Far Cry 3 Thread

Anyone know what will make the game more interesting for me ?

I'm about 1/4th through the story, have just under half the radio towers and checkpoints.

I'm getting bored with taking over the towers and checkpoints, I love the story bits but the ''freeroam'' parts and side missions are just plain boring imo :(.
I keep being owned taking over the checkpoints too :(.
 
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snowdog said:
Anyone know what will make the game more interesting for me ?

I'm about 1/4th through the story, have just under half the radio towers and checkpoints.

I'm getting bored with taking over the towers and checkpoints, I love the story bits but the ''freeroam'' parts and side missions are just plain boring imo :(.
I keep being owned taking over the checkpoints too :(.
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Towers/checkpoints/hunting/revenge missions were my favourite parts TBH, but are ALL optional (except in a totorial sort of way). Ignore them and do the main quests - only difference will be you will have less free guns and more bad guys to run into, so probably spend more time hiding in bushes.

The main quest has a fairly stagnant bit around the middle but really picks up again later on.
 
snowdog said:
Anyone know what will make the game more interesting for me ?

I'm about 1/4th through the story, have just under half the radio towers and checkpoints.

I'm getting bored with taking over the towers and checkpoints, I love the story bits but the ''freeroam'' parts and side missions are just plain boring imo :(.
I keep being owned taking over the checkpoints too :(.
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Are you doing the hunting and crafting?
 
I cant stand the bow. Find it really difficult especially when doing the panther/leopard/tiger.

Even when using the Hunting crafts.

Love the game though. I find taking the outposts the best bit. Plus anticipating where the reinforcements and vehicles come from and laying mines.

One of the best bits I had was at a crossroads I attacked a jeep and blew it up. Wave after wave of vehicles came until the crossroads was a complete scrap yard. Nine vehicles came until it stopped.
 
varkanoid said:
I cant stand the bow. Find it really difficult especially when doing the panther/leopard/tiger.

Even when using the Hunting crafts.

Love the game though. I find taking the outposts the best bit. Plus anticipating where the reinforcements and vehicles come from and laying mines.

One of the best bits I had was at a crossroads I attacked a jeep and blew it up. Wave after wave of vehicles came until the crossroads was a complete scrap yard. Nine vehicles came until it stopped.
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Bow is immeasurably better with the marksman sight. Found it horrible without it. (Didn't try red dot).

After a while you can use the drop markings on it to get headhsots at pretty good range reliably.
 
varkanoid said:
I cant stand the bow. Find it really difficult especially when doing the panther/leopard/tiger.

Even when using the Hunting crafts.

Love the game though. I find taking the outposts the best bit. Plus anticipating where the reinforcements and vehicles come from and laying mines.

One of the best bits I had was at a crossroads I attacked a jeep and blew it up. Wave after wave of vehicles came until the crossroads was a complete scrap yard. Nine vehicles came until it stopped.
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yea i dont use the bow either, i use the SMG and the Assult rifle only, plus 2 sniper rifles of course, i play exactly the same as you, i hang around at crossroads in a nearby hut.

the game spawns vehicles like crazy at crossroads, it really is great fun, enemy camps are great for spawning too, especially if you use a non-silenced sniper. :D

as a pure shooter this game is way more fun than anything else, repetative yes, but it's perfect for tactics/ long range hits

it's stange, the game spawns much more when you've finished than when you're playing.... especially predators, i'm getting attacked all the time now, especially wild dogs/ boars/ Leopards.... the bow is too slow against these.

wherever you find loads of enemy AI, you now seem to get loads of Leopards as well and by God they're hard to spot, last night i destroyed 10 jeeps and was attacked by 3 leopards in one area, one of them killed me, one chased me into a hut but i escaped by jumping on the roof and shooting down on it, the game went totally spawn crazy, so i ran off just to escape it all, i was at that crossroads for 45 mins, killed about 40 guys ????
 
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Bow is all I used!

Once I got the hang of it i.e. arrow drop, taking into account the speed and distance of the moving object, I was far better with it than guns, felt like green arrow! :D :p

Once you get the bow skill upgrades, it is even better!
 
Skeeter said:
Are you doing the hunting and crafting?
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Yea, I'm 3 out of 4 upgrade on most things.

Mockingbird said:
Towers/checkpoints/hunting/revenge missions were my favourite parts TBH, but are ALL optional (except in a totorial sort of way). Ignore them and do the main quests - only difference will be you will have less free guns and more bad guys to run into, so probably spend more time hiding in bushes.

The main quest has a fairly stagnant bit around the middle but really picks up again later on.
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The problem is I fail with stealth somehow, I have no idea how to stealthily take out a lot of baddies if they are concentrated in a small area, if they're spread out like in some of the ''story'' missions I find it very easy to do takedowns, I can easily kill everyone without being detected.

Near outposts they all watch each other or stand near each other though, no idea how to pick them 1 by 1...

Craig R said:
Why are you doing them then? :confused:
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I hate not having a map or being randomly attacked :p.
 
snowdog said:
The problem is I fail with stealth somehow, I have no idea how to stealthily take out a lot of baddies if they are concentrated in a small area, if they're spread out like in some of the ''story'' missions I find it very easy to do takedowns, I can easily kill everyone without being detected.

Near outposts they all watch each other or stand near each other though, no idea how to pick them 1 by 1...
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It's a bit cheap, but I found that if you can get into cover, say a hill between you and the base, and the big powerful sniper rifle (.50 cal one), as long as you get out of sight as soon as you fire at an enemy, and keep doing that, you'll get a Stealth clear :D

Never mind that there's just been the noise of .50 cal sniper firing for 5 mins :p
 
snowdog said:
The problem is I fail with stealth somehow, I have no idea how to stealthily take out a lot of baddies if they are concentrated in a small area, if they're spread out like in some of the ''story'' missions I find it very easy to do takedowns, I can easily kill everyone without being detected.

Near outposts they all watch each other or stand near each other though, no idea how to pick them 1 by 1...
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Sometimes you have to watch them for a while before one of them moves away from the others while they have their backs turned. If you can silent headshot the loner so they fall behind cover, you can often avoid the others raising the alarm.

You can get peoples' attentions by throwing rocks - with a bit of practice you can do it so you either attract one person but not the next, or you can put them on opposite sides of a barrier, then take one out while his mates are out of LOS. All you need is a 2-second window to do a takedown-and-drag-away.

If they are REALLY clumped up, but there's cover near one edge, you can get close, chuck a rock beyond them, then chain-takedown the lot for LOTS of XP and large amounts of feeling-like-a-boss.

Other fun things: You can shoot out the alarm boxes (have to do all of them) or sneak up and disable them manually (just have to do one per camp to kill all the alarms). The guys will still run for the alarms, but when they get there you can hear them shouting "oh god, the alarm's broken" and so on.

Silenced weapon + animal crate = rampaging tiger/cassowary/dogs pack in the middle of the camp.
 
Mockingbird said:
Sometimes you have to watch them for a while before one of them moves away from the others while they have their backs turned. If you can silent headshot the loner so they fall behind cover, you can often avoid the others raising the alarm.

You can get peoples' attentions by throwing rocks - with a bit of practice you can do it so you either attract one person but not the next, or you can put them on opposite sides of a barrier, then take one out while his mates are out of LOS. All you need is a 2-second window to do a takedown-and-drag-away.

If they are REALLY clumped up, but there's cover near one edge, you can get close, chuck a rock beyond them, then chain-takedown the lot for LOTS of XP and large amounts of feeling-like-a-boss.

Other fun things: You can shoot out the alarm boxes (have to do all of them) or sneak up and disable them manually (just have to do one per camp to kill all the alarms). The guys will still run for the alarms, but when they get there you can hear them shouting "oh god, the alarm's broken" and so on.

Silenced weapon + animal crate = rampaging tiger/cassowary/dogs pack in the middle of the camp.
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This I did not know, I always ran to disable the alarm, I did not know I could pick them all off from a distance! That is something I'll try!

Also, I don't have a sniper with me atm, I can only carry 2 weapons ( one of the few things I didn't upgrade to lvl 3 or 4 yet) and as such I carry an assault rifle with reflex sights and a silenced SMG...
 
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