5 absurd things from the Just Cause 4 E3 demo
I’ve got plenty of questions about Just Cause 4—most of them relating to the mission structure, and whether it can improve on the sheer, grinding repetition of the previous game. Despite that, I’ve no qualms about this sequel’s ability to offer a selection of ridiculous ways to blow a bunch of stuff up. The Just Cause series never fails to deliver when it comes to wildly destructive toys. Based on the hands-off demo I was shown at E3, Just Cause 4 will be more absurd than ever.
Boosters are better and more numerous
Rico’s grappling hook is, once again, the primary source for shenanigans, and here it’s had an upgrade. Your hook can be customised with a variety of effects. One effect, Pulse, causes an explosion when two tethered objects collide, propelling them back outwards, which… OK. I guess that could be useful in certain situations.
Another grapple mod lets you attach boosters to objects. Rocket boosters were introduced as a C4 upgrade in Just Cause 3, but as a grappling hook modification it’s far easier to attach loads of them to a physics object. In the demo, I see them liberally placed on a crane and its attached shipping container. When activated, the boosters turn the crane into a wrecking ball, spinning around, smashing things up.
You can attach balloons to anything
If boosters aren’t your thing, how about balloons? Another grapple mod adds Airlifts—large flotation devices that attach to objects to raise them into the air. You can then pop the balloons with a button press, causing everything you’ve raised to come slamming into the ground. Again: it sounds of limited use except in the most contrived situations, but Airlift can be further customised so that the balloons follow Rico around. That means you can Airlift explosives and other useful objects, and escort them towards a group of enemies.
Grappling hook mods can be combined, too. Avalanche attaches an absurd number of boosters to a shipping container, and then stands on it and activates the booster. The whole thing spins violently in the air, and Rico falls off.
The point is you can do it: it doesn’t need to make sense.
It’s easy to create makeshift missiles
Once again, Rico is leading a rebellion against a tyrannical force. It’s his thing. In Just Cause 4, that rebellion is shown as an ongoing war that plays out across the map. As you progress through the game, a frontline will emerge as rebellion soldiers battle the military. The more you do, the further the rebellion will push the frontline back across the map.
It’s a neat way to show your progress, and also gives you a chaotic space in which to mess around. In the demo, Avalanche used this war to show off the more advanced physical properties of Chaos objects—the red and white coloured structures you need to destroy to lessen the military’s foothold. Airlift balloons were attached to a fuel tank, which was then shot, causing a single jet of fire to come spurting out. It became a makeshift missile, shooting off into some nearby soldiers.
There’s a massive tornado
If you’ve seen any of Just Cause 4’s trailers, you won’t have failed to notice the massive tornado ripping up everything in its path.
This is one of many extreme weather effects found in the game—Avalanche is pretty psyched about the level of physics simulation enabled by Just Cause 4’s proprietary Apex engine.
It definitely looks impressive. Rico has to fight against the pull of the tornado when hang gliding near it. If you shoot a rocket towards it, it will get caught by the current and spiral up into the abyss. Very little escapes the tornado’s destructive force, and it’s impressive to see so many physics objects flung up into the air as it passes by.
You can control where the tornado goes
In the mission I’m shown, Rico’s enemies, the Black Hand, have deployed a number of wind cannons, designed to direct the tornado away from their base. Naturally, then, he decides to destroy the wind cannons, redirecting the twister back towards his foe. This is a pretty standard Just Cause mission, in which you go to an enemy base and blow a bunch of things up.
More exciting though, is the suggestion that Rico himself will at some point be able to deploy his own wind cannons, letting the player use the tornado for their own elaborate schemes.
The demo ends with the Black Hand base thoroughly destroyed—first by Rico and then by violent winds. As the demo fades to black, it’s revealed that the tornado is now headed directly for a nearby city. Now that’s a level of wanton destruction I can’t wait to see.
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Just Cause 4 Preview — Five Takeaways From Our Deliriously Fun Demo
The Just Cause series has never been known for subtlety, but it’s tossing all restraint through the window for its fourth entry. We were wowed by Just Cause 4’s E3 showing, and that enthusiasm has only grown after playing a portion of that E3 demo at Gamescom. Here are five of our biggest takeaways.
1. Getting around is more intuitive than ever
Rico gets around, thanks in part to his skills with a wingsuit, parachute, and wrist-mounted grappling hook. After getting some practice in Just Cause 3, players were able to string together these three abilities seamlessly, propelling Rico along at an impressive clip. It’s been a while since I played that game, but getting back in the groove in Just Cause 4 took all of two minutes. Shifting from chute to wingsuit, then back again feels really, really good. During the demo, I kept hearing about how there were new vehicles with fun little gimmicks, such as a truck with a ramp-shaped attachment that you could stunt off.
Sorry. Once I mastered traversal in Just Cause 3, I only drove when I had to. Seeing how well flight controls are in the sequel, I don’t see that changing.
2. Having multiple tether loadouts is a godsend
Just Cause 4’s sandbox is getting way bigger, thanks to Rico’s enhanced tethers and grappling-hook device. He can use it to string objects together, attach balloons to things, or fire propulsive flares to stuff and send it sailing. You can create your own recipes using mods, too. For example, you can set it up so balloons follow Rico instead of simply soaring into the sky. It looked a little overwhelming at the E3 demo seeing the dev swap between three different tether types, but it became second nature after a couple of minutes. Once I saw what each type did, I started seeing the game world as a series of opportunities. It was easy to tether one passing car to another, mount balloons to one of the vehicles, and then send it skyward, with just a few presses of the D-pad.
3. The tornado is no joke
The tornado has been a big part of the pre-release coverage, and for good reason. It’s a tornado. It tears through the world, ruining everything in its path – including enemy bases, traffic, and, as I learned, Rico. I tried flying close to it in my wingsuit, and it didn’t take much effort. It’s a tornado, after all. Its job is to pull stuff inside. I was able to break free of its windy influence, but just barely. It took a lot of diving to accelerate enough to pull away.
4. It encourages creativity
I’m not suggesting Just Cause 4 should be used in classrooms, but it did open my brain a little once I got used to its new tools. Our demo started with some experimentation on a bridge, where we all dinked around for 10 minutes or so. It was an absolute riot. Rico has so many different ways of interacting with the world, and the game’s physics rewarded nearly all of my dumb ideas. I put boosters on a car and drove off the bridge, but because I wasn’t particularly careful about their placement I found myself whirling in an absurdly tight circle.
Fortunately, I was able to dive out and grapple back up to safely before it careened into a cliff. I put balloons on people, waited a few seconds and then popped them, and then tried to have the bodies fall on me (don’t judge). I wasn’t successful, but I’m going to try again the next chance I get.
5. This game has the potential of being a huge time sink
Ultimately, the biggest takeaway for me was that this game might end up monopolizing a lot of my free time if I let it. I love open worlds and in-game destruction, which is in part why Just Cause has been such a satisfying time over the years. Now, more than ever, the world looks to be as much of a participant in the improvised mayhem as the player. And if I can’t find the time to fully devote my life to the game, there are bound to be some insanely great (or just insane) YouTube moments starting on December 4.
How to rewind demo in CS GO?
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Often the question is raised how to record, use and rewind a demo record in cs go.
Demo is a recording of the game. Find and see demo, you will burn in Dem format. It won’t be difficult. Such a file is located with the help of commands and I will talk about them a little lower. When viewing the demo, we can watch the game from the side of each player and even the opponent, but if we watch the POV recording, then we can only watch what is happening on the player’s screen. nine0003
How to view demo in CS GO?
We need to manage the recording, and for this, we need to open a panel that will help us with this. To open it, you need to drive in the console, just such a command » demoui «. In order not to enter it constantly, you can assign this command to any button.
To assign a command to a button, we need to turn to the console again. Open the console and enter the following command there bind «l» demoui here the value is «l» , means the button you want, I have it, as you already understood «l» .
Using the demo in CS GO is correct
When using the buttons ¼x and ½X , you can set the video playback speed, and using the buttons Drive, Smooth and Edit , we can create a long video. Also, there are many other programs that can do hundreds of times more, and you can search for them on the Internet. nine0003
With playback, we figured out, it remains to record and save. Everything is done in several steps. We open the console, drive in the command record and that’s it, the recording has started. To stop this recording, you should open the console again and enter the command stop or demo_pause . The last command does not end the recording, but pauses in it and you can restore the recording using the command demo_resume and the recording continues. nine0003
Here, we have already learned how to play video and how to save a record in cs go, now it’s up to downloading the video.
To download the video, we need to open the panel with the command “ demoui ”, in this panel, click on the button Load , find what we need and click on the button Open . Everything is simple.
What you saved is in the game folder, if you look at the default address, the folder will be here C :\ Program Files ( x 86)\ Steam \ SteamApps \ common \ Counter — Strike Global Offensive \ csgo . Let’s go and get our record.
Black screen when playing
There are such problems that when playing a demo, there is a black screen and nothing else.
You can simply wait until the problem disappears on its own, or take the necessary measures, which are listed below. nine0003
- Launch player and load file ;
- Press the pause button;
- Start playback again;
- Press again Play .
If your problem persists, try lowering the resolution and try again. This should be enough. If you have any other methods to solve this problem, write in the comments, we will be happy about it.
How to rewind demo in CS GO?
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Let’s talk about how to rewind demos in CS GO and find out where they are saved. Demo is a recording of the game. Viewing is available at any time. To find a specific section of the video, you first need to open a DEM file. It is shown in the running game mode by typing the appropriate commands. In normal mode, we can not only watch, but also switch to a member from the enemy or ally team.
There are POV recordings that allow you to watch the process only from the «eyes» of the creator of the demonstration. nine0003
How to view demo in CS GO?
First, let’s learn how to reproduce. The demo video interface should be enabled. Next, we activate the view control buttons — we write «demoui» in the console. Constantly typing it takes a lot of time. It is better to «bind» one key to instantly call the panel.
To do this, you need to type bind «l» demoui in the console, where the character «l» is a key. Use any convenient button on the keyboard. Remember that only the given key will bring up the control panel. nine0003
Using demo in CS GO is correct
We figured out how to start matches in CS GO, we’ll figure out the rest of the functions. The built-in video game player allows you not only to select a specific moment in the video, but also to increase the speed of scrolling the recording. You can scroll using the key with the symbol “
If you have a question about how to record a demo in GO, then this is very simple.
Open the console and write record. From that moment the recording started and the process will continue until you write stop or demo_pause. The last word pauses and to continue recording, you must enter demo_resume. We have already figured out how to watch the video in, but did not say what needs to be done to download the file. nine0003
Does this through an interface called «demoui». The player panel has a Load button, which is designed to «call» the demo. Select the desired folder in CS:GO and click Open.
Everything you need is stored in the “counter” folder. The default path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo. Now you know where the records are saved in CS:GO.
The turntable has buttons ¼x, ½X and so on. They increase or decrease the playback speed of the demo. The Drive, Smooth and Edit buttons are used to create a complete and interesting video. There are other, more universal programs. nine0003
Black screen when playing
We have already learned how to record in CS:GO and now we want to talk about a common problem.
It happens that the display freezes and when loading the demo it just shows a black screen. Just wait for it to pass, or take action:
- Launch player and download file;
- Press the pause button;
- Start playback again;
- Press Play again.
If this method does not help, then you can change the resolution to some other one and return everything back. We hope you have received enough information on how to record and watch the demo. nine0003
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