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Dapper_Swindler posted:reviews are mixed but lean more positive then not, the biggest issues seem to be so far that its more of the same even if its probably the best that that same has been. so its basically the AC syndicate of the series. This article is basically nothing but good points, I mean quote:This time out, Far Cry is leaning into Ubisoft’s burgeoning live service model. In previous games, players would gain ability and trait points to improve their character. In Far Cry 6, all character progression is tied to loot. Instead of the player learning new abilities they must earn them by buying gear from a vendor that grants them. So if a player wants to tailor their character to their playstyle, they need to find or buy the requisite gear to do so.
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fuf posted:yeah I gave up, will try again tomorrow. I hope it's the VPN but that seems kind of unlikely. Mine also has issues synchronizing cloud saves so yeah, hopefully just vpn related.
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toiletbrush posted:game looks kinda fun in reviews and I loved 3 and 4, but holy poo poo it looks like everything in the world gets tagged in your HUD. Is it possible to turn all the markers/tags/x-ray vision off? haven't played it yet but the hud is fully customiseable from what i've seen
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i generally like the mechanics of ubisoft style open worlds, but i hate the fact that they tend to take a long time over-explaining these mechanics to you, forcing you into tutorial missions, and in some of their most recent games (AC Valhalla) do not even let you turn poo poo all the way off and insist on having glowing bright "Press Button to Engage Mechanic, By the Way You Are Playing a Video Game Right Now, In Case You Forgot" signifiers all over the game world no matter what you do to your HUD in the settings where does this game fall in those terms? i clicked on one of those gameplay walkthrough videos and it seemed to involve a lot of tedious explanation of How to Summon A Vehicle From A Menu and that was like part 3 so i'd been expecting the game to actually be like, going by that point. not a good sign Earwicker fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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fuf posted:yeah I gave up, will try again tomorrow. I hope it's the VPN but that seems kind of unlikely. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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This is pretty fun. Sure it's another one of those but I feel like playing one of those right now. Runs great on my 8700k and 2070S at 1440p. Not using hd textures but everything is at high.
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toiletbrush posted:game looks kinda fun in reviews and I loved 3 and 4, but holy poo poo it looks like everything in the world gets tagged in your HUD. Is it possible to turn all the markers/tags/x-ray vision off? Yeah, there's an option to turn off both npc highlighting and loot highlighting. There's still a small circle that appears if you can loot something. Also you can highlight npc's with your camera and they will have a marking above them like the old games. It's kind of cool because it gives you information about the enemy, like what guns they use and what they are weak against. You might be able to turn that off but I don't know.
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Fired it up this morning. i7-10700k, 16GB Ram, RTX 2070, Windows 11 and running at 2440x1440. It defaulted to high detail settings and I've left it at that, ran the ingame benchmark, 67-87 FPS which is definitely in the desirable ranges. Default FoV is a little bleh but it is running pretty good, the only other tweaks I did was to disable motion blurring and turn off aim assist. I only had time to get as far as when you capture your first check point before I had to leave for work. From my hour and a bit I can say that the game felt good, the presentation was good and if you liked Far Cry 4/5 this is a pretty safe bet. If you didn't like 4/5 then this one isn't going change your mind.
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Still crashing for me, connecting to UK now. Regarding the HD texture pack, who in the hell has 11GB of VRAM?
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Kaddish posted:Still crashing for me, connecting to UK now. Regarding the HD texture pack, who in the hell has 11GB of VRAM?
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ZombyDog posted:Anyone with an RTX 3060? ( But not the Ti ) Ahhh, yeah I forgot those came with a weirdly large amount of RAM. My poor little 3070 only has 8.
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About an hour in and the game is running great on High on my 1070, seems really well optimised to me.
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Earwicker posted:where does this game fall in those terms? i clicked on one of those gameplay walkthrough videos and it seemed to involve a lot of tedious explanation of How to Summon A Vehicle From A Menu and that was like part 3 so i'd been expecting the game to actually be like, going by that point. not a good sign
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How's the ammo system? That and the apparently limitless respawns when attacking outposts makes it seem less fun.
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So it looks like a standard serving of Ubisoft Game, with ults and 15% more microtransactions?
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Kaddish posted:Still crashing for me, connecting to UK now. Regarding the HD texture pack, who in the hell has 11GB of VRAM? The listed requirement for the HD texture pack seems to be bogus.  From this video, where you can see benchmarks using the HD texture pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy5yz6BRJc8 Basically every card can use it fine at 1080p, and most can at 1440p. The 6800 XT using more than 8GB of VRAM doesn't mean having less will be a major problem. It just might require slightly more realtime asset loading and unloading. If you have an 8GB card then I don't think there's anything to worry about, and even a 6GB card will be fine at 1440p and under.
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I love the music in this. The song that plays in one of the early missions is great. And later on, when I was riding my horse she was humming it to herself.
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Basic Chunnel posted:This article is basically nothing but good points, I mean I’m finding that the vast majority of negative reviews tend to all run along the lines of “this multi gazillion dollar investment vehicle/consumer product did not make the nuanced, sensitive social commentary that some indie bullshit made by 5 people in a garage would have. -33/10”
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It’s just more Far Cry. I can see why people are upset that they did literally nothing new at all but I’m having fun
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Ragingsheep posted:How's the ammo system? That and the apparently limitless respawns when attacking outposts makes it seem less fun. A couple hours in, the ammo system seems to incentivize thinking about the weapon mix you bring and which weapons you use on which enemies, but you can still drop guys with a headshot or two if they have a helmet, which is nice. Haven’t had the opportunity to use the other ammo types yet, but the mix of normal/soft target/armor piercing rounds has been fine. As for the limitless spawns, I could be wrong but I believe that if you find and kill the “leader” of the outpost with the yellow icon, they’ll stop. Sort of like how they handled it in the new Wolfenstein games.
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As much as I find the endless lament by paid professionals that an open world shooter that took 7-8 figures to develop is not the definitive treatise on colonization hilarious, if that pressure can somehow result in a proper AAA Blood Dragon 2, keep on writing the hot takes.
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in fairness to reviewers these games do take themselves so goddamn self-serious at times and really posture at deeper themes in between the goofy poo poo, in every game you'll get lectured by the baddie about the nature of power and then five minutes later have to steal a wolf's penis or some poo poo, i personally find it really charming and hilarious that these super polished action games are built on such ham-fisted edgy teenager writing but i can see how if i was a kotaku writer asked to summarize the themes of far cry 5 it would break my brain
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There's something weird with the HD textures. At times I'm getting better quality and at others I'm getting worse. I read somewhere else that instead of stuttering like it would normally do, it actually streams lower quality textures when you run out of vram? I'm sure more info will come out but I'm turning them off because it seems like the image quality is actually worse overall.
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Put a few hours in. Its more Far Cry. If you like that(I do) then its something you prob wanna get. The mission where you take down the two military ships was really cool and fun. Also I guess I have a pre-order bonus or something cause I got a lot of blood dragon weapons/gimmicks and they just feel great. *edit* Also the level up system is gone yeah, cause they just basically give you everything out of the gate. Being able to shoot someone while ziplining is something you can do the second you find your first zipline, versus like 10 hours into the game once you have enough skill points.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Basically every card can use it fine at 1080p, and most can at 1440p. Is there any point using the HD texture pack if not playing at 4k though? I'm playing at 1440 on a 3080 I am kinda surprised by how bad the game looks - I always thought of far cry as a pretty next gen looking game but I guess it's really showing its age at this point
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Ragingsheep posted:How's the ammo system? That and the apparently limitless respawns when attacking outposts makes it seem less fun. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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fuf posted:Is there any point using the HD texture pack if not playing at 4k though? I thought Far Cry was kind of showing its age as far back as FC5. The paper mache foliage and plasticine human bodies kind of stick out like a sore thumb these days.
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fuf posted:Is there any point using the HD texture pack if not playing at 4k though? Yes. 4K will let you see the fine details from further away, but high-res texture packs still have their benefits for lower resolutions when it comes to things you'll be seeing up close.
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Is the story still disjointed horseshit like Far Cry 5's? I don't expect much from videogame stories, especially not from ubisoft, but I got burned by FC5 taking what could have been a cathartic experience and pissing it all up the wall with ACTUALLY THE VILLAIN IS RIGHT!!!@
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Songbearer posted:Is the story still disjointed horseshit like Far Cry 5's? I don't expect much from videogame stories, especially not from ubisoft, but I got burned by FC5 taking what could have been a cathartic experience and pissing it all up the wall with ACTUALLY THE VILLAIN IS RIGHT!!!@ The SkillUp guy said the story is unobtrusive to the point of overcorrection, like Giancarlo Esposito doesn't even meet the protagonist until you're 60% of the way through the campaign.
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Songbearer posted:Is the story still disjointed horseshit like Far Cry 5's? I don't expect much from videogame stories, especially not from ubisoft, but I got burned by FC5 taking what could have been a cathartic experience and pissing it all up the wall with ACTUALLY THE VILLAIN IS RIGHT!!!@ Everything I have heard, they kinda of drop all the twisty “moron first twist” poo poo. President fring is played pretty straight and realistically monstrous(for a far cry game) and while the rebels are a coalition of outcasts and dissidents, it doesn’t go the golden path direction.
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I'm still on beginning island but it looks like this time around the signature/unique weapons aren't flat out better statwise than the base guns which has been the case since 3 if I remember. Now I can use a gun with mods/attachments and a paint job I like
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A headshot really doesn't mean anything in this game, if the NPC level is higher. --edit: This game is unclear about what bases you can even take over. If I were to go by the older games, if there's a flag and alarm in the center of it, it's a base. I'm at that tobacco farm on the starter island, and whenever I budge too far away from the center, the snipers in the tower respawn. If they're not all cleared, the base doesn't transform. So I guess this isn't a base? --edit: Seems like spawns are generally weird. I started out in the middle of nowhere plinking a single guy of his horse, and now there's a huge body pile, because he keeps respawning immediately like 20m away. --edit: There's also a missed opportunity of not having poses/animations of your pets running shotgun. Who doesn't want an alligator copilot? Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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exquisite tea posted:The SkillUp guy said the story is unobtrusive to the point of overcorrection, like Giancarlo Esposito doesn't even meet the protagonist until you're 60% of the way through the campaign. They literally meet about….5-7 minutes into the game, during the intro. The part about the story being fairly unobtrusive is fair - it’s a little more like AC Valhalla where the regional stories are more up front, and the overarching story seems like it’s going to take a back seat until you go for the big guy. VanillaGorilla fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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I just fired up the game for the first time, and I'm really impressed with the first-time menu they give you to tailor the gameplay experience. The entire client feels ultra responsive, and the game is buttery smooth on a 3080 + i7-8700K with High settings. I did briefly turn on raytraced reflections, but I lost around 20FPS, and there is not currently a DLSS option. edit: Hmm, getting the occasional skipped line of dialog, where there are captions displayed. LASER BEAM DREAM fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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exquisite tea posted:I thought Far Cry was kind of showing its age as far back as FC5. The paper mache foliage and plasticine human bodies kind of stick out like a sore thumb these days. For all it's faults I really love Dunia (or whatever the current iteration is called) and I'm going to be so upset when they eventually convert Far Cry to the Watch Dogs engine or whatever.
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