Just Cause 3 developer committed to fixing “technical issues”

Since launching yesterday, Just Cause 3 has suffered a number of different performance and technical issues across PS4, Xbox One and PC. However those on PC appear to have been hit the hardest. Avalanche have now spoken and are working on fixing Just Cause 3.

[htogaming]

That is good to hear.

[Derekvinyard13]

I trust avalanche to fix the problems, there pretty good devs when it comes to fixing shit jc2 was fine mad max was good to

[TheCommentator]

Unfortunately, all they seem to be talking about fixing in the article is the PC. The console versions aren't mentioned at all in the article.

Edit:

Jump 2 Gamer, I hear you, but the article talks only about the issues with PC. It even concludes by reiterating the point of PC issues. The only time consoles are mentioned is at the beginning. I can only assume that Avalanche is working to patch all versions from reading the article.

[JumpToGamer]

I would be very surprised if they didn't patch the console versions as well as the PC, considering the consoles are far from perfect anyway.

[-Foxtrot]

Loading screens are the worst.

Even when restarting a challenge.

[JumpToGamer]

How about the time it takes to get to the main menu to actually play? It seems to take forever before it even attempts to sign-in...

[-Foxtrot]

I was playing offline one day as the game needed to update and it actually loaded a little faster. Not much but faster then it was

Kind of reminds me of MGSV, if you had that connected to the internet some of the things took a while to get onto like your iDroid

[Plagasx]

Yea wtf is that crap?? Takes like a good 30 secs to even do anything...horrible.

Also the camera angles when driving on the PC version is terrible.

[GR-kane]

This trend of fixing games after they have launched has grown very tiresome.

[Snookies12]

It blows my mind when developers ship their games with framerate issues and things like that. It's like, did that really slip past them? How the heck can you miss something as noticeable as framerate when it starts dipping? Of course, in most cases I'm sure it's just the publisher breathing down developers necks for release dates.

[Double_O_Revan]

One of a couple reasons why I stopped buying games at launch. It's not worth the hassle or the price. I've been buying games 3-6 months after launch, and by then most of the issues have been resolved and the game is down to $40 or even less.

[SteamPowered]

What a time we live in where Devs push like hell to ship the physical disc on time, then work like hell to patch it in an insane race to the release date.

I remember when games just worked.

[WeAreLegion]

You mean publishers, right?

Things are a LOT more technical than they used to be. It's hard to fix everything. At least we CAN fix issues now. We used to have to put up with bugs for good.

[SteamPowered]

You may be right legion. The pressure would come from the Publishers. I wonder what kind of pull the Devs have in delaying projects.

[WeAreLegion]

I can't imagine they have much, unfortunately. Some publishers are probably more lenient though. Like...how many publishers would have kept pumping money into The Last Guardian? They would have canceled it years ago.

[Kingdomcome247]

@Legion- Not nearly for the same duration as TLG, but I've also appreciated the lenience and time that Remedy has been afforded on their projects.

[TheColbertinator]

@SteamPowered

Recently saw Xenoblade X on WiiU in action and I was genuinely impressed. No slowdown,frame stutters,tearing etc

[SteamPowered]

You got me there. I have never encountered a launch problem on a nintendo game ever. I havent tried Xenoblade myself mind you.

[VJGenova]

Anyone who's seen my posts about Nintendo in the past, knows I'm no fan of anything they've done since Gamecube, but I have to agree their games work well at launch every time. Got to give them that!

[Bathyj]

Its great in theory but we may be viewing that through rose tinted glasses. The reality is games release now and we call them incomplete because they are not perfect, but games before patches were not perfect either. The difference is they never got any better and todays game can be improved.

One of my favourite shooters of all time Perfect Dark 64, a masterpiece beyond doubt. But there were times in that game where the framerate would drop to about 5fps. It was a slideshow. I loved the game anyway but there was no way to improve it beyond the state it released in and they worked on that game forever and they might have been the best devs in the world at the time. But I'd hate to think what it would be like if I didnt have the RAM pack.

I'm not defending buggy games. I believe online gaming has brought more harm than good to gaming and buggy games is one of the reasons. I'm just saying dont think gaming of yesteryear was some sort of utopia because perfect games never have and never will exist. Maybe the problem is partly our unrealistic expectations and seance of entitlement. As one who grew up with Atari Graphics and Commodore64 tape deck load times ( Load"*",8,1 ) perhaps Im a little more greatful than some others for what we have now.

[iceman06]

So, you remember when you would spend 30 min. to load a game from tape and it failed???? Thought I was the only one!!! LOL
What you said is true. There is this level of expectations that comes with the higher level of technology. What people don't keep in mind is that more complex tech comes with more complex problems. Listening to many of these devs speak, most of them DON'T want to or PLAN to release buggy games. However, with pressures from the publishers and money constraints, there's only so much time they have to get the game in as stable a state as possible.
I, also, am not excusing buggy, messy games. But, I also understand that it's better now that they can be patched than to be stuck with a broken game forever. I just wish that the patch wouldn't be so heavily relied on to "fix" games. I can just hear the big-wig, money-men pushing to "GO" button on a game just because..."meh...we'l l just give them a patch in a couple of months. We KNOW they'll buy it anyway!!!"

[InTheZoneAC]

why announce this after the fact when you sold the game?

you already knew about it before it released, why not make a statement then?

or why not fix the "serious" issues first then release the game?

[Bathyj]

So am I the only one thats had nothing but fun with this game? I have not noticed any issues that got in the way of that.

The only thing I would ask is for button mapping. L2 is aim, everyone knows that, not R3. At least give us the option. Button mapping should be as standard on all games as having Y axis invert since everyone has a different idea about it.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

This game is so much fun! I love how "video Game" it feels if that makes sense lol

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

This game is so fun so far, sure it's repetitive but much less than JC2 and after all this is an Actual have fun video game and I love it! Hopefully they can get the performance up, but so far on X1 and my room mates PS4 it runs great, just a little long loading times on each platform.

[2pacalypsenow]

Should have been committed before release

[WizzroSupreme]

If it's anything like MGS Online's disconnects, I feel you, folks.

[PygmelionHunter]

Avalanche Studios to its fans: "Thanks for beta testing the game for us, suckers!"

[Tzuno]

You know something he can climb Everest and scream out lout that it will fix the game because i am not believing anymore, a ton of unoptimized games are released and people still buy them, wtf??? is the testing abandoned these days?

[Deeeeznuuuts]

Far too many games getting released in a broken state. I've not actually played just cause 3 yet but all I keep hearing is that it has quite a few bugs, seems to be a new fad to have a day 1 patch with every new release -_-

[DafunkyRebel]

should have delayed till January since there are plenty of games to play already plus they needed that extra time to fix up the game some more

[llMurcielagoll]

For me specifically, the game runs fine on my PC except one persistant issue being weird flickering in the game's visuals that occur pretty frequently.

Haven't encountered any game breaking bugs so far, didn't play that much to begin with. But if it ever happens I'll end up Lmao-ing cuz its Just Cause xD

[NJF]

i will hold off on buying Just Cause 3, it's a good thing i didn't buy it at launch. I just bought Prison Architect, Red Faction collection, door kickers, Arma 2, etc. during the sales. so i can wait for a while for Just Cause 3, hopefully then just cause 3 won't have the same issues.

[StanleyRoper]

JC2 was my favorite game last gen. Was super-looking forward to this one. But the brutal load times, iffy at best frame rate, and nonsense that occurs with having to stay online all the time...F*** it. Going to return my copy. A decision made easier by the fact that games cost $80 with tax in Canada now. A year ago, this would have been $60.

[Audiggity]

I'm at a total loss... I'm pretty sensitive to bugs, maybe I'm just impossibly lucky but I have almost seen no issues with the game!

It's running at a non-stop, smooth as butter 60 fps, never saw a disconnection occur and don't even notice load times.

I'm running it on PC.

What did I do wrong/right? Haha. About 8 hours into it, not a single bug/hiccup and I've blown a lot of $hit up!!

[ThePresentIsAgift]

Another severely broken game launch, *sigh* these are becoming far too regular. Its a joke to be honest, insulting really, the quick buck and f%&k the fans too while were at it, oh and you'd like some extortionate DLC too?