I am running at 800 x 600 with most of the eye candy turned on or at least at medium and I don't have much problems.
As far as quality, I really like this game, it has a decent story line, there are places you have to kill, but then there are others where you can bypass half the guards and just go to where you need to go.
The moving barrels, the ragdoll physics, the immense areas, the dynamic lighting, the effort at giving the public a SDK that is user friendly and usefull.
Overall I really like this game! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Notice the ATi card....GeForce cards= MAJOR problems.
I am running at 800 x 600 with most of the eye candy turned on or at least at medium and I don't have much problems.
As far as quality, I really like this game, it has a decent story line, there are places you have to kill, but then there are others where you can bypass half the guards and just go to where you need to go.
The moving barrels, the ragdoll physics, the immense areas, the dynamic lighting, the effort at giving the public a SDK that is user friendly and usefull.
Overall I really like this game! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Notice the ATi card....GeForce cards= MAJOR problems. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I'm running a geforce 4 (asus v7700) I have no problems running the game with everything maxed out in 1024x768x32, i sometimes get a millisecond of lag when I drive very fast and fire at the same time.
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The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Dunno who your responding to...
Here, I'll be more specific: GeForceFX 5600 256mb version. I can only run it on lowest settings on all, at 800x600x32. I have a 2.0 ghz P4. 1280MB RAM. I've got EVERYTHING, and the demos run terrible. The actual game may run better though.
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Movies run at 24 fps if I remember my media study class correctly (actually, it might be 48, but 50% of the frames are blank - I forget why).
60 fps is nice because if you get a sudden drop it's generally not noticable (like in HL you'll get 72fps in a hallway, then you see a turret farm and it's 40 or something). It stays clear no matter what you're doing or how the level looks.
Well me, the first time I tried to run the demo it moved at about .5 fps (seriously). Then the next time I started it (not sure why I gave it another chance), it ran pretty smooth. Setting are medium-ish, some are low, but I've only got 256mb of ram and a 128mb Radeon 9200 (2.0 ghz Athalon too).
Im going to ignore the graphics because my 2600XP+ with 32meg onboard gf4mx can run it on higher than average settings.
As for the gameplay: the combat parts are like going to school: you hate it, its boring (wow thats only the 1 millionth time i ran over 2 people who didn't jump out the way when i drove right into them), its utter bs (have to get a headshot to kill anything), and the only fun parts are talking to your friends (the physics engine, admiring the scenery, driving around, jumping off high cliffs).
The little and very important things make me want to cry: -apes that swing a mile away from you and still hit you. -apes that can leap? WTH??? -apes that do 50% damage per attack. -soldiers who 'hear' you when you are sneaking (crouch walking). -being able to drop your knife/pistol and pick up a gun. -walking huge distances. -enemies with endless suplies of rockets, sniper ammo. -not being able to save when you want. -not having any friends (it gets lonely [well there is that one time you have to babysit]) -vehicles being so weak. -not being able to fly a chopper, not being able to fly around the island.
Must be some dying hardware then. I run Farcry with a gf-fx 5600 on 1024/maxed settings, it runs around 60 fps and the occasial drop in indoor lightning areas.
Maybe it's because my system is a bit bigger but i doubt it's the graphics card...
I must say, farcry isn't the best game i've played :/ Graphics for me isn't what makes a great game. It's prolly made for selling the engine like quake etc. Only thing that's fun about it was flying the glider and shooting the fish and parrot birdy's lol
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ah, what wonderful misinformation. The human eye sees 25 or 30 fps movies as smooth because the film is blurred to look like fluid motion. The blur also happens in T.V. - 60-70 fps of "still" frames would seem fairly smooth (like playing a computer game), whereas in T.V.'s it can be recuded to 25fps because of the blur effects used.
On other premises, Far Cry is a great game - some people just enjoy judging things before they try them. Can't wait for the mods to come out for it, as some of them look really promising.
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Dunno who your responding to...
Here, I'll be more specific: GeForceFX 5600 256mb version. I can only run it on lowest settings on all, at 800x600x32. I have a 2.0 ghz P4. 1280MB RAM. I've got EVERYTHING, and the demos run terrible. The actual game may run better though. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> The full game does run much faster than the demo, and I'm afraid the GeForce 5600 is a bit of a con: it's a rubbish graphics card that is less powerful than a GeForce 4 Ti, but Nvidia have named it precisely to make a quick buck from a cheap product.
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Dunno who your responding to...
Here, I'll be more specific: GeForceFX 5600 256mb version. I can only run it on lowest settings on all, at 800x600x32. I have a 2.0 ghz P4. 1280MB RAM. I've got EVERYTHING, and the demos run terrible. The actual game may run better though. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> The full game does run much faster than the demo, and I'm afraid the GeForce 5600 is a bit of a con: it's a rubbish graphics card that is less powerful than a GeForce 4 Ti, but Nvidia have named it precisely to make a quick buck from a cheap product. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I WUB MY G4TI <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> , silly FX cards..... OWNED by ATI, for now at least
major bump because I'm just getting to playing this game now. very sweet looking with a good rig.
the game is SO hard though. Am I missing something? I'm playing on the next to easiest difficulty, and the first area is near impossible. I'm on the carrier. I'm climbing a ladder onto the deck of the carrier, where about 15 guys and a *helicopter* start shooting me immediately. I don't last 10 seconds no matter which way I go. is there, like, a pwn everyone key that I don't know about? or a stealth mode? there's a stealth meter but guys always see me from about 500 meters anyway so that's completely moot. I don't want to have to resort to a walkthrough for the early stages of a damn FPS game...
I'd love to see a video of this sequence on uber hard mode. I can't believe it would be possible to even pop your head over the top of the ladder without dying instantly.
<!--quoteo(post=1639523:date=Jul 18 2007, 09:18 PM:name=6john)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(6john @ Jul 18 2007, 09:18 PM) [snapback]1639523[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> stick to cover and dont go anywhere near the helicopter, pick people off from a distance. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> thanks <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> of course, not 5 minutes after I posted, I managed to clear the carrier effortlessly... I shot out the dude in the helicopter and then it became easy. I guess I should be thankful for a game that's actually challenging
Hmmm I play Far Cry at work, of course this is "Paradise Lost" so it's a <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/turret.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::sentry::" border="0" alt="turret.gif" /> -shooter action style game. Same graphics from the regular FC it seems so it looks pretty lame.
Just a couple of maps, a botted character set to a certain path, standard triggers when you get to a gun so enemies spawn and yeah.
Too bad it couldn't of used the new FC engine or else it would of been great!
<!--quoteo(post=1639532:date=Jul 18 2007, 10:29 PM:name=Drfuzzy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drfuzzy @ Jul 18 2007, 10:29 PM) [snapback]1639532[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I found farcry to be pretty easy other than the last few levels, ramping the jeep along the wall of the steep hill with lava was pretty damn hard. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> I must just suck then. I have never died this much in an FPS game, ever. HL2 and Doom3, medium difficulty, you could probably count my deaths on one hand. In Far Cry, I'm lucky if I *only* die 5 times in one encounter. you have to know where every soldier is beforehand or you're toast, and even if you do, they'll nail you with things like shooting you through a tent as if they have x-ray vision...
Use lean a lot, I played on one level below hardest and the later levels were a complete pain in the arse. Either move around a lot and pick them off without alerting everyone or find one good place to cover in and just lean out for a quick shot. Save rocket launchers for transport helicopters, when they open the hatch and soldiers are about to jump out shoot at it and everyone will die in the air. Look very carefully on the map and use all the special stuff you get, save often. Learn to prioritize enemies, big ######s with rocket launchers are easier to waste then snipers.
If it gets boring to die with little success try to do goofy stuff, like shooting down helicopters with mortars or ramming enemy boats, stealth kill with knife, throw a lot of grenades.
Far Cry plays a lot different than most shooters, since the idea is generally to stick to cover and be really stealthy. They made a big fuss about being able to approach things how you want, but really if you do anything other than "hide in the bushes" you're in for a really tough time.
Wut? Farcry's old :3 They nerfed the rocketlauncher in the last patch >:(, have to use the rightclick aim first before you can shoot. And I find the graphics and setting to be lovely, I wish they would put them <strike>dead or alive beach volleyball babes at the beaches</strike> err better AI in the game :3
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<!--quoteo(post=1639643:date=Jul 19 2007, 09:28 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jul 19 2007, 09:28 AM) [snapback]1639643[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Far Cry plays a lot different than most shooters, since the idea is generally to stick to cover and be really stealthy. They made a big fuss about being able to approach things how you want, but really if you do anything other than "hide in the bushes" you're in for a really tough time. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> And you're in for a really tough time even if you do hide in the bushes, since the AI is very buggy and will often spot your prone figure through several miles of thick brush for no reason at all.
Always remember to use the binoculars. Every time you get to a new area, just do a quick sweep with them and it'll make your life much, much easier.
<!--quoteo(post=1639664:date=Jul 19 2007, 10:54 AM:name=Pulse)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pulse @ Jul 19 2007, 10:54 AM) [snapback]1639664[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> And you're in for a really tough time even if you do hide in the bushes, since the AI is very buggy and will often spot your prone figure through several miles of thick brush for no reason at all.
Always remember to use the binoculars. Every time you get to a new area, just do a quick sweep with them and it'll make your life much, much easier. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I sort of remember them being oddly blind. They'd be right next to me and I'd run outside, cut one up real good with a machete, then run back in to the bush. I felt like a predator or something. Maybe like Predator.
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<!--quoteo(post=1639666:date=Jul 19 2007, 10:58 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jul 19 2007, 10:58 AM) [snapback]1639666[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I sort of remember them being oddly blind. They'd be right next to me and I'd run outside, cut one up real good with a machete, then run back in to the bush. I felt like a predator or something. Maybe like Predator. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes. It's very unpredictable, swinging back and forth between the two extremes like that.
Far Cry is seriously awesome. Well... At least until the evil space monkey mutants from an other dimension show up <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
Inspired by this thread, I too have started playing Farcry again. I must say my progress is infinitely quicker with the use of quicksaving. Having to replay the last 10 minutes of the game because I screwed up something just before the next checkpoint irked me. As did the fact that if you decided to attempt an area from an angle the developers hadn't expected, you might miss a checkpoint completely. I'm actually considering turning the difficulty up to challenging... but maybe I should wait until the big bad mutants before I do something silly like that.
I've gotten through another good chunk of the game without problem. it seems like there's some really hard parts mixed in with average to easy parts.
I've learned the value of throwing rocks. It's somewhat cheap, but especially in indoor areas you can really trick mobs into walking into a trap. throw a rock at a door and watch as they come through it single file to be slaughtered...
<!--quoteo(post=1639857:date=Jul 20 2007, 01:19 PM:name=sherpa)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sherpa @ Jul 20 2007, 01:19 PM) [snapback]1639857[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> got about half way through it, saw mutated monsters, stopped playing it.
so many good games go weird when sci-fi gets randomly thrown in -_- <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> I haven't decided how I feel about the mutants yet. It's pretty awesome as a straight-up jungle shooter vs. mercenaries, but if human mercs were the only targets, wouldn't that get really boring?
the mutants are scaring the crap out of me, too, which is always fun =p
it's an odd game... the world is so beautiful and artful... and it's also realistic, with realistic mercs... and then there's sci-fi/horror monsters thrown in and it gets scary sometimes... and throughout, the dialogue is cheesy and duke nukem-esque. so is it comedy? is it drama? is it sci-fi? is it horror? is it action? all of the above I guess.
apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's hard =p Custom PC rated it the 4th hardest game
I don't know how GTA:SA got on their list though. That game was not hard. Except if you were going for 100%, but that's just tedious, not really hard anyway.
I'm amazed they remembered Syndicate: American Revolt. now *that* game was impossible.
apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's hard =p Custom PC rated it the 4th hardest game <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Took me about 5 days to beat FarCry. 2 just for the last level.
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I am running at 800 x 600 with most of the eye candy turned on or at least at medium and I don't have much problems.
As far as quality, I really like this game, it has a decent story line, there are places you have to kill, but then there are others where you can bypass half the guards and just go to where you need to go.
The moving barrels, the ragdoll physics, the immense areas, the dynamic lighting, the effort at giving the public a SDK that is user friendly and usefull.
Overall I really like this game! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Notice the ATi card....GeForce cards= MAJOR problems.
I am running at 800 x 600 with most of the eye candy turned on or at least at medium and I don't have much problems.
As far as quality, I really like this game, it has a decent story line, there are places you have to kill, but then there are others where you can bypass half the guards and just go to where you need to go.
The moving barrels, the ragdoll physics, the immense areas, the dynamic lighting, the effort at giving the public a SDK that is user friendly and usefull.
Overall I really like this game! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Notice the ATi card....GeForce cards= MAJOR problems. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm running a geforce 4 (asus v7700) I have no problems running the game with everything maxed out in 1024x768x32, i sometimes get a millisecond of lag when I drive very fast and fire at the same time.
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The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dunno who your responding to...
Here, I'll be more specific: GeForceFX 5600 256mb version. I can only run it on lowest settings on all, at 800x600x32. I have a 2.0 ghz P4. 1280MB RAM. I've got EVERYTHING, and the demos run terrible. The actual game may run better though.
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Movies run at 24 fps if I remember my media study class correctly (actually, it might be 48, but 50% of the frames are blank - I forget why).
60 fps is nice because if you get a sudden drop it's generally not noticable (like in HL you'll get 72fps in a hallway, then you see a turret farm and it's 40 or something). It stays clear no matter what you're doing or how the level looks.
Well me, the first time I tried to run the demo it moved at about .5 fps (seriously). Then the next time I started it (not sure why I gave it another chance), it ran pretty smooth. Setting are medium-ish, some are low, but I've only got 256mb of ram and a 128mb Radeon 9200 (2.0 ghz Athalon too).
As for the gameplay: the combat parts are like going to school: you hate it, its boring (wow thats only the 1 millionth time i ran over 2 people who didn't jump out the way when i drove right into them), its utter bs (have to get a headshot to kill anything), and the only fun parts are talking to your friends (the physics engine, admiring the scenery, driving around, jumping off high cliffs).
The little and very important things make me want to cry:
-apes that swing a mile away from you and still hit you.
-apes that can leap? WTH???
-apes that do 50% damage per attack.
-soldiers who 'hear' you when you are sneaking (crouch walking).
-being able to drop your knife/pistol and pick up a gun.
-walking huge distances.
-enemies with endless suplies of rockets, sniper ammo.
-not being able to save when you want.
-not having any friends (it gets lonely [well there is that one time you have to babysit])
-vehicles being so weak.
-not being able to fly a chopper, not being able to fly around the island.
Must be some dying hardware then.
I run Farcry with a gf-fx 5600 on 1024/maxed settings, it runs around 60 fps and the occasial drop in indoor lightning areas.
Maybe it's because my system is a bit bigger but i doubt it's the graphics card...
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I must say, farcry isn't the best game i've played :/
Graphics for me isn't what makes a great game.
It's prolly made for selling the engine like quake etc.
Only thing that's fun about it was flying the glider and shooting the fish and parrot birdy's lol
Ah, what wonderful misinformation. The human eye sees 25 or 30 fps movies as smooth because the film is blurred to look like fluid motion. The blur also happens in T.V. - 60-70 fps of "still" frames would seem fairly smooth (like playing a computer game), whereas in T.V.'s it can be recuded to 25fps because of the blur effects used.
On other premises, Far Cry is a great game - some people just enjoy judging things before they try them. Can't wait for the mods to come out for it, as some of them look really promising.
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dunno who your responding to...
Here, I'll be more specific: GeForceFX 5600 256mb version. I can only run it on lowest settings on all, at 800x600x32. I have a 2.0 ghz P4. 1280MB RAM. I've got EVERYTHING, and the demos run terrible. The actual game may run better though. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The full game does run much faster than the demo, and I'm afraid the GeForce 5600 is a bit of a con: it's a rubbish graphics card that is less powerful than a GeForce 4 Ti, but Nvidia have named it precisely to make a quick buck from a cheap product.
The human eye picks up anything about 20-25 as fairly smooth motion. You're TV's play in this range, if you didn't know that. Just cuz you're not getting 212 FPS doesn't mean it's crap. I'm sorry but it kinda irks me, this and when people start complaining that their ONLY downloading at 500KBps, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dunno who your responding to...
Here, I'll be more specific: GeForceFX 5600 256mb version. I can only run it on lowest settings on all, at 800x600x32. I have a 2.0 ghz P4. 1280MB RAM. I've got EVERYTHING, and the demos run terrible. The actual game may run better though. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The full game does run much faster than the demo, and I'm afraid the GeForce 5600 is a bit of a con: it's a rubbish graphics card that is less powerful than a GeForce 4 Ti, but Nvidia have named it precisely to make a quick buck from a cheap product. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I WUB MY G4TI <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> , silly FX cards..... OWNED by ATI, for now at least
the game is SO hard though. Am I missing something? I'm playing on the next to easiest difficulty, and the first area is near impossible. I'm on the carrier. I'm climbing a ladder onto the deck of the carrier, where about 15 guys and a *helicopter* start shooting me immediately. I don't last 10 seconds no matter which way I go. is there, like, a pwn everyone key that I don't know about? or a stealth mode? there's a stealth meter but guys always see me from about 500 meters anyway so that's completely moot. I don't want to have to resort to a walkthrough for the early stages of a damn FPS game...
I'd love to see a video of this sequence on uber hard mode. I can't believe it would be possible to even pop your head over the top of the ladder without dying instantly.
stick to cover and dont go anywhere near the helicopter, pick people off from a distance.
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thanks <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> of course, not 5 minutes after I posted, I managed to clear the carrier effortlessly... I shot out the dude in the helicopter and then it became easy. I guess I should be thankful for a game that's actually challenging
Just a couple of maps, a botted character set to a certain path, standard triggers when you get to a gun so enemies spawn and yeah.
Too bad it couldn't of used the new FC engine or else it would of been great!
I found farcry to be pretty easy other than the last few levels, ramping the jeep along the wall of the steep hill with lava was pretty damn hard.
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I must just suck then. I have never died this much in an FPS game, ever. HL2 and Doom3, medium difficulty, you could probably count my deaths on one hand. In Far Cry, I'm lucky if I *only* die 5 times in one encounter. you have to know where every soldier is beforehand or you're toast, and even if you do, they'll nail you with things like shooting you through a tent as if they have x-ray vision...
If it gets boring to die with little success try to do goofy stuff, like shooting down helicopters with mortars or ramming enemy boats, stealth kill with knife, throw a lot of grenades.
They nerfed the rocketlauncher in the last patch >:(, have to use the rightclick aim first before you can shoot.
And I find the graphics and setting to be lovely, I wish they would put them <strike>dead or alive beach volleyball babes at the beaches</strike> err better AI in the game :3
Far Cry plays a lot different than most shooters, since the idea is generally to stick to cover and be really stealthy. They made a big fuss about being able to approach things how you want, but really if you do anything other than "hide in the bushes" you're in for a really tough time.
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And you're in for a really tough time even if you do hide in the bushes, since the AI is very buggy and will often spot your prone figure through several miles of thick brush for no reason at all.
Always remember to use the binoculars. Every time you get to a new area, just do a quick sweep with them and it'll make your life much, much easier.
And you're in for a really tough time even if you do hide in the bushes, since the AI is very buggy and will often spot your prone figure through several miles of thick brush for no reason at all.
Always remember to use the binoculars. Every time you get to a new area, just do a quick sweep with them and it'll make your life much, much easier.
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I sort of remember them being oddly blind. They'd be right next to me and I'd run outside, cut one up real good with a machete, then run back in to the bush. I felt like a predator or something. Maybe like Predator.
I sort of remember them being oddly blind. They'd be right next to me and I'd run outside, cut one up real good with a machete, then run back in to the bush. I felt like a predator or something. Maybe like Predator.
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Yes. It's very unpredictable, swinging back and forth between the two extremes like that.
I've learned the value of throwing rocks. It's somewhat cheap, but especially in indoor areas you can really trick mobs into walking into a trap. throw a rock at a door and watch as they come through it single file to be slaughtered...
so many good games go weird when sci-fi gets randomly thrown in -_-
got about half way through it, saw mutated monsters, stopped playing it.
so many good games go weird when sci-fi gets randomly thrown in -_-
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I haven't decided how I feel about the mutants yet. It's pretty awesome as a straight-up jungle shooter vs. mercenaries, but if human mercs were the only targets, wouldn't that get really boring?
the mutants are scaring the crap out of me, too, which is always fun =p
it's an odd game... the world is so beautiful and artful... and it's also realistic, with realistic mercs... and then there's sci-fi/horror monsters thrown in and it gets scary sometimes... and throughout, the dialogue is cheesy and duke nukem-esque. so is it comedy? is it drama? is it sci-fi? is it horror? is it action? all of the above I guess.
apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's hard =p Custom PC rated it the 4th hardest game
I don't know how GTA:SA got on their list though. That game was not hard. Except if you were going for 100%, but that's just tedious, not really hard anyway.
I'm amazed they remembered Syndicate: American Revolt. now *that* game was impossible.
<a href="http://www.custompc.co.uk/handsonguides/2163/number-04---far-cry/" target="_blank">http://www.custompc.co.uk/handsonguides/21...r-04---far-cry/</a>
apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's hard =p Custom PC rated it the 4th hardest game
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Took me about 5 days to beat FarCry. 2 just for the last level.
I ended up hearding the heavy missile bots ;D