Dear Ubisoft,
Why do I have to keep doing the speed runs through the burning house? Those are not fun.
I play games to have fun. Boring, repetitive, difficult speed runs are not fun for me. They also take away my choice. I buy and play open world games because they are supposed to give me choices. How to approach missions. How to solve problems. Whether or not to attack a base or spend time hunting and fishing.
Boring, repetitive, difficult speed runs should be optional, not mandatory. I understand that some players enjoy that experience. I don't. Having it forced on me feels like extortion.
Please fix.
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Thank you,
MountainRiderAK
Can you elaborate on what exactly you are looking for Mountain?Originally Posted by MountainRiderAK Go to original post
Make the speed runs optional.Originally Posted by UbiFrostX Go to original post
I will be the first to admit that I am not very good at video games. However, I like to play them. When a game forces me into a difficult situation, I get frustrated.
I'll contrast the Far Cry 5 approach with another open world game that I've played: Ghost Recon Wildlands. I played that game a lot. There were a lot of very hard missions (for me). However, if I got stuck on something, I never felt like I had to keep doing it. I could always stop and do something else. If I couldn't complete a mission after several tries, I could go look for skill points, or weapons, or bonus medals, or documents. Or I could just drive around shooting stuff. The game never forced me to do anything. Ghost Recon Wildlands does have missions with timers, and I found those to be difficult. But I could just quit them and do something else. Then I could go back to them after leveling up my character.
Far Cry 5 kidnaps me while I am fishing and forces me to shoot people while running through a burning house. While I'm trying to make it through the burning house an insane person critiques my play and reminds me that there is a time limit that forces me to repeat the whole thing. Over and over. The only other option I have is to quit the game, possibly losing progress and accrued items.
Does that help you understand the problem?
By the way, were you being passive aggressive by quoting my entire message?
I don't know of anyone who liked these forced escapes (neither the forced aspect nor the timed) but what do people mean when they say 'fix'.Originally Posted by MountainRiderAK Go to original post
To me, only something that is broken needs fixing, and as these timed escapes are working exactly as intended, nothing needs 'fixing'. It would have been preferable to make them optional in some way, but that wouldn't involve fixing anything, it would mean changing the whole gameplay mechanics, not to mention the storyline.
I'd agree with boring and repetitive, but certainly not difficult. Never died or failed on any of them, except when I did it on purpose to go back and get more of the chain kills, death from above/below etc. You do have some choice in them as to which route you take through the first couple of rooms. But, I don't think any of us like being forced into doing them.Originally Posted by MountainRiderAK Go to original post
Come on now, be honest........, (ya don't collect Resistance Points "just" fishing - in fact fishing accumulates 0 RP)Originally Posted by MountainRiderAK Go to original post
There was bound to have been some killing, mayhem and Story or Side missions done in order to trigger your capture.
I die over and over again when I have to do them. As I said, I am not very good. Also, I have impaired short and long term memory, so I can't remember how to get out of the house. If there was no time limit, there would be no problem. It's really the time limit that causes me to die and have to repeat the mission 12 or more times.Originally Posted by Mr_Shadwell Go to original post
You never died? I must be a really bad gamer. I have cleared out cult bases in less time than it takes me to finish the speed run. In fact, I usually have to put down my controller and headset after the first 10 failures and take an hour long break.Originally Posted by Mr_Shadwell Go to original post
I sure don't. Maybe we should have a poll.Originally Posted by Mr_Shadwell Go to original post
I'm not in a hurry to finish the game, so sometimes I just start fishing. Then a plane spots me and starts shooting at me and kills me. Then I respawn. I try to fish some more. The game says a capture party is coming. I try to hide. The capture party shoots me in the leg with an arrow and I wake up to the speed run. I've been forced to do the speed run at least three times that I can remember.Originally Posted by mr_wilson1954 Go to original post
By the way, if there was a mode where I could just hunt and fish without being shot at or captured, I would play that. I think it's the best part of the game. In real life, I'm terrible at hunting and fishing. So the game allows me to do things that I can't do in real life. That's one of the reasons I enjoy video games: They allow me to do things I can't do in real life.
One thing I've never wanted to do in real life is escape a burning house while people try to kill me and a crazy man taunts me. So Far Cry 5 forces me to do something I would never want to do.
This game really puts the tears in Far Cry.