Just Cause 4 caught its touchdown about as elegantly as a Victorian flying machine produced from long-johns, strawberry shoelaces and seagull wings – right here’s John howling about its quite a few misfires in our Just Cause 4 review – however builders Avalanche aren’t giving up on it but. Steam opinions presently common out to the dreaded Mostly Negative, with the overwhelming majority of thumbs-downery prompted by the presence of extra bugs than the household film field workplace in 1998.*
Undeterred (effectively, most likely quite a bit deterred, let’s be sincere), Avalanche lately pushed out the primary large JC4 patch, which makes an attempt to wrestle essentially the most overt boo-boos to the bottom – together with fixing texture pop-in, making keys remappable and menus much less depressing, and general ‘stability fixes’. They additionally promise that that is “just the start of the work we are carrying out,” with extra patches deliberate subsequent 12 months. They’re additionally “very sorry to hear” that so many individuals have had a rubbo time with JC4, if that helps any.
The patch went stay at the beginning of the weekend, however, on Steam at least, the reception has not been precisely rapturous. There’s a certain quantity of vengeful finger-wagging in there, certain, however quite a few studies of crashes and weirdo glitches abound, plus some feedback that distracting micro-stuttering has been launched, suggesting that, yup, a bunch extra must be finished but.
I can’t imagining that fixing up a game that spins as many plates as JC4’s large ol’ sandbox o’silliness does is easy, so we’re most likely going to must train extra persistence regardless that, clearly, the game shouldn’t have been launched on this state. As John’s compendium of JC4 technical embarrassments ably demonstrates:
The (considerably) specifics of what the patch does are these:
- Numerous stability fixes
- Improvements and fixes to menu navigation for mouse and keyboard customers
- Support for remapping of motion keys
- Improved vegetation rendering and asset updates
- Fixes to some texture mapping points
- Increased mouse sensitivity vary
- Corrected specialised automobile help for mouse and keyboard gamers
- Fixed concern with steering flying automobiles with keyboard
- Fixed the disabling SSAO choice in Graphics menu, which resulted in damaged Ambient Occlusion
Of course, for some folks the frustration is as a lot about options as it’s efficiency and whatnot, so completely satisfied endings aren’t essentially assured right here. Oh, it’s been a little bit of a foolish finish of the 12 months, between this and Fallout 76, hasn’t it?
*Truly, all of us nonetheless bear the scars of the nice A Bug’s Life vs Antz struggle
