FARCRY 2 --- Officially , official of official threads! ---

v0n · 28 Oct 2008 at 10:25

Well, it's more of a "work undone" issue - you spend an hour scouting large camp, stealth killing guards, disabling vehicles so they can't chase you or escape their death and then setting fire around the lot using gas cans and molotovs while withdrawing to safety just to discover that once you move round the corner and back everything is restored, not only guards and camp staff, but gone are also effects of explosions and any traces of fire you set 5 minutes earlier. 6 months of demos how they took trip to africa, made realistic environment with weather patterns, directional wind gusts, sunrise and sunset in real time, and this and that, and birds migrate and foliage rots and mushrooms grow. And ****** enemies rebuild camp in under 60 seconds from restoring save.

izzy eckerslike · 28 Oct 2008 at 10:37

saguy said:
. I am addicted to my bolt action sniper rifle as this has to be one of the best sniping games I have played. The only rubbish thing is that my FPS drop from 35 to 20 every time I zoom in.

How can you zoom in? there isn't a zoom feature is there?

Kerplunk · 28 Oct 2008 at 10:40

izzy eckerslike said:
How can you zoom in? there isn't a zoom feature is there?

Right-click?

izzy eckerslike · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:12

That doesn't zoom, it just puts the gun to your eye but it's still static & you can't zoom as in Crysis, that what zooming is

Squark · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:30

What is the screenshot button?

mrk · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:32

There is none, gotta use FRAPS !

Blue Cypher · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:37

izzy eckerslike said:
That doesn't zoom, it just puts the gun to your eye but it's still static & you can't zoom as in Crysis, that what zooming is

When you have your map out right click and you get a monocle out which acts like your binoculars, is that what you mean?

Gecco · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:38

Had a few days off. completed the game.

Meh. It's o if you havbe nothing else to play. quite tedious.

The Ending was short - must be more than one as you get to choos various different paths twoards the end.

Spoiler:

I picked ub the Briefcase at the end & once handed over i saw a small explosion and that's it - game over.

prUnE · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:44

stifler said:
only one problem though, i've installed it twice. the first time avast picked up this, mastroschka_launcher and the descirtion says trogan-gen. so i uninstalled it and on the second install it picked up the same thing, both times near the end of the installation.

anyone else had this and is it harmful?

I had exactly the same with mine using avast also. I just told avast to ignore it as i presumed it was something to do with the security crap bundled with the install. I'm guessing it should be fine...had no problems so far.

eyetrip · 28 Oct 2008 at 11:53

Squark said:
What is the screenshot button?

The "print screen" key.

It saves them under the game directory somewhere in a directory called screenshots or some similar.

MoNkEyMiKeY · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:41

Squark said:
What is the screenshot button?

Printscreen they get saved under documents/my games/farcry2/ screenshots I think. They come out really dark on my copy though.

MoNkEyMiKeY · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:41

izzy eckerslike said:
That doesn't zoom, it just puts the gun to your eye but it's still static & you can't zoom as in Crysis, that what zooming is

Map in hand then press right click and you get a minocular.

eyetrip · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:53

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Map in hand then press right click and you get a minocular.

Yeah, it annoys me that you have to have map open to use monocular. It's something that really should just have it's own key.

domthecondom · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:03

yeah should have something like B for bonoculars

mark43 · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:08

prUnE said:
I had exactly the same with mine using avast also. I just told avast to ignore it as i presumed it was something to do with the security crap bundled with the install. I'm guessing it should be fine...had no problems so far.

I also had this with AVG, I ignored and then ran an AVG update and it seemed happy with the file after this.

I’ve had it before with stuff like this, I’ve had it with WoW following updates and also had it with Crysis.

domthecondom · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:12

mark43 said:
I also had this with AVG, I ignored and then ran an AVG update and it seemed happy with the file after this.

I’ve had it before with stuff like this, I’ve had it with WoW following updates and also had it with Crysis.

LOL i had this aswell =] but it seems fine now, hope its not "spyware" like in BF2142

Joebob · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:49

Are there more maps than the one you start with? I remember seeing screenshots etc of baron looking areas which looked like sevanas - doesn't seem to be any in game and the map doesn't seem all that big really!!!

[EDIT]

Never mind I have found a full game map

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/XL5/fc2map.jpg

Kerplunk · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:52

I cant actually wait to finish work and go home and fire up Far Cry 2 - Thats how good it is to me!

I havnt had the urgency to play a game like that since GTA: San Andreas!

\checks time

Strife212 · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:55

The game has grown on me, the respawns and lack of faction system is bad if you take it as a completely open game but as a FPS its pretty fun.

eyetrip · 28 Oct 2008 at 14:01

Yeah, was suprised when I looked at my stats last night and was up to 7 hours gameplay and only 12% in.

I love that no enemy encounter plays out the same. Though I have not had any major "wow that was so cool" moments as yet, like some. Though I have used fire to get effect sometimes

Also, now that I noticed there is a bus in pala as well, I use them a bit - when I looked on the low scale map it only displayed 4 in the corners so using buses seemed pointless as would have had to travel so far to get to one. Not too bad with one located in the center.