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Welcome to the “Crysis Monthly Update #14", the monthly report for our world-wide community. This month we take a look back at a few articles posted throughout June, as well as take a sneak peak forward at just one of many things to come. We're got the results and winners of the MyCrysis FFA Tournament, all the information released on Crysis 2 and much more.

Content: Crysis Monthly Update – June 2009
* FFA Tournament Roundup
* Crysis 2 Announced
* Crysis 2 Picks up award at E3 2009
* This Month's Inside Crytek Articles
* Community Corner
* Whats to come?

FFA Tournament Roundup
We start this month's Community update with a look back over the recent MyCrysis FFA Tournament which despite a few
issues turned out to be a resounding success.

Introduction
The MyCrysis Instant Action Tournament has finished and now it is time to award the winners with their prizes. In this post you will be able to find a full list of prize winners and what exactly they have earned themselves. If you did not win a prize yourself this time around do not worry, there will be more competitions and events being organized through MyCrysis.com so just check back in the future for updates.

Winners and Prizes
Here you can find a full list of the winners and their prizes, details of how to collect these prizes will be sent via PM.

1st place - GeForce GTX 280 & Crytek Merchandise
Kayden
GeForce GTX 280, Crysis Wars T-Shirt, Crysis Warhead Mousepad, Crytek Wristband



2nd place - Official Crytek Merchandise
Kbi
Crysis Wars T-Shirt, Crysis Warhead Mousepad, Crytek Shoulder Bag, Crytek Wrist Band



3rd place - Official Crytek Merchandise
SuP^RuipereZ
Crysis Wars T-Shirt, Crysis Warhead Mousepad, Crysis Lanyard



4th place - Official Crytek Merchandise
DI.Crowfire!Lc
Crysis Wars T-Shirt, Crysis Lanyard



5th place - Official Crysis Wars T-Shirt
=MoN=DarthRevan
Crysis Wars T-Shirt



Group Winners - Official Crysis Wars T-Shirt
VIKI, Wacked, CryTurkiye-Kratos, Kayden, Kbi, IGZ`Diko, Sup^Pan!Xx, Sup^R4rgh, sAng9.EkP, [GE]Scofield, Sup^RuipereZ, Mr.No, XeS-FR`Knight, [760r]Laz0r, DI.Crowfire!Lc.
Crysis Wars T-Shirt

Group Results
This is a full list of the forum threads where the group results can be found, the two qualifying players from each group can be found next to the thread.

Tournament Semi Final Group A [ 1st. [760r]Laz0r 2nd. Sup^RuipereZ 3rd. =C2A.Str1k3r.= 4th. =MoN=DarthRevan 5th. CryTurkiye-Kratos ]
Tournament Semi Final Group B [ 1st. DI.Crowfire!Lc 2nd. Kayden 3rd. PrOpAnE^ 4th. CryTurkiye-Awakening 5th. Kbi ]
Tournament Group A [ 1st. VIKI 2nd. [PGN]-Atro- ]
Tournament Group B [ 1st. Wacked 2nd. =MoN=Numb87 ]
Tournament Group C [ 1st. CryTurkiye-Kratos 2nd. Budeniy_na_kone ]
Tournament Group D [ 1st. Kayden 2nd. CryTurkiye-assassin ]
Tournament Group E [ 1st. Kbi 2nd. [760r]Laz0r ]
Tournament Group F [ 1st. IGZ`Diko 2nd. VictorY23 ]
Tournament Group G [ 1st. Sup^Pan!Xx 2nd. DI.Crowfire!Lc ]
Tournament Group H [ 1st. Sup^R4rgh 2nd. S0MBRA ]
Tournament Group I [ 1st. sAng9.EkP 2nd. =MoN=DarthRevan ]
Tournament Group J [ 1st. [GE]Scofield 2nd. Xeon1999 ]
Tournament Group K [ 1st. Sup^RuipereZ 2nd. -GFE-Quaterno ]
Tournament Group L [ 1st. Mr.No 2nd. CryTurkiye^pako^ ]
Tournament Group M [ 1st. XeS-FR`Knight 2nd. PrOpAnE^ ]

Thank you to everyone that took part in the tournament, there was a lot of positive feedack about the event which means we will look into running something similar in the future. If you want to share your opinion or ideas the head over to the forums and let us know!

- MyCrysis Team

Crysis 2 Announced
This month Crytek and EA are pleased to announce their partnership on Crysis 2.

Introduction
We have some great news for the community this morning, coming straight from the EA press conference at E3. EA and Crytek have officially announced their partnership on Crysis 2.

Press Release
Redwood City, Calif. – June 1, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that it has agreed to a deal extension with Crytek GmbH, the award-winning developers of the Crysis® universe, to publish Crysis 2. Renowned for their technical excellence, artistic craftsmanship and commitment to quality, Crytek is building Crysis 2 on their new state-of-the-art multiplatform game development solution CryENGINE®3 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the PC.

“The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3. We are excited to have the support of EA Partners again as we work together to make the launch of Crysis 2 a huge event.”

“Nothing speaks more to the success of the EA Partners program than when a studio the caliber of Crytek continues to work with us,” said David DeMartini, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners. “Crytek is already one of the elite PC development studios in the world and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner with them in bringing their award-winning technology and gameplay to more platforms and a wider audience with Crysis 2.”

Conclusion
It's been a great day for us here at Crytek to be able to announce such a massive next step for the company and we'll keep you posted as always on any new developments.

- MyCrysis Team

Crysis 2 Wins VE3D Best Shooter E3 2009 Award
Although very little information has currently come out about Crysis 2 our community has stood by us and voted Crysis 2 as the number one most anticipated shooter from E3 2009 based completely on the trailer that we released, as seen at the start of June. We'd like to say a big thank you to all those of you who voted for us and as always keep a look out in the future for more information coming to you about Crysis 2.

Welcome to a celebratory Crymod news post regarding the recent Voodoo Extreme reader's choice awards for E3 2009! A host of fantastic games were announced, including Crysis 2, and we asked you to vote for us in the Best PC Shooter category. Despite strong competition, we managed to clinch the top spot and win the award!

Best PC Shooter!
We'd like to thank the community for their overwhelming support in this competition in this category, without which we wouldn't have won. To check out who won in other categories and see our award in its full glory, head over to the winners page by clicking the image below.

Thank you again for your support; you can comment on the award by heading over to our forum thread here.

Related Links:

- Forum Thread: Vote For Crysis 2!
- Winner's Page: VE E3 2009 Reader's Choice Awards

- MyCrysis Staff Team

Community Update - Watchtower Model set and New Eden teaser Trailer
This month we look back at our community sections, this includes a new Watchtower model set and a teaser trailer from the project titled "New Eden". The watchtower has been carefully developed by Talvipakkanen and consists of a multiplatform, dual ladder tower complete with machine gun, spot light and machine gun bunker. The New Eden mod teaser trailer created by community member Darkwish utilises the Mirror's Edge Flowgraph. You just can't help but be looking forward to this mod coming out so we can all get a go!

Welcome to today's news update, featuring the release of two new assets and as well as a look at a completed "Watchtower" asset that is currently awaiting activation in the Crymod download database. Crymod community member and talented modeller Talvipakkanen has recently created and released two new assets of a spotlight and a machine-gun bunker, as well as having created a new watchtower for use in Crysis, all of which we'd like to feature here for you in today's news update.

Watchtower Screenshots

The below screenshots show the watchtower that Talvipakkanen has recently completed developing, which has now been uploaded to the Crymod download database and is awaiting activation. Something interesting to note is that the watchtower is modular, and can be constructed/adjusted to the liking of the downloader. The asset was created in Blender.

Spotlight & MG Bunker
The next two assets are of a spotlight and a machine-gun bunker, both of which have been released to the Crymod community. The spotlight current lacks smoothing, which will be added in the next release as well as material adjustments. Both the spotlight and machine-gun bunker are available in the Crymod download database, here and here, respectively.

That's it for today's news update. If you wish to view any further media that has been released, ask the creator a question, or simply leave your comments/feedback regarding these assets for the creator, then be sure to do so in the official forum thread for the assets, which is located here.

Related Links:

- Forum Thread: Assets (update 2009-06-28 1st post): watchtower [PENDING], spotlight, mg-bunker
- Spotlight Download: Spotlight
- Bunker Download: Mg-bunker

- Crymod Staff Team

Welcome to today's news update regarding a teaser trailer for the Mirror's Edge style mod entitled "New Eden". Currently under development by community member Darkwish, this mod will utilize his popular Mirror's Edge Flowgraph.

That's it for today's news update, if you want to leave some feedback for the author to read, please do so in the forum thread here.

Related Links
- Forum Thread: FG - Mirror's Edge Flowgraph [New Teaser p15]
- YouTube: Crysis - New Eden Teaser

- Crymod Staff Team

Whats to come?
This is the section where you get to find out whats coming up in the near future, so you guys know what you have to look forward to, and this month we have great things to share with you.

We have the Frost 3v3 PowerStruggle Tournament once again hosted by MyCrysis in association with our partners over at Multiplay. Full details of this tournament will be announced over the coming month, be sure to begin preparing your team now though as the prizes are sure to be great.

- MyCrysis Team

Lee-Enfield .303
The Lee-Enfield was a bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle that was the main firearm used by the British Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century. It was the British Army's standard rifle from its official adoption in 1895 until 1957. The Lee-Enfield used the .303 British cartridge and was a redesign of the Lee-Metford, which had been adopted by the British Army in 1888. As a standard-issue infantry rifle, it is still found in service in the armed forces of some Commonwealth nations. The Lee-Enfield featured a ten-round box magazine which was loaded manually from the top, either one round at a time or by means of five-round chargers. By the late 1930s the need for new rifles grew, and the Rifle, No. 4 Mk I was first issued in 1939 but not officially adopted until 1941. The No. 4 action was similar to the Mk VI, but lighter, stronger, and most importantly, easier to mass produce. The No. 4 rifle was considerably heavier than the No. 1 Mk. III, largely due to its heavier barrel, and a new bayonet was designed to go with the rifle: a spike bayonet, which was essentially a steel rod with a sharp point, and was nicknamed "pigsticker" by soldiers. The Lee Enfield No. 4 was occasionally fitted with a rifle grenade attachment as well. The models and textures shown below have been crafted by [TWDEV] Sir Apple.

Rifle Grenade Launcher

Walther P38
The Walther P38 was developed as the Wehrmacht service pistol at the beginning of World War II. It was designed to replace the Lugar P08 which was expensive to manufacture, the finish of the P38 was made to a high standard to the end of 1941 when the pace of the war required an increased production. The standard of the external finish was thereafter reduced. The work-in-progress model below is being modelled by [TWDEV] Sir Apple.

The team is looking for new developers to join, so if you think you have a skill we could use, please fill out a recruitment form here, we are especially looking for Modellers, Texture Artists, Animators & Mappers but we are recruiting in all areas.

For more on this mod, click here.

Below is a selection of three screenshots/renders, two in different angles with the character assuming the default raised arms pose, and with the last showing the character in a posed position. This character is the second-last military character that Cargo needed to create, where he will move onto the creation of the first-person arms after the creation of the last military character model. The model currently stands at 5,000 tris.

Firstly for today's update, we have some general information on the total conversion modification. Although this may seem a monumental task for a professional team, let alone a group of modders, we hope to go all the way through with the creation of this mod. The modification information is contained within the below quote.

"Fallout: Rebirth takes place during the events of Fallout 1. Players will get a chance to explore the wastes, fight super mutants, abuse ghouls, get high, use an obscene amount of Stimpacks, sleep around, skin raiders, glow in the dark, eat iguanas, and generally wreck all kinds of havoc.

The first two Fallout games are probably the most influential and arguably the best Role Playing Games of our generation. All spin-offs that followed as well as the third instalment of the series (we really don't want to mention the name) where nothing more than radioactive waste in comparison to the original games.

When we decided to create a remake of the first Fallout game one of the primary goals that we set for ourselves was to recapture the feel of the game and stay as close to the original game play as humanly (insert mutantly if appropriate) as possible.

We are planning to bring in all of the original content of the game including quests, items, locations, models and everything else that made the game great. SPECIAL character creation system will stay as well as all off the attributes, skills and perks. The turn based combat system will also be implemented.

Although we have tons of ideas for the main quest line we will stick with the original and introduce some of them in side quests."

Talking Head - Aradesh
We are currently working hard on our proof of concept/demo level, which will largely take place in Shady Sands. As was expected within the team, Aradesh was nominated to become the first Talking Head. Our resident team member and 3D modeller Ain Mosni has been kind enough to provide us with a render of the work in progress model, which is shown below to the right of the image of the original Aradesh.

Crysis Wars EX?
This is the first time you hear about Crysis Wars EX? Then let me introduce you to the world of EX. It all started in a small forum where people from the community founded the Online Modding Group. During the next weeks they were working on schedules and feature lists to define the clear content of the project and ended up with 5 pages full of features and improvements and some weeks later the project got the name CRYSIS WARS EX(TENDED).
EX describes everything we do in one word. Our goal is to deliver more content to the community and improve the game together with all of you to make it a great Multiplayer experience.

Version 1.0 – Let´s get it started!
We are starting with the first version pretty soon. Of course we will keep improving the game after the release of 1.0 and will add new features to it.
In the first update we want to introduce you to several improvements we were working on for the last weeks. Over time we will reveal more information on the first version.

* Improvement: Server Side Option to enable/disable Walljump
* Improvement: Addition of command to enable/disable the Hit Indicator
* Improvement: Addition of new console command to compare server and client Protect.xml file
* Improvement: Added new command to show FPS (without the other information from r_displayinfo)
* Improvement: Added new console command to show player information (mod version, ping, map name…)
* Improvement: Added console commands to set different item restrictions for each game mode
* Fixed: Misplaced AY-69 Silencer in 3rd person
* Fixed: Map Exploit on Refinery
* Fixed: Two different issues with changing map on the server
* Fixed: Bug with raising weapon
* Balance: FY-71 Game Balance changes to be more equal to the SCAR
* Addition: Replaced old Sniper Scope with a new Sniper Scope
* Addition: Added small visual changes to the Hurricane

Several screenshots and a video of the final asset have been produced by the developer to showcase this mod.

Download Wolverine Claws Here

Below we have two new screenshots that theanzelm has updated the community with, which show some of the extensive work that has been performed upon the level for this promising modification. As seen, the level makes use of custom vegetation also, with the creator also having an eye for detail, with a good amount of detail being placed accordingly.

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that it has agreed to a deal extension with Crytek GmbH, the award-winning developers of the Crysis® universe, to publish Crysis 2. Renowned for their technical excellence, artistic craftsmanship and commitment to quality, Crytek is building Crysis 2 on their new state-of-the-art multiplatform game development solution CryENGINE®3 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the PC.

“The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3. We are excited to have the support of EA Partners again as we work together to make the launch of Crysis 2 a huge event.”

“Nothing speaks more to the success of the EA Partners program than when a studio the caliber of Crytek continues to work with us,” said David DeMartini, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners. “Crytek is already one of the elite PC development studios in the world and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner with them in bringing their award-winning technology and gameplay to more platforms and a wider audience with Crysis 2.”

MP5SD6 Screenshots
Below are the latest screenshots of this work in progress weapon, with the model having been completed, and with it currently being textured. The texture is still work in progress, and it currently lacks detailing (Such as scratches, worn edges etc.). The smaller details will be added in the near future, and once the texture is fully completed, the weapon will be rigged and animated for ingame use.

These images showcase the latest update the author has made to the level.