i bought the game day 1 and didn't download any patches until later

my real review of far cry 5 will start with shame on ubi soft for paying off video game media to give their game positive reviews , i dont hate far cry 5 but this game is at least 95 % trash , its an insult to my intelligence , its a waist of my time , and money , we will start with some of the good , and let me say i really hope they update this game multiple times and not just release paid dlc , but overhaul the game as much as possible , and delete the story or add a new mode that just gives something like an endless amount of missions .

visuals : , some of the visuals are really nice the scenes are really cool , the bullet physics are cool but the bullets do snap to the target making it feel cheap and clumsy when shooting , , and that it the buddy system is ok , but again when it comes to farcry it seems like they want to put things in the game that defeat the purpose of the game , in farcry 4 they added a heli that allowed you to open up every bell tower without even trying , the buddies just allow you to liberate bases without even engaging in combat , im surprised they didn't add drones and tech from watch dogs .

now lets get into THE BAD , the first that really makes me upset is the arcade mode being tied to online only play and only being able to unlock guns from farcry 4 by playing online , this is just a really pathetic attempt to get people playing the game to generate more cash for the company , holding content hostage and forcing people to play online is not something id expect from a heavy single player game , whats next online only call of duty , ????oh wait !!!!!!!

im so disappointing in this game , its really makes me wonder how qualified a person must to work in the game industry , or is there some gaming Illuminati where you bend over a few times as they diddle you for a job , one quick example im going to point out is a prepper stash that's under a water fall , in this stash there is two lit lamps food water a mattress in a puddle of water , and two blank skeletons , like how long would these people have been there dead in the stash spot for them to fully decompose , no clothes , just bones in a cave , it makes me wonder just who let this game ship , and why they would design prep stashed that no one was guarding or occupying , its just like FC5 is just jumbled together and not well thought out at all in any way , that small detail ruined the entire point of prepper stashes and broke the immersion , and immersion is what FC is all about .

moving on to weapon selection , WHAT HAPPENED THERE UBI?????!!!!! did you run out of money , again not well thought out at all , i was expecting more weapons to be added at the half way point like 4 , and 3 , but nope , you can literally unlock all the weapons you will need and can get in less than 24 hours , 1 day is all it took for me to get the best weapons , and there is micro transactions to help you , like if you need help or strategy in FC5 you probably should not be playing videos games , this game feels like it was made by 5 year old for 3 year olds , IT IS EXTRA PATHETIC IN EVERY WAY , most of your engagement distances are long you are in the fields most of the time , the longer range weapons are going to rule you need a shot gun maybe once or twice the entire game , there is no challenge , even hard mode just has you die easier .
there are pointless shot guns and sub machine guns in the game , when we have so many newer modern choices in weaponry , like why would i choose a 9mm mp5 when i have a cqb rifle , and where is the kriss vector 45 acp there are 3 mp5s that no one cares about, but no sigs or even the uzi didnt make the cut , and again who needs a sub machine gun at 500 plus yards , where is the desert eagle ? the weapon selection is beyond sad 65 plus dollars for this game and it doesn't even compare to FC2

i should wrap this up with the story , and its not going to be god , i will try to do this without every word being a curse , but this story is 18 baggilion percent dumdumdiddaaay , who hired the dude or dudet that wrote this filth , , but ok i did like the apocalyptic tones , but the entire story makes no sense , you get locked into these stupid cut scene you cant skip , which is unacceptable , i don't even care about the story right from he first mission im already pissed off , there are so many holes in the plot , is there even a point to pointing them out , absolute terrible job on the story , and they didnt even give a main character voice , the devs try to hide behind terrible game development choices by calling them features , and they think we wont notice , unbelievable that a game made is 2018 cant even compare to 2 or 3 , the side missions are boring pointless and feel stupid , the only point to the side missions are to upgrade your character but on first play through you wont know who holds what upgrades , so on second play through you just do those missions get the upgrade , but really the story and all the mission feel pointless once you beat the game , you GET NOTHING , no after math its typical cheap shotty dev work there is no point to the story , and they are trying to promote arcade mode but that defeats the purpose of the single player game if i have to connect to the internet to extend my fun ,

over all im really just not feeling this game , not out of hate but just because its feels dumb and cheap , there is no progression to the hunting system , i can literally find a traveling shop , throw bait skin animals make over 100,000 in less then an hour buy all the weapons i need , and get enough perks to unlock the features i need , and the story is not good enough to make me want to play over and over , like in 3 or 4 you had some real different paths you can take , i must be missing something because in 5 i can open the map or unlock characters in any order but the story will be the same im captured like 8 times and escape , i am brainwashed by 2 people and turned into a killer i kill a dude i dont even know or care about , i mean come on , the only reason i bought FC5 was to ply fc3 again , other than that this was a really weak effort and i wont support this title i should demand a refund but i know that will never happen , its just another nail in the coffin of the industry that will never survive, well i hope you devs read this and understand how stupid FC5 is and maybe next time you wont publish a watered down brain dead game .....

final notes the update tweaks make the game more annoying , and animals should be more deadly every animal attack is predicable you always have a chance to escape and shoot a damn grizzly or cougar , and they should be able to one shot you dead , stalk and ambush you, i just roll around on foot sniping planes sneaking up on the so called elite hunters , this game is just so UUUUUHHGGGGGGGG, its wrong in every way ...

AND ONE LAST THING , ok they water down the game mechanics and take out the loot animations , but they don't change the weapon pick up button so every time i try to loot a body im picking up a weapon , that's more annoying than loot animation by far ....... CRY is what this game makes me do !!!!