Crysis 2's quite a looker, but it certainly didn't make your PC explode. Hell, we bet it only caught on fire a little. And – given the original Crysis' bleeding-edge legacy – we'd be lying if we said that wasn't a bit of a letdown. Crytek, however, isn't about to leave us high, dry, and without a few flecks of PC shrapnel forever lodged in our lungs. The developer still cares, and as proof of that, it's dropping a big, fat DX11-shaped love letter on PC gamers' doorsteps – completely free of charge.

You've reached the end of another day, and a Monday no less. It wasn't easy, but you began the uphill battle that is yet another work week with grace, poise, and some other adjectives that aren't generally used in reviews of ice-skating performances. Still though, you can't shake this weird feeling – like something's missing. And that's because it is. You were promised a Crysis 2 “Advanced Graphics Setting” patch, after all. What gives? Well, as it turns out, we've all been had.

Remember when the sky fell last week? Of course you don't. You were too busy fussing over the Crysis 2 leak to notice. Turns out, though, that even being gobsmacked by the unsolicited distribution of its biggest game ever wasn't enough to take the spring out of Crytek's step. There's a simple reason for that: it actually wasn't so bad.

The Crysis franchise went from PC posterchild to one-size-fits-all multiplatform series in record time – much to the chagrin of dedicated PC gamers (though perhaps to the relief of their straining, sweating machines). And why not? After all, imagine how eye-popping a Crysis sequel could be if it squeezed out every drop of your rig's full potential. According to Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli, though, that couldn't be further from the truth.