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Just Cause 4 |OT| Everywhere You Go, Always Take the Weather with You
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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A+ OT title. Still on the fence about this one though. Looking forward to everyone's impressions
Attaching the boosters to cars is now my favorite thing.
I'm having fun with the game, but I have simple tastes. Things explode, and the different grapple mods are fun to play with it. I'm happy.
I'm having fun with the game, but I have simple tastes. Things explode, and the different grapple mods are fun to play with it. I'm happy.
Clearly you've never played Elex, where waterfalls look like cascading potato chips.
Yeah the water is just bad. It was great in JC3 but this is just... I have no idea what they did. Maybe to keep the performance up?
I actually have. but i dont remember them being this bad. im sure the water had ...some tesselation. water in this might as well be textured reflective glass.
I honestly think they just found a safe break off point and didnt bother to upgrade beyond that . The water is equally shit on pc.
Btw has anyone done the first ancient relic mission with hdr on?
First it starts on a tree that has worse textures than deku tree from ocarina , then you fly to a giant rock that compliments said tree. then you jump into a ditch and the game''s color balance goes haywire.
banded grays and blues everywhere and you cant see shit in the room with the relic.
same with diving in a local channel in the middle of the night
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Got this on my XB1X.
Cut scenes are a sub-HD, pixelated, stuttery mess which I hope that SE fix soon.
Game play is OKish, it's at least 1080p on the X but could be slightly higher. Aliasing could be better, but so far the frame rate has been fine. There are some below par textures here and there, pop in is fairly noticeable as well.
But, it's still the same Just Cause, explosions look fantastic and there is sooo much fun to be had with the different weapons/vehicles/grapple upgrades. Will definitely finish the missions, and have fun along the way. :)
Cut scenes are a sub-HD, pixelated, stuttery mess which I hope that SE fix soon.
Game play is OKish, it's at least 1080p on the X but could be slightly higher. Aliasing could be better, but so far the frame rate has been fine. There are some below par textures here and there, pop in is fairly noticeable as well.
But, it's still the same Just Cause, explosions look fantastic and there is sooo much fun to be had with the different weapons/vehicles/grapple upgrades. Will definitely finish the missions, and have fun along the way. :)
I'm disappointed to hear about the cutscenes and other bugs, but think I will still enjoy it, so long as it's not as devoid of fun and repetitive as Just Cause 3 was. That game was a mess.
I'm still waiting for it to install, and have been waiting all day. Hoping to play it before I go to sleep, but may not get to.
Are you still having to cause a lot of chaos to unlock missions? Or has that been changed? (I didn't play much of Just Cause 3 because I didn't like it much at all, and don't remember if they changed the progression system in it, from 2).
I'm still waiting for it to install, and have been waiting all day. Hoping to play it before I go to sleep, but may not get to.
Are you still having to cause a lot of chaos to unlock missions? Or has that been changed? (I didn't play much of Just Cause 3 because I didn't like it much at all, and don't remember if they changed the progression system in it, from 2).
Yep.
I'd love to know the resolution on the 1X. It doesn't look higher than 1080p? I could be wrong though.
After the first 2 hours I'm pretty dissapointed with JC4.
I'm playing in 1440p with ultra settings and so far I haven't seen anything that looks better than JC3. A lot of things look worse even. The cutscenes are a horrible low quality mess.
The water looks flat and muddy. Some particle effects are very blurry. The sparks in the first mission for example.
Shooting boxes makes them just disappear whereas in JC3 they exploded into tons of particles.
The unlock system seems overly complicated.
And I still haven't figured out how to change weapons.
I hope the game improves because so far I think JC3 was a lot better
I'm playing in 1440p with ultra settings and so far I haven't seen anything that looks better than JC3. A lot of things look worse even. The cutscenes are a horrible low quality mess.
The water looks flat and muddy. Some particle effects are very blurry. The sparks in the first mission for example.
Shooting boxes makes them just disappear whereas in JC3 they exploded into tons of particles.
The unlock system seems overly complicated.
And I still haven't figured out how to change weapons.
I hope the game improves because so far I think JC3 was a lot better
Its a lot more 2 than 3 but rnow i wont recommend it especially if you dont have an 1x or a pc. the visuals are a mess.
It's a tough one, as one person may have a different threshold for technical issues than another.
For JC3, it was a mess, and that is coming from someone who can usually over look some issues, but it was barely playable at times, and it got worse after the patch.
As for JC4, from the footage I've seen, at least on console, it looks very poor, but performs better, I guess YMMV depending on how much you enjoy to loop of a JC game, and how much you can overlook some iffy visuals.
Personally, I am pleased they made it perform better, but I would wait and see if they make it look better with patch(es)
Played the first mission last night on my X and the HDR looks horrible out of the gate. The actual tools to calibrate the HDR aren't that helpful either. Turned HDR off and immediately the game looked better. Playing on a XE90.
Anyone had better luck with their hdr calibration?
Anyone had better luck with their hdr calibration?
Becasue the deluxe and gold versions give you early access. Normal 60€ edition plebs are supposed to wait longer.
ks8000
turned gamma to 0
turned brightness to 25
and max brightness to 15.
but im only sticking to it because youll soon realize the gamma levels are fucked even without hdr. just go somewhere dark and see for yourself.
I don't plan on playing the game, I just have to say I appreciate the OT title as a big Crowded House fan.
Echoing the terrible looking cutscenes on XB1X. It genuinely looks like 360/PS3 era Bink video files. And boy there are a lot of cutscenes at the start of the game...
Framerate is solid, at least, but you can tell how they got it under control because this game is not a looker :P
Framerate is solid, at least, but you can tell how they got it under control because this game is not a looker :P
The game is super fun to play, but yeah I'm having a hard time recommending this to anyone, because of the technical mess it is.
If you can overlook the flaws and if you like the toy-box approach this is a game for you.
I'm having such a blast with stuff like flying a big patrol ship up to a mountain with ballons and boosters and "snowboarding" it down again or attaching boosters to cows.
Driving for the first time in this series is legit fun. You can drive at Burnout-speed and drifting really works now. Your eyes will bleed from all the blur tho ( same as with Burnout).
Can the Wingsuit-Booster be unlocked during the story missions? I have the deluxe edition just because that wasn't clear, so I got the Blackhand Wingsuit after a few story missions ...if not, I already hate myself for supporting this shady practice, because the boosters are not some minor thing, they add another huge layer to the awesome traversal. It's basically Iron Man.
I'm playing on the pro: Performance is stable, haven't noticed framerate dips, had one crash in my 8 hours playtime but the graphics are last gen at times...not kidding. No AA, motion blur, low textures = worst IQ I've seen this gen. I feel Avalanche tried to play it as safe as possible regarding performance and will now start optimizing the game, LOL!
The funny thing is that this series could achieve more if Avalanche just cuts the fat - the story and characters are so bad that they should just leave them out. Rico is bland as fuck - either give us a char-editor or make him more like 90s Banderas/ 80s action hero.
If you can overlook the flaws and if you like the toy-box approach this is a game for you.
I'm having such a blast with stuff like flying a big patrol ship up to a mountain with ballons and boosters and "snowboarding" it down again or attaching boosters to cows.
Driving for the first time in this series is legit fun. You can drive at Burnout-speed and drifting really works now. Your eyes will bleed from all the blur tho ( same as with Burnout).
Can the Wingsuit-Booster be unlocked during the story missions? I have the deluxe edition just because that wasn't clear, so I got the Blackhand Wingsuit after a few story missions ...if not, I already hate myself for supporting this shady practice, because the boosters are not some minor thing, they add another huge layer to the awesome traversal. It's basically Iron Man.
I'm playing on the pro: Performance is stable, haven't noticed framerate dips, had one crash in my 8 hours playtime but the graphics are last gen at times...not kidding. No AA, motion blur, low textures = worst IQ I've seen this gen. I feel Avalanche tried to play it as safe as possible regarding performance and will now start optimizing the game, LOL!
The funny thing is that this series could achieve more if Avalanche just cuts the fat - the story and characters are so bad that they should just leave them out. Rico is bland as fuck - either give us a char-editor or make him more like 90s Banderas/ 80s action hero.
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Looks kinda bad on the Xbox One X. Terribly jaggy, looks really low res. The cutscenes look AWFUL. Like really low bit rate. Hate to think how this looks on the base consoles.
Frame rate seems ok so far. But a big compromise. Too early to judge the actual gameplay.
Frame rate seems ok so far. But a big compromise. Too early to judge the actual gameplay.
You need to unlock mods to be able to adjust them. The default boosters only work properly on heavy gear - they are too strong for smaller objects like cars. Most cars have built-in boosters anyways.
There's a gun that shoots C4 charges. All guns have an alt-firing mode, so you won't miss grenades, but I do miss dual wielding pistols and smgs. Who the fuck thought that this is a good idea? Add features, but take other features away...I don't get devs sometimes.
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I'm really unimpressed so far. Poor graphics I can deal with, but the controls seem to have taken a step back from JC3, too. Wingsuiting feels too slow and forgiving, and it feels like there's a cooldown on the grapple now. Things I'm doing through pure muscle memory from 2 and 3 don't work, specifically grappling at something just ahead of me, opening the parachute to get some height, and then immediately grappling back down to the ground again to get over an obstacle. It just doesn't work any more, because the grapple doesn't work right after you open the parachute. Can anyone else confirm this? I don't know if I'm just misremembering, but it really feels like I'm pressing the grapple button often and just having nothing happen.
Mainly it's just disappointing to see that we're still just doing the same old "Take over these territories" gameplay all over again. Another big checklist of cookie cutter tasks to tick off. The movement and destruction mechanics in these games are so strong but they so rarely do anything interesting with them, it's always just destroying things to make a progress bar fill up and making progress bars fill up to change the colour of a map.
Mainly it's just disappointing to see that we're still just doing the same old "Take over these territories" gameplay all over again. Another big checklist of cookie cutter tasks to tick off. The movement and destruction mechanics in these games are so strong but they so rarely do anything interesting with them, it's always just destroying things to make a progress bar fill up and making progress bars fill up to change the colour of a map.