Ok so the problems I'm having all started when i finished the final mission for Willis and got what seams to a very common issue that know one has resolved yet where i got a black screen after getting pushed out of the plane so i reloaded the game and then when i reloaded i wasn't in the prison on the mountain side like i should be and i didn't have any weapons or grappling hook.
after doing a lot of research i eventually established that my only hope was to re install the game, start from scratch and cross my fingers and do little more than hope it doesn't happen again extremely annoying but whatever as long as i can play sweet. so i uninstalled far cry 4 tried to re install the game to another hard drive as my main drive was beginning to get full. now here is the problem i installed the game off the disks so the uplay launcher doesn't seam to understand that the game is installed and no matter how much i try and tell it it installed to another directory it keeps telling me to download the game.
eventually after doing a lot of research and nobody seams to know how to fix this problem so i decided it must be that the game has to be installed on the same drive as the uplay launcher so i uninstalled the u play launcher and far cry 4 using the uninstall programs and features in the control panel s that i could re install it all from scratch on the other drive and hopefully go back to enjoying the game but now when i put the disks into the computer to install the game it comes up saying play instead of install even though the game is completely uninstalled i cant even find a single file on the computer that has anything to do with far cry 4.
can someone help me fix this issue and can someone else help me understand what happened to the good old days where games where just installed and played and it was as simple as that I'm just a simple joiner by trade who likes to relax with a video game every now and then not some computer wizard that understands why games need to be launched through various other programs that don't seam to work well and as far as i can tell the people that should be doing something about these issues don't seam to be doing anything and leaving it up to every day people to load up forums spit balling ideas until 1 lands and works
I apologize for my little rant there but this is extremely frustrating as i just want to play the game i paid for rather than read countless forum posts of people trying to resolve all these issues