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Plus you get to use your UPlay points to unlock something  in the game!
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Uplay isn't too bad in this game, if you set it to offline you can't do multiplayer and such, but there really isn't any reason to that it if you're offline anyway.  It also has cloud saves which is pretty handy. It's not bad at all, actually.
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Nov 29, 2012 00:11
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gallilee posted:I got the PC version and it's drat good. But the fact that you have to sign in to both Steam and Uplay to even start the game kinda sucks. And for some reason it tries to dial home to the UBI servers 5 out of 3 times I go to the menu which can get pretty annoying when they don't respond.
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Nov 29, 2012 00:40
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Meat Recital posted:Was I the only one who liked FarCry 1's story? Two sequels now and not a mention of it. It was goofy as poo poo, but it wasn't that bad. I liked FarCry 1 because the main character reminded of myself. No, I was not an ex-special forces assassin, but he did talk to himself and so do I. I don't answer to myself tho.
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Nov 29, 2012 00:57
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swissmercenary posted:I liked FarCry 1 because the main character reminded of myself. No, I was not an ex-special forces assassin, but he did talk to himself and so do I. I don't answer to myself tho. Have you ever fought mutated apes on a desert island?
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Nov 29, 2012 00:59
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So wait, do you have to always use a VPN to get past Uplay if you don't live in Australia, or is there a way around it?
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Nov 29, 2012 01:03
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If you don't want to talk to your Steam buddies you can just put it in Offline mode. I saw something about making a steam_appid.txt file and putting it in the same folder as the FC3 launcher but that didn't do jack poo poo for me.
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Nov 29, 2012 01:07
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Well I caved and did the VPN trick. The game is performing pretty admirably (around 40-50 fps) at Very High spec with shadows turned down a notch on my modest i5-2400k and GTX 560 rig, so if your computer isn't on the cutting edge, don't worry--it seems to scale well. 
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Nov 29, 2012 01:22
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Ugh! Another option this game should've launched with is aim toggle, now I'm stuck holding my mouse button like a chump.
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Nov 29, 2012 01:28
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Nelson Mandingo posted:So wait, do you have to always use a VPN to get past Uplay if you don't live in Australia, or is there a way around it?
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Nov 29, 2012 01:30
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Flannelette posted:Ugh! Yeah, that's a bummer for me, too. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was the same way, and that was a PC exclusive.  Oh well, I can deal.
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Nov 29, 2012 01:40
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gibbed posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3516417&userid=95254&perpage=40&pagenumber=1#post410017676 I don't know why I didn't just check back through this thread. This works perfectly. Thanks gibbed!
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Nov 29, 2012 01:41
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The Insane Edition Unlockable content pack isn't even a download, it's literally a code you punch in and a popup appears telling you unlocked it.
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Nov 29, 2012 01:51
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Dan Didio posted:The Insane Edition Unlockable content pack isn't even a download, it's literally a code you punch in and a popup appears telling you unlocked it.
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Nov 29, 2012 01:55
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gibbed posted:Yeah I'm still waiting for my Digital Deluxe content code from Steam (basically same thing as the Insane Edition contents), they haven't given those out yet. I was kind of surprised, because instead of just an Xbox Live redemption code like the Uplay Multiplayer Pass, you have to go into options, then extras, then unlockable content and then it literally just says 'yep, good work', then you get a popup during the tutorial telling you what it unlocked. Really wierd way of doing it.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:03
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I wonder how trivial it will be to unlock those pre-order bonuses by, like, changing a 0 to a 1.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I wonder how trivial it will be to unlock those pre-order bonuses by, like, changing a 0 to a 1. If it works the same way I can't imagine it'd be much work, that said, they're not pre-order bonuses, actual content you pay extra for, so it's a bit skeevy, but that's never stopped anyone here before.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:08
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Captain Novolin posted:Uplay isn't too bad in this game, if you set it to offline you can't do multiplayer and such, but there really isn't any reason to that it if you're offline anyway. UPlay has gradually evolved from a horribly annoying and intrusive system to something actually quite decent. I rather like Ubi's achievements/unlocks system they have going.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:12
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Is it even possible to download FC3 from the Ubishop in EU right now? It still shows up as a "preorder" for me even though it's already released on Steam.
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Dan Didio posted:If it works the same way I can't imagine it'd be much work, that said, they're not pre-order bonuses, actual content you pay extra for, so it's a bit skeevy, but that's never stopped anyone here before.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:14
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Mokinokaro posted:UPlay has gradually evolved from a horribly annoying and intrusive system to something actually quite decent. If the UPlay servers go down, your game crashes. gibbed posted:The Insane Edition/Digital Deluxe content pack is all of the preorder DLC for every retailer, aside from the soundtrack/survival guide. I posted about this earlier in the thread. Do you need to unlock the digital deluxe content with a code?
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Nov 29, 2012 02:15
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swissmercenary posted:I liked FarCry 1 because the main character reminded of myself. No, I was not an ex-special forces assassin, but he did talk to himself and so do I. I don't answer to myself tho. RIGHT NOW I'M SO PISSED OFF IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY KNOW I'M COMING OR NOT The story in FC1 was an excellent 80s action movie. Far Cry 2 and 3's stories had writers talking about how good they would be and they're utter poo poo. I did 3 main missions in 3 and the story is atrocious compared to how great everything else is.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:16
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Adraeus posted:Do you need to unlock the digital deluxe content with a code?
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Nov 29, 2012 02:17
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I just wanted to say, gibbed, I'm rooting for you! I'm very hopeful we'll have a way to fix the drat UI. Can't wait to VPN and get my hands on this bad boy. e: Anyone try multiplayer yet? I'm curious if there are any obvious terrible things about it like no dedicated servers, matchmaking only, uPlay down means servers are down.. etc. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Nov 29, 2012 02:18
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GUI posted:I did 3 main missions in 3 and the story is atrocious compared to how great everything else is. The characters at least seemed decently entertaining from the Giantbomb quick look at least (the island folks I mean, not Brody's annoying friends.)
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Nov 29, 2012 02:27
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GUI posted:I did 3 main missions in 3 and the story is atrocious compared to how great everything else is. In my opinion, "atrocious" is an exaggeration. I happen to like the story.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:28
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Mokinokaro posted:The characters at least seemed decently entertaining from the Giantbomb quick look at least (the island folks I mean, not Brody's annoying friends.) It's alright once you come to terms with the fact that you are playing as a cowardly douche that gets his skills/courage from magical tattoos.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:31
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Game seems awesome, but I'm only an hour in, i.e. since the moment it unlocked. Now I need to go to bed Performance impressions on a 560ti 2GB: With DX11, 1920x1080, SSAO, no AA and everything else as high as it goes (unless it goes to ultra) I'm getting between 30 and 40 FPS so far with the newest beta drivers. Haven't been in a massive firefight yet or generally been around much, so I might end up dropping it a notch.
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Nov 29, 2012 02:31
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I was originally gonna play on the hardest difficulty but I think I'm changing my mind. I'm basically near-death as soon as someone starts shooting at me and there's no quicksaves to abuse like in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., hahah. Also, I just downloaded the latest NVIDIA beta drivers as mentioned above and now I can turn shadows back up to Very High and still get better performance than I was getting before. These drivers are a must for NVIDIA users. Cardboard Box fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Nov 29, 2012 02:44
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Cardboard Box posted:I was originally gonna play on the hardest difficulty but I think I'm changing my mind. I'm basically near-death as soon as someone starts shooting at me and there's no quicksaves to abuse like in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., hahah. Just pull out all the bullets with your teeth, dude!
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Nov 29, 2012 02:48
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UrbanSurgeon posted:Do you know if this works? I'm willing to give it a try but some confirmation would be great I'm willing to be a gifting guinea pig to see if it works, I really want this game.
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Nov 29, 2012 03:30
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The Nvidia Farcry 3 beta drivers are hilariously unstable on my 670 GTX. I've had the game have prolonged and beautiful meltdowns the likes of which I haven't seen since my hardcore overclocking days on several occasions now. Texture explosions, weird color corruption, terrain literally exploding out at each vert in the mesh. Amazing GPU breakdown stuff. My temps are totally fine I've been monitoring them after the crazyness started, at least totally fine for an nvidia card  81C underload thanks Nvidia.Back to retail drivers for me! Calipark fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Nov 29, 2012 03:39
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I wonder how loose the targeting is on dual stealth kills. It's not a "knife in each hand" thing like in Assassin's Creed, it's "jump on guy 1, then jump on guy 2". How close do they have to be to each other to make it work?
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Nov 29, 2012 03:40
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Speedball posted:I wonder how loose the targeting is on dual stealth kills. It's not a "knife in each hand" thing like in Assassin's Creed, it's "jump on guy 1, then jump on guy 2". How close do they have to be to each other to make it work? I've seen the single takedown activate from some pretty long ranges and some sketchy situations, so I imagine it's probably pretty forgiving.
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Nov 29, 2012 03:45
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Is it normal that the game is locking me to Dx9 mode, even when I start it through the dx11 exe?
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Nov 29, 2012 03:54
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Th lip-sync and the conversation animations in the sidequests in this game are so awful.
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Nov 29, 2012 04:18
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Some questions: How well does the game fix FC2's glaring issues? Does it use Ubi's lovely DRM that I've heard so much about but never actually had to endure? What does Uplay do? How much of a pain in the rear end is it?
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Some questions: Pretty well. I haven't got far into it so I can't say how repetitive it is, but it seems to be much better designed mechanically and there doesn't seem to be any respawning enemies in the same, annoying way that Far Cry 2 had them. DoctorStrangelove posted:Does it use Ubi's lovely DRM that I've heard so much about but never actually had to endure? No, they've been phasing that system out, I believe. DoctorStrangelove posted:What does Uplay do? How much of a pain in the rear end is it? UPlay is basically a service for playing all Ubisoft games, you can use points you get from playing Ubisoft games to unlock skins, cheats, weapons, etc. in the games, basically. I think it has some multiplayer functionality as well and maybe is the way they validate new installs on PC?
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Nov 29, 2012 04:22
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Sounds good. If I come into some money, I'll see about picking this one up.
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Captain Novolin posted:Uplay isn't too bad in this game, if you set it to offline you can't do multiplayer and such, but there really isn't any reason to that it if you're offline anyway. I wouldn't trust the uplay cloud too much. It completely lost my very near the finish AC2 save this summer forcing me to youtube the ending.
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