really fun game.

"All is going according to plan" LMAO

Great demo, it was already a day 1 buy for me but the demo just reinforced it.

Downloading the demo right now also... never played the first, never thought of liking or wanting this game, but will see with the demo.

i really hated the first one, the graphic was excelent and really light on the system for the time, this is feelz like a better version of the first with what mercenaries 2 should had been, its obvious to me now that merc 2 was beta testing for this game.

i liked that there is a time cicle, you most play at morning in the demo, i played through morning, day, and night, then morning again, i had to die to activate the time placement though, and odd enough at the race place there is a woman with bikini and another with top and short skirt, since i only saw them there at night i think they are hookers, so i tethered the bikini one in my plane and kidnaped her to my place, ahuahauhahau.

shall upload that and the dude flying way up tethered by the propane tank soon.

Is there anywhere in the demo I can go look at how the water is rendered? I tried parachuting towards the lakes behind where you start but it said I was going out of the demo's boundary. I'd like to see what the water looks like and discover what the gpu setting for the water does.

yes there is, take a bike, or blow #%&*$# up to open new mission, go for the race to get the plane leave the mission area and keep the plane, head northeast of the map, there is a little bay there, can't go much farther then the pier, but you can swim and dive, and watch the waves, using gpu water did enchance the waves a lot,but with a 9-11 fps impact here (nvidia 9600 gt 512mb),it's purely cosmetic though, cos i blew the water tower with it on and off and it didnt affect the water physics.

what i want to know is what is my suit suposed to be, some sort of cammeleon suit ? one time its a tiger stripe pattern, then its black, then its forest cammo, wth ? is it suposed to adapt to enviroment ?

and coot, i really like the game engine, you can make setting alterations on the fly without having to restart the game,with a minor pausing. only thing affecting my fps is the bokeh effect, but i didnt care for it much, and the SSAO that i have no idea what it does,and didnt notice a diference besides impact on frame rate.

Hey Blade I'll try that out. I didn't know you could complete a mission and then go on to a next one in the demo. I know what you mean about the settings. Its nice being able to adjust with no game restarting.

I didn't know what some of those setting meant either. Apparently the bokeh filter does something with making images blur. I think it focuses in on the subject and the stuff behind it like mountains is blurred. I looked up SSAO and it has something to do with depth of field or something. The wiki definition was real techy and over my head.

And Blade I found where the rocket chopper is. From start, go off to the left down in the valley and there is a base with one.

If you do it right you can ride the chute all the way from the start point to the helipad. Use the grapple to get a flying start in that direction then pop the chute and enjoy a beautiful cruise over the helipad.

Thanks i'll try later, the boke filter does what you say, but i dont think it works very well, from the dev video and the gameplay,it just blur things in distance A LOT. thats not how it happens in real life, check the bridge thing or island on the far right to the sea in the begining put on and off, looks much better off, also i like the heat waves better then the blurring filter, makes it look like a very hot tropical island.

and coot, there are no new missions i think,i only unlocked the race and withness, then did a few side mission completing villages, but only opened black market,i guess the demo are just those 2.

weapons location:

grenade laucher :right off the start the closest village settlement with the audio barrack, in the tower.

sniper rifle: military base to left of starting point, and colonel hideout, on the way for the racing place coming from the starting point.

shotgun: inside military base to left of starting point, deep inside, whatever the big fallic stuff is.

saw machine gun: just reach level 2 and army will use it, altough the game model is wrong instead having a car-15 model, but when the weapoin is on the ground you can see its a saw.

update with pic later.

btw i'm surprised how the cars lasts in this game, i completely totaled a 4x4 and it was still rolling, ahhaah.
i hope the final game keeps the slow pace cinematic button push, i hated on mercs2 how i had to remember each combo for each vehicle takedown, and them miss one and be read to die, especially if the vehicle was a chopper ...... really frustrating.

I was hoping that the game would feature coop. Ah well.