Can I continue after the last mission?

Question

After completing the last story mission - does the game 'end' or am I allowed to continue playing, hunting achievements, etc?

Answer 1

Yes. As soon as the final mission is over, you can return to the island and complete any achievements or missions you might have missed.

Answer 2

On the one hand, yes, you can keep playing once you beat the game.

On the other hand, for the most part, nothing respawns, so while you can run around and shoot your shiny high-end guns a whole lot, there really just isn't much to do.

Unless of course, you're playing on the PC and not averse to some .dll editing.

The full method is outlined in this forum post. It will reset all of the outposts, giving you plenty of new bad guys to shoot in a variety of exciting and badass ways.

To do this, you'll first want to make a backup of the target file, either FC3.dll or FC3_d3d11.dll (which is tied to your DirectX version of choice). Once you've done that, open the original in a Hex Editor. You'll want to find

55 6E 6C 6F 63 6B 65 64 57 6F 72 6C 64 4D 61 70 49 74 65 6D 73

and replace it with

4E 6F 6C 6F 63 6B 65 64 57 6F 72 6C 64 4D 61 70 49 74 65 6D 73

and save the modified .dll.

Then open the game, load your save, and save the game and quit. Then restore the original .dll from your backup, and start up the game. You should now have many new mans to shoot.