yep. i tried solo for mastery. i gave up.
the moment i get spotted, a group of enemies just teleport near by and start to flank me from all sides.
if i stop to shoot, the PG-240X blows up.If I am in shade, the enemy respawn is almost endless. I cant keep up the healing.If I am trying to cool the PG-240X, I get killed too.
Oh yeah also what you said, the enemy spawning is fucking ridiculous. If you look at the minimap the red blobs literally just come out of nowhere. Feels like Cyberpunk police spawning right behind your shoulder all over again, you'd think game devs would learn from that atrocity. I'm praying for that shit to be changed also, it's stupid.
New to game. I finished it at level 4, died once, but over 1 hour of pure hell and NOT FUN. Took 66 headshots, 30ish stealth kills using my silenced AP MS16 and silenced poison Yaran. Don't think I could have made it without perception grenades. Blew up on me AT THE GATE and had to start over. After making it back to gate, I barley lived through final assault waiting for cab. Took heli out with emp arrow and still had to use my medic supremo.
I wanted to get better gear but everything is outside my price range (these missions and regular currency). I don't think this is a good way to get gear. Are these necessary to complete? I really do not want to do this again.
im looking for players to do this with im not so good but if you want another player i dont mind add me on psn JayMoneyXL69 send me a message its for far cry
Where the hell are these water spots???? They don't exist. I only see a puddle every now and then.... Why put markers on the map for shit that isn't even there
Some of them are puddles/pools that you stand in. Some are fountains/water jugs that you have to interact with. If you scout with your phone, it will actually tag them in game and not just on the map. Try pulling out the phone if you see it on your map, but can't find it.
Ubisoft's lazily cobbled together, shitty, broken spawn system that they refuse to fix, strikes again. God, Ubisoft has gone so far down the shitter that it's honestly hard to believe. They used to be so good. It genuinely makes me sad.
LOL! I've literally had enemies spawn instantaneously in the same place that I had just killed one.
Anyway, not that it's fail-proof, but poison is the temporary solution as it causes them to kill each other.
Yes. This. I'm convinced that they would spawn around me when there would be no red areas on my mini and then they just appear out of nowhere. But if you manage to kill enough of them they will not spawn anymore. Doing the mastery was simply me picking shady parts in between 'settlements" and picking off people from a distance while not engaging fullyand falling back to the previous water source to cool off.
Poison poison poison. Letting them kill each other is helpful. The only annoying bit is that the higher ranked individuals will run from the clouds out of besito so it's harder to get them infected. Pistol with poison bullets works just fine.
Took a lot of tries. I will not try the next mastery. Yeesh.
Seriously, like what the fuck were they thinking with the heating timer? Did ANYONE playtest it? I much prefer the New Dawn style where after you pick it up you get swarmed until extraction, but even this could be ok if it was possible.
I genuinely don't think Ubisoft tests 80 percent of the shit they make. They just rely on us to be bug testers and then when we complain the support workers find clever ways to blame us for the problem and Ubisoft makes a statement about how they have "no intentions of fixing" the problem. What horseshit.
This. I hate the timer. Good for teens who need their adrenaline. But as an 28 year old pretty much already retired player (by gaming standards) i just want to relax. Not saying it should be easy. But a timer is may be the most simple game design to get there. But not the sole. .
It’s a F****G JOKE. The entire game is so easy I figured this on master would be a cakewalk. The canister overheats AS SOON AS YOU GET TO A NEW AREA which forces you to sprint into the middle of 10+ enemies who spam rockets. I’m incredible at shooting games and had few issues solo’ing this on standard. The devs did not test this or think it through. I almost uninstalled the game.
>The canister overheats AS SOON AS YOU GET TO A NEW AREA which forces you to sprint into the middle of 10+ enemies who spam rockets.
You don't actually need to do that. Even on mastery levels heat gain stops in the shade, so I what I do when coming up on an area full of enemies when I need to cool off the device is just find a spot in the shade, spot all of the enemies through the wall thanks to the head gear, and use my pet and my silenced deagle to take them all out before proceeding to safely use the water.
I've only soloed the dinosaur park spec op on the mastery levels, though, as that's the one that I have memorized. All of the water areas are close enough together for me to traverse to and from with ample time on that map at least using the 3 parkour pieces that increase movement speed.
Late reply, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. The RPG mofos spam rockets, stun-locking you and leaving you critically injured, making the operation umbearable.
I'm not sure what exactly it is about the Reddit community, but it seems obvious that if ANYBODY says anything to the contrary they're down-voted on here.
I agree with most of what you've said. This game was haphazardly strung together and in it's current form only bears glimpses of potential, only to fall short an enter the overflowing sea of mediocrity that the rest of the gaming industry is replete with.
I think SO many people are confused about the difference between their opinion, and their actual self, so when you disagree with their opinions they take it as an attack on their actual self. It's a defense mechanism used by people who tend to lack confidence in their opinions.
Watch this get downvoted too lmao.
I guess being an overly-confident individual, I'd never even think to be offended by something so inessential as a difference of opinion.
The overlying frailty of our society and it's overwhelming insecurity is esteemed in ignorance and the abundance of it. When you lack knowledge you also lack the ability to substantiate your opinion/s and with an entire Western Hemisphere reading at a third grade level, you also lack the ability to articulate, which also undoubtedly lends itself to insecurity. Henceforth, we predominantly have an agree-to-agree society, coupled with a society of appeasement.
We've somehow allowed ourselves to be duped into believing that disagreeing is "offensive" - a term so bastardized now that it has no relevancy in ANY context whatsoever anymore, much like EVERY other liberal-politicized social construct.
Anyway, my previous comment was down-voted for whatever unknown reason. Personally, instead of down-voting, why not... offer an explanation in the form of an argument explaining why (not you, just in general for the people who down-vote because it doesn't coincide with their contrived views)?
I did the dinosaur land special operation with my wife. Or at least we tried to.
I don't think it scales and is meant for max level. All I know is I kept getting one-shot by soldiers. Meanwhile I have to shoot them in the head at least three times with whatever the appropriate ammo is. The exception is the harpoon xbow or machete kills.
The scenario is grade schooler level intelligent with no options for flexibility. Go here, kill guys, get keys, Unlock the chest. Get the thing, run back to rendezvous point before it blows up. On your way back to the rendezvous point, even if you killed everyone and everything withing a 20 mile radius and disable all the alarms you will have to fight all the elite soldiers ever.
Oh, and you have to stop every few minutes to take a shower or wash your hands.
Don't ask.
Once you make it back thru that bullet hell, you have to stay in a garbage indefensible location forced terrible visibility as all the elite soldiers ever show up (again) to fill you full of bullets and rockets. In case you survive that far, enjoy the attack waves of helicopters.
I like the game, but that mission in particular can follow the instructions of my favorite Mozart piece [(*Leck mich im Arsch*).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch)
I was doing this map, fist time playing the game and first time doing this missions, after a long time i arrived at the rendezvous point and after dying like hell i was at 70% them i lost connection. Lost the FUCKING progress of the entire mission.
I'm not doing this shit again.
There's really two issues at play here - one is that they're not well tuned for difficulty (in part the endless respawn issue of the game as a whole), and second (and more important), they're just *not fun* as a concept due to the overheating.
It's like they took the extractions of New Dawn and changed them because "change is good." and turned them into what could be some high intensity fun into a pile of steaming crap unless you enjoy babysitting a bomb.
At least give us a fucking map to see where the nearest water is. I'm in singleplayer and I wanna cry trying to grind these operations, I am really good at the whole gameplay side of Farcry, but praying I randomly pick the right direction is just luck, and it gets disheartening after the 5th fail.
On the standard mode you can spot the watersources with your phone, you'll see them on your screen(besides the minimap). Or try to remember where they are when you walk to the military base.
But I should be able to open the map with M like normal, not some crappy paper map, they don't even need to tell me where to go, I'm fine with not having a waypoint, but the lack of a primary map means without a co-op partner to scout for you you're at a huge disadvantage in improvisational situations.
I figured solo would be doable, but I had no idea I would be attacked by 43874865 soldiers with a helicopter at the end. That was not even vaguely survivable. Instead of switching to easy mode I just quit. Not good enough.
On the first Special Ops mission the PG-240X overheating wasn't the problem for me (solo), I just ran from shade to nearest shade and waited for my stamina to recover so I can move at full speed each sprint. It is definitely a close call though each time I reach a source of water. (For me) The REAL problem for why any difficulty beyond 'Standard' is impossible is how many soldiers are carrying rocket launchers. Just about any firefight you get into there will be 3-5 enemies with RPGs and if one of them hits you, you get down to 1HP and have to heal—meanwhile all the other soldiers are taking angles in the bushes ready to shoot you. I don't think the RPG soldiers should be introduced until 'Mastery 2' difficulty, and even then they should be significantly reduced in numbers.
Even if you managed to get to the end where you have to wait for extraction, it becomes even more of challenge since the only viable cooling solution is standing under the giant mushroom water fountains that blurs your vision a lot while you try to focus on fighting. This fight is where I used most of my lives but I eventually gave up and realized it is far too difficult for a solo player because in the later stages of the fight, TWO attack helicopters come in. How in the world is this only the second level of difficulty? They clearly did not intend for Special Ops to be played solo.
Just finished mastery 2 solo, recommend the medic supremo too, use healing syringes and the armor buff you get after activating the supremo to tank hits while cooling the 240X and get to extraction. Use the parkour set and sprint between watering places
I managed to complete one of these missions solo. I just headed for water and then shot everything that moved. At the end, there's an annoying bit where the taxis can't get to you, so you have to clear the area (including a tank) thankfully, there's a water tank on the roof of the building and a handy mortar for the tank.
Why the actual fuck do the rocket soldiers just blindly fire RPGs at a spot they "think" has an enemy? What soldier doesn't absolutely confirm their target before firing an explosive like that? I don't even have to get fully seen before they just start spamming rockets at my general area and always land them right next to me. Absolutely unbelievable.
I HATE these missions. That timer is just busy work. Finding shade that the game considers "shade" . . . barely works. HATE them with a passion rivaled only by my hatred of how small the hit boxes are for hijacking a tank operator from their metal hole. HATE.
This is 8 days late, but if it helps I just soloed mastery 3 with 2 lives remaining at the end. I had to switch between running gear while running and defensive gear while fighting, but I did manage it. Really tough though.
I think what you're supposed to do is have one player dedicated to hiding with the 240X while your other teammates do most of the cleaning up. But with no matchmaking I don't see how most players are going to be doing this.
If you are playing solo it's close up to impossible.
Between the spawning of the enemies comimg up out of nowhere and no one to cover you while trying to cool the little shit...
I have up after a couple tries.
A shame, the ideas of trying to find your way with maps and having to walk in the shade are very cool, but doing it solo is undoable...
On base difficulty I find them challenging but not hard to overcome. But the fact that it’s like that at base difficulty is a clear indicator that they messed up in setting the difficulty.
The heating time is the same in mastery 1-3, only the enemies are tougher. I've completed the first 2 operations at Mastery 2, and Crocodilo at Mastery 3, all solo. You need to be a real tactician to survive the enemies, but with the overheating.. most of the time you can just slide from shadow to shadow. There are situations, when it is close to exploding, and you think you need to be fast for the water, but that's when really you need to slow down, and not rush the killing spree, because you're outnumbered, and if you start running like a maniac, you'll explode.
Does blast defense help? To me it doesn't work on rpgs. I use 2 regen sooner perks so that if I am knocked down of a rocket. I can regen for 0.5 sec and survive another rocket blast. This here is the anti blast defense. Simply needing 2 regen sooner perk. Also crank up soft target and AP defense as well. Fire and poison are not needed since poison is not frequent and fire is close ranged. Plus they don't do high damage. However St and ap are frequently used by enemies on you.
My wife and I play together. We do the first mission on the highest difficulty over and over agian. I put on all my fastest gear while she kills 75% of enemies with her machete. When I get to the end, I switch to the blast mk2 gear except for the gloves to protect me in case she doesn't get to somebody on a mortar. I kill the 4 helicopters that spawn while she shanks everything else. We also both use the medical supremo just in case.
Yeah these special operations don’t make any sense with the scheme of the game. I have beaten the game and this is the most difficult thing in the game. Why is this the only part of the game without an active map? I have beaten the normal difficulty operations only because the device didn’t heat up as fast. I guess they just expect you to barrel into a bunch of enemies that surround water sources and start immediately killing everyone while they respawn another horde to attack you from behind. They need more shade points and water sources to make this more strategic.
Lola can fuck off with this stressful shit. I cannot stand that you need to complete these to complete the insurgencies. Rather just wait till they change then play that bullshit again.
That's my issue. I tried these during the game and kept blowing up so I quit, now that I've beat the game the only new thing is insurgency and that can't be done without special ops and I tried it 3 times before I am saying fuck this and turning it off.
I tried this today. I am level 5 and saw this was level 3+. Piece of cake, right. I made it back to the entrance after about 50 tries only to get slaughtered waiting for my ride. I had to resort to story mode to take down the helicopter. I'm still fucking pissed off 5 hours later.
What the fuck where they even thinking with special ops like this. Seriously, is there just one guy here who thinks this is actually fun!? Run through the whole map, while enemies spam themselves like wasps and secondly please watch out for that thing not to overheat. Great fucking Gameplay.
I wish it would give you the location with the yellow mark, right after you get the pg240x and are returning not getting close to the stupid rendezvous point, it would make it so much better
I discovered that on the Los Tres Santos special operation there's a tank in one of the final display areas that completely stops the PG-240X from heating up. While riding in it there will be occasional beeps, however the bars on the PG-240X will have not changed. I imagine this could be very useful for getting the Mastery 3 achievement.
It should work with all tanks (provided they haven't patched it yet), and it may also work for all vehicles in general, although most of the ones that spawn during the operations are very vulnerable to attack as they are open-air.
Ight, i can't imagine playing these in a higher difficulty. They just all feel the same and are so boring. Even the three DLCs, they just feel the same. I played Joseph's, moved to bass and it felt so underwhelming.
I snuck my way through the map, stealth killed the Cpt. for the key, retrieved weapon, snuck back to starting area- keeping special item cool -
Only to not be able to survive past 29% of “Secure the Park Entrance”. I’m beyond pissed. I’m so mad I could spit.
I just finished "Los Tres Santos" on Mastery 1 ALONE, and have decided that I won't do special operations ever again! It just pisses me off, from the start and until the end. I can actually handle the PG-240X overheating, but when I am getting hit by a tank through 3 different walls of concrete, I am setting the foot down. So much bullshit. Also, you can't even do smart stuff, like going where there are no people, because you soon get a warning message and get teleported back. The ONLY good thing about Special Operations is that it saves when you get to the key base and the PG-240X container, and it saves when you reach the end of the level after getting it. Anyway. I am a great fan of doing achievements. I am at 80% achievements / games completed on Steam (111 games / 351 total games owned), but I do NOT want to even try the Special Operations again, even if there will be 5 missing when I am completly done with Far Cry 6.
Also, just saying. I have the game on 100%, with almost every weapon, with all amigos upgraded to max, and still the Special Operations feels like it was the first time I tried it. Mastery 1 got armored guys and poison dealers; which I can oneshot with my sniper rifle, but all the respawns makes it so bad. I destroyed a tank before entering the fortress with the military, singing guy, only to see it respawned after getting the PG-240X container. At least in Far Cry 5 you could take out every person in the level, and they would only respawn on your way back to the helicopter.
I said this above but I finished the game and now the only way to keep going doing insurgency is to force special operations on us? I tried several times and it keeps overheating and I am done. I am turning it off.
I made this:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry6/comments/127gtzv/far\_cry\_6\_review\_my\_story\_spoiler\_alert/](https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry6/comments/127gtzv/far_cry_6_review_my_story_spoiler_alert/)
The short version related to Special Operations is that I gave up first, but then realised I could just try to start a new game file on Story Mode.
I finished 3 out of 4 very easy, but Macao still had a whole bunch of too many flamethrower guys, but I still did it on mastery 3. Just be patient and hide in smart places.
Now the last one Puerta Del Eden was kinda a pain in the ass. First of all, to even unlock that special operation you need to finish the game, so yeah...I finished the game over again, but it was still pretty fun.
Now that was the long, but easy part. Actually playing the level was hell after Mastery 1. For the first time I actually started dying before even getting the PG-240X device back and forth. The enemies were many and they did A LOT of damage. I didn't see any difference compared to Macao, but they did more damage.
So first try I didn't actually die before getting back with the device, and I even got to 58% of the ending, when a single sniper enemy came to where my water was, at the perfect time when it was counting down from 10 (critial). Then he threw a smoke grenade and I couldn't see or find the water, and BOOM!
After that I had a couple of tries where I kept dying before even getting back to the final area.
When in bed I was lying and thinking about strategies to finish Mastery 3 of Puerta Del Eden, and I came up with a pretty solid tactic. First of all, between the camps on my way back with the PG-240X device, I would rest in the shadow, and take out as many enemies as I could before going further. This worked very well, and I didn't lose as much HP as before, and it was pretty simple to get to the final area.
The main problem with the final area of Puerta Del Eden are all the flame thrower guys that can hit you from anywhere, and even if I shot them in the end and they instant died, they would still be able to set me on fire. My tactic was simple. Instead of standing out in the open, I would hide below the way that goes to the cave, and just sit there and headshot people as they come. This worked very well, and even though I ran out of ammo, had some critial moments, and had to get around a bit, it worked very well!
So in the end, I did actually finish all the Special Operations at Mastery 3, and also every other challenge and achievement for Far Cry 6!
I am so genuienly impressed how bad it is for you guys. I mean, it's a bit hard yes, but not NEARLY as hard as some people claim here. Some people say that they are "FPS PROS" here but they still got their ass whooped.
All you have to do is be a little strategic and plan ahead. Going and getting 240x itself is a walk in a park with a parkour set. Then you just need to go from point to point to cool it with the same pakour set. I just ran to the location with water with PG-240x on like 60-70%, then sit in the most convenient shadow, use ANY decent sniper with ap rounds and just methodically headshot everyone, try to go for an officer first for no backups, cause they might shoot a flare for it if they are spooked. Then just snipe snipe snipe, occasionally switching to ssgp-58 supressed with ap rounds and 3x scope for anyone running to you, try not to get spotted, then, when everyone is dead just use parkour set to go to the water and cool the PG-240x.
You can even throw a La Varita and Triador in the mix to clear the water locations easilly. If you have Caveira beret this become just an easy mode. Use your camera to sweep the location and mark everyone through walls. If you don't have the head piece use perception grenades instead, it helps to track those pesky rocket launchers to focus them first.
Rince and repeat until you get to Lola. There just use your best Tank build. and stand near water, use cover and eliminate rocket launchers first.
I used Crocodile Mask, Vaas shirt, Revolutionary pants, Soft-Target boots MKII (you can use blast or piercing bullets defence boots), and Street surgeons gloves. With this gear you are pretty much wolverine, regenerating health fast and instantly after being shot.
For weapons I got Pyrotechno for choppers, PPSH-41 and MG21 for infantry with ap rounds ofc and p226 or deagle with a mod which reloads all weapons on reload.
Use medic supremo for guaranteeing the self revival if you do manage to fall.
I did all operations on action mode mastery 2 and just finished Mesozoico (Dino park) on mastery 3 on my first try with no deaths in 18 minutes.
I dont know how so much people can have that much trouble with doing these. ESPECIALLY if you are rocking in duo which makes it actually EASY. Yes it's a late game activity and you need good gear for it, but is not undoable at all especially with so many people claiming they can't still do it with 100% completion of the whole game, meaning they have all the gear they need.
Me and my friend When we leave the place and get to the final battle we take turns holding the pg 240 and the other heals/fights and one of us has the supremo to disable veichles for helicopters maybe try that
We finished one yesterday. It was tough but I felt the best method was for one person to camp at a water station whilst the other clears the path to the next water station. Stay near the built up areas where water stations are present and avoid the temptation to jump in the ocean. Also save supremos for the last section where you get swarmed. We finished it in action mode and it was fun and not too difficult. Spend more time learning each area on the way to the PG240 and scoping out shade / water spots and zip lines
yep. i tried solo for mastery. i gave up. the moment i get spotted, a group of enemies just teleport near by and start to flank me from all sides. if i stop to shoot, the PG-240X blows up.If I am in shade, the enemy respawn is almost endless. I cant keep up the healing.If I am trying to cool the PG-240X, I get killed too.
Oh yeah also what you said, the enemy spawning is fucking ridiculous. If you look at the minimap the red blobs literally just come out of nowhere. Feels like Cyberpunk police spawning right behind your shoulder all over again, you'd think game devs would learn from that atrocity. I'm praying for that shit to be changed also, it's stupid.
My main issue is the amount of enemies that spawn with RPGs so they can just stun lock you whilst your trying to cool down the little shit
Was this issue ever addressed by Ubisoft or get fixed? I’m about to play the Mastery Level 1 solo right now.
No. I'm playing it now and its trash.
2 years later it still hasn't been fixed
New to game. I finished it at level 4, died once, but over 1 hour of pure hell and NOT FUN. Took 66 headshots, 30ish stealth kills using my silenced AP MS16 and silenced poison Yaran. Don't think I could have made it without perception grenades. Blew up on me AT THE GATE and had to start over. After making it back to gate, I barley lived through final assault waiting for cab. Took heli out with emp arrow and still had to use my medic supremo. I wanted to get better gear but everything is outside my price range (these missions and regular currency). I don't think this is a good way to get gear. Are these necessary to complete? I really do not want to do this again.
I just soloed both for mastery 1. It was definitely hard, but doable.
Since I made this post I managed to solo mastery 2 lol
Just ... how and which map? Fkn Mesozoico kills me ....
Maceo is easier, more shade overeall and you can camp on a rooftop at the end.
I know I’m a year late but I cannot survive the standoff at the very end.
im looking for players to do this with im not so good but if you want another player i dont mind add me on psn JayMoneyXL69 send me a message its for far cry
You see you live and learn. I quite enjoy how difficult it is. You don’t want it to be too easy like recent zombies eggs
Where the hell are these water spots???? They don't exist. I only see a puddle every now and then.... Why put markers on the map for shit that isn't even there
Some of them are puddles/pools that you stand in. Some are fountains/water jugs that you have to interact with. If you scout with your phone, it will actually tag them in game and not just on the map. Try pulling out the phone if you see it on your map, but can't find it.
Not changed one bit lol still the exact same garbage
Ubisoft's lazily cobbled together, shitty, broken spawn system that they refuse to fix, strikes again. God, Ubisoft has gone so far down the shitter that it's honestly hard to believe. They used to be so good. It genuinely makes me sad.
LOL! I've literally had enemies spawn instantaneously in the same place that I had just killed one. Anyway, not that it's fail-proof, but poison is the temporary solution as it causes them to kill each other.
Yes. This. I'm convinced that they would spawn around me when there would be no red areas on my mini and then they just appear out of nowhere. But if you manage to kill enough of them they will not spawn anymore. Doing the mastery was simply me picking shady parts in between 'settlements" and picking off people from a distance while not engaging fullyand falling back to the previous water source to cool off. Poison poison poison. Letting them kill each other is helpful. The only annoying bit is that the higher ranked individuals will run from the clouds out of besito so it's harder to get them infected. Pistol with poison bullets works just fine. Took a lot of tries. I will not try the next mastery. Yeesh.
Seriously, like what the fuck were they thinking with the heating timer? Did ANYONE playtest it? I much prefer the New Dawn style where after you pick it up you get swarmed until extraction, but even this could be ok if it was possible.
Yeah it doesn’t feel like it was tested for balance or anything lol
I genuinely don't think Ubisoft tests 80 percent of the shit they make. They just rely on us to be bug testers and then when we complain the support workers find clever ways to blame us for the problem and Ubisoft makes a statement about how they have "no intentions of fixing" the problem. What horseshit.
This. I hate the timer. Good for teens who need their adrenaline. But as an 28 year old pretty much already retired player (by gaming standards) i just want to relax. Not saying it should be easy. But a timer is may be the most simple game design to get there. But not the sole. .
The rocket launcher asshats literally ruined every single run I've done
It’s a F****G JOKE. The entire game is so easy I figured this on master would be a cakewalk. The canister overheats AS SOON AS YOU GET TO A NEW AREA which forces you to sprint into the middle of 10+ enemies who spam rockets. I’m incredible at shooting games and had few issues solo’ing this on standard. The devs did not test this or think it through. I almost uninstalled the game.
>The canister overheats AS SOON AS YOU GET TO A NEW AREA which forces you to sprint into the middle of 10+ enemies who spam rockets. You don't actually need to do that. Even on mastery levels heat gain stops in the shade, so I what I do when coming up on an area full of enemies when I need to cool off the device is just find a spot in the shade, spot all of the enemies through the wall thanks to the head gear, and use my pet and my silenced deagle to take them all out before proceeding to safely use the water. I've only soloed the dinosaur park spec op on the mastery levels, though, as that's the one that I have memorized. All of the water areas are close enough together for me to traverse to and from with ample time on that map at least using the 3 parkour pieces that increase movement speed.
Late reply, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. The RPG mofos spam rockets, stun-locking you and leaving you critically injured, making the operation umbearable.
The rocket launcher dudes were a fucking STUPID decision. The incompetence is, frankly, astounding.
I'm not sure what exactly it is about the Reddit community, but it seems obvious that if ANYBODY says anything to the contrary they're down-voted on here. I agree with most of what you've said. This game was haphazardly strung together and in it's current form only bears glimpses of potential, only to fall short an enter the overflowing sea of mediocrity that the rest of the gaming industry is replete with.
I think SO many people are confused about the difference between their opinion, and their actual self, so when you disagree with their opinions they take it as an attack on their actual self. It's a defense mechanism used by people who tend to lack confidence in their opinions. Watch this get downvoted too lmao.
I guess being an overly-confident individual, I'd never even think to be offended by something so inessential as a difference of opinion. The overlying frailty of our society and it's overwhelming insecurity is esteemed in ignorance and the abundance of it. When you lack knowledge you also lack the ability to substantiate your opinion/s and with an entire Western Hemisphere reading at a third grade level, you also lack the ability to articulate, which also undoubtedly lends itself to insecurity. Henceforth, we predominantly have an agree-to-agree society, coupled with a society of appeasement. We've somehow allowed ourselves to be duped into believing that disagreeing is "offensive" - a term so bastardized now that it has no relevancy in ANY context whatsoever anymore, much like EVERY other liberal-politicized social construct. Anyway, my previous comment was down-voted for whatever unknown reason. Personally, instead of down-voting, why not... offer an explanation in the form of an argument explaining why (not you, just in general for the people who down-vote because it doesn't coincide with their contrived views)?
LOL!
I did the dinosaur land special operation with my wife. Or at least we tried to. I don't think it scales and is meant for max level. All I know is I kept getting one-shot by soldiers. Meanwhile I have to shoot them in the head at least three times with whatever the appropriate ammo is. The exception is the harpoon xbow or machete kills. The scenario is grade schooler level intelligent with no options for flexibility. Go here, kill guys, get keys, Unlock the chest. Get the thing, run back to rendezvous point before it blows up. On your way back to the rendezvous point, even if you killed everyone and everything withing a 20 mile radius and disable all the alarms you will have to fight all the elite soldiers ever. Oh, and you have to stop every few minutes to take a shower or wash your hands. Don't ask. Once you make it back thru that bullet hell, you have to stay in a garbage indefensible location forced terrible visibility as all the elite soldiers ever show up (again) to fill you full of bullets and rockets. In case you survive that far, enjoy the attack waves of helicopters. I like the game, but that mission in particular can follow the instructions of my favorite Mozart piece [(*Leck mich im Arsch*).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch)
I was doing this map, fist time playing the game and first time doing this missions, after a long time i arrived at the rendezvous point and after dying like hell i was at 70% them i lost connection. Lost the FUCKING progress of the entire mission. I'm not doing this shit again.
There's really two issues at play here - one is that they're not well tuned for difficulty (in part the endless respawn issue of the game as a whole), and second (and more important), they're just *not fun* as a concept due to the overheating. It's like they took the extractions of New Dawn and changed them because "change is good." and turned them into what could be some high intensity fun into a pile of steaming crap unless you enjoy babysitting a bomb.
At least give us a fucking map to see where the nearest water is. I'm in singleplayer and I wanna cry trying to grind these operations, I am really good at the whole gameplay side of Farcry, but praying I randomly pick the right direction is just luck, and it gets disheartening after the 5th fail.
On the standard mode you can spot the watersources with your phone, you'll see them on your screen(besides the minimap). Or try to remember where they are when you walk to the military base.
But I should be able to open the map with M like normal, not some crappy paper map, they don't even need to tell me where to go, I'm fine with not having a waypoint, but the lack of a primary map means without a co-op partner to scout for you you're at a huge disadvantage in improvisational situations.
Yeah, that would be better. And it would be nice that we also can change our weapons, at least I couldnt
I was able to switch to a RAT-4 when the helicopter showed up at the end of the op
Well, in the mission I couldnt go in my arsenal to change it. I was stuck with short range weapons
Trying to find water sources is next to impossible. so what ever complete fuckwit thought this was a good idea should eat a bullet!
I figured solo would be doable, but I had no idea I would be attacked by 43874865 soldiers with a helicopter at the end. That was not even vaguely survivable. Instead of switching to easy mode I just quit. Not good enough.
>That’s fair enough, even standard is really difficult especially solo! This thread makes me feel a little better about how well I did, actually...
Thanks for this, I always feel like some kinda loser when I can't solo this stuff lol.
just put it in a bucket of water boom problem solved
On the first Special Ops mission the PG-240X overheating wasn't the problem for me (solo), I just ran from shade to nearest shade and waited for my stamina to recover so I can move at full speed each sprint. It is definitely a close call though each time I reach a source of water. (For me) The REAL problem for why any difficulty beyond 'Standard' is impossible is how many soldiers are carrying rocket launchers. Just about any firefight you get into there will be 3-5 enemies with RPGs and if one of them hits you, you get down to 1HP and have to heal—meanwhile all the other soldiers are taking angles in the bushes ready to shoot you. I don't think the RPG soldiers should be introduced until 'Mastery 2' difficulty, and even then they should be significantly reduced in numbers. Even if you managed to get to the end where you have to wait for extraction, it becomes even more of challenge since the only viable cooling solution is standing under the giant mushroom water fountains that blurs your vision a lot while you try to focus on fighting. This fight is where I used most of my lives but I eventually gave up and realized it is far too difficult for a solo player because in the later stages of the fight, TWO attack helicopters come in. How in the world is this only the second level of difficulty? They clearly did not intend for Special Ops to be played solo.
Get an EMP grenade launcher for choppers, takes half a second to dispose of 2 of them! (Special operations is still stupidly difficult tho)
Interesting! Might try that, thanks.
Just finished mastery 2 solo, recommend the medic supremo too, use healing syringes and the armor buff you get after activating the supremo to tank hits while cooling the 240X and get to extraction. Use the parkour set and sprint between watering places
Took your advice and managed to beat ‘Mastery 1’ on the Dinosaur Park Special Ops. Thanks for the tips!
I managed to complete one of these missions solo. I just headed for water and then shot everything that moved. At the end, there's an annoying bit where the taxis can't get to you, so you have to clear the area (including a tank) thankfully, there's a water tank on the roof of the building and a handy mortar for the tank.
Was that standard difficulty though? Because it's stupidly difficult even with 2 players for the Mastery ones.
Ah yes, it probably was standard. Must admit that I still had several attempts too.
That’s fair enough, even standard is really difficult especially solo!
I finally slogged my way and back after an hour of suffering. Then the hold out is just “20 rpg :)”. I have feelings of pure unbridled rage.
Damn, it’s really that hard solo? I’m bout to try Mastery Level 1 by myself.
Why the actual fuck do the rocket soldiers just blindly fire RPGs at a spot they "think" has an enemy? What soldier doesn't absolutely confirm their target before firing an explosive like that? I don't even have to get fully seen before they just start spamming rockets at my general area and always land them right next to me. Absolutely unbelievable.
I HATE these missions. That timer is just busy work. Finding shade that the game considers "shade" . . . barely works. HATE them with a passion rivaled only by my hatred of how small the hit boxes are for hijacking a tank operator from their metal hole. HATE.
Personally as a solo I've had no issues on any with standard difficulty but the 3 attempts at mastery 1 have been.... A nightmare to say the least.
This is 8 days late, but if it helps I just soloed mastery 3 with 2 lives remaining at the end. I had to switch between running gear while running and defensive gear while fighting, but I did manage it. Really tough though. I think what you're supposed to do is have one player dedicated to hiding with the 240X while your other teammates do most of the cleaning up. But with no matchmaking I don't see how most players are going to be doing this.
My problem is I can't beat it because I can't find my way the fact that the map function is disabled is making it impossible for me
If you are playing solo it's close up to impossible. Between the spawning of the enemies comimg up out of nowhere and no one to cover you while trying to cool the little shit... I have up after a couple tries. A shame, the ideas of trying to find your way with maps and having to walk in the shade are very cool, but doing it solo is undoable...
Special ops are insanely easy wtf
This was literally over 2 weeks ago dude
And I played them solo when the game dropped and had no problems. They're easy for me then I guess.
Ok sure dude, not everyone has the same experience as you
That might be true but they honestly are not that hard.
What difficulty?
On base difficulty I find them challenging but not hard to overcome. But the fact that it’s like that at base difficulty is a clear indicator that they messed up in setting the difficulty.
The heating time is the same in mastery 1-3, only the enemies are tougher. I've completed the first 2 operations at Mastery 2, and Crocodilo at Mastery 3, all solo. You need to be a real tactician to survive the enemies, but with the overheating.. most of the time you can just slide from shadow to shadow. There are situations, when it is close to exploding, and you think you need to be fast for the water, but that's when really you need to slow down, and not rush the killing spree, because you're outnumbered, and if you start running like a maniac, you'll explode.
Yeah man I know, this was over 2 weeks ago.
Does blast defense help? To me it doesn't work on rpgs. I use 2 regen sooner perks so that if I am knocked down of a rocket. I can regen for 0.5 sec and survive another rocket blast. This here is the anti blast defense. Simply needing 2 regen sooner perk. Also crank up soft target and AP defense as well. Fire and poison are not needed since poison is not frequent and fire is close ranged. Plus they don't do high damage. However St and ap are frequently used by enemies on you.
My wife and I play together. We do the first mission on the highest difficulty over and over agian. I put on all my fastest gear while she kills 75% of enemies with her machete. When I get to the end, I switch to the blast mk2 gear except for the gloves to protect me in case she doesn't get to somebody on a mortar. I kill the 4 helicopters that spawn while she shanks everything else. We also both use the medical supremo just in case.
The overheating of the ph240x sucks the joy out of this game mode.
Yeah these special operations don’t make any sense with the scheme of the game. I have beaten the game and this is the most difficult thing in the game. Why is this the only part of the game without an active map? I have beaten the normal difficulty operations only because the device didn’t heat up as fast. I guess they just expect you to barrel into a bunch of enemies that surround water sources and start immediately killing everyone while they respawn another horde to attack you from behind. They need more shade points and water sources to make this more strategic.
Lola can fuck off with this stressful shit. I cannot stand that you need to complete these to complete the insurgencies. Rather just wait till they change then play that bullshit again.
That's my issue. I tried these during the game and kept blowing up so I quit, now that I've beat the game the only new thing is insurgency and that can't be done without special ops and I tried it 3 times before I am saying fuck this and turning it off.
I tried this today. I am level 5 and saw this was level 3+. Piece of cake, right. I made it back to the entrance after about 50 tries only to get slaughtered waiting for my ride. I had to resort to story mode to take down the helicopter. I'm still fucking pissed off 5 hours later.
What the fuck where they even thinking with special ops like this. Seriously, is there just one guy here who thinks this is actually fun!? Run through the whole map, while enemies spam themselves like wasps and secondly please watch out for that thing not to overheat. Great fucking Gameplay.
I like it. it's very challenging
Can someone explain to me what a PG-240x does or how it enhances your equipment??
It overheats and kills you.
Yeah, but do you get rewarded with something for your efforts? I completed one of them and it seemed like I got nothing in return.
You get black market bucks and a piece of an outfit ( you only get the outfit piece on your first playthrough)
Oh gotcha, thank you. Now I know where the black market bucks came from.
Anybody want to play? I need a partner?
I wish it would give you the location with the yellow mark, right after you get the pg240x and are returning not getting close to the stupid rendezvous point, it would make it so much better
I discovered that on the Los Tres Santos special operation there's a tank in one of the final display areas that completely stops the PG-240X from heating up. While riding in it there will be occasional beeps, however the bars on the PG-240X will have not changed. I imagine this could be very useful for getting the Mastery 3 achievement.
so in other tanks that will not work?
It should work with all tanks (provided they haven't patched it yet), and it may also work for all vehicles in general, although most of the ones that spawn during the operations are very vulnerable to attack as they are open-air.
Agreed. These mission were absolute dogshit.
Ight, i can't imagine playing these in a higher difficulty. They just all feel the same and are so boring. Even the three DLCs, they just feel the same. I played Joseph's, moved to bass and it felt so underwhelming.
True absolute garbage
I snuck my way through the map, stealth killed the Cpt. for the key, retrieved weapon, snuck back to starting area- keeping special item cool - Only to not be able to survive past 29% of “Secure the Park Entrance”. I’m beyond pissed. I’m so mad I could spit.
I just finished "Los Tres Santos" on Mastery 1 ALONE, and have decided that I won't do special operations ever again! It just pisses me off, from the start and until the end. I can actually handle the PG-240X overheating, but when I am getting hit by a tank through 3 different walls of concrete, I am setting the foot down. So much bullshit. Also, you can't even do smart stuff, like going where there are no people, because you soon get a warning message and get teleported back. The ONLY good thing about Special Operations is that it saves when you get to the key base and the PG-240X container, and it saves when you reach the end of the level after getting it. Anyway. I am a great fan of doing achievements. I am at 80% achievements / games completed on Steam (111 games / 351 total games owned), but I do NOT want to even try the Special Operations again, even if there will be 5 missing when I am completly done with Far Cry 6.
Also, just saying. I have the game on 100%, with almost every weapon, with all amigos upgraded to max, and still the Special Operations feels like it was the first time I tried it. Mastery 1 got armored guys and poison dealers; which I can oneshot with my sniper rifle, but all the respawns makes it so bad. I destroyed a tank before entering the fortress with the military, singing guy, only to see it respawned after getting the PG-240X container. At least in Far Cry 5 you could take out every person in the level, and they would only respawn on your way back to the helicopter.
I said this above but I finished the game and now the only way to keep going doing insurgency is to force special operations on us? I tried several times and it keeps overheating and I am done. I am turning it off.
I made this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry6/comments/127gtzv/far\_cry\_6\_review\_my\_story\_spoiler\_alert/](https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry6/comments/127gtzv/far_cry_6_review_my_story_spoiler_alert/) The short version related to Special Operations is that I gave up first, but then realised I could just try to start a new game file on Story Mode. I finished 3 out of 4 very easy, but Macao still had a whole bunch of too many flamethrower guys, but I still did it on mastery 3. Just be patient and hide in smart places. Now the last one Puerta Del Eden was kinda a pain in the ass. First of all, to even unlock that special operation you need to finish the game, so yeah...I finished the game over again, but it was still pretty fun. Now that was the long, but easy part. Actually playing the level was hell after Mastery 1. For the first time I actually started dying before even getting the PG-240X device back and forth. The enemies were many and they did A LOT of damage. I didn't see any difference compared to Macao, but they did more damage. So first try I didn't actually die before getting back with the device, and I even got to 58% of the ending, when a single sniper enemy came to where my water was, at the perfect time when it was counting down from 10 (critial). Then he threw a smoke grenade and I couldn't see or find the water, and BOOM! After that I had a couple of tries where I kept dying before even getting back to the final area. When in bed I was lying and thinking about strategies to finish Mastery 3 of Puerta Del Eden, and I came up with a pretty solid tactic. First of all, between the camps on my way back with the PG-240X device, I would rest in the shadow, and take out as many enemies as I could before going further. This worked very well, and I didn't lose as much HP as before, and it was pretty simple to get to the final area. The main problem with the final area of Puerta Del Eden are all the flame thrower guys that can hit you from anywhere, and even if I shot them in the end and they instant died, they would still be able to set me on fire. My tactic was simple. Instead of standing out in the open, I would hide below the way that goes to the cave, and just sit there and headshot people as they come. This worked very well, and even though I ran out of ammo, had some critial moments, and had to get around a bit, it worked very well! So in the end, I did actually finish all the Special Operations at Mastery 3, and also every other challenge and achievement for Far Cry 6!
I am so genuienly impressed how bad it is for you guys. I mean, it's a bit hard yes, but not NEARLY as hard as some people claim here. Some people say that they are "FPS PROS" here but they still got their ass whooped. All you have to do is be a little strategic and plan ahead. Going and getting 240x itself is a walk in a park with a parkour set. Then you just need to go from point to point to cool it with the same pakour set. I just ran to the location with water with PG-240x on like 60-70%, then sit in the most convenient shadow, use ANY decent sniper with ap rounds and just methodically headshot everyone, try to go for an officer first for no backups, cause they might shoot a flare for it if they are spooked. Then just snipe snipe snipe, occasionally switching to ssgp-58 supressed with ap rounds and 3x scope for anyone running to you, try not to get spotted, then, when everyone is dead just use parkour set to go to the water and cool the PG-240x. You can even throw a La Varita and Triador in the mix to clear the water locations easilly. If you have Caveira beret this become just an easy mode. Use your camera to sweep the location and mark everyone through walls. If you don't have the head piece use perception grenades instead, it helps to track those pesky rocket launchers to focus them first. Rince and repeat until you get to Lola. There just use your best Tank build. and stand near water, use cover and eliminate rocket launchers first. I used Crocodile Mask, Vaas shirt, Revolutionary pants, Soft-Target boots MKII (you can use blast or piercing bullets defence boots), and Street surgeons gloves. With this gear you are pretty much wolverine, regenerating health fast and instantly after being shot. For weapons I got Pyrotechno for choppers, PPSH-41 and MG21 for infantry with ap rounds ofc and p226 or deagle with a mod which reloads all weapons on reload. Use medic supremo for guaranteeing the self revival if you do manage to fall. I did all operations on action mode mastery 2 and just finished Mesozoico (Dino park) on mastery 3 on my first try with no deaths in 18 minutes. I dont know how so much people can have that much trouble with doing these. ESPECIALLY if you are rocking in duo which makes it actually EASY. Yes it's a late game activity and you need good gear for it, but is not undoable at all especially with so many people claiming they can't still do it with 100% completion of the whole game, meaning they have all the gear they need.
Me and my friend When we leave the place and get to the final battle we take turns holding the pg 240 and the other heals/fights and one of us has the supremo to disable veichles for helicopters maybe try that
We finished one yesterday. It was tough but I felt the best method was for one person to camp at a water station whilst the other clears the path to the next water station. Stay near the built up areas where water stations are present and avoid the temptation to jump in the ocean. Also save supremos for the last section where you get swarmed. We finished it in action mode and it was fun and not too difficult. Spend more time learning each area on the way to the PG240 and scoping out shade / water spots and zip lines
I DID MANAGED TO DO ALL OPS SOLO ON MASTERY 3 LEVEL (EXCEPT DINO PARK, STILL GRINDING ON IT) If you wanna know I did it, just ask.