But here is the secret that only the 2008 veterans know: The annoyance was the point.
That is the real Far Cry 2.
In the vanilla 1.00 and 1.02 patches, your buddies (the mercenaries who helped you) were mortal. Truly mortal. If you got ambushed and went down, a buddy would sprint through gunfire to jam a syringe into your chest. But if that buddy took a stray bullet during the rescue? They died. Permanently. Their body stayed on the map. You’d get a radio call later: “I’m not going to make it.”
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But here is the secret that only the 2008 veterans know: The annoyance was the point.
That is the real Far Cry 2.
In the vanilla 1.00 and 1.02 patches, your buddies (the mercenaries who helped you) were mortal. Truly mortal. If you got ambushed and went down, a buddy would sprint through gunfire to jam a syringe into your chest. But if that buddy took a stray bullet during the rescue? They died. Permanently. Their body stayed on the map. You’d get a radio call later: “I’m not going to make it.” Far Cry 2 Patch 1.04 Pc Download