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Just Cause 2 |OT| of No Thread Name Can Do This Game Justice
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Dr Zhivago
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Hmm, I'm almost enjoying this but it seems to suffer from the same problem as Red Faction - the enemies end up getting in the way of the fun. I've been playing for a while and the enemies have 'levelled up' and now their numbers, accuracy and psychic knowledge of where you are at all times are really spoiling things for me. Unlike RF you can't lower the difficulty mid-game either.
:S
:S
Sanic
Member
Despite what I said before, I am starting to find the enemies to be somewhat annoying on experienced. They've 'leveled up' as i've played through the game, and now i'm essentially skipping any area where i'll need to blow up a lot of stuff, because it becomes too time consuming. I'm killed or nearly killed everytime I need to stop to destroy something, and if i'm more careless with it and move/fly around while blowing things up, I just waste ammo and have to leave to call the black market dealer, wasting time anyway.
If i'm trying to destroy an area, I don't really want to have to fly away from heat, only to come back and have to fly away again after I blow up one more thing.
If i'm trying to destroy an area, I don't really want to have to fly away from heat, only to come back and have to fly away again after I blow up one more thing.
bathala said:
I haven't done too many missions so far but my favorite so far was the one were you have to climb the TV station skyscraper to blow up their shit. Throwing dudes off the side and jumping off the top while detonating it was amazing. It was really fun, I think any mission that involves climbing a skyscraper is gonna be good.
Bought it on steam. Man, this game is like 007 meets Commando. So damn good.
The graphics are really, really good. Lots of colour, nice lighting and of course the draw distance. The music suits it perfectly too. I hated the first game but this is already just tons of fun and I've only just done the intro missions.
The graphics are really, really good. Lots of colour, nice lighting and of course the draw distance. The music suits it perfectly too. I hated the first game but this is already just tons of fun and I've only just done the intro missions.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Is the demo representative of the final game?
Is there any plans to put out a "restart mission" patch?
Thanks!
Is there any plans to put out a "restart mission" patch?
Thanks!
brain_stew
Member
There's a new BETA BOLO patch out:
http://redirectingat.com/?id=629X1198&url=http://m0.to/BOLOPatch/BOLOPatchFullBeta.exe
Lets you disable/freeze your heat level as well as edit it to whatever value you want in real time (120=max=level 5).
Pretty useful if you just want to mess around without endless enemies spawning ruining your fun.
http://redirectingat.com/?id=629X1198&url=http://m0.to/BOLOPatch/BOLOPatchFullBeta.exe
Lets you disable/freeze your heat level as well as edit it to whatever value you want in real time (120=max=level 5).
Pretty useful if you just want to mess around without endless enemies spawning ruining your fun.
Damn game!
This one should have been the "God of War III Weekend".
Kratos is still waiting for me to try it on my PS3.
In the meantime I spent 23 hours (oh shit!) on this awesomeness on X360.
23 hours and 12% complete.
This game could least forever.
Anyway it is fantastic that Avalanche has a so big island and they used it in everyway.
Never felt this freedom before in a game.
Never.
This one should have been the "God of War III Weekend".
Kratos is still waiting for me to try it on my PS3.
In the meantime I spent 23 hours (oh shit!) on this awesomeness on X360.
23 hours and 12% complete.
This game could least forever.
Anyway it is fantastic that Avalanche has a so big island and they used it in everyway.
Never felt this freedom before in a game.
Never.
What level of difficulty would you all recommend? I picked the game up just now after watching a friend show me what its a bout on the PS3 version,game looks hot.
He had tons of trouble on the 2nd mission,the one where you escort this gambler across the freeway,carjacking rides and defending him along the freeway. From what I saw he could never hold off all the enemies as they would eventually kill him. I'm pretty sure he had it set to either experienced or hardcore difficulty. Then again once I got home I youtubed that stage and saw that you can flip cars with your grappling hook,maybe thats the trick to beating the stage then,my friend always kept trying to gun them all down,never knew that you could flip cars over. The game looks like like mad fun.
So yeah,please recommend me a proper difficulty setting,Gaf.
He had tons of trouble on the 2nd mission,the one where you escort this gambler across the freeway,carjacking rides and defending him along the freeway. From what I saw he could never hold off all the enemies as they would eventually kill him. I'm pretty sure he had it set to either experienced or hardcore difficulty. Then again once I got home I youtubed that stage and saw that you can flip cars with your grappling hook,maybe thats the trick to beating the stage then,my friend always kept trying to gun them all down,never knew that you could flip cars over. The game looks like like mad fun.
So yeah,please recommend me a proper difficulty setting,Gaf.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
I'm playing on Normal as i want to have fun and breathing room to experiment causing chaos and i think the higher difficulties won't allow me to do that easily until i've played more.
I'd say try Normal as Casual might be a bit too empty but i haven't tried that so couldn't say for sure. Anyone here tried Casual and are the higher difficulties no fun until you've got to grips with the game after a playing a few times on easier levels?
I'd say try Normal as Casual might be a bit too empty but i haven't tried that so couldn't say for sure. Anyone here tried Casual and are the higher difficulties no fun until you've got to grips with the game after a playing a few times on easier levels?
I'm pretty happy with Normal. I've died a decent amount of times, yet it's definitely nothing too difficult. "Juuuuuust right" as they say.
I wouldn't play Casual since not only would it probably be too easy, but then you don't even get a trophy/achievement for finishing the story.
I wouldn't play Casual since not only would it probably be too easy, but then you don't even get a trophy/achievement for finishing the story.
This game is way to buggy
Now I can't get 100% in a location (Kampung Cicak Hitam 4447, 30319)
I've tried reloading an old save and then it worked, but I'll have to replay some hours...
I know I haven't missed anything either because it's a very small location and I've checked where all items / destructible things are.
Now I can't get 100% in a location (Kampung Cicak Hitam 4447, 30319)
I've tried reloading an old save and then it worked, but I'll have to replay some hours...
I know I haven't missed anything either because it's a very small location and I've checked where all items / destructible things are.
Ok so I'll go for normal difficulty setting then. Thanks everyone.
Btw-has there been a patch out for this game yet for any of the console versions? I saw some some strange stuff going down last night,like an enemy bullet sponging a whole clip of gun fire directly to his face and nothing happened,oops.:/ This isn't too frequent I hope,just an occasional bug,right?
Need to go and move my 360 closer to my router and see if there is a patch out I guess.
Btw-has there been a patch out for this game yet for any of the console versions? I saw some some strange stuff going down last night,like an enemy bullet sponging a whole clip of gun fire directly to his face and nothing happened,oops.:/ This isn't too frequent I hope,just an occasional bug,right?
Need to go and move my 360 closer to my router and see if there is a patch out I guess.
Sanic
Member
Rat Salad said:
No patches yet, and I don't think the game is that buggy, though it's hard for me to say because i'm 14 hours in and have yet to experience a single glitch. If you read around this thread and elsewhere you'll get a gist of what kind of issues you could run into, the biggest of which is probably where all NPCs and traffic disappear.
Mechanical Snowman
Member
I've had a few problems like this, INCREDIBLY annoying. (may contain minor spoilers, but not storyline spoilersHarteex said:This game is way to buggy
Now I can't get 100% in a location (Kampung Cicak Hitam 4447, 30319)
I've tried reloading an old save and then it worked, but I'll have to replay some hours...
I know I haven't missed anything either because it's a very small location and I've checked where all items / destructible things are.
On the mission for the Reapers where you have to destroy an off shore rig, the damage meter got stuck on 50% even though I had destroyed everything. My theory on why it happened, is because I was firing off the quad rockets and miniguns simultaneously with the G9 Eclipse before I'd even reached the rig. I think the rockets hit and destroyed most of the rig but it hadn't acknowledged it since I wasn't near it yet.
It makes me a bit cautious in destroying important looking bases and stuff, if later on down the line there's a mission involving destroying something I've already destroyed in Free Roam, I might never be able to complete it.
zero margin
Member
Rat Salad said:
I've noticed at times hits don't register if you're too far away sometimes, usually moving a little closer fixes that. Haven't seen anything like that up close though.
On the first level and I'm doing my thing moving along pretty well when out of the blue I heard this....
"He is taking heeeavy demige"
:lol
Ok the tone in which its said in the game sounds exactly like a Arnold parody. Totally.
The first time I heard it I was on my ass laughing so hard. Seriously some of the voice overs in this game out worthy of ultimate cheese.
Fun game and the enemy dialogue voice overs continue to be laugh worthy. Throwing a guard off a building sounds like he's been eaten be a shark more than falling to his death also. Hilarious.
"He is taking heeeavy demige"
:lol
Ok the tone in which its said in the game sounds exactly like a Arnold parody. Totally.
The first time I heard it I was on my ass laughing so hard. Seriously some of the voice overs in this game out worthy of ultimate cheese.
Fun game and the enemy dialogue voice overs continue to be laugh worthy. Throwing a guard off a building sounds like he's been eaten be a shark more than falling to his death also. Hilarious.
EdwardTivrusky said:
I'm two hours in on Normal and i'm thinking about restarting on Casual because im sick of the endless spawn of dudes that take my health down enough so i'm pretty much always flashing red. Had the same problem with Red Faction and I know its much easier to deal with here but it still takes away from the fun.
Anyone here playing on Casual?
Aesius
Member
Darklord said:
I might be crazy but it seems to me that it is very much influenced by where you are on the map. Like, if I'm taking down a big settlement it will stay night the entire time. But if I fly across the map in a jet it will go from day to night and back again very quickly.
disappeared
Banned
Aesius said:
You ain't crazy. That seems to be the case sometimes.
Aesius said:
There's a few specific areas that change the time/weather.
The LOST island will change the weather to thunderstorms, but the time seems unaffected, although it seems like night because it's a heavy storm.
The Mile High Club will change the time to 3:00AM no matter what, I think someone said.
Then, there are missions that "lock" the time at a certain point. I just did a mission where I had to go to a laboratory and it was night time the whole mission - about 10-20 min. The clock showed 10PM the whole time.
I think when you're free roaming though, (aside from those specific locations) the day/night/weather are unaffected.
This is honestly one of the most fun games I have ever played. I'm playing on hardcore to get the platinum trophy so it can get a bit frustrating with swarms of perfectly accurate enemies (I was actually sniped out of a moving helicopter), but as long as you have an attack strategy, it's doable. My favorite strategy is to use the level 6 black market attack chopper to destroy every piece of government property in a few different settlements. Then I wait for the heat to cool down and collect the various resources settlement by settlement. That way the heat stays at a low level while you're actually in the town or military base.
Quick question, Where is the third faction located? I've done a bunch of Reaper and Ullar Boys faction missions, but haven't come across the third gang at all.
Quick question, Where is the third faction located? I've done a bunch of Reaper and Ullar Boys faction missions, but haven't come across the third gang at all.
Cat in the Hat
Member
The most beautiful game I have ever played.
Cat in the Hat
Member
Yep wireless works fine here, I'm sure wired is great as well.szaromir said:
Ok here are some vids of interesting glitches.
Random Plane Crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxp23tTNg8
(watch the right side of the screen as I get close to the building)
Helicopter spawning in mid air over cliff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8G6Nhl0S4c
Random Plane Crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxp23tTNg8
(watch the right side of the screen as I get close to the building)
Helicopter spawning in mid air over cliff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8G6Nhl0S4c