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[fragger]

I think I found fragger's crab :) Well, even if it wasn't fragger's, you won't find this crab any more.  :-D

Hey! I don't have any crabs! :-()

I agree about the game world, it's beautiful and diverse, and I think we could be finding new stuff for ages. There are temple ruins all over the place. I like how the evidence for different periods of history is scattered all over the islands - ancient temples, remains of shipwrecks from different periods, old WW2-era forts, I even found a couple of rusting crash-landed Zeros.

I saw a stingray in the water the other night, and came across a pair of giant tortoises that pulled themselves into their shells when I got close 8) Just when you think you've spotted all the creature types, something new pops up.

[PZ]

Hey! I don't have any crabs! :-()

I agree about the game world, it's beautiful and diverse, and I think we could be finding new stuff for ages. There are temple ruins all over the place. I like how the evidence for different periods of history is scattered all over the islands - ancient temples, remains of shipwrecks from different periods, old WW2-era forts, I even found a couple of rusting crash-landed Zeros.

I saw a stingray in the water the other night, and came across a pair of giant tortoises that pulled themselves into their shells when I got close 8) Just when you think you've spotted all the creature types, something new pops up.

This is one of the reasons I like the game so much.  Despite my complaints about the linearity of the main missions, I'm discovering that they are not as annoying to me as I originally thought they would be.  My test of how much I like a game is how often I take time to play it, and if the anticipation of playing gets me excited.  So far, the game is slowly becoming more interesting to me especially when I read of the adventures that many of you are having.

[fragger]

It was probably the realisation that the main missions were going down the CoD path that distressed me :-() It was like, "Oh no, not this! What have they done?!" Fortunately a lot of the mains aren't real long and as I said elsewhere, once you've done them and know what to expect they'll probably go a lot easier.

There is a ton of fun to be had outside of those, and you can spend hours just driving around taking in the scenery.

Thunderstorms are cool, you can almost smell the ozone in the air :-X

[Art Blade]

indeed, and agree.. I love the environment with the free-roam aspect and all its surprises and that easily helps overcome some irrelevant main mission..  :-()

during a mission
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under water
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nice view
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inside a temple
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pedestrians, holiday feeling
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they actually moan their dead
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some road trip
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temple view
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can't stop looking at it
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it's probably a nice bar..
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[durian]

Great screenies.  :-X

[fragger]

Nice ones all, Art :-X :)

Some of those sunsets are amazing. In fact all the skies in FC3 are strikingly realistic. I've been trying to w@&k out if they're actually parallaxed photos that are subtly swapped when you're not looking to reflect time of day, of if they are in fact fractally generated like FC2's. If so, then it's a remarkable job.

[PZ]

Fantastic; live seeing your pics, Art  :-X

[fragger]

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[spearhead_22]

Very nice screenshots, Art and fragger  :-X. I am tempted to capture a few of my own and put them up here  :)

[Art Blade]

cheers, guys :) And lol, fragger 

My first captured outpost on the southern map. Nothing special but I can't stop looking at it  :)
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[PZ]

  :-X

[Dweller_Benthos]

indeed, and agree.. I love the environment with the free-roam aspect and all its surprises and that easily helps overcome some irrelevant main mission..  :-()

temple view
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I wonder if that's the same place as depicted in this shot from the Minecraft version....

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I really need to get this game installed, it's just sitting there on the desk mocking me every time I play Minecraft.

[Art Blade]

I'm quite positive it is, D_B. There is a big tree in the centre, and that is indeed where the Temple is and what it looks like there.  :) Stop MC for a while and marvel at the islands and their secrets :)

[fragger]

Here's one of those booby-trap situations. Three pirates hang around a burning car:

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Then BOOM! Pirates on toast! The Ratyak are presumably behind these traps, but you never see them putting them in place. You just see the pirates standing around watching it until it blows up. A split second after I took this shot, the guy closest to the car went flying >:D

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This is a fun location, a small township near the centre of the north island. Part of a mission takes place here, where you and a bunch of Ratyak guys ambush some pirates who are transporting Ratyak prisoners and you have to snipe from the top of the water tower (out of frame to the left here), then jump into a truck and chase the APC. I tried to get a screenie of the map location but the map picture didn't come out.

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I took the photo from the top of this church tower (just like Sefapane!) Bad guys seem to keep spawning - well, arriving from outside town, same thing - but not at a rate that becomes overwhelming, just a few at a time. They don't appear to be able to climb ladders so they can't get to you, and unlike the church tower in Sefapane, this one has a window on every side that you can look out of. A fun hold-the-fort fight that can last as long as your ammo holds out (you can always nip out between waves and snaffle the dead guys' ammo, if you have a weapon for it - or take one of theirs).

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Here's why you sometimes get a rude surprise in a river! Spot the croc:

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Here he is:

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They just lie there at the water's edge until something comes close. And that led to one of the coolest things I've seen in the game so far. Shortly after I took this, a goat wandered too close to the water's edge and the croc shot out, grabbed the goat and pulled it under. I thought that was brilliant 8)

Here's another one (it's actually dead, this is after I blasted it with a shottie):

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[Art Blade]

Nice pics man  :) :-X Those crocs are really hard to spot until they jump right at you.

Here is a situation similar to fragger's booby trap pics: I approached and the car was on fire, to the left is a location where locals w@&k and walk around. Then the car blew up and took out the mercs

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[fragger]

 :-X That's the one!

The explosions look great in this game!

[Dweller_Benthos]

I'm quite positive it is, D_B. There is a big tree in the centre, and that is indeed where the Temple is and what it looks like there.  :) Stop MC for a while and marvel at the islands and their secrets :)

I'm going to try this weekend, really I am, but the Feed The Beast mods for Minecraft have just so many cool things to build. Made a jet pack and laser last night, more fun. Now to figure out how to tap an oil well, and w@&k up to getting a nuclear reactor going. Though my solar panels are giving me plenty of power for what I need right now.

[Art Blade]

 :-D

OK, I guess 20 hours straight, missions only and a few upgrades for being able to carry more than one weapon at least, and you're back to MC. If it takes longer.. like 120 hours straight.. then you might have started to like FC3 without thinking..  ^-^

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yeah, unlike you, I need to sleep now and then, lol.

[Art Blade]

he knows me well, he knows me so damn well  ^-^

[PZ]

Those are fantastic shots guys  :-X

fragger, when you were in that Church tower, were you on that mission or just free roaming?

I need to start experimenting with mines and C4 - something like sneaking down to plant C4 on a truck where the pirates have walked away momentarily.

[fragger]

I was just traipsing around, PZ. I came across the town and thought, "Hey, this is a cool little village" the realised it was where that mission took place. It clicked when I saw the water tower :-()

[PZ]

Excellent news - that means that the pirates come back to the area and you can continue to have a good time experimenting.  :-X

[fragger]

There's another place where the pirates keep respawning, that dock-type area where you rescue one of your friends - Keith, I think his name is, the scruffy doper with the baseball cap. I can't remember where on the map it is, only that you never run out of pirates there. Another place is the lumber yard, wherever that was - it's too soon in the game to remember where all these places are :-\\

[fragger]

And that led to one of the coolest things I've seen in the game so far. Shortly after I took this, a goat wandered too close to the water's edge and the croc shot out, grabbed the goat and pulled it under. I thought that was brilliant 8)

Now I've seen a villager get taken by a croc ??? What a nitwit...