Car Fry 2 Redux Buglisting

[Wardxg]

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Far Drive is great, I loved it for the time being and used the Redux mods as I didn't care for the full authenticity. But as a gamer I thought I'd just bring to light some of the 'issues' that I occured occassionally.
Before I do tho, lemme jus be clear, these bugs aren't exactly 'game breaking' I think the closest time it did break were a couple times, but they were moreso to do with what I did in the game, not the game breaking itself:
(Edit; the comments have sprung my attention that the bugs have come from the vanilla mod itself. I've honestly forgotten this is before even 2010 this game has seriously held up quite a bit for it's time visually, I'll leave the bugs in tho as it's just a buglist, for those who want to play this game WITH Redux mods, these glitches and bugs happen even in the base game. my best piece of TL;DR advice for those who don't wanna read would be keep fps at 60/62, keep V-sync on if you are using Keyboard, but controller works best for this old game. But follow advice if you wanna use the cheat mods it can really fk up your day sometimes)

*The tutorial section cannot proceed if unlimited ammo mod is on* When you awaken in the safehouse, the tutorial will tell you to pick up syrettes. you need to have it off in order to pick up said syrettes or you won't be able to proceed, thankfully it continues after picking them up so you can turn it on afterwards.

**The phone can be buggy sometimes.** Many times I'd just pick up the phone and nobody would speak, it works better if you answer it in a vehicle but results vary. Edit; apparently it's not related to the female characters, it might've just been the certain mod characters but it seemed to happen less with Flores than Michelle, but idk. phones are just fkn buggy *shrugs*

*IED's can be buggy* Dunno what happened, but saving with IED's in my hand removed my arms when I loaded up the game again. I couldn't pull out weapons nor run or jump, when I jumped into the water and came out again my character was still swimming in the air, I had to drown in order for my buddy to pick me up and respawn my arms.

*Mountains can despawn the ground if you go too high up.* The game shields you from most of the mountains as is, but if you do start climbing it, the invisible walls will disappear if you get too far up and then the ground will disappear, ending up getting stuck in a rock or tree from it. FORTUNATELY, if you just ♥♥♥ your buddies can revive you and bring you back into the playzone.

*God mode has to be off to progress to the other map.* After killing the first 'boss', when you choose to go to your buddies to support them, god mode has to be off for the continuation of the game, my buds all dropped in seconds, but I stood for awhile until the music and gunfire started to get duller and duller. At that point I knew and just disabled it.

*KEEP MAX FPS AT 60/62!* I didn't think I needed to as the game ran okay enough when I put it higher, the problem lies in crashing. if you save, especially if it's during a mission. If it crashes before the save's done, your save progress will be corrupt and lost. I got freaked out when I teleported back to the mainland after killing the first boss and it crashed, and I hate having multiple save slots so I had to redo 20% all over again. If you have multiple saves then I'd think you'd be good, but for safekeeping keep it at 62 to keep the screen tearing from starting up and the game running normally.

*Bloom in this game is blinding!* not really an issue per se, but this game is stoopid bright when you are in the desert lands by god it feels intense!

**V-Sync helps with aiming on K&M.** Something I forgot to add last time, for some reason this game is heavily bound to analog controls; ADS snaps onto enemies and mouse aiming just feels clunky, Mouse smoothing only goes so far and even still this game feels like it's meant for controller only. The only way to play it somewhat decently is if you keep V-sync on if you don't have a controller to use,

This is just a small list of noticeable things I came across when playing this and is probably not all, but like I said it's not gamebreaking. This is just the small things I've come across while playing this game, if anyone else has anything to add post it, I will probably come back with more to add if I remember anything but I wanted to put this out there. Not hating on Redux or the team that made it they are all amazing and have made this game even more breathtaking. This game is an old gem and is a good recommendation to any who want a barebones FarCry adventure to play.

[BigTinz]

The phone call bug is an engine issue, and is not related to the female characters added in Redux.

Cheats definitely can break the game. I don't recommend them.

I can't replicate the IED bug(s), but they are not changed at all in Redux, so this must also be a vanilla issue.

You really should cap at 60 and enable v-sync in Far Cry 2. I don't recommend anyone play without doing both of these things.

The bloom can definitely be a bit much - but shouldn't be too bad when playing in DX9, which is recommended. DX10 is too buggy, and makes the grass look worse, IMO.

The mountain thing is a side effect of the increased "max slope" the player can traverse in Redux. This is the only bug listed that is due to Redux.

Glad you're enjoying the mod, and I always appreciate constructive feedback.

[thirdkeeper]

I appreciate the post, and I love Redux also, but I believe some clarification is in order.

Yes - holes on the high mesas are by original design. Textures and surfaces that aren't
needed were omitted to save memory.

Actually none of the 'bugs' you mention are caused by the Redux mod. They all exist in
FC2 Vanilla.

Thanks for the feed -

- Best Wishes -

[Crypto Gamer]

For me capping fps to 58(via GPU control center) down from 60 made "silent phone calls" very rarely happen about once in 10,at 60 once in three,at 62(my first cap) about nine times out of ten.....I use vanilla with jackall tape fixes mini mod.IEDs also sometimes fail to dmg vechiles...might be vanilla bug

Also the game is NOT large address aware by default so it can use max 2GB RAM,I used LAA program to make it use 4GB RAM,since then I had only 1 crash over almost 60 hours of gameplay,without LAA I had like crashes lie once a hour,but I also alt tab a lot for the diamond map......Tha being said with LAA applied the game launch takes much longer like 30 seconds.