Far Cry 2 Infamous

Each checkpoint has either a ammunition pile, fuel pile, explosives pile or a health cabinet. By tagging these with your monocular (or simply by approaching the pile or cabinet) you can scout a checkpoint; this will basically replace the 'locked checkpoint' icon on your map with an icon indicating which type of checkpoint it is, ie. what kind of pile (or health cabinet) you'll find there. You can also find other types of supplies at checkpoints, but only in limited amounts. Checkpoints also have vehicles available - the most common being assault trucks (and swamp boats if the checkpoint is close to the water).

Since checkpoints features both enemies and vehicles, you'll often find yourself being pursued if you just drive through (or near) a checkpoint; if you can get enough distance between you and them, they'll often give up the chase, but most times the enemies will be quite fast getting into a vehicle. This can be quite annoying especially since there are so many checkpoint scattered around the two regions; often you may wish to completely avoid checkpoints just to make sure you don't end up in yet another firefight (or being chased by an Assault Truck).

Most of the briefcases can be found out in the open lands which means that all you have to do is invest some time in locating and looting them. However, some briefcases are also located in many of the named areas in the two districts. Since these areas are inhabited by enemies, locating the briefcases here does come with a small risk.You can see the locations of all diamond briefcases in the maps contained in this site. You can also use the interactive maps to see the location and read a description of how to locate each individual briefcase; some briefcases are more tricky to obtain - or require a certain approach - and I've tried to include such information in the descriptions as well. If you have problems using the Interactive maps, or you just dont like them , I've also compiled standard lists that can be found in the Diamonds section of this website.

When you start a new game you won't have access to Bowa Seko straight away. Although the Central Desert does connect the two districts, you'll pass out if you move too far into this particular area. I suggest you only explore that region once you're meant to, ie. when the story leads you to Bowa Seko. If you really need diamonds, the two briefcases in the northern part should be safe to claim without worrying about passing out.

Sadly, you cannot explore every little nook and cranny of all the regions. In certain areas, especially around cliffs and mountains, you may actually bump into invisible walls that keep you from going any further. While this is pretty rare, it's still a bit sad because it would be nice to be able to explore all areas, and it does take you out of the experience and remind you that this is just a game. Still, with the amount of land in the game, there are plenty of other places to explore.

While some may find exploration exciting in itself, the game does have a few incentives for you to venture off on your own. Throughout the lands you may come upon plenty of diamond briefcases, and there are also Jackal Tapes to be found. You may also come upon some interesting sights such as crashed airplanes, makeshift shelters,

Syrettes allow you to heal any wounds you have sustained. You can replenish your syrettes by picking up health supplies or looting health cabinets; doing this will also heal any wounds you have. Water bottles will also heal any injuries but doesn't provide any syrettes. At the Weapons Shop you can buy First Aid Kit upgrades that allow you to carry an additional syrette or two. A health cabinet will completely replenish all your syrettes; health supplies will provide one or two syrettes depending on the difficulty setting of your game.

When you press the Self-Heal button, you wont actually use a syrette, but rather perform an elaborate emergency treatment (such as bandaging your wounds, or pulling a bullet out of your arm or leg with a pair of tongs) - this will restore your health back to two bars. This move takes a bit of time, and what's worse: it can be interrupted - if you get shot, for example, you'll stop the treatment and will have to try again. This can be very dangerous since a mortal wound will cause you to bleed health, and at the same time you're vulnerable because the healing process can be interrupted. If you're mortally wounded with enemies around you, your best bet is likely to find a cover spot (behind a car or a rock, for example) where you can heal without as much danger of being interrupted. Another option is to try to take out any nearby enemies before healing yourself, but since you're already very low on health this can be a risky move.

When you pick up a Jackal Tape you'll get to hear the content, which often provide some insight into the who the Jackal is and what motivates him. You can see a list of all the Jackal Tapes you've found in the menu, as well as replay them if needed. As with diamond briefcases, you can use your GPS to locate Jackal Tapes. The indicator will start to blink when you're close to a tape. You can find a Jackal Tape in each of the following regions (click a link to see the exact location of the Jackal Tape in that particular region):

Every now and then you'll suffer a malaria attack; as you saw during the introduction, this will cause your vision to blur, and your stamina will temporarily be drained leaving you unable to sprint or jump. A pill bottle icon will appear in the lower, left corner of the screen. Use the Self-Heal button to take a pill, which will remove the symptoms of malaria for a period of time. While these symptoms for the most part are simply an annoyance, suffering an attack while in combat can be potentially disastrous.

• Ammunition, fuel and explosives piles and health cabinets
• Mounted weapons and sniper positions

Besides the need to decrease your sickness level, and acquire more malaria medicine, I don't really see any points in intentionally increasing your reputation since it'll just end up making the game more difficult. However, if you don't mind that - or you're looking for more of a challenge - that's your call. If you don't want to increase your reputation more than needed, there is no real incentive to take on buddy missions.. unless you just want to experience and complete them for fun, or perhaps if you've lost your best buddy and now need a replacement - or wish to have a specific buddy help you.I think it would've been nice if your reputation affected more than just underground missions and enemy equipment, or at least if it came with some other type of reward - because as it is currently, I don't really see much of a reason to intentionally increase your reputation.

When an underground mission becomes available, you'll notice that the small 'Mission Available' icon appears over the church in Pala (or clinic in Mosate Selao) and the Underground Locations you've visited; a note will also appear in the Menu screen indicating that an Underground mission has opened up. To start the mission you can do one of two things - either head to the church (or clinic) and talk to the priest or doctor; you can also go to one of the Underground Locations you've already been to and talk to the person inside. You'll be handed some travel papers and an objective marker will appear on your map. That's a different Underground Location where you need to deliver the papers. While you normally won't run out of malaria medicine, you may actually do so once an Underground mission becomes available; if you don't pick up the mission, you'll eventually run out which means that if you wish to keep your malaria in check, you'll need to complete Underground missions every once in a while.

You can heal yourself and take a malaria pill while you're piloting most vehicles - I believe the only exception is the Hang glider. However, while healing (or taking a pill) you cannot actually steer the vehicle, so if you're driving make sure you've got a small stretch of open land ahead of you. While driving a vehicle you can hold down the left or right - or both - mouse buttons to look left, right or behind, respectively; release the button(s) to return to your original viewpoint. These 'shortcuts' are useful since you don't have to manually turn around to look and back again to focus on the road ahead.

Most vehicles can be repaired if they sustain enough damage. If this happens, the engine will start to emit smoke; at first it'll be gray smoke, then black smoke, and after that the engine may catch fire. In the latter case it's too late to repair and the vehicle will blow up shortly after.

To repair a vehicle simply get out of it and face the engine (for cars this means the hood); a small wrench-like icon should appear. Press the Use key to start repairing it. It takes a bit of time for you to repair a vehicle, but you can abort the operation by pressing Use again. You can also get interrupted when repairing a vehicle (ie. by getting shot) which will also cause you to abort the operation. At the Weapons Shop you can buy upgrades that improve the durability of vehicles and reduce the amount of time it takes to repair them; the Vehicles page lists all vehicles along with the cost of their respective upgrade.

All weapons you pick up from enemies are worn; they will fire but they are often very prone to jamming. Once you have enough diamonds to buy weapons, I'd recommend that you do so - especially since a weapon, once bought, will come in endless supply (for free) from the building next to Weapons Shop. A few select weapons such as rocket launchers wont jam but instead misfire. This usually means that the rocket (or projectile) will fly out of control or simply not detonate on impact. At the Weapons Shop you can buy upgrades to your weapons that will make them more reliable and thus less prone to jamming and misfires. For a list of weapons that are available in Far Cry 2 please refer to the Weapons page. As soon as you buy a new weapon, the upgrades for that particular weapon will automatically be unlocked; this will happen when you leave the PC after bying a weapon, however, so you need to Use the PC again to see the new upgrades.