Countdown To Homefront

Seems like an alright game. Graphics look pretty pathetic though, but that could just be a beta thing. Hopefully they will be improved dramatically in the final release.

 

As far as single player length, I've seen about 5 hours. short, yes, but I've read that's it's well done.

 

I was only impressed by the dvd cover.

 

I would give a 7.5 for single player just because the story of everything was good and the length was bah short 4 hours for me. and a 9 for the multiplayer i love it absolute mayhem at its best when you want a warfare game, after a while of playing and it be in the middle of the night you might catch yourself leaning and stuff if your flying the choppers or like leaning to see if you can catch anything out of the corner while standing next to a corner lol very addictive i think its a better hit then black ops in all honesty.

 

Well I have had this game for quite a while now. Helping a gaming magazine so they can take pictures and test the game on my laptop. So I got the preview copy first then the full game.

I can say right away this is an Unreal 3 engine game and I agree it looks like crap in my opinion. There is no DX11 for this game since it uses the UE3 engine. However the good thing is that the game runs really good at 1920x1200 maxed out on my laptop.

If anyone has trouble running the game in SLI just duplicate the SLI profile for Mass Effect 2 or just add the Homefront.exe to Mass Effect 2 SLI profile and you are good to go.

 

5 hour campaign with MP same as COD4, eh, sounds like a pass to me.

Just watched a review for Prey, old game, but chuckled when the reviewer says, this is a standard length 8-12 hours. 12 hours standard... sigh... oh well.

 

Magnus - Are you sure it's not DX11? Several Versions of Radeon Pro show it as DX11. Kaos themselves said it was DX11.

How or what method are you using to determine the D3D level? (not that it changes anyone's opinion of looks, just curious). The config file may say D3D10 but may not have been updated to say 11 due to coding.

StevenX

 

IMO, I think Radeon Pro is wrong, and KAOS is lying. Why? Because UE3 is only DX10 capable. It is not capable of DX11. Only the new UE 3.97, which can only be run by 3 GTX580 in SLI.

 

Yes if they say that it´s not true.

Also the DX10 option in UE3 only enables AA, that is the only "DX10" feature for this game, it was the same for Gears of War too.

Any additional DX11 features is not there since the UE3 engine don´t support DX11. I could see right away when I got the preview copy of the game it was the UE3 engine. It´s easy to tell since all UE3 games looks almost the the same.

Bulletstorm the latest one looks great though same I thought with Medal of Honor Tier One that uses the UE3 engine for the Single Player. However UE3 has it flaws with low resolution textures here and there.

The positive side is that UE3 runs great on most platforms, but the engine is dated by now in my opinion.

 

I just saw some multiplayer gameplay on YouTube, it looks horrible. Everyone just runs around no scoping because there is no recoil.

 

As of GDC '11, Unreal Engine supports DX11. It's the version 3.97. Needs 3 GTX580 in SLI to get 60 FPS.

 

It's DX11

Homefront | Why such bad performance here?

Got to watch out for Disinformation...

StevenX

 

Hmm well I play the game in Win 7 and with a DX11 GPU and see no DX11 effects at all. It´s not even a hint in the ini files for any DX11 features.

However they said on the forum that they use a DX11 path, possibley for greater optimization though UE3 is optimized as it is.

 

DX11 with Homefront sounds like pure gimmick. With recent and upcoming games with actual, real DX11 support, Homefront decided to just slap DX11 on it by name just because the new UDK says DX11, but reality it's just a DX9 game.

I definitely do not believe THQ would spend the extra the money for a game to be done in Shader model 3.0 in UE3 for consoles and then redo it in Shader 5.0 for PC. THQ is too cheap for that, plus they don't even like PC Games.

The game ini file for Homefront only lists DX10 and the DX Detection for Homefront only states DX9 and DX10, there is no mention of DX11. DX11 just sounds like a soundbite marketing to me.

I mean this is THQ we are talking about... When they say PC gets extra treatment, they mean it will run like crap for the level of detail. Special treatment indeed.

 

I totally agree mushishi it´s just an gimmick. I even tried that to add -dx11 to steam and ran the game again. Compared it to DX9 and there is no difference in performance nor image quality.

 

If you look at screenshots their is a huge difference between dx9 and dx11 for this game. It might not use every component of dx11 but it is dx11.

Feel free to believe what you want, Just make sure to distinguish facts from opinions.

StevenX

 

Soo show these "in-game" screenshots where that huge difference is obvious. Now I mean real screenshots and not any bullshots. Since personally the difference isn´t huge at all, if anything at all.

 

Single Player was way too short.

However, I'm enjoying multi-player a lot more than COD. Seems easier and more possible to snipe

 

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There you go... Feel free to make comments as per usual..

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This game is actual fun! The single is alright, just your typical over the top COD like style story. Also I just watched Red Dawn for the first time before playing this game to get me in the mood. I saw some easter egg of Red Dawn during single player. Anyways, the multiplayer is like COD4 and Battlefield combine together. The action is non stop and there are plenty of places to take cover. I just wish there was a medic class because I seem to notice a lot of dead bodies on my team...

 

Thanks Steven. Yeah though it looks the same in DX9 so.

 

Not true when you fire from the hip there is tons of recoil, in order to get a good hit on just 1 person from the hip you have to go thru an entire magazine almost just to kill em

 

There is something wrong with your pics Steve. Changing from DX9 to DX11 should not change the textures. DX11 does not increase the detail of textures. DX11 is about SHADER 5.0. I don't see anything that indicates the DX11 pics are using Shader 5.0 technology like soft shadowing and improved fog, hardware accelerated DOF/Occlusion etc. All I see is THQ being retards by saying look we added high res textures for DX11.

High Res Textures does not equal DX11.

 

I took two screenshots of the game running in DX9 and DX11. There is no difference at all visual between the two modes.

No the textures is as highres in DX9 as in DX11 mushishi.

 

Not in Steve's screenshots which is what I said. There is something wrong with his screenshots. Look at them. DX9 screenshots are low res while the DX11 are high res textures. And I'm pointing out to him that does not make it DX11.

 

Yes that is bollocks for sure. In that DX9 album the textures are set to low. It don´t look like that in my game at DX9 when textures are set to high.

 

What I do know is that NONE of us work for KOAS or THQ so anything mentioned besides what the developers have stated is speculation. Lets get this back on track. More performance ideas from the developers added to page 1.

Add this switch to your start-up properties in STEAM to see if this helps.

"-compatscale=4" ( do not include quotes)

 

Well I have no problem with the performance at all neither for my notebook nore for my desktop.

That DX9 album pics has low quality settings for sure. DX9 don´t look like that maxed out.

Here is DX9:



And here is with the -dx11 switch for steam for the game.

 

Yep they look identical to me. Figures.

 

I cant seem to find any difference here? So much for directx 11 support?

 

i see that dx11 is ever so slightly sharper SLIGHTLY sharper...thats it

 

whats the average gameplay length of singleplayer campaign?

 

It would seem to be 4 hours. Read some say they took their time and still finished in 3.5 hours.

 

3.5 hours? unless it has a solid story and MP then i might wait for a price drop. if not no thanks im not buying this.

 

Its not that long of a game. I finished it in roughly 6hrs or so. Keep in mind I was also watching the beginning of March madness. Also, I was having problems with my wireless 360 controller (YES, I don't use the pc keys or mouse). For some strange reason I could not pick anything up (all other buttons worked fine). I had to keep mapping the "X" button to pick up/open things. Other than that the game was okay.

I would say wait for the price drop!!!


Bring on Crysis 2, Fear 3, Mass Effect 3, BF 3

 

So is anyone dropping this for Crysis 2 SP/MP? I really didn't like the C2 MP demo. The homefront MP is pretty good and once they kick the hackers it should be even better.

 

They also need to fix the fps problems that players like me have been suffering. None of the things they've suggested has helped other than playing 720p in windowed mode, and the game is still barely playable.

 

Try these settings they helped me improved my performance from 22average fps to 30 to 40 fps.

another simple possible fix for those with fps issues - Steam Users' Forums

So I finished the single player and I did not enjoy it. I did not care for any of the characters and each level is a constant stream of enemies over and over non stop. After playing a great game like Mass Effect 2, coming into playing this game showed how poorly the single player was. Multiplayer is still fun, but there are still bugs that need to be fix.

 

First i played CoD: BO
Then BF2: BC — amazing multiplayed and better gfx
Then Bulletstorm — the story and environment different and gfx on par with BC2, so it was kinda good, but still BF2 isnt matched with its mplayer.

But Homefront... I dare to say that its not even better then CoD. At least not with graphic. Its like Xpac for CoD, srsly.

I give it 6/10. Play it if you already finished everything else and really bored.
GFX is so 2010 if not 2009, gameplay is nothing new, story isnt surprising either.