Thanks, thanks, thanks, and thank you Ubisoft. Better late than never.

These updates make Far Cry 2 a Completely different game!! Thanks...

It is like a new game...

Can people post their feedback on the new patch please. Please actually play the new patch before posting "It sucks!"

Is the Hardcore mode suitable enough and a step in the right direction?

What about the MP changes?

Anything you think that is in this current patch that could do with slight tweaks?

I already traded my copy in since there was ZERO communication from BugiSoft on this matter.

Well, I did enjoy the game and I'll go out and purchase a USED copy sometime this week.


Next time, CO MU NI CATE. Actually, do whatever you want I suppose as I'll only be buying USED copies of any and all BugiSoft games from here on out.

After hearing about the 360 patch, I really really hope that Ubi hasn't "fixed" the thing that makes custom maps possible in ranked on PC and forces us to play only "sanctioned" ranked maps.

That'd kill the game for me, most of wgc and lots of other real hardcore fans.

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Originally posted by Tango_2_0:
After hearing about the 360 patch, I really really hope that Ubi hasn't "fixed" the thing that makes custom maps possible in ranked on PC and forces us to play only "sanctioned" ranked maps.

That'd kill the game for me, most of wgc and lots of other real hardcore fans.

As they've added that feature in the 360 patch, I somehow doubt that they'll remove the ability to do so from the PC.

Ya, i really hope so. Natural selection by the community has worked fine for months on PC, the unpopular or buggy/biased maps get no audience real quick.

if "biasing" maps was the issue behind the original design decision to not allow customs in ranked, there are far worse things done by players that really should be fixed: people in DMs that quit to boost their scores when not winning and rigged clan games in CTD or TDM to get the ops manuals to mention two of those.

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Originally posted by Tango_2_0:
Ya, i really hope so. Natural selection by the community has worked fine for months on PC, the unpopular or buggy/biased maps get no audience real quick.

if "biasing" maps was the issue behind the original design decision to not allow customs in ranked, there are far worse things done by players that really should be fixed: people in DMs that quit to boost their scores when not winning and rigged clan games in CTD or TDM to get the ops manuals to mention two of those.

I wholeheartedly agree. We must keep ranked custom maps to survive on PC. Without it, I would most likely drop all the servers, and they are usually full all day long.

I do hate it when I get a visit from the 'im not winning so ill quit guy' I have 3 of them that always leave the game if its clear they will not be in 1st place. guaranteed.

What sort of worries me is that we'd go the same way as the 360, that we'd need "ranked certification" to play a map in ranked. That'd make the whole thing a lot duller - as there would be fewer alternatives. I doubt for example that the wgc S-maps would have been selected for ranked, nevertheless they've been downloaded tens of thousands of times and some are really loved by our regulars on the wgc servers.

Both you, Kev, and us at wgc do lots of maps and throw them up on our ranked servers ASAP they're ready for beta testing.

I love all the things in the update, the new feature that you can play 6 good custom maps is also very welcome.

Only dissapointment is that there is still a ban option in ranked matches. I know a lot of people complaint about that so I don't understand why it's still there. Maybe they can't delete it with an update or so. I like to get an answer for that. It keeps me wondering if the devs ever play their own game. Or maybe they are not very skilled and they never get banned.

The rest of the update is very cool, the 50. cal and the MGL seem to be downgraded and also is ur screen not skakin the hole time when someone uses MGL/Noob Tube. Good job. Now 1 more update to get rid of the ban option.

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Originally posted by Raide:
Can people post their feedback on the new patch please. Please actually play the new patch before posting "It sucks!"

Is the Hardcore mode suitable enough and a step in the right direction? Harcore mode is briliant

What about the MP changes? Very good, only get rid of the ban option in ranked please

Anything you think that is in this current patch that could do with slight tweaks?only complaint is to remove the ban option in Ranked matches is so frustrating

As you can see I am very happy with the update, but the ban option destroys the ranked matches. If that could be removed the game would be perfect for me.

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Originally posted by Tango_2_0:
What sort of worries me is that we'd go the same way as the 360, that we'd need "ranked certification" to play a map in ranked. That'd make the whole thing a lot duller - as there would be fewer alternatives. I doubt for example that the wgc S-maps would have been selected for ranked, nevertheless they've been downloaded tens of thousands of times and some are really loved by our regulars on the wgc servers.

Both you, Kev, and us at wgc do lots of maps and throw them up on our ranked servers ASAP they're ready for beta testing.

I heart wgc! I had some of my greatest laughs/times there with you guys. I game under Flemnz3SFG

That problem is probably bigger on the consoles where the average audience is younger than on PC. Seen it maybe 3 or 4 times on PC.

However, with no bans, how can we enforce house rules? How can we throw out racists? The servers are our club houses, where we meet our friends and enjoy ourselves.

If you had a club of some kind, would you like it to be legal to have all sorts of criminals, abusers and riff-raff hang around?

Still, as PB is used on PC, we will have bans through that.

The patch is great, but Forced Start for Ranked matches is not so great. As if the hosts being able to ban at will wasn't annoying enough, now they can stack their team and force the start when the opposing team has lower ranks or less players. I think it will be a bad move in the long run. That should have stayed with Player Matches. Overall though, nice patch.

Thanks for the feedback guys, be sure that we are sharing it with dev team, PS3 and Pc patches will follow with the same kind of improvements.

Atmon, great work. Us hardcore addicts on PC are looking forward to it. Can't wait to host some hardcore pistol only games!

Having worked for 10+ years in SW dev, now working on SW QA I know what you've ben through getting this together.

hi i just wanted to make sure i downloaded a patch. when I booted the game it needed to download something and of course i said yes. then it rebooted the came. Im just confirming that this wasnt a software update to the 360 as oppose to this game. as a secondary question, is there anyway of confirming that ive downloaded THIS update, since i never tried to update the game before. thanks!

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Originally posted by redwood36_567:
hi i just wanted to make sure i downloaded a patch. when I booted the game it needed to download something and of course i said yes. then it rebooted the came. Im just confirming that this wasnt a software update to the 360 as oppose to this game. as a secondary question, is there anyway of confirming that ive downloaded THIS update, since i never tried to update the game before. thanks!

Don't worry, My friend.. It updated.

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Originally posted by Raide:
We will update on the PS3 and PC patch as soon as we know. Hopefully not too far away from this 360 launch.

PC & Console Details Coming Soon


''Even though Far Cry 2 was originally hyped as a PC exclusive, the recent announcement of the console versions doesn't change the fact that Far Cry 2 is STILL a PC-lead title...''


LOL! Yeah, riiiiight...

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Originally posted by Raide:
The enemy outpost spawning was a design choice, not a bug or error, it was designed in that way.

The enemy spawning isn't a design choice! It is a result of the inability of the devs to do otherwise. Subtle difference here...

As everyone says, better late than never. Now we can enjoy the game without too much worry . I actually was about to trade it in, but held strong because I had wanted to play the game so much