The far cry 2 thread!

[olithereal]

I give it a 7, had potential but they did the same thing as with Assassin's creed, way to repetitive.

 

[TUngsten]

It's definitely fun, but I keep wishing the story felt like it was escalating...like the next time I cross the 2 militia faction it'll be all out war in Pala and beyond

 

[FordGT90Concept]

LOL, I agree TOTALLY! I actually have this feeling with alot of Ubisoft's games! Some gimmicks are nice (POV healing, African landscape etc.) but i think we should just agree that S:SoC and S:CS are both in different leagues to FC2?

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has everything that makes me happy. It has variety in missions, the land is fun and rewarding to explore, it has a great story, it sets the mood, the gameplay is fluid, and once you get scoped rifle, it is worth while to be precise. FarCry is riddled with bugs (especially with key bindings--even the glider sticks to original bindings), gun play isn't very rewarding, there are constant interruptions when trying to get from point A to point B that are very distracting and often annoying, there is nothing special about the weapons or their upgrades, and the missions aren't very rewarding feeling more like a chore than entertainment (mostly because there isn't a solid story here--it all feels like busy work). There's really nothing here to like. I give it a 3/10. :shadedshu

Where are headlights on first car ! I mean it`s dark enough already without driving in the dark !!

I always drive with the lights off as to not give away my position. You can bind the key to turn the headlights on and off. Obviously, if the lights are broken, turning them on won't do any good.

I'm starting to get sick of these random crashes. They happen like every hour... Pissing me off!

I haven't had any crashes. I did have some audio problems though related to driver/device.

I give it a 7, had potential but they did the same thing as with Assassin's creed, way to repetitive.

I think Assassin's Creed was much better than this. It was great fun getting up close to the enemy and shoving that assassin's knife in their gut and then countering the rest until they're all dead. The only thing that I felt was bad was the story being too complex. I really couldn't wrap my head around all those mid-east names. They all mushed together into one for me. Whenever they referred to someone by name, I just didn't get it. I guess it doesn't help that most characters look the same/wear the same uniforms too. I feel that Assassin's Creed has a more severe case of consolitis than FarCry 2 though. Like in Assassin's Creed, they didn't even bother to change the images for keys from those of the PS3. There was also some performance issues when up on the roofs overlooking a city.


By the way, I use one of two loadouts in FarCry 2:
Assault: Eagle .50, AS50, Carl G Rocket Launcher
Sneak: Silent Makarov 6P9, Silent MP5, Dart Rifle

 

[newconroer]

I always drive with the lights off as to not give away my position. You can bind the key to turn the headlights on and off. Obviously, if the lights are broken, turning them on won't do any good.

Ya, but did you notice you get better frames with headlights on!?!? Usually in games flashlights or lighting effects in the dark, force extra shaders and texure rendering, which degrades performance.

I actually gain eight to ten fps from turning on my lights..heh..figures..

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I don't know about you guys, but I love doing the weapons shop missions. Nothing is better than blowing open the hood of the transport truck with the .50 cal.

 

[newconroer]

Sometimes it's hit or miss (no pun...) in terms of enjoyment, but then I think of Clear Sky, and there, I can't really choose whether I even want it to feel hit or miss...

My problem with Warhead, is that I wander off into the scenery too much, and eyeball it, rather than getting down to the game. I didn't properly play and finish the original Crysis, until July of this year..so... but despite FC2 being a longer duration game than Crysis, I might just beat it quicker, as I actually try to play it. And I bet I'll beat Dead Space even sooner, cause I just wan't the nightmare to be over! DIE DIE DIE you fu**ing mutated thing with overall bottoms on and flesh blades shaped like the steel arms on the T1000 in Terminator 2 when he tries to pry open the elevator door in the mental ward hospital after John rescues his mother....

Ok, I'm calm.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I can see why people are getting bored. Yes the missions are the same basically. What to do for fun? Play the game differently. Have you ever shot someone in the leg with a sniper rifle, and watch his buddy run up to him and pick him up, and then shoot him too, and watch people keep running over to help their friends? It's cool. Have you ever used only silenced weapons? During daytime? How about only machete? How about shooting everyone in a cease fire zone? Have you shot your buddies yet? Have you used the hang glider, jumped into a lake, and then blow up an attached IED on the hang glider? Play the game uniquely.

 

[wolf]

All in all on a 8800GTX this game plays beautifully, max all + AA very smooth, however....

this does not touch crysis for looks in my opinion...

i had an idea for cryengine2, they should jsut amke it all indoors like deadspace, they could PILE on the textures if it didnt need to render massive draw distances...

anyway yeah farcry 2, some very fun quirks...

 

[newconroer]

It's nice to have the options to play it uniquely, but sometimes players need to be shuffled into the motions; otherwise you have almost too much free will, and are left with so many choices, you just say fu** it, and do it the normal-typical way.

When you mix in some forced elements, it creates a scenario where a player must adapt. The question is, are the tools at their disposal, in order to do so?

A game that has complete open-endendness will get tiresome after a while, and a game that's too 'corridor' will get shunned for not being open enough.

A proper balance has to be struck, and unfortunatley that's not the case with FC2.

 

[Megasty]

I'm at 46% & I'm bored as hell. Its way too repetitive. How are you suppose to finish something like this. It took me 10 hrs to do just this. C'mon. Not to mention every time I get in a car it gets blown to bits. Its just too sad & too funny, but its still boring as hell.

 

[RandomSunchips]

I'm still using the G3, which is nice, but weak as crap. I'm thinking of upgrading my assault weapon (main long rifle is still Springfield 1903). Should I spring for the AK, or save for something better? (Only about 16% into the game, have finished 2 weapon shops missions, which I agree are awesome.)

 

[ChromeDome]

so i see a lot of naysayers itt but i'm not one of them

so, who loves this game? i for one do. lots of good action and gameplay, big maps, wide open spaces, weather, animals, great weapons, lots of missions, fluid controls (although i would like a prone position), good graphics, and it will take me a good long time to finish. i don't see how that is a negative. why the big hurry?

FC2 is a game you can take your time with and come back to again and again. if you're trying to finish it in three days no wonder you'd be bored

 

[Kursah]

I love the game and will continue to say so, but as I also said earlier, it's not for everyone...there is no game that can please all out there. Newconroer got it dead on in pretty much saying that some need guided to realize the different ways things can be accomplished, this game does not do that but lets you do it as you wish...which for some, will just go the regular route. I'm trying to change it up every time I'm out there, and it's just a blast...hell I pick up rusted weapons just to have that be a challenge of taking on 5 enemites and have a weapon jam up with little to no cover just to see if I can make it. I love being able to do that, having the option to do so if I want to, hell yeah it's good stuff.

 

[johnspack]

It beats up on my athlon bad, close to 100% usage on both cores at all times. Explains this poor benchmark running ultra high at 1920x1200 and only 2x aa:

can't figure out how to get snagit to capture whole thing, I ran a 3 test 3 loop bench, took awhile.
Game does run nice and smooth though, no jerkiness, I guess I'll live. Game really rocks!

 

[Luke]

so far I like that game even if it is repetitive it is still fun because I can do it differently if I want

also it runs smooth on my desktop on very high and smooth on my laptop on medium

 

[johnspack]

And yeah, I like that real feel.. I keep grabbing old rusted weapons, and they keep jamming up! I've found lots of diamonds, time to buy some new stuff and not be so cheap! I still have to take the malaria pills, hope he gets over it soon.... took a side trip on a boat and found another diamond case, lots of fun!

 

[johnspack]

To show you how it can bog down my athlon check the 2nd shot, both at 1900x1200, ultra and 2x aa:

darn water really drops my fps!

 

[Kursah]

What drivers you running on? I noticed in gameplay the new betas helped a ton (see my results a page or two ago iirc). I had similar drops on the 178's but it never got sticky. I get at least +10 in areas I watched drop down with the older drivers. Maybe give em' a shot...you will probably lose fan speed control, if that's an issue, the easy fix is a bios fan speed profile mod, which is cake to do as you know from my GTX thread. That's what I did, now the lowest I ever see is maybe 40fps...though I do run at 1680x1050, 4X AA everything else maxed...not quite up to your HD resolution!

 

[johnspack]

Using the newest, 180.43s, darn that intels process sse at 128 bits at a time whereas athlons have to do 64x2. So many reasons to get intel. Except now prices have shot up in Canada, 50 bucks more for an e8500 now, arrrrg.

 

[Kursah]

Yeah I thought you were gonna get Intel a couple months ago...man your system is doing FINE.

Neh. stuff will be out soon enough, that'll start driving the 775 prices down for a bit.

 

[johnspack]

I may still get a little extra cash soon, if not, I'm just going to save up for the intel stuff. Or else go deneb if they mature fast enough. A new am3 mobo and deneb will cost me just as much, so I'm just going to sit on the fence and see which platform is the best bang for buck....

 

[wolf2009]

hey just found this

the performance increase with ati 8.10 hotfix drivers comes at the cost of missing textures,


i'll be waiting for 8.11's .

 

[Mussels]

from what i hear, cat 8.9 is best for ATI users in far cry 2.

 

[Steevo]

Can't wait to get my machine back and try this game.



I will check the missing textures, rename the .exe file and try it.

 

[sneekypeet]

hey just found this

the performance increase with ati 8.10 hotfix drivers comes at the cost of missing textures,


i'll be waiting for 8.11's .

arent there 8.11 betas? http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1018923#post1018923