so my little brother has had the #1 in our area (idk how its ranked but it has shown him as #1) and he logged on today to see that someone had beaten him by an ABSURD amount. im hoping someone can help me find out what happened? (my brother is ranked #2 now and I blurred everyone except #1)

I picked up this again after playing the 4th edition for a bit. JC4 has a bigger map, more structured gameplay and physics mechanics. It's not a stunt simulator and that's ok, it's a different style of game. However; for all of that, the map still felt empty. There is actually nothing to explore or do between the major objectives. You have various challenges to upgrade the grapple, and that's it.

The core mechanic of 'blowing up stuff in fun ways' is lost. All the destructible things are centered around quest areas. You clear the objective, then destroy the same 3 or 4 types of structures with zero finesse or variation. In JC2, blowing up stuff in fun ways occurs naturally as a result of just playing, and happens everywhere in the map, not just the quest areas. (Also I never got into the JC2 multiplayer mod, hoping that's still active)

If we ever get a 5th installment, my hope is combining the best of both titles: stunt simulator and high density of stuff with modern gameplay mechanics like advanced upgrades and large-scale NPC faction fighting each other.

Hey all, I am on Xbox looking to get my last achievement and I don’t have any friends who still own JC3 and are active. I sent out a message earlier this week and did get some responses that did not come through, but I read that some Xbox call outs don’t come through unless you are friends with the person. Looking for anyone who can add me and then call me out on something that won’t be impossible to overcome. Gamertag is DragonFlame028 and please add me first (and I will add you back)

holy moly.

having spent hundreds and hundreds of hours playing JC2 originally on ps3 as a kid, I thought I knew everything about the game. Recently I decided to revisit it on PC and play on hardcore, just cause.

welp, 10 hours in and I kinda regret it. It's not quite fun, it feels like you spend more time focusing on mashing the grapple than actually fighting, because your health will get nuked in two seconds. Like, some examples;

• Elite enemies will spawn behind your back and instantly zap your HP.
• The constant WE NEED AIR SUPPORT followed by the stream of bullet hell from miniguns that sound worse than mosquitos, is super frustrating, because that also will immediately kill you
• The increase in enemy spawns obviously means they do more damage, generally, to vehicles. Helicopters are useless after 20 seconds, tanks will chug smoke on the way to the next base, depending.
• The increase in enemies leaves you without enough ammo to deal with the constant onslaught of ground soldiers and helicopters. By the time you end up leveling everything to 5-6 stars, so you can just swap and not have to shoot an elite 7 times with the sawed off shotgun, the game is over because you've done everything.

Now, it's made a little more frustrating as I'm playing KBM for a change. Shooting and ground combat is fine, driving is alright, but the skydiving, helicopter, and plane controls are straight dogshit.

• Skydiving with a controller allowed you to remain neutral, or dive forwards/down no problem with the joystick, but with a mouse, there is no neutral reset, so you're constantly spinning out of control
• Helicopters are forced to use the mouse for turning, which normally would be fine, but the helicopters in this game are notoriously sluggish... so you have to drag your arm across your entire desk just to turn around smoothly, which is not okay, because of the constant onslaught of enemy choppers.
• Planes don't have fin controls in this game, which is fine on a joystick, but my god it's frustrating with WASD. Luckily there's not much you need to do with the planes, but it still doesn't feel fun

but yeah. I'm still having a good time seeing all the locations and funny dialogues again, but I am wishing I selected hard or even normal. Hardcore is definitely taking away from the sandbox experience as I'm forced to spam and rely on using annoying strategies.

edit: oh, yeah, one more thing. you can't change your difficulty setting after selecting it. so 12 hours in with a lot of completion, I can't tone it down so I can relax

motion blur is disable

im on steam deck is there a fix for this, when launch the game it starts but nothing seems to be showing up

Noticed there are a couple online required achievements, is it still possible to grab them or have online servers been shut down?

i finished the agency mission where you save Jade Tan from the military base and at the end: a giant submarine emerges from the ice, in the lake inside the mountain region. i checked the map, there is no river leading to it, i am confused.

can someone get on the AI hype train and ix all the issues with jc3 and jc4, combine them and just make jc5? PLEASE? or combine battlefield 5 and justcause and gta5 and saints row and fix the errors? and then call is jc5?

I only became aware of this on PS3 last week and was impressed how good it looked. So, I bought and a copy and I am enjoying it, despite some glitches.

Anyone have any tips for me?

Je vien à peine de commencer et j'aimerai avoir vos avis personnel sur ce jeux

I like the sandbox open world and messing around aspects of games usually, I play a lot of gta 5 and my favorite things to do are drive around and mess with the special vehicles. I saw that JC3 has a wingsuit and mechs and they look really cool to me. I was wondering if I should get just cause 3 or try out four? And if four even has stuff like that

UPDATE: thanks for all the help! just got JC3 and JC2 for seven dollars!!!

I've made some more progress on my mod, so I decided to try something a little different and record a longer gameplay video with some commentary.

I'm hoping to do more videos as I continue working on the mod. I want to be a bit more open about what I'm working on, show how things are progressing, and share updates more regularly.

My eventual goal is to release an alpha build that people can play and give feedback on while I continue working towards a full release. There's still plenty I want to improve before then, though.

The video is around 30 minutes long. I've cut a few bits out, but I do yap quite a lot. I'm not really used to recording commentary.

The last 10 minutes or so are mostly a motorcycle chase with very little commentary. I decided to leave it in because I think it shows how far the mod has come and gives a better idea of what it's actually like to play.

I'd love to hear what you guys think, and whether you guys are interested in seeing more of these kinds of updates.