Buddy 1
You find this Buddy in the tutorial. It is your first mission after unlocking the Safehouse.
Buddy 2
You'll meet this Buddy in Mike's Bar after you've saved your first Buddy from captivity. This is still in the Tutorial. You'll be prompted to visit Mike's Bar to find a cure for your Malaria. After you've spoken to your first Buddy, and Reuben, you'll have another Buddy leant up on a wall. If you speak to them, then you'll have met this Buddy.
Buddy 3
After your Tutorial, where you've gotten some Pills for your Malaria from the Church in Pala, you need to complete one mission from the Factions. Then, go into the meeting, and get your second Faction mission. After you've accepted the mission, go to either the Lumber Yard, **** Fights or Slaughterhouse (definately not the place where you found your first Buddy in the tutorial).
Buddy 4
Keep heading to Mike's Bar every so often, and you should meet new Buddies. So after every Faction mission, and at whatever opportunity you get, just head to Mike's Bar, and you'll have your best Buddy, and sometimes a new Buddy.
Buddy 5
This Buddy will be unlocked throughout the story, on Mission 8. It's impossible to miss this one. Eventually, instead of going inside the Factions Headquarters, the Guard on the door will be on his phone. Head over to him, and he'll offer you a mission to find someone held in a location. Head to the location, save them, and you'll have Buddy 5.
If you're not too sure about what Buddies you have, Press Start, go to "Buddies", and then look at your current Buddies. If you have 5 different Buddies by now, you have met every Buddy so far.
Also, if you haven't yet, visit either the Lumber Yard, **** Fights or the Slaughterhouse.
It should be mentioned that apart from the place where you were brought to after being saved from the firefight in Pala at the start, there will be a Buddy in all of the other three Towns that surround Pala.
You will be prompted to visit one of these towns in the tutorial. Then you will be prompted to find a Buddy in one of the remaining 2 towns during Mission 2, and then you'll be prompted to find the other Buddy in Mission 8, in the third and final Town.
Buddy 6
This Buddy is the only one that isn't naturally found during the Storyline, or from Mike's Bar.
The whole map of the Northern Territory is split into 9 smaller pages. Top Left, Top Centre, Top Right...
Middle Left, Middle Centre, Middle Right...
Bottom Left, Bottom Centre, Bottom Right...
Head to the Top Centre (directly North) part of the Map. There is a town called Shwasana, look at the writing for Shwasana. It is just in between two rocks. Also between those two rocks is a T-junction road. The large rock above that T-junction looks a little like an "N" if you tilt your head to the right.
Now we've identified that Rock, it is actually in between that rock, and the rock directly above it. Drive in between those two rocks, and you'll stumble across a small camp fire, a crashed Plane, and someone will yell for your help. You must heal them with a syrette, and that buddy will be saved.
Now it goes without mentioning that you shouldn't have completed all the Northern Faction missions before you find Buddy 6, because you cannot go back and save them if you've moved down to the Southern Territory.
Buddy 1
Now in the Southern Territory, you won't struggle to find your first Buddy. You'll immediately be given a mission without choice, to help someone take a shipment of arms into the Town to break the ceasefire.
Once you've escorted the Barge to the Town, you'll need to inform the Doctor of the breaking ceasefire. After you've told him, the fight has already broken outside. If you head for the front door exit, you'll be stopped by another Buddy. And they'll prompt you to go out the back door so you're not noticed. This is you're first Buddy of the Southern Territory.
Buddy 2
Once you've escaped the Cease fire in Town, you'll be called by the driver of the Barge. He went to sink it by Marina's Bar, but he's been caught under fire.
Once you've travelled to save him, and cleared the enemies from the Barge, you can enter the Barge, and talk to him. Once he's thanked you, you've made a second Buddy.
Buddy 3
I'm very unsure about how you find this buddy. But supposedly they're unmissable throughout the story. You'll have made a friend without even trying. If not, just head down to Marina's Bar, and just head up to anyone inside that you haven't met, and you'll have your friend.
Buddy 4
Remembering that the whole Southern Territory map is split into 9 sections, just like the Northern map, head to the Bottom Centre part of the map, and head to the Brewery (which is called the Brewery Co or something). This is a small town, similar to the Lumber Yard, and so on. There's a Buddy held captivity here. No matter which mission you're working on, just head there and save the Buddy.
Buddy 5
This final Buddy is luckily unmissable. So your worries of missing your last Buddy are gone. Just continue through the Faction missions, until eventually you go to the Headquarter of a Faction, and the Guard at the door is once again on his Phone. He'll send you to a Town called Sediko. Head there, and save the Buddy from Captivity, and you'll be complete.
The Northern Territory is slightly more tricky to save all Buddy's, because there are more of them, and it's a little less easier to save them all.
But just remember to follow my guide, and keep checking your Buddy List on the Start menu throughout the Story Mode, just to check that you're still on course.
Hope I've helped.
In playing through the northern map of Far Cry 2, i quickly saved all available buddies, having six in total. However, i soon noticed that one buddie no longer appears in the bar, having been replaced by the last buddie i saved at the plane crash site. Is there a way to get this buddy back so i can do their two buddy missions? I'm coming up to the point in the game where Mike's bar will be attacked and so this buddy will die.
The bar only holds four buddies at a time, so you're going to have to kill someone if possible.Originally posted by Tomahawk5067:
In playing through the northern map of Far Cry 2, i quickly saved all available buddies, having six in total. However, i soon noticed that one buddie no longer appears in the bar, having been replaced by the last buddie i saved at the plane crash site. Is there a way to get this buddy back so i can do their two buddy missions? I'm coming up to the point in the game where Mike's bar will be attacked and so this buddy will die.
OK, I am playing as Marty Alencar. At the North, Leboa-Sako, I have a total of 6 buddies. But as you guys know, only 4 will show up at Mike's Bar. At first Michele Dachss was my best buddy. So I could do her 2 missions. Flora Guillen was my 2nd best buddy. Thus, I could not do her missions yet. The other buddies I got was Paul Ferenc (I rescued him in the plane crash) and he is always at Mike's Bar.The other one was Josip Idromeno (he showed up too) as well as Warren Clyde, and last but not least was Quarbani Singh (he never showed up with a reputation of 3).
So this is what I did after completing all the missions by the 4 buddies. I promoted Flora Guilen as my best buddy after accepting the 1st mission proper by the UFLL. Reason being, when Michele Dachess became my 2nd best buddy, I could then kill her off. By doing this, I was hoping that Flora Guien will show up at Mike's Bar after completing Mission 1 and she did. But the problem is, Quarbani Singh never showed up despite now having space at Mike's Bar for 1 more buddy.
Now, I am stuck because I can only do 10 buddy missions maximum with Quarbani SIngh not showing up at all. Thus, the number of side missions I can hope to do is 40/40. But I read somewhere that it is possible to do 42/40 side missions if I am playing as Marty Alencar.
So the question is, did the developers fix this in patch 1.03? Am I missing something here? What should I do now? (Yes, I have already completed 6 assassination missions and 4 convoy missions already in Leboa-Sako). For the record, I am in the process of completing the 1st buddy mission for Flora Guillan. Must I complete both her missions first and then Quarbani Singh will show up at Mike's Bar?
Please advise. Thanks.