Far Cry 5
Far Cry: 20th Anniversary CelebrationMar 14, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsEnjoy up to 85% OFF Far Cry 5 and 70% OFF the Season pass! Get back to Hope County, Montana, land of the free and the brave, but also home to a fanatical doomsday cult—known as The Project at Eden’s Gate—that is threatening the community's freedom. Stand up to the cult’s leaders, Joseph Seed and the Heralds, as you spark the fires of resistance that will liberate the besieged community. Enjoy all the other discounts during our 20th anniversary celebration on the rest of the franchise. https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/FarCrySnag Far Cry 6 and the rest of Ubisoft's series dirt cheap right nowSep 16, 2023 - PCGamesNThe best Far Cry games can be yours for next to nothing right now, as the entire series goes dirt cheap with discounts offering up to 85% off. From the very first game to the modern Far Cry 6, Ubisoft's series has something for everyone who enjoys open-world FPS games, and you can grab whichever of them takes your fancy without breaking the bank thanks to a big Steam sale. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry's decade-old tent bug officially gets a fan-made fix Far Cry 5 will temporarily be a free game, followed by an 85% discountMar 16, 2023 - PCGamesNIf you like free games, and the opportunity to try some of the biggest triple-A releases before you buy, Far Cry 5, the expansive open-world shooter from Assassin's Creed and Rainbow Six creator Ubisoft, will soon be available for absolutely nothing, with a hefty 85% discount following once the limited-time free period comes to a close. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Blizzard's survival game is led by Far Cry 5 dev, has doubled in size Far Cry 5 is free to play this weekend As we're waiting on IGI Origins, here's both Project IGI games in Far Cry 5 Far Cry 5, Mortal Shell, and Judgment are coming to PlayStation Plus this monthDec 14, 2022 - VG247PlayStation has revealed the roster of new games that'll be added to its PS Plus line-up next week, and it’s packed full of tantalising titles to sink your teeth into this Christmas. So, what’s arriving on December 20? First things first, those with PS Plus Extra and Premium will be able to dive into three different Far Cry games: Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn, and Far Cry Primal. Admittedly, not the best games in the series, but still well worth a go if Far Cry is your thing. Far Cry 5 is undoubtedly the highlight here, giving you the opportunity to take on cult leader, Joseph Seed, and liberate the community of Hope County, Montana. Alongside those, WWE 2K22 will also arrive, letting you play solo or with friends as your favourite WWE superstars. This one won’t be arriving on December 20, but we can expect it to be added to the service sometime soon after. Read more Far Cry boss quits Ubisoft after 10 years, reportedly leaves live-service Far Cry projectNov 12, 2021 - EurogamerDan Hay, the veteran creative behind many Far Cry games, leaves Ubisoft today after a decade of service. Hay served as a producer on Far Cry 3, before moving to an executive producer role for Far Cry 4 and 5, and the series' Blood Dragon, Primal and New Dawn spin-offs. A Venturebeat report states Hay had been helping build the next iteration of the Far Cry series, which will launch as a live-service. Read more Far Cry 5 is free to play this weekendAug 4, 2021 - PC GamerThis week and throughout the coming weekend, you can play Far Cry 5 for free via the Epic Games Store or Ubisoft Connect. The free period starts tomorrow, August 5 and runs until August 9. Preloading is available now... Read more.You can play Far Cry 5 for free this weekendAug 4, 2021 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThough I couldn’t name a character or recount a story beat from it, I played Far Cry 5 for 36 hours. That’s not bad. I did a lot of shooting, adventuring and crafting, and then moved onto another shiny treat in my library (or returned to Overwatch). You can probably see and do everything I did during the upcoming free weekend. It stretches from Thursday August 5th (tomorrow) at 2pm until Monday August 9th, and lets you play the whole game solo or with a co-op buddy. Read more As we're waiting on IGI Origins, here's both Project IGI games in Far Cry 5Jul 25, 2021 - PCGamesNFollowing on the steps of the fantastic but troubled fan remake of GoldenEye, the latest classic spy game to receive a remake in Far Cry 5 is the underrated Project IGI - as a fan has rebuilt all levels from both the original IGI and its sequel, IGI 2: Covert Strike, in Far Cry Arcade. Despite the imminent release of Far Cry 6, its predecessor Far Cry 5 continues to impress with its fan-created offerings - making it even more annoying that Far Cry 6 won't ship with a level editor. Despite the limited tools available to map creators in Far Cry Arcade, there are some fantastic remakes available - including the likes of Counter-Strike and Hotline Miami. The remakes of Project IGI and IGI 2 were made by user gregorpl123, otherwise known as GregorOnline on YouTube (thanks, DSOGaming). They completely remade all 14 missions of Project IGI and all 19 missions of the sequel in Far Cry 5, and they're all freely available to play by just going into Far Cry Arcade and searching for "IGI". Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: GoldenEye 007 fan remake returns to Far Cry 5 with "Bond-related" changes Far Cry 5 ending explained: how to get all three endings You can play Far Cry 5 for free this weekend Those fan-made GoldenEye Far Cry 5 levels are back with a new nameJul 1, 2021 - EurogamerLast week we heard that several fan-made GoldenEye levels in Far Cry 5 had been pulled by Ubisoft following a copyright claim, but it seems the author has now reuploaded the levels under a new name - which will hopefully be enough to ensure the levels stay up in future. After confirming the levels had been pulled, creator Krollywood said a few days ago he intended to "change some details like names and re-upload them as soon as possible," and it seems that's now happened. Krollywood confirmed in a Reddit comment that the levels have been reuploaded to Far Cry 5's arcade mode under the name "Golden Cry". To find them on PS4 you'll need to search for the creator name "Perfect-Dark1982", and on PC the creator name is "Graslu00". Krollywood spent two and a half years recreating the 18 GoldenEye 007 levels in Far Cry 5's level editor, and you can hear a little about how he did it in the video below: Read more Finally, someone put a Greggs in Far Cry 5Jun 28, 2021 - PC GamerFighting pseudo-religious cultists is hungry work, especially when Montana lacks a ready supply of cheap sausage rolls. Fortunately, one Far Cry 5 mapper has brought British high-street staple Greggs to Ubisoft's open world cult-basher... Read more.GoldenEye 007 fan remake returns to Far Cry 5 with "Bond-related" changesJun 27, 2021 - PCGamesNJuly 01, 2021 The fan-made remake has returned with several tweaks. The fan-made GoldenEye 007 remake has returned to Far Cry 5, albeit under a different name. As spotted by TechRaptor, the levels are now available on PC and PS4 with some "Bond-related" tweaks. Creator Krollywood explains on Reddit that it can now be found on PC by searching for the stage name "Golden Cry" by creator Graslu00, and on PS4 under creator name Perfect-Dark1982. Xbox will "come later", explains Krollywood. Original story: A Far Cry fan spent three years and around 1,400 hours completely remaking Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye using Far Cry 5's Arcade map editor - only to have Ubisoft delete it as soon as it was complete, thanks to "copyright infringement claims" from rights holder MGM. YouTuber Krollywood painstakingly recreated GoldenEye - still the greatest James Bond game and one of the best FPS games of all time - within Far Cry 5 and had basically finished it, barring the two bonus levels, only to find them gone earlier this week. In a statement by Ubisoft (thanks Kotaku), the publisher explained that the maps "have been removed due to copyright infringement claims from a right holder" - meaning MGM, who somehow found out about the remake (thanks Kotaku... kidding). Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry 5 ending explained: how to get all three endings You can play Far Cry 5 for free this weekend Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is live, and it'll give you $5 off a $30 purchase Ubisoft shoots down a fan's impressive remake of GoldenEye 007 inside Far Cry 5Jun 25, 2021 - PC GamerFor the past three years, Far Cry mapmaker Krollywood has been meticulously remaking N64 classic GoldenEye within Far Cry 5's Arcade. This week, however, Ubisoft threw those years of work away, removing all his levels from the game at the supposed behest of James Bond license-holder MGM... Read more.Ubisoft pulls fan-made GoldenEye Far Cry 5 levels after copyright claimJun 25, 2021 - EurogamerUbisoft has pulled GoldenEye levels a fan made in Far Cry 5 after a copyright infringement complaint. YouTuber Krollywood spent two-and-a-half years recreating Rare's seminal N64 first-person shooter inside the level editor provided within Far Cry 5, but this week Ubisoft removed the levels from the game's arcade mode after a copyright infringement claim reportedly issued by MGM. All 18 GoldenEye campaign levels were remade and made available to play by anyone in Far Cry 5's arcade mode, even with the odd additional Easter egg. You can check out the Dam remake level in the video below: Read more There's going to be a Far Cry animeJun 11, 2021 - PC GamerNetflix is making a Far Cry anime. The show was announced during the final Netflix Geeked Week livestream (if you weren't aware, it's Geeked Week), but the streaming service didn't have anything to say about it beyond that... Read more.Far Cry 5 PC performance review: have faith in Ubisoft's latest PC versionApr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNWith its vast forests of tall Ponderosa Pines, dense undergrowth, and lakes as wide as the eye can see, Far Cry 5 is a real looker. But, as we all know in PC land, good looks can come with harsh performance, especially in open-world environments. So what is Far Cry 5's PC performance like? That is what we are here to find out. See what we thought of cultist Montana in our Far Cry 5 PC review. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry 5 ending explained: how to get all three endings You can play Far Cry 5 for free this weekend Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is live, and it'll give you $5 off a $30 purchase If you want to play Far Cry 5 in 4K at 60fps it's going to cost you $2,500Apr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNThe recommended specs have been released for Ubisoft's next big triple-A title, Far Cry 5. Despite the lack of SLI and Crossfire support from game devs, and the tech largely being ditched by Nvidia and AMD themselves, Far Cry 5 will support dual-card rigs in a quest to reach 4K 60fps - but it won't come cheap. Not fussed on 4K? Here are the best gaming monitors for any resolution. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry 5 ending explained: how to get all three endings You can play Far Cry 5 for free this weekend Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is live, and it'll give you $5 off a $30 purchase Far Cry 5: release date, story, setting, co-op, system requirements - everything we knowApr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNAfter briefly visiting the ancient world, Far Cry is returning to the present day to be reunited with its first love: guns. And boy, does Far Cry 5 have a lot of guns. Its main antagonists - a crazed American cult - are staunch believers in the Second Amendment, and are willing to use it to increase their congregation. But what else will Far Cry 5 provide? Find out right here with our handy guide to everything we know. Like guns? You'll love the best shooter games on PC. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry 5 is free to play this weekend As we're waiting on IGI Origins, here's both Project IGI games in Far Cry 5 GoldenEye 007 fan remake returns to Far Cry 5 with "Bond-related" changes Here are Far Cry 5's system requirementsApr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNFar Cry 5 is out pretty soon, and you know what the release of a major new AAA PC game means - it's time to start nervously sweating about how well you'll be able to run it. Luckily, Ubisoft have provided all the system requirements for the game across four different types of configurations. Find out everything we know about Far Cry 5 here. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry 5 ending explained: how to get all three endings You can play Far Cry 5 for free this weekend Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is live, and it'll give you $5 off a $30 purchase I adore people recreating mundane places in AAA level editorsJan 7, 2021 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun When I first built a blocky version of my house in Quake level editor Worldcraft, I couldn’t have imagined what would be possible two decades years later. With multimillion-pound technology and libraries of professional assets, modern level editors can turn your dreams into stunning worlds. So I’m delighted when people use all that to recreate mundane places, especially when they’re close to home. Case in point, today I saw someone has used Far Cry 5‘s level editor to recreate some Edinburgh flats that were demolished years back. Wonderful. (more…) I adore people recreating mundane places in AAA level editorsJan 7, 2021 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun When I first built a blocky version of my house in Quake level editor Worldcraft, I couldn’t have imagined what would be possible two decades years later. With multimillion-pound technology and libraries of professional assets, modern level editors can turn your dreams into stunning worlds. So I’m delighted when people use all that to recreate mundane places, especially when they’re close to home. Case in point, today I saw someone has used Far Cry 5‘s level editor to recreate some Edinburgh flats that were demolished years back. Wonderful. (more…) Far Cry 5’s Launch Crushes Previous Entries in the Series with Over 5 Times the Players on SteamApr 6, 2018 - GitHypOver the past few years, things haven't looked great for the Far Cry franchise. Switching the story and setting from futuristic to modern to even prehistoric... it didn't seem like there was anything Ubisoft could do to bring back as many players as 2012's Far Cry 3.
But the developer’s choice this year to leave behind the franchise’s signature exotic locals and come to good ‘ol America has resulted in the Far Cry series once again exploding in popularity. Far Cry 5's launch on Steam wasn't just the biggest Far Cry launch ever with a peak of 92k concurrent players, but also the second biggest launch ever for a Ubisoft game.
This year's latest in series absolutely crushed every other Far Cry game bringing in over five times the number of players on Steam. Last year's Far Cry: Primal only saw a peak of 14.7k players -- which was down from Far Cry 4’s 17k concurrent players in 2014. And Far Cry 4 was already down 26% from Far Cry 3’s peak of 23k players.
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Far Cry 5's Peak Concurrent Players on Steam via GitHyp[/caption]
Far Cry 5’s 92k players also easily topped For Honor’s 71k players last year on Steam... but, FC5 was just as far away from topping Ubisoft’s biggest launch ever, The Division, and its 114k players on Steam back in 2016.
Another huge contributor to the game’s success has been its popularity on Twitch. Far Cry: Primal had an impressive peak of 73k concurrent viewers and ranked in at #3 on Twitch. Far Cry 5 again crushed that number with a peak of 250k concurrent viewers, taking the #1 spot on Twitch on its launch day.
Aside from Rainbow Six: Siege, Ubisoft's games tend to have a short shelf life after huge launches. Far Cry 5's hype on Twitch has already died down, but is still in Steam’s top 10 most played list, and its combination of co-op and return of the popular map editor should keep the player base from dropping off as quickly as past games in the series.
Far Cry 5's Peak Concurrent Players on Steam via GitHyp[/caption]
Far Cry 5’s 92k players also easily topped For Honor’s 71k players last year on Steam... but, FC5 was just as far away from topping Ubisoft’s biggest launch ever, The Division, and its 114k players on Steam back in 2016.
Another huge contributor to the game’s success has been its popularity on Twitch. Far Cry: Primal had an impressive peak of 73k concurrent viewers and ranked in at #3 on Twitch. Far Cry 5 again crushed that number with a peak of 250k concurrent viewers, taking the #1 spot on Twitch on its launch day.
Aside from Rainbow Six: Siege, Ubisoft's games tend to have a short shelf life after huge launches. Far Cry 5's hype on Twitch has already died down, but is still in Steam’s top 10 most played list, and its combination of co-op and return of the popular map editor should keep the player base from dropping off as quickly as past games in the series.
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