Avalanche Studios has just released the first post-launch patch for Just Cause 4. According to the release notes, this patch brings improvements and fixes to menu navigation for mouse and keyboard users, numerous stability fixes, and adds support for remapping of movement keys.
Moreover, this first update improves vegetation rendering and asset updates, packs fixes to some texture mapping issues, increases mouse sensitivity range and corrects specialised vehicle support for mouse and keyboard players.
Since Avalanche has released this first patch, we’ll benchmark this game later this weekend and we’ll post our PC Performance Analysis, so stay tuned for more.
As always, Steam will download this patch the next time you launch its client and you can find its complete changelog below.
Just Cause 4 December 15th Patch Release Notes
- Numerous stability fixes
- Improvements and fixes to menu navigation for mouse and keyboard users
- Support for remapping of movement keys
- Improved vegetation rendering and asset updates
- Fixes to some texture mapping issues
- Increased mouse sensitivity range
- Corrected specialised vehicle support for mouse and keyboard players
- Fixed issue with steering flying vehicles with keyboard
- Fixed the disabling SSAO option in Graphics menu, which resulted in broken Ambient Occlusion
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>improves vegetation rendering
I was holding out on getting this game, but this finally sold me.
does it fix the water?
Oh god the water!, even JC2 had better water.
ps1 water effect
It definitely doesn’t fix texture streaming. Every other texture looks as blurry as before the patch.
Do you know what texture streaming is? It is loading textures into memory. So it could be fixed and the textures being streamed in are just low res.
Which shouldn’t be happening either.
True
I don’t understand how it can take developers only 2 or three days to make a patch that fixes most of the running issues and yet they still can’t find time to integrate those changes before release.
Do they not play their own game once or twice before release??? You think that devs would be able to recognize the same issues that all of the consumers seem to.
They are constantly under pressure to finish game and that it starts making money. Also, it must be ready at precalculated release date so it would make max money at launch. After that money starts to drop, and they can do work much more relaxed
I think it’s all about money. A Publisher sets a release window and starts the marketing campaign for that time and the game has to be released when the hype is the highest to maximize sales whether it’s ready for release or not.
Today’s gamers have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they will buy a game no matter if it’s filled with bugs and sometimes completely broken as long as it’s marketed in a cool way. They have little self-control.
This isn’t how this stuff works. Games are finished several weeks before release. They’ve probably been working on these patches 5-6 weeks, not 2 or 3 days.
Exactly.
kristoferstoll more
Just Cause 2 NVIDIA CUDA water 8 years ahead of it’s time and better than JC4.
Wait a month or 2 until they fix everything
Than pirate it
What a broken mess this game is. STEAM reviews are highly negative, as lots of gamers are complaining of crashes, bugs, glitches, and outdated “graphics”, among other factors…
The graphics really are horrible, let alone the water. Heck, even Just Cause 2 looks far better than this game. Seriously, what were the developers thinking at the time of development ?
Did they even test the game thoroughly…It’s a damn shame !
Haha, Just Cause 4: CPY Edition
A lot of people do this. They buy a game on release or even pre-order and they get a game to play filled with bugs and sometimes broken. They scour the internet for fixes and work-arounds and struggle through the game sometimes or put it aside until the Developer fixes the issues. imo the average gamer seems to lack self-control.
It looks like you have a good sense of the gaming industry as it stands now and how to avoid the pitfalls.
I have an arrangement with Publishers. They agree to release an unfinished game for $60 and I agree to wait until the game is patched and polished and wait a while longer and pay $15 or $20 on a really good Steam sale. We are all happy with this arrangement. This way I get the best gaming experience from the game and I pay a fraction of the cost.