I don't remember if it was jc2 or 3, but i never made it past the intro and it always crashed after the intro before the safe point. I saw that intro countless times on more than on pc.
Ok, so I love JC3. I still play it. I was playing it on Monday in fact. It's one of those games that I just keep coming back to. I enjoy liberating cities and outposts and whatnot, but it's the flying that I go back for. I can spend hours listening to music and just flying around. 260 hours on PC alone (I've probably played more than that on PS), and I've never finished the campaign.
Removing Denuvo is great, and I'm on board... but for the love of all that is good and holy: CLOUD SAVES!!!! Having to restart every time I reinstall it is WHY I've never finished the campaign.
If they are on Linux, Steam automatically deletes the Windows prefix every time you uninstall a game. So any game without cloud saves, has their save games deleted if you don't back them up separately (e.g. via Ludusavi).
Ah, Steam proton. They could just point the drive_c/users/steamuser/<dir> symlinks to $XDG_DATA_HOME instead. But considering that the "use XDG dirs" issue is unanswered for years now...
Damn, you're right. I suppose as long as they stay in ~/.config and out of ~/Documents I'll be happy. Now that I'm actually looking the only offender there on my filesystem is Kitten Space Agency. It created a ~/Documents/My Games/. They should rename it to Kitten Whitespace Agency.
Yep, played 4. I didn't think it deserved the hate it got on release, but I do remember thinking it was kinda meh. I played it pretty early on though. Apparently it's had a lot of work done since then so I should probably give it another go. I think I just like the location of 3 better. Greek island vibes are nicer than a dark jungle/desert/tundra imo.
I've also played the DLC, but honestly could take them or leave them. I like the skill involved in staying on the wingsuit, and the jetpack kinda ruins that. As for the mechs, meh. They're fun, but not really why I'm there.
I played through 4 and liked it enough. I skipped literally every cutscene, and it felt like a natural progression of the series (all the weather control crap and crazy mechanics).
I like 2 more but 3 is also pretty good. I really wish the series found some more unique ways of mixing up the formula because it got stale by 4 and weather control just wasn’t really it for me
Think it was this game that I went to play a while back and it needed an internet connection to start. So I didn't play it but instead left the only review that I have ever made on Steam to not recommend it.
This is the game that put me off preordering forever. I got it just as it came out and it was SHIIIIIIIIIIT. After starting the game I would get 15 minutes of "xXBlazeIt420Xx beat your score on (some shit challenge)" scrolling up the side of the screen. I'd understand if it just told me my friends had beaten me, but it felt like telling me the whole world had.
Then there was the memory optimisation... Start a flying challenge, fuck it up, restart.. IT TOOK OVER A MINUTE to load back to the start of the challenge.
If that wasn't enough, the world just felt empty compared to JC2. There were vast areas of nothing but fields between towns and it sucked. I put it down a week after buying and never picked it up again.
Yes, but it's common for large companies to forget things are subscriptions and doing all the paperwork and actually getting the guy with the authority to cancel the subscription is hard.
So it's very profitable to companies to make their service subscription cause they know other companies won't easily cancel it.
Its a bit weird. The game came out 10 years ago, which mean Square paid Denuvo 10 years long. The game was countless times on sale for 3 Euros on Steam: https://steamdb.info/app/225540/
SteamDB lowest recorded price is 2,99€ at -85%
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Contraband was semi-recently cancelled by microsoft. I have no idea how the hell Nordisk Film ended up owning Avalanche, but I wouldn't be shocked if they were planning to sell off or shutter the studio entirely.
So removing the fraction of a penny that Denuvo Corp get per Just Cause 3 sale probably IS worth it while you are calling security ahead of the mass layoffs.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 84 pts · 238d
I bet it'll run a tad smoother now, too.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 238d
I mean... it's a Just Cause game. It might somehow run considerably worse for no apparent reason.
passenger@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 238d
What do you mean? Try Just Cause 2, I remember it ran perfect on a very old machine
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 238d
JC2 crashed a lot
passenger@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 238d
Ok, maybe it's part nostalgia. Ran impressively though
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 236d
I don't remember if it was jc2 or 3, but i never made it past the intro and it always crashed after the intro before the safe point. I saw that intro countless times on more than on pc.
Kraiden@piefed.social · 34 pts · 238d
Ok, so I love JC3. I still play it. I was playing it on Monday in fact. It's one of those games that I just keep coming back to. I enjoy liberating cities and outposts and whatnot, but it's the flying that I go back for. I can spend hours listening to music and just flying around. 260 hours on PC alone (I've probably played more than that on PS), and I've never finished the campaign.
Removing Denuvo is great, and I'm on board... but for the love of all that is good and holy: CLOUD SAVES!!!! Having to restart every time I reinstall it is WHY I've never finished the campaign.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Wingsuit/grapple/parachute is an incredible movement system that feels challenging and overpowered at the same time.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 237d
You delete your saves with the game? But why?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me · 9 pts · 237d
If they are on Linux, Steam automatically deletes the Windows prefix every time you uninstall a game. So any game without cloud saves, has their save games deleted if you don't back them up separately (e.g. via Ludusavi).
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 237d
Ah, Steam proton. They could just point the
drive_c/users/steamuser/<dir>symlinks to $XDG_DATA_HOME instead. But considering that the "use XDG dirs" issue is unanswered for years now...ebolapie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 236d
I will be very upsetti spaghetti if my private directories become a dump for game data like they were on Windows.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 236d
They are already, Proton has at least My Documents to ~/Documents symlinked. And there's
.config/unity3d/And some more somewhere else.
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 236d
Damn, you're right. I suppose as long as they stay in
~/.configand out of~/DocumentsI'll be happy. Now that I'm actually looking the only offender there on my filesystem is Kitten Space Agency. It created a~/Documents/My Games/. They should rename it to Kitten Whitespace Agency.sukhmel@programming.dev · 2 pts · 237d
I think, that may cause compatibility issues, but having persistent saves would indeed be nice
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 236d
Nope, they are already symlinks. Wine desktop integration. Proton has a few less. I remember Documents in both.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 236d
Thats bizarre, you'd think it would set up a persistent saves directory and link them to it.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
4 is actually pretty fun too. Have you played the DLC with the jetpack and weather weapons?
Kraiden@piefed.social · 6 pts · 238d
Yep, played 4. I didn't think it deserved the hate it got on release, but I do remember thinking it was kinda meh. I played it pretty early on though. Apparently it's had a lot of work done since then so I should probably give it another go. I think I just like the location of 3 better. Greek island vibes are nicer than a dark jungle/desert/tundra imo.
I've also played the DLC, but honestly could take them or leave them. I like the skill involved in staying on the wingsuit, and the jetpack kinda ruins that. As for the mechs, meh. They're fun, but not really why I'm there.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
I still break out jc2 now and then when the urge to tool around Indonesia in a tuktuk gets too much
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 238d
You might be the first person who liked it. Did you not play 2?
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 238d
Imo 2 was just a little too rough compared to 3. I never finished 2, but I moved right onto 3 when it came out and I had a blast.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 237d
Oh man, I replayed it after your comment and JC3 really is so fucking good. I was thinking of 4, which ruined everything
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
I played through 4 and liked it enough. I skipped literally every cutscene, and it felt like a natural progression of the series (all the weather control crap and crazy mechanics).
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 237d
I like 2 more but 3 is also pretty good. I really wish the series found some more unique ways of mixing up the formula because it got stale by 4 and weather control just wasn’t really it for me
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 238d
Think it was this game that I went to play a while back and it needed an internet connection to start. So I didn't play it but instead left the only review that I have ever made on Steam to not recommend it.
dellish@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 238d
This is the game that put me off preordering forever. I got it just as it came out and it was SHIIIIIIIIIIT. After starting the game I would get 15 minutes of "xXBlazeIt420Xx beat your score on (some shit challenge)" scrolling up the side of the screen. I'd understand if it just told me my friends had beaten me, but it felt like telling me the whole world had.
Then there was the memory optimisation... Start a flying challenge, fuck it up, restart.. IT TOOK OVER A MINUTE to load back to the start of the challenge.
If that wasn't enough, the world just felt empty compared to JC2. There were vast areas of nothing but fields between towns and it sucked. I put it down a week after buying and never picked it up again.
SlamWich@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 238d
Honestly, you dodged a bullet - game is ass, DRM or not
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 238d
No, it's fun.
SlamWich@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 238d
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 237d
After a decade? I hope it cost them millions in licensing fees and lost sales.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 238d
They were paying for that shit still? And they wonder why they are having financial issues haha
banazir@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 238d
I hope this means they'll release it on GOG.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 237d
They kept it long. Isn't it usually a subscription model and thus only used for the first 6 months with the most revenue?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 236d
Yes, but it's common for large companies to forget things are subscriptions and doing all the paperwork and actually getting the guy with the authority to cancel the subscription is hard.
So it's very profitable to companies to make their service subscription cause they know other companies won't easily cancel it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 236d
Now this is sad.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
From what I recall that wasn't the case before, it was one time. Just Cause 3 is 10 years old so maybe the Denuvo subscription didn't apply.
Odo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Only a decade late. :/ The game stuttered constantly on my PC. That experience plus No Man's Sky months later finally taught me to not preorder games.
Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉
thingsiplay@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 238d
Its a bit weird. The game came out 10 years ago, which mean Square paid Denuvo 10 years long. The game was countless times on sale for 3 Euros on Steam: https://steamdb.info/app/225540/
I have no clue how this paid off.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 238d
Contraband was semi-recently cancelled by microsoft. I have no idea how the hell Nordisk Film ended up owning Avalanche, but I wouldn't be shocked if they were planning to sell off or shutter the studio entirely.
So removing the fraction of a penny that Denuvo Corp get per Just Cause 3 sale probably IS worth it while you are calling security ahead of the mass layoffs.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 238d
I actually meant how it paid off to pay for 10 years. Denuvo is quite expensive as far as I know.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 238d
Probably a specific contract deal they had with them