Far Cry 6

[LittleBlueTroll]

I'm 7/8 hours in, and I honestly don't know what Far Cry 6 is trying to be. I feel like its a blend of Assassins Creed Valhalla, CyberPunk, The Witcher 3 and a subtle essence of the last 2 Far Cry's. 

I am already hitting the point of boredom, seeing the same enemies and the same objectives lazily strung together. Clear a base, blow that up, travel 3000 metres to the next base, clear it out, blow it up, travel 3000 metres to the next... 

 

You can argue that's the essence of a Far Cry game, and you'd be right, but this one has burned me out before I can even dent it. 

The treasures hunts are probably the best thing so far.

 

The world is gorgeous, the customisation and selection of guns is great, and the game can be fun for an hour or 2, but It's not the kind of game I can get lost in for hours at a time. It doesn't help that I feel penalised for exploring, you either spend the entire time avoiding guard patrols or you get chased by a crocodile, you don't seem to get left alone long enough to really enjoy the world. 

 

I'm glad I got it as part of Ubisoft + and not full RRP. 

 

 

[trip]

48 minutes ago, LittleBlueTroll said:

The world is gorgeous, the customisation and selection of guns is great, and the game can be fun for an hour or 2, but It's not the kind of game I can get lost in for hours at a time.

 

 

Exactly.

 

I swear, even if they simply left the old way of mission delivery I'd be way more into this game.  Honest to goodness I can't stand how they pull you away from the scene and setting for the dialog of the mission delivery.  It makes me not care and seriously disconnects me.

 

I think 'disconnected' is the problem with this game.   Even the side missions and collectibles don't feel connected.

[Jason]

Completed the "first" (the one the game "recommends") territory and moving onto the second now, and I've also explored a little of the city.

 

Overall still having a lot of fun with technical issues being the main issue right now - those being poor ultrawide support, raytracing causing fps issues and giant texture streaming issues that result in a lot of textures being low res, like Dani's arms and clothing, weapons and vehicle dashboards, so stuff that you see a lot.

 

Having a ton of fun with the combat though, shotguns are a ton of fun and are super satisfying to use, been loving those with silencers on for stealthy carnage. Once you start getting a feel for a lot of the tools the combat and traversal really starts to open up.

 

Do agree that the Destiny style mission delivery that appears often is ???. Not sure why they went with that for a single player game, especially a first person one.

[Mexicola9302]

Im downloading the standard version atm, i got it for free because i bought a AMD CPU. I will try to play it with the high res texture pack, even tho it recommends more than 11 gb vram, i only got 10 gb vram, with my RTX 3080.

 

I hope it's good playable, i still remember the bugs of Far Cry 5 after release, it really took a while until it was fixed. Well i got it for free, so i don't expect very much.  

 

The first thing i will do ingame is going hunting animals, i always started all Far Cry games like that, hope we get ammo belts, weapon belts etc. like we did in the previous games. Else im dissapointed, no hunting = no Far Cry IMO.

 

But i will have to recover from the weekend first, i drank such a ton of beer it's unreal, met a woman and it didn't work out with her, so i at least drank one full weekend, i need to get my sh*t together again. Im feeling all f*cked up, and i got to go to work today, im so not in the mood.  

Edited October 11, 2021 by Mexicola9302

[AZAZEL]

13 hours ago, Mexicola9302 said:

The first thing i will do ingame is going hunting animals, i always started all Far Cry games like that, hope we get ammo belts, weapon belts etc. like we did in the previous games. Else im dissapointed, no hunting = no Far Cry IMO.

 

You can hunt animals of course, and there are various missions and features to support this - but the scope of it is mainly to trade your skins and meats for resources you can use to upgrade your weapons. There's a lot less RPG-elements in this installment than earlier ones, so you can't really upgrade your character's stats outside of equipping different armor with varying buffs and unique abilities. I quite like it actually - I found the old system of killing specific animals to slightly improve how much ammo I could carry and what not a bit of a faff, to be honest.

[Jason]

18 minutes ago, AZAZEL said:

You can hunt animals of course, and there are various missions and features to support this - but the scope of it is mainly to trade your skins and meats for resources you can use to upgrade your weapons. There's a lot less RPG-elements in this installment than earlier ones, so you can't really upgrade your character's stats outside of equipping different armor with varying buffs and unique abilities. I quite like it actually - I found the old system of killing specific animals to slightly improve how much ammo I could carry and what not a bit of a faff, to be honest.

 

I'm with you tbh, I've gotten real tired of the hunt animals to increase ammo/inventory pouches stuff. It's in every "RPG lite" game these days and it's just been done to death.

 

I do really like how FC6 really doesn't have any of those faux RPG mechanics we see in a lot of open world AAA "RPG's" these days, there's still weapon modding and clothing with stats but for the most part the game keeps it focused on the core gameplay rather than tacked on systems to add fake depth to the game.

[DJ-Jelly-Doughnut]

I really like how your play style is that of a guerrilla instead of always being shot on sight by enemy patrols. 

 

Giancarlo as the main villain is definitely a bonus too.

[Vercetti27]

The world looks beautiful so far, I've only played a few hours but I can tell the scope of the map is gonna be huge

 

but yeah, seems like more of the same in typical far cry style. I do like the fact we are a real guerilla this time, there is a purpose that feels more urgent to our protaganist's story - i actually feel we are on a country on the edge of revolution! But when it comes to gameplay i fear i may tire of this fast. Still, it will be good to come back to now again, i'm certainly not gonna speed run my way through this. 

[Jason]

After playing it a fair bit I'd honestly say one of the games strengths (combat) is also it's weakness. There's a lot of fun options in the combat but a silenced marksman rifle with armour piercing rounds basically nullifies any difficulty the game has to the point where if you want any sort of challenge you have to intentionally go nuts and use the worst weapons for the job. Taking over the bases is fun, but once you figure out you can do every base just by sprinting around with a silenced marksman it loses its luster kinda fast.

[Mexicola9302]

On 10/13/2021 at 5:06 PM, Jason said:

After playing it a fair bit I'd honestly say one of the games strengths (combat) is also it's weakness. There's a lot of fun options in the combat but a silenced marksman rifle with armour piercing rounds basically nullifies any difficulty the game has to the point where if you want any sort of challenge you have to intentionally go nuts and use the worst weapons for the job. Taking over the bases is fun, but once you figure out you can do every base just by sprinting around with a silenced marksman it loses its luster kinda fast.

It was like that in Far Cry 3, 4 and 5 too, all you need is a good silenced Sniper or Marksman Rifle it always was the easy mode. I still haven't started playing FC6, i will start doing that on the weekend i think, or maybe the weekend next week. But i will play it like i played FC 3, 4, 5 so also with silenced weapons, i mean why not. The games are just getting easier and easier every year, not just Far Cry, it's because of the stupid masses, they can't handle any challenge anymore. The targeted group of players is 10-16 years old, and that will never change, and they get frustrated real fast if they can't progress easily, and that leads to lower player numbers, and lower player numbers are never good.

 

Far Cry 2 was the last one, that was a bit challenging if i remember correctly, but is also wasn't very hard.

 

I played Mission Impossible, Golden Eye and Perfect Dark on N64 when i was a kid, that was really challenging. Metal Gear 1 and 2, and Splinter Cell 1-3 also weren't so easy. I miss the good old gaming era, when games were published complete without any DLC's, Microtransactions etc. the games were just games, made to entertain, it wasn't just about the profits. Now every year the games get easier and easier, soon there will only be crap like Fortnite on the market im afraid. Im afraid even GTA VI will be crap, it might look good, has good gameplay, but it will have even more Microtransactions, because every Publisher is greedy as f*ck by now. And nobody of the original devs works for Rockstar anymore, if im correct. I mean what can come out of this. The future is just getting worse and worse.

 

Edit: I played it for 52 minutes, it's quite hardware hungry. I got a R9 5950x, RTX 3080, 32 GB RAM etc. if i set it all to ultra and 2160p im sometimes below 60 fps, the dxr settings really hit the performance hard, but i will just play it without dxr i think, also i use the HD textures pack. Without dxr it runs much smoother. I don't need dxr, it looks good enough without it. I didn't drive a vehicle yet tho, so no idea how that possibly has influence on perfomance.

 

Gameplay wise, it still feels like Far Cry, but the way you get the quests is kinda annoying, if you talk to the ppl. I like crafting in games, so im okay with the modding options, at least it's better made than in FC5 where you had to buy everything with the currency wich name i forgotten. The way the clothing adds ammo capacity or more armor or whatever is nice. A few RPG elements don't hurt. I played to the point, where you bring back that dude with the Gator or Crocodile or what it is.

 

Yeah i probably will make big progress in this game this weekend. I just played it for 52 minutes yesterday, testing performance taking a first look at it etc. so yeah who knows maybe the game is halfway decent, i didn't pay a cent for it, so it's fine.  

 

Edit2: I played for 1 hour 49 minutes, god damn this game is boring. The enemies are no enemies, they can't do sh*t against the player, yeah all you gotta do is shoot them in the head with the DMR, the gameworld looks good that is okay, but it's just the same sh*t again like Far Cry 5 was, just somewhere else, with some other NPC's. Im not sure i continue playing this game. Maybe like an hour every once in a while tops. It's so generic and easy and predictable that it hurts. I hope it was the last Far Cry ever that got released. I sure as hell will never install another one, hmm maybe if i get it for free again, but else not. Far Cry always were the only Ubisoft games i liked a bit for short time fun, but now even that is burried. Im so glad i didn't pay a cent for this crap.

 

RIP Far Cry

Edited October 15, 2021 by Mexicola9302

[trip]

Yeah, gonna say I miss the forced hunting and crafting.  It helped break up the game and sink you into the environment a bit.

 

I am...I'm trying to get into this game like the Far Cry I've enjoyed all these years.

[Craigsters]

My computer runs AC Valhalla pretty smoothly with it's last update, no ctd's after it's latest update,  I went to the site canirunit and searched for far cry 6 and it told me at minimum and suggested I get a RTX card, that  would be four hundred Canadian dollars, not sure I want to upgrade a 3 year old PC that I've played video games and streamed   movies on every waken moment since cutting the cable/bell guy off  

 

PC specs below

 
 

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Alienware Aurora R7

 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

RAM:  16194 Mb

 

   Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
    Primary VRAM: 8191 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 

 

Edited October 15, 2021 by Craigsters

[Mexicola9302]

10 hours ago, Craigsters said:

My computer runs AC Valhalla pretty smoothly with it's last update, no ctd's after it's latest update,  I went to the site canirunit and searched for far cry 6 and it told me at minimum and suggested I get a RTX card, that  would be four hundred Canadian dollars, not sure I want to upgrade a 3 year old PC that I've played video games and streamed   movies on every waken moment since cutting the cable/bell guy off  

 

PC specs below

 
 

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Alienware Aurora R7

 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

RAM:  16194 Mb

 

   Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
    Primary VRAM: 8191 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 

 

Well you shouldn't buy a new GPU now no way, you should wait until they are available for a normal price. Or you wait for the next gen of GPU's, and buy one then, or a complete new rig. Because a RTX 3080 is already a tiny bit bottlenecked (0,5% apparently) by a i9-10900K, and you got a i7-8700K. And the cheaper models are barely an upgrade for you i mean RTX 3050, RTX 3060 they are only a tiny bit better than your GTX 1080, so it's not worth it. I would suggest a complete new rig to you, but wait for the next gen so RTX 4080 or whatever it will be called. And you should think about getting a AMD CPU instead, but who knows maybe Intel is good then again. But if you buy a new rig, do yourself a favor and preorder it if possible, to prevent getting a huge price tag, because of scalpers. Sure a lot of chipfactories are getting build atm, but it still takes time till they are up and running.

 

Im glad im on the safe side for a few years, if it comes to bottlenecking with my R9 5950x (16 cores/32 threads), it works perfect with my ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3080 OC. I will get a GPU upgrade if the RTX 5080's are on the market in like 4 years. I guess it's like 2 more years of waiting time for the RTX 4xxx series.

 

I kinda regret i didn't buy a RTX 3090 instead of a RTX 3080, sure it would have been 500€ more, but i would have 14% more computing power and more V-RAM. The 3090 i would have wanted did cost 1500€ or something now it would cost 3000€ lol. Damn im glad i got my RTX 3080 for 879€, for a somewhat regular price. That thing is worth almost 2K now lol.  I will preorder a RTX 5080 as soon as possible, and pay in advance that is sure as hell. Yeah i will probably skip a generation, i mean why not.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Mexicola9302

[Corndawg93]

HOLY F*CKING SH*T

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VAAS IS ALIVE!!!!!!

 

[_iPhaze]

 

Normally I am that guy that pre-orders a FC game but I did not with this one not because I dislike it but because life threw a curveball. I am very interested though, and can't wait to see how it is. I've only watched the trailer, I don't want to spoil anything, I just want to approach it hands on and go from there. I guess while I am out tomorrow I will pick a copy up for PlayStation or Xbox. The last FC I truly loved was Blood Dragon!

[Mexicola9302]

5 hours ago, _iPhaze said:

 

Normally I am that guy that pre-orders a FC game but I did not with this one not because I dislike it but because life threw a curveball. I am very interested though, and can't wait to see how it is. I've only watched the trailer, I don't want to spoil anything, I just want to approach it hands on and go from there. I guess while I am out tomorrow I will pick a copy up for PlayStation or Xbox. The last FC I truly loved was Blood Dragon!

I liked 2, 3, 4, and even 5, but 6 is garbage believe me. You will only be dissapointed. It's so predictable that it really hurts to play the game.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Mexicola9302

[_iPhaze]

I just took my time and watch some gameplay and did some research I got to say, it looks like a vanilla game. Bland, boring. Even the protagonist looks lame. Although it has a lot of potential, it doesn't look that exciting. But of course, I will buy it and play it eventually.

[Jason]

2 hours ago, _iPhaze said:

Even the protagonist looks lame.

 

IMO Dani (female version, at least) is the strongest part of the game. She's genuinely great.

 

But the rest of the game is like... everything's good, there's just no depth. There's AAA production values in all aspects but once you've done everything once there's not really any more meat to it. That might be appealing to some though, it's a what see you see is what you get type of game, just load it up and shoot people, blow stuff up and have a bit of fun, but if you're after something more then you're not really gonna find it.

 

In some ways it sorta feels like it's bookend game for the Ubi-formula, they've milked that formula that originated with Far Cry all they can and it's come full circle and finished with another Far Cry. At least, I hope it is, cause if they continue to make open world games in this vein then that promise they made about giving their teams more creative freedom etc after Breakpoint was a load of sh*te.

[Watain]

I've been curious about this game for some time. Cautious as well, I might add. I still believe the best FC game was the very first one. Everything after has had one or more aspects that I didn't like. I've played every single one of these games except for Primal and after New Dawn I felt done with the franchise, the infamous FC fatigue. It's just too copy-and-paste ever since FC3, if not FC2.

 

I might pick up FC6 on Black Friday if it's on a good sale, but otherwise I'll wait till its price drops significantly. I'm mostly interested in exploring the map because I like the setting. Being the first FC to have a city is probably my biggest curiosity, but it's quite a small one at that. It's not like the characters and story have intrigued me.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Watain

[Corndawg93]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

 

IMO Dani (female version, at least) is the strongest part of the game. She's genuinely great.

I gotta agree with this, Female Dani is the strongest part of this game and outshines every character she's on screen with and that includes Giancarlo, the fact that Dani sings when a song comes on the radio, like Welcome to Miami, Havana and Livin Lavita Loca, she's up there with Ellie, Kassandra, Arthur Morgan, Clementine and Niko Bellic in terms of my favourite characters

[DJ-Jelly-Doughnut]

While it may be repetitive. I'm really enjoying this game. Slowly taking over every region. Triada Blessings kept my interest. I like the customization options in Far Cry 6.

[AZAZEL]

The fully upgraded Tobai Subuku with a scoop on the front is so much fun. 

 

 

[LittleBlueTroll]

I think that some games are better and more fun when played with cheats. To me, FC6 is one of those games. 

I find it more fun to unlock anything you want, spend a couple hours going crazy with the best loot and guns in the game, then logging off. 

I don't really have the desire to grind out on this game, I find it too repetitive and I simply don't enjoy it enough. However, as I have already downloaded it I will finish it with some style (aka cheating)

 

I know this is not to everyone's tastes, but I've been playing certain games this way since GTA San Andreas, and on some titles it really enhances my enjoyment. 

 

[Daz]

I love the map, easily the best since 3, if not the best ever, very varied and well made, and there are some cooler classic guns which is nice. I really like the custom vehicle, and how you can customize it and that it can be summoned instantly, though the driver takes way too long to get the f*ck out of the car.

 

However I have a lot of issues that really piss my tits off. Mostly the perks, attachments and customization. It is stupid that some guns have more perk slots than others, and some don't even have any, and there does not appear to be any way to unlock or buy more. I cannot f*cking stand the moronic suppressor system, like 5 shots and it breaks, it is insanely unrealistic, I can understand it for a cheap ass home built silencer, but it makes no sense you cant just have that whole overheat bullsh*t go away simply by just buying a modern and legitimate supressor. This is not how they work ffs. Completely immersion breaking. It also makes no sense that some improvised attachments end up having better stats than legit manufactured ones. I cannot stand these improvised garbage attachments. Fine if they are all free to unlock with less rarer resourses (which they should be) but anyone can tell you that you simply cant just make a red dot or a laser sight or scope from nothing, sh*t just doesn't work that way, it wouldn't hold zero for sh*t, let alone even find a zero once. So it baffles me why some are encouraged and valued at the same gunpowder requirement as something proper.

 

The Supremo system is completely stupid, it really is just a gimmick and I would rather not have them at all. I only use the Furioso because it has a passive ability for thrust jumping, the rest don't seem to offer any other benefit. And for a game famed by its stealth, especially for taking over checkpoints and compounds, these things seem to me to be completely against everything that far cry is about. There is not one of them that appropriately suits a more passive or stealth gameplay approach. There are perk slots taken up by guns that ONLY benefit the Supremo which I never use, so it is a wasted slot that I cannot change. It also offers only ONE perk slot. There are SO MANY perks that I would want to unlock but you can only use one at once? I feel like it basically makes all of them useless because not one is so far superior to the other, each are very slight, way more akin to something where you would collect all of them. It is a real step back in my opinion. I always liked adding perks and getting more and more abilities as I played the game, or hunting items or things in order to help myself level up. This is just a really pisspoor way of doing it. We need at least 6 or so perk slots AT LEAST, and currently 2/3 are resolver/supremo locked, and only ONE is for standard perks. Complete utter sh*te imo.

 

This is the same issue with the clothing. I have a strong issue with cosmetics being linked to perks and stats. Because I love customizing guns or my character but I now feel obligated to wear some mess of an outfit just to get the perk benefits that I want, that I would not be caught dead wearing normally. This is the same issue with the weapon perks, there are so many outfits with buffs and not a clear obvious winner for each so it almost makes it not worth caring about past a certain point because I can't look how I want AND have the perks I wan't at the same time. Compare this with FC5 and I could completely customize my character from the ground up and have cool outfits from Rainbow Six Siege or other Ubisoft games, have good headgear and tactical clothing. All this sh*t is terrible budget mad max gear and very few good headgear choices that doesn't make me look any cooler than the average bum guerilla on the street. Actually quite like an idiot mostly. Considering we don't even get to create or customize our character at all, there should be clothing and then add the perks to it that you want to build your own, once you unlock a clothing item that has it.   EDIT:  **I just figured out that I can inspect the clothing and change the skin to one of the other outfits while keeping the perk, ok that helps I guess, super weird system though...**

 

I find the entire perk related systems a massive pain in the dick.

 

At least Blast rounds are kind of fun. But I feel like a lot of cool sh*t has been stripped from the game's potential.

 

 

Edited October 18, 2021 by Daz

[AZAZEL]

4 hours ago, Daz said:

Because I love customizing guns or my character but I now feel obligated to wear some mess of an outfit just to get the perk benefits that I want, that I would not be caught dead wearing normally.

 

Dude, the game has a built in transmog feature! So you can equip whatever gear you need for the stats, and make it look like any other gear piece you have unlocked. It's down there in the left corner with the weapon charms. 

 

Might actually be one of the first Ubisoft games to have this from launch, and not have it shoehorned in in a patch six months after release.

[Shadowfennekin]

So basically the 'secret endings' are the canonical ones for the franchise lol

 

Pagan and the Seeds are hinted to still be alive(And Pagan's ruling)

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I'm f*cking hyped that Vaas is still alive!

 

My only gripe after beating the game is that Hurk, Willis and Longivus don't make actual appearances.

Willis in Far Cry 5: I'm off to Cuba, later!

Longivus after completing his quests in 4: I'm off to South America or perhaps Cuba!

 

'Yara' is literally Cuba in all but name but they only get mentions and no proper appearances/roles. And I miss my favorite red neck, would have been cool for Dani to get a tat bro!

[DODI3OG]

Far Cry 5 got rid of that "hunt to upgrade" mechanic. If I recall correctly. I didn't skin that many animals in FC 5, although I always grinded that deer and cougar spawn point near Rae-rae's for easy $$ to save for attachments.

 

How's the tank-driving mechanics, btw? I hope the armors didn't look like something from Fallout. I was wishing they'd look more like the bad guys from COD. I also hate the fact that even though we're getting probably the richest, most powerful villain in Far Cry so far, yet the soldiers don't know how to apply camo. Would have been a challenge if they at least didn't wear red pieces of clothing in the jungle.

[DJ-Jelly-Doughnut]

I think their color says a lot about who they are. These guys are dressed pretty well compared to other FC games. Their uniforms are their status. From what they say in game they are the evolution of a past insurrection.

 

Edit: Also. Anyone else notice the emails you get from Anton Castillo regarding your progress in game? Nice touch.

Edited October 21, 2021 by DJ-Jelly-Doughnut
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[Corndawg93]

2 hours ago, DJ-Jelly-Doughnut said:

Edit: Also. Anyone else notice the emails you get from Anton Castillo regarding your progress in game? Nice touch.

You get emails from him?

[DJ-Jelly-Doughnut]

Yes. He will email whatever email account you have linked with Ubisoft Connect.

Edited October 21, 2021 by DJ-Jelly-Doughnut
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