Mossybrew
Gold Member
I feel the same but I can't really pinpoint why exactly.
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Just Cause 3 |OT| Procedural Chaos
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I feel the same but I can't really pinpoint why exactly.
Same here. This and Destiny are two games that I definitely didn't get enough enjoyment from to pay full price. I sort of want to play it more but really not feeling the challenges at all and I don't want to grind for upgrades.
It's a shame, too, since the good stuff is REALLY good. The wingsuit is awesome, the weapons feel great, and the explosions are the best I've ever seen. It's just too bad that that's all there is.
Goose_Se7en
Banned
I'm patiently waiting. Once this game drops to $39 or lower on Amazon I'll jump all over it like white on rice.
I've seen plenty of gameplay vids and as someone who owned and put hours into JC2, I'm jazzed to play this. Not at full price tho.
Neuromancer
Member
I played at launch, and I'm playing now, and honestly I'm not perceiving much of a difference. PS4.
Some of the military bases later on get pretty hairy. The boats, especially, seem to wreck me (or blow something up near me) on a semi-regular basis.
The explosions and destruction are SO great and so much fun, but this game gets super, super repetitive. Having to find/summon a plane or helicopter or whatever to fly to some oil rig out in the middle of nowhere isn't really fun.
I've been OCD'ing and getting all the collectibles and clearing out every settlement, but I might just start racing through the story.
I don't really like the driving in this but I didn't care much for it in JC2 either. I basically only drive 100 feet to bail to ram my car into something or jump off a cliff.
To be fair, the game is like Saints Row in that there's zero practical reason to be in a car anyway,.since it's faster to just use the grapple/wingsuit to fly,
The community management for this game has to be one of the poorest I've seen yet. We get one message at the start of January about a patch that's probably going to be released this month. After that, a random patch with japanese audio gets released and the patch notes are published a day after the patch goes live. Still no word about if they are still working on a patch, what their expected delivery date is.
On the official twitter account, someone asks if they are working on optimisations for the ps4 frame rate. 'No', the account replies.
So what are they doing with their time? No transparancy for customers and very very little information about a solution.
On the official twitter account, someone asks if they are working on optimisations for the ps4 frame rate. 'No', the account replies.
So what are they doing with their time? No transparancy for customers and very very little information about a solution.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Finished this about two weeks ago. Sure, it gets repetitive towards the end just like JC2 did, and good lord did I hate taking out those surveillance systems in the villages, but I still had a blast with the game. Can't wait for those expansion packs.
So they're not working to improve the framerate on PS4? I stopped playing shortly after reaching the biggest island because just gliding over bases and towns - no shooting or explosions - choked the framerate into the low teens. Just awful.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Oh?
Well then, that's what I get for buying digital and preordering one my most hyped games of last year. I adored JC2 this one just fell kinda flat on it's face. There are some cool additions but in the end when your game slideshows doing the very thing the game is meant to do, blowing things up, then yeah.....you failed to give people what they want.
If they even make another JC game I will be very cautious, and without a doubt not preorder it.
That's the thing: on one hand, they say they're working on optimisations (on the steam group pages) and on the other the twitter account says they are not working to boost the framerate on ps4. What are we supposed to believe? Why can't they at least be upfront about the roadmap to the next patch and what fixes it will include?
Traded in Arkham Knight for this and after one evening I already had more fun than in 2 weeks of Arkham Knight.
Guess I like the freedom more, and the explosions!
Anyway the comments about framedrops and loading times were not exaggerated, really cant understand how Avalanche has not said anything about it yet. (PS4 version)
Hope something is done about it, but on the other hand it did not influence the fun I had playing the game a lot.
Oh and markers for all the stuff that needs to be destroyed in towns would have been nice, spend half an hour looking for a billboard
Guess I like the freedom more, and the explosions!
Anyway the comments about framedrops and loading times were not exaggerated, really cant understand how Avalanche has not said anything about it yet. (PS4 version)
Hope something is done about it, but on the other hand it did not influence the fun I had playing the game a lot.
Oh and markers for all the stuff that needs to be destroyed in towns would have been nice, spend half an hour looking for a billboard
RumblingRosco
Member
Traded in Arkham Knight for this and after one evening I already had more fun than in 2 weeks of Arkham Knight.
Guess I like the freedom more, and the explosions!
Anyway the comments about framedrops and loading times were not exaggerated, really cant understand how Avalanche has not said anything about it yet. (PS4 version)
Hope something is done about it, but on the other hand it did not influence the fun I had playing the game a lot.
Oh and markers for all the stuff that needs to be destroyed in towns would have been nice, spend half an hour looking for a billboard
Check the map in the pause menu. As you blow up the first few things in a town/province you'll start seeing the remaining targets appear on the map. So if you just have a single billboard left, it'll definitely show up on the map.
Oh really. Well it's a shame I got it, but at least I got it pre-owned. I've been waiting for a performance patch to play it but I guess I might as well trade it in for what it's worth.
Welp, Avalanche is on my shit list.
Really? I could not find any marker on the map but I guess I overlooked it then.
Will have another look when I play again, thanks!
RumblingRosco
Member
Will do!
Same here. Game still crashes on my PC.
Can't wait to play it when they finally fix the issues or I buy a new GPU. Until then its just sitting on my hard drive
Borrowed the game from a friend yesterday, returned it today after playing for about 2 hours.
I simply had no will to carry on further, it bored me to death.
It's probably me, 5 years ago I would have enjoyed some mindless destructive fun, like I die witb Saints Row 3 for example. And I thought that this will bring me some entertainment after the Witness' brainteasers.
But I cannot avoid the feeling that this is "Checklist - The Game". Go there, here's a list of stuff to destroy, good job, here's the next list, or just go play a minigame to win a medal and upgrade your crap so that you can check the next list more efficiently.
And I cannot find enjoyment in that. Not anymore.
I simply had no will to carry on further, it bored me to death.
It's probably me, 5 years ago I would have enjoyed some mindless destructive fun, like I die witb Saints Row 3 for example. And I thought that this will bring me some entertainment after the Witness' brainteasers.
But I cannot avoid the feeling that this is "Checklist - The Game". Go there, here's a list of stuff to destroy, good job, here's the next list, or just go play a minigame to win a medal and upgrade your crap so that you can check the next list more efficiently.
And I cannot find enjoyment in that. Not anymore.
They'll probably continue to focus all effort on the DLC. At least from what I last heard it seems that they are geared towards the DLC and not looking to make too many changes to the base game if at all.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I would love to have my broken game save fixed. It still won't load. I don't want to start all over again.
Sithlord77
Banned
Is there going to be a loading patch on ps4? I've held off playing this game because it took literally 3 min after the game boots up to even get into the game. And I don't stay with one game I switch between 2-3 games a day so I couldn't just put it in standby either.
There's no "H" button on the controller, but he should still be able to filter on the map. By that point, if there's only a billboard or two, that shouldn't be necessary since the targets are pretty obvious on the map.
RumblingRosco
Member
Ah sorry, I'm thinking PC controls.
S'all goot, same idea though.
I have definitely felt a difference in situational awareness (not to mention fun-factor) in JC3 vs JC2.Blitzrules240
Banned
Waiting for story DLC over here.
dfa records
Member
Is the performance on PS4 improved at all? It's on sale this week and I was thinking of grabbing it, just curious if anything has been patched to improve the issue.
No, and no recent updates from the devs, either. I stopped playing the game when I got to the largest island, where the framerate problems go from bad to ridiculous. Just gliding over a town with no shooting or explosions drops the framerate into the low teens. I was hoping for a patch so I could continue, but at this point it's likely I'll never finish.
TVexperto
Member
Wow that sucks :-( I was thinking about buying it as well now since its been over 2 months since release and I was waiting for them to fix the fps drops but I guess I wont be buying it after all now.
SJRB
Gold Member
I wouldn't expect anything, really. It seems this game is dead in the water.
I'm in the same boat, except I actually bought it, haha. Been waiting since around Christmas to play it but I'm hoping for a patch that will fix the issues before I finally jump into it.
Based on some stuff on other forums it really seems like the devs are more focused on the DLC than the base game at the moment. I wouldn't expect a patch for a while. Best case scenario is that there is one at the same time as the DLC releasing...which they do not seem to be speaking up on all that much.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Just finished the story last night; while I felt that there were some improvements to the gameplay from 2, it was less fun; they missed the forest for the trees. The missions were less fun and not at all memorable and simply being in the world is less fun. I would launch JC2, get on a bike and drive around Panau and see what happened I probably won't launch JC3 again unless the story DLC looks compelling.
So it look like the DLC will be out in March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sEUrJSWOQg
I've actually already decided not to get it though. Think I'm going to just sell/trade in my copy.
Here is a trailer for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sEUrJSWOQg
I've actually already decided not to get it though. Think I'm going to just sell/trade in my copy.
JehutyRunner
Banned
Hello.
So I just done the mission in which I had to escort Rosa's return to Medici. How far off am I from the end of the SP at least?
Ta.
So I just done the mission in which I had to escort Rosa's return to Medici. How far off am I from the end of the SP at least?
Ta.
I wanna say about 2/3rds through the game
Yeah, I think I may be done with it. I'd play so much in 2, just flying around, driving around, and doing whatever. I think removing all the caches was a horrible idea. It gave a good reason to explore naturally, as everything was tied to them. Plus, all the small villages could just have like 1 or 3 of them and a propoganda speaker and that's it. Now, nothing like that. The world is just not alive.
If 4 ever comes out, I may get that.
If 4 ever comes out, I may get that.
VanCityGamer
Member
You can look it up in the Stats menu. It shows you exactly how many missions you have left.
RumblingRosco
Member
Maybe this is a good place to ask this question. If I want to uninstall JC3 from my PC/Steam, will I lose the saved data? I'm not sure where the save data files are kept and I'm pretty sure JC3 isn't Steam Cloud-enabled, so I want to make sure I backup the files before I uninstall. Any advice is appreciated.
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Just_Cause_3
Looks like there's no cloud saving, link above has the save file location.
There's also a thread on the offcial Steam community forum. Just search for 'cloud saves'.
RumblingRosco
Member
Thanks. Never knew that Wiki existed. Really useful. Also, I backed up my save data but as it turned out uninstalling JC3 via Steam left the save files intact anyway.
PodcastFips
Member
I'm about to rent the game for a week for 9 on PS4. They supposedly still haven't fixed the performance though, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea...
N° 2048
Member
Heard they didn't, traded in my sealed copy yesterday.
Screw developers that work on DLC while ignoring massive performance issues on the base game.
I think it's worth a rent. There's still fun to be had - wing suit is amazing once it clicks, grapple is still fun, and the explosions look great.
Performance issues are definitely there in the early areas, but I didn't find them game-ruining until the largest island.
Nice gameplay of the Sky Fortress DLC from the outsidexbox channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWHgrUxR8k
I'm really, really hoping they improve the performance, the game is great, but with the performance the way it is I'm regretting having bought the season pass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWHgrUxR8k
I'm really, really hoping they improve the performance, the game is great, but with the performance the way it is I'm regretting having bought the season pass.