a side effect of that is this makes for an extremely silly design choice. EVERY sim (in the city that you do not get to freely travel), will instead, conveniently come to you, several times a day. they all walk down your sidewalk several times a day. why? because reasons.
and you wave people in like you're holding up a car wash sign or trying to bring in traffic to your hotdog stand with a hotdog outfit. they can be 4 houses down the street. you just plant down a stereo in your front yard and yell at complete strangers on the sidewalk to come dance with you. its better than going through a load screen to go meet new people... but its just ridiculous.
i really liked fc3 and blood dragon, but since then ubi has just been milking the franchise. all they're doing is repackaging the same product, playing it safe, instead of coming up with something refreshing, intriguing, etc.
in this case the setting is just preposterous. not the cult part, but the single hero part... there's no "explaining" that away. its just plain ludicrous. not even an undercover cia/fbi/etc agent would play out like this, with no backup/ presence/footprint.
this single hero with no law... is the kinda stuff you'd imagine in post-apocalypse game or a lawless wild west game, not modern day USA with functional government/laws/etc.. the setting is a plain insult to your intelligence, which breaks ability to immerse and suspend disbelief. period.
@7tizz: my point exactly though, Waco did not go unnoticed by the government. the govt didn't send in a single guy to murder everyone while they leave the state of Texas and act like they have no clue it exists...
@dev-raid1: i'm not saying cults are unbelievable.. i'm talking about the response.. or lack there of... i can only suspend disbelief so much. even in a remote place like Montana, the amount of violence in Far Cry games, is not something "contained" to back roads and a few farms.. there's things like Air Traffic Control, for instance.. and traffic on the roads as well.. and you know, normal people with internet and cell phones linked to the "outside world"not to mention there's FBI offices just about everywhere, State Troopers, County Sheriff, Fire Dept, City and State officials, etc etc etc...
don't get me wrong, i loved the tv show "Banshee" but even in that there was FBI, US Army, and criminals on a watch list, etc. the thing about small towns is that the local PD knows absolutely everyone.
@7tizz: oh? this is present day? you mean minus the US Government, Police, Military, common sense setting, etc... Just a single hero laying down the law with none of those things to get in your way, shooting/killing hundreds of nobodies, because video game...
resurrection marks an error in your decisions. rather than buying a ton of scrolls and investing a talent in morning person... rather, reassess your toolkit. you should find ways to avoid death. the exception may be early on when your toolkit is lacking because of bad presets. mid-late game you should have so many ways to survive/outplay/destroy the enemy that rez scrolls shouldn't even factor in.
good that you guys properly call it a closed beta... because the company is trying to call it an open beta... (requires pre-order so open is not true...)
@oligarchy: it means both "servers" are actually a single server. the login is separated by faction for reasons, but everyone will be playing together (against each other) on one server.
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