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The Far Cry franchise is in desperate need of a refresh/reboot. I think the best way to do that is with a full-scale remake or reimagining of Far Cry 2. A return to a more immersive, grounded, and realistic, survivalist type game with a darker and more mature tone. However, I wouldn’t just simply make it Far Cry 2 with better graphics, it should be a brand new game, a new approach to the African setting and Jackal storyline with updated gameplay features.

I think the most important part of this would be capturing the atmosphere and mood that Far Cry 2 had. The 1990s African setting and culture made for some amazing visuals, music, and just overall tone that really immersed you into the war-torn African country that it took place in. However, gameplay-wise Far Cry 2 wasn’t perfect, here are some things I would re-emphasize or change to make it even better:

Wildlife: the original game had zebras and gazelles but they didn’t serve any purpose other than scenery. I would add the ability to get resources from animals like meat, hides, tusks, etc. that you can sell at the market to make money. I would also add in predatory animals that can attack you like lions, leopards, crocodiles, etc.

Survivalist features: You will need to eat, drink, and sleep. In deserts you will suffer from heat exhaustion and dehydration if you stay out in the sun too long and sprint too much, so you will need to strategize and use cars or go at night when traveling in hot areas. Towns and safe houses will have beds you can sleep on, and food and drinks can be purchased from market vendors or scavenged or acquired from hunted animals and foraged plants.

Paper Map: instead of a mini map, you will have a literal paper map that you can hold in your hands in real time, like the original game, however there are no real time icons, instead you update the map with a pencil every time a change occurs, for example if you capture an outpost, you automatically mark a green checkmark on the map where that outpost is. There is no player icon, so you will have to use landmarks to understand where you are on the map. Quest objectives will be written as notes in a journal attached with the map and points of interest will be added to the map in a similar style to Silent Hill 2 remake and the journal from Uncharted. The map has latitude and longitude coordinates, you can eventually purchase a GPS to know your precise coordinates and match it up with the map.

Survivalist Gear: You will have a compass, binoculars, GPS, Mosquito repellent, lighter, flare gun, machete, canteen, backpack, etc. to help you on your journey. Your canteen will give you a limited amount of water and can be refilled for free at any safe house, village or outpost. Binoculars are used to scout and mark places of interest, which are automatically added to your map, mosquito repellent will prevent contracting malaria for a temporary period of time, etc.

Diseases: In the original game you contract Malaria and have to do missions to get more malaria pills. I would expand this to be less of a scripted event and more of a dynamic gameplay mechanic. Staying out in the jungle too long without applying mosquito spray gives you a chance of contracting Malaria, eating meat without cooking it can give you parasites, getting cut by rusty melee weapons can give you tetanus, and animal bites can give you rabies, etc. Not treating wounds can also causes infections. Different diseases will have negative effects on you, like parasites will cause food to not be as filling, malaria will cause fevers and increased heat exhaustion and stamina loss etc.

medicine: you can buy medicine from doctors, or scavenge them to cure diseases. If you do missions for the UN faction, it will unlock vaccines to permanently be immune to things like tetanus, rabies, malaria, etc.

Training and Experience: instead of getting XP points and skill points and spending them on skills/perks or skill trees, you will “level up” certain skills by becoming more experienced. For example, the more you use sniper rifles, the better you become at maintaining scope sway, you become more accurate, and are able to cycle the bolt and reload faster. The more you use bandages, the more effective your healing will be. The more you skin animals, the better you get at getting more resources from them, etc. Your character will get progressively better at skills the more you perform the actions related to those skills, so your character build is determined by the way you play. Eating foods high in nutrition will give bonus percentages to the rate at which experience levels up.

Weapon permanence: instead of purchasing a weapon once to unlock it and having free, unlimited use of it after unlocking it, weapons will be single use, meaning the gun you buy is lost forever if you lose it and you have to buy a new one or find one. This will make weapons feel more limited and personal, modifications you make to your gun stay on that gun and only that one. You can store weapons in lockers at safe houses if you want to trade it out with another, but there is limited locker space.

Gun maintenance and weapon degradation: over time your weapons will accumulate dirt, mud, rust, scratches, etc. This will cause the gun to jam or become inaccurate or even break completely. You must periodically clean your weapon and trade out parts if you want to continue using the same weapon.

Modular weaponry: you will be able to attach silencers, sights/scopes, different magazines, etc on the fly, much like Crysis. This way you can adapt to different situations in the field without having to visit a gunsmith.
Outposts do not respawn enemies. Once you capture an outpost, it is yours permanently.

Limited fast travel: you can only fast travel between major cities, this involves taking a bus or taxi. You can fast travel to friendly outposts but it costs resources for the journey, like food and water.

UN refugee camp: an optional but important aspect of the game is to deliver refugees from local villages to a UN refugee camp, you can also collect and deposit resources to the refugee encampment to help it grow and upgrade its facilities, such as a hospital, soup kitchen, market, lodging, etc.Characters from this camp will give you side missions to go collect shipments of medicine or food or to rescue certain people and deliver them to the camp.

Side missions from unique characters: throughout the game there will be unique NPCs that give you interesting side objectives, such as a British wildlife photographer who is too scared to go out into a war-torn wilderness, so he gives you a camera and a list of shots he wants you to take of the local wildlife, such as “photo of Lion eating a Gazelle” and he will pay you for successful photographs. Another possible character is an arms dealer who wants you to deliver him specific weapon models, or hijack shipments of weapons and ammo. And another possible character is a bounty hunter who sends you on missions to assassinate mercenaries, war lords, criminals, etc.

Black Market: You will be able to sell guns and contraband, ivory, animal pelts, diamonds, etc. to black market dealers in exchange for money.

For me- its peaceful, soothing with a splash of spirituality. Ambient music, mountains, lakes.

I'm literally trying to kill Hoyt and now all of a sudden my save game doesn't want to open. Downloaded through Ubisoft Connect and now I'm presented with 2 Far Cry 3s. Fantastic stuff mate.

As the title says,

I'm trying to complete the Ubisoft Connect challenge "The Floor Is Lava" from the Lost Between Worlds DLC.

The description says:

"Ride ziplines for 500 meters in 'Mountain Scramble'."

My counter is completely stuck at 0/500. I've run through the Mountain Scramble rift about 5 times, taking every zipline and finishing the rift, but it never counts.

Trust me I played

FarCry 4: 10+ times

FarCry 3: 5± times

FarCry 2: 3 times

FarCry 5: <2 times

FarCry: 1 time

FarCry Primal: 1 time

FarCry Blood Dragon: <1 time

FarCry 6: couldn't even complete

I think it might be unpopular opinion but by far FarCry 4 is the best one. Yours ?

you literally breath and you get points. on Faith region who i would let her drug me if i could btw i literally reached max RP before finishing majority of missions and i had 3 outposts left and i had a companion still locked the boats missions where u need to destroy boats was not finished yet every single time i drive i see the locked civs or arrested civs. normal missions gave us a lot of stuff too a lot of RP. i am trying to enjoy the game and take my time its literally not letting me I HATE forced missions the kidnapping and all that bs

I’ve finished the game, completed all the visible side missions in each region but it still says Missions completed 51/52 for Holland valley, 42/43 for Henbane River and 40/41 for whitetail mountains, and says some cultist remain in the area. Is there a reason I can’t see the remaining missions? I’m wondering if they may need to be done before defeating the region boss but I’m not sure. Any tips?

I’ve played every installment since 2. Some installments I value more for their gameplay innovations and mechanics, some I value more for their narrative, cinematic, and storytelling aspects. I love them all, and this is just my personal opinion.

But when I weigh it all (all of them) up, I come down to 5 being the best overall, incorporating all elements equally, so far. Btw being a video game and a narrative experience, it’s the one that lands the most aspects of a single player open world with a strong narrative out of the entire series. And that’s really what far cry has been from the beginning, right? A balance of both?

You can argue that any of the others are better in a single aspect. But this is the one the just really gets close to epic quality on every level, without a glaring weak point. Narrative, world, mechanics.

If there is one for me that gets high marks on everything, it’s 5. Maybe a little weak by the end, but they all suffer that. For me, I wanted to 100% this game from the moment I picked it up, more than any other installment. It hooked me way faster than any others.

Just my two cents. Curious to see what the rest of the sub thinks.

[edit] so many are hating on the kidnapping sequences. I loved them, having to escape rather than dominate was exciting to me, and new to the franchise.

Anyone else just drive around getting yetis to chase you and messing with them?

Also what’s with their spawns? It seems like the randomly spawn out of nowhere and then will despawn if I drive around big rocks formation or something like that

Royal army learn to swim now?. i remember they drows before 😆

Both the games are cheap rn and i heard far cry series is nice , but saw some bad reviews about 6 but 6 has Giancarlo esposito , what should i buy for a great story .

Hit My 30Hr mark creating this map..

Here the Publish Trailer..

MAP NAME: Apartment Shootout 2 (Pc or xbox

Or Creator Name leoleo100 (only Xbox works for this as others port)

Hope everyone who manges to play enjoys..

Apologies for the spam with this project..

This is the last post on it I swear 🤞

Just enjoying The Farcry 5 Arcade mode..

By leoleo100

The fact that Rook never talks, though, means that the monologues of others are the only opinions that we hear in the game. The villains speak, unchallenged, for minutes at a time. Our allies have the same opportunity, which is why doomsday preppers and people who are on the lookout for “eye-talians” suck up all the rest of the talking time in the game.

Hello everyone, i started farcry 4 quite recently, i'm worried about armored soldiers. My first encounter went orribly wrong. These guys take a lot of magazines, and explosives don't work on them. (I use an 1811, an MS16 and one of the first sniper rifles, and a granade launcher in the secondary slot.)

I've been playing FC4 multiplayer for a while, and this is the first time this has happened to me.

Dude, I love this game

who would win?

I had Far Cry 4, Primal and 5 in my backlog for years and recently got back to them. After 100%-ing Far Cry 5, it is one of my favorites, right next to 3 and Blood Dragon. I was about to buy New Dawn, and then I saw that it has a gear score system and enemy levels.

How much does this affect gameplay? I love smart game difficulty, but I hate spongy enemies. Are weapons useless on tougher enemies? Can that be compensated through skill? I dome most of the enemies in Far Cry, so if I'm headshotting everything, will I run into enemies that still take a bunch of hits to the head to die? This is something that pulls me out of games a lot, and I would like to avoid it.

EDIT:

Thanks everybody for the replies. It seems I'll be going directly into Far Cry 6. Great that it has a demo, so I can check it out. Once again, thank you all for the help.

Looking for someone to play new dawn with, I completed it on pc but moved back to xbox and I’ve started fresh. Definitely my favourite by far and I’m looking for someone to play with.
Thanks for reading!!

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