Farcry 4

[Chris Type R]

JonRB said:

I notice this has now dropped to £25.99 for the PC (physical DVD) on Amazon. I think that's a price I'm happy to pay so I'll give it a go. Something to do over Xmas anyway.

Edit: If it's cheaper elsewhere, even as a digital download, please let me know ASAP as I could still cancel the Amazon order. Ta!

Edited by JonRB on Thursday 18th December 12:37

A reasonable amount of playability for the money.

[JonRB]

Daston said:

nick s said:

Really enjoying it too. Agree with comments about It being like FC3, but I loved that game. SO I'm more than happy that they haven't messed with the formula!

Also, how tight do you have to be to wait for a price drop to buy a game that you're interested in? What are you going to save? Maybe £10-£15? I'm shocked so many people are like that! I'll buy any game on a whim. I bought Murdered: Soul suspect for £45, and honestly played 2 minutes. I couldn't care less as it's only £45!

I take it your not playing it on the PC. We quite often get 50 - 75% savings within a few months of games being released. In fact for some games we get a massive saving before they are released, my wife got the Sims4 for £24.99 where Game wanted £39.99 and Origin wanted £49.99 (yeah right)

Just for the benefit of of nick s, it's less than a month since you posted that and it's £25.99 already. And you wonder why us PC Gamers don't leap straight in at full price unless we really really want a game.

As Daston says, we do tend to benefit from savings far more than the console users do.

[LittleEnus]

I'm struggling getting to do all of the towers. The ones in the north- can you get to them before you have unlocked it? Buzzers/ choppers can't seem to fly high enough.

[Jasandjules]

LittleEnus said:

I'm struggling getting to do all of the towers. The ones in the north- can you get to them before you have unlocked it? Buzzers/ choppers can't seem to fly high enough.

No you have to complete more of the Golden Path campaign, then you will undertake a mission to unlock the North. Then it is game on.

[Chris Type R]

LittleEnus said:

I'm struggling getting to do all of the towers. The ones in the north- can you get to them before you have unlocked it? Buzzers/ choppers can't seem to fly high enough.

I think you need to unlock first

[LittleEnus]

Thanks chaps. Will do.

[JonRB]

Blimey. Three DVDs for the PC version! What's the betting it needs a mahoosive multi-megabyte download to patch it up afterwards?

[Chris Type R]

JonRB said:

Blimey. Three DVDs for the PC version! What's the betting it needs a mahoosive multi-megabyte download to patch it up afterwards?

Yes, there was some debate surrounding this in the earlier pages

[JonRB]

Chris Type R said:

JonRB said:

Blimey. Three DVDs for the PC version! What's the betting it needs a mahoosive multi-megabyte download to patch it up afterwards?

Yes, there was some debate surrounding this in the earlier pages

I must have missed that or more likely forgotten about it.

It's just doing a 3085MB download. Fortunately I have an 85MBPS fibre broadband connection (Virgin's "up to" 120MBPS service) so it'll be done in a matter of minutes. Then I might actually get to play.

[JonRB]

WTF? nVidia GeForce Experience wants to "optimise" the graphics settings to low?? I have an MSI GeForce GTX 770 OC overclocked to 1124MHz and with 4GB GDDR5, and an Intel i7-2660K running at 3.4GHz with 32GB RAM. That's not enough???

*sighs* is it upgrade time again?

Edit: Looks like my 770 should fetch about £170-£200 on eBay and a MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB is £400-odd. I can't really justify a Titan.

Edited by JonRB on Friday 19th December 19:43

[enemi]

I've got a GTX 780X not overclocked and it's automatically set it up to High.
Shouldn't be such a big difference between the 770 and 780 right?

[JonRB]

enemi said:

I've got a GTX 780X not overclocked and it's automatically set it up to High.
Shouldn't be such a big difference between the 770 and 780 right?

I think there is quite a big difference between the 770 and 780. From what I can deduce they have different architectures and the 780 is essentially a scaled-down Titan

Anyway, no matter - it was a good excuse to upgrade and my MSI GTX 980 4GB arrives today.

The only annoyance is that the new GPU comes with a free copy of Far Cry 4.

Edited by JonRB on Monday 22 December 08:19

[pidsy]

Right, I'm confused - finished the main story, All outposts liberated, All bell towers hacked, All forts taken.


No sign of hurk. At all!

Anyone got any ideas?

[JonRB]

anonymous said:

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anonymous said:

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The 780Ti is a cracking card and the 980 only just pips it, according to the reviews I've been reading, so I don't think you need to worry about upgrades right now. By contrast, the jump from my 770 GTX to the 980 GTX should be quite significant.

[Butter Face]

pidsy said:

Right, I'm confused - finished the main story, All outposts liberated, All bell towers hacked, All forts taken.


No sign of hurk. At all!

Anyone got any ideas?

Have you entered to code into the PS Store?

[Foliage]

I have a 770 and FC4 runs on ultra easily.

[JonRB]

Foliage said:

I have a 770 and FC4 runs on ultra easily.

Are you running at 2560x1440 though?

I was getting 15fps at 2560x1440 with everything whacked up to max, which isn't acceptable.

[pidsy]

Butter Face said:

pidsy said:

Right, I'm confused - finished the main story, All outposts liberated, All bell towers hacked, All forts taken.


No sign of hurk. At all!

Anyone got any ideas?

Have you entered to code into the PS Store?

yep. and made sure i downloaded and installed it.

[Foliage]

JonRB said:

Are you running at 2560x1440 though?

I was getting 15fps at 2560x1440 with everything whacked up to max, which isn't acceptable.

no, 1080@144hz

[JonRB]

Foliage said:

no, 1080@144hz

Well, it's largely academic anyway; my new GPU arrived today and I'm fitting it this evening.

As toxicnerve said, "any excuse".