Far Cry 3

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

marco_polo

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

Yep it is abysmal. All the worse if you have player dishonored recently as the select wheel was near perfect in that game

Temptamperu

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

Its the LB on the xbox, i keep fooking up and using RB which is the grenade button /restart mission :mad:

Nuri Sahin

Limericks wrote: »

Just finished it. Seriously amazing.

What ending did people pick? I decided to stay with the rakyat and kill the friends and got a little show out of it :P

Would like to know what the other ending was though!

Ha yeah, same one I opted for.

If you're really curious about the other one (like I was , still will do another playthrough mind you), Youtube search it.

Fizman

Fizman wrote: »

Right.....I haven't played my PS3 in 18 months......but reading this makes me thinks I need to dust off the old horse.

How do those playing on console find it?

My pc is 5 years old but was very highly specced at the time....how would this hold up:

Mother Board: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775,ATX,2xGbLAN,DDR2,2xPCI-Ex16
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB
RAM: OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Sound Card: Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
OS: Vista Ultimate

Anyone?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

unless im missing something you're missing a graphics card....

kearneybobs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

is it just me or is the weapon select wheel a ****ing nightmare with a mouse?

Yeah. A bloody nightmare. I've stopped using it and changed the setting for prev/next weapon to mousr scroll down/up.

It really annoys me that when you click esc to read one of the pop up messages, it makes you exit out of three other menus when you're done before you get back to your game.

Fizman

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

unless im missing something you're missing a graphics card....

Woops.

GPU: XFX GeForce 8800GT 670M 512MB XXX GDDR3, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI/HDCP, 670/1950Mhz
Mother Board: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775,ATX,2xGbLAN,DDR2,2xPCI-Ex16
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB
RAM: OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Sound Card: Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
OS: Vista Ultimate

Zero-Cool

I'm playing on ps3, runs great and looks brilliant.

Damo 2k9

Such a good game, best ive played in ages. I always say ill finish the storyline for every new game but never get around to it, definitely gonna finish this one! Anyone else find the falling damage a bit excessive? Fell from about 10ft earlier on and died?

Sephiroth_dude

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

To answer your question, yes you can still play on after completing the story.

Is there much to do?

SeantheMan

I'm getting awful "shadow" flickering, on buildings, doors, to the point where it's extremely annoying. Used to get it on Skyrim too.

Running 2 6870s in Crossfire,

Also, anytime I exit the game - it cant connect to Uplay or whatever, and it half-stalls the whole game. Have to exit to main menu and reload

marco_polo

Fizman wrote: »

Woops.

GPU: XFX GeForce 8800GT 670M 512MB XXX GDDR3, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI/HDCP, 670/1950Mhz
Mother Board: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775,ATX,2xGbLAN,DDR2,2xPCI-Ex16
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB
RAM: OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Sound Card: Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
OS: Vista Ultimate

PS3 would probably be the safer bet TBH.

Even the 8800GTX (the minimum recommended GPU) which is a bit more powerful than your 8800GT struggles to get playable FPS until you get down to medium setting @1600X900.

It might run it but I'd say you'd be doing well to pull more than maybe medium @1280X1024 or low @1600X900. .

http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=2886&game=Far%20Cry%203&title=Far%20Cry%203%20PC%20Hardware%20Analysis%20And%20Far%20Cry%203%20Graphics%20Benchmark

Shame as the CPU would probably still do reasonably ok paired with a faster GPU.

VinLieger

Wow just did the burning the weed mission, thats was a stupid amount of fun, loved the "effects" and the music that kicks in when you start the fires. Came across my first heavy in it as well and was thrown for a second as how to kill him but then just looked at the flamethrower in my hands and went to work.... mmm crispy

dreamers75

I didnt use the Flame thrower on that mission

Tried to be stealthy until i realised they kept spawning. I was a ghost in the field lobbing molotovs and hitting the barrels with the silence sniper.

Zero-Cool

Lads, do I need the dog tags, cards, glasses at any point or are they just for selling?

Nuri Sahin

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is there much to do?

Depends, as in it depends on how much side quests, outposts, radio towers, etc you do before completing the story.

I did all the outposts and radio towers myself. Now just left with side quests and other bits n bobs which I'll get around to doing over the next day or two.

Headshot

I presume there will be DLC's?

Nuri Sahin

sheehy83 wrote: »

Lads, do I need the dog tags, cards, glasses at any point or are they just for selling?

Just for selling.

VinLieger

sheehy83 wrote: »

Lads, do I need the dog tags, cards, glasses at any point or are they just for selling?

Just do quick sell when your at a shop, it will get rid of all the loot that has no use and keep any skins or flowers that you can craft with

Captain Chaos

Headshot wrote: »

I presume there will be DLC's?

There already is with the lost expeditions pack that comes with some pre orders. Adds a few more hours of gameplay.

kearneybobs

Anyone able to tell me why the camera changes from blue to orange some times? It sometimes does it when I aim at a dead body and when I take a picture with it, I get some chime. It kinda sounds like citra saying "oooh" Very odd.

Headshot

Captain Chaos wrote: »

There already is with the lost expeditions pack that comes with some pre orders. Adds a few more hours of gameplay.

Im talking about future ones. It be nice to know that it will have the same support as skyrim

Magill

Just played it for a few hours now, really awesome looking game so far. The gameplay actually suprised me in how smooth it was as well tbh, feels really satisfying popping the pirates in the head with an AK for sure. Had heard a few mixed reports on performance on PC, but my average enough system runs it at about 40fps on ultra@1080p. Will look forward to playing through it over the christmas break for sure.

kaimera

kearneybobs wrote: »

Anyone able to tell me why the camera changes from blue to orange some times? It sometimes does it when I aim at a dead body and when I take a picture with it, I get some chime. It kinda sounds like citra saying "oooh" Very odd.

something about when it turns to yellow/orange it's a picture to take.

idk what you do with them tho. do they save to the FC3 folder or something? or onto uplay?

Mr Freeze

This game is savage.

Just picked it up yesterday, got my bow, then spent a good 30 mins chasing goats to try and kill and skin one for a quiver upgrade, while being shot at.

Duggy747

On the 2nd part of the islands now, still feel like I've loads left to complete.

Love that flamethrower, complete end-game weapon for me when bullets aren't enough. Very satisfying when about 5 fellas are running towards you around the corner and you just pop out and fry the lot of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGY8fyLrXMk

Krieg

AMD have released beta drivers, I think these only work for legacy cards HD 5000/6000/7000 series

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_12_11_beta_download.html

(Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta)

Improves performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
Resolves a sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
Resolves an intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in a CrossFire Eyefinity setup.
Resolves image corruption found in certain DirectX 9.0c titles
Resolve missing fonts issue in XBMC
Resolves no video issue found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
Resolves stability issues found in the previous AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta8 driver for Linux
For users experiencing issues with HDMI Audio under Ubuntu 12.04, users should try installing the “dkms-hda - 0.201211291615~precise1” package from https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/alsa-daily/+packages and reboot; this will resolve the HDMI Audio issue found in Ubuntu 12.04
AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 has just been released, and should be used in conjunction with AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11
Improves Far Cry 3 performance for single GPU configurations with AA enabled

LostCorkGuy

I'm after getting a weird "bug" ?
I was out on a boat at night hunting sharks , was using the camera to spot them , except when I stopped moving the camera and was looking towards land , lights would start flashing in the distance like torches , they'd come on around 10/11 of them and turn off slowly to be replaced by another one , once I left the camera they vanished , but they came back when i took i out again

Anyone else notice this ?

kaimera

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

I'm after getting a weird "bug" ?
I was out on a boat at night hunting sharks , was using the camera to spot them , except when I stopped moving the camera and was looking towards land , lights would start flashing in the distance like torches , they'd come on around 10/11 of them and turn off slowly to be replaced by another one , once I left the camera they vanished , but they came back when i took i out again

Anyone else notice this ?

I've seen that with the camera a few times but not 10/11 of them tho!

grizzly

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

I'm after getting a weird "bug" ?
I was out on a boat at night hunting sharks , was using the camera to spot them , except when I stopped moving the camera and was looking towards land , lights would start flashing in the distance like torches , they'd come on around 10/11 of them and turn off slowly to be replaced by another one , once I left the camera they vanished , but they came back when i took i out again

Anyone else notice this ?

Not this, but last night I had fish floating above the waterline. At fist I thought they were jumping out of the water until one floated by me.

Lots of strange glitches in this.

Nodferatu

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

I'm after getting a weird "bug" ?
I was out on a boat at night hunting sharks , was using the camera to spot them , except when I stopped moving the camera and was looking towards land , lights would start flashing in the distance like torches , they'd come on around 10/11 of them and turn off slowly to be replaced by another one , once I left the camera they vanished , but they came back when i took i out again

Anyone else notice this ?

Jellyfish

dreamers75

Fire has strange reflections in the water.

We seriously getting down to the nitty gritty issues now :pac:

Havent started the 2nd island yet, have completed all path of hunter and dead missions and story quests. Doing the way of the Warriors and supply runs tonight.

Then onto the island, will do the loot and letters/relics later.

Icyseanfitz

Dcully how are you getting such good performance ive a slightly overclocked 7970 and a i7 930 at 3.8 Ghz and im sitting in between 40-60 fps most of the time, downloading those new drivers to see if they boost performance

Duggy747

AMD Catalyst wrote:

Resolve missing fonts issue in XBMC

Yay, the other release completely fùcked up my software so I had to roll back. Will see if this makes any notable performance increase with the game.

Zero-Cool

VinLieger wrote: »

Just do quick sell when your at a shop, it will get rid of all the loot that has no use and keep any skins or flowers that you can craft with

Wow how did I miss that option! Sound man! Only on chapter 3 but how addictive are outposts and towers! I love my sniper rifle but will have to put it down to try out the recurve bow. Is the bow one hit one kill with headshot?

Well done Ubi!

LostCorkGuy

Nodferatu wrote: »

Jellyfish

Nope , it's on the mountains and on the beaches when I'm at sea , like flash lamps

lisatiffany

All outposts, towers, side missions, items crafted, almost all the relics too, I'm probably near the end of the main story too (chapter 8) but it's so addictive.

Bloodwing

LostCorkGuy wrote: »

Nope , it's on the mountains and on the beaches when I'm at sea , like flash lamps

It's not a bug. When you look through the camera places of interest flash like that. It means you'll find a collectable there.

marco_polo

Appears to be a update coming down through UPLAY wonder whats in it?

EDIT Nothing of interest really

Release note – PC patch 1.02

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Multiplayer fixes for the patch:

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PVP:
- Fix some issues with user created maps when more than 8 players were playing them.


Map Editor:
- Fix a Map Editor crash at launch when the windows user account contains language-specific characters.

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Single Player fixes for the patch:

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- Fix the "View Leaderboard" and "Start Trial" buttons in the World Map.
- Improve stability when the user is quitting to desktop.

EDIT 2 Testing out the latest drivers, before and after with 4XMSAA (most settings at their highest bar post fx and shadows), definately 10%+ improvements for me @1080p. FPS in the same section I tested went from 31-33 all the way up to 37 ish. (HD7850).

Still going back to MSAA X2 though to get up to near the 50FPS mark,

balkieb2002

Hate reading through this thread as won't get to play till next week at earliest but can't stop.

One question though I see lots of people are using the flamethrower.
Is there a limit to the amount of weapons you can carry i.e. usual fps 1 pistol, 1 machine gun and 1 heavy etc or does it just depend on backpack size?

kaimera

balkieb2002 wrote: »

Hate reading through this thread as won't get to play till next week at earliest but can't stop.

One question though I see lots of people are using the flamethrower.
Is there a limit to the amount of weapons you can carry i.e. usual fps 1 pistol, 1 machine gun and 1 heavy etc or does it just depend on backpack size?

4 max.

but you need to expand your holster from the starting 1 (2,3 then 4)

Zero-Cool

Just finished the Prototypes Lab level from the Lost Expeditions dlc. Standard collect items and kill guys but nice little nod to Assassins Creed series with the story and symbols. Plus was totally worth it for the Bioshock reference. Jason puts on his best Oirish accent to say 'Would you kindly' haha

Headshot

Finally nvidia have their new driver out

lisatiffany

The prototype lab was cool but the other one with the timer was a bit odd, it looked like it would have been a great level if you could take your time and take in the surroundings but you just have to fly through it. Has anyone tried any user created levels? I want to make a good try at building a few maps but its hard to pull yourself away from the main game.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

two things

1) I hate the bow

2) is there any way to stop the popups that appear every ten bloody seconds telling you what the current quest is?

SeantheMan

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

two things

1) I hate the bow

2) is there any way to stop the popups that appear every ten bloody seconds telling you what the current quest is?

How do you check your current quest ? , or can you have multiple quests on the go at the same time and choose between them...if so ...how ?

For me the annoying pop up is any new into in the top right corner , how to make something, what a green leaf does, and you click on it..open up the new into..close it..and another automatically appears.
Maybe there's some game option to turn off notifications, I'll have to check

Pixelbastardo

SeantheMan wrote: »

How do you check your current quest ? , or can you have multiple quests on the go at the same time and choose between them...if so ...how ?

For me the annoying pop up is any new into in the top right corner , how to make something, what a green leaf does, and you click on it..open up the new into..close it..and another automatically appears.
Maybe there's some game option to turn off notifications, I'll have to check

One quest at a time, either main quest line or you can do one of the many side quests that pop up after you clear each outpost.

Much like ac3, there doesnt seem to be an active quest screen to check out in the menu (although i could have missed it among the many tabs in the options)

Iv spent alittle over id say 10 hours in the game, and have afew tips that might help if your new to the game.

When taking an outpost, get a good vantage point on a hill or rock from afar, and shoot the red alarm box with your sniper rifle to disable it, some times there are 2 of these alarm boxs to take out. now you dont have to worry about reinforcements being called in.

Also the first sniper rifle doesnt allow any attachments, but the second one allows 2, so you can put on a silencer and high powered scope (good for taking out the alarm boxs without been heard).

And lastly, instead of buying guns, save your cash and as you climb and unlock radio towers, each gun becomes free in the shop.



I wish i was recording yesterday when i was walking by a small pond in the middle of nowhere, i was walking right by the edge of the water line, with the pond to my right and an un-climable hill 3 feet to my left going around the pond.
I was walking along when a deer darted by inchs to my right splashing the edge of the water, i drew my smg and shoot maybe 4 rounds into the dears backside, didnt kill it but the impact of the shot made its back legs buckle as it ran in the shallow water, it stumbled slightly.. and then out of nowhere (or rather the pond) a gator snatched that F&(*(r in one quick swipe and draged it into the pond.. i swear to god it was like something from a wildlife program..

Im almost convinced it was scripted, it was so damn real, it had to be, and i bet when you walk by any pond with gaters in it that has deer in the same area, one will just spawn in behind you and run past to get snatched by a gator ..

Grayditch

Still devastated that I can't publish maps with vehicles, Ai, ziplines, or gun placements and without shared spawns. I should have checked first and not bought it. Good single player, but that was just a small bonus, I bought it to make and share maps. Ah well.

jmx009

Pixelbastardo wrote: »

One quest at a time, either main quest line or you can do one of the many side quests that pop up after you clear each outpost.

Much like ac3, there doesnt seem to be an active quest screen to check out in the menu (although i could have missed it among the many tabs in the options)

Iv spent alittle over id say 10 hours in the game, and have afew tips that might help if your new to the game.

When taking an outpost, get a good vantage point on a hill or rock from afar, and shoot the red alarm box with your sniper rifle to disable it, some times there are 2 of these alarm boxs to take out. now you dont have to worry about reinforcements being called in.

Also the first sniper rifle doesnt allow any attachments, but the second one allows 2, so you can put on a silencer and high powered scope (good for taking out the alarm boxs without been heard).

And lastly, instead of buying guns, save your cash and as you climb and unlock radio towers, each gun becomes free in the shop.



I wish i was recording yesterday when i was walking by a small pond in the middle of nowhere, i was walking right by the edge of the water line, with the pond to my right and an un-climable hill 3 feet to my left going around the pond.
I was walking along when a deer darted by inchs to my right splashing the edge of the water, i drew my smg and shoot maybe 4 rounds into the dears backside, didnt kill it but the impact of the shot made its back legs buckle as it ran in the shallow water, it stumbled slightly.. and then out of nowhere (or rather the pond) a gator snatched that F&(*(r in one quick swipe and draged it into the pond.. i swear to god it was like something from a wildlife program..

Im almost convinced it was scripted, it was so damn real, it had to be, and i bet when you walk by any pond with gaters in it that has deer in the same area, one will just spawn in behind you and run past to get snatched by a gator ..

Something like that happend to me earlier today. I was walking beside a lake/river and i saw this dude walking towards the river on his own. He wasnt an enemy ( not wearing red). He looked more like one of those tribal guys. I thought talking to him might trigger a side quest or something so i walked towards him. As he reached the bank, a croc jumped out from the water and in one swosh took him into the water. I literally jumped out of my seat as this was the first time i saw a croc in the game. I shot the croc but i dont think i killed it as I couldnt find its body but i did see the poor souls body floating by on the river.

I was so impressed by what happend at the time but now after reading your post, i think it was probably scripted too. Still i really enjoyed it and i hope to see more of that .