Far Cry 4 Catch-All

The FC4 installer is crashing on me. Currently verifying files with my fingers crossed.

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The verify process found corrupted files. I clicked the "fix" button and it started re-downloading the entire game. I'm starting to regret getting a discounted uPlay key via GMG instead of just ponying up the full amount on Steam.

I was watching a gameplay video of four and for a moment thought I was actually watching old footage of three.

That's a good way to put it. It does feel way too identical in places. I do vastly prefer this location though.

The thing that bothered me about Far Cry 3 was the colour coding of the pirates. It stopped the world from feeling real to me (I just couldn't see pirates agreeing on a colour and sticking to it.) I was hoping they'd do away with the colour code thing altogether but this time at least it's an army so I can accept them having matching uniforms and that those uniforms could be a brightish colour (especially under Pagan Min) and I can also see the shining path wearing coloured arm bands.

Saw this elsewhere, but if you edit the config settings xml file in "Users/{UserProfileNameHere}/Documents/My games/Far Cry 4" and change "Smoothness" and "Smoothness Ironsight" to "0", it makes the mouse control much more tolerable.

The weird laggy mouse response was bugging the hell out of me.

Wow, those eagles are bastards.

Had to restart though because of computer issues I never really got past the first wolf den thing. Playing on my wife's graphics card is killing me. It's capable(550 TI) but not what I'm used too. I really loved the gameplay of FC3 so I'm completely fine with this. I like that the story seems a bit more mature and less 'white savior' and uh grappling hook guys, it's rad.

Hah, apparently not very well. The only reason I purchased there was because they were giving a $25 game credit with Destiny with overnight delivery(which ended up being 3 day delivery). I was supposed to get an update from them yesterday but it looks like my Farcry is still in limbo.

The idea of user created outposts makes me really excited to play this game, hopefully I will get it for Christmas. The outposts were my favorite part of Far Cry 3 and if people make a lot of good ones that's just so many more hours of fun.

I tried on chat but they were useless. I think my annoying phone call tolerance is done for the day since I already had to call the car insurance and credit card companies today.

I'll give it a go if you see me about on Saturday (I think I sent you a friend request when I was firing a lot out recently.)

Okay so I beat the game. Some thoughts.

First off technical stuff. Basically this game is much more buggy then 3. In fact I had one crippling bug, and one game stopping bug. Fortunately both of these were fixed in the recent patch. I've only seen some weirdness left, and one crash. This game seems to take way more juice to run then 3. I could play the previous one maxed out. Not on this one, had to turn it down significantly. First game I've had to do that for.

Now for the game itself. It's far cry 3. The exact same thing with some improvements. The side missions do get boring real fast, but the main missions are fun. My only complaint is that the difficulty can be broken very easily. One of the earliest weapons you get is a one handed nade launcher. It's really powerful. At the beginning with 12 shots for max ammo it's fine. But you can easily raise that to 60 rounds. Couple that with a extremely powerful lmg I got early on and all the fights were trivial. Your only real weakness is you're made of glass, regenerating glass but glass still. Also I wished fortresses were more interesting. It's a good idea that they didn't go far enough with.

As for the story. I think it's much better in this version. Overall all the characters are better actors and the plot is more solid. The decision system, while interesting, made me want to yell at the two golden path leaders. I just kept seeing ways to compromise for a better option. Also getting yelled at by them was not fun. Oh and the main character is basically a non-entity. No opinion of will of his own really and will do anything anyone asks of him mostly.

Overall fun but not great. Kind of like a generic piece of candy. Tasty and you'll eat it but you'll mostly forget about it in an hour.

Does PS4's shareplay feature work with this? If it does I'll persuade a friend to get a copy.

Thanks for the offer Higgledy. What's happening is I'm buying a PS4 this week, or intend to, and I'm trying to figure out what game to rent.

My friend bought FC4, so I can hop into his game with his keys. But if I rented it, I'd be reliant on other people to lend me keys and I'd need a PS+ subscription to invite people in to my game.

PS+ doesn't quite feel worth it yet, so I'm leaning to renting Shadow of Mordor and playing in my friend's game using his keys and PSN.

Of course this depends on what bundles are on offer for Black Friday; maybe there'll be a tempting one with FC4 and PSN at a big discount.