Rumour: The Next Far Cry Game Is an Extraction-Based Multiplayer Shooter with Permadeath

Jeez, that's sure going to be popular.

Permadeath, (presumably) live-service, multiplayer — pick zero to make a fun game.

I feel personally attacked by this news. My guilt pleasure series is ruined.

Oh look another Ubi live service flop.

I still don't know what an "extraction shooter" is

Escape from Far-Kov

Can't say I'm interested off the bat at a game like this. The good news though is there is still a more classic style Far Cry 7 in the works (according to rumors anyway) so I'm not too bothered by this.

No thanks, this will be an easy pass.

If this is true it feels like a punch to the gut!
I absolutely love the Far Cry games but this sounds like the kind of game I wouldn't go near with a bargepole!

It's just remake and expansion of the division 1/2 extraction mode with new 'skin' and first person clunky far cry gunfight.

Damn. I adored 6. It was like the ultimate chill-out FPS. This does not sound chill at all. Very disappointed 😞

Eww no thanks. Hopefully this is just a spin-off like FC Primal was

Do yourselves a favour and play Hunt: Showdown.

Well, this is an easy hard pass. I hope they are making another Ghost Recon

Talk about trend chasing. It used to be looter shooter now it’s extraction shooter. Still not going to be any good no matter how with the times ubisoft tries to be

So the special operations from far cry 6 but as a ful game?

No doubt it will be an extraction game in more ways than one. Mainly extracting microtransactions from your wallet.

Ahhhh online multiplayer.... Im out.

And just like that I'm not getting this anymore. I'm getting to the point new games don't interest me because of this always online nonsense.

Ahh Classic Ubisoft. Always chasing trends.

Saves me some money.

Sounds like a game mode in Far Cry Arcade

Ubisoft, always a year or two behind the times.

@Voltan I think it’s pronounced “fad.”

Its not gonna to work! Trust me. This kind of game most players skip. And i say: its not gonna to work!

Far Cry 2 is the worst game in the series. 5 is the best game.

People have conditioned themselves to hate every Ubisoft game because it's Ubisoft. Even without playing them.

Hopefully this will fail.

My God Ubisoft have no idea sometimes.

I can already see how Ubisoft will try and squeeze money out of players with that permadeath feature.

I love these kind of games! I already have Hunt Showdown though. Not really sure I need two of these in my life.

Is that what they call battle royales these days?🤔

I loved 5 and couldn’t put it down until the credits rolled.. FC 6 was the first Far Cry game I didn’t beat as I got uninterested pretty fast.. I just stopped playing, picked up GoW:R, and never went back.. I think I got what others are describing as ‘Ubi-Fatigue’.. I never thought it’d happen to me but it did.. here’s hoping FC 7 reinvents it’s own wheel.. this multiplayer permadeath game will likely not do well.. good luck Ubi

It seems like Ubisoft is unable to stop sabotaging themselves with bad decisions.

Who wants this besides Ubisoft execs?

Do people really enjoy perm death in games like this?

The next Far Cry game has just extracted itself from my want list.

@Voltan Think of it like being behind enemy lines, and having to get some mcguffin, before safely extracting out of there via chopper. With lots of shooting in-between. It's like playing a very small, condensed, mgs game that has little to no stealth and isn't as good...

Cool, might as well just end the franchise I guess, it has gotten very stale and repetitive after Far Cry 3, with every sequel basically copying that formula only becoming increasingly uninspired.

Funny enough this latest attempt at doing something different only sounds lazier.

@J2theEzzo MGS Ground Zero comes to mind. That was a ton of fun & I'd happily play that again! 😂 This FC game, nah.

@johncalmc That kinda sums up the industry for me lately.

So much hate 😂 I think its sounds dope. A Far Cry BR/extraction shooter could be really good. I know a lot of people aren't fans of the Ubisoft formula but I usually like the far cry games. Granted it's usually for the story.. if its good, competition can take a story's place. Far Cry kinda of already is an extraction shooter the way the maps are as well as consumables and placement, with all the NPC stronghold style outposts for teams to take on. It's all kinda there save for other players and the goal of extracting. I've wanted something like Tarkov (that isn't garbage COD DMZ) for a while now on consoles. This might be it.

Ubisoft never listen and they never learn.
You would think they would have learned by now, oh wait, they never learn.

@JohntheRaptor BLASPHEMOUS!!!

Far Cry 2 is brilliant, and 5 had really fun settings so I can agree there.

Sounds horrible.

If they want to refresh Far Cry they need to bring back FarCry Instincts.

Sounds even worse than FC 6

@JohntheRaptor No man Far Cry 3 was my all time favorite by far I didn't even play five because the endings where leaked and they were all really bad.

I hate perma death why would I like to get all progress see wiped after one death no thanks.

Didn't they already try this with that rainbow 6 flop? They're really committed to bad ideas..

@Voltan

Games like Escape from Tarkov, which was what made the genre explode in popularity a few years ago. You’re dropped into a large map with a bunch of other players. Your goal is to gather resources, kill other players and AI enemies, and survive until you can reach an extraction point.

You get a higher score for waiting as long as possible and gathering the most valuable items. When I was playing DMZ it wasn’t uncommon for us to hit the last chopper (in DMZ that’s your final chance to exit the map) with a bunch of other random humans. Usually we would work out a truce not to kill each other because it’s really hard to survive that long in extraction shooters.

@pharos_haven

You’d be surprised. A lot of people swear by it.

Personally I hate permadeath a passion.

@MaseSco Yeah, Phantom Pain had a very 'extraction' style mission set-up, especially with the fulton device. Something of a forerunner to the genre, I feel. But a legit solid game at that. Ground Zero also!
But this? I'll pass...

@KAIRU I second this. Its the only "extraction shooter" you need in your life

ubi alsways chasing trends years alter

Ooooh, go and find loot to upgrade so you can go and find loot to upgrade...

What is up with this new generation of gamers, do they not have brains capable of processing any type of depth whatsoever?

I completed Far Cry 3 last year and liked it, but it'll probably be my first and last contact with the franchise. I'm not interested in playing more of the same with 4-6, but I'm even less interested in some MP drivel.

If a bandwagon trend of shortsighted gains based off of an already oversaturated market exists, you can be sure that Ubisoft will always jump on it. And they will always be too late.

@OrtadragoonX Sounds very masochist

Why it need to be a farcry game? Why?

Doesn't sound like my cup of tea but neither has Far Cry since about two releases ago. Too formulaic.

@Kidfunkadelic83
Me, too.

Surprised they didn't Assassin's Creed, also they didn't remember Rainbow Six Extraction?

Either way why Far Cry it's way of doing things was going many directions but this this is purely IP/brand name only it's a joke. Assassin's Creed is the one that should have it it's got less to lose with so many projects, why this.

Not surprised Far Cry fans will be going nope there goes this series for the sake of trend following. Why build up an audience only to do this. Even if a 'spin off' I highly doubt this was worth it.

A standalone from 6 or 7 would have been better like Primal, Blood Dragon and New Dawn but nope what a waste of time to trend chase then actually offer good expansions to the open world formula. Far Cry has always been about open worlds and had a good spin on it over the years.

Why chase a multiplayer trend do it as a game mode in Siege or something. Or a new IP oh wait brand power sigh of course they can't. Why not do it in RIders Republic or the Crew Motorfest oh right different audience or execution there. Still prefer elimination modes in racing games to battle royale.

Or King of the Hill or something else then cutting an elimination mode to be hunger games like and battle royale being overrated of a rebranding of elimination modes or something Minecraft Hunger Games already existed as on multiplayer servers years before the term or PUBG or other possibilities and what audience jumps on to a trend setter that's large enough.

Even if other Ubisoft games have their similarities besides the core ideas each game. Watch Dogs Legion NPC/playable characters idea was cool, the goo or whatever in Extraction (just not in a game of it's type no one wanted that was more sci-fi then realistic people want from those games let alone another IP or that room by room format that while for old Rainbow Six sure but current eras I assume people aren't as into as much anymore?)

Even if I have no interest in neither I played Infamous Second Son and went ah so that's how some open worlds have gone about things over the years in comparison and why I only like the side missions is the main story gameplay is so basic and talking when side missions offer more or whatever does or doesn't tie into things. Sunset Ovedrive's perks for weapons or tower defence or grinding on rails moveset and platforming missions, other side missions and story moments still somewhat using the moveset in good ways and it was fun.

Spiderman went all outposts, towers and more and I had no interest other than 3 side missions (ground pound move one wow you use one skill tree ability in a mission wow not all need to be like that but the fact there was only one did make it odd and it was fun using it besides it's context, I then forgot how to use it the rest of the game XD, lasers above & below and the radar one), taskmaster and the puzzles.

Some games need to make good use of their maps (some probably do I haven't played or looked over every one out there), their gameplay tying in, their story mission gameplay and so on (I find story missions so boring to fight, talk, get there it's so boring). In Infamous it was like oh go here do that, while I'm having more fun with the camera spotting, graffiti and more not the story missions being so bland and basic, not fun at all.

Some do but to me most movesets are so boring in both I don't care so I go the more platforming focused ones or otherwise to make location navigation fun not running and combat all the time in 'everything'.

@Vega37 I'm genuinely amazed that through the entire article and comments section there's been no mention of Vigor. It's a great game that I lost countless hours to on PS4, and it's been patched to run at 60fps on PS5. Highly recommended!

Why do Ubisoft keep shoehorning IP into games that would be better as standalones? Valhalla would have been better without the immersion ruining AC nonsense and this sounds like a decent game, but it isn't a far cry game.

@Topov81 I've played it a bit and it's not bad. I was hoping it was a bit slower and more methodical with fights being short, intense, and deadly. Matches usually just devolve into running around the map carelessly looking for kills though.