Screenshots

[Art Blade]

Nice view.
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[Binnatics]

Fake mountains

Spoiler

Sorry, couldn't resist :-D

[Art Blade]

 :-D

[PZ]

Maybe fragger will find a secret pathway to the top of those peaks

[Binnatics]

Fingers crossed 8-X

[nexor]

Maybe fragger will find a secret pathway to the top of those peaks

Even if there's not one, fragger will find one   :-D

[fragger]

I'll try mate, I'll certainly try :-D

Dang... I just played for a few hours and forgot to try that gyrocopter thing, i.e. see how far to the edge of the map I could fly. I was too busy getting exasperated to the point of apoplexy in my latest main mission :D And I had to get through it all, or it was right back to the beginning of it next time. Damn checkpoints...

[fragger]

Here's an attempt I made to fly to the extremity of the map:

Getting close (I'm in the gyro, looking sideways):

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Landed, and tantalizingly close:

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Can I get up to the top of that ridge?

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No - a few steps further up and I get this, with a ten-second timer to get back:

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Here's where I landed (white circle, centre screen). There's lots more boundary to try, however...

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[fragger]

A few other random pics:

I like this thing, a semi-automatic crossbow. It takes a clip of bolts and will fire just as fast as you can pull the trigger. Pincushion time...

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Back in the high country, courtesy of Willis and his trademark yellow Cessna. He's not as nice a guy this time around, and complains about the douchebag he had to nursemaid on his last assignment. No, really, he does.

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*Boomff*! Should have read the local road rules, mate. Elephants have right-of-way in Kyrat.

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I told him not to eat that imported fish from Rook Island, but he wouldn't listen.

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Love me, love my yak. Would you call this a pack-yak?

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"If I ever get outta here, I'm goin' to Kathmandu..."

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[nexor]

That little crossbow is great for stealth, use it everytime I want to take an outpost silently   
Was the Yak following the guy fragger? haven't come across one carrying a pack, nice find  :-X

[JRD]

Wow... a warning countdown!  ???

And if you keep going? Headshot? Sudden death?

I like how they did it in FC2... you pass out in the desert and wake up back on the map... subtle but efficient way of keeping you into the game world without breaking the immersion. This warning seems too harsh.

Man... this game looks fun but I keep being drawn away from it due to the ridiculously main mission. They ruined it for me (and for many of us, of course) but I still want this game.  :-(

[nexor]

I'm gritting my teeth while playing, do a lot of other things between main missions just to get rid of the frustration   >:((
There are some missions you can abort and do it at a later stage, some you cannot because the mission is in multiple parts   :D

[fragger]

Was the Yak following the guy fragger? haven't come across one carrying a pack, nice find  :-X

No, it's a one-off thing. That marked the beginning of a mission for Longinus, one where you have to acquire an oxygen mask find a bunch of stuff in a blizzard way up in the Himalayas. The Sherpa takes you up there, ostensibly, and brings you back, although you don't see him do it. When you go near him the mission begins - fade out, fade in, and bingo, you're up in the mountains. Same deal to get back out after you've found the stuff.

[PZ]

Still seriously impressive graphics  :-X

[fragger]

I finally got hold of the modified WWII-era MG42, in its present day form a.k.a. the "Buzzsaw". Bitchin'... >:D This is a wicked weapon.

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Such a tranquil scene, soon to be shattered by mayhem and madness. Enjoy your peaceful morning dip while you can, Jumbo.

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Nice nose job, bub. This was the result of a glitch which also popped up occasionally in FC3. The guy was technically dead in that he was lying on the ground unmoving, but still showed up as an active enemy on the minimap - and his eyes would periodically blink. Spooky. I put one in his schnoz and got a "headshot" XP bonus. Easiest headshot ever 8)

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King's Bridge, gateway to the Northern Region.

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[Binnatics]

Nice pictures Fragger! I remember that glitch of an undead soldier. Happened to me a couple of times, I think I even saw it happen once in a coop game, but I'm not completely sure. The bullet damage to the nose is new? I don't remember ever having seen such a wound in FC games.

[fragger]

After I took that nose-wound picture I went a short way away to do something else, and when I came back the wound had disappeared and the guy's nose was back to normal.

They can heal themselves even when they're dead :-()

[Binnatics]

 

[Art Blade]

When I had the idea to toss a sticky C-4 at a bear's arse, it was already funny seeing that bear walking with a butt cork around. Then the bear saw the last man of the outpost, a heavy. I detonated the bear which took out the heavy and that was that, outpost liberated. But taking that screenshot the moment the bear flipped.. lucky strike  :-D

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[Binnatics]

 

Poor beast ^-^

[fragger]

Nicely timed screenie, Art :-X

[fragger]

Speaking of flying bears...

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A couple of nifty parking jobs - and for once I wasn't responsible for them. The AIs did it all by themselves. I've taught them well... :-()

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[Art Blade]

Speaking of flying bears...

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MUAHAHAHAHA!


that has to be the picture of the year 2014, fragger, +1  :-X bloody excellent!

[Art Blade]

By the way, the newest patch (PC only) 1.6.0 added a toggle key for the HUD. Press F11 to remove most of it (you'll still see marked locations and arrows pointing to nearby events but you can toggle these individually from the options menu).

Here two examples.

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[Binnatics]

Nice! :)

Indeed an excellent picture Fragger!  :-X