Far Cry 3 Multiplayer is Terrible

I finished the enjoyable SP campaign yesterday and decided to jump into multiplayer.

I had only seen a few minutes of MP gameplay taken at a gaming event a few months ago and remembered very little of it.

Today I played the multiplayer for a good two hours and reached level 21, and frankly those two hours were more than enough.

While the team working on single-player developed a wonderful world teeming with life, the multi-player team developed quite possibly the worst Call of Duty clone I've ever played.

There are no servers, it's P2P and while other games such as Modern Warfare 2 do a half decent job of masking the obvious faults of P2P on PC, Far Cry 3 shows them off in full glory.

The knife takedown shames Modern Warfare 2's knife lunge, you can instakill someone from 2 kilometers away, and don't have to face them for it to trigger, I've killed people by pressing 'F' while not facing them.

Weapons. There are lots of them but you really only need one - the Kriss SMG.

It has no recoil, an incredible rate of fire and the split second you're hit with one round you're pretty much dead. Every other weapons pales in comparison.

A laggy player armed with the Kriss can tear everyone to pieces.

The only thing I liked were the "finishing moves". These are performed by one team's MVP on the other team's MVP and range from sparing him, dancing with him to kicking him in the face, punching him in the groin and even slitting his throat.

I never spared the other team's MVP because he was always a camper.

In conclusion, FC3's multi-player component is a poor CoD clone that will be dead on PC within a few weeks at most.

I never intended to even try the MP. I am only interested in the SP and Co op modes

Wasn't expecting anything worth playing (in terms of multi-player) when I saw the MP trailer for Far Cry 3. I'm still interested in picking it up for the single player, but it's a real shame they wasted time on crappy multiplayer when that time could have been put elsewhere.C_Rule

Yeah, I love what they've done for the multiplayer with the AssCreed games, but FC3's multiplayer could never have done anything to pull people away from larger, better online shooters like Battlefield and Counter Strike.

It's just sad that instead of adding in more single player content, or even making the single player campaign cooperative, Borderlands or Saints Row 3 style (which would have been SWEET), they put time and effort into a multiplayer nobody likes.

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]Wasn't expecting anything worth playing (in terms of multi-player) when I saw the MP trailer for Far Cry 3. I'm still interested in picking it up for the single player, but it's a real shame they wasted time on crappy multiplayer when that time could have been put elsewhere.SPYDER0416

Yeah, I love what they've done for the multiplayer with the AssCreed games, but FC3's multiplayer could never have done anything to pull people away from larger, better online shooters like Battlefield and Counter Strike.

It's just sad that instead of adding in more single player content, or even making the single player campaign cooperative, Borderlands or Saints Row 3 style (which would have been SWEET), they put time and effort into a multiplayer nobody likes.

I personally think that multi-player games and SP games should be entirely seperate.

Call of Duty shouldn't even include SP, regardless of how good or bad it is, it's obvious nobody buys COD for the campaign.

Games like Far Cry, Metro, TES etc should stick to SP so they can focus all of the resources and effort on that.

They should have spent more time focusing on making free roam Coop work.

They should have spent more time focusing on making free roam Coop work.

SharkheadHD

This. why couldn't Ubi spend the time to do Campaign coop open world?, instead they tack on a Cod clone multiplayer with knifes and lags, the only good thing is no killstreaks. I do think the game could have been a 10/10 imo if there was no quicktime events and had 4 player campaign coop, but i guess that was out of there budget. Drm can kiss my ass.

Is the multiplayer still alive? I can't seem to find any games.

[QUOTE="SPYDER0416"]

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]Wasn't expecting anything worth playing (in terms of multi-player) when I saw the MP trailer for Far Cry 3. I'm still interested in picking it up for the single player, but it's a real shame they wasted time on crappy multiplayer when that time could have been put elsewhere.Elann2008

Yeah, I love what they've done for the multiplayer with the AssCreed games, but FC3's multiplayer could never have done anything to pull people away from larger, better online shooters like Battlefield and Counter Strike.

It's just sad that instead of adding in more single player content, or even making the single player campaign cooperative, Borderlands or Saints Row 3 style (which would have been SWEET), they put time and effort into a multiplayer nobody likes.

I think it can work with anything, as Saints Row 3 and Borderlands show, you can have a game be just as good with or without friends to play through, and it can still be big and great.

I think that anything over two players would ruin the story though since emotional moments would be full of banter and have to cater to two players, and honestly I think it would work far better in Far Cry 2 where the story was much more minimal and the AI much more useless.

At least there's the map editor to play about with.

Is the multiplayer still alive? I can't seem to find any games.

RasAlgethi28

we knew this, no?

Coop Campaigh instead of multiplayer would have been nice. Sort of like Saints Row3, Shogun2 and Dead Island wher eyou can do the whole thing with a frined.

Coop Campaigh instead of multiplayer would have been nice. Sort of like Saints Row3, Shogun2 and Dead Island wher eyou can do the whole thing with a frined.

kozzy1234

What they really need to do is start selling these modes seperately. If I could buy the singleplayer for $40 without the multiplayer, I'd gladly do it.

What they really need to do is start selling these modes seperately. If I could buy the singleplayer for $40 without the multiplayer, I'd gladly do it.

Vari3ty