New Changes from FC3 to FC4
ELEPHANTS
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Far Cry 4 creative director Alex Hutchinson told OutsideXbox that a C4 upgrade lets you stick the explosives on random surfaces. For example, you can stick C4 on the back of an elephant and then set it on enemies. Once the elephant reaches the hostiles, you can detonate the explosive.
The elephant is ride-able and can be used as a battering ram, it will mow down enemy soldiers, smash through doors and smack vehicles out of it's way - possibly the most powerful weapon in the game when alive.
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You simply walk up to an elephant where you will receive a prompt - that allows you to mount the animal and from there you control the direction the animal goes in - You can also shoot while riding the animal.
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It is possible to get more than one elephant to cause carnage, but make sure they are attacking your enemies and not you - as for skinning these animals (with the Elephant they can be killed but not skinned)
Wingsuit is back and with it comes the new grappling hook
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Dan Hay says in an interview that in FC3 the wingsuit didn't become available until quite far through the story - this time around they will be available a lot earlier in the game.
With the new setting we can eventually get to heights of around 14 thousand feet where we can leap off and use the wingsuit from areas all around this new deadly playground.
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This new grappling hook will help us to get around some of the more difficult areas that we will encounter.
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It is now possible to move across specific areas designed to work with the grappling hook, you can climb up / down or move from side to side & when needed swing to the other side.
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KICK
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This new feature allows us to kick things over, so far we have only seen this new feature work with barrels - you can place C4 onto a barrel
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then kick the barrel into the direction of the enemy
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with a bit of luck if you get the timing & direction right you might take out all 3 below.
A question would be "does Kick work in MP and can we use C4 in MP" ?
BUZZER & GUNS FOR HIRE
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The above image is from this new COOP session which has been shown called "Guns For Hire" basically one other player can be invited into your game in the single player world, all missions and progress stops and you are both free to roam around and have a tear up coop style.
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The new flying machine is referred to as the BUZZER, one player flies it and another can climb on it seems
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I am sure we will be able to drop Molotov and C4 packages down on people and also shoot any other weapon from up in the sky.
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If you are on PS3 or PS4 and have Playstation Plus you can be invited into a game of FC4 via the Keys To Kyrat method which is exclusive to Sony's platform - it involves a rather large download but the length of time they say will be significant enough for you to make your mind up on the game, Story Missions are locked but the open world is there to explore, you can also invite any player online to help you at any time in the single player game - if you are on your own this also works with A.I. but if you have been playing the single player game making sloppy / bad choices then the level of the A.I. might not be as helpful as you hoped.
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In Coop we get to choose either Ajay Ghale or Hurk (who was in FC3)
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Check out the sounds at 02:15 when the Buzzer get's damaged with white smoke pouring out - very nice.
WILDLIFE
There is talk of a snow leopard, honey badgers, Demon Fish and many more new additions - the one that could be seen in some of the E3 videos is this Eagle.
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We can now be attacked from above by these birds apparently.
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This I found very interesting, a bird just swoops down and grabs what looks like a goat and then carries it away - all non scripted, the animals can be in the right area and they do their own thing.
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Is that a Honey Badger attacking Hurk in the image above ?
New Weapon
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The crossbow is a new weapon which fires 2 arrows at a time, looks great.
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The Bow is still in the game and has been confirmed so fear not
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The Harpoon Gun which was featured as a Bonus when purchasing the game at some retailers, I am sure this will become available at some point in the game anyway.
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As DLC in Far Cry 2 (Fortunes map pack) we got a similar Sawn Off Shotgun - loved that weapon for any close up action - glad to see it back.
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The Mortar returns (I loved this in FC2 even though it was hard to aim)
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Now things are so much easier as we get a birds eye view from above when firing so you can do some serious damage with this weapon if you need to.
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I am sure there are a lot more new weapons in FC4 as well as some of the classics from the previous games.
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New Grenade Launcher ?
Shooting While Driving
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We can now shoot while driving which is how it used to be in the early Far Cry games, so expect the controls on driving to be a little different from FC2 / FC3 - This is excellent news, I believe the same applies to the enemy they can also shoot while driving - Some A.I. can swim and climb also so things should be a lot more interesting now.