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Nille

Aug 6, 2014 @ 9:45am

Stuck at Mike's Bar (fixed)

Early game I need to speak to a guy in Mike's Bar for medicine.
He just keeps repeating one line 'you're a jack something'. There's a blinking audiotape on the table, but I cannot press E on it, the hand icon never shows. The woman against the wall is constantly shaking back and forth aswell. How can the sequel of a godlike game be full of ♥♥♥♥ty bugs?

Last edited by Nille; Aug 8, 2014 @ 12:40am

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Originally posted by Herr Zock:

I had this problem at a later point in the game but also in the bar and i tried lowering the fps but what ultimately worked was changing to DX 9 and turning V-Sync on. Having those two on doesnt hurt the graphics too much and i can play again after over a year :D

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m.frenzy

Aug 6, 2014 @ 11:02am

Did you already buy and pick up a new weapon? If you did, you should be able to talk to the journalist at Mike's Bar (guy sitting at the table).

Genesis

Aug 6, 2014 @ 7:49pm

Originally posted by DeNille:
Early game I need to speak to a guy in Mike's Bar for medicine.
He just keeps repeating one line 'you're a jack something'. There's a blinking audiotape on the table, but I cannot press E on it, the hand icon never shows.

Check your objective.

Originally posted by DeNille:
The woman against the wall is constantly shaking back and forth aswell.

Try enabling v-sync or limitting your FPS to 60 with a FPS limiter.

Originally posted by DeNille:
How can the sequel of a godlike game be full of ♥♥♥♥ty bugs?

Ubisoft :p

Nille

Aug 7, 2014 @ 12:40am

Yes I already bought a new weapon + picked up the ammo in the building next door. And as I said the guy sitting at the table is just repeating 1 line non stop. The only time he says something else is where I come close to the audiotape, then he says 'well, aren't you gonna destroy it like the rest?' but I can't click or press E on it. Completely bugged. I already toggled v-sync on and off, aswell as AA and all other settings really. Trust me, this isn't a problem from my side, I was just hoping for a general fix, a patch of some sorts.

Vic Evicerator has Far Cry 2

Aug 7, 2014 @ 4:14pm

Does the hand icon appear? I've noticed that some items in the game are a little tricky, and you have to be positioned and aimed just right to get the hand icon to interact with it - try scanning your mouse around slowly, and you also may be either too far or too close to the table or item, so try moving slightly backward and forward as well.

If the hand icon does appear, and the use key still doesn't work, then that's a bug that's beyond my ability to fix.

Nille

Aug 8, 2014 @ 12:40am

Vic, what part of ' the hand icon never shows' in the first post makes you think it does appear :P

Anyway I've been able to get by it by loading the second last save and redo that small mission. I still didn't get a hand icon, the characters where still shaking, but this time the person sitting at the table didn't repeat one line and actually continued by giving me a mission to go to a church somewhere.

Let's hope I don't encounter more of this.

Genesis

Aug 8, 2014 @ 8:51am

Originally posted by DeNille:
Vic, what part of ' the hand icon never shows' in the first post makes you think it does appear :P

Anyway I've been able to get by it by loading the second last save and redo that small mission. I still didn't get a hand icon, the characters where still shaking, but this time the person sitting at the table didn't repeat one line and actually continued by giving me a mission to go to a church somewhere.

Let's hope I don't encounter more of this.

Sometimes, some scripts do not load at all so you have to reload a previous saved game, it happened to me several times when I had to rescue buddys after they helped me on a mission...

Jason Mohan has Far Cry 2

Aug 10, 2014 @ 9:39am

Originally posted by molecular.frenzy:
Did you already buy and pick up a new weapon? If you did, you should be able to talk to the journalist at Mike's Bar (guy sitting at the table).

CraftRabbit has Far Cry 2

Nov 17, 2014 @ 8:41am

I'm having the same issue but can't seem to fix it. I've restarted the game 4 times then finally reinstalled the game entirely, only for it to happen again. The journalist just repeats his last line over and over, I can't pick up the tape, attempting to approach the tape from a different angle just knocks me back, and the guy leaning against the wall is just twitching. Boo..

Kowalczyk

Nov 17, 2014 @ 9:16am

This annoyed me for about an hour. I kept bouncing off the table he was sitting at, no hand appeared and the three in the bar would just repeat one line.

I reloaded, restarted game, bounced all over the place, until finally ... they said the lines they were supposed to and I could continue the damn game.

Doesnt seem promising when so long after release there are bugs of this size still in the game.

Stabbey

Nov 18, 2014 @ 6:17am

EDIT: Enabling V-Sync fixed it for me at least.

Last edited by Stabbey; Nov 18, 2014 @ 6:47am

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PorcusGrunzus has Far Cry 2

Nov 18, 2014 @ 7:20am

Originally posted by Stabbey:
EDIT: Enabling V-Sync fixed it for me at least.

Sounds like the over 60FPS bug.
Game runs into trouble when running with 60+FPS.
Use Vsnyc but I would recommend forcing it through driver or a tool like RadeonPro.
The ingame Vsync is bad and can lead to bad FPS.
If you dont wanna use Vsync try using this fix:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Far_Cry_2#Bouncing_NPC_glitch
Dont be confused of bouncing NPCs, its the same bug.

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