7.9% is quite a lot in just 2 hours so i think you are doing more of the story missions than the side quests ?

I have been on it 9 hours in total and only completed 14%.

5 hours 22 mins and 8.5%

I wish they would stop firing their guns off and screaming Kyrat is free. It's scares off the prey when I'm hunting
And blowing up rhinos with C4 is a bad idea, it ruins the skin
Killed the first one with a shotgun but decided to kill the 2nd with C4 as it looked easier :/

10 hrs + and 13.94%

I [censored] about a lot!

Blow the C4 while the rhino isn't too close and it won't ruin the skin. You may need a few extra bullets though.

Nope I have only done 9 of 32 story missions at the minute, I played it again for a few hours yesterday and am up to 19% now. With sandbox games I tend to just do most of the side quests first then play a lot of the story in one hit. I have been mainly collecting chests, uncovering question marks, taking outposts and taking towers.

Sandbox games are my favourite kind of game, so I kind of know the score now. I always buy the maps at the start, always attack each area in a systematic way e.g. only moving on from a zone once I have done everything there. Perhaps it's a little bit of OCD in me haha

The rhinos hit hard!! I really like riding the elephants and smashing up a jeep full of people, especially when they all come in to attack one of your existing outposts haha.

9 of the story missions,I've done 5

You can't have crafted many upgrades then?

I try to be sensible but if I'm driving flat out and I see something that screams jump, I just cant help myself!

Systematic is good, but it's a fine line between that and robotic. I like to take it all in. It's taken me 10 hours to do those 9 missions and some upgrading. It's not a race.

I have completed the weapons holster and am onto the last upgrade for the syringe holder and a couple of others. Some of them I have only done one upgrade on so far such as the bait bag and the heavy ammo, but I don't tend to use them a lot so not my priority at the moment! I wanted to be able to hold 4 weapons and as many syringes as possible quickly so that I could have all of the tools available when attacking the outposts.

I don't race through it, I really enjoy taking it all in too as I say I just play a lot of these kind of games so I do a lot of the collecting part whereas a lot of people just do side missions and main missions and wouldn't bother with things like collecting the masks, collecting the letters etc. You tend to find with a Ubisoft sandbox game that about 50 to 60% of the progression is the story, then the rest is all of the collectibles and side missions... Which is the part I really like!

Yeah, I like the side missions best to be honest, but the story is ok too. Pagan Minn as a character has been getting stick from the gaming press. I don't think they're justified, but they always need to find more stuff to moan about I suppose. That's the review business.

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Yeah, I like the side missions best to be honest,

Same here