Late to the party, annoyed by the missions autocompleting

[cb4n28]

It's pretty dumb that just exploring the open world and fighting cultists you run into locks you out of the story. Any word on whether this will be patched out? Guess that's unlikely, but this feature is kind of antithetical to Far Cry.

I honestly don't know if I will play the game any further. I feel like it punishes me for having fun

[Frostbringer]

How did you lock yourself out of the story?

[cb4n28]

So from reading online my understanding is that story missions will autocomplete themselves if you gain too many resistance points. Basically you have to rush through the main story of each region first and then you can go back and do side quests, recruit followers, rescue hostages and so on.

My mistake was that after liberating Dutch's Island, I treated the game like an open world Far Cry type game. I wandered around enjoying the scenery, hunting, fishing and freeing hostages, liberating outposts, recruiting followers and doing side quests when I came across them. I figured that like previous installments, the story would wait for me and I was just enjoyng the freedom of it all. After a little bit I was captured and freed by a character I didn't recognize. Shortly after that I got a message that everyone was so inspired by my screwing around hunting elk and haphazardly killing any cultists who attacked me that they liberated Falls End by themselves. I looked at my journal and saw that a number of missions I hadn't done had been completed for me because I put them off while I was having fun.

So far as I understand from previous discussions here and elsewhere online, the only way to go back and enjoy those bits of the story is to start a new game and make a beeline for them. I should have ignored the hostages I came across, not liberated any outposts, not gone to help the dog and so on until I finished the story missions for the region. Which is kind of a bummer tbh

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, one of the things I loved about Far Cry 3 and 4 is that you could 100% both games without needing to follow a guide to do everything in a specific order. I was really enjoying myself and think Ubisoft made a great sandbox here, it would be a major disappointment if I missed something because I was too busy enjoying it

[Piano man]

Apparently, you're absolutely right:

https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1868507-Strategy-to-Bypass-Mission-Auto-Complete!-(NEW-PLAYERS-READ-THIS!)-Forums

https://steamcommunity.com/app/552520/discussions/0/1696043806560175817/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/210068-far-cry-5/76461786?page=1

Yet another reason why this game is a mess, and why Far Cry 3 was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ brilliant.

[cb4n28]

I mean honestly I have been really enjoying the game overall and haven't come across any other major complaints in the first 8 hours or so, but this is a HUGE disappointment. It feels so crappy to feel like I am being punished by the devs for enjoying their game the "wrong" way.

I don't think I'll be booting the game back up when I get home from work tomorrow, it feels like its going to end up in my backlog for a while and maybe I'll come back and restart in a year or so. In retrospect I really regret buying the Gold Edition, I just enjoyed 3 and 4 so much and figured it would be more of the same open world fun times.

[Cali Ghost]

Yeah, the game is pretty linear for an open world game and the resistance meter filling up can be annoying sometimes. Gameplay-wise, it's still the best out of the entire franchise imo.

[Piano man]

Originally posted by Aconite:

Gameplay-wise, it's still the best out of the entire franchise imo.

Yeah...... nah - I have to disagree. I know it's your opinion, but to me - the bad AI, and the constant plethora of glitches (still after months of the game being released), say to me that this was rushed by Ubisoft, and didn't have the time and care put in as the other games.

Far Cry 3 set a benchmark in terms of it's Antagonists, the character development, and the graphics for its time - splendid. The AI was better in Far Cry 4, and the graphics were a little better and the villain was quite brilliant (albeit rarely seen or encountered except for the very beginning and the end).

Far Cry 5 seems very rushed, and that's why to me - Far Cry 3 seems like the better game - they released the game when they had something very solid.

[Frostbringer]

Interesting.

You chose to ignore the storyline and changed how the game itself progresses.

Didn’t know that was possible since few people mentioned it during early months of the games release.

I’ve known it’s not truly an open world game since following the storyline takes you to completion for each zone, but ignoring it completely auto completing some main quest chains is completely new.

Seems a waste to go off to hunt critters and kill Peggies and ignore the story, since that is the only thing that makes it different from other hunting/shooting games. Not sure why you bought/play the game and chose that way to play; that’s just throwing money away to play recycled product.

[Hedless]

Originally posted by Frostbringer:

Interesting.

You chose to ignore the storyline and changed how the game itself progresses.

Didn’t know that was possible since few people mentioned it during early months of the games release.

I’ve known it’s not truly an open world game since following the storyline takes you to completion for each zone, but ignoring it completely auto completing some main quest chains is completely new.

Seems a waste to go off to hunt critters and kill Peggies and ignore the story, since that is the only thing that makes it different from other hunting/shooting games. Not sure why you bought/play the game and chose that way to play; that’s just throwing money away to play recycled product.

Some games are fun in that matter though. Elderscroll series especially. FC3 and 4 had tons of fun with this too. I was highly dissappointed that many of the "side" stuff in FC5 had little to no point in it since it pushed things along anyways. I loved doing the side stuff first and blowing through the story stuff afterwards.

[cb4n28]

So the good news is that this has apparently bothered enough people that the top mod over at Nexusmods is designed to address this exact complaint by drastically lowering the rate at which resistance points are gained.

I'll probably restart with that installed, but what would be cool is if Ubisoft would patch in a mode that does this themselves to accommodate different playstyles. They could call it explorer mode or something

[restarter]

im not sure i follow. yeah you will eventually be pushed toward a boss fight gainging resistance points but you cna still do all the side quests. for instance, after i killed john seed i was still able to do side quests that i hadnt gotten to yet, go fishing and huntin and still kill peggies in that area. nothing ever auto completed for me. the area wasnt actually liberated until i went back to the bunker and freed whats her name.

[Gerhard]

Originally posted by cb4n28:

So the good news is that this has apparently bothered enough people that the top mod over at Nexusmods is designed to address this exact complaint by drastically lowering the rate at which resistance points are gained.

I'll probably restart with that installed, but what would be cool is if Ubisoft would patch in a mode that does this themselves to accommodate different playstyles. They could call it explorer mode or something

I agree with you, but I don't think Ubi will patch a new mode. I was hoping the new game+ will change the captures and the resistence points issue, but no. For me the game has been a hugh dissapointment because of this and i just rushed through the game (story mode) when i found this out. It maybe helps to keep resistence meter low? believe i saw a thread about this on the
FC 5 forum (Ubisoft).

[RageMojo]

Originally posted by Piano man:

Originally posted by Aconite:

Gameplay-wise, it's still the best out of the entire franchise imo.

Yeah...... nah - I have to disagree. I know it's your opinion, but to me - the bad AI, and the constant plethora of glitches (still after months of the game being released), say to me that this was rushed by Ubisoft, and didn't have the time and care put in as the other games.

Far Cry 3 set a benchmark in terms of it's Antagonists, the character development, and the graphics for its time - splendid. The AI was better in Far Cry 4, and the graphics were a little better and the villain was quite brilliant (albeit rarely seen or encountered except for the very beginning and the end).

Far Cry 5 seems very rushed, and that's why to me - Far Cry 3 seems like the better game - they released the game when they had something very solid.

You have a nostolgia haze. FC3 feels dated now. And did you forget the villian died in the first act of the game? FC5 is more enjoyable by a long shot.

[Cali Ghost]

Originally posted by Piano man:

Originally posted by Aconite:

Gameplay-wise, it's still the best out of the entire franchise imo.

Yeah...... nah - I have to disagree. I know it's your opinion, but to me - the bad AI, and the constant plethora of glitches (still after months of the game being released), say to me that this was rushed by Ubisoft, and didn't have the time and care put in as the other games.

Far Cry 3 set a benchmark in terms of it's Antagonists, the character development, and the graphics for its time - splendid. The AI was better in Far Cry 4, and the graphics were a little better and the villain was quite brilliant (albeit rarely seen or encountered except for the very beginning and the end).

Far Cry 5 seems very rushed, and that's why to me - Far Cry 3 seems like the better game - they released the game when they had something very solid.

It's a matter of opinion but I enjoyed FC5 way more. FC3 definitely has the better villains and storyline but I was mostly referring to the way the game handles. Movement, gunplay, driving, etc. feels way smoother and more refined. Especially the gunplay. The PC versions FC3 and 4 were absolutely obnoxious when it came to mouse sensitivity and ADS, which is a big downside in a game where half the action involves shooting.

[Snip]

Originally posted by cb4n28:

I'll probably restart with that installed, but what would be cool is if Ubisoft would patch in a mode that does this themselves to accommodate different playstyles. They could call it explorer mode or something

The game won't be patched or supported any more.
The last patch with HD texture pack was the last one.
https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1937407-No-more-updates-Apparently

[cb4n28]

Originally posted by Snip:

Originally posted by cb4n28:

I'll probably restart with that installed, but what would be cool is if Ubisoft would patch in a mode that does this themselves to accommodate different playstyles. They could call it explorer mode or something

The game won't be patched or supported any more.
The last patch with HD texture pack was the last one.
https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1937407-No-more-updates-Apparently

Well, the silver lining there is that the mod I discovered to make the game friendlier to my playstyles probably won't ever need an update