I took down a strong hold with the help of what I think was a peacock / turkey / ungodly marriage of the two. This is such a bad ass game.
Those birds are the missing link between velociraptors and turkeys. Terrifying.
I had no idea those things were predators when I first encountered them. I snuck up on a pack of them and put an arrow through one, then the rest of the pack rushed me and nearly killed me.
After almost dying, I eventually found myself standing atop a pile of their corpses.
And then a fucking tiger jumped out of nowhere and finished me off.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
I took down a strong hold with the help of what I think was a peacock / turkey / ungodly marriage of the two. This is such a bad ass game.
Those birds are the missing link between velociraptors and turkeys. Terrifying.
I had no idea those things were predators when I first encountered them. I snuck up on a pack of them and put an arrow through one, then the rest of the pack rushed me and nearly killed me.
After almost dying, I eventually found myself standing atop a pile of their corpses.
And then a fucking tiger jumped out of nowhere and finished me off.
I took down a strong hold with the help of what I think was a peacock / turkey / ungodly marriage of the two. This is such a bad ass game.
Those birds are the missing link between velociraptors and turkeys. Terrifying.
I had no idea those things were predators when I first encountered them. I snuck up on a pack of them and put an arrow through one, then the rest of the pack rushed me and nearly killed me.
After almost dying, I eventually found myself standing atop a pile of their corpses.
And then a fucking tiger jumped out of nowhere and finished me off.
i havent been able to successfully stealth kill a heavy thus far. once heavies are there its time to go loud, basically. personally i like the flamethrower for them.
What's the best way to takedown heavy guys before you get the beatdown skill without alerting anyone else, do knife throw takedowns work on em?
they're unarmored on the back of their head, so any sort of ballistic going into that spot is going to kill them if they are unaware.
Kill everybody else, chuck a C4 charge at them, win without alerting anybody.
I think you can arrow-kill them in one shot if you catch them by surprise; I did that to one while taking an outpost and one arrow brought the guy down, much to my surprise. Dunno if it was a fluke shot or not, but arrows definitely did not work on a later heavy who was alerted to my presence before I started shooting arrows at him. Dude absorbed several arrows, then took another 3 exploding arrows before going down.
Otherwise, I would just save them for last when taking outposts and whatnot so I could use explosives or headshot them with a concentrated burst of LMG fire.
EDIT: And yeah, fire stuff works really well on them, though not silently. Flares will toast them, as will molotovs.
I always fail to stealth-kill a whole outpost but in contrast to most stealth games it really doesn't matter that much, a good shoot out is just as fun.
There is a huge difference in XP if you take out a whole outpost in stealth.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Yeah, just for confirmation, arrows will not one-shot a heavy even if they're unaware of you. Dunno if that applies to their "weak spot" or whatever, but just tried it to be sure and the heavy was..displeased with the attempt.
"Shoot 'em in the back of the head" kinda describes my entire approach to this game.
Except for the one scene leading up to... (late Act 1 spoilers)
..."that which was lost". Jason just fucking dozens murdered people with a knife. Throat slit, stabbed in the back, stabbed on the throat. It was brutal.
Then what does he say?
"How many pirates are in here, anyway?!" Petulantly.
Coupled with the "killing people feels like winning" scene? Descent to psychopath complete.
Edit phone grammar fail, not fixing it right now. :P
Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Man, I can see a serious dilemna approaching fairly late into the story (seriously spoilery):
SAFETY SPOILER
if I have to choose between killing Hoyt or saving the friends, I dunno what I'm gonna do. If the brother is with of the friends, then I'll definitely let Hoyt go to save them. But if the brother is safe no matter what... damn, it's gonna be a tough call. Save a bunch of vapid, self-absorbed morons that are the epitome of wealthy stupidity but were also friends at one point, or murder an crime ultra-boss as promised to a super-hot super-crazy warrior-priestess and to avenge my brother? Decisions, decisions...
So, so hoping I can do both, but where that brother ends up is going to be the clincher. I almost want the brother to be placed with the friends just so I have a clear decision to make, but I'm definitely hoping the story forces you to make an ambiguous call.
I am down to medium settings to break my frames into the 40's with Crossfired 6950's. Slightly disgruntled right now.
That's definitely not right, I have an i3 and a 6850 and get 40-70 fps on everything high except post fx and shadows which are low. DX11 @ 1080p. I turned on v-sync though to get a solid 30 as I was getting tearing on my TV.
Try looking through the FC3 performance thread on the Guru 3D forums, I'm sure there was a Crossfire fix there.
I'm playing now with the Ultra preset but shadows turned down to medium and no MSAA. I get 30-45 fps and it's very playable, although the Crossfire/SLI micro-stutter some people complain about about with every game is more noticeable here than with any other game I've played.
I still feel like there's a hangup somewhere and I ought to be getting more based on what other people are saying.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Someone needs to make a Green Arrow: The Wonder Year mod for Far Cry.
And that Jurassic Park one.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Making a dinosaur mod for Far Cry 3 would make the game basically "Turok: Hookers and Drugs Edition"... and that would be awesome.
But seriously, with denser trees and a nice variety of dinosaurs, a game like this would blow people's pants off. People talk about moments where they get jumped by tigers; now replace "tiger" with "sneaky T-rex" and you've got moments that people would remember forever. I'm talking critters that, unless you have a seriously high-calibre rifle or a mounted weapon, you just run away and hope they don't chase you after they deal with that molotov you just chucked in their face.
And if they had some smart pack-type critters like raptors? Legendarily awesome game, and easily an instant classic.
On this topic, every time I hear one of the enemy types say "At least this isn't the island with the dinosaurs" (or something close to that), I simply cannot help but think "Can...can I get the island with dinosaurs? Pretty please?"
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Johnny ChopsockyScootaloo! We have to cook!Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered Userregular
Man, the options screen doesn't fool around when you turn the music 'off'. It's all gone now, even the title screen music.
Dammit, I just want to be able to listen out for murderbeasts in the jungle without having it drowned out by 'there is a hostile thing within 300 yards DUH NUH NUH NUH-NUH' music. C'mon Far Cry 3, work with me on this.
Also just did my first Knife Throw Takedown. So satisfying.
Making a dinosaur mod for Far Cry 3 would make the game basically "Turok: Hookers and Drugs Edition"... and that would be awesome.
But seriously, with denser trees and a nice variety of dinosaurs, a game like this would blow people's pants off. People talk about moments where they get jumped by tigers; now replace "tiger" with "sneaky T-rex" and you've got moments that people would remember forever. I'm talking critters that, unless you have a seriously high-calibre rifle or a mounted weapon, you just run away and hope they don't chase you after they deal with that molotov you just chucked in their face.
And if they had some smart pack-type critters like raptors? Legendarily awesome game, and easily an instant classic.
On this topic, every time I hear one of the enemy types say "At least this isn't the island with the dinosaurs" (or something close to that), I simply cannot help but think "Can...can I get the island with dinosaurs? Pretty please?"
There needs to be more games where you have to run away full stop. I loved some of the ideas that Trespasser had way back in like 2000 or whenever it came out. I mean the overall game sucked, but some of those dinosaurs were scary as hell. Imagine Far Cry where you only had a knife and a bow, and maybe the bow couldn't do anything to Crocs and bears. Or there were dinosaurs. It'd be amazing.
Unfortunately, this being an Ubisoft game, and if it's anything like Far Cry 2, it will be completely impossible to mod.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Even as it is, bears and tigers are pretty good encouragement to just run the hell away.
I mean, yes, your AR can kill a tiger, but if I don't need the skin, it's not a gamble I like to take. The frenzy of trying to land enough headshots to take it down before it takes 3/4 of your life makes the whole encounter less than ideal.
I do wish there were more big nasty predators like that in the game. I have more fun dealing with the local fauna than the stupid pirates.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
So disabling Crossfire gives me a noticeable boost of several fps. Oh AMD, you so crazy.
What is the most convenient way of setting it up so I don't have to keep enabling/disabling Crossfire every time I switch back and forth between FC3 and other games?
In other news, I am irritated that this game won't let you switch back and forth between KB+M and gamepad on the fly. KB+M for on foot and gamepad for vehicles is my standard control scheme for games like this, and this is the first one I've played where it won't work.
Is there any word on planned Story DLC? I know the game's barely a week old but I know I'm going to want more!
the only thing theyve announced so far is a ps3 exclusive set of co-op levels, set for release in january. id be very surprised if the Lost Expeditions missions didnt become available to everybody at some point as well, and i hear those are real neat.
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The "back of the head" weak spot on heavies definitely works if you get them there unaware with an arrow, it's my primary way of taking them out. If that's too hard, the silenced sniper rifle is much easier. It is a very small spot.
also I just drove off a cliff in an ATV, dove off in midair and landed in the ocean and swam away from my pursuers. FAR CRY.
Are you the magic man?
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited December 2012
Just finished the game.
Fucking fucking fuck.
Easily the most surprisingly great game I've ever played and paid no attention to before I bought it. I was expecting some mesh of FC1 and FC2 with some improvements and another fairly iffy story, but holy crap was I so wrong. I hope Ubisoft takes this formula and just goes crazy with it, because this game was just an utter, utter blast that tops itself off with an ending that I not only didn't expect, but they actually managed to make really good instead of super-cheesy. I feel like I need therapy just from watching a story that screws somebody up this bad.
And for a bit at the very end (SUPER SPOILER)
When Citra says to join her so I could be king of the jungle forever, all I could think was:
"Baby, I already am the king."
Someone needs to make a Green Arrow: The Wonder Year mod for Far Cry.
And that Jurassic Park one.
If anyone has been watching the new Arrow series, I would love to play the part of Oliver when he's trapped on the island with no clue what to do. Thatwould be so perfect for this game.
Gentlemen, this island is a Erewhon, I point you to the fact that the sun rises in the west.
Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk:
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
Gentlemen, this island is a Erewhon, I point you to the fact that the sun rises in the west.
Nah, that's just because it's probably south of the Equator. :rotate:
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FreiA French Prometheus UnboundDeadwoodRegistered Userregular
Based on feedback from both press and fans, the Far Cry 3 production team is working on a patch that will allow you to toggle most HUD/UI elements based on player preference. The patch will also avoid issues encountered in the .dll hack that might create a mission walkthrough break (missing QTE prompts, critical information, etc).
Cool. The HUD customization will be good for screenshots if the amount of bitching the minimap being in one of my screenshots in the screenshot thread caused is any indication.
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I'm being deliberately...deliberate with my play through for this very reason.
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I had no idea those things were predators when I first encountered them. I snuck up on a pack of them and put an arrow through one, then the rest of the pack rushed me and nearly killed me.
After almost dying, I eventually found myself standing atop a pile of their corpses.
And then a fucking tiger jumped out of nowhere and finished me off.
That's XCOM!
Wait...
The real Dark Souls begins here.
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they're unarmored on the back of their head, so any sort of ballistic going into that spot is going to kill them if they are unaware.
Kill everybody else, chuck a C4 charge at them, win without alerting anybody.
I think you can arrow-kill them in one shot if you catch them by surprise; I did that to one while taking an outpost and one arrow brought the guy down, much to my surprise. Dunno if it was a fluke shot or not, but arrows definitely did not work on a later heavy who was alerted to my presence before I started shooting arrows at him. Dude absorbed several arrows, then took another 3 exploding arrows before going down.
Otherwise, I would just save them for last when taking outposts and whatnot so I could use explosives or headshot them with a concentrated burst of LMG fire.
EDIT: And yeah, fire stuff works really well on them, though not silently. Flares will toast them, as will molotovs.
Or just use the AMR
One shot
Anywhere
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Except for the one scene leading up to... (late Act 1 spoilers)
Then what does he say?
"How many pirates are in here, anyway?!" Petulantly.
Coupled with the "killing people feels like winning" scene? Descent to psychopath complete.
Edit phone grammar fail, not fixing it right now. :P
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So, so hoping I can do both, but where that brother ends up is going to be the clincher. I almost want the brother to be placed with the friends just so I have a clear decision to make, but I'm definitely hoping the story forces you to make an ambiguous call.
I'm playing now with the Ultra preset but shadows turned down to medium and no MSAA. I get 30-45 fps and it's very playable, although the Crossfire/SLI micro-stutter some people complain about about with every game is more noticeable here than with any other game I've played.
I still feel like there's a hangup somewhere and I ought to be getting more based on what other people are saying.
Bow and arrow.
Always.
After sniping the first with a rifle I did grenade arrow the last one to death.
Year of the bow.
And that Jurassic Park one.
But seriously, with denser trees and a nice variety of dinosaurs, a game like this would blow people's pants off. People talk about moments where they get jumped by tigers; now replace "tiger" with "sneaky T-rex" and you've got moments that people would remember forever. I'm talking critters that, unless you have a seriously high-calibre rifle or a mounted weapon, you just run away and hope they don't chase you after they deal with that molotov you just chucked in their face.
And if they had some smart pack-type critters like raptors? Legendarily awesome game, and easily an instant classic.
On this topic, every time I hear one of the enemy types say "At least this isn't the island with the dinosaurs" (or something close to that), I simply cannot help but think "Can...can I get the island with dinosaurs? Pretty please?"
Dammit, I just want to be able to listen out for murderbeasts in the jungle without having it drowned out by 'there is a hostile thing within 300 yards DUH NUH NUH NUH-NUH' music. C'mon Far Cry 3, work with me on this.
Also just did my first Knife Throw Takedown. So satisfying.
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There needs to be more games where you have to run away full stop. I loved some of the ideas that Trespasser had way back in like 2000 or whenever it came out. I mean the overall game sucked, but some of those dinosaurs were scary as hell. Imagine Far Cry where you only had a knife and a bow, and maybe the bow couldn't do anything to Crocs and bears. Or there were dinosaurs. It'd be amazing.
Against dinosaurs, though...
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I mean, yes, your AR can kill a tiger, but if I don't need the skin, it's not a gamble I like to take. The frenzy of trying to land enough headshots to take it down before it takes 3/4 of your life makes the whole encounter less than ideal.
I do wish there were more big nasty predators like that in the game. I have more fun dealing with the local fauna than the stupid pirates.
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What is the most convenient way of setting it up so I don't have to keep enabling/disabling Crossfire every time I switch back and forth between FC3 and other games?
In other news, I am irritated that this game won't let you switch back and forth between KB+M and gamepad on the fly. KB+M for on foot and gamepad for vehicles is my standard control scheme for games like this, and this is the first one I've played where it won't work.
the only thing theyve announced so far is a ps3 exclusive set of co-op levels, set for release in january. id be very surprised if the Lost Expeditions missions didnt become available to everybody at some point as well, and i hear those are real neat.
also I just drove off a cliff in an ATV, dove off in midair and landed in the ocean and swam away from my pursuers. FAR CRY.
Fucking fucking fuck.
Easily the most surprisingly great game I've ever played and paid no attention to before I bought it. I was expecting some mesh of FC1 and FC2 with some improvements and another fairly iffy story, but holy crap was I so wrong. I hope Ubisoft takes this formula and just goes crazy with it, because this game was just an utter, utter blast that tops itself off with an ending that I not only didn't expect, but they actually managed to make really good instead of super-cheesy. I feel like I need therapy just from watching a story that screws somebody up this bad.
And for a bit at the very end (SUPER SPOILER)
"Baby, I already am the king."
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If anyone has been watching the new Arrow series, I would love to play the part of Oliver when he's trapped on the island with no clue what to do. Thatwould be so perfect for this game.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
Nah, that's just because it's probably south of the Equator. :rotate:
Cool. The HUD customization will be good for screenshots if the amount of bitching the minimap being in one of my screenshots in the screenshot thread caused is any indication.
That's not really how the sun works.