See above for an example of a failure in that department. Animal migration patterns, such as they are, boil down to your tracking skills. Now the sun and moon and maybe even the stars become navigation tools. Imagine the enjoyment, or frustration, that might come if you survive, or don’t, such a surprise.Īs an added challenge, once you have the basic outline of the world map down, unbind your map from your keyboard and use only your hand-drawn version to navigate. Now you’ll go into an encounter expecting an easy kill and end up with a face full of tiger tooth. Where you think a population of tapers lives is in fact the home of a large group of tigers makes its den. It makes the experience more of an actual survival experience (minus the plant-toiler paper and eating raw meat). The benefits here is it gets you involved with the game more than before immersion essentially. Draw the roads as you travel them, and keep track of which outposts and radio towers you’ve uncovered. Identify where each animal type roams and mark it on the map. Now that I think of it, taking notes and copying the map onto a separate sheet of paper would be a really neat way of bringing the freshness of the game back. Take notes, even.īecause the mod increases the requisite items for gear upgrades, you’ll need to search everywhere for even the simplest items, but the rewards, both figurative and material, are well worth the time spent. While you might use the Far Cry Wiki to identify where you need to go, start out by studying the various patterns and the frequency of an animals appearance. When you need upgrades, you’ll just hunt. When you need ammo, you’ll have to hunt men. When you need medicine, you’ll have to forage.

You’ll have to, you know, use your eyes and the world map instead of your HUD. The first thing to be aware of, however, is you’ll be without a visual aid telling you where to find animals and plants, outposts, and radio towers. Listen to your wanderlust. Far Cry 3 with Ziggys Mod is the game at its purest, and you should take full advantage of that fact. Instead, you’ll want to wander off in a random direction, picking off pirates and sharks and tigers as you go. You’ll find after the tutorial ends that you have no visual incentive to complete any of the primary, secondary, or tertiary objectives. Probably the best part of Ziggys Mod is its removal of the shackles created by constant pop ups, an overblown map, and on-screen interference. For this reason, I thought it might be an idea to put together a guide on how to succeed with Ziggys Mod, even if you’ve finished the game once before. Removing almost all trace of HUD and other standard game identifiers certainly improves immersion, but it can also make finding the most vital parts of the experience difficult.

I still think anything as good for Far Cry 3’s future as Ziggys Mod is deserves all the attention it can get. I found out about it through PC Gamer, and maybe you did too.

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