Games PC FAR CRY User Manual

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Published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. Far Cry, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubi Soft Entertainment in the US and/or other countries.

All other trademarks are the property of their respectives owners.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Stranded in Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Installing and Running Far Cry™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Game Setup

Campaign (Single Player) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Multiplayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Demo Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Music Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Playing Far Cry

Main Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Game World Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

HUD (Heads Up Display) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Multiplayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Default Controls

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

INTRODUCTION

Far Cry™ is a tactical, first-person perspective action game set in a tropical paradise. Throughout play you will be informed of the story and objectives by occasional video sequences and prompts on the heads up display (HUD) .

Stranded in Paradise…

Jack Carver has left his mysterious and bitter past behind and dropped out of society to run a boatcharter business in the South Pacific. He is hired by Valerie Constantine to take her secretly to an uncharted island in Micronesia. After Val is safely delivered to the island, Jack's boat is suddenly attacked by mercenaries. Jack manages to escape but is stranded thousands of miles from home. With his only friend lost somewhere in the depths of the jungle he must now find his way back to civilisation.

System Requirements

COMPONENT MINIMUM RECOMMENDED HIGH

Operating System Windows 98 SE Windows 2000 Windows XP

Processor Pentium 3 1000 Mhz / Pentium 4 2000 Mhz / Pentium 4 3000 Mhz /

Memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB 1024 MB

HDD Space 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB

Graphics Card GeForce 2 64MB / ATI 8500 GeForce 4 128 MB / ATI 9500 Radeon 9800 Pro / GeForce FX 5950

DVD Drive 4x DVD or 16x CD-ROM 8x DVD or 32x CD-ROM 16x DVD

PCI Soundcard DirectX9 Compatible DirectX9 Compatible DirectX9 Compatible

Internet / LAN 64 Kbps upstream to play / 64 Kbps upstream to play / 64 Kbps upstream to play / connection 512 Kbps upstream 512 Kbps upstream 512 Kbps upstream (for online play) to host 8 players to host 8 players to host 8 players

* This model number indicates relative software performance among AMD processors AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Athlon, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Installing and Running Far Cry

1. Insert the Far Cry CD or DVD and the setup should begin automatically. If not, use Windows Explorer to locate your CD or DVD drive and run the file labeled setup. exe in the root folder of the Far Cry CD or DVD.

2. The installation wizard will guide you through the setup process.

3. To start the game, click start>programs>Ubisoft>Farcry>Play Farcry

AMD Athlon™ 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+*

AMD Athlon 64 3000+* / AMD Athlon 64 FX-51

GAME SETUP

This is the screen you will see when Far Cry has loaded.

Campaign (Single Player)

On the Campaign screen, press Start to start a new game, or press Load Check Point and select both a level and a check point to load a previously saved game. The list of available maps and check points depends on your progress through the campaign.

Multiplayer

Click Multiplayer to create or join a multiplayer game. The Multiplayer window shows active servers, including the following information.

Multiplayer Information

• Name: The name of the server hosting the multiplayer game.

• Map: The map being played on that server.

• Players: The number of players already in the game/ the total number of players allowed.

• Mod: The play mode of the current game.

• Ping: The ping time (milliseconds) to the listed server from your machine. Select a game and click Join, or you may prefer to create a server. Click the Refresh button to search for new servers.

Create Server Options

• Team Damage: Allow players on the same team to do damage to each other (friendly fire).

• Min Players: Set the minimum number of active players before the game can start (min is 0).

• Max Players: Set the maximum number of active players allowed in the game (max is 32).

• Game Type: Choose a game mode from the drop-down menu . These modes are discussed in more detail in the Playing Far Cry > Multiplayer section.

• Server Name: Set the name that will identify the game to other players.

• Password: Type a password here to password protect the server.

• Select Map: Select a map on which to play the game.

• Load/ Save: Store server settings in named profiles.

• Respawn Time: Set the delay between dying and respawning (when Respawn Cycle is on) .

• Time Limit: Set the time before the end of the round.

• Ubi. com™: Toggle the Internet- ready server (use this to host Internet games) .

• Launch: Start the server using your settings.

Options

Click Options to personalize player settings and controls.

Game Options

Choose a model from the drop-down list and type a name into the provided box.

Control Settings

Click Control Settings to list all controls and current bindings. All of the available actions are listed on the left of the screen. To change a control, double-click the table entry for the control and, when prompted, press the new key for the selected control. See the Default Key Controls section for a full list of controls and default bindings.

Video Settings

Changing default video settings may improve the performance of the game at the cost of visual appeal. By default, all settings are set to match the capabilities of the recommended machine specs. The first time you start the game, the Options menu will automatically open to ensure that you configure the game properly. Click Video in the Options menu to access these options.

Video Options

• Renderer: Select Direct3D

• Resolution: Choose from a list of all available resolutions.

• Anti Aliasing: Turn full screen anti-aliasing on or off (different quality settings are possible).

• Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma Sliders: Adjust your display device properties (Monitor/ TFT/ TV).

• Full Screen: Check this to play in full screen mode.

• Vertical Synch: Check this to synch display rate to monitor's refresh rate.

• Render Mode: Select one of the supported render styles (Normal, Cold, Paradise, and Cartoon).

Video Options: Advanced

• Auto Detect: Set the video options to match your machine’s individual capabilities.

• Very High: See all eye candy at the cost of performance. Recommended for top of the range machines only.

• High: Set the video options to match high-spec configurations.

• Medium: Set the video options to match medium-spec configurations.

• Low: Set the lowest video quality for best performance, especially on low-spec machines.

• Texture Quality: Set the texture quality (texture, light maps, bump maps, detail maps) to low, medium, high or very high.

• Texture Filter Quality: Set the texture filtering quality (bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic) to low, medium, high or very high.

• Particle Count: Set the number of particles allowed on screen to low, medium, high or very high (the higher the count, the more realistic the particle effects are).

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