Has anyone found a way of playing FC4 maps without using their servers.

[Moto]

Their login server is down most of the time and i suspect they will do a FC3 and turn them off soon.

[Steve64b]

It should be possible to download Far Cry 4 maps to your PC and put them in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 4\{YOUR_UPLAY_HASH}\download maps. Then just start the game, enter the Community Maps section and browse/play the local maps on your computer.

However, downloading those maps happens through the game, so the servers need to be online. Unless you find a map someone uploaded online, e.g. at https://www.nexusmods.com/farcry4/mods/79?tab=files :P

[Moto]

I can not browse those maps from either the map browser or the map editor. The map browser browses the maps on ubisoft's server. I don't know where the map editor is searching.

[Steve64b]

Start the game, then go to MAP EDITOR -> LOCAL MAPS. There you have 2 options:

• All My Maps shows the fc4map files from your %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 4\{YOUR_UPLAY_HASH}\user maps folder. These are the maps you saved in the Map Editor.
  
• Downloaded Maps shows the fc4map files from your %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 4\{YOUR_UPLAY_HASH}\download maps folder. These are the maps you saved and downloaded through the game.

Mapfiles can be placed in either of those locations, and can then be played offline. To download a map from the game, you'll have to connect to the Map Browser, find a map you want to download, select it and choose "Download". After downloading it will be in your download folder, and the map can then be played as a local map offline.

Any map you just "played" without explicitly downloading them through the game interface will have its data copied to your %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 4\{YOUR_UPLAY_HASH}\download maps\cache folder. Unfortunately, these cached maps files aren't directly compatible with the local map browser because the files lack some data like the map thumbnail. Theoretically they can be made to load in the game, but AFAIK no mod tools exist to fix them in that way.

So, if you can't reach the Ubisoft online services, you'll have to depend on third-party sources to find map files. There are some on Nexusmods and Playground.ru.

[Moto]

Thanks for that explanation. I have hundreds of maps automatically downloaded into my cache. it is a shame we can't select one and play it.

[Steve64b]

Originally posted by Moto:

Thanks for that explanation. I have hundreds of maps automatically downloaded into my cache. it is a shame we can't select one and play it.

If you happen to still have some of these maps, it would be cool if you could put them up on Nexusmods or somewhere else. Seeing that Far Cry 4's online Map Browser services are down & I don't expect them to come back...

I think it would be a shame if all those Far Cry 4 maps were lost in time... Some of them were really good! :)

[Suppressor]

I made a primitive file converter from the cache, without thumbnails or creation date yet. Perhaps something else is lost. In the game they load and work. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bta9lvau0oisul4chitpj/FC4MCC.exe?rlkey=axxtcy7dqzk5lteo747zspihx&dl=0 I advise you to make a copy of the files before changing anything. P.S. Pls share your cache maps ...

[Steve64b]

Woah! I just checked & the online Community Maps service seems to be back for me on PC!

So, get your maps while the services are back online! :)

[Moto]

Originally posted by Suppressor:

I made a primitive file converter from the cache, without thumbnails or creation date yet. Perhaps something else is lost. In the game they load and work. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bta9lvau0oisul4chitpj/FC4MCC.exe?rlkey=axxtcy7dqzk5lteo747zspihx&dl=0 I advise you to make a copy of the files before changing anything. P.S. Pls share your cache maps ...

Did you remove this. I get an error (400)

[Suppressor]

Originally posted by Moto:

Originally posted by Suppressor:

I made a primitive file converter from the cache, without thumbnails or creation date yet. Perhaps something else is lost. In the game they load and work. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bta9lvau0oisul4chitpj/FC4MCC.exe?rlkey=axxtcy7dqzk5lteo747zspihx&dl=0 I advise you to make a copy of the files before changing anything. P.S. Pls share your cache maps ...

Did you remove this. I get an error (400)

no, i don't, maybe dropbox do it, new link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bta9lvau0oisul4chitpj/FC4MCC.exe?rlkey=axxtcy7dqzk5lteo747zspihx&dl=0

[Moto]

Damn. Same error again. EDIT: managed to download it by truncating the URL loosing the &dl=0. This resulted in dropbox saying I cannot preview a . exe but do I want to download it. Now to work out where those files go after I have played a few maps.

[Suppressor]

Originally posted by Moto:

Damn. Same error again. EDIT: managed to download it by truncating the URL loosing the &dl=0. This resulted in dropbox saying I cannot preview a . exe but do I want to download it. Now to work out where those files go after I have played a few maps.

Steam modifies the link after the window to navigate to an external site. But now this utility is really not needed, it is better to download all the maps now, because... The service has already dropped a couple of times.

[Moto]

Downloaded around 50 yesterday. I make myself download 5 maps before I allow myself to play one map. Only a thousand to go.