The island from Lost, that TV show about polar bears and time travel, has been painstaking recreated in Far Cry 5's Arcade map maker mode.
As a huge fan of the show, I am genuinely in awe of YouTuber Un-Break-Able's work. Having played Ubisoft's dodgy official Lost game, it feels like he has done a better job of recreating the island than Ubisoft itself.
There's the beach camp with its tents and graveyard area. There's its kitchen, and Charlie and Claire's tent complete with a guitar and crib.
Can you keep up with Grace’s sharp shooter skills in this week’s live event? Opt-in to the event from the main menu to claim the exclusive Armstrong vehicle and Hunter outfit: farcrygame.com/liveevents
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Hallo! John’s away so I’m taking over for our latest weekly rundown of the biggest-selling games on Steam over the previous seven days. Familiar faces are here, of course, but the charts also include more survival games than I’ve seen in yonks. The slightest peek of sun outside and you lot start acting as if it’s the end of the world, eh?
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Far Cry 5 is a mixed bag, but one of the bigger, shinier objects in that bag is its companions system. It’s a crossbreed of Far Cry Primal’s pets – you can summon them and direct their attacks at will; and Far Cry 2’s buddies – they can revive you if you get taken down. Nine of the companions available are starring characters: people or creatures you meet and recruit through main story missions with backstories and (when human) dialogue. But I don’t really care about eight of those, and I only care about the ninth because he is a dog, which gives him three key advantages:
1. He is, again, a dog.2. He never alerts enemies if I’m being stealthy.3. He never speaks, a big plus in a world where almost everything anyone says makes you like them less. (more…)
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Hullo! John is preoccupied with wizards right now, so I’m taking over for the rundown of last week’s top ten on Steam. It was an interesting week, bringing back some welcome old games and slamming in some shiny new ones. Largely, it’s all about robots and survival.
It's been several years since anyone's had a reason to think about Lost, the hit ABC TV series about a bunch of people stuck on a weird island. Much like Far Cry 5, it was an extraordinarily long and compelling experience with a really crap ending. The two obviously belong together, and now, finally, they are together: someone has made the Lost island in the Far Cry 5 map editor.
The work of Un-Break-Able, the map isn't to scale (the map editor isn't powerful enough to allow that amount of space), but all of the key locations are there, and all sit pretty much where you'd expect them to. Another caveat: the map was created on PS4, so it's not available on PC unless Ubisoft adds some kind of cross-platform support for the user-generated maps. But it's still worth checking out just to see what the map maker is capable of.
"This is an accurate recreated map made in the Far Cry 5 Arcade Map Editor. Everything from as small as Sun's garden to all 9 Dharma Initiative Stations are included," reads the description. "The map cannot unfortunately be made to scale but was made as large as possible."
The map ignores the so-called "canon" locations featured in the rather poor Lost: Via Domus game which released in 2010. So what you get is a map that most closely resembles the one featured in the TV series.
Friday Arcade Night features 6 new community maps and three weekly challenges! Check out the new featured maps- including Kaiyu S. Teien TDM and The Radar Station: http://ubi.li/vw8z4
This gorgeous screenshot was taken by one of our Reddit users, New_Fry. You can also share your favorite Hope County getaways on the Worldmap here: www.farcrygame.com/worldmap
Another week, another Far Cry 5 live event, and this one has a particularly goofy reward: a rocket launcher that distributes shovels instead of explosives. Once you've opted in for the event, which is called White Collar Job, go on the hunt for wolves using a bow and arrow. When you've bagged ten of them—and those can include Jacob's Judges (which are wolves but meaner)—you'll receive the Shovel Launcher. The short video above from YouTuber Fabian Bonk demonstrate it nicely.
We've already celebrated Far Cry 5's shovel, the best weapon in the game, because it's ridiculously powerful, capable of impaling enemies and vehicles, and because you can carry around nine of them at a time. The Shovel Launcher gives you a new way to fling them around, though I personally prefer throwing them like javelins to firing them out of a gun. It just feels more satisfying, I think, to use arm-power to nail some cultist to a tree instead of relying on hardware to do it for you. Really, though, there's no bad way to deliver a high-speed shovel.
