I personally think that the wound stabilzation animations looked brilliant, and were a lot more realistic than walking over a medkit and having that heal all your wounds (and not to mention wash all the blood off your clothes. I’m looking at you, Half-Life 2.) Obviously, if you try it in real life, it’s not going to heal your wound, and it’ll hurt worse than the worst hemmorhoid you’ve ever had. But it’s a video game. They’re trying to be as realistic as possible without ruining the experience, which I think weeks of game time spent “healing” would do.

I can’t help but notice none of you have mentioned that you can absorb an uncountable chunk of bullets, probably equal to your body weight, without dying. Oh, but wait, being killed in one shot would make the game a lot less fun, and a hell of a lot more frustrating. Huh. Maybe the game would be a lot more frustrating too if you didn’t have that real-time map, or those sensors showing where the diamonds are, or if every car stopped running after a bullet through the engine block, or whatever else you all decided to nitpick at.

Making a game with realistic components is all about balance. What’s real versus what’s fun. No one will play a game that has you dying every three steps. Think they made bad design choices? Make your own damn game.

P.S., a very bad misfire (one that would probably happen if your weapon is in the condition it is in the game) could blow it in half. More likely than not though, it’ll kill you. Keep your weapons clean, kids.

those magic brief cases…. also come standard equipped with speakers…that are proximity activated.. but only by you.
which makes it easier to find them of course.

also… being a master mechanic myself
there actually is a bolt in the car that just fixes everything. we mechanics refer to it as the “easy bolt”. yep… blown gasket? no its cool really lemme just give this a quick twist…. oh whats that? you have a flat tire and are running low on wiper fluid? i’ll throw an extra twist on it for ya.
piece of cake

and my last favorite…. your buddy? i think the term super hero would be more appropriate. because they always seem to know when you’ve been shot to death (by just one bullet) and they come flying in with a desert eagle at just the right time to save you, all while single handedly killing an entire army of guys with that same pistol and carrying you to safety.

why cant my “buddy” just kill the jackal?

Obviously the game is trying to be realistic, without being real, otherwise you would be locked out for weeks till the game deemed your wound had healed, then there would be weeks of physiotherapy. Maybe a new peripheral could deliver a fatal electric shock when you are killed in the game?

Depending on what we assume is wrong with the car. If we assumed holes in the radiator, then a simple, realistic, animation could be done, along with another assumption that when we entered a building somewhere in a town or even a gun shop, the vehicle was fixed by a mechanic, but this would require something in the game to indicate it was going to be repaired.

I think the self-healing animations were just trying to be cool. I certainly got a good laugh at them, especially where he pokes the bullet out with his finger. I think it is safe to say the people at UBI never thought anyone would think it was realistic.

I don’t know if you have hung around long enough , but the AI will heal each other.

I did witness one coming to another’s aid, the wounded fellow remarked “What are you doing, digging through to China!”, (or something to that effect). Witnessing this camaraderie, I had a tear in my eye - fortunately it didn’t affect my aim…

Also a wounded AI can breathe underwater. I wounded a guy who fell into shallow water during one of the buddy missions. One or two weren’t quite dead and were taking pot shots at me. I finished off all of the ones I could see, and it took me ages to find out who was still shooting. Eventually I saw the tip of a pistol waggling about just under the water…

I think the problem is that realistic looking scenes impress people more easily, that seems to by why everyone is raving about this game - the jungle looks great etc, all of the other elements have been done before. I guess UBI didn’t want to break up the flow of the game by having a fade to black scene, unless it is your buddy who can instantly rescue you - LOL!

Don’t forget, this is really a console game.

P.S. there could be an animation for putting the GPS in the car, but it may be very, very quick. I know the first timer a gun broke in my hands, it was so quick I though it was a bug and the gun had been ripped from my hand. The same thing happened with one of the rocket launchers, but that animation was a bit slower so I could see what happened.

I still agree that this not very realistic… but it does feel like Africa with the scenery…