If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy.

Far Cry Primal - Day One Patch adds Expert Mode, gameplay tweaks

With the release of Far Cry Primal comes a day one patch and it includes Expert Mode.

far_cry_primal_headshot

The Day One Patch promises to "enhance" the playing experience, as well as challenge players with the added mode.

It will make enemies be more challenging and Takkar will also be more vulnerable to attacks with reduced aim and smarter enemy AI.

Here's more on Expert Mode:

  • Players’ health has been halved compared to Hard difficulty.
  • Reduced players aim assist.
  • AI shoots faster by 1/3
  • Enemies in combat are not shown on mini map by default (they appear only if they are tagged).
  • It takes the AI a longer time to “forget” you when you hide
  • The aim assist box is reduced for several weapon types (bow, club, spear)
  • The player damage is reduced

Some tweaks and changes will also be applied with the Day One Patch. The notes are below. The patch is 564MB on PlayStation 4 and 561MB on Xbox One.

Stability & Performance

  • Optimization and stability have been improved
  • Improved lighting

Weapons & HUD: Improved reticle display

Wildlife & AI

  • Improved beast companion behavior
  • Fixed rare animation issues
  • Improved visual of the mammoth when it destroys objects
  • Improved animal fighting behaviour when triggering a fight

Design & progression

  • Tweaked and balanced XP rewards
  • Tweaked the damage ratio of certain recipes
  • Improved overall balancing

Gameplay

  • Improved animations of weapons on fire
  • Fixed issues with lit weapons during cinematics at night
  • Improved player navigation and small collision issues
  • Improved camera transition and minor collision issues on cinematics

Far Cry Primal is out today on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It releases on March 1 for PC.  Have a look at the review scores in our round up.

Sign in and unlock a world of features

Get access to commenting, homepage personalisation, newsletters, and more!

In this article

Far Cry Primal

PS4, Xbox One, PC

Related topics
About the Author
Stephany Nunneley-Jackson avatar

Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

News Editor

Stephany is VG247’s News Editor, with 22 years experience (with 15 of them at VG247). With a brain that lacks adhesive ducks, the ill-tempered, chaotic neutral fembot does her best to bring you the most interesting gaming news. She is also unofficially the site’s Lord of the Rings/Elder Scrolls Editor.

Comments