10 Infuriatingly Overpowered Video Game Enemies

5. Mammoths - Far Cry: Primal

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In Far Cry: Primal, there is a mission about halfway through the game in which the player must take down a singular mammoth with the help of an entire tribe. It is quite the taxing endeavor, requiring a constant eye on supplies and healing items in order to survive. (There would have been a spoiler warning if Far Cry: Primal actually had any story to spoil).

And yet, there are many times throughout the game in which it expects you to go out and hunt and kill a mammoth by yourself.

There are a lot about the mammoths in Primal to hate. One of which is the result of some bad programming.

One of Primal's central mechanics is taming predators and using them during combat. Yet, for whatever reason, many predators (in particular, the sabretooth tiger) will make a point of instantly starting a fight with any mammoth. Four seconds later, your animal friend is now dead, and there's a seriously pissed woolly mammoth trying its hardest to hunt you down and pummel you to death.

Mammoth skins are required in order to advance the plot and craft some key gear upgrades. Yet killing them is basically an exercise in masochism. Worse yet, we're not allowed to use fire bombs to speed up the process, because that destroys the pelts.

If it was this hard to kill actual mammoths during the prehistoric era, then major kudos to those that managed to figure out how to do it.

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