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    To the Devs - thank you!

    It's hard to believe this game has been out for a year already. I'm not sure if this forum is monitored much anymore, but if it is, I just wanted to say thank you to the dev team. Primal is my favorite game, probably of all time.

    I'm somewhat of an amateur paleontologist, or at least I've long studied and been fascinated by our planet's natural history. As a kid, I was, like so many kids, very into dinosaurs. Lately, in my post-college years, I've been reading a lot more about the Pleistocene, and Ice Age megafauna in particular. I've also been an avid fan of open-world Ubisoft games: Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, etc. So when I saw that a game was coming out featuring both: whoa, mind blown.

    I was a little worried, at first, given that it's a video game, that the game would be too unrealistic for my taste. Far Cry is an FPS, so I was worried there would be a dart shooting machine gun, or something of the sort. Now, I'm not calling the final product a simulation by any means, and obviously, the devs took some liberties for the sake of playability, but all of the species that are in the game co-existed in Europe with humans during the last Ice Age (sabertooth cats, mammoths, wooly rhinos, cave lions, jaguars, etc. - with the exception of the Bitefish, which is based on an African species, I think, and not known from Europe) and the fact that the tribes speak Proto-Proto-Indo-European is what really sold me.

    I could tell that the Udam represented a relic population of Cro-Magnons who heavily interbread with Neanderthals (what geneticists refer to as "Old Europe") and the Wenja and Izila are the invading populations of Indo-Europeans from the Eurasian Steppe and Mesopotamia, respectively. Very well done.

    You guys took a big risk making an FPS with zero firearms. Thank you for doing so.
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    Bump.
    Of course there are certain points of the game where historical or locational issues are presented, but its total atmosphere is a bought me. Its my favorite game, and also I have to say a big thanks for the Dev team.
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    Yes, technically they used the American Smilodon for the sabertooth rather than the European Megantereon, which was smaller, and there were no Dire wolves in Europe, just regular wolves, and there were no Indo-Europeans in Central Europe by 10,000 B.C., and the giant red cedars would have never gotten that tall because the mammoths would have pushed them over or ate them, but still - there are no Tyrannosaurs and no dart-shooting machine guns, so I still give it an A for accuracy.

    And like you say, it's all about atmosphere. Turn the HUD off + pop some headphones on = immersion.

    Now, if we can only convince them to make a Far Cry Primal 2. Set it in Ice Age North America- Woolly Mammoths, Columbian Mammoths, Smilodon, American lions, dire wolves, giant ground sloths, long-necked camels, Glyptodon, giant beavers, short-faced bears. Just think how awesome it would be to do battle with an armored Glyptodon!
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    Agreed! It's the best Far Cry by a long way so far. Ubi get a lot of stick and they really don't deserve it. You can see the love poured into their games, especially Primal. They invented 3 dialects for the tribes for crying out loud. Show me one other developer who goes to that much trouble for the sake of atmosphere and immersion!

    Football is no longer "The Beautiful Game". In my eyes, that title now belongs to Far Cry Primal.
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    Originally Posted by DefiledDragon Go to original post
    Agreed! It's the best Far Cry by a long way so far. Ubi get a lot of stick and they really don't deserve it. You can see the love poured into their games, especially Primal. They invented 3 dialects for the tribes for crying out loud. Show me one other developer who goes to that much trouble for the sake of atmosphere and immersion!

    Football is no longer "The Beautiful Game". In my eyes, that title now belongs to Far Cry Primal.
    "get a lot of stick"... I've never heard that expression before. I'm guessing it's meaning is similar to getting flak or grief? Interesting turn of phrase.

    About FCP I disagree about this being the best far cry, I felt primal was a bit of a dud. It was fun for a time but I put it down alot quicker than I did 3 or 4. And Ubi didn't invent 3 entire languages or anything, they hired a couple linguist experts to re-create early caveman speak from a lot of pre-existing knowledge, not to dismiss it as trivial but not exactly the massive undertaking you make it out to be. I personally think Primal was a step in the wrong direction and hope that these sort of spin-off titles don't become the norm or are at least staggered in release by numbered entries more in line with the likes of 3 & 4....
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    I also have a great interest in prehistoric life, so I got a lot of joy from this game.

    My favorite way to play the game is with expert survival permadeath on, because then I really feel like I'm a pleistocene caveman who could be attacked by a big cat, bear, or wolf at any moment.

    I always keep a river, cliff, or rocks nearby so I can make a quick escape. It feels so real it gives me an adrenaline rush.

    I just wish the game had more weather effects
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