Far Cry 3 Thread

I think this game has much that was missing previous games such as Crysis, wild animals inc some that will rip you apart make the game so much more entertaining, near the village I killed some baddies killing locals, one woman survived & thanked me with $50, shortly after she walked near the river & a crocodile dragged her into the river :p:p

Also the randomness of it, you die & sometimes reappear at the same location and other times you end up back at the village or safe house & have to find your way back to where you died if it's near a mission area, this can be annoying sometimes but at the same time you know it will be different each time, the Pirate or animal that killed you will most likely no longer be there but you may get attacked halfway there this time.
 
Badly optimised, eh? Seems to run very well on a huge variety of hardware :confused: Also the game is pretty good as it is aside from graphics, so I don't get the wishing you hadn't bought it thing. Maybe you should have bought yourself a tech demo or screen saver instead :p

Try without SLI and see what happens

As for the draw in, I see lots of hard drive activity when driving about so it must be streaming data quite a lot. I don't see much of it apart from in the middle distance and when handgliding

Pop over to Guru3D and you will find a **** load of problems that people are experiencing.

It seems to be happening when people are maxing the game out with high-end hardware.

Since the 1.02 patch today performance is alittle better along with the latest nvdia driver.
 
Does the never settle code from AMD work yet? When I try to add it to the ubisoft store I just get a £10 voucher and then it asks for my card details etc.

Yep, worked for me today. Put the code in the promo box after adding the game to your cart, takes the total to zero, continue on and fill out payment details(even though its £0), confirm and begin download. Been playing for couple of hours and enjoying it so far, beautiful game.:)

Which game did you add? Deluxe edition?

I am connecting through my phone - maybe it is not seeing my region.

Ubisoft are doing a pretty good job of getting me to never use them ever again by giving me a free game that I want.

Before I email Ubisoft - anyone got any idea what I am doing wrong?

It does say log in in the email from AMD, but I can not see any where to login to until I go to pay. If I add the code to the promo code box nothing happens. I have tried this on another PC at work too so it is not my phone messing with the region.
 
I'm absolutely loving this game. Its.....just fun. ok there are a few niggles, but it's like a breathe of fresh air to me.

The best bit tonight was...I came top, the other top player from the other side was camping and killing me....so he thought I showed mercy by letting him go and one of the other top three on my team shot an RPG at him..that made me chuckle..haha
 
You get two emails after registering the AMD code

One is for the £10 voucher and the other is for the game. I've activated 2 so far (one mine and another for a mate)

The voucher email looks like this

Order ID: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Product ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Product Name: Voucher - £10
Release Date: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Digital Rights: xxxxxxxxxx

If you have questions about your order, please visit: http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubiemea/help

Please note: This email message was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.

Sincerely,
Ubisoft Customer Service
shop.ubi.com/store/ubiemea/help

The game code comes separately from the voucher, or it did preorder anyway. It's the Far Cry 3 - The Lost Expeditions version you want, you don't even need to "buy" it via Uplay, just install the Uplay client, set up an account, download the installer and get the game downloaded and installed. Once you have that then the first time you try and launch it it will ask for the key

The key is in this format XXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, which should have arrived by email if you registered the AMD code
 
You get two emails after registering the AMD code

One is for the £10 voucher and the other is for the game. I've activated 2 so far (one mine and another for a mate)

The voucher email looks like this



The game code comes separately from the voucher, or it did preorder anyway. It's the Far Cry 3 - The Lost Expeditions version you want, you don't even need to "buy" it via Uplay, just install the Uplay client, set up an account, download the installer and get the game downloaded and installed. Once you have that then the first time you try and launch it it will ask for the key

The key is in this format XXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, which should have arrived by email if you registered the AMD code

Had just figured out that this "Far Cry 3 - The Lost Expeditions" is the one I needed. Thanks for the help anyway. Hopefully I should get the emails etc ok.
 
kration;23300951 This review sums it up very well: [URL said:
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Very good comments in there about a very good (potentially excellent) game.

Yep, I pretty much agree with all of that. A potentially brilliant game which is let down by a few totally bizarre design choices.

Massive minimap which is far too obtrusive
Hints and tips you can't turn off
Stupid notifications every few seconds
No autosave....in an open world game!
Awful inventory system (come on, who didn't get tired of pressing escape?)
Unfailable QTEs(i am not totally against QTEs in certain situations btw), especially those that are just bizarrely in cuscenes for some reason which totally ruin immersion....'mash spacebar to open door' ...WHY???


Imo, a patch to be able to turn off most HUD elements is sorely needed. Immersion is a tenth of what it could be.
 
I've just reverted the game to the original DLLs and applied the 1.02 patch, but the game launched without prompting me to enter the product key. What's going on here? I've never entered it and it just let me play in multiplayer.
 
"MINIMAP FIX"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmlogT8X4_0&feature=plcp




Tested and working with the Steam version of the game (1.01).

DX9/10: Locate and backup \bin\FC3.DLL, then open the original file with a HEX editor, I’m using Hex Workshop.

DX11: Locate and backup \bin\FC3_d3d11.dll, then open the original file with HEX editor.

Search for "showuielement"

In the next few lines you will see S.h.o.w.U.I.E.l.e.m.e.n.t.

Replace the S.h.o.w.U.I.E.l.e.m.e.n.t. with H.i.d.e.U.I.E.l.e.m.e.n.t.

To remove all intrusive sounds:

Copy and paste each sound item from the list below into your HEX editor and search for TEXT, then replace the HEX value for the text with zeros.

sndCancelMission

sndArmorTutorial

sndObjectiveUpdatePopup

sndLogUpdatePopup

sndTutorialUnlockPopup

sndTutorialPopup

sndHintPopup

sndDetectionUpdate

sndDetected

sndMission_EnterZone

sndMissionStart

sndGainXP

sndLevelUpReminder

sndLevelUp

sndDefaultInteraction

sndSwitchGadget

sndObjective

sndHintBinocular

Save this newly fixed DLL and run the game, that's it!!

I am in no way responsible for you destroying your rig, home, family, game, you name it, MAD PROPS to BenderisPlaying for this info.
 
so just spent 3 hours after work running around, still enjoying the graphics, gunplay etc, no real complaints tbh.

Until.

I didn't think 'time for bed', or 'time for a different game' or 'i've played enough tonight'

I thought 'I've unlocked enough for one night'. Ruined my evening realising i've spent 3 hours chasing numbers and unlocks, haven't played any of the story yet. It's been ages since I played a game that got me hooked into the storyline, tbh I think I'm one of the few that enjoyed FC2, I really did, but this is meh.

I wish it wasn't, because this game could be so much more!!
 
Some really good parts but fundamentally ruined by being a game for the new age of gamers who hate dying(apparently).

Its TOO damn easy straight off, the signature weapons, well a couple of them, are ridiculous and make all similar weapons worthless. Animals are almost great, except for some the fact that so many animals really don't react to being hurt. IE Tiger rushing you, you blast it with the first shotgun hit, does it stagger, no, does it stop, no, does it do anything, no. Then when you hit it enough it flops over dead :( Also after you've gotten a few skins for everything, there is basically no need to remotely interact with animals again, and sure there are a few croc attacks but considering it basically happens to everyone at 3-4 locations its less random and more scripted. Other animal interactions are less surprising/interesting. Had they made med's/health regen need food and you needed to kill animals throughout, with maybe better bonus's, higher regen or bonus health slot when eating harder to kill animals. I never even used most of the combat injections, better aim? for what, its ridiculously easy with everything anyway, due to cost you can put a great scope on the best rifle within half an hour of starting to play. like 66% more health slots with one of them, made it but never used it, never came close to needing to. Redonkulous amount of green leafage to make completely unlimited health syringes and largely no more difficult enemies, no difficult tactics, and really quite poorly very few well scripted sequences in the game. Some of the missions where you defend or whatever, are so lamely boring and easy, and incredibly uncreative "hey here's a turret, they'll come from one of 2-3 locations you can easily defend against and it will all be the same kind of enemy anyway, you have all but unlimited health and great guns.

At no stage did I feel pushed or in danger. Great though too unvaried world, this guy has millions, he'll put up a few forts and secret cave complex's and have some funky security systems and the like. Ultimately the poor AI and painfully easy missions and camps to take over stop the game being great.

Far Cry 2, respawning checkpoints you can not easily go around on many occassions AND constant patrols, Far Cry 3, give you camps rather than checkpoints and they remove patrols in the area, great, but then, the area feels too tamed. how about less camps, more varied camps and "bigger" attacks to take them down, and simply tone down the insane patrols.

The worst thing about games like this is, how close it came to being great. Great world, guns feel good, but its too easy and the side missions are basically awful. Decent array of weapons, but very little progressive feel to the game, come across harder enemies as you progress through the game and at the same time, get access to better weapons, works great in most games for a reason. Getting the best gun 3 minutes into the game and finding everything else pointless for a dozen + hours of gaming is not great fun.

Story, started off really good, great premise, fell apart, some stuff left completely unanswered that could have gone any number of ways.


One of the friends tells you Riley is dead, now either this is a **** who is scared and wants to leave not wait around to find another friend and lies, or there was potential for all kinds of things, drug/gambling debt, generally nasty guy, told them about this island and was setting them up, and was never really a hostage to start with. Who knows, the absolute lack of interaction or explanation with the friends he is risking his life over and over again to save is the kind of poor story writing that bugs me. This big in particular was left completely unanswered, or it could have been expanded on.

The story in general went from great premise, good intro, great enemy in Voss, to stupidity very quickly. The ending was really just daft, okay the she wants you to stay on the island thing was obvious all along, but to go from that to, if you send your friends off and stay somehow it won't work, you've got to kill them? Seriously, it was just too stupid.
 
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