Far Cry 3

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

marco_polo

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

Yep it is abysmal. All the worse if you have player dishonored recently as the select wheel was near perfect in that game

Temptamperu

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

Its the LB on the xbox, i keep fooking up and using RB which is the grenade button /restart mission :mad:

Nuri Sahin

Limericks wrote: »

Just finished it. Seriously amazing.

What ending did people pick? I decided to stay with the rakyat and kill the friends and got a little show out of it :P

Would like to know what the other ending was though!

Ha yeah, same one I opted for.

If you're really curious about the other one (like I was , still will do another playthrough mind you), Youtube search it.

Fizman

Fizman wrote: »

Right.....I haven't played my PS3 in 18 months......but reading this makes me thinks I need to dust off the old horse.

How do those playing on console find it?

My pc is 5 years old but was very highly specced at the time....how would this hold up:

Mother Board: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775,ATX,2xGbLAN,DDR2,2xPCI-Ex16
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB
RAM: OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Sound Card: Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
OS: Vista Ultimate

Anyone?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

unless im missing something you're missing a graphics card....

kearneybobs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

Yeah. A bloody nightmare. I've stopped using it and changed the setting for prev/next weapon to mousr scroll down/up.

It really annoys me that when you click esc to read one of the pop up messages, it makes you exit out of three other menus when you're done before you get back to your game.

Fizman

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

unless im missing something you're missing a graphics card....

Woops.

GPU: XFX GeForce 8800GT 670M 512MB XXX GDDR3, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI/HDCP, 670/1950Mhz
Mother Board: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775,ATX,2xGbLAN,DDR2,2xPCI-Ex16
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB
RAM: OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Sound Card: Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
OS: Vista Ultimate

Zero-Cool

I'm playing on ps3, runs great and looks brilliant.

Damo 2k9

Such a good game, best ive played in ages. I always say ill finish the storyline for every new game but never get around to it, definitely gonna finish this one! Anyone else find the falling damage a bit excessive? Fell from about 10ft earlier on and died?

Sephiroth_dude

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

To answer your question, yes you can still play on after completing the story.

Is there much to do?

SeantheMan

I'm getting awful "shadow" flickering, on buildings, doors, to the point where it's extremely annoying. Used to get it on Skyrim too.

Running 2 6870s in Crossfire,

Also, anytime I exit the game - it cant connect to Uplay or whatever, and it half-stalls the whole game. Have to exit to main menu and reload

marco_polo

Fizman wrote: »

Woops.

GPU: XFX GeForce 8800GT 670M 512MB XXX GDDR3, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI/HDCP, 670/1950Mhz
Mother Board: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775,ATX,2xGbLAN,DDR2,2xPCI-Ex16
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB
RAM: OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Sound Card: Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
OS: Vista Ultimate

PS3 would probably be the safer bet TBH.

Even the 8800GTX (the minimum recommended GPU) which is a bit more powerful than your 8800GT struggles to get playable FPS until you get down to medium setting @1600X900.

It might run it but I'd say you'd be doing well to pull more than maybe medium @1280X1024 or low @1600X900. .

http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=2886&game=Far%20Cry%203&title=Far%20Cry%203%20PC%20Hardware%20Analysis%20And%20Far%20Cry%203%20Graphics%20Benchmark

Shame as the CPU would probably still do reasonably ok paired with a faster GPU.

VinLieger

Wow just did the burning the weed mission, thats was a stupid amount of fun, loved the "effects" and the music that kicks in when you start the fires. Came across my first heavy in it as well and was thrown for a second as how to kill him but then just looked at the flamethrower in my hands and went to work.... mmm crispy

dreamers75

I didnt use the Flame thrower on that mission

Tried to be stealthy until i realised they kept spawning. I was a ghost in the field lobbing molotovs and hitting the barrels with the silence sniper.

Zero-Cool

Lads, do I need the dog tags, cards, glasses at any point or are they just for selling?

Nuri Sahin

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is there much to do?

Depends, as in it depends on how much side quests, outposts, radio towers, etc you do before completing the story.

I did all the outposts and radio towers myself. Now just left with side quests and other bits n bobs which I'll get around to doing over the next day or two.

Headshot

I presume there will be DLC's?

Nuri Sahin

sheehy83 wrote: »

Lads, do I need the dog tags, cards, glasses at any point or are they just for selling?

Just for selling.

VinLieger

sheehy83 wrote: »

Lads, do I need the dog tags, cards, glasses at any point or are they just for selling?

Just do quick sell when your at a shop, it will get rid of all the loot that has no use and keep any skins or flowers that you can craft with

Captain Chaos

Headshot wrote: »

I presume there will be DLC's?

There already is with the lost expeditions pack that comes with some pre orders. Adds a few more hours of gameplay.

kearneybobs

Anyone able to tell me why the camera changes from blue to orange some times? It sometimes does it when I aim at a dead body and when I take a picture with it, I get some chime. It kinda sounds like citra saying "oooh" Very odd.

Headshot

Captain Chaos wrote: »

There already is with the lost expeditions pack that comes with some pre orders. Adds a few more hours of gameplay.

Im talking about future ones. It be nice to know that it will have the same support as skyrim

Magill

Just played it for a few hours now, really awesome looking game so far. The gameplay actually suprised me in how smooth it was as well tbh, feels really satisfying popping the pirates in the head with an AK for sure. Had heard a few mixed reports on performance on PC, but my average enough system runs it at about 40fps on ultra@1080p. Will look forward to playing through it over the christmas break for sure.

kaimera

kearneybobs wrote: »

Anyone able to tell me why the camera changes from blue to orange some times? It sometimes does it when I aim at a dead body and when I take a picture with it, I get some chime. It kinda sounds like citra saying "oooh" Very odd.

something about when it turns to yellow/orange it's a picture to take.

idk what you do with them tho. do they save to the FC3 folder or something? or onto uplay?

Mr Freeze

This game is savage.

Just picked it up yesterday, got my bow, then spent a good 30 mins chasing goats to try and kill and skin one for a quiver upgrade, while being shot at.

Duggy747

On the 2nd part of the islands now, still feel like I've loads left to complete.

Love that flamethrower, complete end-game weapon for me when bullets aren't enough. Very satisfying when about 5 fellas are running towards you around the corner and you just pop out and fry the lot of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGY8fyLrXMk

Krieg

AMD have released beta drivers, I think these only work for legacy cards HD 5000/6000/7000 series

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_12_11_beta_download.html

(Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta)

Improves performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
Resolves a sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
Resolves an intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in a CrossFire Eyefinity setup.
Resolves image corruption found in certain DirectX 9.0c titles
Resolve missing fonts issue in XBMC
Resolves no video issue found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
Resolves stability issues found in the previous AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta8 driver for Linux
For users experiencing issues with HDMI Audio under Ubuntu 12.04, users should try installing the “dkms-hda - 0.201211291615~precise1” package from https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/alsa-daily/+packages and reboot; this will resolve the HDMI Audio issue found in Ubuntu 12.04
AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 has just been released, and should be used in conjunction with AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11
Improves Far Cry 3 performance for single GPU configurations with AA enabled

LostCorkGuy

I'm after getting a weird "bug" ?
I was out on a boat at night hunting sharks , was using the camera to spot them , except when I stopped moving the camera and was looking towards land , lights would start flashing in the distance like torches , they'd come on around 10/11 of them and turn off slowly to be replaced by another one , once I left the camera they vanished , but they came back when i took i out again

Anyone else notice this ?

kaimera

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

I'm after getting a weird "bug" ?
I was out on a boat at night hunting sharks , was using the camera to spot them , except when I stopped moving the camera and was looking towards land , lights would start flashing in the distance like torches , they'd come on around 10/11 of them and turn off slowly to be replaced by another one , once I left the camera they vanished , but they came back when i took i out again

Anyone else notice this ?

I've seen that with the camera a few times but not 10/11 of them tho!