Hi guys.

Anybody here played Farcry?

I am getting *hacked off* with playing the same 2 minutes of the game, 
endlessly, over and over. I'm on a large boat with a radio jamming tower 
that I'm supposed to blow up. The trouble is, as soon as I blow it up, a 
hellicopter appears and starts shooting at me. And, as far as I can 
tell, the helicopter is indescrustable. No matter how much ammo I pummel 
it with, it just keeps shooting at me. Better still, the ship is 
sinking, and apparently you can't shoot and swim at the same time.

In other words, you've got 30 second to take down this chopper, or you 
die. Except that no matter how much I shoot it, it won't come down.

There's a very large cache of rockets on the ship [which conviniently 
dissappears as soon as you blow up the tower]. I had thought maybe 
that's a hint. But even if you use the rocket launcher the helicopter 
cannot be destroyed. I counted 10 direct hits, and it's still in the air.

(All the other helicopters I've met so far, you just need to shoot the 
gunner and you stop being shot at. For some reason that doesn't work here.)

I am now seriously loosing my temper with the game. This isn't fun at 
all - it's *boring*! The enemy is invulnerable, and that doesn't make 
for a very fair fight.

Can *anybody* tell me how to get rid of the damn chopper?! >_<

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Hi guys.
>
> Anybody here played Farcry?

Sure. I admit, I used cheats for over half the game. I suck at FPS, but was
enjoying the story.

The battle you describe is a boss battle well over 2/3 of the way through
the game. If you're playing hrough the game, you'll have a large abount of
rockets and a lot of other advanced weapons. It's still hard though.

You're playing the demo?

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>
> Can *anybody* tell me how to get rid of the damn chopper?! >_<
>

Here's a little advice. As soon as you blow up the transmitter, abandon the
ship. Swim as fast as you can to shore and fight the helecopter from there.
There's some cover on the beach you can use.

Staying on the ship is a loosing prospect.

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> Sure. I admit, I used cheats for over half the game. I suck at FPS, but was
> enjoying the story.

I had to cheat a little to destroy the final land-based tower. I 
discovered that due to some kind of glitch in the game engine, it's 
possible to "walk" up an apparently vertical sea cliff. From there, you 
can take out all the guys with rocket launchers. (I spent 4 hours 
trying, and every time I got near I just got hit by so many rockets I 
couldn't get within 4 miles of my objective before I was dead. And I 
have no sniper bullets left, so only short-range guns.)

> The battle you describe is a boss battle well over 2/3 of the way through
> the game. If you're playing hrough the game, you'll have a large abount of
> rockets and a lot of other advanced weapons. It's still hard though.

Well, no, you can only carry 4 weapons at once. This is the first battle 
where I've actually put down a weapon I'm already carrying. (I haven't 
used the pistol for ages, so I figured I'd leave that and try the rocket 
launcher.) I have 24 rockets in total. The vast majority of them never 
hit their target. But even when they score a direct hit, no damage is 
evident. It appears that the helicopter can't be destroyed by rockets, 
and you're supposed to do something "else". I have no idea what though.

[I did try swimming off the ship and making my stand from the land 
(which won't sink). But that doesn't work either. The explosion takes 
almost all your health off you. And if you start swimming *after* the 
explosion, you just get shot to pieces.]

I find it extremely unfair that the enemy can see you underwater when 
*you* can't see anything underwater!

> You're playing the demo?



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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> But even when they score a direct hit, no damage is
> evident. It appears that the helicopter can't be destroyed by rockets,
> and you're supposed to do something "else". I have no idea what though.

Keep hitting it. It will blow up eventually. As I said, it's a boss battle.
It's not supposed to be easy.
The guy in the helecopter is the guy behind everything. You'll meet him
again once.

> [I did try swimming off the ship and making my stand from the land
> (which won't sink). But that doesn't work either. The explosion takes
> almost all your health off you. And if you start swimming *after* the
> explosion, you just get shot to pieces.]

It does work. It's the recommended strategy. Jump and swim immediatly, don't
wait for the count down to finish or anything. If you take the direct line,
you can almost be at the beach before the ship explodes

> I find it extremely unfair that the enemy can see you underwater when
> *you* can't see anything underwater!

You get hit a lot less underwater than swimming on the surface. Go deep.

Or just use cheats.

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> Keep hitting it. It will blow up eventually. As I said, it's a boss battle.
> It's not supposed to be easy.

Hmm, I've only got 24 rockets. And I'm usually dead long before I get to 
use 'em all anyway. If I can see him, he can see me. And his aim is far 
better than mine...

[After all, he has a gun, I'm using slot rockets.]

>> [I did try swimming off the ship and making my stand from the land
>> (which won't sink). But that doesn't work either. The explosion takes
>> almost all your health off you. And if you start swimming *after* the
>> explosion, you just get shot to pieces.]
> 
> It does work. It's the recommended strategy. Jump and swim immediatly, don't
> wait for the count down to finish or anything. If you take the direct line,
> you can almost be at the beach before the ship explodes

Well, I tried that, and I unded up with 80% health, 0% armour, and a 
chopper shooting at me. There's also very little cover...

> You get hit a lot less underwater than swimming on the surface. Go deep.

Doesn't seem to make any difference.

> Or just use cheats.

Now what would be the point of that? ;-)

Seriously. Load up Quake II. Open the console. Type "map boss2". Kill 
the Makron. Congratulations, you just completed Q2 in, what, 120 
seconds? Woo.

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> > Keep hitting it. It will blow up eventually. As I said, it's a boss
battle.
> > It's not supposed to be easy.
>
> Hmm, I've only got 24 rockets. And I'm usually dead long before I get to
> use 'em all anyway. If I can see him, he can see me. And his aim is far
> better than mine...

What other weapons do you have? P90? AG36? OICW?

> Well, I tried that, and I unded up with 80% health, 0% armour, and a
> chopper shooting at me. There's also very little cover...

More than in the middle of the ocean. You can run a bit inland, if you want.
Here's the suggestion from Gamespot

" Since Crow's on a helicopter, you're going to be at a marked disadvantage
if you actually stay on the ship; his minigun will cut you to pieces as soon
as the water rises enough to force you to swim, and even before that occurs,
you'll have a tough time dodging his fire without getting hit. The thing is,
although Jack seems to think the front of the ship is the safest spot to
survive the explosion, you're actually better off jumping overboard as soon
as you plant your explosives, and swimming towards shore. You may take a bit
of damage from the explosion, since you won't be able to move as quickly,
but you should survive, at any rate.
When you're ashore, pick a sizable palm tree and stand next to it as Crow
flies in. Crow's attack heli moves in the same fashion as the previous
choppers you've seen; it'll swoop around until it's close, and then it'll
start strafing around your position, so that Crow can fire on you from the
minigunner's position. If you picked a big enough palm tree, though, you
should be able to simply hide behind the trunk whenever Crow fires, thus
rendering you able to survive the fight without taking any damage at all, in
most cases. All you need to do is sit behind the tree, moving so that Crow
is on the opposite side, and occasionally pop out and fire a rocket at the
helicopter. You'll obviously want to do this when the chopper is moving
slowly; you only have a maximum of 14 rocket rounds, and the helicopter can
take nine or so hits before it flies off and explodes. If you run out of
rockets, switch over to your OICW and use its HE rounds to finish the
helicopter off. "

> > Or just use cheats.
>
> Now what would be the point of that? ;-)


If you're stuck and want to get past that point so you can get on with the
rest of the game, why not?

> Seriously. Load up Quake II. Open the console. Type "map boss2". Kill
> the Makron. Congratulations, you just completed Q2 in, what, 120
> seconds? Woo.

Yay. What's the point? I don't know about you, but I play games because I
enjoy them, not because I want to boast I beat the game in some record time.

I'm suggesting cheating through one (difficult) section, so you can get on
with the rest of the game (which I assume you're enjoying).
If you're not enjoying the game, however, and you don't want to go further,
take the CD out and use it as a coaster.

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Hi guys.
>
> Anybody here played Farcry?


     Yep, again and again and again...  ;)  It's not impossible, just make 
sure you hit it 14 times with the RL and the chopper will makes it's escape 
because it's too damaged. You can't bring it down and you can't kill the 
bossman because he comes back later in the game. You'll enjoy the rest after 
that episode, but if you think that's hard, wait until you get to the 
volcano.  :)

    ~Steve~



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St. wrote:
> but if you think that's hard, wait until you get to the 
> volcano.  :)

Yeah. Even the sniper rifle isn't very useful against a volcano. ;-)

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          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>> but if you think that's hard, wait until you get to the volcano.  :)
>
> Yeah. Even the sniper rifle isn't very useful against a volcano. ;-)

   Heh, yeah, the volcano being all powerful an' all...  :)

  Actually, that last level is the easiest of the lot when you know how, but 
I won't spoil it for Andrew.  ;)

    ~Steve~


>
> -- 
>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
>          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
>     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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