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Far Cry 3 |OT| Sex, Drugs, and the Call of Battle in the Uncharted
- Thread starter legacyzero
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I do it for the true gamers.
Maybe if we complain about the "never-respawning-enemies-after-all-outposts-are-cleared" issue they will fix that as well.
disappeared
Banned
What a great example of a dev team listening to opinions of players and announcing a solution, not even a week after the game's dropped.
Props to the guys at Ubi Montreal.
Props to the guys at Ubi Montreal.
IOnEI Falcon
Member
I wish there was some option to surrender all outposts after you freed them all so you can do then again. That would be really cool.
They don't ruin the game but they are very annoying and I don't know how they didn't have an option beforehand. I am literally on a story mission that says "Go _____ or continue exploring the island until you are ready", so I was going around hunting and stealthing around outposts. The thing pops up very frequently to remind you despite there always being a marker on the map doing the same thing.
Glad they're patching it atleast.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
There should've been a real-time management of all of the outposts you've captured, what their status are, and if they're being attacked by animals or pirates. Would've been cool.
That would be amazing actually.
IOnEI Falcon
Member
Yeah. Though with it real time I could see people being frustrated all of a sudden they couldn't fast travel somewhere.
legacyzero
Banned
I think pirates should assault your territories after you capture them San Andreas style.
SlasherJPC
Banned
I second this. It would be even better if it was just a post-game feature.
So, this is showing up on the Steam UK store now...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/220240/?snr=1_7_suggest__13
Not sure if that's old news but last mention I saw in the search of the thread suggests not.
Edit: Partial Controller Support? thought it was full?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/220240/?snr=1_7_suggest__13
Not sure if that's old news but last mention I saw in the search of the thread suggests not.
Edit: Partial Controller Support? thought it was full?
Barack Lesnar
Banned
That one was a technical hurdle that just wasn't reasonable for them to fix. I remember reading a post-mortem about that.
SJRB
Gold Member
I still think they should've implemented a "random outpost takeover" script, where at random times an outpost falls back into pirate hands. Not a territorial battle or something, just that it basically resets an outpost's status at random and respawns the pirates.
Keeps the endgame interesting. Shouldn't be THAT hard, should it?
unknownhero
Member
I think I'll jump on the map editor tonight. To deaden my walking dead withdraw, I'm going to try to create (season 3 spoiler)
as best as i can on a console.
woodbury
Yep... me and you. Were very much on the same page when it comes to this game!
You gave a great review. Fun and informative for those who are curious. So odd to see all of these GOTY awards with nominees that were ready to go before this even had a chance... despite getting such high critical acclaim.
I am using the 360 controller and it works perfectly.
So yeah, I think I'm done. Far Cry 3 is not a very good game and I can't quite figure out the review scores. I might just power my way through the story and see how bad it gets.
The world is simply not interesting. The AI is mostly nonexistent, there is no crafting system, just the mindless task of gathering colored leaves, there is almost no variety in weapons. Everything is built around medium to close range combat. The optics are a total joke. Animals are dumb as rocks. Dogs charge at me one by one, Tigers just run off and don't do anything.
There is no incentive to discover stuff in the island. There is no little story for locations, it's just a pretense to hide a bunch of statues and crates. The caves are just a chore with the first person climbing. Same thing with the radio towers. I'm not sure why they do that. It's not challenging or interesting. It's just about finding a vine and pressing "space".
I guess that the story could be fun? But the missions are so restrictive. I started one and it refused to let me go around a boulder since I would be "out of bounds". Having that kind of mission zoning in an open world game is just dumb. The hallucinations stuff is nice, but I guess it goes nowhere.
The trash system is almost insulting. How about you give me money instead of forcing me to sell some crap that's worth peanuts? Why even have such a useless system in the first place? I guess some people are totally engaged by poorly made systems that are there to provide the illusions of "loot".
The world is simply not interesting. The AI is mostly nonexistent, there is no crafting system, just the mindless task of gathering colored leaves, there is almost no variety in weapons. Everything is built around medium to close range combat. The optics are a total joke. Animals are dumb as rocks. Dogs charge at me one by one, Tigers just run off and don't do anything.
There is no incentive to discover stuff in the island. There is no little story for locations, it's just a pretense to hide a bunch of statues and crates. The caves are just a chore with the first person climbing. Same thing with the radio towers. I'm not sure why they do that. It's not challenging or interesting. It's just about finding a vine and pressing "space".
I guess that the story could be fun? But the missions are so restrictive. I started one and it refused to let me go around a boulder since I would be "out of bounds". Having that kind of mission zoning in an open world game is just dumb. The hallucinations stuff is nice, but I guess it goes nowhere.
The trash system is almost insulting. How about you give me money instead of forcing me to sell some crap that's worth peanuts? Why even have such a useless system in the first place? I guess some people are totally engaged by poorly made systems that are there to provide the illusions of "loot".
Nizz
Member
So that HUD patch is coming for all platforms? Hopefully it'll be close to when I (hopefully) get it for Christmas.
I keep watching videos of this game and I really love the body awareness in this game. If they incorporate that same awareness in the next Rainbow Six game oh man...
I keep watching videos of this game and I really love the body awareness in this game. If they incorporate that same awareness in the next Rainbow Six game oh man...
SlasherJPC
Banned
Well not to let the cat out of the bag, but my GOTY video is going to actually feature my top 5 games... and yes Far Cry 3 is one of them.
Visualante2
Member
Full controller support means you can install the game with the pad, and configure the game without mouse and keyboard.
Just did a wanted quest where you had to take out like a dozen guys with a knife on top of a hill, pretty hard, but a good supplement once you've liberated all the outposts.
Just did a wanted quest where you had to take out like a dozen guys with a knife on top of a hill, pretty hard, but a good supplement once you've liberated all the outposts.
Not sure Ubisoft will want to use up their 1 free Live certification on a patch like that?
Takedowns also work from the parachute, so there's lots of fun stuff you can do. One time I sprint boosted off a hill, opened the wingsuit as I was about to crash, parachuted into a base a good distance away and managed to land right above a Heavy, at which point I did a death from above takedown on him. Good times.
Probably 50% of my kills come from super long-range headshots with a rifle fitted with a high-powered scope and silencer.
And that is what I did.
bonesmccoy
Banned
lol, I had the same reaction. There are some zones that the bad dudes always inhabit, but they're few and far between. I would have liked to see them still cruising around in jeeps even after you liberated an area, or attacking outposts/Rakyat villages, or hunting etc.
Bravo, I'll be there.
Yeah that's what I thought, unless it's the map editor I am assuming Steam's sub-category's are just a little off.
IOnEI Falcon
Member
Ditto.
Visualante2
Member
You can operate uPlay with a 360 pad?
I don't what know what qualifies as long-range to you, but the game refused to render enemies at what I'd consider "long range". It's worth mentioning that no bullet travel or bullet drop makes shooting just mindless.
We count that as a game now?
I don't know what difference there lies in LOD between the PC and console versions but on PC they render decently far enough (not sure which version you're playing). You can knock someone off with a headshot from enough of a distance that it would take others a decent while to get up to your spot to investigate. It's certainly not what I would describe as "medium range," but I guess mileages may vary there.
Bullet travel would have been nice to see.
Nizz
Member
IOnEI Falcon
Member
I have been taking people out from about 90 to 110 meters in game. The bow I know for sure you have to account distance for.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Did some Co-op on the 360 today (2 people). Was canny, if a little CODish. The 'ad-lib' dialogue was funny.
Yeah the arrow's arc-like trajectory is simulated to a certain degree, which makes it really fun to use at a distance by measuring shots through the crosshair ladder.
Mr. Luchador
Member
360 (obviously) suffers greatly when you attempt long range killings. Draw distance isn't very good at all, and textures are horrible.
The Incarnation
Member
Yeah, game died for me on mission 37.
Fuck helicopters, and fuck rockets.
Fuck helicopters, and fuck rockets.
Still good to play tho, but you can see some of it's short comings when you first start playing. Especially if you already seen how it looks on other platforms.
Maybe already seen and posted here, but the Vaas actor released a few videos of him outfitted like Vaas, and McLovin from Superbad. Pretty funny, and creepy that Vaas is in the real world :O
Trailer/Intro
Vaas on Protein
Vaas on Pyrotechnics
Vaas on Spiders
Vaas on Snorkeling
Vaas on Hygiene
Trailer/Intro
Vaas on Protein
Vaas on Pyrotechnics
Vaas on Spiders
Vaas on Snorkeling
Vaas on Hygiene
If you can't launch the game using a controller then Valve doesn't give the game the full controller support icon.
And if you can launch a game using the controller but the game doesn't switch to controller input for you the first time, like X-COM, then that game also gets the partially supported icon.
It just allows people to know which game they can play without having to get up and use the mouse.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Do you lose your xp when you die?
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
They should take a note from Crackdown, where they patched the game to include an option to reset the gangs.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
hahaha holy shit
legacyzero
Banned
So fucking good LOL