Author:       SkrIpT
Date:         MARCH2014
Filesize:     510 MB

Description:
Quote SkrIpT, "In the near future, the world is under heavy oppression from the Nexus, a military and political totalitarian regime,that controls over 80% of the world's territory and resources.
But amid the genocide and desolation, a revolution is coming, would you be part of it?
Or you have no choice?
What is really the Nexus, and what is their agenda?
Maybe the truth lies hidden deep beneath Nexus territory or deep beyond the sky..."


This is a major contribution to our library of MODS, with hours of quality gameplay and great replayability.
There are seven maps.  This review covers the first five only.
Singularity has its roots in traditional FarCry, with many of the original mercs, merc talk, and objects/terrain textures/vegetation.
 But it is heavily modded as well. Scopes, brick wall textures, sometimes you are without any weapons or HUD, only two weapon slots, the red shirt is replaced with battle dress, it all feels very different.
The demo loop running behind the Main Menu is worth a good long look.

I had a few problems with this MOD, a possible cause is that I am playing the "Test" version, and I am not using patch v1.4 as directed. Problems are minor though:  one door would not open;  one elevator was stuck at the bottom; the mission in Map 5: Area 202 which says,"Find a good sniping spot and kill Doyle." does not trigger the start of Map6:Reaction.  I will download the final version, and use patch v1.4, and see if I still get these problems.  Next week.
But first, my experience on playing with patch v1.33, and with Win7 64bit.  In pictures.

      



      


Singularity won't run if your FarCry is patched to v1.33, unless you disable an extra Bin32 folder in the mod directory.  Purifier has discovered that Mods in general requiring patch v1.4 will run corectly in v1.33 if this extra Bin32 folder is disabled.
Of course if you have the v1.4 patch, Singularity will run straight out of the box.
That is a very useful find, thanks Purifier!

Another problem I had was running it in Win7 x64.  I like to run FarCry with eviltimes's custom devmode.lua enabled. It's been my experience that my .bat and .cmd loaders will not work in Win7.
Thanks to eviltimes for the fix.  ie. alter the command line in your desktop FarCry shortcut. When you're done playing your current mod, is easy to change back.

First map: Area 27 (DESERT).

    


    


Description: Nexus Organisation has slave labour at Camp 27 in the African desert.
Jack's objective is to free the slaves and escape to the airfield.
The first rescue point is under attack, so they must go to a second airfield.
The first objective is to find the mine exit, which is padlocked.
*SPOILER* A machete is on a crate close to the locked gate, it's a little hard to spot.
Jack only has two weapon slots, so choose your pickups and discards carefully.

If the next level does not trigger, here's the answer.
*SPOILER*  Jack is meant to exit Camp 27 via the main gate, which requires a keycard found in the control tower at the first airfield.
If you go across the desert hills to the second landing area in a direct line, the next level will not trigger.  Jack must return to Camp 27 with the keycard and open the main gate.

The desert setting is nicely done.  (I recall Szczekus started a desert mod a while back.)  Deserts look great in FarCry.  Skript has lots of heat shimmer particle effects for extra realism, you can almost feel the heat and the sand.

Second map: Office

    


    


I played through twice with cheats to get the layout of the offices and underground car park, and to learn who are good guys and who are bad.  Then third time through I made a serious effort without cheating.  You need to be quick, and also prepared to double back to areas previously inaccessible.  I ended up at one stage locked in a two-room area and unable to get out without using no-clip.  So if you get at all out of order, you might have problems.
Lots of cutscenes to support the storyline.

Third map: Rebirth.

    


    


    


    



Yes, I thought that leap out the window should have been fatal, not forgetting two AIM missiles and me in a very small space.  OK, Rebirth.  Lots of other guys leapt down here, but they didn't make it!
And, I'm used to having nice roads and tracks painted on the terrain, but here you have to pick your way through the jungle. Keep wandering around, you'll find the way eventually.

Fourth map: Nexus (Tower)

    


    



This is set on one bigass tower.  RLL himself would be excited by the scale and intricacies of this structure.  It's so big, there is a new type of elevator, a plasma beam.
No spoilers. You'll work it out!
Again,  I needed no-clip.  I got stuck in corners a few times.  And when the elevator arrived at the floor with the canteen, the door would not open, so no-clip to the rescue.
OK, one *SPOILER* for the exposed elevator ride:
When the rocket hits, leap for a ledge.
Once again, areas behind you become more accessible, and are freshly populated with enemies.  Many are cloaked, but you do have cryvision goggles.
I had severe graphical breakdown, such as I have only seen once before in the Power Plant when playing Spider's Half Robots Demo map. Even though frame rates were still high. And this is on a fairly decent modern computer.
On the Plasma beam ride to the top, you notice Crowe and ...  is it Angie? in a room to the side.  I hope she survives, as you escape by paraglider and the Nexus Tower explodes.

Fifth map: Area 202.

    


You don't handle the glider landing too well yourself.  But Jack is tough!
But the loadscreen says, "One survivor."  Crowe?  Doyle? Angie? Or you - Jack?

    


    


The Arctic Ocean, and snowy icy landscape, are as spectacular as the desert setting in the first map.
I am playing on "Easy", and sure enough, the balance is off because the weapons are way too powerful.  Even so, between the cloaked snow guys, and the damaging cold, a racked up 56 in Godmode!

Looks like I have to try patch v1.4 and download the final version of Singularity before I go any further into Map 6: Reaction and Map 7: Revelation.
Let's hope Angie survives, and Jack saves the world.  Again.

Thanks and respect to SkrIpt for an awesome MOD.

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" broken hud and not working save games and maybe incorrect working weapons, damages from bullets and AI sightranges."

None of the above.  As I said, I'll try it with v1.4 and latest release of Singularity, see if the three small glitches I had reoccur.

I'm playing Sparta3 now. There are 2 big problems.

1. Tank has bug. In editor, I can destory it very easily. The durability is the same as normal fuel tank (I checked values). But no damage in game except truck's explosion.

2. 2 helis don't often come in SpartaOutpost. Player must destroy them to show next objective.

But it's possible to destory tank with truck's explosion. Hard, though. It was fan. And I found solution of heli problem. Shoot enemy (of Outpost) from the ground before getting on zip line.