Far Cry 6 co-op thread

Fair enough re the difficulty toggle, I obviously misunderstood, for me point stands though. the 2 skill options are not even close.

I guess the only hope is that this is the last FC to take into account the old-gen consoles and FC7 will be geared towards better gpu's, cpu's, larger amounts of RAM and fast ssd's to allow for the return of some decent environmental features.

Not so sure we will get a FC7, at least as a main game, I think all games from Ubi are going to be "live service" in the future, maybe we will get a BR...like we need another feckin one!

I guess it's because FC2, for better or worse (I'd argue better), wanted to be realistic, and things happening unpredictability is pretty realistic. Everything about that game is, from the setting, to the weapons jamming, to the way that you bring up the map while driving.

3 said "actually, screw realism, videogame power fantasy is what people want", and that was pretty much right. They've been making basically the same game since then. It sucks for people who actually liked the second game, but I guess I can't really fault a business for giving most of its customers more of what they want.

Really, the fault is also with the people who keep enabling them by buying their games. The monsters.

Yes those people are awful too.

You are the one to blame for all of it.

Someone mentioned the lack of perk tree, and it reminded me that I was missing the option to drop off a roof and machete kill a guard.
Shame, because I used to enjoy those stealth kills.
Also, no radio towers to liberate..

Still, if nothing was changed then it really would be the same game again.

Overall I'm enjoying it. I've established a base in each region and dividing my time between them.

I'm enjoying it, but the next person to say "GEREEEEEYYA" gets an overly gratuitous machete to the face.

Oh right! I forgot about the whole "They fall to the floor after they run out of fuel" thing for the rocket launcher.

Got my Collector's Edition through this morning. Oh my! That flame-thrower is a monster piece of kit. Looks really good too. Going to be using it as a prop for something. The game is going to a mate of mine as I already bought the digital edition.

Can't stop playing it.

I'm currently feeling like this is the worst one. The general gunplay and power trip bollocks is about the best the series has ever been, and is fun moment to moment, but what they've added to the formula (and what they've taken away) just isn't doing it for me.

* The holster mechanic is absolutely pointless. Outside of the tutorial I've never had the need to use it. It made it seem like hiding in plain sight and avoiding trouble was going to be a big part of the game, but it really isn't, especially as it keeps constantly nudging you towards blowing shit up and not giving a shit. The only thing it seems to do is let you activate an icon (the people you can bribe) that'll in turn activate another icon on the map you would have discovered eventually anyway. Also the narrative disconnect between "my weapon isn't in my hand so don't shoot me, please ignore the rocket launcher strapped to my back" is kind of stupid.

* The ammo, likewise. Maybe if there was more of a power curve to the weapons it would make sense, but as it stands right now you use it in the first island to get through the difficult first encounters, then as soon as you're off the island you easily find super weapons where the ammo type makes such little difference it's pointless. Outside of arbitrarily limiting your own arsenal and deliberately using lower spec weapons it's useless so far. Which also means...

* The balance just seems to be broken. There's no build-up from being vulnerable and weak to being a one man commando team. The only real change in power means you can travel faster (unlocking airspace etc) and blow shit up quicker, instead of having to modify tactics based on the situation. In fact there's no inherent progress whatsoever - good weapons (which again, you get pretty much straight after the tutorial) = win the game. Some areas are walled off but it seems to be because of story progress only, rather than having to build up your own skills and power to take it on. For an open world Ubi game it's all horribly linear.

* Unless I'm missing something, capturing outposts and unlocking radio towers etc seems to have gone. There's tiny two-man checkpoints to take over and that's it. Everything else seems to be tied to specific missions and you don't progress anything of significance (beyond the airspace) by wandering off the beaten track and stumbling onto somewhere new to conquer.

* Respawning is the worst it's ever been, even Far Cry 2. I completed a mission that was "blow everything up and torch all the tobacco fields", murdered everyone, set everything on fire, got the mission complete notification, literally just turned around and everything had reset, including the enemies.

* The story can't decide whether it wants to be SERIOUS POLITICAL POINT or zany Saints Row/Just Cause esque hijinks. Other Far Cries had this to some extent but it feels even more pronounced here, especially as they have REAL EMMY NOMINATED SERIOUS ACTORS doing SERIOUS POLITICAL STUFF in between using uranium to build an exploding CD launcher and siccing a pet crocodile on people. That being said, I like that you're an actual fleshed out person this time around rather than Generic Character In The Middle Of All Of This

* Bugs! I've officially lost track of the times it starts me in the middle of something I either have to blow up to get out of, or restart because it's some indestructible object. There's just a general quality control suckiness to a lot of it, people talking without any animation, textures (especially hair) glitching out, people standing around and not reacting to anything going on around them, enemies forgetting where I am, the UI locking me into thinking I'm in combat mode even when nothing's going on, preventing fast travel etc.

I mean, it's fun enough to just blow shit up and make-your-own-entertainment by seeing if you can complete a mission using just El Guapo or something, but I'm really yearning for something deeper that isn't just nigh-on godmode hijinks. Maybe somehow I've broken the game and others aren't experienced this - I've double-checked several times that I didn't accidentally turn on story mode or something.

1 and 2 my favs, also loved 3 and liked 4, didn't play 5. This is kind of boring. It feels as if I've jumped into a Far Cry campaign half way through so I'm trying to figure out who the characters are and why I should give a shit. Part of the vulnerable bit at the start of Far Cry games also gives you a chance to bond with your character and get to know the plot and players, this is just kind of I don't give a shit just go here and get on with it.

It does look amazing on the Series X/CX but I'd rank it below FC4 so far. Way below tbh. Definitely should have waited for a price drop.

That's weird, don't think it's been patched. Have you messed with your Xbox settings and lost VRR for example?