Capture Parties

[Black Ram]

The first was good, the second was ok, BUT THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN IT, getting caught a 3rd time after being hit with ONE bullet is just stupid, I see it as a cheap and lazy way to force the story line.
Not only that, but getting "captured" in the middle of a captured outpost, while TALKING with someone, INSIDE A HOUSE, with 2 people following me and 2 others next to me too, is just STUPID.
The rest of the game is awesome (so far), but the capture parties, whoever came up with the idea that it should happen "all" the time (instead of only in ONE area) should get a boot up his *** (liturally) and get thrown out the window.

[Brian Boru]

I completely agree. Unskippable boring rubbish like these 9 capture episodes is really sticking a finger up to their customers.

FC3 had QuickTime rubbish, FC4 had a couple of episodes, Yetis had the night assaults, & Primal had the tedious Batari & far-too-difficult Ull. But FC5 has reached a new low in terms of out-of-genre elements which can't be avoided.

A game marketed as Open World should be fit for purpose, without the banality and tedium of rails or spray n pray being such an important part of it.

[VG_Elder]

I just posted a review about this. This was such a missed plot element. Why not have a capture mode where you have waves of hunters trying to find you and you have to fend off or evade them. This would have made the game much more intense and fun. You would eventually get caught because we all make mistakes and slip up. Hell, I was captured flying a dam aircraft three times?!?! What the hell?

[General Iffy]

I almost managed to 'outrun' a capture party. I was hauling ass back to the whitetail bunker and was just 100 meters away when I got 'caught.' Last time I got caught by a hunting party I was standing on Hurk's Dads front poarch.

[Irian]

The first Capture Party was when I deinstalled the game. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Not that there's a capture party, that sounds ok - but that all the capture parties magically know exactly where you are, is lame-ass railroad story writing. I really hate forced-capture scenes, because in 99% of the cases, they are so badly written that it's cringe-worthy, with spontanous rule-changes that only apply for this capture-scene and are never mentioned afterwards again (because they would obviously be total game-breakers).

Game Developers should at least TRY to create creative (even hard or seemingly impossible to escape from) traps and not just throw some almost-cutscene in there. Preferably you should even be prepared that clever players will find ways out of that trap and let the plot continue with that slight detour (and without forcing it on the player). And NEVER EVER break the rules for said traps. If enemies can detect where you are, at least be honest and end the game five minutes after the start by having one of these magical enemies put a bullet into the protagonist's head.

[NicoMakiOTP]

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. It's actually kind of a welcome change compared to most open world games where you have to go to X to start an encounter. It feels a bit more organic than having a boss wait around at location X indefinitely until you finally decide you are done doing side quests or whatever random thing you are doing.

Plus, the way all these mini-encounters playout until the grand showdown, it would have felt weird to head to an objective when ready, especially Faith's encounters. You show up just so you can be put into a bliss induced trip? Or you show up to Jacob's mission trigger just so you can get captured?

The mini-encounters were nice little diversions, other than Jacob's which really seemed like was given the least attention. They would have needed to be a fair bit different to make sense if you were to not be forced into the situation and other than Jacob's, I quite liked these encounters as is.

Originally posted by TooMuChC4 DK:

getting caught a 3rd time after being hit with ONE bullet is just stupid,

It isn't a normal bullet, it is a bliss bullet. Basically a glorified tranquilizer dart so it makes sense that it only takes one to take you down.

[Lrrrofomicronpersei8]

These are super annoying alright…impossible to avoid, and the following forced “kill house” scenes are hyper annoying…I have been through them many times, often after many attempts, and am currently playing in that game+ mode with “infamous difficulty” and have been stuck there for the last hour or so…just about had enough, what a waste of time…I mean, wtf, games should be fun, so screw Far Cry…or does anyone know a cheat or similar? Don’t think there are any…

[Lrrrofomicronpersei8]

Originally posted by Iffy the Bothan Booty:

I almost managed to 'outrun' a capture party. I was hauling ass back to the whitetail bunker and was just 100 meters away when I got 'caught.' Last time I got caught by a hunting party I was standing on Hurk's Dads front poarch.

Yeah, I managed to shoot two of those parties once, then took off in a helicopter, and a few seconds later they got me way up while flying…ridiculous…

[Black Ram]

Originally posted by Lrrrofomicronpersei8:

Originally posted by Iffy the Bothan Booty:

I almost managed to 'outrun' a capture party. I was hauling ass back to the whitetail bunker and was just 100 meters away when I got 'caught.' Last time I got caught by a hunting party I was standing on Hurk's Dads front poarch.

Yeah, I managed to shoot two of those parties once, then took off in a helicopter, and a few seconds later they got me way up while flying…ridiculous…

I got hit by a "bliss arrow" while flying in a plane, at extreme hights, I had just bombed a convoy that gave me the remaining points, I then climbed in alititude to as high as I could, but then ARROW.
How the F * * K ?

[Lrrrofomicronpersei8]

Originally posted by TooMuChC4 DK:

Originally posted by Lrrrofomicronpersei8:

Yeah, I managed to shoot two of those parties once, then took off in a helicopter, and a few seconds later they got me way up while flying…ridiculous…

I got hit by a "bliss arrow" while flying in a plane, at extreme hights, I had just bombed a convoy that gave me the remaining points, I then climbed in alititude to as high as I could, but then ARROW.
How the F * * K ?

yup, a complete joke...

[Trash Panda]

Originally posted by TooMuChC4 DK:

Originally posted by Lrrrofomicronpersei8:

Yeah, I managed to shoot two of those parties once, then took off in a helicopter, and a few seconds later they got me way up while flying…ridiculous…

I got hit by a "bliss arrow" while flying in a plane, at extreme hights, I had just bombed a convoy that gave me the remaining points, I then climbed in alititude to as high as I could, but then ARROW.
How the F * * K ?

Yes this happened to me last night in a helicopter, I was really high and thought WTF when it happened

[Time for a Nap]

Throwing in my two cents as well. Just ran into a capture party, and it's made me put down the game. Trying to do a mission, and then I get railroaded into this crap. Wish there was a mod or a glitch or hell even an act of god that would let me skip it. It'd be one thing if you could actually fight them off and avoid the capture entirely. That would be pretty cool. After all, they don't just teleport you the instant you trigger a capture party. They give you the chance to fight them off, leave you with a bit of agency. Except not. It's the illusion of agency, because even though you're "in control," the game designers decide, nope, you're doing this whether you want to or not. One bullet from a guy half a mile away, and you're done. Can't put body armor one to stop what I'm assuming is a tranq dart. Can't take some medicine as an antidote.

If this was more like the times in FC3 and 4, where it happens in a cutscene as part of a scripted mission, that'd be one thing. I absolutely don't have control over that. But don't jerk me around by ripping me out of the moment with this kind of crap. It's just as bad as the Kai Leng fight in Mass Effect 3, but now I find out I'm going to have to endure this crap nine separate times? Wish I'd known about this beforehand, because this kind of railroading, shoddy writing, and poor implementation really ruins an otherwise enjoyable game. I'd already ranked this below FC3 and 4, solely because those games were pretty fun, for all their faults. But this capture party crap has turned Farcry 5 from my least favorite Farcry game to one of my least favorite games, period.

Too late to get a refund, sadly.

[Brian Boru]

"Wish there was a mod or a glitch or hell even an act of god that would let me skip it"
There is a mod, Resistance Mod—I got it on Nexus:
https://www.nexusmods.com/farcry5/mods/31

If you go for it, NB:
Change resistance points AFTER you liberate Dutch's Island at the start, else you can't get off that island.
You need game version 1.11 or game patch 1.13
To play coop with the mod you need to use the EAC remover.
You can't play Arcade with the mod.
You won't be able to finish the game mission properly since you got to go thru the captures for that, but you get to play all the rest of it—not a deal for me, since the story missions are almost always the worst part of FC games.

[Saint.Million]

Originally posted by Brian Boru:

Change resistance points AFTER you liberate Dutch's Island at the start, else you can't get off that island.

You don't need to change resistance points at all (unless you want to). The resistance mod includes the option for no captures now. So if you just don't want to be captured there is an option for that, without the need for editing resistance points.

You need game version 1.11 or game patch 1.13

The most recent revision of the (legit) game is 1.14.

To play coop with the mod you need to use the EAC remover.

Ubisoft removed EAC some time ago. So the EAC remover is no longer necessary.

You can't play Arcade with the mod.

You can. The mods (mostly) don't have any effect in arcade, but you can still play it just fine.

You won't be able to finish the game mission properly

I've finished campaign mode multiple times with the resistance mod.

[Brian Boru]

Originally posted by Saint.Million:

I've finished campaign mode multiple times with the resistance mod.

Thanks a bunch for all that great useful info! Things have changed a lot since I originally got the mod.

[Argakyan]

My second capture happened while in a helicopter high above the map, at which point it kinda just gets laughable