There's way too many captures that go into cutscenes where the villian gets inches from your face and monologues, it's repetitive and boring. And the capture mechanics are 100% bullshit. It doesn't matter how good you are or how many of the capture team you kill, you get caught no matter what. You could be way up in the air in a helicopter with no one around and suddenly you'll be hit with a magic arrow. It's a lazy, laughably bad mechanic
Seriously, what the hell were they thinking with that? As a dev you'd have to be a completely out of touch moron to not realize from the jump that mechanics like that would not be looked upon favorably by the community.
Not that it isn't jarring, but as a counterpoint- if there wasn't this mechanic in the game, I would probably never do the story missions. Skyrim spoiled the shit out of me with open world games and often "when I get around to it" just never comes.
There's way too many captures that go into cutscenes where the villian gets inches from your face and monologues, it's repetitive and boring. And the capture mechanics are 100% bullshit. It doesn't matter how good you are or how many of the capture team you kill, you get caught no matter what. You could be way up in the air in a helicopter with no one around and suddenly you'll be hit with a magic arrow. It's a lazy, laughably bad mechanic
Seriously, what the hell were they thinking with that? As a dev you'd have to be a completely out of touch moron to not realize from the jump that mechanics like that would not be looked upon favorably by the community.
Not that it isn't jarring, but as a counterpoint- if there wasn't this mechanic in the game, I would probably never do the story missions. Skyrim spoiled the shit out of me with open world games and often "when I get around to it" just never comes.
You would eventually run out of things to do.
And if you didn't, so what, you're having fun.
The biggest disappointment of Far Cry 4 for me so far, is that the second half of the game feels unfinished.
I finished all the Fashion Week quests, and the final quest I did wasn't scripted or voice acted at all, and then after you complete all the quests you get a radio message to go to the guy's hut and take on the final mission (a quest marker even appears for it), and when you get there the marker just disappears and there's nothing but a note that says he 'fled the country'. Not even a voice acted bit of him escaping or something.'
Something similar happens with the goat masks. After you've collected most of them, the notes the killer leaves behind are written to Ajay, with the final note saying that Yalung whispered Ajay's name and he's next. But that's just the end of things. The Golden Path people are just like 'kthx for taking care of those pesky masks, don't worry that the killer is still at large ' and that storyline is 'over'.
There's a bunch of other little things too. There was a hostage rescue mission that took place in a cave with two entrances. Going in from one entrance everything seems fine, but if you come in from the other way you realize that none of the rocks/boulders have textures on their backsides. There was a propaganda destruction mission that took place in one of the bigger 'villages', which had stone pathways leading through it. One of those pathways was completely unusable though, as you would collide with the terrain when you tried to walk over it, and not even jumping around could get me over it.
There's way too many captures that go into cutscenes where the villian gets inches from your face and monologues, it's repetitive and boring. And the capture mechanics are 100% bullshit. It doesn't matter how good you are or how many of the capture team you kill, you get caught no matter what. You could be way up in the air in a helicopter with no one around and suddenly you'll be hit with a magic arrow. It's a lazy, laughably bad mechanic
Seriously, what the hell were they thinking with that? As a dev you'd have to be a completely out of touch moron to not realize from the jump that mechanics like that would not be looked upon favorably by the community.
Not that it isn't jarring, but as a counterpoint- if there wasn't this mechanic in the game, I would probably never do the story missions. Skyrim spoiled the shit out of me with open world games and often "when I get around to it" just never comes.
You would eventually run out of things to do.
And if you didn't, so what, you're having fun.
This game is a ton of fun, but I was in the middle of a mission, flying in a plane several hundred feet above the ground when I got hit by my first bliss bullet. I had no idea what had happened until the next time I got hit by one. Even beyond the silliness of the mechanic, the story isn't nearly good enough to warrant the forced missions.
There's way too many captures that go into cutscenes where the villian gets inches from your face and monologues, it's repetitive and boring. And the capture mechanics are 100% bullshit. It doesn't matter how good you are or how many of the capture team you kill, you get caught no matter what. You could be way up in the air in a helicopter with no one around and suddenly you'll be hit with a magic arrow. It's a lazy, laughably bad mechanic
Seriously, what the hell were they thinking with that? As a dev you'd have to be a completely out of touch moron to not realize from the jump that mechanics like that would not be looked upon favorably by the community.
Not that it isn't jarring, but as a counterpoint- if there wasn't this mechanic in the game, I would probably never do the story missions. Skyrim spoiled the shit out of me with open world games and often "when I get around to it" just never comes.
You would eventually run out of things to do.
And if you didn't, so what, you're having fun.
This game is a ton of fun, but I was in the middle of a mission, flying in a plane several hundred feet above the ground when I got hit by my first bliss bullet. I had no idea what had happened until the next time I got hit by one. Even beyond the silliness of the mechanic, the story isn't nearly good enough to warrant the forced missions.
Agreed.
Best part of Skyrim and Fallout 4 are that you can ignore main quest almost completely.
Which is good, because main quest is kinda boring in both.
And both have a main quest far better than Far Cry 5.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
Yeah I’ve been loving the gameplay but I want to get in a room with the team of chucklefucks who came up with the story and ask them what the hell they were thinking. There’s the bones for a good story there and they absolutely blew it.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
the ending spoilers
Was that some kind of yellowstone caldera type thing, or nukes? Looked like it was coming up out of the ground but it was hard to tell with all the shakeycam.
Was that some kind of yellowstone caldera type thing, or nukes? Looked like it was coming up out of the ground but it was hard to tell with all the shakeycam.
War were declared.
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Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
Was that some kind of yellowstone caldera type thing, or nukes? Looked like it was coming up out of the ground but it was hard to tell with all the shakeycam.
War were declared.
well thats extra dumb then
edit: I saw this as a random reply to a facebook post on the game and IMO yeah.. it is a better ending:
I created my own ending. I killed off Joseph’s family, his army of cultists and destroyed the bliss. Joseph’s waiting in his church in vain. All my remaining friends are free and seem happy. I’m going fishing now with my girls, Grace and Jess. I win.
Was that some kind of yellowstone caldera type thing, or nukes? Looked like it was coming up out of the ground but it was hard to tell with all the shakeycam.
War were declared.
well thats extra dumb then
edit: I saw this as a random reply to a facebook post on the game and IMO yeah.. it is a better ending:
I created my own ending. I killed off Joseph’s family, his army of cultists and destroyed the bliss. Joseph’s waiting in his church in vain. All my remaining friends are free and seem happy. I’m going fishing now with my girls, Grace and Jess. I win.
Sounds like my ending.
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Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
edited April 2018
Found this on arcade:
All it did was stand there but I did at one point fly directly into it's mouth and explode. Just like in the movies!
Whelp, that happened. I have a lot of great things to say about the game, but the ending was very off. I didn't read that there was a foreign nuclear attack until I snooped around the internet. I've played this game for 43 hours, all in the campaign (co-op or single player) and I've been in and out of vehicles all the time. NOT ONCE did I ever hear anything but music on the radio (and I've switched stations all the time to get rid of the cult shit).
So yeah, I've really enjoyed the game, but the ending was a very hard miss.
Fuck hunting in this game. It's super fucking annoying to shoot an animal in the head with a sniper, have it turn around and run for 20 minutes taking bullets in the ass.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I keep trying to go for lung shots on deer and watching them do the kick and limp off animation because I forget this is not meant to be a realistic hunting game and I’d do better just headshotting things.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I did start using machine guns when I realized they didn’t damage the pelt. I remember in one of the previous games you had to use primitive weapons only if you wanted a good pelt.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Bah sorry I forgot to say which one I was playing. FarCry 5.
I did find out that LMGs are life, so there's that.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I have some story stuff I want to talk about. I haven’t finished the game yet, but I have liberated John’s and Faith’s region so speculation and spoilers will be primarily about those two.
So I get the idea that the Seed parents were crazy abusive, especially to John. I’m working off the assumption that Joseph, Jacob, and John are actually blood brothers, and probably all experienced abuse at the hands of their parents. What happened to the parents hasn’t yet been mentioned in my game, not that it necessarily matters.
But Faith...I figured out pretty quickly in her area that she wasn’t even the original Faith. There’s a prepper stash note that indicates Jospeh has been drugging girls for a while and turning them into “Faith”, then killing them and tossing them in the Angel hole when they’re no longer useful for whatever his real endgame is. The one you “meet” in the game is just the latest one.
Now maybe there’s more info in Jacob’s region and whatever the overall endgame is, but at this point I’m not even sure the three brothers ever even had a sister.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
249 SAW with 4x scope and silencer has been life in Far Cry for me since 3. Silencer isn't exactly doing a lot but I feel better when it's equipped. And its the weapon of choice for hunting. Especially big bastard Moose and such.
I don't know how I'm supposed to get this trophy for a head shot at 150 meters using the bow. I have no idea about range in the game, i just assume that if the person is tiny it must qualify.
I'd also like the game to tell me what the hell I'm missing for 100% on each portion of the map. It tells me I haven't completed some missions, but I can't find anything. I've finished everything but fetch quests.
You might have missed a quest from an npc that gets killed in a story mission.
This is possible? Wtf.
Jacob and Faith have both an npc who dies over the story, and have a quest that, if you did not do on time, can't now be done at all.
Hooray.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
After the one in Faith’s region died I got a radio call from someone else saying they had found the person’s notes of things they wanted done and it gave me a side quest so maybe that’s not entirely accurate?
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
After the one in Faith’s region died I got a radio call from someone else saying they had found the person’s notes of things they wanted done and it gave me a side quest so maybe that’s not entirely accurate?
That's cool if true.
Pretty sure the one in Jacobs region is missable, but if anyone has opposing experience to share, that would be grand to hear.
Ubi have generally been pretty good about not putting missable content in their open-world games, so I assume the quest would still be there, just with different people involved.
If not, that's a very odd choice.
Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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Sirialisof the Halite Throne.Registered Userregular
edited April 2018
This psychic airplane spamming is the first really annoying thing I’ve encountered... At least let me buy the heat seeking Rocket Launcher then.
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DietarySupplementStill not approved by the FDADublin, OHRegistered Userregular
Adelaide is pretty cool to roll with, especially once you tell her to land and you start flying Tulip:
249 SAW with 4x scope and silencer has been life in Far Cry for me since 3. Silencer isn't exactly doing a lot but I feel better when it's equipped. And its the weapon of choice for hunting. Especially big bastard Moose and such.
I don't know how I'm supposed to get this trophy for a head shot at 150 meters using the bow. I have no idea about range in the game, i just assume that if the person is tiny it must qualify.
I'd also like the game to tell me what the hell I'm missing for 100% on each portion of the map. It tells me I haven't completed some missions, but I can't find anything. I've finished everything but fetch quests.
I was missing 1 mission in John's region for a long time. Flying around in my attack helicopter, I randomly fired at the giant "YES" sign in the mountains. That's a mission.
Edit: Also, fairly positive you can't miss out on any side-missions. Any NPC that may have died in the story will have someone else take over the handling of their missions.
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Absurdity MatrixTumbledown GloryOn the OutskirtsRegistered Userregular
I don't know how I'm supposed to get this trophy for a head shot at 150 meters using the bow. I have no idea about range in the game, i just assume that if the person is tiny it must qualify.
The Ghost Kill trophy description says it can be done with a bow or a rifle. I earned it with a .308 from the top of the railroad bridge in the northeast of the Holland Valley region. I hadn't done the Henbane River region yet, so I just scanned the opposite side of the river until I found a target. Distance isn't just horizontal distance: clearing 150m may be a bit easier to do from an elevated position.
If you're unsure about the distance, try dropping a waypoint on top of your target.
This psychic airplane spamming is the first really annoying thing I’ve encountered... At least let me buy the heat seeking Rocket Launcher then.
Incendiary ammo works well when they're dive-bombing you. You can usually set the pilot on fire, and he'll bail out. I also got pretty good at nailing the planes with the normal RPG when they dive in on a strafing run.
I found the laser-guided launcher to be crap =/
Sounds like having Hurk around is supposed to turn the normal RPG into a heat seeker thing, though.
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
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I don't know how I'm supposed to get this trophy for a head shot at 150 meters using the bow. I have no idea about range in the game, i just assume that if the person is tiny it must qualify.
The Ghost Kill trophy description says it can be done with a bow or a rifle. I earned it with a .308 from the top of the railroad bridge in the northeast of the Holland Valley region. I hadn't done the Henbane River region yet, so I just scanned the opposite side of the river until I found a target. Distance isn't just horizontal distance: clearing 150m may be a bit easier to do from an elevated position.
If you're unsure about the distance, try dropping a waypoint on top of your target.
I got mine with the most ridiculous .50 shot at a fleeing airplane. Was total luck.
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249 SAW with 4x scope and silencer has been life in Far Cry for me since 3. Silencer isn't exactly doing a lot but I feel better when it's equipped. And its the weapon of choice for hunting. Especially big bastard Moose and such.
I don't know how I'm supposed to get this trophy for a head shot at 150 meters using the bow. I have no idea about range in the game, i just assume that if the person is tiny it must qualify.
I'd also like the game to tell me what the hell I'm missing for 100% on each portion of the map. It tells me I haven't completed some missions, but I can't find anything. I've finished everything but fetch quests.
I was missing 1 mission in John's region for a long time. Flying around in my attack helicopter, I randomly fired at the giant "YES" sign in the mountains. That's a mission.
Edit: Also, fairly positive you can't miss out on any side-missions. Any NPC that may have died in the story will have someone else take over the handling of their missions.
You're correct about that. One in particular:
I had Virgil die in Faith's region. Any time I come across a mission he would have given me, you get the "hey I saw this on Virgil's desk..." dialogue.
Still makes me wish I would have done them right from him, but it's cool you don't miss out.
One thing I'm wondering; can different NPCs die depending on how you do in the story, or are they all scripted out to be the same?
Flying around in my attack helicopter, I randomly fired at the giant "YES" sign in the mountains.
You'd be surprised what you can destroy with the helicopter... and my goodness, one thing in particular was pretty fucking amazing, as far as a mission goes
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DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
edited April 2018
Helicopters are pretty funny for making Outposts completely trivial. And if you shoot out the alarms with the helicopter you can even get the NO ALARMS bonus(even though it's just money so it's completely fucking useless) despite just sitting there mowing the whole place down in hail of minigun fire.
You can clear any outpost in like 45 seconds just hovering there and shooting.
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Sirialisof the Halite Throne.Registered Userregular
edited April 2018
Is the random AI Fighter ability perk “Hoarder” (carry more ammo) supposed to stack with Perk ammo capacity upgrades?
Thanks for all the comments guys. I destroyed the YES sign shortly after killing that dude, but it did register as a mission so it's not that one. I also got the message after
pin dude was killed and I finished those ones. I don't recall if Eli had any missions that weren't story missions. I think it's destroying the wolf beacons. Also I have to find 2 remaining churches to destory.
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Just the story.
Not that it isn't jarring, but as a counterpoint- if there wasn't this mechanic in the game, I would probably never do the story missions. Skyrim spoiled the shit out of me with open world games and often "when I get around to it" just never comes.
And if you didn't, so what, you're having fun.
I finished all the Fashion Week quests, and the final quest I did wasn't scripted or voice acted at all, and then after you complete all the quests you get a radio message to go to the guy's hut and take on the final mission (a quest marker even appears for it), and when you get there the marker just disappears and there's nothing but a note that says he 'fled the country'. Not even a voice acted bit of him escaping or something.'
Something similar happens with the goat masks. After you've collected most of them, the notes the killer leaves behind are written to Ajay, with the final note saying that Yalung whispered Ajay's name and he's next. But that's just the end of things. The Golden Path people are just like 'kthx for taking care of those pesky masks, don't worry that the killer is still at large
There's a bunch of other little things too. There was a hostage rescue mission that took place in a cave with two entrances. Going in from one entrance everything seems fine, but if you come in from the other way you realize that none of the rocks/boulders have textures on their backsides. There was a propaganda destruction mission that took place in one of the bigger 'villages', which had stone pathways leading through it. One of those pathways was completely unusable though, as you would collide with the terrain when you tried to walk over it, and not even jumping around could get me over it.
This game is a ton of fun, but I was in the middle of a mission, flying in a plane several hundred feet above the ground when I got hit by my first bliss bullet. I had no idea what had happened until the next time I got hit by one. Even beyond the silliness of the mechanic, the story isn't nearly good enough to warrant the forced missions.
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Best part of Skyrim and Fallout 4 are that you can ignore main quest almost completely.
Which is good, because main quest is kinda boring in both.
And both have a main quest far better than Far Cry 5.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
War were declared.
well thats extra dumb then
edit: I saw this as a random reply to a facebook post on the game and IMO yeah.. it is a better ending:
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Sounds like my ending.
All it did was stand there but I did at one point fly directly into it's mouth and explode. Just like in the movies!
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
So yeah, I've really enjoyed the game, but the ending was a very hard miss.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Doesn't that give you burnt meat?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
I'm not sure, it works in 4 I think.
I did find out that LMGs are life, so there's that.
But Faith...I figured out pretty quickly in her area that she wasn’t even the original Faith. There’s a prepper stash note that indicates Jospeh has been drugging girls for a while and turning them into “Faith”, then killing them and tossing them in the Angel hole when they’re no longer useful for whatever his real endgame is. The one you “meet” in the game is just the latest one.
Now maybe there’s more info in Jacob’s region and whatever the overall endgame is, but at this point I’m not even sure the three brothers ever even had a sister.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I don't know how I'm supposed to get this trophy for a head shot at 150 meters using the bow. I have no idea about range in the game, i just assume that if the person is tiny it must qualify.
I'd also like the game to tell me what the hell I'm missing for 100% on each portion of the map. It tells me I haven't completed some missions, but I can't find anything. I've finished everything but fetch quests.
This is possible? Wtf.
Jacob and Faith have both an npc who dies over the story, and have a quest that, if you did not do on time, can't now be done at all.
Hooray.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Pretty sure the one in Jacobs region is missable, but if anyone has opposing experience to share, that would be grand to hear.
If not, that's a very odd choice.
"Punch it, Chewy!"
I was missing 1 mission in John's region for a long time. Flying around in my attack helicopter, I randomly fired at the giant "YES" sign in the mountains. That's a mission.
Edit: Also, fairly positive you can't miss out on any side-missions. Any NPC that may have died in the story will have someone else take over the handling of their missions.
The Ghost Kill trophy description says it can be done with a bow or a rifle. I earned it with a .308 from the top of the railroad bridge in the northeast of the Holland Valley region. I hadn't done the Henbane River region yet, so I just scanned the opposite side of the river until I found a target. Distance isn't just horizontal distance: clearing 150m may be a bit easier to do from an elevated position.
If you're unsure about the distance, try dropping a waypoint on top of your target.
Incendiary ammo works well when they're dive-bombing you. You can usually set the pilot on fire, and he'll bail out. I also got pretty good at nailing the planes with the normal RPG when they dive in on a strafing run.
I found the laser-guided launcher to be crap =/
Sounds like having Hurk around is supposed to turn the normal RPG into a heat seeker thing, though.
I got mine with the most ridiculous .50 shot at a fleeing airplane. Was total luck.
You're correct about that. One in particular:
Still makes me wish I would have done them right from him, but it's cool you don't miss out.
One thing I'm wondering; can different NPCs die depending on how you do in the story, or are they all scripted out to be the same?
You'd be surprised what you can destroy with the helicopter... and my goodness, one thing in particular was pretty fucking amazing, as far as a mission goes
You can clear any outpost in like 45 seconds just hovering there and shooting.
Because it seems like it does.