Ubisoft vil at vi skal frigjøre sinnene våre og oppleve gleden ved å oppdage, for når Far Cry 5 slippes på tampen av vinteren skal det ikke finnes noe lite kart nede i hjørnet av spillskjermen. Funksjonen som de fleste av dagens spill med en åpen verden benytter er nemlig ikke med, og Ubisoft-sjefen Drew Holmes forklarer i et intervju med Gamingbolt at det er fordi de ønsker at spilleren skal føle mer tilstedeværelse i spillverdenen:

"We really want to focus on exploration with a sense of 'I'm not sure what to do or where to go'. The removal of the mini-map was so you're not staring at a little corner of your screen saying 'what's new in the world?' You've got to actually pay attention to the world and the art side is doing a good job of making sure there are good landmarks to orient yourself ... It becomes more [or] less the game guiding you on where to go, and more of you saying 'where do I want to go, what do I want to do today?'"

Holmes forklarer også hvordan valget av et fiktivt Montana som tumleplass hjalp utvikleren med å tone ned spillseriens bruk av tårn:

"I think when you set a game in a more familiar setting like Montana, we wanted to compare it to 'what would I do in this situation?', I'd have to go and try and meet some locals, see if they'd do anything. Or go to a town and see if there's anything to do around there. So the goal really was to get rid of the towers as a way of forcing me to interact with the people, pay attention to my surroundings. And sort of intuitively figure out 'well, if there's a town here, there's a gas station down the road', so everything sort of feels like a believable world".

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