Open world encounter "density"

[YakAttack]

Don’t tell Derek, but I am really Chris Roberts.

[Timex]

I’m Chris Roberts.
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[TimJames]

Trigger warning.

@Ragan

@Jack_Howitzer

The non-stop spawning enemies is really off putting. It’s why I stopped playing primal a few hours in. Why you give us no time to breathe, ubi??!?

You mean like this:

@Christopher Livingston

But there’s always been a lot of it in Far Cry, and in 5 it seriously feels like there’s a 50 yard radius around you that the game is trying to overlap with AI at all times. I have a hard time recalling completing a task that didn’t have some non-task-related nonsense happening at the same time.

An example: I came across a quiet airfield with two planes parked on it, and thought I’d help myself to one. While preparing to snipe the two cultists guarding it, I noticed some movement nearby: it was a bull fighting a mountain lion. Unfortunately, the cultists moved out of position due to that weird skirmish, which meant I also had to change position to snipe them, and by the end of the encounter, which lasted roughly thirty seconds, more cultists had arrived (some in a helicopter), a wolverine had appeared and attacked a fleeing cow, a citizen had driven up in a tractor, two planes (in the air) got into a dogfight, another cultist drove up (in a different tractor), and both planes (the ones on the ground) had exploded in the ensuing carnage. I had to settle with stealing one of the tractors, which I used to run over an angry bear that showed up late.

I couldn’t stop laughing about the tractor and the bear.

Source: Far Cry 5 review | PC Gamer

[Timex]

This sounds like the greatest game of all time.

[Guap]

Sounds like honey badgers all over again.

[divedivedive]

You mean, Far Cry 5 doesn’t give a shit?

[YakAttack]

@divedivedive

You mean, Far Cry 5 doesn’t give a shit?

Far Cry 5 review

But apart from a few scattered lines of dialogue from characters here and there, I haven’t detected much of a cohesive message or statement about politics or religion or fascism or militias or anything, really, in Far Cry 5, at least not yet. I’m sure it would be a challenge to impart a serious statement in a game containing weaponized super-bears, but it’s possible the developers deliberately tried to avoid tackling deeper subjects altogether.

Nope.

[divedivedive]

So - not really all that much like a honey badger?

[TheWombat]

The STALKER games did a pretty good job with ambient AI/random world encounter (as opposed to mission/scripted stuff) density, I think, particularly Call of Pripyat. There are also tons of mods that affect the AI interactions, to raise or lower the amount of stuff going on. I always loved hearing gunshots and heading in that direction, to find a dead Stalker surrounded by a ring of dead mutant dogs or something. Or of course the old standby of watching two factions duke it out and sniping the survivors. Phat lewtz.