9 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Far Cry 5

2. It's Buggy As Hell

Far Cry 5
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Although Far Cry 5 has been in development for nearly four years, it doesn't feel like it. Not only are a lot of the features borrowed from previous games, but it's also buggy as all sin.

Although you might argue that this lack of polish should be expected from Ubisoft by this point, the Far Cry series has always been one of the publisher's tighter franchises. You wouldn't know that from this release alone though, which is littered with visual hiccups, dodgy A.I. and quests that constantly break.

The latter is a particularly egregious problem, as the majority of the quests in the title are damn solid, a positive which is constantly undermined when they start freaking out right at the climactic moment.

Restarting sections is already a problem in Far Cry 5, so to make an epic jumping takedown on a bad guy only to fall through the map really takes the steam out of engaging with combat in any imaginative way.

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