Morgan Writes

I started Far Cry 5 in 2020, when it was only 2 years old. But back then, I was such a terrible in-game driver that it ruined the experience. Also, you couldn’t bring the dog or the bear in the car. 0/10 stars.

But as I mentioned in my last post about Far Cry 5, a lot has changed in how I play games. Spoilers for a 7-year-old game…

Those Damn Seeds

As we’ve come to expect in the Far Cry series, the game had excellent villains designed to give you the creeps. The Seed family is gross and terrifying, absolutely living up to expectations. But there were some bloody, terrible boss fights. Well, most of them had a certain charm, except the fight with John, which gave me the absolute shits. My experience of this boss fight may not be the norm, though, because of the type of player I am – a combination of wuss, completionist, and terrible at flying.

The boss fight in question involves a dog fight with John Seed. Now, most people who have trouble with this mission send Nick Rye off to do it. Makes sense, he has a plane, he has skills. He’s an extremely useful Gun for Hire for this mission.

If you’ve unlocked him. Which you should have by this stage of the game. Unless you are a coward completionist who wants to complete my sidequests and get more perks, while avoiding story missions for fear of progressing the plot.

But Far Cry 5 has other plans in store for players like me. The story does not progress on story-based missions alone, but through resistance points. These resistance points show how much you are building resistance against the Seed and how much you are provoking them. These points rack up quite quickly as you rescue citizens and liberate outposts. These aren’t story-based activities; they are just scattered throughout the map.

All that is to say that by the time I stumbled into a fight with John Seed, I did not have the help of the pilot, Mr Nick Rye. In fact, I had pretty much avoided flying altogether. And then suddenly I was thrown into a cockpit and told to take one of the four major antagonists down.

Smash cut to me standing in a field trying to shoot him down with a grenade launcher. For the record, this did not work.

Things I tried that did not work:

• Doing it the way the developers intended: as a intense dog fight over Holland Valley. This ended with me twirling upside down into a tree.
• Shooting at it with a rocket launcher
• Going to Nick Rye’s airfield to try vainly to recruit him, knowing full well that he was curled up in the foetal position on the floor of Pastor Jeremy’s church due to some plot point I missed by avoiding him. The airfield was abandoned.
• Recruiting Hurk as a gun for hire and trying to get him to shoot it with a rocket launcher.
• Trying to find another plane but to no avail.
• Trying to shoot him down in a helicopter.
• Asking my partner to shoot him down in a helicopter in multiplayer.
• Recruiting Adelaide Drubman to get her to shoot him down (then getting thoroughly irritated by her and wishing I hadn’t recruited her at all. She and her stupid ex-husband deserve each other. Poor Hurk Junior)

FINALLY, I found a way through it. And in case you are as stupid as me, here is how to do it.

Avoiding The John Seed Boss Fight

1. Fail a whole bunch until the mission checkpoint respawns you on the ground. This step may be optional. This is just how I did it.
2. Go plod around on the map doing whatever takes your fancy while John taunts you from the sky. Avoid fast travelling.
3. Repeat until you think that this will definitely not work.
4. Continue ignoring him.
5. He will crash at his bunker, and you can go shoot him in the head.

And I’ve just realised if I go through the whole game on NG+, I’m going to have to do this all over again. ARRGGGHHH!

Multiplayer frustrations

I downloaded the game about a month or two ago with the intention of playing multiplayer with my partner and son. After all, at the bottom of the menu, there are six party slots for multiplayer. HOWEVER, only one other person can play through the main game with you. The larger multiplayer experience is reserved for Far Cry Arcade. Don’t get me wrong, Far Cry Arcade is fun to noodle around in, but I only played it a handful of times and then got pretty bored. It’s not bad for what it is, but it’s a way less fun multiplayer experience than the main game.

Guns for hire

And now for my favourite thing about Far Cry 5, hands down: The Guns for Hire system. These are fighters that you can recruit to help you on your mission. There are 9 story mission guns for hire. Boomer is the easiest to get and an absolute favourite of mine. He’s a cattile dog that can tag enemies and friendlies for you.

Peaches and Jess are my favourite stealth combo, but the conversations between Hurk and Jess are unexpectedly delightful, so I often found myself bringing Hurk out just to hear him rattle on like a big dumb idiot. He might be a complete liability as a gun for hire, but I can’t help but find his inane chatter charming.

Imagine my devastation upon starting NG+ and getting through that long ass intro, I found that all of my Guns for Hire were gone. Needless to say, I’m heading straight for Rae Rae’s Pumpkin Farm to get my damn dog back.

I recorded starting New Game+ on the YouTube channel. And the moment I realise that I lost all my friends. Goddammit!

No audio video starting new game plus:

Bad Audio Rescuing Nick Rye again

Still working out if I continue New Game+ or Far Cry New Dawn.

Maybe even Far Cry 6… or… hear me out…. Not play a Far Cry game for a while. *GASP*