I'm having a surprising amount of fun with this. Vanilla Far Cry 2 is considered the most heavily flawed in the entire series due to some baffling design decisions, like outposts you just cleared respawning a mere 5 minutes later, or enemies being even worse bullet sponges than in modern Far Cry games.
This mod fixes the worst problems, and adds some really cool features of its own.
Mod link:
https://www.nexusmods.com/farcry2/mods/292
The Realism Plus mod makes combat way more lethal so there's no more bullet sponges. Also makes you a little more vulnerable, so you have to use cover and try to outflank the enemy instead of blindly charging in.
When all enemies in an outpost have been killed, it will take 45 minutes of real time before it can respawn, unlike vanilla where it happens almost instantly. This is pure real time, going to sleep doesn't make respawns happen sooner.
The game is set in a country in a state of civil war between two factions, but in vanilla you never saw any of it. With the mod, there is enemy in-fighting based on which faction they belong to.
But most importantly, an optional feature of the mod is minimal navigation, which makes navigating the world a lot more interesting.
This feature removes all markers from your GPS, only keeping your own position on it.
It also removes your own position from the paper map you can pull out, but leaves objective markers on it. So to find your objective, you have to pull out your map, compare your position with the GPS (which is very zoomed in, so it's often not obvious where you are), and determine your location by examining your surroundings. It makes navigation require some actual effort instead of merely following an arrow on your compass.
Far Cry 2 also has some inherent features that make it the best game in the series.
There's less of a story focus, instead you openly explore as a mercenary, doing odd jobs for arms dealers and looking for diamonds to buy better weapons with.
The game has the best fire physics in the series. Setting fire to the dry grass and driving away enemies by smoking out their position is a great way to control the battlefield, but the fire can easily spread out of control and become a problem for you, too.
Higher caliber bullets can punch through thin walls, particularly wooden and sheet metal walls, and hurt enemies behind (or you - if you're under fire, not every cover will guarantee safety).
It's a really solid open world shooty game with excellent navigation mechanics. The mod really unlocks the game's untapped potential. Great stuff.
This mod fixes the worst problems, and adds some really cool features of its own.
Mod link:
https://www.nexusmods.com/farcry2/mods/292
The Realism Plus mod makes combat way more lethal so there's no more bullet sponges. Also makes you a little more vulnerable, so you have to use cover and try to outflank the enemy instead of blindly charging in.
When all enemies in an outpost have been killed, it will take 45 minutes of real time before it can respawn, unlike vanilla where it happens almost instantly. This is pure real time, going to sleep doesn't make respawns happen sooner.
The game is set in a country in a state of civil war between two factions, but in vanilla you never saw any of it. With the mod, there is enemy in-fighting based on which faction they belong to.
But most importantly, an optional feature of the mod is minimal navigation, which makes navigating the world a lot more interesting.
This feature removes all markers from your GPS, only keeping your own position on it.
It also removes your own position from the paper map you can pull out, but leaves objective markers on it. So to find your objective, you have to pull out your map, compare your position with the GPS (which is very zoomed in, so it's often not obvious where you are), and determine your location by examining your surroundings. It makes navigation require some actual effort instead of merely following an arrow on your compass.
Far Cry 2 also has some inherent features that make it the best game in the series.
There's less of a story focus, instead you openly explore as a mercenary, doing odd jobs for arms dealers and looking for diamonds to buy better weapons with.
The game has the best fire physics in the series. Setting fire to the dry grass and driving away enemies by smoking out their position is a great way to control the battlefield, but the fire can easily spread out of control and become a problem for you, too.
Higher caliber bullets can punch through thin walls, particularly wooden and sheet metal walls, and hurt enemies behind (or you - if you're under fire, not every cover will guarantee safety).
It's a really solid open world shooty game with excellent navigation mechanics. The mod really unlocks the game's untapped potential. Great stuff.
