Far Cry 2 (newbie questions)

[steppinthrax]

So I got the game and have a couple of questions.

1. Seems like I spend 90% of the time driving around in the game... Is there any fix for this.

2. Enemies keep respawning. Its crazy because your given a mission and you just passed the area you leveled the same day. They are back again.

3. In general which missions are important to the game and which aren't. The communication tower missions seem to bring diamonds. While the arms dealer missions seem to unlock weapons.

4. Are the gun cases worth it. It seems to not make any sense considering you have to walk all the way back to that particular arms dealer house to fetch your gun??? I'm not sure I never purchased one.

5. What's the difference between dark/night. Does it matter.

6. Is there any advantage of the Kings son's Jeep with gold rims and Jeep logo????

 

[katank]

1. Nope, major design flaw
2. Nope, another major design flaw
3. The APR and UNLF (sp?) missions are the main quest. Guns and cell tower missions are optional tho highly recommended. Buddy missions are essentially pointless
4. Debatable. This way, you can stick guns into the case and get em from your houses instead of going to a arms dealer. Potential time savings.
5. Not much
6. Blatant product placement

 

[GullyFoyle]

1. Generally, the answer is no. Take a boat or the bus if possible.
2. No fix for this.
3. To get through the game, you need to do the APR and UFLL missions. You need to do a few underground missions when your malaraia pill supply gets low. Do only enough arms dealer missions to unlock the weapons you want. That's all you really need.
4. If you put a gun in the case at the weapons shop, you can pull it out at any safe house. I myself never feel the need or desire to switch from my sniper rifle/mac 10/rocket launcher config, so it's not worth it to me.
5. The dark supposedly increases your stealth. Hard to determine how much.
6. Not that I have heard. Since it doesn't have a mounted gun, I ditched it as soon as I came across a truck.

 

[coldmeat]

1. No fix, just try to use the buses as much as possible.
2. This really pissed me off too. By the end I would just drive through, and jump in the turrent after a while and kill the cars chasing me.
3. I didn't really do any cell tower missions. Once I got enough diamonds to buy 4/5 guns, that's all I needed.
4. No. I bought one thinking that if I did, guns would spawn there like at the arms dealer, but they don't. You have to place a gun in it, leaving you without one. (edit: didn't realize that the cases were at the weapons shop as well. That makes it a little better.)
5. I'm not really sure what this means. It's been a while since I played.
6. No, I drove it to the next mission and ditched it.

 

[sandorski]

1) Drive, Walk, Boat, Bus. Later on in the game I used the Bus a lot as it made getting places much safer/faster

2) Ya, lotta people hate that, use the Bus to avoid most of it, but if you do it right you can finish them off quite quickly using a mounted truck weapon. You can also avoid many of the checkpoints or drive right through

3) They all have importance.

4) I think so, kinda. It's a good way to have a New Weapon for those times when yours is wearing out, for eg

5) Day is bright, Night is dark...I suspect the Night helps for stealth, but am not sure of it

6) I don't even remember it....I only ever used the Jeep when I had no other vehicles available.

I really liked FC2. To fully appreciate it though don't just go and do Missions. You need to just go Driving/Walking/Boating all over exploring things.

 

[zagood]

To add to a few:

4. Are the gun cases worth it. - YES. Any time you put a weapon in any case, it will also be at cases in your safehouses and at all the arms dealers. Every time you grab a new weapon at a dealer, the first one you grab off the wall place in a case so you have a backup ready for when your favorite gun gets old. Then grab another off the wall to carry. Or, one thing I did was place a sniper rifle in the case so I could snipe if a mission called for it.

5. What's the difference between dark/night. Does it matter. - YES. Guards sleep so there's less of them patrolling when you first get to an objective. They're also slower to react at checkpoints.