The Official: Just Cause 2 Thread

[Algonquin Assassin]

 

I played the game for a few weeks after the release before I literally stopped playing because the developers refused to patch some ground breaking bugs. The game IS fun, but the lack-luster missions and general lack of variety between doing things in the games prevents long-term enjoyment. It's crazy that some people of the Eidos forum racked up over 140 hours within a few weeks of release. I really couldn't find much else to do (on the console version, at least). I heard the game is superior on the PC due to the mods though.

 

Huge expansive world, just a shame there isn't much to do.

I feel the same way. I re-bought it again (This time on 360 as I had it on PS3) in hopes it would rejuvenate my interest, but sadly no. While I don't plan on trading it in this time around I haven't felt inclined to put some major hours into it.

 

The best part of this game is its missions IMO. Very creative, but outside it does feel lackluster. On the surface participating in 350+ settlements would give most a hard on, but when you start to get into the thick of it you soon realize it's the same thing over, and over again just in different locations. I don't mind blowing stuff up, but making it such a bulk exercise really does get tedious.

 

The most I done when I had it on PS3 was about 50. I couldn't be assed to do anymore.

 

The map itself is really beautiful, but it just feels so empty, and lifeless. Even the city districts feel like ghostowns. The most interesting things to do are pretty much just blow sh*t to pieces. I really think there should've been less focus on settlements, and more on some side stuff. Why not courier/drug running side missions? Hitman missions?

 

I think the map is great, but some things like collecting items, and settlements feel like there's too much. If it was more evenly spread out across a variety of things I think the game would have potential to be the greatest sandbox game ever. It's a good game, but after 30 hours it does start to slow down. From my own experience anyway.

Edited May 28, 2011 by Miamivicecity

[OverTheBelow]

I'm getting most of my hours from just flying planes in first person view (mod). It's so relaxing and looks absolutely gorgeous on max graphics.

 

 

It is mainly the mods that keep this game fun, if you have a fair PC then you should really try it.

[vertical limit]

It a VERRY nice game.

[Creed Bratton]

I'm getting most of my hours from just flying planes in first person view (mod). It's so relaxing and looks absolutely gorgeous on max graphics.

 

 

It is mainly the mods that keep this game fun, if you have a fair PC then you should really try it.

The game just doesn't get old on PC. This is a PC game. I think the game was actually built for PC and ported to consoles. It feels like that. Controls are better, graphics are better, it's insanely well optimized to the point that it didn't even need a single patch, and the game supports Dx 10.1

[JOSEPH X]

Thought I'd share this.

 

Imagine if you recorded the position on the map where you died due to impact. Then imagine 11 million impact deaths and their positions of JC2 players presented as a 3D image - it would look like this.

 

 

[Dnero]

^^ Well, if you could just see what bumps this topic in the previous page, you might get the same thing. Sorry man.

[Rockworm]

I'm getting most of my hours from just flying planes in first person view (mod). It's so relaxing and looks absolutely gorgeous on max graphics.

 

 

It is mainly the mods that keep this game fun, if you have a fair PC then you should really try it.

The game just doesn't get old on PC. This is a PC game. I think the game was actually built for PC and ported to consoles. It feels like that. Controls are better, graphics are better, it's insanely well optimized to the point that it didn't even need a single patch, and the game supports Dx 10.1

What? The controls are better on PC??? yeah right this game is a pain with a mouse and keyboard especially flying planes. I can't do half the race challenges because I can't fly a plane to save my life.

Next your gonna tell me Starcraft controls better on N64.

[OverTheBelow]

I'm getting most of my hours from just flying planes in first person view (mod). It's so relaxing and looks absolutely gorgeous on max graphics.

 

 

It is mainly the mods that keep this game fun, if you have a fair PC then you should really try it.

The game just doesn't get old on PC. This is a PC game. I think the game was actually built for PC and ported to consoles. It feels like that. Controls are better, graphics are better, it's insanely well optimized to the point that it didn't even need a single patch, and the game supports Dx 10.1

What? The controls are better on PC??? yeah right this game is a pain with a mouse and keyboard especially flying planes. I can't do half the race challenges because I can't fly a plane to save my life.

Next your gonna tell me Starcraft controls better on N64.

Hate to say it but I agree. I feel Just Cause 2 is much more enjoyable using a controller.

[Creed Bratton]

I'm getting most of my hours from just flying planes in first person view (mod). It's so relaxing and looks absolutely gorgeous on max graphics.

 

 

It is mainly the mods that keep this game fun, if you have a fair PC then you should really try it.

The game just doesn't get old on PC. This is a PC game. I think the game was actually built for PC and ported to consoles. It feels like that. Controls are better, graphics are better, it's insanely well optimized to the point that it didn't even need a single patch, and the game supports Dx 10.1

What? The controls are better on PC??? yeah right this game is a pain with a mouse and keyboard especially flying planes. I can't do half the race challenges because I can't fly a plane to save my life.

Next your gonna tell me Starcraft controls better on N64.

Hate to say it but I agree. I feel Just Cause 2 is much more enjoyable using a controller.

Maybe it's just personal preference then. I think the controls are great.

[nixxio]

Sorry for the bump but, I'm replaying the whole game using the fps mod.

This is like a must have mod, it's fantastic.

 

Although first person in a parachute can get a bit eerie sometimes.

 

That and shooting with some guns can get a bit tricky sometimes, like the minigun doesn't really line up properly to the crosshair somehow so it took me a couple of tries to do one of the first agency missions, was alright since just cause 2 has some sort of built in auto-aim that you can't disable.

 

It's alright since I mostly use the sniper and revolver anyways.

Edited June 21, 2011 by rdbx1234

[AceRay]

I have to say I love this game. But am I the only one who finds the voice acting funny? Everytime Rico says "Don't take no passengers", I just laugh out loud.

 

For the next one, I think we need to have a faction of our own. Rico builds up a faction, then becomes president of that country. It would be so cool, and add a twist on gameplay.

[Stoatz]

So are they ever patching this?

[Remix]

So are they ever patching this?

Nope. The community waited and waited, and were promised several things, but they never came.

 

 

[Creed Bratton]

 

So are they ever patching this?

There's nothing to patch, at least not on my version. What sort of problems are you experiencing with the game?

[nixxio]

Yeah what is it that needs patching?

 

What I was hoping for is jc2-mp, unfortunately it doesn't seem it's gonna be released anytime soon, or ever for that matter.

[Remix]

List of current problems that can/should be fixed:

 

 

Big Problems

 

(Big Glitch,Bug And annoyance) Various people across all platforms have been experiencing the dissapearance of all civilian's and there car's, this is a BIG problem as it ruin's the game. People have found a workaround but an official patch to fix it is a must as not everyone who own's the game visit's the forum's!

 

 

 

(Major Annoyance) The Camera when driving,flying, freefalling and running needs to have an ajustable distance and a rotational camera as in you can zoom out and around your car, plane or Rico as myself and lots of other people have found this a big problem.... (this should not be hard to fix)

 

(Major Annoyance) Dead Bodies only stay in the game for 7 seconds, this is unfair as you might be doing things with a dead body and it suddenly dissapears. A solution would be the following: On the consoles make it so if a body isn't touched or moved for 30 seconds it dissapears, if it is moving it does not dissapear.

On the PC make a slider in the settings allowing you to choose how many bodies are allowed to be visible, and also incorperate the console system suggested above. (Submitted By metalgear655)

 

(Major Annoyance and BUG) When you are playing on a Xbox 360 using a NON-Widescreen pc screen the game still thinks you are playing in widescreen no matter what picture setting is set. this cuts off some of the screen and makes the game look squashed. (submitted by supertom)

 

(This is a website problem and Suggestion) Create a dedicated forum area for discussing the future of patches, updates and the such to really make Just Cause 2 the best it can be! (submitted by dayd41)

 

(Major Annoyance and Glitch) When Switching the fire buttons around to L1 R1 or LB RB you can no longer use the grapple and drive and shoot at the same time ( e.g dragging a person) as the grapple will be removed as you have pressed L1/LB (Submitted By aadams1278)

 

(Major Annoyance) When you complete a base to 100% it stops all the good stuff taking place, so if you complete an airport to 100% planes do not take of anymore this realy needs to be fixed as it is ruining the fun of the game. (Submitted By I need just cause 2 @[email protected]!)

 

 

(Major Annoyance) The plane's are very sensitive when it comes to landing, touching the mildest bump or dip will cause the plane to blow up. (Submitted by RedPillow)

 

(Bug/Glitch) the are various audio glitches and stutters throughout the game. This is quite noticable When playing at various times. (IGN review)

 

(Major annoyance) You cannot move while you are crouching, this is a big mistake as it is expected and a standard feature nowaday's (Submitted By LaMOi)

 

(Major Bug) In the second mission where you save karl blaine from the casino, I was in a helicopter taking out another helicopter. As soon as you take out this helicopter, there is a cutscene. The problem was that I crashed and died exactly when it started fading out to the cutscene.

Because of this, whenever I reloaded from the autosave, I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even bring up the pause menu, I could just wait till I died by a chopper.

So I had to replay the game from the start at that point. [/color][/b]

 

General Problems (Common To ALL Platforms)

 

(Error) A historical error, in the game it states that the U.S's Panama invasion was in 1986 and in fact it was in 1989. (this may be intential but i don't see why?)

(Submitted by Danzavier)

 

Bug's

 

 

1. (Bug) When playing the screen somethimes freezes but the sounds still continue through the speakers, does anyone else have this problem? (Submitted By Enzoforce)

 

 

2. (Bug) Invisible parachute, if you grapple a near by rock and open your parachute just as your hitting it you bounce away and from then on have an invisible parachute( Submitted By MatonKing)

 

 

3. (Bug) Grapple lines do not affect people, for example tethering across a road, a bike driver does not get knocked of his bike when he hits the line, he infact goes straight through! (Submitted by LaMOi)

 

 

4. (Bug) When a Bike ends up on top of rico when he is on the ground he is not able to get back up and is stuck under the bike. (Submitted by Mikev)

 

 

5. (Bug) Bollards and Lamp-posts appear to be 'floating' slightly above the ground, more noticable on an incline. (Submitted by Mikev)

 

 

6. (Bug) The Black Market helicopter can pass straight through Radio masts. (Submitted by Mikev)

 

 

7. (Bug) There is no animation for Rico when he applies a horn in a vehicle. (CTO_7)

 

 

8. (Bug) When you get out of the stunt plane while it's upside down, Rico gets out from underneath the plane (ie the side facing the sky). (Submitted By JustBecause_2010)

 

 

9. (Bug) When Rico falls out of a helicopter after it explodes he just falls like an idiot. He doesn't go into the freefall position. So when you are at the sky ceiling and your helicopter explodes for some unknown reason, it's quite annoying. He just falls 5km without getting into position. That means he's falling for a long time with no way of controlling him. (Submitted By JustBecause_2010)

 

 

10. (Bug) If you hold a grenade button when inside the helicopter and press O to go to stunt position, rico will float in the air and the helicopter will go. (Submitted by I need just cause 2 @[email protected]!)

 

11. (Bug) When playing on all three screens using Eyefinity on the PC, it is nearly impossible to hijack an aircraft as the button sequence will not appear. If I you down to one screen, the sequence appears, and then disappears when you switch back.

 

12. (Bug) The Damage system is inconsistant, e.g When driving at low speed's and you hit another car your car will be majorly damaged, but if you hit it at very high speed you will not take much damage at all. (Submitted by JAGeng)

 

13. (Bug) When you upgrade your weapon, that you are currently holding it wont upgrade its added ammo capacity on hud: like if you have 10 bullets, have the weapon upgraded to 14 (for eg) it will show as 4 bullets in magazine, you start shooting, then it 3-2-1 then it starts over from 10 bullets in mag. (Submitted by eriongtk)

 

14. (Bug) There is a bridge that has no collision detection, images can be found here: Picture: http://img517.imageshack.us/i/jc2brokenbridge1.jpg/ map location: http://img163.imageshack.us/i/jc2brokenbridge2.jpg/ (Submitted By Sectax)

 

15. (Bug) When rico is inside the hovercraft he is standing to the right of the steering wheel, and so turns his hands and grips nothing! (Submitted By CloudWolf)

 

16. (Bug) the settlement Cicak Hitam is Impossible to complete 100% without a glitch, it seems that You collect and destroy everything but it is at 84%, some people have gone back and some items have respawned meaning they can complete it but it is still rather annoying. (Submitted By Various) And a link to a thread about it is here: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?p=1338868

 

17. (Bug) Although this is funny to watch sometimes it's a bug. AI boat drivers crashes into buildings and drive up on land quite often, I noticed it especially around Pekan Sri Vijaya (x=3968, y=29844) and nearby Bandar Batu Besar (x=4059, y=30370). But it's possible that it happens everywhere. (Submitted by Harteex)

 

18. (Bug) Somtimes when driving on a highway, the game starts spawning traffic in the same direction on both sides / lanes. (Submitted By Nicromanski And Harteex)

 

 

 

Annoyance's

 

 

1. (Annoyance) Helicopters need to have their speed increased (maybe can be done through upgrades), this would simply make the game more enjoyable (Submitted By Matonking)

 

 

2. (Annoyance) when you are dragging somone behind your vehicle with the tether, when they die the tether automatically breaks. (Submitted by McCheesy69)

 

 

3. (Annoyance) It currently takes a unnecessarily long time to hijack a vehicle, this feels out of place as the rest of the game is fast paced and full of action. It would be nice to remove/shorten the hijack sequence (Submitted by Colonel Earnel)

 

 

4. (Annoyance) Planes need a reverse thrust, they would also benefit from proper rudder movements as it currently looks quite weird (Submitted by robiscool)

 

 

5. (Annoyance) The cut scenes arn't skippable, at least in the demo... The Option should be built in (Submitted by BeefyMcNasty)

 

 

6. (Annoyance) when flying the "rowlinson K22" helicopter, if you do a stunt jump while moving forward at a good speed, rico will "miss" his grapple and you will fall like an idiot, unable to open the parachute... if you're high enough that likely means you will die! (Submitted By aadams1278)

 

 

7. (Annoyance) Small planes could be a bit more poweful, so that they could drag a motorcycle without big problems. (Submitted By RedPillow)

 

8. (Annoyance) While riding a motorcycle, square should reload weapon, not handbrake. Square button is known globally among gamers to be the reload button on any action game. (Suggestion: Handbrake can be R3.) (Submitted By drdiv)

 

 

9. (Annoyance) Soldiers keep spawning endlessly..which is fun for a while, but i think it would be a good idea to set a spawn cap. (as annoying as the current random spawn: doesnt matter where you go, they will be there, if you gone red) (Submitted By eriongtk)

 

10. (Annoyance) It would be nice too be able to select multiple weapon's and equipment (Not Vehicle's) for ONE drop, as currently it get's VERY tedious having to keep calling in the Black Market helicopter. 9Submitted By various)

 

11. (Annoyance) A huge problem with this game is the lack of a look back button while skydiving or parachuting. When you jump out of a moving vehicle you won't be able to see it explode because you can't look back. Also when riding a canister it should be a must to be able to look back when jumping off so you can see it explode. (Submitted By StandOut)

 

12. (Annoyance) The AI doesn't care if you use the horn in a vehicle. (Submitted By Harteex)

 

 

 

 

Problem's

 

1. (Problem) You currently cannot drag dead enemy's for any length of time as they dissapear. (Submitted by Colonel Earnel)

 

 

 

 

PC Specific Problems

 

 

1. (Feature Request) The Ability in the PC version to bind generic joystick axis to movement for non-360 controllers. (Submitted By Menthalion)

 

 

2. (Bug) The Mouse sensitivity while free falling is WAY to high, just slightly moving the mouse swivels you nearly 360 degrees. (Submitted By Skoinks)

 

 

3. (Bug) The Mouse Sensitivity is not even across all play forms, as in if the running sensitivity is very different to the Helicopter sensitivity, it would be alot easier if all were the same. (Submitted By p34nk)

 

 

4. (Bug) There seems to be an issue with extra and assignable bittons on different control equipment, for example a steelseries mouse has two extra programmable buttons which the game will not accept. (Submitted By p34nk)

 

 

5. (Bug) Button mapping can be 'hit and miss' with some category's seemingly 'tied' together. (Submitted By p34nk)

 

6. (Bug) Bokeh filter is not supported on GTX 295

 

7. (Bug) When playing on all three screens using Eyefinity on the PC, it is nearly impossible to hijack an aircraft as the button sequence will not appear. If I you down to one screen, the sequence appears, and then disappears when you switch back. (Submitted By merciless18t)

 

8. (Annoyance) Configuration Changes can take an long time to save, this gets especially annoying if you need to kepp making changes. (Submitted By p34nk)

 

9. (Big Annoyance) The vehicle camera on the PC version keeps "auto-recentering" itself. If you don't move the mouse for a moment or if you touch the steering on a controller, the camera instantly swings back behind your vehicle. This leaves some players constantly fighting the camera. This would be easily fixed with a setting in the options menu of "Never Autocenter The Camera". (Submitted By -Morlock-)

A fix to this would be as follow's:

 

- A camera should tend to point towards the direction of movement - it's important that it does so to let the player let go of the mouse and remain in control. From what I've observed in JC2, the camera is simply easing itself towards the orientation of the vehicle, mostly independent of its velocity (e.g. camera re-centers even when the car is standing still).

- The time it takes between no mouse movement and the start of camera auto-orientation should always be the same and long enough not to be disruptive - an interval of 2 seconds is a good trade-off between vehicle control and enjoyable look-around, but this value is debatable. The important thing is that it remains the same across all vehicles, unlike what is currently done in the game (e.g. 1 second for cars, 2 for boats, 0.5 for planes).

- The time it takes between the start of auto-orientation and having the camera pointing towards the direction of movement should be inversely proportional to the rate of the movement - this allows for a better experience because it gives more camera control to the player without making it harder to drive the vehicles (e.g. you auto-turn the camera slowly because the player isn't going fast and so does not urgently need to know what's ahead of him).

- The camera should hint as to the current speed of the vehicle - this might include zooming-out when the vehicle is accelerating and zooming-in when it's breaking, though I wouldn't consider that a critical part of an intuitive camera, especially if 3. is done correctly and since most games today use motion blur (including this one).

Source

 

The only real problem I had was trying to get 100% and couldn't because of some water tower that would only be at 99.95% destruction. Was a great game though, the only annoyance was the police (and their damn voices!), and maybe a lack of things to do in odd locations.

Edited June 21, 2011 by Remix.

[Creed Bratton]

The only problem I had was the auto-centering camera, and that one I fixed with a mod. I am having way too much fun with this game to even notice the other "issues".

Edited June 21, 2011 by GTAvanja

[860]

You can't complete this game 100%. No one has. You're supposed to get 6 collectables after the final mission but you're not. There is also a water tower and some other thing that don't exist in the game yet you're supposed to destroy them to get 100%. I think that could be considered a bug worth patching.

[OverTheBelow]

Probably don't get anything for reaching 100% anyway.

[lloydo]

Traded this in when the value was still good, nevertheless a good game. I hope there's a third, the series is going in the right direction.

[nixxio]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-...on-just-cause-3

Maybe someday.

 

Also, those bugs you mentioned, seriously apart from the bug in getting full 100% and eyefinity, some of those so called 'bugs' are just requests anyway.

[Dnero]

Gonna bump to show y'all this:

 

 

 

and that folks, is how multiplayer should work in open world games

[Smallo92]

Loved playing JC2-MP beta. 1300 people in one server was amazing!

[Blackadder.]

It's kind of interesting, the huge map doesn't make much sense in single-player when it's sparsely populated and you have to travel thousands of miles to get to your next objective, yet for multiplayer it seems perfect, a huge amount of players can be playing at once and just explore the massive world with each other.

 

I will be pretty disappointed if Avalanche don't at least try multiplayer with JC3.

[ccrogers15]

I hated this game. Dont get me wrong, the graphics were good and the map was awesomely huge. And i loved how you could use the grapple hook alot. But idk, it felt like they ripped off GTA in many things and ripped off tomb raider/uncharted. Also i hated the voice acting. The story sucked as well, and i could not stand how it forced you into those boring missions from the start and in missions if you stray too far it fails. I did like how you could swim underwater however. Something rockstar should think about for GTA 5.

[Dnero]

Sorry for bumping this again.

 

 

Anyways, for those of you who has JC2 on PC, another public BETA testing for multiplayer is going to happen this weekend. Just head over to their site and download the multiplayer files on saturday. I'll be there for sure

[860]

Is this an official multiplayer beta or the mod from the guys behind sa-mp?

[Dnero]

Is this an official multiplayer beta or the mod from the guys behind sa-mp?

Yeah, it's like SA:MP but not from the same guys.

[GTA-Bobski]

OMG! This multiplay mod is just amazing!

 

 

[nixxio]

Wow I remember looking forward to this a long time ago and hearing that it was cancelled I was disappointed and had given up on it, but now it's back.. and 1000+ players? holy sh*t.

 

Too bad I missed the test last weekend, hope I'll be there for the next one.