Being a 46-year vet of PC industry, a long time Fallout Modding maniac, I got to say, UBISOFT How Could You !!!
The NPC just appear, behind you, above you, around you, Look down a road, see Resistance Roadblock, turn head 45 %, turn back, A convoy Utes with .50 cal CAN appear between you & roadblock, or a Aircraft in Sky, that are prone for attack in that bit of sky that was clear a second ago, until you did a scan of view ...
People with no shirt on, & green glow, you can shoot at least 6 times in the head b4 they die ... People who wear T-Shirts & Get shot in the Chest, don't do well, these guys seem to able handle having their Heart Shredded by Bullets, I have seen people on drugs, I am sorry Ubisoft there is nothing in drugs that make you bulletproof, you may think it, but it don't work ... ( Kalashnikov would have a bigger warranty department if they failed to penetrate a T-Shirt ....)
So the "Storyline" is absolute crap because they are not holding areas, not Patrolling, NOT HUNTING YOU (mostly), they just appear ...
THIS IS THE Weakness Sloppiest Half Arsed A.I Programming I have seen for a while ...
UBISOFT, Your 3D worlds are great, I love Sturmovik, Silent Hunter, you do the World Well, Also Vehicles & Physics are fairly well covered, but then you Leave it to Arcade Mode, hoping Online/Multi-Players like it, BUT Story of the Game & the A.I, is a farce, so not as enticing as some ...
THEN this "Open-World" makes you do force QUESTS, which you need Obviously a lot of Drugs to understand, I think a way out or bypass would nice, But I would have KILLED all the SEEDS, & their "flock", at the Church, in opening Credits, bugger the Sheriff & Marshall being angry, it would have saved time ...
I am a long time customer of Ubisoft, this is the only Time I have felt Ripped OFF by Ubisoft, Sad ...
I Know Fallout 3 is 10 years Old, has it's own "quirks", but it had a STORYLINE & NPC's that react to you, real-time, MOSTLY, these older modded to hilt titles, it can still "cut a rug" on a Good PC, Still the Title of, FLOP of the DECADE, is still open for FARCRY5 ... ( Pity Great Graphics!)
One reason I liked Far Cry was the ability to do as I want. Open world. Now these ridiculous capture timed escapes have killed it for me. What a shame. My reflexes and timing are not the best and after trying about ten times per capture I am giving up and moving on, unless someone comes up with a way to bypass them. How very sad.
Half of those guys are high as ****. Don't be surprised they're very convinced about their own invincibility.Originally Posted by James_T_Quirk Go to original post
But, I gotta say, it looks like someone split the writing and concept design between three groups and only people responsible for Holland Valley managed to do something that doesn't piss you off outright.
You know what's the root of the entire concept sucking? Linking the Resistance bar to story progress. You can screw around, hit convoys, do side missions like running over deer and ****, and suddenly you're being kidnapped off the top of a cellular tower, or balling trips in the middle of the wilderness. Like, what the **** is even going on? With John, the matter's simple, he's the mundane televangelist/robber baron guy, you can go meet him in the church at your leisure, then shoot his plane down and drop his stupid *** when he parachutes out. But yesterday, I did Jacob's boss fight and Sweet Baby Ray, that trippy **** outta nowhere is too much.
And where Ubisoft finally had a good idea with ditching the radio tower idea and having stuff revealed by exploring, reading notes and talking to people, they pissed it away by that idiotic Resistance bar idea and constant kidnappings. Hell, I did a livestream where Jacob sends his hunters after me... and I managed to drop two teams of them before the game decided to just bag me and haul me away for the trippy section.
Mike_Sterling, Yes, but if I unload half a clip, point blank into the chest, I suspect, with NO Blood being pumped, they should stop kicking ...
I cannot believe this game, Flying at 1000' (it seems), I can still be shot with a hypo, to capture me, I escaped a couple of "hunting Parties", Fast travelled to Dutch's Island, swam into & Hid in Boat shed, (front door still locked), a minute later I heard the sound of me being darted, NO Voices, or baddies about, So Where I can't be seen, or have any Cultist alive around, they still "manage" to grab you ..
The final Fight with "Father", is a Joke, I landed via parachute at his church door, with SMG in my hands (scorpion), he is there in trousers, no shirt, AND I DON"T GET TO JUST SHOOT the Maniac ... Later, When he is standing next to me, looking at me, I am tapping the "f" key the whole time wanting to twist his head off ...
AND now after the big nuke scene, the place hasn't changed, only loading screen title graphics, but Hope County is really OK, so not good enough, if they will let you play on after nukes hit, then MAYBE they should have made a NUKED MAP ...
I am sorry That Ubisoft couldn't find an AI Programmer, it shows .. That's why the Game has to "Cheat" against you, it's AI mechanics are not up to the JOB, So they just "NAB" you. Same as why Cultist don't really travel around map, they just appear near you. UNLIKE say 10 years Old Fallout 3 or NV (TTW), Modded, in which at least, AI DO hunt you, but you can stop them, if your luck/skill holds out ..
I have Finished the Game in a week, but I am sad because it's a good engine, just joke AI & scripting by a Cultist Angel, It is the most frustrating Game, I have ever played, So many good things about it, but Scripting & Plot written by Halfwits ..
It is annoying, hopefully, I will refrain from venting my anger on Next Brain Dead Christain or Regilous NUT, that knocks on my Door ...
It really is atrocious. You would have thought that someone in the writing team would have said "you think being kidnapped 9 times is a bit much?" - but either they had no better ideas or just didnt care.
Thats without mentioning that this mechanic *constantly* pulls you out of the game, regardless of what you are doing.
Not only that, but if you go too far down the "resistance/capture" meter - some missions are auto-completed for you! Its not like we play open-world sandbox games to explore, do things at our pace and complete everything when/how/if we want.
Who thought that any of this was a good idea?
I think I'm on my 6th or 7th time (maybe more?) of being randomly drugged and put in a cage for all of 20 seconds, only to have to run that stupid gauntlet YET AGAIN to get out. Now, I start with only 16 seconds?? After EIGHT attempts and failing (sorry, maybe I'm just not a "leet" enough gamer), I finally came here to vent about and HOPE it gets heard by Ubisoft.
I have already been extremely frustrated by this "forced loop" play in an otherwise excellent and 'open world' game… but now it's just ridiculous. I'm stuck. Can't finish the "timed run" so I'm damned for all eternity to play this stupid loop? What a waste of an otherwise great game.
I'm on the verge of bringing the game back and trading in for something else. It's a shame, really. I've enjoyed (most of) the rest of the game, the humor, the characters. This mechanic feels like someone on the design team went on a power trip.
It's a game wrecker, that's for sure!
I completely agree to this. The whole capturing or getting interrupted during a mission or hunt is really annoying.Originally Posted by Oscworth Go to original post
Story really sucks. Why? Oh, another religious crap cult... Always with the religion!!!!
And then there´s the ending(s)... Really? No matter your choice, it´s messed up, there is no good ending in this game.
To be honest, I were looking forward to kicking some redneck cultists, but this is just... L A M E!
it's ridiculous that in an open world game I am stuck in a stupid loop where I can't play the game I paid good money for because I am stuck trying to get out of a stupid shoot house... I'm 55 years old and have a real job... I don't want to deal with impossible challenges... this is supposed to be fun not impossible... I feel totally ripped off because I literally cannot get outa that stupid house in the time given... now I can't play the game I bought because the designers thought that these capture missions were a good idea...