Any games that captures this feel of slowly progressing through a open world upgrading your weapons etc? I got a itch for the far cry recipe recently but don't want to go the fc 1 through 5 route.

>>713360748 (OP)
Ghost recon wildlands

>>713360924
Good for single player?

>>713360748 (OP)
STALKER trilogy.
Pic related.

Avoid the new, shitty "Enhanced Edition" remasters. They cut, censor and ruin many things.
Play them in release order, don't use any major overhaul mods on the first run. For maximum immersion and best experience, highest difficulty + crosshair OFF is the true Stalker experience.

>>713360748 (OP)
>>713360748 (OP)
Mafia 3

>>713363416
If it comes with a chart like that it has to be good, thanks anon.

>>713360748 (OP)
Mad Max is very Ubisoft-like in it's gameplay loop but IMO it's pulled off very well here. You progress through various areas with various difficulties (half the map being blocked for the first part of the game), and there are numerous enemy "camps" and other areas to raid for unlocks and loot along the way.
It's going to be all Batman Arkham-style combat with some vehicle combat thrown in, however.
>>713362094
Yeah, you can play fully solo or with your squad of 3 customizable AI squadmates. It works great in single player since you can set up a "sync shot" with each teammate so you can stealthily take down 4 enemies at once. Weapon upgrades and unlocks are thrown about the world so you have to upgrade and explore to complete the "loadout" you want.
>>713363548
Controversial choice, I like it. Upgrades are rather superficial, but if you have the DLCs and start them early in the game, then upgrading your weed farm and Sammy's bar as you go through the story gives you something to spend the money you grind for on.

>>713363548
Not yet.

>>713363889
NP broski.
I'm honestly a bit worried that you're on /v/ and you don't seem to have ever heard of STALKER?
It's essentially what the "open world" Far Cry games and Bethesda's 3D Fallouts wish they were.

We used to have constant bump-limit breaking Stalker threads on /v/ just 15 years ago. And once you're done with the main campaigns (multiple endings included), there's a mountain of mods, big and small, to try out.

Just a boomer protip: if you see people shill you "STALKER Anomaly" or "GAMMA", don't bite.
Those are two massive mega-mods, based on older sandbox freeroam mods, that some Youtubers have used to "start" the Stalker series. They do not represent the real Stalker play style nor vibe, and they also remove any and all story bits.

>>713364396
I'm a old fag on 4chan but don't often come to /v/, just recently got myself a pc and some games again.

>>713364705
but if you were on /v/ 15 years ago you're way older then me anon.

>>713360748 (OP)
Homefront: The Revolution is basically urban Far Cry.

>>713364831
I've actually been here for 20 years no. Exactly.
The first big STALKAN' boom happened in summer 2008. This place and the whole internets was still a magical place, and Stalker threads were filled with cool survival stories, modding discussions, and newfags crying that they cannot beat the first tutorial mission.

>>713365378
You really don't leave this place huh? I've been here for 5, can't really call myself an old fag then. Just feel like an old fag sometimes.

btw what do you think of Stalker 2?

>>713360748 (OP)
Atomfall is kind of scratching that itch, albeit slowly. It is more Far Cry and Bioshock-ish than Fallout, and although it's reasonably slow going it's been pretty fun working which leads to follow.

>>713366116
>You really don't leave this place huh?
Nope.
I want to every passing year, but the rest of the interwebs ain't as tolerant, open nor fun no more. No matter the normalfag memes, this shithole still echoes the true sentiments of people, free of the modern, SFW "marketer narratives".

>btw what do you think of Stalker 2?
Utter shit.
Westoid-made trash, rushed and running on Unreal 5, made for the Xbox users first and foremost.

STALKER 2 is kinda sore point for us OGs.
In short, the project started already back in the very early 2010, right after release of CoP.
But then in Fall 2012, Sergei - the CEO of the GSC Studios - suddenly halted the project, kicked the entire team out, and kept the IPs rights. The game was said to be well over 50% done by that point, so it was a shocker for fans and old devs alike.
No reason was ever given, but the wildest speculations include narratives such as Russian mafia or corrupt Ukr politicians noticing the STALKER franchise making crazy amounts of money (it was a MASSIVE phenonema in Europe, essentially Ukraine's "The Witcher"), thus painting Sergei as the big hero. But he also owns like 3 Lamborghinis, so who knows.

Anyway, fast forward a decade, and the project was restarted by a whole new team, using the off-shelf Unreal 5 engine, instead of the famous, home brew X-Ray Engine, and before the game was even out, they were shilling Battle Passes, special editions with fancy starting gear, and who knows what else.
And when the game came out, it ran like shit, looks worse than the 2007-2009 original trio even on high-end hardware, and literally cut / is missing tons of trademark features OF the STALKER series, such as the A-Life AI simulation system, bullet physics, binoculars, night vision goggles, and who knows what else.

In its place? People of color, women, literal yellow paint meme, and HUD markers + first person cinematics, straight out of PS3-4 era Far Cry games. And the 80 dollar price tag, ofc.

>>713364396
Viktor? Coffee?

>>713367043
Jesus Christ that webm. I'd have thought that was some anomaly smoke cloud initially.

>>713367043
I downloaded Stalker 2 a while back and you're response is exactly how I thought og fans would feel. I'm almost at a point where I want to boycott games made in Unity or Unreal because it's just utter garbage, same with the oblivion remaster. It's a sad tale but a frequent one.

>>713360748 (OP)
rage 2, newer sniper elites

>>713360748 (OP)
Escape the Tarkov.

>>713368051
>I'd have thought that was some anomaly smoke cloud initially.
Nope... Just Unreal Engine (tm) 5, showcasing its downsampled Lumen + Nanite + Upscalers slop.
It plagues ALL the games, looks shit compared to even many 15yo raster graphics titles' lighting, is extremely unstable without TAA smudge (and even then shimmers like hell), AND requires like 40 times faster GPU than the oldschool methods of rendering lights and shadows would.

>>713368282
I've already stepped from words to deeds.
If the game runs on UE5, I either totally ignore it, or just pirate it.
I save a ton of money, and don't need to suffer a burning buyer's remorse.
The Polak underlings of Konami are still seething when they hear that I got the terrible remake of Silent Hill 2 + all its DLC for 0 cents.

>>713360748 (OP)
>Any games that captures this feel of slowly progressing through a open world upgrading your weapons etc?
Big FC3 4 and 5 fan. Currently playing through Dead Island 2. Scratches that itch! Roaming through Hollywood and movie sets is really fun.

>>713360748 (OP)
Cyberpunk. Run and gun with a lot of weapons, skill trees and some rpg elements.

>>713367043
I was playing Atomic Heart a couple weeks ago and it was doing this
thanks, I was wondering if there was a name for it

>>713369154
You can remedy quite a bunch of it by DISABLING the Lumen (it's literally just a matter of adding one line into the game's .ini settings / steam launch settings), if the game's own graphics settings don't have it.
Just beware that if the game's designed like shit, it might make the game borderline pitch black at times. The performance skyrockets though.

All this and then some are the reasons why I recommend newbie game devs to stick to UE4, or just switch to Godot instead.