The far cry 2 thread!

[Mussels]

10+ mins to load a save is insane. But the frames aren't that low at all for a TV lcd res.

i had that because i had a dedicated server running in the background. after killing that, my load times are around 15-20 seconds.

 

[ShadowFold]

Whats with the save boxes next to the health things.. They are completely useless!

 

[Mussels]

Whats with the save boxes next to the health things.. They are completely useless!

it felt like a console leftover, where the console doesnt have a quicksave.

 

[ShadowFold]

it felt like a console leftover, where the console doesnt have a quicksave.

oh.. sucks for them

 

[DEFEATEST]

50-60fps is low?

thats really low for my system on medium settings no aa and 1368x7xx ya for sure it is, according to what folks are saying they are getting on ultra settings @ 1680x1050. Any my puter should handle this game quite well at those settings I think. After a bit of tweaking outside of game, I now get in low 30's totally cranked 2x aa and I think that is crappy!!!

 

[ntdouglas]

You need some malaria medicine before you go out in the car for the first time,its around that first camp somewere.

Found that. Same thing, I die and go back to where I have to fix the car. Don't you hit the H button to heal yourself?

 

[Mussels]

Found that. Same thing, I die and go back to where I have to fix the car. Don't you hit the H button to heal yourself?

H takes a malaria pill. I cant recall now where you get the first ones, but to get more you have to do missions for a priest.

FYI, early game some people tend to get confused - you get told to buy weapons, and they go in, realise no ones home leave, and die. You need to buy a weapon from the PC, before the game lets you progress into getting your malaria meds.

 

[johnspack]

Good, I'm about 10% in, have bought weapons from the computer, did more stuff, came back and got assigned a mission from the weapons dealer... still have pills but worried about running out! I actually like this game better than crysis or warhead, they are a tiny bit better in graphics, but actually worse story lines. And the first pills came from the priest.

 

[Mussels]

Good, I'm about 10% in, have bought weapons from the computer, did more stuff, came back and got assigned a mission from the weapons dealer... still have pills but worried about running out! I actually like this game better than crysis or warhead, they are a tiny bit better in graphics, but actually worse story lines. And the first pills came from the priest.

you actually do run out thats what forces you to go do more missions. i think you get about 5, from each priest ("Underground") mission.

 

[frankie827]

i think the physics are a bit worse than crysis

anyways...when can i buy the flame thrower

 

[largon]

WTF?
You die of malaria if you don't pop pills regularly?
*facepalm*

 

[frankie827]

at least thats realistic
although it seems as if its promoting drug use =0

 

[johnspack]

heheh, yeah, you gotta keep finding a "fix" or you're dead!

 

[Mussels]

WTF?
You die of malaria if you don't pop pills regularly?
*facepalm*

its designed to add a sense or urgency/force you to do something different. you're out and about ramming into zebras, and hte screen goes all wonky.... and you're out of pills. time to crash your way back to the central town and get some meds

 

[largon]

The thing is, if you have malaria and you're in such a bad shape that you die if you don't take the meds you definitely are not capable of even standing up... Let alone sneaking around in the savannah flattening zebras. Why not just make the protagonist SOB a drug addict?

 

[DrPepper]

The thing is, if you have malaria and you're in such a bad shape that you die if you don't take the meds you definitely are not capable of even standing up... Let alone sneaking around in the savannah flattening zebras. Why not just make the protagonist SOB a drug addict?

He is a drug addict the health bar is actualy the hallucination bar and the whole game is him hallicinating and when the bar goes low you need more heroin so he injects himself with H then your good for a little while and when the bar is empty he crashes back to reality

 

[WhiteLotus]

any one know how to get this diamond?

http://img.techpowerup.org/081028/fc2.png

i've walked around and it just cliff face on every side, but apparently there is a diamond on top of it as it stays green?

 

[johnnyfiive]

it felt like a console leftover, where the console doesnt have a quicksave.

I just use F5, thats default quick save button.

 

[johnnyfiive]

any one know how to get this diamond?

http://img.techpowerup.org/081028/fc2.png

i've walked around and it just cliff face on every side, but apparently there is a diamond on top of it as it stays green?

That is near the waterfall right? It's towards the bottom part of the waterfall. I too had a hard time finding it! I went on both sides of the rocks and couldnt find it. Its down in by the bottom part of the waterfall towards the right side. (if this is the place your at...)

 

[johnnyfiive]

He is a drug addict the health bar is actualy the hallucination bar and the whole game is him hallicinating and when the bar goes low you need more heroin so he injects himself with H then your good for a little while and when the bar is empty he crashes back to reality

hahah

 

[frankie827]

He is a drug addict the health bar is actualy the hallucination bar and the whole game is him hallicinating and when the bar goes low you need more heroin so he injects himself with H then your good for a little while and when the bar is empty he crashes back to reality

LOL
so true

 

[TUngsten]

That is near the waterfall right? It's towards the bottom part of the waterfall. I too had a hard time finding it! I went on both sides of the rocks and couldnt find it. Its down in by the bottom part of the waterfall towards the right side. (if this is the place your at...)

No, it's not the waterfall one. I tried to get the same one last night with no luck. My guess is that it might be a location only accessible by glider.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

any one know how to get this diamond?

http://img.techpowerup.org/081028/fc2.png

i've walked around and it just cliff face on every side, but apparently there is a diamond on top of it as it stays green?

It took me about 15 minutes and sleeping on it to figure that one out. See the path across the river that apparently leads no where? There's a glider up there which you use to get across the river and on top of the monolith. The briefcase is in a little hut. Don't worry, there's a lot of room to crash land.

There's an even trickier one somewhere else where I glided around a corner, through a canyon, over a guard post, and finally land where the brief case was. Basically, when in doubt, look for a glider. XD

 

[rampage]

yeah that dimond had me thrown for ages, then i figured out i needed to use the glider but i had a dam bug were i couldnt use the glider so i come back later and i was able to use it

 

[Whilhelm]

Anybody know how to get this game to run fullscreen? It crashed on me and now every time I launch it it runs in a window and there is no option for FS in the display settings.