In a quick video posted to the game's Twitter, Far Cry: New Dawn creative director Jean-Sebastien Decant explains a couple of fresh features. Decant starts off by saying that the upcoming open world shooter pushes "the light RPG approach", meaning that various little RPG elements have been added to the Far Cry formula. No surprise there.
Decant gives a couple of examples. The first is that you can now craft weapons that have 'ranks', and the higher the rank, the more effective it'll be as dispatching enemies with higher ranks. Sounds a bit like levelling up, we suppose.
On top of that, you'll be able to decide what happens to conquered outposts. Liberate an enemy base and you can either take it over and move your people in, or you can "squeeze" it for an instant gain in resources. However, squeezing means that the enemy will eventually return and retake the outpost, and the next time you're around, it'll be better defended.
Are you looking forward to New Dawn? Are you a fan of more RPG mechanics? Go ahead and craft your best weapons in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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I feel like keeping a few select bases under enemy control to use for resource gathering might be better in the long run. I'll probably end up using that tactic.
Ubisoft do like their deep colours. It's attractive though.
weapon levels and bases remind me of Fortnite, is this game singleplayer or online? it was never really mentioned.
Ubisoft adding RPG elements to everything they can put their hands on?
@Its_badW0lf I'm game. I like the RPG mechanics in the recent AC games.
@ApostateMage mixed feelings about it to be fair, I do miss the action oriented assassin playstyle of earlier games.
As an RPG I think AC Origins and Odyssey suffers a little from chronic light touch, still feels too much like a Ubisoft kind of game when you put it side by side to each other, especially when there's games out there that put so much more work into the huge world they build. Went in very strong and it got a hold on me and then after 10 hours it became quite generic, I just wanted the story to be over so I can learn what happened exactly.
From where I stand, seems like the RPG push by Ubisoft looks quite a lot like a move to pad out the games and push microtransactions to help with the "grind", for it to be more than that they really need to invest on special moments across the board that keep the game interesting to play.
If I felt about exploring the world of AC:Odyssey as I did about exploring the world of RDR2 and New York in Spider-man, it would have been up there with my 2018 favorites.
New Dawn looks like the bright colors and stupid fun i will need after many hours with the dark and creepy RE2.
Really looking forward to this. Was late to the party with FC5 which is my current game heading for completion and I am having great fun with. I loved FC3 on PS3 but FC4 was too repetitive and put me off getting FC5 when it released, good news is I should finish it just in time to get New Dawn
I will probably play this game and I will probably mildly enjoy it and then I will probably not even remember that I played it and mildly enjoyed it six months later.
Don't care what they change, they've already got my money. FC5 was one of my favorite games of the last few years. I can totally see how people think it's just another repetitive Ubisoft open-world Far Cry, but I never stopped having fun, and at the end of the day, that's what matters most.
Usually, this would be a day-one buy for me, but I'm currently playing Just Cause 4, and I have Detroit, God of War, and Mafia 3 to play after that... along with some other games from Plus which I haven't started yet. And by the time I'm done with those (IF I'm done with those), it will probably be time for Days Gone.
So while I will definitely pick this up, it's going to have to wait until some point in the future.
I was slightly looking forward to it before you said weapons and enemies would have levels. 😡
@johncalmc Could not have said it better myself. I plat'd FC5 but honestly can't recall a single mission. I will be buying this without a doubt.
@Paranoimia ok the only thing that may not be a great idea is making the farcry series into another rpg game it works with ac odyssey but it were meant to be rpg games who here thinks the farcry series should become another rpg game or not like if u think it should not become a another rpg game
@ApostateMage same her but it works in assassin's creed odyssey and all future assassin's creed games after it but for the farcry series to be another rpg game i don't think it would be a good idea no farcry game has any rpg elements in it other than farcry 5 and that was minimal the ac series have had rpg elements since ac 4 black flag and went deep into it as in ac origins which worked and then ac odyssey went rpg and it became by favorite rpg game ever and my favorite assassin's creed game ever
@Its_badW0lf yes it seems so maybe not such a good idea to make the farcry series a rpg game series ?
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