it becomes popular... so play it for a week straight, and you'd prolly like it...

Ben

[Supernatural Pie]

quick question....

how much cqb is there in the full version?

[ShadowBox]

I get about 30-60 fps with the following settings:
1024x768x32
32bit z-buffer
everything else maxxed out with the exception of charater and vehicle shadows set at low lod

my system is:
QS 933MHz
1.25 GB Ram
radeon 7500 32MB.

[Flame]

What absolutly sucks goat's dick is that whenever i have a sniper kit, theres always cqc, and whenever i got a support or a demo kit, its all sniping. So to Snipe, it really depends. Also, if you see that the possible threat indicator's middle is red, be prepared for cqc. Otherwise, be prepared to snipe. I love this game and it owns RS because theres no bsing in this except for when you're looking straight and you get shot from the front and you dont see them, or if you put 3 bullets in them and they kill you with 1, or if you shoot them a few times with a sniper, a few distances away, and they turn around and kill you with a demo, support or even rifle kit.

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

Rifle kit is what you should be using most of the time if you are playing a pick up game on GR. For clan matches, you probably want a couple of each and have some kind of gameplan worked out.

If you want true realism, have the host shut the threat indicator off.

[ShadowBox]

Assassin:
   You are right, there are 21 rifleman kits. There are 24 demo, 24 sniper, and 20 support kits.

   For the full game the OICW/GL kit is probably the best all around. However on the GhR demo, the demolitions M4/M134 kit is probably the most versitile kit. This is my opinion and stands for squat, as everyone has their own preference. I personally like having a full auto if I get up close and personal with someone.

   I hope that a lot more people get the full version that way there are more games running at any given time, as I currently tend to play mostly the demo because there is more of a choice of game types. Also there is a lot more people to shoot.

[Da? Rabid]

in my opinion I think the demo sucks I'm going to play RS untill I get the full

[Night Hawk]

Ghrd is great, castle never seems to get boring.  I cant wait for the new gun selection too.  It beats Rs by a lot and im getting full tomarrow. weeeee.  My fav gun is the M16 if ur wondering also.  Tho i do think it is cheap that soem times it takes like 8 hits to kill a guy.  it happens every once in a while thank god, bt when it does happen it really sucks.  And the sniper gun should kill people on contact, i once hit a guy 4 times with a sniper and 4 with a 9mm, not dead, instead i died

[SiX.cybershark]

Man the demo runs awesome on my older G4 500 with my radeon 8500.  Game looks so cool, very open and son fun to play... Then i remember the game sucks and  Rainbow six & raven sheild own it. It's also not worth buying unless u like skeet shooting the disk, which i probably will do. Only plus is they got rid of that infernal POS heartbeat sensor in which so many people, woops everyone, relies on dependantly.

-Cyber-

[Agent Wallabie]

Im just going to save my money and buy RvS and a new computer.  

   Spike