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Congratulations on the longest comment on my channel! In my critique video on JC4 I'm working on right now, there's actually multiple segments where I talk about similar ideas as the ones you just mentioned. Take the good ideas of JC3 and expand on them with rebel army improvements. On top of that idea I'd also like to see some new mechanics being added. For instance: capture airbases to unlock a button which summons airstrikes. Or capture car factories which will allow you order a rebel roadblock on a road of your choosing. Take an explosives depot to gain the ability to equip rebels with rocket launchers. Stuff like that. I know about the rebel driver thing, but I think I mentioned somewhere in the video that this doesn't work during the missions for some reason. But I agree that it's a pretty cool mechanic otherwise, and many people aren't aware of it

I usually defeat their dear leader by dropping a cargo crate on top of him, so I think it's fitting to destroy his bases in a similarly embarrasing way

@@hugohair stratagem dropping on his head

It has its charms :D

Aww thanks!

Haha nice!

Someone in the comments noticed that the bavarium wingsuit might also make a big difference in bonus point destruction, making it easier to miss out on stages

Most games would spawn scripted encounters around you, which works until you leave the intended path after which the game either gives you an "out of bounds" counter or there's just peaceful land all of a sudden

I remember when this, Shadow of War and Battlefront were all out and it seemed like we had so many promises of massive scale action games. But in fairness there are always outstanding games, Halo 3 and Reach have some spectacular battles that are genuinely massive and Unreal Tournament 3 has a mode called Warfare that's basically a huge battle for territory with vehicles and lots of combatants, so definitely check those games out if you haven't.

Me too. I like it as a basis, but if you just copy paste bases over the map with the same liberation mechanics, it gets old fast. JC4 decided to go with a completely different approach, but that didn't feel rewarding to me and it was repetitive too

Oh no! I hope you (or whoever you were with) are feeling alright now!

@@hugohair thanks 😊

lol same. But I did not like the mission structure and had fun messing with the nuke in the game

Thanks, I love hearing that!

Right?!? I think it's pretty airtight

Meaning you can only hear me, and not the other guys on the voicechat :(

Heh, there might be some truth to that. For casual playing, I prefer the normal wingsuit, but I'm used to getting it early for speedruns and such. It was also much easier to zip around quickly and get all the footage for the video. But I'm glad that the eagle trick was new to you!

Exactly, I was thinking “I have done all these battles (except maybe the last one of Insula Dracon) with 0 issues of completing too fast.”

I looked around but it seems to be far more on rails than the others, so I didn't find anything new in it

Yeah I just looked and the lacrima one was disappointing compared to the rest

Sometimes to include rebels I like to drive to small outposts with an armored car full of rebels and destroy the base with my small squad. The roleplay aspect is really fun but they usually end up dying in the first minute

When I first heard about the frontlines I expected something like that. The JC3 region wars are in no way perfect, but there's so many cool ideas and mechanics here that with a bit of refinement you could make it a permanent part of the world instead of limiting it to just 3 missions. I expected the JC4 frontlines to be just that, but instead they're a setback in many ways. I liked the idea of Rico leading his own army, something that was emphasised in the story, but in reality it's just Rico and Mira the hacking god doing everything while the rebels are just eyecandy. Hopefully JC5 can combine the best of both worlds, if it ever sees the light of day

@@hugohair If JC5 comes I hope it has similar art style and location as JC3. I rly loved medici and enjoyed this game a lot back in the day. I think JC4 had quite bad graphics compared to it and was bit disappointed.

Oh cool! I hadn't heard of anyone discovering it before

I think so too. Perhaps they wanted to do more with jc4's frontlines, but didn't really understand how to tie those into the rest of the gameplay and story. If jc3 could do it 8 years ago, it's certainly possible on modern hardware

It's so crazy how badly 4 fumbles the AI battles. They're the best part of the series!

I wouldn't mind the short gap if we got a good game

It's just really pointless, which makes it feel artificial. Frontlines may look cool, but the real progress is made when you go to the map screen and press a button, not in the actual overworld

The rebels in jc3 were an actual military in jc4 there were colerful lesbians

Kinda! But that's a good thing here :D

Absolutely! Missions in jc3 give you a lot of creative freedom. Missions in jc4 give you a giant gun and say: "use this". Which is fun for one time, but doesn't add a lot of replay value

Yeah, it would have been a better, richer idea for Just Cause 4 to be more focused on the war itself, giving the “Army of Chaos” (which I would rename, because it sounds stupid and edgy) more of a role in the game. You don’t see them all that much, especially for when you’re meant to be the de facto leader of the entire revolution. It wouldn’t need to be an RTS or anything, but it would have been so damned cool if you could command an actual virtual army, making major decisions about how to wage war against the Black Hand and then helping execute plans, like a true battlefield leader of historic armies. You could go with a theme of Rico finally taking control of the chaos in his life, being promoted from an almost literal agent of chaos to the leader of it. I want to make this and rename the Army of Chaos to “El Fuego Frio” (Spanish for “The Cold Fire”), as it would fit with the theme. Sorry for not quite sticking to the parameters of your comment, by the way.

Or maybe the formula just got stale. To me it never had the staying power of GTA, which is more grounded in execution. JC and Saints Row are at their core like playing GTA with an excessive ammount of cheats and it's funny for 5 minutes but then it's just stupid. It's like what people stereotype GTA to be like.

@@TheSultan1470 True but Just Cause had the chance to use the whole civil war thing to enhance the gameplay/story experience and differentiate itself from just another GTA clone. The closest they got was JC3 of course but after that with JC4 they really dropped the ball. Saints Row on the other hand was just plain goofy and had no coherent or good story or characters or gameplay after SR2 and I stopped caring about them after SR4.

I really hope we get a jc5 and hopefully they go back to how jc3 was

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You should have seen the previous 20 sec that I cut from the video. Everyone was tumbling over each other to get to me. Pathfinding is a lie