Welcome to our Far Cry 6 Tips and Tricks guide. We’ve got plenty of essential tips and tricks to help you through the opening hours.
Far Cry 6 Tips and Tricks
Far Cry 6 is here, bringing its unique blend of open-world chaos and terrifying villains to the next generation. If Ubisoft’s latest open-world offering has you a little overwhelmed, or you just want to start off with your best foot forward, we’ve got plenty of tips and tricks to help you through the opening hours.
Essential Tips and Tricks
- Enemy Locations: Enemies that you have not scanned still show up on the minimap, but only as a vague cloud of red, rather than a precise dot. If you see this, then you know that there’s at least one enemy nearby. The redder the cloud, the more unscanned enemies there are in that area.
- Watch Out for Stronger Enemies: Enemies that are much stronger than you have red health bars, which represent enemies that won’t die to a headshot (unless it’s from a bow. More on that later). If there’s also a skull, the enemies are far stronger than usual: you can take these enemies on, but be warned, you’re not in for a fair fight. To make them easier, level up Dani to a higher rank by earning XP.
- Enemy Medics Change Combat: If there is an enemy medic in the area, some enemies, when you take them down, won’t die right away, and are given the potential to be revived by their medic, sort of similar to picking up downed players in the co-op mode of the game, or in other shooters.
- Arrange Your Most Recent Weapons: Pressing Y/Triangle swaps back between your two most recent weapons, but you can carry 4 different firearms at any given time: three main guns and a small sidearm. You may want to tailor your most recent weapons as you prepare for a fight, so that you don’t have to mess around with your weapon wheel when things get hectic. Slot 3 is at the top of the wheel, while Slot 1 is on the left of the wheel.
- Check the Accessibility Options: Enemy and Pickup outlines can be toggled on before you even start the game. In the game’s robust accessibility menu, in the Audio & Interface options, you can choose for Enemy Outlines and Pickup Outlines to be enabled, allowing you to more clearly see your targets in a busy environment or find loot within dense foliage, for example. There are plenty of other accessibility options in this menu as well, so be sure to check through them to see if your Far Cry 6 experience can be made more suitable for you.
- How Unlocked Modifications Work: When using the Resolver Workbench, you can use materials to craft attachments and mods for your weapons. Once you craft a particular type of mod for a weapon type, such as Armour-Piercing rounds for a Rifle, you can then use this mod on any of the weapons within the same type. This essentially makes the cost of modifying your weapon more of a one time permanent unlock system as you buy more and more options for your arsenal.
- The Most Important Materials: Gunpowder and Supremo-Bond are the materials you are going to be using the most at the workbench. Some modifications require a number of components, but all gun mods require Gunpowder, and all Supremo mods require Supremo-Bond, so make sure you’re completing operations, capturing military targets, and looting FND and Libertad caches to find more of these supplies.
- Level Up Your Amigos: Amigos have traits that make each of them distinct in the heat of battle, but you can also unlock other abilities for Amigos by fulfilling certain requirements, such as having your Amigo kill a certain number of enemies, revive themself or distract enemies as well.
- Lone Wolf: You can temporarily dismiss your Amigo if you want to operate solo. In the Amigo tab, use Cross/A to Dismiss your Amigo. When you want them back, do the exact same thing to bring them back to your side. This can be helpful for stealth players who may find Guapo’s aggression to get in the way.
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- Change Your Loadout At Any Time: Also, new since Far Cry 5, you can swap out the weapons in your loadout at any time in the Arsenal menu. That said, if you want to change a mod you have in one of those guns, like for example, you want to swap armor penetration bullets for soft target bullets, you’ll have to find yourself a workbench. So it’s a good idea to have a couple of different weapons with different mods already installed to be ready for all different enemy types…
- Summon Your Ideal Horse: The green horse icon on your map is a location where you can summon a horse from a hitching post. You can change the breed (depending on what you have unlocked so far), as well as the pattern of the coat of the horse before summoning it (paired with “Magic Horse” comment)
- How To Use “Follow Road”: When you’re driving, you can use the “Follow Road” button to let the vehicle or horse, well… Follow The Road. Cars will only go so fast on their own, so if you want to go fast, you still need to use the accelerator yourself, and if you take a turn too fast, you’re likely to go wide on the turn. The feature also struggles to navigate around cars and other traffic if there are any lampposts in the way. You can make steering adjustments and shoot your weapon, but manually braking will automatically disengage the Follow Road, so be careful with brakes if you’re not ready to take back the wheel.
- Don’t Park On The Road: Also, when you’re getting out of a vehicle you intend to go back to, try not to park on the road, and park to the side instead. It seems the locals aren’t well equipped for navigating unexpected road blocks, and if soldiers drive past and get stuck, they may become hostile towards you when you return to your vehicle.
- Your Horse Won’t Tolerate Everything: If you ride a horse into water that is too deep, ask it to jump a gap, or slow the horse down too aggressively, you’re likely to be kicked off.
- Silence or Gunfire: Many outposts and missions are constructed to be able to be approached stealthily or guns blazing. The larger the area of infiltration, the more points of entry you are likely to find. You can also acquire critical objectives, such as door keys, through either means, as you can clear the outpost for automatic access, or find a key in an office or backroom depending on the location. That said, stealth is ultimately more rewarding,as you get bonus resources for liberating an FND Base without being detected, as well as for finding the hidden computer.
- La Triada Treasure Hunt: If you’re looking for equipment to help you be as stealthy as possible, the La Triada treasure hunt quest provides you with the Triador Supremo and La Varida Rifle, as well as an Amigo who is good for stealth, the Spirit Panther, Oluso. Find the cave in Isla Santurio to start the Treasure Hunt quests. All of these items combine together in a really unique way that means that you’ll be a terror that no enemy will see coming.
- Bullseye: Bow headshots are always one-shot kills. It takes some skill to pull off consistently, but it’s worth practicing – especially if you want to stay stealthy or go up against enemies well above your current rank.
- Prioritize Each Area’s Introduction Quests: When first arriving in one of the three mainland areas, do the initial “Meet the X” Operation first. This will set you up with a very convenient base of operations that will provide you with a Fast Travel point in the middle of the region with every vehicle and mount spawn available.
- Purchase the Hideout Network and Guerilla Garrison First: After you unlock your first Guerilla Camp, you can speak to the Foreman to discuss choosing two of six facilities, two of which we recommend getting first. Hideout Network adds new Fast Travel points that you can Airdrop to with a new Wingsuit Tool. Guerilla Garrison makes Guerillas better equipped for fighting, and places Recon Laptops that you can use to scope out FND Bases more effectively than with your phone.
- Caches Get Better The More You Find: As far as we can tell, FND and Libertad caches provide you with equipment in a set order, rather than having determined contents for each chest. While croc chests contain unique weapons, these general caches are what will provide you with more standard resources and loot. You will need to make sure you’re opening every chest you come across to progress through the loot pool and get to the really good stuff. Many of the guns and Gear can be bought with Pesos, but getting them from a chest is free.
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- Go Your Own Way: Missions in Far Cry 6 are not entirely linear once you accept them. You can track operations, treasure hunts, military targets and side missions all at the same time, and come and go from each as you choose.
- Tank Takedown/Tanks Very Much: If you want to blow up a tank, target the rear barrel. This will expose the engine’s weak spot, allowing you to start meaningful damage to it. If you want to hijack a tank for yourself, you will need to find one that is empty.
- Slide Like An Apex Legend: You can slide downhill basically forever – it’s a great way to quickly get away from soldiers if you’re being chased, or to approach a base quickly while keeping a low profile.
- Transmogrify the Revolution: Did you find a new piece of gear you really like the bonus on, but it clashes with your wardrobe? Inspect the item and you can change its appearance to look like any piece of gear you already own.
- Commandeer Traffic for Easy Vehicle Unlocks: You can use your phone camera to scan civilian vehicles, instantly unlocking them for summoning at any vehicle spawn location. It can be a pain to get these while they’re moving though. Try to stand in the car’s way, forcing them to stop. If you go to the driver’s side, you can ask them to get out so that you can use it yourself. Now that the car has stopped, scan it with your phone! However, this won’t work on military vehicles.
- Don’t Forget About the Supremo! You see that icon in the bottom right corner of the UI that’s constantly flashing, begging you to use it? That icon means that the special ability of your Supremo backpack is ready for use. These are extremely powerful abilities that can seriously turn the tide of any fight and should always be utilized whenever the moment calls for it. Also remember that you can add new gadgets and mods to each Supremo at the workbench, which opens up all sorts of new options when it comes to combat and stealth.
- Best Buggy: Finally, if you see the Angelito FW Turbo, also known as this heavily modified buggy with a turbine on the back, grab it, hold onto it and never let it go. This thing lets you fly at the press of a button. It can sometimes be found in the Revmira Supply Dock, on the Western edge of the map. If you find one, make sure to scan it with your phone, so you can summon it later. You will have to watch out for Anti-Air Batteries, but nothing beats the traffic and the soldiers quite like soaring towards the clouds and living your Back To The Future dreams. Minus the time travel, that is.
