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So I was going back trying to upgrade my bow and skills before I hit the point of no return when I ran into a glitch in Shantytown, now I am stuck and cant continue. Every time I reload the checkpoint, I start at the same glitched location. I reinstalled the game, same problem. Anybody with the PC version have any suggestions? Are there any cheats that will let me fast travel out of this place or am I either going to have to wait until a patch or restart the game? Found a video on youtube, looks like another guy has the exact same problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aMD3UYjfGU
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Finished this game a few days ago and absolutely adored it. I have been a fan of Lara Croft since the beginning and didn't expect much of this, but was blown away by how much it felt like a Tomb Raider game. The woman who voiced Lara was perfect. I have never played any of the Uncharted games so I'm not sure how much of a copy it is or isn't. The optional tombs were fun (my favorite was the windy temple one), but I felt that they became easier the more I progressed through the game. As someone who is terrible at FPS games, I am relieved that the pew-pew-pew sections weren't too frustrating. I restarted instances frequently to see the different ways that I could attack, specifically if I could be more stealthy or sneaky (even though Lara Croft was never really all that stealthy -- the early Tomb Raider games even had auto-aim). Spoiler about weapon upgrade: The part where you get the flame arrows and then are forced into a massive fight with a bunch of enemies, I about fell over when she took out her bow and arrow to show off the flame arrows -- why would you do that?! That's one instance where I just pulled out my automatic rifle and just plowed them down with bullets.
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Mar 15, 2013 20:14
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Careful Sally posted:Finished this game a few days ago and absolutely adored it. I have been a fan of Lara Croft since the beginning and didn't expect much of this, but was blown away by how much it felt like a Tomb Raider game. The woman who voiced Lara was perfect. I have never played any of the Uncharted games so I'm not sure how much of a copy it is or isn't. The optional tombs were fun (my favorite was the windy temple one), but I felt that they became easier the more I progressed through the game. As someone who is terrible at FPS games, I am relieved that the pew-pew-pew sections weren't too frustrating. I restarted instances frequently to see the different ways that I could attack, specifically if I could be more stealthy or sneaky (even though Lara Croft was never really all that stealthy -- the early Tomb Raider games even had auto-aim). Sounds like someone missed a few courses in badass. In case you didn't notice, the camera goes in to slow motion and the dudes shooting at you are standing knee deep in jet fuel.
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Mar 15, 2013 20:59
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So I'm playing Tomb Raider Underworld and holy poo poo am I ever senselessly murdering people with Mjolnir.
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Mar 16, 2013 02:03
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There's a new nvidia beta driver out specifically for Tomb Raider, although it doesn't seem all that much better for me (it was fine before really, except TressFX is a ridiculous hog). edit: after playing for a while and then running the benchmark thing again later there is in fact a pretty significant improvement, it's just tressfx still sucks Dogen fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 16, 2013 04:31
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The new driver did improve my fps, but still didn't solve the game breaking glitch in Shantytown for me. I am just going to start over on hard and hope it doesn't happen again. Cant be that mad, I like the game so much I was going to play through a second time anyway, now I have something to look forward to.. seeing the end of the game.
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Mar 16, 2013 05:43
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Dogen posted:There's a new nvidia beta driver out specifically for Tomb Raider, although it doesn't seem all that much better for me (it was fine before really, except TressFX is a ridiculous hog). Things like TressFX and fluid simulations is why I always have a hearty laugh to myself whenever somebody posts that old chestnut, "we have photorealstic graphics already! Where can they possibly go from here?"
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Mar 16, 2013 11:36
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I'm told the beta driver also fixes issues with graphic driver crashing with tessellation enabled, have not tried it yet myself, but it's great if they did fix that.
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Mar 16, 2013 11:40
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notZaar posted:Things like TressFX and fluid simulations is why I always have a hearty laugh to myself whenever somebody posts that old chestnut, "we have photorealstic graphics already! Where can they possibly go from here?" I have no idea why the facial animation tech Enslaved and L.A. Noir used isn't in every game by now. Yeah it's expensive but so what, AAA releases have a huge budget anyway, and computer animated faces look terrible. We don't have photo-realistic graphics at all, unless you count CryEngine3 that is now able to create metal bars, barrels, crates, walls and helmets that look totally incredible. I think in 2 years or so wall tiles will look so good you'll think it's your loving bathroom, not a bathroom inside a videogame (with crates). We're getting there.
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Mar 16, 2013 12:17
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The new patch plus nvidia beta drivers really sorted the game out for me. Only ssaa and the new ultra shadow settings push things into out of bounds - the tressfx looks a lot better and runs better too. This is with a 680gtx btw. One thing - are there any readme or tech docs around concerning 3d? This game doesnt seem to have any readme info at all and the option is greyed out. I have a samsung 750d monitor and need to rely on native game support like how crysis 3 provides. It's not a 3dvision supporting monitor.
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Mar 16, 2013 12:30
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Yeah, the beta drivers dramatically increased performance for me. Cross-posted from the SHSC GPU thread:code:
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Paino posted:I have no idea why the facial animation tech Enslaved and L.A. Noir used isn't in every game by now. Yeah it's expensive but so what, AAA releases have a huge budget anyway, and computer animated faces look terrible. Well, uniformly shiny poo poo is the easiest stuff to render. The problem is that we've gotten to the point where the gains are less noticeable. Diminishing returns and all that so we won't have major leaps like when we went to per-pixel lighting. The next generation will probably be about tons of particles and volumetric effects at first. Then we'll get into more detailed global illumination; that can be a more subtle effect though it makes stuff look much more realistic when done well.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:01
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loudog999 posted:So I was going back trying to upgrade my bow and skills before I hit the point of no return when I ran into a glitch in Shantytown, now I am stuck and cant continue. Every time I reload the checkpoint, I start at the same glitched location. I reinstalled the game, same problem. Anybody with the PC version have any suggestions? Are there any cheats that will let me fast travel out of this place or am I either going to have to wait until a patch or restart the game? I hit the same type of issue but in the 360 version. I was able to correct it by restarting my game and then reloading my save. Apparently a patch is coming out pretty soon that addresses this specific issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PQ3k7mdyY
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Mar 16, 2013 18:10
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notZaar posted:Things like TressFX and fluid simulations is why I always have a hearty laugh to myself whenever somebody posts that old chestnut, "we have photorealstic graphics already! Where can they possibly go from here?" Eh? We're kind of hitting diminishing returns at this point. Well more subtle details can still be added and all, they're probably things that you won't take note unless you settled down for a sec to examine it. It really depends how much time/effort is needed for that extra polish there. If anything else I think they're going to ramp up the scale on things in the future. Larger worlds and more NPCs all over, that sorta thing.
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Mar 16, 2013 18:24
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Drakes posted:Eh? We're kind of hitting diminishing returns at this point. Well more subtle details can still be added and all, they're probably things that you won't take note unless you settled down for a sec to examine it. It really depends how much time/effort is needed for that extra polish there. I kind of see what you are saying, but a lot of effects that have been introduced have to be used sparingly with current hardware. Its very limited. Tesselation for example is mostly used on some organic forms - waves, pipes and people mostly. It might be sometime before we see it being deployed on lots of objects as standard - its starting to take over from parralax and bump mapping, but its still a way off. SSAO is another effect that is great at adding depth to a scene - but on current hardware isnt that precise and sacrafices quality for performance. There are a ton of other effects that the film industry use to make things photo realistic that chip makers cant implement, yet. Most games no matter how realistic we think they look are mostly very stylised. A lot of this comes down to how artists and programmers find uses for these effects.
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Mar 16, 2013 18:50
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am I the only one who... no. no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSK7z_UI0hc
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Mar 16, 2013 19:53
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CheechLizard posted:am I the only one who... no. no. What the gently caress.
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Mar 16, 2013 19:55
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CheechLizard posted:am I the only one who... no. no. Jesus H. Christ. gently caress everything. "Not impossible to masturbate to." 
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Mar 16, 2013 21:04
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What is this games multiplayer like? I actually really really enjoyed the multiplayer in uncharted 2/3, the high mobility scampering combined with traditional shooter multiplayer game modes actually made for a really fun experience. How does the multiplayer in this shake out? Do they make good use of your mobility with map design like uncharted did?
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Mar 16, 2013 21:12
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I honestly didn't have any fun with it, but I feel like that probably has something to do with using a controller to play on the PC. I'll probably have to suck it up and relearn the game with M + KB to not be terrible.
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Mar 16, 2013 21:17
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Drakes posted:Eh? We're kind of hitting diminishing returns at this point. Well more subtle details can still be added and all, they're probably things that you won't take note unless you settled down for a sec to examine it. It really depends how much time/effort is needed for that extra polish there. There's so much room for advancement besides polygon count and texture size. Physics, simulations, having characters actually interacting with the world without clipping through geometry and bugging out. 3D tech has been very focused on making pretty corridors or limited areas to explore, we're not even scratching the surface of real time simulation.
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Mar 16, 2013 23:19
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Does anyone here like steelbook cases? I got it with my copy at Target bit am trading the game in now that I beat it. Figured I would check and see if anyone wanted to swap cases before I did.
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Mar 17, 2013 00:48
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gibbed posted:I'm told the beta driver also fixes issues with graphic driver crashing with tessellation enabled, have not tried it yet myself, but it's great if they did fix that. The game patch fixed tessellation for me. I get the sense there were way more problems with 600 series cards for some reason.
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Mar 17, 2013 00:50
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DangerKat posted:Does anyone here like steelbook cases? I got it with my copy at Target bit am trading the game in now that I beat it. Figured I would check and see if anyone wanted to swap cases before I did.  I mean I think steelbook cases are pretty slick, and the version I got came in a big metal "Survival Tin" but the game itself was in the normal green Xbox360 case.
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Mar 17, 2013 00:54
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Dogen posted:The game patch fixed tessellation for me. Yeah, I've had basically zero issues with my 560 so it seems weirdly specific to the 600 series.
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Mar 17, 2013 01:30
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notZaar posted:There's so much room for advancement besides polygon count and texture size. Physics, simulations, having characters actually interacting with the world without clipping through geometry and bugging out. 3D tech has been very focused on making pretty corridors or limited areas to explore, we're not even scratching the surface of real time simulation. Exactly having the world "exist" beyond some cleverly placed polygons, even graphics wise we have character's that look "good" now but we can only have a few on the screen before consoles start making GBS threads themselves so we have room to grow for certain.
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Mar 17, 2013 01:35
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Xenomrph posted:Is it a pretty cool case? I might be interested. Sorry, I thought I said I had the PS3 version, which isn't an issue for the steelbook but would be for my trade in. I like it but as it was when I got one for Assassins Creed 3, the clips for the manuals and stuff aren't placed for PS3 sized so it's kind of annoying to have them flop about whenever I open it.
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Mar 17, 2013 01:41
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Apparently I'm retarded because I've looked through all the menu screens and I can't find where the challenges are. Could someone tell me? 
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Mar 17, 2013 09:18
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...! posted:Apparently I'm retarded because I've looked through all the menu screens and I can't find where the challenges are. Could someone tell me? Each area has a challenge like "light this many flags on fire" or "blow up this many landmines". You start each challenge by doing the first part of it. So in the first area, you'll start the challenge by shooting down the first totem. Looking at the map legend can give you a general idea of what you're going to be looking for to start the challenge.
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Mar 17, 2013 09:57
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CheechLizard posted:am I the only one who... no. no. Why would you upload this?
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Mar 17, 2013 13:47
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socialsecurity posted:Exactly having the world "exist" beyond some cleverly placed polygons, even graphics wise we have character's that look "good" now but we can only have a few on the screen before consoles start making GBS threads themselves so we have room to grow for certain. That always bums me out about games - there's always something off in the distance you want to check out - but it's a usually a poorly detailed prop. Example in point is the battleship in this game - looks like it would be fun to explore - but its not accessable. If it was, and it had the attention to detail, it would probably bring that beach level frame rate down to crawl, unless they had some kind of transition/loading point. It's probably why so many bits in TR have Lara crawl slowly between map sections as its secretly loading and unloading assets.
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Mar 17, 2013 13:52
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4 Day Weekend posted:Why would you upload this? They did this in the Gametrailers review too. Beats the hell out of me what anybody gets from it.
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Mar 17, 2013 13:54
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notZaar posted:They did this in the Gametrailers review too. Beats the hell out of me what anybody gets from it.
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Mar 17, 2013 15:21
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Palpek posted:Really? One thing is seeing a random video from a random internet weirdo and another is seeing a review with something like that. This is pathetic. Come on, how long until mod tools feature naked Lara? You've got to expect pathetic.
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Mar 17, 2013 16:05
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notZaar posted:They did this in the Gametrailers review too. Beats the hell out of me what anybody gets from it. the guy i quoted was the same guy that uploaded it. Hopefully we get an answer.
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Mar 17, 2013 16:31
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Ash.W posted:Come on, how long until mod tools feature naked Lara? You've got to expect pathetic. http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/v3fcvl/pop-fiction-episode-33--nude-raider
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I liked the fact Lara references her wound from the beginning of the game as the story progresses. She's often holding it when there's a traumatic scenes, and it's nice they remind you that she's still hurt. It's easy to give your characters horrible wounds, only to forget about them as soon as it's inconvenient to remember your characters are hurt. It's lazy, and I'm glad they didn't take that route. I still haven't finished it. I'm just exploring the coast still, collecting everything. I noticed as I progressed that Lara moves a lot like she does in Anniversary/Underworld. I noticed it when I was climbing around the outside cliffs area. I'm not even sure if her animations are any different as the game progresses, because I remember her having a hard time balancing on that tree root at the beginning of the game, and I think she just walks across beams like they were nothing now. Maybe not though, but it would be a nice touch that she's really changed and isn't afraid to, say, hang off the side of a cliff like it's nothing. I'm also digging her no bullshit treatment of the senior archeologist. Whitman or something.
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Mar 17, 2013 17:04
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New driver and patch let me progress but my graphics still break later when climbing the stairs after the first axe upgrade and opening the door with Whitman. Reloading without TressFX doesn't help so it's something else like tessellation.
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Mar 17, 2013 17:14
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Carecat posted:New driver and patch let me progress but my graphics still break later when climbing the stairs after the first axe upgrade and opening the door with Whitman. Reloading without TressFX doesn't help so it's something else like tessellation. Yeah, tessellation is the biggie, for me (GTX 660). The game update helped a little, inasmuch as the game would run for more than 30 seconds a time, but it was far from stable, so tessellation remains off for now. A shame, because the game looks spectacular with it on. Having got back into PC gaming in the last few months (Sept '12 to be precise), this is the first game I've had an issue with, out of a couple of dozen purchased. Still a bummer though, to be sure. I *haven't* tried the beta drivers at this time because, well, I'm still paranoid about drivers.
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Isn't tessellation pretty compute-heavy? Maybe that has something to do with the problems with 600s since they have cut down compute performance.
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