The reality of it is the AK-47 (and all variants) do suck compared to most other weapons in its class, the only thing they are good for is reliable cycling. These days I take over outposts almost exclusively with takedowns and arrows, mixing in some C4 to blow up the final enemies to finish out an outpost when I can. I'm not talking about sniper rifles because I think the silenced Z93 is probably the most useful weapon in the game, and makes outpost takedowns almost trivially easy.

If you want max stealth in this game it's takedowns or the bow, as far as I can tell. Again there seems little role for pistols, too. The only guns that seem remotely as effective, to me, are the Shredder and Ripper, with no stealth on the Ripper of course. I feel the difference is so great, and no significant difference in stealth apparent between the MP5 and Bushman when both are silenced, that there is virtually no reason to use the MP5 at all in this game except for the 'OMG Navy Seals use this' factor. It's either the accuracy, stopping power or both, but at reasonably close range I don't recall such a huge difference between the effectiveness of the MP5 and an assault rifle in original FC. Now in original FC I believe you could toggle single shot and 3 round burst modes of fire that might effect accuracy so that may be the difference.īut even getting fairly close to targets, the incidence of a miss on your first burst, ruining your stealth, seems really high, unacceptably high compared to the Bushman where if you are sighted in well it's pretty much a sure hit and a sure kill if sighted in on the head. In original Far Cry, once I got really into playing as a stealthy assassin, I used the silenced MP5 almost exclusively. It seems like ever since I unlocked the Bushman assault rifle that every other gun in the game is far inferior, including the M16.

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