I’m kind of confused as to why you’re having so much trouble. Are you even attempting to use cover or just running out into every fire fight? Do you upgrade or get new weapons? I agree those parts are annoying and certainly my least favorite part of the game, but they are doable.
I'm not really sure either, at first I thought maybe it some some kind of bug with the difficulty slider - these random guys shouldn't be doing 40%-50% of my HP in damage every shot when I have body armor on, but they do. Tactically, I've tried to go with as much stealth as possible since I've learned that alerting enemies is a quick way to die. All of the outposts I've liberated in the first area have been either 100% stealth, or close to it. Disabling alarms, knife throw kills, stealth takedowns, etc. I have a silenced pistol and some kind of automatic weapon I can use if shit gets crazy.
The enemies I'm having trouble with specifically I guess are called "Heavy"s. Armor and a helmet, and I can't perform takedowns on them and have yet to find a way to kill them in stealth. Since killing them typically involves dynamite or a couple of clips from my auto-weapon, it blows my stealth and others come in and attack and kill me pretty easily. Usually if it comes down to a shooting match between me and them, they will kill me before I can empty my clip. I shoot for the head (to try and knock their helmet off) to attempt headshots, but again if I try and match them in a firefight it never goes my way. I finally gave up on the mission. Lots of heavys (4-5 outside, maybe another 3 or so inside, possibly more since I have yet to go all the way through it).right after John Seed dies, and I have to infiltrate his bunker and liberate the people he was holding
It's kind of discouraging that the most information I can find online about it is "lol git gud" and Kotaku's "this game is easy - you probably want to increase the difficulty slider to max once you get off the first island" which again make me think that somehow my game is just bugged. Or maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit.
This is a must for games going forward. Don't make the game unplayable just because I want to go with a minimalist HUD and do an immersive playthrough. Games being designed around HUD elements that people would want to disable is a huge mistake and unfortunately it has ruined a lot of really cool games that I would have loved otherwise.
Yeah. Having to pause the game for viewing the map is a bummer. And the default UI is so insanely busy and annoying and completely unnecessary. Ubi are just morons when it comes to this stuff. I wish and hope Clint Hocking being back there will have good influence on this.
I had some issue at this part as well, mostly due to the fact that I was stuck with a sniper rifle and sub-machine gun (seriously Ubi, let us change our load out before forcing us into these types of missions). You kind of have to brute force it like you say (no stealth). There are enemies near the start with shotguns and LMG's luckily, so just Molotov them and used those guns to get through the rest.
If you haven't yet, unlock the Black Market perk. This will allow you to buy armor piercing rounds in the gun shops. Find a gun that can use said rounds, switch ammo types in the radial, and you will have much better success taking down the heavies.
Thank god. Those airplane are driving me nuts.
It was a bit cheap. I just stayed to the outside wall running from cover to cover and shotgunning fools until they were thinned out enough for me to run away.
No. It's an ok game but it's flaws were annoying at the time - Hours upon hours of driving everywhere, first to point A, then to point B on the other side of the damn map (With badguys chasing you constantly) - Annoying guns that degrade and Jam, along with outposts that respawn guards the second you leave draw range. You work for both sides yet as it's all "secret" everyone tries to kill you. Oh and stupid need to get Malaria tablets for use every 30/40 minutes else the game dumps you back at a church/doctors. I just gave up with it
Ok, cool. I think I'll avoid that one.
Too much respawn, it was almost unbearable.
I still really enjoy it, playing it through Xbox bc. No heroics, just awful people doing awful things in an unforgiving place. Weapon degradation was fine (and weapon selection great) and the malaria isn't a big issue. It's definitely built around 'lanes' or highways of movement (as opposed to real freeform movement) which often leads to too many encounters with outposts of guys who absolutely don't stop trying to kill you, ever. But I liked even that. there is no rest, war consumes everything like a wild fire, even good men (although what exactly a good man is in a place and situation like this is one of the questions asked by the games narrative). Worth a try
That's kind of the order the game wants you to do though.
No. And John is intended to be done first. You certainly will want to finish John once the air-force is let loose.
