"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> After another hour of replaying the same few seconds of game, I got 
>>> sufficiently lucky with my grenades to kill everybody. But I now have, 
>>> like, 2% health left.
>>>
>>> I sneak into a room and kill Doyal. Fricken' FINALLY the game ends!! >_<
>>
>>    You know you can just run past them all and then kill Doyal? Haha... 
>> :)
>
> Oh, SURE, because 15 guys with rocket launchers might somehow all 
> simultaneously miss me. :-P

    Oh, SURE, they can shoot your ass off with RL's, no problem. But you 
didn't arrive there with enough ammo to do what I said, so you would have no 
chance really. What you do do is: with your sniper rifle, take out the guy, 
(or there might be two of them, can't remember), to the right on the 
platform, and the guy to the left of you on that small platform, (near the 
mountainside). This will alert all the others because you've fired your 
sniper rifle. The rest all bundle together behind those tanks, and by then, 
you have reached the steps before turning the corner. You then take a deep 
breath and lob a grenade over the top of the tanks, they immediately start 
firing their RL's killing eachother, and to make things worse for them, you 
do a runner through them all. Seriously, I've done it, but that's the harder 
way, it's easier to do just by running through them.


>
>>> I BEAT FARCRY, BITCHES!!!
>>
>>    LoL! Enjoyable game eh? :o)
>
> It's certainly a lot different to, say HalfLife.
>
> In HalfLife, you methodically worth through a room at a time, killing 
> everything inside. (And almost everything killable makes enough racket 
> that you can tell when you're alone or not.)
>
> In FarCry, there generally aren't any "rooms". And even if there are, 
> people tend to wander around and follow you. The number of times I've gone 
> somewhere, killed everything, started looking around for ammo and stuff 
> and some guy has crept up from somewhere and frightened the living 
> daylights out of me!

   Yeah, it has its scary moments, that's true.


>
> Similarly, in many places in FarCry, killing *everything* would be 
> absurdly difficult, and your best bet is actually to sneak past without 
> firing a shot.

     Yep, that's what it's all about. I played stealthily nearly all of the 
time and I've had games where there are no enemies left whatsoever. I felt 
all alone, just like you Andrew.  ;)


>
> For example, the first time I played it, the second island with the radio 
> antenna was really hard. There's snipers and guys with rocket launchers 
> and all the rest of it. But then I reinstalled Windoze, and had to play 
> again from the beginning. This time, I swam underwater to the *back* of 
> the island, killed the three people guarding that end, and blew up the 
> radio tower. The snipers and rocket boys never even took a shot at me. ;-)

    Yes, I did that trick too, but with me, I went back and took 'em out! 
<eg>


>
> There seems to be quite a few points in the game where you can take... 
> obscure routes to improve your odds significantly.

     Yes, FC was good for this with very unlinear game-play, (apart from 
inside buildings, that is). Did you climb mountains? When I first played it, 
I didn't think you could, but if you find the right place, you can. ;)


>
> How old is this game BTW? The foliage rendering is quite impressive, but 
> many other things about the game look a little low-tech. (E.g., character 
> movements, the cutscenes, etc.)

    Four years old now, I think. 3d gaming has moved a notch up since 
though.


>
> BTW... sticky ladders, much?!

   Wuh... ?  O-O


>
>> Now play FarCry 2. Coming your way soon. It's supposed to be superb and 
>> made with the new Dunia engine.
>
> Uh... If it's a new game, then I doubt that a puny little GeForce 7900GT 
> is sufficiently powerful to run it.

     PLEASE SWAP ME YOUR 7900GT FOR MY 6600GT!! Heh... ;)

    I don't know why you keep moaning about this. I'm playing Crysis on mine 
with fairly good settings. Mostly medium, some low, and some high. I get 
around 10 to 18 fps which is 'playable'. Of, course, when I get some 'heavy' 
action, it will slow down even further, but it won't lock up, and I still 
continue.

    You know before playing a game that you can disable all of the services 
running in the background apart fom MS services? I don't normally do this, 
but when I have, I gain about 3-5 fps across the board.

     ~Steve~


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