Moreover – and this might just be me – I couldn’t even begin to describe how anxious that damn countdown made me feel. With permadeath hanging over your head, you need to be more reckless than strategic it’s a very poor combination. You’re expected to charge through the game, completing as many missions as you can in your allotted time to increase your odds of survival at the endgame. The permadeath mechanic is an interesting one, but not coupled with the DLC’s ever-present countdown. It is far worse when dying as said powered-down character, and then being forced to run through the entire DLC scenario again. It’s not fun building up a character, associating with him and carefully honing his skills and weapons of choice, only to have those stripped away again. In the same way, my go-to weapons were a thing of the past. I died more times than I care to recount, instinctively going for a skill-based kill that I no longer possessed. Have you, like me, played Far Cry 4 for countless hours, building up most of Ajay’s skillpoints? Well, that doesn’t matter you’re back to stock-standard with “Durgesh”. This whole setup makes for a frustrating mess of DLC that doesn’t even disguise the fact that Ubisoft’s just going for a second dip into your wallet. Die at any time in the DLC, and it’s game over.įully game over not back to a checkpoint, but back the start of the DLC.

After the countdown is up, you’re tasked to defend an area for ten minutes, awaiting extraction.

It was nothing like this, sadly, as Durgesh is more of a region than an actual prison, and a bevy of gaming conditions force you to play in a very specific, very frustrating manner.Īs Pagan Min explains to you when you boot the content up, Ajay has thirty minutes to prepare for said escape, completing missions to gain extra preparation time, skill points, weapons and ammo. The prospect excited me I was expecting gameplay much like a similar sequence in Far Cry 4’s main story. I loved Far Cry 4, but I sure as hell can’t say the same about its first piece of DLC, “Escape from Durgesh Prison”.Īs you’d expect, the DLC tasks you to escape from Durgesh Prison.

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