Post by Steve Farrelly @ 10:16pm 26/03/18 | 31 Comments
And no, we're not yelling at you. We just want to make sure you're not missing out on the absolute chaos that is Far Cry 5 -- chaos you're right in the absolute thick of, and it's glorious. Here's why:
The changes here aren’t all that drastic either. Towers are gone. You’re not a voiced character anymore. You can be either gender. Support AI is back, only now as a bigger roster. And you can have your own dog, or bear. Honestly, it’s barebones, but how they’ve let the game play the player is the best part. I mentioned earlier that this is a chaos simulator, and that plays out moment to moment. Even if you’re trying to just trigger the next quest or side-mission, the game’s systems will come for you. But what this chaos does is push the player to look at the more uniform side of the game. Because Far Cry 5 is actually pretty difficult. So you’ll need to use that loot; use that money you keep finding. You’ll need to upgrade your weapons to reflect your playstyle and you’ll need to use those liberated towns and characters to your advantage.Click here for our full Far Cry 5 review.
And it’s honestly the only way Ubisoft Montreal could have handled their liberated gameplay experience. Tone sets up a lot of what this Far Cry is about; dark, realistic (at times), gritty, on-the-nose (at times); justfied -- this is first-person GTA done better than GTA because of its over-the-top nature. If you consider all of the big-bads and crazies in the Far Cry series before, and roll them all up into a single, tonal theme for a game, that’s what Far Cry 5 is. It’s silly. It’s fun. It’s brutal. It’s scary. It’s lost and found, both at once. And in many ways, because of all of this, it’s also America.
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Posted 10:51am 27/3/18
BTW, can you fix the release date on the review page? You have it as 27 Feb, but its 27 March.
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Posted 02:54pm 27/3/18
fpot, I saw that as well. Maybe it'll tick over tonight when the US catches up with the date. Not sure.
Looks like its $69 pretty much everywhere in the bricks and mortar stores. Will be interesting to see how much Steam is looking to charge.
EDIT: Looks like both Steam and Uplay will set you back $90 AUD for the standard addition. I'll just head down to Target. F*** you Steam and Uplay.
Posted 10:49am 28/3/18
they also have 20% new customers coupon: NEW20
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Posted 09:19pm 28/3/18
just after quitting in disgust at my save status, my account got logged out with a message popup saying it was being accessed somewhere else. logged back in and noticed my friends list (which I've never added anyone on uplay because well, it's uplay and who the f*** maintains a friendslist on that?) had some random rusky in farcry 5 playing co-op.
changed my password and activated 2step authentication and seem to be in the clear now.
all in all, pretty f*****g weird.
I want my progress back :(
Posted 10:58pm 28/3/18
Performance is great, 60fps on ultra. Looks nice enough. I would like to see more of those little buildings and huts open. There is not much reason to keep them closed up. The variety of weapons is nice, MP40, M14, .45 lever action rifle, M60, it's a good selection.
'Murica F*** yeah
Posted 12:32am 29/3/18
Reload. I had the same problem. Was playing Coop with a buddy and a message came up about the account being accessed by others. The scary thing is that at teh saem time I had a warning SMS from Microsoft saying that someone else had accessed my MS Live account. WTF. Did you get your key from Greenman like I did Reload?
Posted 05:49am 29/3/18
you can check to see if it has been in any security breaches here. https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Its always a good idea to change our passwords for our accounts. I may just do that for my Uplay account too.
TiT friended me on Uplay too yesterday too it seems.
Posted 11:53am 29/3/18
Posted 02:54pm 29/3/18
similar thing happened with my origin account except im still yet to be able to change my password because all the secret questions were changed to russian. I emailed EA about that and they never got back to me. will prolly address it again if i ever want to actually play an EA game again ;/
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Posted 10:08am 30/3/18
Anyway, I wanted to talk more about the stuff in the game. I'll use spoiler tags. It's really a rant.
Spoiler:
I just killed Faith I think....It's hard to tell since the player character never actually meets her. Aside from those stupid astral projections/hallucinations. I have come to the conclusion that the developers want to make Far Cry in a completely different setting where visions and all this crazy crap that has been going on in the past few games would make a lot more sense. I get what they are trying to achieve but it just doesn't sit right with me in a modern setting. Visions and astral projections, animals appearing out of nowhere and/or turning into another animal etc. This sort of stuff would be at home in a fantasy style game or a game with a modern setting but with magic, like Final Fantasy. If they made the world far more magical or mystical, it would make more sense and not seem out of place. Not sure if anyone else feels the same way though. The battle with Faith, it far more at home in a RPG or something. end rant.
I do like the game in general though, runs well, looks nice, FISHING, some funny dialog etc. The developers just need to figure out what type of game they want to make and story they want to tell.
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Posted 05:57pm 02/4/18
They pretty much have 2 M14s and 2 lever action rifles, it's the same thing just different model. No different calibur or magazine capacity. Could have done a bit better than that but I imagine they will have more guns in the DLC.
No 3rd person view when in vehicles. I like to be able to drive cars in 3rd person.
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Posted 11:00am 04/4/18
Thats never been a far cry thing though, its always been about everything happening from a first person PoV. If its about controlling them, try using a controller for the vehicles, I find it works a lot better than mouse and keyboard. I usually have a controller plugged in at the same time and just swap to that when I'm gonna be doing any significant driving/flying in a vehicle
I ended up grabbing it over the long weekend for something to play and really enjoying it, the setting is so far turning out to be my favourite I think and the helicopters are awesome fun
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Posted 04:13pm 11/4/18
The mechanic does get a little silly, you basically get captured in some way or get overwhelmed by all the drugs you are surrounded by all the time in order to have a meeting with one of the baddies that progresses the story but it works so whatever.
I really enjoyed the story but can understand how religious people might struggle with it. From what I've seen it has either gone over a lot of peoples heads or people have been offended by it and taken it as a personal comment on their own beliefs but it's not really making any statements about God but more about the human organizations and their methods. Which makes a lot of sense since it is about a cult.
Edit: Oh and as to the Far Cry 2 comparisons, I will admit that some of the physics used in that looks cool but I can definitely see reasons as to why it is different in later games. The way you heal yourself and the way the enemy AI reacts to injury could easily be about meeting stricter censorship standards, or even community standards as I'm personally pretty happy I don't have to watch my character pull a piece of wire out of them. That s***'s f*****g gross.
Posted 05:12pm 11/4/18