How to increase Reputation (Truly if anybody could answer)

[ljcx2260]

Before anybody says “you have to do the buddy missions” and what not, I’m here to say it’s not that simple. I have a strong desire to get to level 5 reputation and am doing everything in my power to do so meaning I’m paying attention. In my first playthrough (which I didn’t finish) the first half of the game I was at level 2 after doing a handful of buddy missions and faction missions, pretty low but fair enough I didn’t do that much. I had read something online that said, and this is in line with the theme of reputation in general, increasing reputation is done by playing a certain way which could be defined by just being as brutal as possible. Fire, explosives, killing wounded that sort of thing. The jackal actually says this to you and since this games themes are very linked to gameplay you could see this being what would increase reputation. Going into the second half of the game I figured Id try this using a flamethrower, grenade launcher and on the side, an FAL just for practical reasons. I did one faction mission maybe two (cant remember)and two buddy missions using these weapons. The results were a reputation of 3 which pleasantly surprised me especially so early on. However I’m playing again using the same loadout and despite a generally nasty play style (flamethrower, Molotovs, grenade launcher, knife, etc all especially used on faction/buddy missions where reputation actually goes up). I know despite the let’s say haziness of the reputation system, this game has a passionate player base. That being said I’m sure somebody out there could articulate how exactly the reputation system advances and that I’m not just crazy and/or delusional. If somebody could put in their input I’ll bake you a cake or something thank you I really want to know the answer to this.

[thirdkeeper]

From what I understand your brutality has nothing to do with your rep. - The game
advises that when clearing bases that you leave one alive to report the attack.

I've reached level 1 rep even before starting the factions missions by freeing all
captured buddies and saving the plane crash buddy and then doing all the buddy
favor missions. 6 buddies = 12 buddy missions = Level 1 rep. I'm always at rep
level 3 before finishing the north map.

All details including avoiding malaria, setting efficient mission priorities and
much more here:

- IN2FC2 -



- Good Luck -

[ljcx2260]

Originally posted by thirdkeeper:

From what I understand your brutality has nothing to do with your rep. - The game
advises that when clearing bases that you leave one alive to report the attack.

I've reached level 1 rep even before starting the factions missions by freeing all
captured buddies and saving the plane crash buddy and then doing all the buddy
favor missions. 6 buddies = 12 buddy missions = Level 1 rep. I'm always at rep
level 3 before finishing the north map.

All details including avoiding malaria, setting efficient mission priorities and
much more here:

- IN2FC2 -



- Good Luck -

From what I saw from your page literally last night coincidentally before you wrote this you have a giant far cry 2 guide that I skimmed through plus 2000 hours so if anybody knows it'd be you lol. Thank you I felt like something was missing. I guess the games smarter than
I thought i'll keep all this in mind.

[thirdkeeper]

Originally posted by ljcx2260:

Originally posted by thirdkeeper:

- Good Luck -

From what I saw from your page literally last night coincidentally before you wrote this you have a giant far cry 2 guide that I skimmed through plus 2000 hours so if anybody knows it'd be you lol. Thank you I felt like something was missing. I guess the games smarter than
I thought i'll keep all this in mind.

Ha! - Looks like my compulsion wasn't necessary. - I 'jumped the gun' but you were
already way ahead of me. - Glad you found the guide ; )

There are some things I hate testing because they require playing through most, if not
the entire game to draw concrete conclusions, and I always retest at least once to confirm results. - Reputation, Buddies, and Resistance missions are the most time consuming.

- I've learned a lot about game play but I maintain that the modders are likely far
better versed in the games granular details; And may have more hours in the game
too. (Possibly. - I played steadily for 8 years before getting the steam version.)

I'm not positive but I think DediBro's guide 'How to get 100%' might have info on
reputation. - Look for the link at the end of my guide in the 'For Even More' chapter.
I consider it the ideal companion guide, especially for completionists. Well organized,
brief, and very elegantly / efficiently written. All the numbers - at a glance - with maps!

Thanks for the generous nod


- Best Wishes -

[Zombits]

from my experience of replaying campaign like 100 times since 2009. ... buddy missions will only raise reputation by a tiny amount. Story missions are the main thing having an effect on rep . your style of play won't change it I believe

[ljcx2260]

Originally posted by Zombits:

from my experience of replaying campaign like 100 times since 2009. ... buddy missions will only raise reputation by a tiny amount. Story missions are the main thing having an effect on rep . your style of play won't change it I believe

Yeah but that’s doesn’t make that much sense because you have to do the story missions and that means every bodies reputation would end up being more or less the same, there’s gotta be some details influencing it to varying degrees, something I noticed was the journal entry for reputation 4 “… they believe I prefer wounding than killing outright…” I don’t know it seems that there’s more to the game than what’s said it’s very tech demoish sorry for long response

[Zombits]

Originally posted by ljcx2260:

Originally posted by Zombits:

from my experience of replaying campaign like 100 times since 2009. ... buddy missions will only raise reputation by a tiny amount. Story missions are the main thing having an effect on rep . your style of play won't change it I believe

Yeah but that’s doesn’t make that much sense because you have to do the story missions and that means every bodies reputation would end up being more or less the same, there’s gotta be some details influencing it to varying degrees, something I noticed was the journal entry for reputation 4 “… they believe I prefer wounding than killing outright…” I don’t know it seems that there’s more to the game than what’s said it’s very tech demoish sorry for long response

within a playthrough my rep would vary from 0 to 5 . if you do all buddy missions b4 doing story you'll start at 1. the rest is only story .

what reputation does in fc2 is possibly useless and just a number in journal entry. Unlike what they did in fc5

[thirdkeeper]

Originally posted by Zombits:

Originally posted by ljcx2260:

Yeah but that’s doesn’t make that much sense because you have to do the story missions and that means every bodies reputation would end up being more or less the same, there’s gotta be some details influencing it to varying degrees, something I noticed was the journal entry for reputation 4 “… they believe I prefer wounding than killing outright…” I don’t know it seems that there’s more to the game than what’s said it’s very tech demoish sorry for long response

within a playthrough my rep would vary from 0 to 5 . if you do all buddy missions b4 doing story you'll start at 1. the rest is only story .

what reputation does in fc2 is possibly useless and just a number in journal entry. Unlike what they did in fc5

Hey Zombits - I've been enjoying your posts for a long time. 8 )

Reputation slightly increases enemy AI fear response and aggressiveness when alerted.
That doesn't mean that they play any better, they are also more likely to make strategic
mistakes.

As your rep increases so does the AI ability to carry more powerful weapons. - In my
experience that doesn't make them any harder to beat at all, it just makes the game
more interesting; And it can be a boon early in the game for those willing to use found
weapons. Having access to the AR in the N map missions is a huge advantage.

- Thanks for the feed(s) - ; D

[Zombits]

Originally posted by thirdkeeper:

Originally posted by Zombits:

within a playthrough my rep would vary from 0 to 5 . if you do all buddy missions b4 doing story you'll start at 1. the rest is only story .

what reputation does in fc2 is possibly useless and just a number in journal entry. Unlike what they did in fc5

Hey Zombits - I've been enjoying your posts for a long time. 8 )

Reputation slightly increases enemy AI fear response and aggressiveness when alerted.
That doesn't mean that they play any better, they are also more likely to make strategic
mistakes.

As your rep increases so does the AI ability to carry more powerful weapons. - In my
experience that doesn't make them any harder to beat at all, it just makes the game
more interesting; And it can be a boon early in the game for those willing to use found
weapons. Having access to the AR in the N map missions is a huge advantage.

- Thanks for the feed(s) - ; D

This game is still alive in MP . Join us in FC2 discord .

[thirdkeeper]

Originally posted by Zombits:

Originally posted by thirdkeeper:

Hey Zombits - I've been enjoying your posts for a long time. 8 )

Reputation slightly increases enemy AI fear response and aggressiveness when alerted.
That doesn't mean that they play any better, they are also more likely to make strategic
mistakes.

As your rep increases so does the AI ability to carry more powerful weapons. - In my
experience that doesn't make them any harder to beat at all, it just makes the game
more interesting; And it can be a boon early in the game for those willing to use found
weapons. Having access to the AR in the N map missions is a huge advantage.

- Thanks for the feed(s) - ; D

This game is still alive in MP . Join us in FC2 discord .

Thanks very much! - I'd love to join in but I'm still lacking the necessary equipment,
ie: a good headset.

- I know that there's no co-op mode but do you guys ever play Fox and Hounds?
Kinda like "Tag" only the guy that's "it" isn't the hunter but the guy being hunted,
so it has elements of co-op and elements of hide and seek.

[PDK]

Reputation is not meant to be farmed like that in this game. It has more to do with the lore and story. Bad man bad lvl o at the start... a no name chump merc, probably already dead...end game level 5 king of the jungle... all the other bad man bads scared to even glance your way.

For practical purposes it is like thirdkeeper posted. Yes, there is a little wiggle room to it from the buddy side missions. Getting that +1 early is good for the "loot the dead" style playthrough because then the enemies have better guns and gear themselves. Sometimes at higher levels it can even cause morale breaks in enemies and minor strategic stuff between enemy coordination.

Compared to a lot of other stuff, Reputation seems pretty straight forward to me.

[PDK]

After playing some more and having some of the ideas from this thread in mind I thought of a few things. If there is a "brutality" mechanic, I would start playtesting with the machete. Machete Mike playthru lol.

Something interesting happened in Sefapane. I completed a mission that then required an escape-the-yellow-zone ending piece to finish it. The mission itself did not bump me from 3 to 4 but shortly after ganking a handful of town guards my Reputation did increase to 4. MAYBE slaughtering guards in cease fire zones raises reputation somehow. Maybe...

[thirdkeeper]

It's also possible the number of kills might be contributing to your rep regardless
of how they were killed.

[PDK]

A total count is occams razor for sure. The test would be to try and find the save and go back a bit and instead of doing the quest like that I'll intentionally farm guards and see if it bumps and how many it took. Then try the same test on regular enemies wherever and see if there is a bonus on cease fire zone kills. I may try at a later date but right now I want to continue with FC3.

[UnKn0wN]

take a look here

https://farcry2.zsg.dk/GameMechanics.php

buddies and reputation section.

it´s an old and forgotten guide but has some nice and concise info about the game mechanics.

[mOOn_dog]

What? That was forgotten?
It's been my go-to (and only) guide all the time... ;)