So Far Cry 3 has been out a week now and what a great diamond in a field of roughage it is. It’s a difficult but thoroughly enjoyable open-world FPS that delivers every single aspect well enough to keep you coming back for me.
This article will give me a chance to push forward some initial tasks which will help you on your way across Rook Island. In fact think of this as a bit of a ‘Help Guide 101’. I won’t be discussing any story points so you’re free to read ahead even if you haven’t started the game yet.
When the game starts you’re going to be severely limited to the number of items you can carry and among other things this increases your time in game by requiring you to sell items at the store every 5 minutes or so. The area of Rook Island is littered with item boxes, lootable characters and more which will require as big a backpack as you can get your hands on. In order to do this you’ll need to hunt specific animals and use their skins to craft large sakes and therefore be able to carry more items at once. This really isn’t all that difficult, as an early tutorial explains most of basics: go to an area that has that kind of animal (the picture on the world map will help you here – so get those Communication Towers too), find your prey and shoot them until they die. Each upgrade takes more skins or tougher prey to obtain but nothing survives a few shotgun blasts at best. The final tier of each pouch or bag requires you to hunt a special kind of animal, like a White Belly Tapir, and these become part of the ‘Path of the Hunter’ quests found at ‘liberated’ enemy camps.
Jumping into crafting as early as possible is a sure fire way of boosting cash, syringes and weapons in order to survive this rough terrain. It’s worth taking some time to travel around the map and grab all the radio towers as you’ll need to do this regardless anyway. This unlocks free weapons in stores and also shows you the locations of the different creatures in each area on the world map.
It’s highly plausible to unlock a lot of the bags, pouches and wallets before getting your teeth into much of the main quest.
Some additional tips are:
· Sharks are one of the toughest enemies to hunt, they obviously live underwater, and this makes them somewhat resistant to bullets. The easiest way to take one down is by unlocking the RPG. Alternatively remember that the jet-ski will also kill a surfacing shark just by driving over it.
· Crafting the last update from each category required a specific rare animal so make sure you complete the Path of the Hunter quests as you venture through the game to get these items as quickly as possible. Don’t worry about getting the pelt too early either as these cannot be removed from your inventory until the crafted item has been created
· Stock up on Green Leaves at all times as you can craft new syringes mid gunfight to restore health
· Tigers and Bears are the toughest creatures in the jungle and become bullet sponges in most situations. Pick up a shotgun early as a few shots from even the lowest level shotgun will stop these in their tracks.
· You can’t damage animal skins so don’t worry about cracking out the RPG to settle the job
· If you’re attempting a Path of the Hunter quest, keep in mind that you have to use a specific weapon type only. What I mean is that any Shogun will do for a kill of this nature and you will not have to use the low level shotgun that comes at the hunting locations start point, that is unless you don’t own one of your own.
· Pick up the Heavy Armoured Takedown perk as early as possible. The armoured guards are the bullet sponges of the island pirates and can take a hefty amount of damage being going down. To quickly take away this issue, you should pick up the Heavy Takedown as early as possible. These guys are dead slow and easy to deceive so run around them and stab them in the back.
· Watch out for Helicopters!
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