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Far Cry 4 (2014)

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The Shanath Arena is a location within Southern Kyrat in Far Cry 4. Here, Ajay can participate in various wave-based matches against large numbers of enemies. The Shanath Arena is headed by Noore Najjar, who was forced to run the place by Pagan Min in exchange for her family's safety.
The games seem to have the Royal Army split into several teams (up to four, marked in color: red, blue, yellow and green, with the enemies being covered in colored powder signifying who is who). All teams will try to kill the opposing teams, and Ajay (who is on a team by himself). Animals do not attack animals of the same species, and tend to focus on humans more.
Player starts combat with a single weapon which changes depending on their arena level, but can loot improved weapons from enemies. The latter include all types of infantry and animals including elephants. The combat is split into rounds, each round lasting until Ajay is either dead or kills every other living being in the arena. While each round is in progress, new participants cannot arrive, except for the rhino in the last rounds of Weapon Challenges. The last round is always Ajay versus a team of enemy infantry, or a pack of animals.

For the fight, Ajay receives points depending on how spectacular his killing blows are. He does not get any points if an enemy is killed by another enemy. A regular kill (human or animal) awards 10 points; a stealth kill, explosive kill or headshot awards 25; thrown knife kill or stealth heavy infantry kill awards 50. Even if Ajay dies, he adds these points to his total rank. For a spectacular kill (25 or more points), Ajay may get a drop from spectators, either a health syringe (green smoke), ammo (purple), weapon (blue) or explosives (orange). Weapon drops can contain a weapon that is otherwise unobtainable from enemies corpses(like the U100, D50, or Vector 45.).

During the fight, Ajay will not have access to any of his gear; all of his skills will remain, though. If he carries armor, the armor will be allowed in the arena. Of all weapons, only basic, unmodified versions of guns normally carried by enemies will be available, plus a starting handgun (or smg at higher ranks). Of thrown weapons, only grenades, Molotov cocktails and thrown knives are available. Grenades and Molotov cocktails come from the crowd drops marked by orange smoke.

Accumulating points will increase Arena Rank, allowing to participate in more difficult battles. Reaching rank 10 also allows Ajay to buy a signature weapon, Bushman.
There are three types of matches:
Endless: the amount of waves are endless. Every 10 rounds, a special wave will be sent, consisting of Heavy gunners, Flamethowers, or 'rare' animals. It ends when Ajay is killed.
Battle: 3-5 rounds, the last round is more difficult, performance is reflected as stars, up to 5, extra points can be obtained by a "star bonus".
Trials: no rounds, must complete the battle with 3 stars or more and fulfill a condition (such as using only one weapon).
All of the above are not available in cooperative mode.
The Arena Rank is account-bound and carries over to each subsequent playthrough. Therefore, one only needs to reach Rank 10 once to automatically unlock the Bushman in every new game started. Keep in mind that winning a single match in the arena may be required to update the rank of the current game to the actual value (which precludes the player from fielding this weapon until they have advanced the main storyline far enough to gain access to Shanath Arena).
The loading screen reveals that the arena was built in 1759 to try to provide a rebellion going on at the time, and initially showed elephants and tigers fighting to the death.
The loading screen in the Dutch version of the game, however, claims that instead of elephants, it were lions and tigers fighting to the death.
A note found during the Shoot the Messenger mission indicates that the animals in the arena are drugged with medetomidine hydrochloride, a synthetic anesthetic and painkiller commonly used in veterinary medicine, presumably to make them less sensitive to pain and more dangerous(however, listening to the guards' who are near the note, they claim it makes the animals tired).
The woman in front of the arena (pictured in the gallery below) comments on Ajay's skill depending on his arena rank, often including sarcastic or annoyed remarks about him staring at her breasts(as she has no shirt on for some reason). (https://farcry.fandom.com)

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