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  1. #1

    So the editor is back !?!

    Hello ,

    (note : my english is horrible , i know !)

    I loved the farcry map editor on farcry 2
    endless fun and a perfect lobby system granted us infinite gameplay
    However on farcry 3 they did horrific changes to the map editing and lobby system
    the 'map editing' community died there and fast!
    That's why i didnt bought any farcry game's anymore after fc3
    But after seeing a vid on youtube it appears ubisoft decided to finaly bring back the map editing to it's glory days
    i guess
    However i don't know didnt bought farcry 5 so......
    After seeing the video it looked pretty damn good , they decided to bring back the mp , vehicles , etc... and even more.
    But what about the lobby system?
    and what about the community ?
    is it still big enough to create maps for them that takes plenty of time to create?
    I created many maps on farcry 2 and i reaaly miss the good old farcry 2 days seeing people enjoying my maps!!!!!
    All info about this editor and lobby system is welcome
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    The map editor is better then previous games. It has generic pieces of all different sizes to craft your own buildings. Each pieces has tons of different paint jobs of brick and what not. Down side is game is 5vs5, no respawning vehicles and only death match or team death match. So it gets old fast. Also they finally have host your own lobby. They didn't first day. They had some odd ball of random lottery picking and voting. Also still the same as previous map editors. Awesome maps get buried fast.

    Also maybe 12 lobbies up but only about 3 or 4 full servers rest are private 2 player test servers usually. Takes way to long to start your own lobby and get it full. First day the new lobby system patch came out. I sat 30 minutes with no one joining. So I left to play a different game. Oh and water falls are bit dull on here. Not like previous far cry prefab ones like previous games. Its like tiny water sprinkling. They got the sounds way to loud.

    Also if you use special fx like fire and what not around 70% or higher you wont get explosions fx at all in your maps. So have to keep the fx down a bit. Also there is a redhorn 8000B error yet. Which is a terrain bug which wont let you publish your maps. Its cause if you got ground raised at edge of the canvas.

    Nice map editor. But two boring game modes to pick from and no respawning vehicles make it to where you need to make it medium to small fish bowl maps. Also 5vs5 is a bit lacking this day in age when use to GTA5 or Battlefields or any other big games. So you have to make tiny Gears of war or COD like maps. Also spending like 50+ hours making a awesome map. Still a great chance its buried and barely gets over 200 plays. Unless you got a big club or a ton of friends that own this game then your golden. But still a lack of game modes was the nail in the coffin first couple months for me.
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    Thanks for the feedback,

    -5 vs 5 isn't great but i can live with that.
    -no respawning vehicles is bad news, However if the spawning works like farcry 2 you can still create big maps , the spawning off farcry 3 was more like cod spawning
    i disliked that alot , taking away the gameplay i wanted on my maps.
    - you can host ur own lobby again , that is great news really awesome , the fact that players don't join is because the player that host before you will recieve all the players that join a random public lobby. as long that player keeps hosting he gets all the players. The problem here is that there aren't many players playing farcry 5
    I remember hosting on farcry 2 it took 5 min to get a full lobby. But the player base was huge there. They screwed up and now they lost most off there players (like me)
    -12 lobby's is really sad for a game not that old , it just proves that many moved on to other games because ubi didnt like to listen to them.
    I'm on pc now and the numbers off people playing farcry 5 are very low , 2000 on pc that day. To think fallout 4 a much older game and only single player had 7500 players that day.
    -200 plays wow that isn't worth my time. Damn that's bad!!!
    - on farcry 2 u can create maps other than cod maps , having a bf1 gameplay feeling are a killzone feeling depending on the map u crated.
    Sadly since fc3 it's all cod feeling. Making the maps very boring no matter how good they are.

    Anyway , its a step in the good direction from ubisoft , the editor itself looks very good
    They just need to do something to get the player base back they once had and to keep them on there game.
    Hopefully they keep going foreworth instead of backworth again
    If so i maybe try farcry 6 in the future but i will do alot off research aout the editor and lobby system before buying it !
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    Originally Posted by ruthless_RS Go to original post
    Thanks for the feedback,

    -5 vs 5 isn't great but i can live with that.
    -no respawning vehicles is bad news, However if the spawning works like farcry 2 you can still create big maps , the spawning off farcry 3 was more like cod spawning
    i disliked that alot , taking away the gameplay i wanted on my maps.
    - you can host ur own lobby again , that is great news really awesome , the fact that players don't join is because the player that host before you will recieve all the players that join a random public lobby. as long that player keeps hosting he gets all the players. The problem here is that there aren't many players playing farcry 5
    I remember hosting on farcry 2 it took 5 min to get a full lobby. But the player base was huge there. They screwed up and now they lost most off there players (like me)
    -12 lobby's is really sad for a game not that old , it just proves that many moved on to other games because ubi didnt like to listen to them.
    I'm on pc now and the numbers off people playing farcry 5 are very low , 2000 on pc that day. To think fallout 4 a much older game and only single player had 7500 players that day.
    -200 plays wow that isn't worth my time. Damn that's bad!!!
    - on farcry 2 u can create maps other than cod maps , having a bf1 gameplay feeling are a killzone feeling depending on the map u crated.
    Sadly since fc3 it's all cod feeling. Making the maps very boring no matter how good they are.

    Anyway , its a step in the good direction from ubisoft , the editor itself looks very good
    They just need to do something to get the player base back they once had and to keep them on there game.
    Hopefully they keep going foreworth instead of backworth again
    If so i maybe try farcry 6 in the future but i will do alot off research aout the editor and lobby system before buying it !
    Yeah no respawning vehicles is a buzz kill for making larger maps. Also its player segregation with create a lobby and they still got the old voting system as well where random pile in and after each map 2 random players picked. Then they got a few seconds to hurry up and pick a map. Then entire room votes on them. So still a chance your map isn't picked in the voting process. Oh and about COD maps. Nuke town was made like a million times for XBOX. It got old fast. Also two boring game modes makes mapping stale as well. Also clipping errors and other random bugs. Besides the budget limit is a bit weak as well. Also like ya said 5vs5 we can compromise on, if they gave us respawning vehicles and domination or conquest like Battlefield.
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    Seeing you're on PC, you can bypass a lot of the limitations with my editormod.

    While it ain't perfect, you can address the respawning vehicles, budget limit and even script a basic objective game mode like "destroy the enemy base".

    But yeah, hopefully the next game will have proper game modes & ideally some more community-oriented features to find,play,share&give feedback on all the cool maps... I Wish.
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    Originally Posted by Steve64b Go to original post
    Seeing you're on PC, you can bypass a lot of the limitations with my editormod.

    While it ain't perfect, you can address the respawning vehicles, budget limit and even script a basic objective game mode like "destroy the enemy base".

    But yeah, hopefully the next game will have proper game modes & ideally some more community-oriented features to find,play,share&give feedback on all the cool maps... I Wish.


    We shouldn't have to "wish for" the next game to be better. They should be fixing this game. I barely got my monies worth out of this game. Bit odd I made more maps on FAR CRY 4 and bought that game on sale when it was old.

    UBISOFT is to lazy to patch in respawning vehicles and a domination mode. That's not asking for much. I'm pretty sure other mappers would appreciate this as well. Token of gesture of righting their wrongs. Instead they ditched us and made New Dawn. UBISOFT burnt quite a few bridges last 3 installments of this franchise. Hard to be gullible and comeback another try.
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    I played fc2 on ps3 , moved on to pc when ps4 came out.
    Got bored off the consoles freezing problems when playing big games.

    i downloaded radiant black to create zombi maps but man those tools are huge and limitless.(and yeah every year a new game people move on to the next one )
    good maps takes months to create including the learning progress off the tool.
    The simplicity off the farcry editor attracts a bigger audiance definitly on consoles as mod tools are rare there.
    so more people, more downloads for your maps
    it's also sad u need a third party tool to improve on a editor aswell

    thanks for the feedback Steve
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    Originally Posted by GRAW2ROBZ Go to original post
    We shouldn't have to "wish for" the next game to be better. They should be fixing this game. I barely got my monies worth out of this game. Bit odd I made more maps on FAR CRY 4 and bought that game on sale when it was old.

    UBISOFT is to lazy to patch in respawning vehicles and a domination mode. That's not asking for much. I'm pretty sure other mappers would appreciate this as well. Token of gesture of righting their wrongs. Instead they ditched us and made New Dawn. UBISOFT burnt quite a few bridges last 3 installments of this franchise. Hard to be gullible and comeback another try.
    fixing the game wil not save it , the damage is allready done.
    they wil not get more people by fixing farcry 5.
    A new farcry game that have everything the community wants and even more (from the realease) is the only thing they can do.
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    Only two full lobbies? Wow. Yeah the game is about dead. Game lasted one full year and a month. Goes to show a elite map editor doesn't shoulder the load like the fun times of FAR CRY 2. FAR CRY 2 had 8vs8 and respawning vehicles and more game modes. FC2 last how many years. Team death match and death match and no respawning vehicles is blah. Also lack of lobby hosting on release didn't help. The whole wait your turn to be randomly selected and vote to pick was lame.
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