Far Cry Primal: Socializing in Oros

Warning: Spoilers
  

This isn’t what one would call a “frictionless” tour through the countryside but I have been enjoying the journey. The challenges are an incentive to constantly upgrade. Thanks to the Steam controller, I finally got frustrated. I ran into the ludicrous Urki, a man way, way before his time. He sent me on the first of his ill fated missions. I needed to collect materials that he believed would enable him to fly. I could not for the life of me take out a raven for it’s feathers even though I had detected their tendency to briefly settle on nearby rocks. I only succeeded once I finally thought of trying the keyboard. Thanks to aim assist I haven’t been that troubled by sensitivity issues on the right track pad so I haven’t bothered to fiddle with it. His next missions were just as stupid. The second one went fine but I managed to bug the third one out. I was supposed to collect honeycomb from bee hives which was a new twist. So I shot the damn thing and once I returned from my angry bee escape, I discovered that the honeycomb had disintegrated I guess and had to start over. It was a minor setback though and as amusing as Urki is I was glad to leave him moaning and groaning for the last time.

Otherwise, I have been exploring and clearing off village missions, hunting and gathering along the way. I got to tame the terrifying beast from the game’s introduction and it still terrifies me even under my command. Mammoths are one of the few creatures it doesn’t automatically drive off so we just creep around those. Some paleolithic hunter I am.

Back at the village, I noticed a kid throwing rocks in the river. I hung out with him for a while but the most interesting thing he did was eat grubs from underneath a huge rock. This seems to be a favourite kid pastime. Then I was inspired to head out into the wilds and hang out with some Wenja buddies to see what they do with their day. Turns out they get into fights and die a lot. After a number of futile attempts at keeping them all alive I gave up in horror resolving to just stick with the achievable missions dotted all over the map. I have collected all the village specialists now but my favourite is still the obsessive warrior Karoosh. Now that we have completed his missions he’s back at the village calmly flint knapping or something. I have caused village controversy with my latest recruits but I am Beast Master, I have a sabre tooth. Back off! Which they did. I am almost ready for end game.

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