Farcry 4

[Moog72]

Where did you get the Z93 sniper from? I've also read it's the best sniper in the game but it's not available to buy and isn't a signature weapon either as far as I can tell

Is it in Northern Kyrat perhaps? I've not got that far yet but I'm showing 50%+ done (and 24hrs in )

[Stu R]

I'm enjoying it a lot having picked it up last week.

It's funny how sometimes, graphically, it's not all that, and others it's beautiful. I guess it's the difference between textures and landscape. It's ridiculous how much fun it is, and how fast it goes through time. I played for 6 hours and thought I'd been on a couple, at most.

I'm about 15% in, but I'm just about to go and do all the radio towers. Love the karma missions despite them being very similar, but finding the masks can be a chore.

One thing I hate, and always have, is the single thumb stick control for vehicles. Drives me nuts after spending so many hours on GTA which has it done masterfully when it comes to combining shooting and driving.

Nearly crapped myself when I first discovered devil fish by means of getting my arm nibbled.

Anywhooo, it's ace. Between this, CODAW and GTAV I'm set for a winters worth of gaming I reckon. Looking forward to trying the multiplayer, didn't bother on previous farcry releases.

Edited by Stu R on Monday 8th December 11:37

[ConcreteBuffalo]

Stu R said:

One thing I hate, and always have, is the single thumb stick control for vehicles. Drives me nuts after spending so many hours on GTA which has it done masterfully when it comes to combining shooting and driving.

Go to the settings menu and change driving controls to classic, at least you can then use the triggers to accelerate / brake (on Xbox one at least.)

Much easier on quad bikes

[Tuvra]

Stu R said:

One thing I hate, and always have, is the single thumb stick control for vehicles. Drives me nuts after spending so many hours on GTA which has it done masterfully when it comes to combining shooting and driving.

You can change it in the settings, It really annoyed me as well as I found turning and keeping the throttle on difficult

ETA PS4 here and throttle/brake is also R2/L2.

[LittleEnus]

I bought this over GTA and DAI and really pleased I did. Love Far Cry and this doesn't disappoint.

I do miss the tropical locations of 3 though and dare I say even 2. AI is rock hard as always and it's a real challenge. Savouring every step.

[Stu R]

Thanks chaps, that's made my day!

[Moog72]

Stu R said:

I'm about 15% in, but I'm just about to go and do all the radio towers. Love the karma missions despite them being very similar, but finding the masks can be a chore.

I'm not sure you can just go and do all of the radio towers if you haven't unlocked the Northern part of the map as I got a warning about entering hostile space or something when I tried to fly over there in the chopper - I didn't proceed as I didn't fancy being blasted out of the sky. I've done the 10 or so that are accessible to you in the South / Mid region though

Finding masks - You can either a) listen out for the chanting noise that gets louder the nearer you are to the mask or b) equip your binoculars and they highlight the location of the mask as a dotted line box

The latter is less effective for those that are in the water, but just put a waypoint on it via the map and it'll guide you pretty much straight to it in my experience

[Chris Type R]

LittleEnus said:

I bought this over GTA and DAI and really pleased I did. Love Far Cry and this doesn't disappoint.

I do miss the tropical locations of 3 though and dare I say even 2. AI is rock hard as always and it's a real challenge. Savouring every step.

I miss the baddies talking in Afrikaans (FC2), mainly because I could understand the profanity.

I thought that the mountain aspect would get in the way of a good game, but the climbing & flying functionality have ensured that this has not been an issue.

[Chris Type R]

Moog72 said:

I'm not sure you can just go and do all of the radio towers if you haven't unlocked the Northern part of the map as I got a warning about entering hostile space or something when I tried to fly over there in the chopper - I didn't proceed as I didn't fancy being blasted out of the sky. I've done the 10 or so that are accessible to you in the South / Mid region though

Maybe he's in for the surprise of discovering that the map is large than initially thought ? IIRC in FC2, having spent a lot of time in the game it was a surprise to me when the map opened up.

[shirt]

can anyone please tell me where to find the hovercraft in south kyrat? i stumbled across it when running away from an angry elephant and its easily the best vehicle in the game. drive by shooting with an escape across water is extremely satisfying.

also many of you mention a crossbow, where do i get this as i am the king of stealth having taken all bases so far undetected.

just done the first drugged mission at the gale homestead. really hope there's not too many of these as it was a st mission and i really really hated these type of missions in FC3.

[Chris Type R]

shirt said:

also many of you mention a crossbow, where do i get this as i am the king of stealth having taken all bases so far undetected.

I think it's part of the story-line.

[andyr30]

enjoying doing the fortresses on this.

They aren't that hard, first one I did ended up with a helicopter gunship support.

Others since then have been done very stealthy and managed to take them with out being discovered.

Did a good one where I abseiled down into it, that was fun

[willyjc]

mep said:

I had the same problem - The icon on the map seems to be in the wrong place.

This worked for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0A-sJngTM

Thanks for the assists - appreciate you guys googling it for me! Now have big fat wallet...

[Zod]

Hit a big last night: got a message that a liberated outpost was under attack from a retaliation party. Went there, dramatic music and the red map icon, but nobody there.

[Moog72]

Chris Type R said:

I think it's part of the story-line.

It is as I've just unlocked it - keep playing the campaign missions and it becomes available

There are a few hovercrafts around, but I can't remember exactly although there might be one in the lake to the east of the De Pleur (?) fortress. Might sound daft but remember to put it on the ground before getting out and don't do what I did and get out in the middle of a lake 'cos hovercrafts don't float

[trashbat]

There's one on the island with the temple.

[Zod]

Moog72 said:

Chris Type R said:

I think it's part of the story-line.

It is as I've just unlocked it - keep playing the campaign missions and it becomes available

There are a few hovercrafts around, but I can't remember exactly although there might be one in the lake to the east of the De Pleur (?) fortress. Might sound daft but remember to put it on the ground before getting out and don't do what I did and get out in the middle of a lake 'cos hovercrafts don't float

I found one very early on.

[Jasandjules]

Stu R said:

Nearly crapped myself when I first discovered devil fish by means of getting my arm nibbled.

Wait until you meet a croc...........

Crossbow unlocks as you complete the campaign - it is under sidearms.....

[Looket]

Moog72 said:

Where did you get the Z93 sniper from? I've also read it's the best sniper in the game but it's not available to buy and isn't a signature weapon either as far as I can tell

Is it in Northern Kyrat perhaps? I've not got that far yet but I'm showing 50%+ done (and 24hrs in )

I think you have to pick it up. Watch out for snipers using red laser sights!

I picked it up quite early so you can definitely find them in the south.

[Butter Face]

I've got a Z93 with extended sight, It's mega!