Just Cause 3 Discussion Thread....

[Pifanjr]

I finished the Sea Heist DLC. That boat can go faster than helicopters (about 260kph), shoots missiles in any direction, and has long range machineguns, too. You can (and will be asked to) take on a small navy with that thing!

@Pifanjr, have you messed with the trains much?

The last mission I did involved a train, but that was the first and last time I saw one. I'll keep an eye out for them from now on though.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Apologies for not participating. I'm going through a "not in the mood to game" period. Going to try to force myself out of it. Over the last week, I've played almost nothing but a few rounds of Monster Train 2, and that is exceedingly rare for me.

 

[Zloth]

The DLC is a bit harder than the base game. Like the Sea Heist, the one with the mechs gives you a strong mech to run around in but puts you up against more enemies. Just getting into a mech after starting the game can be a challenge!

Here's 7 or 8 minutes of gameplay:

Spoiler: shows what a mech can do

View: https://youtu.be/IolV2knHkTA

 

[Zed Clampet]

Did some things. Destroyed some things. Did a helicopter challenge. One thing I'm not a huge fan of is the inability to sprint. If I just have a short distance to go, I'm not going to grapple it, and I feel like I'm just lollygagging around.

Got 5 stars in the helicopter thing, which I really enjoyed. It took a couple of tries as I was a bit reckless and took myself out the first time. Wife is going to be gone tomorrow, so I'm planning on getting a lot of play in.

 

[Pifanjr]

One thing I'm not a huge fan of is the inability to sprint. If I just have a short distance to go, I'm not going to grapple it, and I feel like I'm just lollygagging around.

For quite a while I was holding left shift every time I had to walk a short distance in the hopes it would speed me up. Now I do just grapple for anything more than a few steps.

 

[Zloth]

Yep, your grapple is your sprint. Odd things become difficult in JC3. Fences are a terrible pain. Cresting a steep hill can be rough, too.

I got the giant truck last night. I don't think there's really a use for it, but it's a fun challenge to get it to a chop shop. It does NOT handle well and is about as wide as most roads. If some oncoming car gets stuck under the ladder and explodes, it sends the truck flying! (Lucky for me, it did a complete 360.)

There's also a rare boat that's a challenge. You can only find it in mountain lakes up north, so there's no way to simply drive it to a chop shop. I spent a good part of an afternoon getting that the first time I played.

Question: how much are you avoiding hurting civilians? Fellow rebels? Goats on the road??

 

[Frindis]

Clatter back again, had to change keyboard. I might just wait until next game to jump in, still a bit angry the game would not let me rebind some of the keys.

 

[Pifanjr]

I decided to grab a jet and fly it over to the main island to see if it was easier to bomb everything from the sky or if I would just be shot down immediately.

It worked quite well, since the SAMs aren't that good at homing in, but it only takes two hits for the jet to stop working so I didn't get to clear the entire outpost I was attacking. Maybe if I try it again I should focus on taking out the SAMs first, though it seems easier to just highjack a tank.

Question: how much are you avoiding hurting civilians? Fellow rebels? Goats on the road??

I never intentionally target civilians and usually they do a good job of running away once the explosions start, but some have definitely been caught in the crossfires before.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Liberated a city and then goofed around. Did a race that no one else had done. Then I just wandered around stealing cars

Question: how much are you avoiding hurting civilians? Fellow rebels? Goats on the road??

I haven't killed any citizens yet that I'm aware of. The only other game like this that I play is Far Cry, and you usually get penalized in some way for killing people. Now in
Watch Dogs, I may have had a few random citizens executed just because. Those are in cities, so I'm sure I must have plowed through a crowd in my car at least once by accident.

I'm having a terrible time seeing the crosshair, so I'm not expecting any shooting records.

 

[Zloth]

I avoid killing civilians and especially goats as much as I can (poor, innocent critters!), but that's getting less and less often as the ordinance gets larger.

I'm also nearly done. There's only one base left to capture and some of the main story to go through.

 

[Zloth]

DO NOT TALK ON THE PHONE WHILE CROSSING THE STREET!

View: https://youtu.be/DjKzkq1Na4c


I guess they don't like Mario in a Cart

View: https://youtu.be/yZJFBTwlZpg


They don't build them like this... well, ever really

Spoiler: Sky Fortress DLC content

View: https://youtu.be/1BVT6YHbPq0

 

[Pifanjr]

I tried using jets to take out an outpost again. I did a better job of avoiding SAMs this time, they can't really hit me as long as I keep moving. However, hitting small targets or ones that are kind of hidden can be a real pain, so I ended up having to jump out and shoot them on foot anyway.

I got a mission where I had to drive a car down a mountain, but instead of taking the road I just plunged off the cliff and made some absolutely beautiful tumbles, then discovered I hadn't turned on Steam Recording.

I think I'm getting fairly close to the end of the game now. There are probably about a dozen outposts left and I guess a couple of missions.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I regret being so far behind.

I was doing pretty well today, and then things started to go wrong when the ground apparently wasn't smooth enough for my helicopter to land. Somehow I managed to avoid the explosion. Then I saw my mortal enemy, a cow. Unfortunately, Steam didn't record my play today for reasons only Steam knows. Maybe it was because my game wasn't maximized on the screen. I don't feel like trying to describe the cow encounter, so I'll move on.

Speaking of hurting civilians, I tried to destroy a billboard by doing the grapple thing on a person. The billboard got destroyed, but nothing actually hit it. I felt ripped off that I didn't get to see the guy launch through the air and slam into it.

I rode a flying barrel. I grappled to it after grapple launching it, and my guy just stood right on the barrel. It wasn't an exploding barrel.

I was shot at repeatedly. Very rude. And then I had a really long way to go to get to somewhere, and I decided to call it a day.