Far Cry 4

So can someone fill me in on a Co-op question?

When a friend joins your game does he spawn with his own single player gear or is it just what the host has access to?

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Press R1 on the weapon wheel to bring up the syringe wheel, if you have the required flowers there will be an option to craft them.

huh?

on the pc syringes are autocrafted after you've unlocked the skill for the specific syringe and pick the flowers.

pretty much gives you infinite medkits if you harvest a tonne of green flowers as they'll autocraft everytime you use a medkit.



So far I'm torn on it

It's buggy as hell in a lot of areas. I had to restart the first balance of power mission a few times because the game would get confused when I did a nearby outpost or tower and lose the marker for the actual mission and nothing would happen when I arrived at the location (and all the enemy soldiers on the map disappear).

I've also had odd deaths where i've been launched into the sky while using the wingsuit or grapple on numerous occasions.

But bugs aside there are little things that I like and some that I dislike.

The variety of animals initially looks appealing but it's ridiculous how quickly you can find them all and level up all your gear. With the exception of the ones needing snow leopards I have gotten all the gear to the final stage (where it's a unique quest chain) and I've barely travelled past the first outpost.

Also they can be too plentiful in some ways and interact too much with the local forces. Trying to hunt a rhino using only a bow constantly gets ruined by local rebels attacking it with guns.

Eagles are the worse though. Not for attacking you, no they just constantly agro anyone with a gun near them. So I am constantly reacting to a potential attack every time I spawn in a camp or driving along only to find it's some idiots shooting at an eagle. Including one time when I was trying to take a camp undetected and thought I got spotted cause the whole camp started shooting in my direction.

because there was an eagle over me.

f*cking eagles are everywhere and constantly draw attention.

Tigers are great though. They are fairly rare and in specific areas and they actually act right. Coming in quick killing someone/thing and then sprinting away stupidly fast. Every other animal can be chased down but tigers you need to actually either trap or get in close (where you'll take a tonne of damage) to kill.

Overall the animals feel less like wildlife in far cry 3 and more specifically like a whole faction to themselves, they are over abundant, suffer mostly from bad a.i (most of them will get hit by an arrow and run a short distance away then stop if they dont see you. You can kill rhinos and elephants by stalking them and putting an hour into them every 20 metres til they go down) Also despite being more, they feel less varied then 3. There's not a lot I'd put on par with the crocs or sharks from FC3 and the birds are just a nuisance.


Aside from that the bell towers are better then the propaganda towers, mostly because they're treated more like little bases then just climbing puzzles. So you got to fight through a few guys (just 1 or 2 initially, later snipers, jeeps, morters etc) before you do the climbing part. I still like the climbing part, it's oddly relaxing and a much needed break in both games.

I love the grapple it adds to the climbing which is one of the few satisfying climbing mechanics in a fps. When it doesnt bug out it can be a lot of fun.

It's become more GTA jungle with the side missions, they now have *more* to them with there being your standard do this for money and gear side missions and then side missions with full on intro cutscenes with some cooky character/s The side characters are fun and ott which is a welcome to the far too serious and far too unlikeable main mission givers. But the missions themselves are also bigger, the propaganda camps in particular are like extra basecamps.


As for the main meat, the camps and campaign missions. The camps are still as fun as they were in 3. The new hunters add a great mix to the variety of soldiers, did feel a bit of a deja vu with some camps feeling very similar to the ones in 3. But I feel the difficulty has been massively spiked if you dont opt for a stealth approach. I've only not stealth on one base and the second the alarm got hit I got swarmed by the reinforcements and died a quick death.

Main campaign missions I have little to say as of right now because despite putting a fair chunk of two days into the game I've not gotten very far in the main game. Only up to the 2nd balance of power choice, instead I've been exploring which is the game's biggest strength with all the dynamic events (and awesome convoys to attack) I've very slowly edged across the map.


The other factor delaying my progress is...

well the game runs like a dog

My computer struggles to keep 60fps, even with the settings toned down massively. Its weird too as if I am in a gunfight the fps is solid as a rock, it's only when driving or trekking long distances does it take a kicking. Which has made me reluctant to make long journeys and to go slowly across the map camp by camp, village by village. And I dont have a sh*te machine. It can handle BF4 without issue and I've been able to go solidly this whole year without needing to do any tweaking with any of this year's major releases. The only other game that gives my machine as much of a kicking as far cry 4 is arma 3 multiplayer (singleplayer is fine).

it's actually getting silly how badly the game runs. I cant use gun turrets as it turns into a slideshow when I do (also weird, cause it doesnt feel like a framerate issue, it's just how the movement seems to be coded. I should record a video so people can see).


Overall it's a solid time consuming fun game. It's not as much of a giddy wow factor as fc3. But I think it would be hard to recreate that.

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Overall it's a solid time consuming fun game. It's not as much of a giddy wow factor as fc3. But I think it would be hard to recreate that.

I pretty much agree with everything you said there, in particular about the animals. FC3 made you feel a bit more like a hunter, where as now you're just culling an over abundant animal population.

But it still has it's moments. There aren't many games where you can say you took out an entire enemy encampment with a single arrow to an elephant's arse.

Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

During the first propaganda mission i blew up two pick up trucks, they started floating and dancing around the place. I then fell through the floor and died. Some weird glitches in it.

Fell tru the floor too on an outpost on a mission where i was destroying radios or something, wasnt paying attention ....go here blow stuff yup.....fell tru the floor with the wingsuit on took forever to die.

In co op you can grapple hook onto the chopper your friend is flying. So good.

Can you only play for 1 hour if you get the keys to kyrat or can you rejoin after the hour is up?

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

In order to get a supressor, I'm guessing you have to unlock the towers? I want to get one for the sniper rifle but it has an x on it.

Think the AMR is the only one with a suppressor on it, im miles away from getting it.

X means it has no attachment.

Will I Amnt wrote: »

I've got a suppressor on a sniper rifle since quite early on in the game, not sure which one it is off hand.

Can yah check I have the SVD and its brutal :pac:

Help!

I lost my bow and I don't know where to buy a new one!

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

one of the many trade posts

That's what I thought but I can't see a bow as an option anywhere.

Temptamperu wrote: »

Scroll down on the weapon menu, its on the bottom line.

Wow, thanks! I didn't know you could scroll down.

They also sell an improved bow. A Godsend.

ffs this is evil

so everybody loves letting a wild tiger or leopard loose in a camp. Well there is a medium level camp where they have a few hunters and a few captured tigers.

naturally I thought I'll free the tigers and let them cause havoc while I sneak around the back and takedown the heavy.

suddenly all the alarms trip and I got jumped by the two tigers and everything and anything is trying to kill me.


I thought my game bugged out cause it was telling me the tiger was a hunter by the tag over it.

then it dawned.

Hunters can tame animals, I freed the tigers but until I kill the hunters they were more of a danger to me then to the soldiers.

awesome twist on the tried and tested route of far cry 3.


Still enjoying it, still doing side quests over the main campaign. One annoyance to add.

sometimes on pc the picking up of objects or reading of notes is very fiddly requiring stupidly accurate aiming to activate.

Get side tracked alot myself. The Shangri la missions are awesome.

Have to agree that stealth seems really screwed up with how the enemy AI handles it. That and animals being bullet sponges are my only gripes tho.

really enjoying this, got killed bya ****ing honey badger earlier. Completed a mission and in bits and a ****ign honey badger looked at me and killed me.

i will end the life of every ****ing one of them i come across.

bastards

anyone know what it means when theres a little area shaded in blue/turquoise on the minimap?

i look around and cant see anything.