Time Period
Players are going all the way back to 10,000 BC in Primal, with Ubisoft aiming for the general Mesolithic time period. This “Middle Stone” age saw humans more advanced than their basic hunter gatherer Paleolithic ancestors, but set just before the polished tools and domesticated plants and animals of the following Neolithic era. It was a period of crucial advancement, when human innovation was accelerating just enough to gain a determined footing in nature and eventually leap forward into the agricultural era.
The defining characteristic of the Mesolithic stage is the advanced use of chipped tools, a fact Ubisoft is putting to good use in terms of weapon variety.
“Stone Age man was already quite advanced,” said Art Director Mickael Labat in a behind the scenes video. “He knew how to use stone in 150 different ways.” Really understanding and implementing the native ingenuity and tool variety is something Ubisoft is “really excited to introduce to Far Cry.”
