Far Cry 6 Joseph Seed DLC Walkthrough

Q: How do you start the stranger items in Far Cry 6 DLC?

To start Far Cry 6s Stranger Things DLC mission, players will need to have first completed the games rather lengthy tutorial section.

Q: Will there be a Far Cry 7?

Given Far Cry 6 released back in 2021, the attention of some gamers has likely turned to when Far Cry 7 will appear and what direction it will take the overarching franchise in.

Q: How do you play the DLC in Far Cry 6?

Highlight Far Cry 6 on the consoles dashboard. Press down to view Add-Ons. Select the Pagan: Control DLC to download and install.

The Far Cry 6 season pass is winding down with one of its final paid updates, barring any surprises revealed later. In the Collapse DLC, you'll go into the mind of Joseph Seed, the central villain of Far Cry 5. Seed was the leader of the Project at Eden's Gate, a doomsday cult that operated out of Montana and was led by the forceful hands of Joseph and his siblings. If you want to get into the DLC, now's your chance, as it's available for all season pass owners. Here's how to start this roguelite expansion.

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Far Cry 6 Joseph Seed DLC - How to start
A brief, bland dive into one of Far Cry’s more forgettable villains.
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Far Cry 6 Joseph: Collapse DLC Review
How do you start the stranger items in Far Cry 6 DLC?
Will there be a Far Cry 7?
How do you get to the stranger's mission in Far Cry 6?
How do you play the DLC in Far Cry 6?

Far Cry 6 Joseph Seed DLC - How to start

When you return to the open world of Far Cry 6, the first thing you'll want to do is head to a nearby Guerrilla Camp, either by fast-traveling directly into one or taking the scenic route, which in Far Cry tends to mean driving through enemy bases, alligator swamps, and other chaotic environments.

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Once you get there in one piece, look for a large building with some bunk beds inside. In one corner will be a television and on-screen will be the flickering images of past Far Cry's main antagonists, Vaas, Pagan Min, and Joseph Seed, of Far Cry 3, 4, and 5 respectively. Interact with the TV no matter who is on the screen, and select the DLC you wish to start.

If you haven't caught up with the past expansions yet, each of these villain-focused side stories is meant to provide insight into the psyches of the game's storied stable of bad guys, while also changing things up quite a bit from a gameplay perspective. These expansions qualify as roguelites, with a live-die-repeat element to them that you'll need to work through before you can get to the end of each story.

The seed of the prophet shall sit on-screen.

The two previous expansions took about 1-3 hours to beat, so this one is likely going to come in at about that length as well. After that, if you need more Far Cry 6 in your life, maybe you missed the free Danny Trejo missions.

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A brief, bland dive into one of Far Cry’s more forgettable villains.

After two of these roguelite DLCs so far, the formula for Far Cry 6’s villain-centric expansions has become predictable: you enter a character’s mind, confronting their demons and learning more about their backstory while shooting everything in sight. Thus, Joseph: Collapse has a lot of the same strengths and shortcomings of Vaas’ Insanity and Pagan Min’s Control that came before it. Unlike those, though, this final entry in the trilogy has the critical flaw of starring the weakest villain of the bunch – by quite a wide margin – in Joseph Seed. The Zen-like militant cult leader from Far Cry 5 never made much of an impression on me aside from his unmistakable love of yellow aviators, and Collapse does little to make him more interesting.

For those who didn’t finish Far Cry 5’s campaign or skipped the follow up Far Cry: New Dawn, consider this a necessary spoiler warning, but I have to talk about Collapse’s ill-conceived attempt at redeeming the mass-murdering psychopath that serves as the main antagonist in those games. It’s important in Collapse, because most of the story is centered around that redemption arc and Joseph’s attempts at denying his egomaniacal nature. It’s a tough sell, frankly, and one that doesn’t feel particularly earned – you just hear him scream that he’s sorry quite a bit as you direct him to commit acts of unspeakable violence. Little time is spent on justifying why he was so dang evil in Far Cry 5 aside from it being in his nature and that he’s generally not a considerate human being.

Story problems aren’t the only issues I have with Joseph’s apology tour, either. For me, the biggest fault with the execution of the Far Cry roguelite pilgrimage is that it isn’t challenging enough to lend itself well to a genre where you’re expected to die a lot. Maybe it was just a fluke, but my first run through Collapse was also my first completion, and I even did all the optional waves of combat at the end that are supposed to serve as a final gauntlet. Since I only rarely felt like I was in danger of failing my run, I just focused on temporary upgrades and largely neglected the permanent ones that would have helped with future runs. I mean, why bother planning for subsequent runs if it’s completely feasible to blow through it all in one go?

One of the biggest strengths of the roguelite genre is completely undermined.

And because it was so easy to complete Collapse on my first run, one of the biggest strengths of the roguelite genre is completely undermined: figuring out the story piece by piece with each new attempt. Instead of overcoming adversity and steadily making progress to unravel the mystery of Joseph Seed’s mind, I just saw all the content in two hours then was encouraged to do it again on a harder difficulty with all the same story and boss fights. In fact, the breadcrumb storytelling design that’s become a best practice for roguelites is completely absent from Collapse: if you die and have to replay a section everything will play out the same way, and once you’ve completed a run you’ve likely seen and brutally massacred just about everything there is to brutally massacre.

That’s a serious problem because every playthrough after my first has been a monotonous slog through the same content with the only difference being my ability to artificially inflate the difficulty with some tanky, highly lethal enemies. And the only incentive for doing so is becoming more powerful… so that I can continue to complete the same content even more times. If there were new bits of story to unlock or some fresh encounters to tackle on harder difficulties I might have more incentive to keep playing, but aside from the tiny Easter egg you unlock after completing it on the highest difficulty, there’s really no reason to do so.

The surreal landscape of Joseph’s broken psyche is just so darn beautiful to behold.

The good news is that everything you know and presumably love about Far Cry’s iconic formula remains mostly intact. You’ll unlock and upgrade powerful weapons, engage in solid, over-the-top combat, stealth, and gunplay that feels as satisfying as its ever been, all while running around an open-world map in search of people to murder with a Bible. The surreal landscape of Joseph’s broken psyche is also just so darn beautiful to behold; one mission in particular that has you rebuilding a destroyed statue of yourself as you climb it had me marveling at the breathtaking views and the high-stakes climbing puzzle that are central to what makes Far Cry great.

There are a few caveats, though. One big one is that a lot of the silly, tongue-in-cheek flavor that usually accompanies a Far Cry campaign has been replaced with a pretty serious tone that feels a little disconnected from a lot of the zany combat and exploration activity they have you doing. That’s again due to the odd choice of making Joseph repentant, because if you were to try to write dialogue that incorporates that story with your actions it would come out something like “I can’t wait to repent for my unforgivable sins, but first let me ride my parachute down to a zipline then land on someone’s face to perform an exaggerated execution.”

There’s also a lot to be desired from the open-world sandbox in Collapse, which is fairly small, can be fully explored in a handful of hours, and has quite a bit of empty space you’ll mostly just run through. It’s understandable given Collapse’s decidedly smaller scope, but I definitely missed some of the exploration, activities, and vehicles that are staples in Far Cry. After only a few hours I felt like I’d seen everything there was to see, and the rest of the time I was just making a beeline to the important areas to complete additional runs.

Verdict

Far Cry 6 Joseph: Collapse takes a lot of the things I love about Far Cry and wraps them around a weak roguelite formula, a less interesting open-world, and crucially, one of the weaker villains from the series’ otherwise iconic lineup. You could spend a lot of time playing and replaying through Collapse’s brief campaign, but we haven’t been given a whole lot of reasons to do so, unless you’re really into repeating Joseph Seed’s feeble and unconvincing redemption quest. There are still some memorable moments and Far Cry’s impressive sandbox, but after a couple hours you’ll likely have seen it all with little reason to linger.

Far Cry 6 Joseph: Collapse DLC Review

How do you start the stranger items in Far Cry 6 DLC?

To start Far Cry 6's Stranger Things DLC mission, players will need to have first completed the game's rather lengthy tutorial section.

Will there be a Far Cry 7?

Given "Far Cry 6" released back in 2021, the attention of some gamers has likely turned to when "Far Cry 7" will appear and what direction it will take the overarching franchise in.

How do you get to the stranger's mission in Far Cry 6?

How to start the Stranger Things mission in Far Cry 6. You need to complete the tutorial mission at Isla Santuario in Far Cry 6 before you can start the Stranger Things The Vanishing DLC. Once you've completed the tutorial and unlocked the guerilla camp, you will receive a call from Juan while at camp.