I hit an interesting, and sanity saving, glitch last night when doing the mission where you infiltrate the radio boat thing and you've got to stealth everyone to death.
There are three key guys you need to kill and loot and I kept on getting one or maybe two before getting spotted and having the mission automatically restart, which was driving me mad. It turns out that right at the start when you get on the hanglider to drift down to the mission, if you push and hold up, which tilts the glider down, after a couple of seconds your character sort of 'warps' down to the beach. You end up around the place where you last killed a guy, even if that means starting inside one of the ship hulls.
So you begin the mission standing right beside a lootable corpse or two, sometimes even accompanied by the strangled scream of a dying guy as the glitch happens, as if you'd dive-bombed into him with the glider. You also get to keep any radio keys you'd looted in previous runs, although possibly the mission worked that way anyway, I couldn't tell. It was pretty bizarre but excellently times given that I was really struggling with the stealth stuff. Probably not helped by the fact that a few times, instead of throwing a slightly distracting stone, I'd hurl a much-more-distracting-than-I'd-intended grenade or molotov. Have I mentioned how confusing I find the controls?
In yer other news, hunting is really fucking irritating. Every time I was sneaking up to a herd of deer either some pirate cunt would start randomly shooting miles away and the fucking things would scatter. Or a pack of dogs would run in and just starting fucking everything up. In fact that dogs are absolutely the most annoying enemies in the whole game. Every time I'm just trying to make my way from one place to the next I'll hear some barking and know I'm about to get chewed on, and probably attract the attention of a roaming band of pirates into the bargain. Fucking stupid shitting things.
Actually the wildlife extract bloody revenge pretty often. Last night I easily killed a couple of pigs only to have a fucking komodo dragon sneak up out of the grass and start chewing on me. And, of course, shooting him attracted the attention of a nearby lion who murdered the shit out of me. Indeed I only pieced together what had happened after respawning and coming back to the same area to see the same cast still present; although kiting the fucking thing into some nearby pirates brought some satisfaction.
So the sheer amount of random encounters plus the hunting and crafting busy work continue to make the game a very uneven experience. The good bits are good but some of the stuff in between is a real pain in the dick. Once I get some upgrades and perks under my belt I imagine things will get better and I am still enjoying it but, yeah, hmmmm.