You wouldn’t guess it, but the Kyrati love their high-speed racing. So much, in fact, that there’s an entire industry devoted to filming them. Okay, it may just be one person with a cell phone camera for all we know, but the point is, there’s racing to be done. Kyrati Films activities come in two different flavors: Racing and Survival.
Racing
Racing is a simple, timed dash through checkpoints.
Banapur
Location: x:214 y:430
To trigger the Kyrati Films activities, head back to Banapur and ferret out a nondescript blue door. Behind it, you’ll meet the lovely (not really) and talented (who knows?) Sharma Salsa, head of pretty much everything film-related in Kyrat. She’ll draft you to become her latest big-screen wheelman.
There’s no race attached to this first meeting, but you have to stop here in order to turn on the race indicators across the map.
Border Observation Post
Location: x:809 y:659 Vehicle: Quad
This can be one of the easier runs you encounter, and it can be one of the toughest. The big obstacle here is a fairly steady barrage of oncoming traffic, usually other ATVs. If they come between the gates, you have no worries. Closer to the gates, you might have to wiggle a bit.
Keo Logging Camp
Location: x:419 y:759 Vehicle: Buggy
The pickup on your right may pull into your path just as you take off, so watch for it, then weave between the log piles and pedestrians as you shoot through the first few gates. The terrain on this course can throw you off course, so be extra careful when landing the jumps after gates 6 and 14, and watch the tree after 16 and the bouncy terrain between 17 and 20—which, incidentally, leads right into the herd of elephants between 20 and 22. Finally, expect to have to dodge a scavenger around gate 28.
Kyra Tea Weigh Station
Location: x:346 y:380 Vehicle: Quad
The biggest obstacles here are elephants and a rhino, which love to wander the first half of the route. Other than that, just watch for the trees at gate 9, the boulder at 11, oncoming traffic anytime you’re on pavement, and the pedestrians clogging the last few gates.
Pokhari Ghara
Location: x:555 y:748 Vehicle: Minivan
Though it won’t win any drag races, the minivan is a remarkably stable vehicle, even off-road. Therefore, all you have to do to win gold in this race is keep the van pointed toward the blue rings and dodge any oncoming traffic—which tends to be more vans.
Rochan Brick Co. Storage
Location: x:437 y:541 Vehicle: Tuk Tuk
Zippy as it is, the Tuk Tuk is also a little top-heavy, so be careful you don’t let it topple out of control in the rare times this course takes you off-road. However, it’s also much more narrow than a typical car, which comes in handy when you’re threading the needle past oncoming traffic, the bears between gates 11 and 14, or the rhinos hanging around gates 26 through 28.
Royal Guard Kennels
Location: x:602 y:708 Vehicle: Hovercraft
The hovercraft has straight-line speed, but average acceleration and cornering. So try to keep your lines straight in this one, even through the bears between gates 4 and 7, the yaks at 10, and whatever the game throws in front of you at 17.
Royal Raksi Brewery
Location: x:554 y:537 Vehicle: Pickup Truck
This one starts off a simple road race, but quickly veers off road and into Crazytown. The trees alone would be a challenge, but you also need to watch for elephants between gates 6 and 9, boulders in the stream after 7, the super-evil pole at 12, picnickers and bears around 15-18, and another elephant at 21. Moreover, any time you cross a road, just plan on dodging a head-on charge from another pickup.
Shanath Training Ground
Location: x:250 y:542 Vehicle: Quad
As long as you keep your nose pointed straight, you should have good luck on this run, which places bear at 16 through 18, a serious jump at 21, and car-flipping rhinos at 27.
Varshakot
Location: x:509 y:430 Vehicle: Pickup Truck
One of the simpler runs. You may have to swerve around an elephant near 5 or the rhino near 26, but the biggest threat is the oncoming truck coming around the blind curve near 7. Dodge that, and you’re pretty much home free.
Survival
Survival is similar to Racing, but with three significant differences:
1. The race timer counts down instead of up. Each checkpoint you hit earns you another five seconds.
2. Certain checkpoints require you to change vehicles, going from truck to hovercraft, van to buzzer, and so on.
3. Enemies love to camp the race route. Particularly the vehicle switch points.
Barnali’s Textures
Location: x:443 y:687 Vehicles: Quad, Buzzer
For once, the grenade launcher makes a lousy sidearm—there’s too great a chance you’ll blow up your buzzer at the switch point. Grab something with stopping power, like the cannon or the 87, and saddle up. The terrain and elephants are no sweat, but hug the left after you pass the pair of soldiers, because the next two checkpoints are high on a narrow ridge, and you’ll lose a ton of time if you fall to the right and have to come back. When you reach the buzzer, take the guard out fast or ignore him—you don’t have time to waste getting into a drawn-out gunfight.
Khilana Bazaar
Location: x:298 y:429 Vehicles: Pickup, Quad
One of the earliest and easiest survival courses. Your biggest danger on this route is running right over the quad waiting for you at the switch point. Master that exchange by braking or bailing out (and avoiding the fellow off-roader who chooses that exact moment to drive in front of you), and it’s a simple thing to dodge the elephants and traffic to reach a sharp left turn and the red ring.
Lhumtse Barracks
Location: x:783 y:605 Vehicles: Quad, Buggy
This run is relatively obstacle-free if you don’t count the soldiers along the track. And you shouldn’t count them, because you can zoom right past all but the lone assaulter guarding the vehicle switch point. You think heavies are slow when you’re on foot? When you’re behind the wheel, they might as well be trees.
Incidentally, if you want to swap your quad for one of the enemy vehicles you pass, you can. But the quad is faster on this terrain.
Namboche Monastery
Location: x:803 y:725 Vehicles: Quad, Hovercraft
One of the more challenging courses, this run will have you dodging troops, bears, troops fighting bears, and worst of all: boulders. Seriously, it’s like they’re magnetic icebergs and you’re the Titanic.
Rochan Brick Co. Shipping
Location: x:394 y:501 Vehicle: Darrah (car), Hovercraft
Feel free to slam your car right into the boulder next to the hovercraft at the switch point. Kill the guard if you must, but it’s better to ignore him and keep racing. There are a couple tricky rings near the end of this course, as well. After you’ve hit the water, run over the island, then crossed the water again, go through the first ring on land, then veer right to stay on the road to avoid slamming into the hillside. Then, when you reach the checkpoint guarded by a lone assaulter, veer left around the truck, because if you veer right and fall off the cliff, it costs valuable seconds to get back up.
Sahi Jile Checkpoint
Location: x:668 y:761 Vehicle: Scavenger (jeep), Hovercraft, Buzzer
A long, but not terribly eventful route, this one’s all about making your exchanges as quickly as possible. This won’t be difficult at the hovercraft switch, which is unguarded, but the buzzer switch point has two royal guardsmen standing watch. Put them down fast.
Seven Treasures Ashram
Location: x:434 y:389 Vehicle: Quad, Hovercraft
As long as you kill the guard at the switch point quickly and don’t get distracted shooting at any other enemies—especially the RHIB that appears shortly after you hit the water—this one’s an easy finish.
Shanath Breeders
Location: x:382 y:570 Vehicle: Jet Ski, Pickup Truck
The first 80% of this route is littered with enemies determined to distract you. Do not fall for it. The only two enemies you should even think about engaging are the two guarding the pickup, whom you should hip-shoot right after you’ve run your jet ski right up the hill toward them. Engaging any other foe will just cost you precious seconds. And you might need those, because that last 20% of the route? Elephants.
Shikharpur
Location: x:675 y:703 Vehicle: Quad, Wingsuit, Jet Ski
What a rush! You’ll start this run on a quad, but it takes exactly three rings before it launches you into the sky and leaves you to fend for yourself. The switch from wingsuit to jet ski can be hazardous thanks to the enemies on shore, so forget the parachute and streak in for a landing as close to the jet ski as possible. After that, just avoid the enemy watercraft, dodge the fishing bear, and watch for the sharp left turn when the river splits.
