Far Cry Primal Survivor Mode
Author: S.A.
Ubisoft’s Far Cry Primal, a game that has just been released in recent months, has gotten itself an upgrade for those of us looking for a challenge. Last week the gaming giant added a free survivor mode for console and PC players. This mode, if your willing to start at the beginning of the game, really makes gamers work for their victory.
The original Far Cry Primal, while fun, eventually begins to play like any Far Cry Game. That is to say, you’ll get a host of tools that make it possible for you to destroy any enemy that comes your way with relative ease. Whether that’s one or a hundred, it matters not for the Far Cry master. However the new Survivor mode makes gamers have to reapproach the game with a different strategy, and act much more carefully.
For death awaits the foolish ones who normally rush in.
The new mode adds a stamina bar beneath your health bar and with each movement you make it is drained. Certain actions, such as running or fighting, drain it faster. The true issues arrise when it reaches zero, you’ll not only slow down in a fight but you’ll lose the ability to quick heal. For those of you familiar with the run and gun tactics that most players engage in, this could prove disastrous. This stamina can be replenished a little bit by eating the meat hunted from animals, but a huge chunk can be restored by sleeping.
This change is just the tip of the iceberg it seems.
Your pet animals cannot be revived if they go down in combat, meaning don’t be careless with how you use them. You also must carry less of everything, as your weight limit seems to have become less. Our ability to craft has dropped in speed, and hunting vision just isn’t as effective as it was before. Which means night terrors are all the more real in the game.
Here come’s the real kicker though – you can play with permanent death.
That means if Takkar goes down, you have to start a new game all over again. I personally could never do this, but I feel that every Dark Soul player around the world just stood up in joy at this add on. Regardless of how you feel, if you engage in this new mode you will have to play the game in a much different way. The going in hot style of fighting just won’t cut it with this style of game play, not to mention hunting for food will now become a necessity as oppose to an option.
For those of you who beat this mode with relative ease, let us know how it went. I say this because I’m far to lazy to try this mode of game play – especially permanent death. I’d bang my head into the wall from sheer frustration if I played this mode.
Run and gun for life.
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