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The first Far Cry 2 patch has been released by Ubisoft and is now available for download. The 42MB update packs multiplayer, singleplayer and map editor bug fixes.

Here are the notes in full:

Multiplayer

- Server’s IP address now displays in lobby, beside the match’s name (for direct IP join to work) 
- Dedicated Server can now be launched in command line. 
- Improved match start conditions. Ranked games can now also start if the player max is attained and everybody but the host is ready. 
- Fixed a bug causing random crashes when joining a game. 
- Ranked matches in progress will no longer display in the match list. 
- Fixed players with same name by using identifiers instead of names. 
- Fixed crash when creating a LAN game without a network cable. 
- The diamond pool is now always validated after class upgrades, reset or rank up to avoid getting more diamonds than you are supposed to for your rank. 
- When creating a dedicated server with PunkBuster enabled, then close it to create another but this time with PunkBuster disabled, PunkBuster will still be considered ON, on this new server. 
- Fixed a problem where a player could get stuck (and couldn’t get killed) after pressing the interaction key while wounded and getting rescued by a teammate at the same time. 
- Fixed players getting disconnected if they have too many user maps and try to enter the map rotation menu in a Player or Ranked match. 
- Vehicles will now always respawn even if they are never used. 
- Fixed users not being able to see a match if the host switched match mode after a rank. 
- Fixed a glitch that could make a player invisible to another. 
- Fixed incorrect check for negative values when adjusting diamond count. 
- Fixed a problem where a player would render through objects if healing a wounded playing while being wounded at the same time. 
- Fixed reload not being interrupted on the host when a client picks a weapon while reloading. 
- Fixed Field Manuals not unlocking after game mode change.

Singleplayer

- Fixed health not changing with the difficulty level. 
- Keyboard controls remapping in single mode now carry into multiplayer mode. 
-A buddy will no longer get stuck when healing him while player is receiving damage. 
- Stats of favourite weapon are now properly reset between loaded save games. 
- The mortar will no longer move the player through wall. 
- Mission objectives markers are now show properly after loading a save game.

General 

- Fixed glider key remapping. 
- Game will now minimize in order to show the website when clicking on ubi.com. 
- Dolby 5.1 is now supported for most sound cards. 
- Fixed a random crash that could happen when pressing ESC to cancel a Benchmark run. 
- Added CPU Intensive benchmark test run. 
- Fixed Jackal Tapes and Partner Tapes pages.

Map editor

- Fixed crash in editor when deleting many objects in very rapid succession. 
- Fixed crash in editor during parsing of the map headers.

Far Cry 2 Version 1.01 Patch Now Available

 

In the November 08 edition of the Subscribers magazine PCGamer, was a great article, with some interesting news mainly revealing the buddies !!
In addtion to the Buddies, PCGamer voted Far cry 2 a "Wild" 94% quoting its pros were Beautiful, Free roaming and Utterly Absorbing, and its cons were, its not a linear shooter, its not a prescibed story and its not going to let you go !

The basis of Far Cry 2's story telling: Characters and situations are swapped via a software author, its responding to choices made by you the player. Its something that's been on the cards for some time - mostly in research projects - but this is the first high-profile game to use it.
Its nothing less than a revelation. What makes this procedural storytelling cool isn't that you get to play the game lots of times, and see new things happen, or do things in new ways, Its not even that it gives you stories to share, situations to compare with your friends. Its that the game just works and responds to your successes, failures and fuckups.
If you don't like what a guy is asking you to do, then don't do it... If you really like one of your buddies, you stick with him. When the situations force choices on you... By God, its incredible

You can now meet the main 9 buddies for the first time, exclusively to Farcry 2 World

In addition you can preview the entire magazine scans courtesy of PCGamer

I will be updating the characters page soon !

Exclusive PCGamer Article | News | Farcry 2 World

PC version looking very nice. :)

Far Cry 2

Exclusive Jackal Trailer

Gametrailers.com - Far Cry 2 - Exclusive Jackal Trailer

My first experience with Far Cry 2 was slightly disappointing. I first took the E3 demo for a spin on the Xbox 360, and here's why: the Far Cry 2 demo room at E3 had several builds of the game running for media members to play, but only one of the demos was the PC version. All of the other demo stations were Xbox 360s or PlayStation 3s. Even worse, when I first visited the Far Cry 2 demo room, the Dell XPS devoted to the game was actually turned off. Why? Because, according, to the Ubisoft team, the PC was overheating (it was pretty hot in that cramped demo room). But apparently, the temperature wasn't high enough to get the notoriously fragile Xbox 360s to overheat and enter the "read ring" death stage. Obviously, I was a little concerned that Ubisoft only had one PC running Far Cry 2 and that the system overheated. Was this game going to be incredibly taxing like Crysis? What were the hardware requirements for this game? I had a lot of questions. So I went back the next day to Ubisoft's demo room and got on the PC version, which was back up and running. And the results from my second try with Far Cry 2 were leaps and bounds better than my first. Visually, there is no comparison between the PC and console versions. That may sound like an obvious statement, of course, but it's worth emphasizing. The magnificent fire propagation effects that Ubisoft has treated us to in early trailers and gameplay videos were on full display in the E3 demo, but on the consoles, the fire animation was extremely bland and lacked the kind of detail and texture of the PC version. Similarly, the lighting and environmental weather effects were outstanding on the PC but didn't have the same kind of punch on the consoles. In terms of graphics, the PC version of Far Cry 2 looks almost as impressive as Crysis; the game is punctuated with vivid explosions, beautiful jungle environments and rich character renders much like Crysis. Ubisoft's newly constructed Dunia game engine delivered top notch visuals in this demo.

Aug 08, 2008 09:47 - Ubisoft released the official system requirements of the action game Far Cry 2.

Far Cry 2

Today Ubisoft published a press release. The document contained the official system requirements of Far Cry 2. The game is scheduled for release in fall 2008.
Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory
Memory: 1 GB
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser
Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory
Memory: 2 GB
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Supported Video cards:
NVIDIA® 6800, NVIDIA® 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.
ATI® X1650 - 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series

PCGH - News: Far Cry 2: Official system requirements

N4G.com : Far Cry 2 E3 2008 Stage Show Demo