![]() The game runs seamlessly, the server is somewhat laggy but the creators have said to be reforming any issues in the next iteration of the mod. If, like me, you take pleasure in the misery of others then I urge you to try your hand at the raucous affair that is the Just cause 2 multiplayer mod. The 22,420 unique players that logged in over the weekend make that question very hard to answer. Such an addition wouldn’t have cost the developers millions to implement, and the longevity of just cause 2 would have been affected tremendously. After extracting two files with a few lines of code in, I was ready to go. The mod, a few megabytes in size, was almost counter-intuitively simple to install. The weapons, vehicles and swarms of Rico’s (just cause 2’s protagonist) are a catalyst for chaos and havoc making for a potent concoction of multiplayer hilarity.Īll I could ask myself throughout the weekend was why did just cause 2 not ship with a multiplayer mode? It’s not rocket science. The 220 square kilometre map adds endless possibilities for adventurous hijinks with friends. The sheer size and scope of just cause 2 lends itself to a multiplayer component. The server was in a constant state of lawless terror, but that is what made the erratic experience brilliantly fun. ![]() Every player had a nefarious streak to them, it seemed. Not once did the ominous rattle of gunfire or splatter of impacting rockets subside. ![]() Terrible.There wasn’t a moment of peace from when I entered the server, which accommodates around 2000 players worldwide, to when I left. It’ll be load - main menu - continue game - crash. Worst of all, the game crashes 50% of the time when it finishes loading. Driving is completely broken, as it feels just wrong and the turning is all off, so we struggled to drive any car. There are bugs all over the place, from helicopters flying into mountains to Rico getting stuck in potentially anything. The graphics go from amazing to truly terrible - hair and grass effects are glitchy, pop-in is ridiculous, and water effects (especially compared to Just Cause 3) are astonishingly bland. Our system is an AMD FX-8300 Six-Core Processor, 16 Gb RAM, Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4Gb, and Windows 10 64-Bit, and we ran Just Cause 4 fine at its highest specs… but not without issues. Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (6GB VRAM or better) | AMD Vega 56 (6GB VRAM or better).Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz | AMD Ry 3.2 GHz or equivalent.Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2GB VRAM or better) | AMD R9 270 (2GB VRAM or better). ![]() Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 3.1 GHz | AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz or better.OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only). ![]() It’s actually rather dull, especially when it comes to mindless destruction. We enjoyed ourselves a lot playing it, but it was all met with a tinge of frustration too - and not just because the island is pretty empty for the most part. Not even GTA5 can match the intensity and frequency of Just Cause’s action, and once you play with the grapple and wingsuit you’ll want them in every game - but they’re only in this game. Zipping around, everything exploding around you, diving into a warzone, commandeering an attack helicopter or a tank and raining down death - there is honestly nothing quite like it, nor as truly freeing, in gaming. We admit, we’re being decidedly harsh on Just Cause 4. Some things are outright better in the last game - the de-emphasis on causing Chaos, and the total lack of C4 or any explosives but RPGs, to name two. But we can’t help but think that not only could JC4 be more ridiculous and extreme - all its best ideas were done in Just Cause 2, and just as well in Just Cause 3. The feel of the wingsuit-parachute-grapple, hooking soldiers so they fly off into the distance, swinging by in an attack helicopter and strafing explosive canisters - it can be a real stress-reliever, even just as a shooter. It’s a real shame, because there’s so much Just Cause 4 gets right. Then we start to think of ways we could have more fun but we can’t - maybe the armed response doesn’t have to be so long-range and extreme? Maybe there are more things to actually destroy? Maybe we could carry more than two weapons so we don’t have to drop the Wind Gun? Every time we think we’re having fun, something happens to snatch it away - like a team of pinpoint-accurate snipers shooting out of the air from miles away, or your vehicle suddenly exploding without explanation, or your car flying off a bridge because the physics and driving are off. There is something really off about Just Cause 4. ![]()
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