- #Launch far cry 3 without uplay install#
- #Launch far cry 3 without uplay software#
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It does not offer any multiplayer features. The Classic Edition of Far Cry 3 is an exciting single player adventure. But right now, doing that makes for a broken game, and a pissed off John on his day off.Can you play Far Cry 3 online with friends? It's a single-player game, and it requires no online features whatsoever for how I'm trying to play it. I want to double click the Far Cry 3 icon on my desktop, and see the game load. But they've made such an arsed up mess of it, and it desperately needs to just go away. They also wanted to create community-based features, and offer bonuses and gimmicks for players - it's part of their desire to stop being the Big Evil and start rewarding legitimate customers rather than punishing them. No one should bow to Valve's monopoly if they can create something that rivals it. Ubi saw the opportunities Steam offers, and wanted them for themselves - which is absolutely fair enough. I really do think Uplay was made with good intentions. The bad news is I have to jump through so many pointless hoops to do so.
That Far Cry 3's servers are down this morning, on the day the game sodding well comes out, is beyond belief.
#Launch far cry 3 without uplay software#
But in reality it takes away immediately practical things I want from my games, like to run them without having to fiddle with an unwanted extra piece of software that's currently crippling the game, and to save to a local directory in clear, easy to transfer save files. It's clearly trying to emulate Steam in a number of ways, just like Origin does, with its own options to switch to it while a game is running, and unwanted and unrequested attempts to cloud save my data. But here I have this unwieldy front-end, that insists on my clicking through it to launch the game, and meddles in the background throughout. Even Steam lets you run a game directly from a shortcut. So the question I'm left with is: What does Uplay offer me?Īnd the answer is nothing whatsoever. As I write, the windowed version of the game I had switched from because of its oddities has now entirely crashed, not letting me open nor close it. Instead you're forced to load a broken version, that lets you play for a while, then throws multiple tantrums. But this isn't something Uplay feels the need to alert you to before launching the game.
#Launch far cry 3 without uplay Offline#
The way around this is to set Uplay to Offline Mode. Going back to the game, you see the above. Until the first time I tried to pull up a local menu. I knew that the publisher had ditched their evil always-on DRM crap, so knew this wouldn't any longer be a problem, and indeed the game launched just fine. So this morning I figured, a day with Far Cry 3! Woo-hoo! Loaded Uplay, no problems, launched the game and it told me it couldn't connect to the Ubisoft servers.
This was after trying to find the save location, via an appeal on Twitter, to learn it's either:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\0c7ddfbe-d92d-4270-8cf9-3493a81f0c2d\46\
#Launch far cry 3 without uplay install#
New Windows install on a brand new SSD, just for you, Far Cry 3.
#Launch far cry 3 without uplay Pc#
The third time was because I'd deliberately quit out of the game after finishing watching the intro, chosen the oddly ambiguous "save" from the menu, and quit out to entirely rebuild my PC to see if I could get the glitching smoothed out. The third time I was genuinely pissed off. It's extremely long, and there's absolutely no reason on Earth why it shouldn't be skipped. The second time, a few minutes after the game had crashed on me and I was forced to watch it again, I wasn't so impressed. It's good! The first time I saw it I was very impressed by the acting, and not uninterested in the action. I've seen the unskippable intro three times now. And this is all because currently the Ubisoft servers are down.
I can't move from this extraordinary vista, I've no way of interacting. Right now, this is what the game looks like: You can still play in offline mode, but ho boy, this isn't a good start. And right now? Ubisoft's servers are down. Today is my day off, hooray! And so far I've been treated to a horrible, horrible time, and all at the hands of the technical mess that is Uplay and idiotic mechanical choices. After Jim's review, and many similar elsewhere, I've been dying to play it and finally have the chance. So, like many others, I'm very excited to play Far Cry 3. Update: Ubisoft have tweeted an apology, saying they're working as fast as they can to get the servers back online.
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