Just Cause 2

2015-01-25 02:36:46 pm

Quote from ADT_Clone:

The game seems to be crashing when I grapple onto the plane in Airport Troubles. I haven't had this happen before, not too sure why. Could be Windows 8, but seems odd if that is the case. Does anyone else have this problem?

I havent had the game crash, but while doing the mission I did notice that the plane seems to take much longer than normal to take off. It's almost like it's a scripted event or something. That might have something to do with it.

ADT_Clone

2015-01-26 12:27:44 am

Yeah I think you are right that it is a scripted event. It may be that I am trying to get to the plane faster than the script expects.

That mission as a whole is extremely annoying. Have you found a reliable way to take off with the plane? Because I find if I go full throttle and take off as fast as I can, sometimes those stupid cars get in the way. And because of high speed, airplane physics if you try to change your direction it will spin you. If you hit the car it will spin you and you get to attempt to take off in the opposite direction with a helicopter and rockets shooting at you. Smiley

Only way I found is to slow down a little then increasing throttle, but need to investigate more.

ADT_Clone

2015-01-26 06:21:52 am

Just got another crash during a random part of some mission.

I recently upgraded my computer to Windows 8 and are now maxing out all graphics. Will see if the crashes continue to occur, and if so may try to turn down some of the graphics options.

ADT_Clone

2015-01-27 04:31:03 am

I turned off decals and that seemed to fix it for now. No more crashing, I got that advice browsing the internet, seemed to fix most peoples problem. Very odd cause.

Anyway, here are the next five levels.

Airport Troubles

Grapple to the fast car on the little stool infront of the airport. Drive it the shortest route, through the gates, and into the hangar. Jump out to make the car explode and take out as many troops as you can. Immediately take out the pilot, grab the pda and hop into the trooper car near the exit of the hangar. Beeline straight to the plane, the rockets won't get you. Jump the hill, eject, be careful of the rockets, grapple onto the plane and hop inside.

Full throttle, don't worry about anything. As the first car starts to move infront of you, lift off the throttle. Leave it off and put it on so that when the group of three cars goes across the runway, you don't hit them. If you hold full throttle you WILL hit one of the cars most of the time. It seems this is partly scripted, so just go right off the edge of the runway and it will lift off. Immediately turn to the east and head towards the next mission.

A second amendment

Standard stronghold mission. Immediately grapple to the front of the base, kill all troops infront and above, then grapple the rocket laucher guy. Jump over, kill the troops infront of you. Use your assault rifle to take out the three fuel tanks. Unlock the gate, then go to the left and then right. Take out the mounted gun, all troops around and the sniper. Grab the mounted gun, destroy the two fuel tanks, broadcast tower and two SAMS. Keep up with your team, destroy the two vehicles and keep moving forward. When the wall goes down infront of you, a mass of troops will spawn in the distance. If you shoot straight at them you will take them out right away.

When you get inside, destroy the generator, broadcast towers and fuel tanks. You can kill the first wave of enemies immediately if you shoot where they spawn. Destroy the two vehicles fast, then destroy the commander as he comes over the hill.

WARNING: Once I did it too fast and soft locked the stronghold commander. He didn't move from his position, had to waste time to walk forward and take him out, the game continued as normal after.

As soon as you kill the commander, grapple jump up the mountains towards the next mission. Fastest to grapple to it as it is close.

Can I get a witness

As soon as the mission starts, pick up the ammo, then grapple down the road and slightly to the left(there will be a hill edge). Spawn a jet and fly to the radar station. Jump out to the entry of the door, using any spare time to destroy nearby objects. The moment you click the door, destroy the enemies around the right side. Jump down, kill the enemies on the ground, heading left around two corners killing the rest of the enemies. If you kill them fast enough you will speed up the time it takes to notify you of the officer with the card. Get the card, head back to the door. Shoot the sentry gun as it opens, get the GPS coordinates, get the ammo, then head out. It occurred to me that it would be useful at this stage to have the rockets from the stronghold mission. Destroy as many objects as you can while you wait for the helicopter, then grapple to the helicopter.

Nothing to do until you get to the cars. Aim at the last car in the convoy, and the moment you can grapple onto it. When you land, grapple onto the lead car, kill the two passengers, then hijack the driver. Drive to the destination, not too hard, just make sure you take the short route up the mountain. Once you arrive, hop out and grapple to the next mission.

The White Tiger

Grapple straight away over the river. Kill the guards on the ground in the middle, then take out the four snipers. One sniper in a specific position will always drop a walkie talkie so make sure you are there to pick it up. Also pick up a sniper before the cutscene. After the cutscene, zoom in, line up your shot with the head of Pang as he walks out, then shoot the executioner. Immediately hop down to the ground because Pang is stupid. Learn the route he takes, and kill all enemies before he gets to them as he can easily die. Then grab the bike furthest away so he hops on the closest one. Follow him to the ambush, take out all the enemies, hop back on the bike and head to the location. As soon as the cutscene ends, don't wait until the dialogue stops, just grab the ammo, head to the commander and headshot him until he dies. Take the item, then head towards the helicopter. Hijack the heli, then fly to the beacon.

The second part you want to stay ahead of Sam. Just keep killing the enemies ahead before he gets to them. I did notice some odd things happening when you are far enough ahead that he stops moving and shoots down the level below. Also I didnt find that hitting him made him move faster, this will need to be confirmed. After the mission ends, extract immediately to the next mission location.

Driving Miss Stacey

More limo and dirt physics. Not too bad if you do it right. As soon as the mission starts, turn around and grapple towards the pink limo. Hop in, drive across the dirt to the left, then onto the middle of the road when it straightens up. The exit of the village is where you want to start gaining speed. Dodge the rocket, and head straight through a gap in the cars. Then full speed to the finish location, you should be fine.

As soon as you finish the missions, grapple over the river and to the mountains. Lose your head, then extract to the next mission location.

I turned off decals and that seemed to fix it for now. No more crashing, I got that advice browsing the internet, seemed to fix most peoples problem. Very odd cause.

Anyway, here are the next five levels.

[b]Airport Troubles[/b]

Grapple to the fast car on the little stool infront of the airport. Drive it the shortest route, through the gates, and into the hangar. Jump out to make the car explode and take out as many troops as you can. Immediately take out the pilot, grab the pda and hop into the trooper car near the exit of the hangar. Beeline straight to the plane, the rockets won't get you. Jump the hill, eject, be careful of the rockets, grapple onto the plane and hop inside.

Full throttle, don't worry about anything. As the first car starts to move infront of you, lift off the throttle. Leave it off and put it on so that when the group of three cars goes across the runway, you don't hit them. If you hold full throttle you WILL hit one of the cars most of the time. It seems this is partly scripted, so just go right off the edge of the runway and it will lift off. Immediately turn to the east and head towards the next mission.

[b]A second amendment[/b]

Standard stronghold mission. Immediately grapple to the front of the base, kill all troops infront and above, then grapple the rocket laucher guy. Jump over, kill the troops infront of you. Use your assault rifle to take out the three fuel tanks. Unlock the gate, then go to the left and then right. Take out the mounted gun, all troops around and the sniper. Grab the mounted gun, destroy the two fuel tanks, broadcast tower and two SAMS. Keep up with your team, destroy the two vehicles and keep moving forward. When the wall goes down infront of you, a mass of troops will spawn in the distance. If you shoot straight at them you will take them out right away.

When you get inside, destroy the generator, broadcast towers and fuel tanks. You can kill the first wave of enemies immediately if you shoot where they spawn. Destroy the two vehicles fast, then destroy the commander as he comes over the hill.

WARNING: Once I did it too fast and soft locked the stronghold commander. He didn't move from his position, had to waste time to walk forward and take him out, the game continued as normal after.

As soon as you kill the commander, grapple jump up the mountains towards the next mission. Fastest to grapple to it as it is close.

[b]Can I get a witness[/b]

As soon as the mission starts, pick up the ammo, then grapple down the road and slightly to the left(there will be a hill edge). Spawn a jet and fly to the radar station. Jump out to the entry of the door, using any spare time to destroy nearby objects. The moment you click the door, destroy the enemies around the right side. Jump down, kill the enemies on the ground, heading left around two corners killing the rest of the enemies. If you kill them fast enough you will speed up the time it takes to notify you of the officer with the card. Get the card, head back to the door. Shoot the sentry gun as it opens, get the GPS coordinates, get the ammo, then head out. It occurred to me that it would be useful at this stage to have the rockets from the stronghold mission. Destroy as many objects as you can while you wait for the helicopter, then grapple to the helicopter.

Nothing to do until you get to the cars. Aim at the last car in the convoy, and the moment you can grapple onto it. When you land, grapple onto the lead car, kill the two passengers, then hijack the driver. Drive to the destination, not too hard, just make sure you take the short route up the mountain. Once you arrive, hop out and grapple to the next mission.

[b]The White Tiger[/b]

Grapple straight away over the river. Kill the guards on the ground in the middle, then take out the four snipers. One sniper in a specific position will always drop a walkie talkie so make sure you are there to pick it up. Also pick up a sniper before the cutscene. After the cutscene, zoom in, line up your shot with the head of Pang as he walks out, then shoot the executioner. Immediately hop down to the ground because Pang is stupid. Learn the route he takes, and kill all enemies before he gets to them as he can easily die. Then grab the bike furthest away so he hops on the closest one. Follow him to the ambush, take out all the enemies, hop back on the bike and head to the location. As soon as the cutscene ends, don't wait until the dialogue stops, just grab the ammo, head to the commander and headshot him until he dies. Take the item, then head towards the helicopter. Hijack the heli, then fly to the beacon.

The second part you want to stay ahead of Sam. Just keep killing the enemies ahead before he gets to them. I did notice some odd things happening when you are far enough ahead that he stops moving and shoots down the level below. Also I didnt find that hitting him made him move faster, this will need to be confirmed. After the mission ends, extract immediately to the next mission location.

[b]Driving Miss Stacey[/b]

More limo and dirt physics. Not too bad if you do it right. As soon as the mission starts, turn around and grapple towards the pink limo. Hop in, drive across the dirt to the left, then onto the middle of the road when it straightens up. The exit of the village is where you want to start gaining speed. Dodge the rocket, and head straight through a gap in the cars. Then full speed to the finish location, you should be fine.

As soon as you finish the missions, grapple over the river and to the mountains. Lose your head, then extract to the next mission location.

Skelekat

2015-01-27 06:14:10 pm

Ok, so I finally finished speed-walking through the route you supplied, and my final in-game time is at about 7 and a half hours. This is going to be a long run lol. One thing I noticed though, we really shouldn't do any missions after the final agency mission. Not only is it extremely anti-climactic, it also does waste more than just travel time, because after the final agency mission there is a credits sequence and the game has to be reloaded. So I think we should do 'Smugglers Do Run' while we are over in that section (we have enough chaos at that point to do it then) and then do the other mission right before the final agency mission. Even though it does put us far away, we can just extract back to the start of agency mission 6.

ADT_Clone

2015-01-28 05:08:23 am

Nice.

I have thought about the credits sequence, and when this game actually ends. I think we may have to include the credit time in the speed run. We will have to check, but it is very possible that not doing the agency mission last is faster than doing it last, in which case you would have to include the credits. I am not sure about this though, I'll be counting the credits at this stage.

In terms of the total time, I reckon we can get it sub 5 hours. Judging by my sum of best(I have done the first 20 levels so far, practicing) and extrapolating out to the entire missions, we may be looking at ~5:25 at the moment. However I am pretty sure the later missions shouldn't take as long as the earlier, so hopefully this should drop below 5 hours for a good run.

Skelekat

2015-02-01 06:03:06 pm

Finally finished my first run with a time of 5:44. The run overall was decent for a first run, but there were still lots of moments where a death cost 5 or more minutes. I think with a fully optimized run with a lot more practice could definitely be sub 5.
http://www.twitch.tv/skelekat_tv/c/6019240

ADT_Clone

2015-02-02 02:43:48 am

Quote from Skelekat:

Finally finished my first run with a time of 5:44. The run overall was decent for a first run, but there were still lots of moments where a death cost 5 or more minutes. I think with a fully optimized run with a lot more practice could definitely be sub 5.
http://www.twitch.tv/skelekat_tv/c/6019240

Nice job mate. Smiley

I won't get a run in for a while, slowly making my way through practicing and optimising each mission, but this is third priority at the moment for me. Maybe in a month I'll have my first run complete. Tongue

ADT_Clone

2015-02-03 03:30:25 am

The next five missions.

Pilgrimage

Essentially an auto scroller, don't go too far ahead or you will be reset for "leaving the mission area". Use this time to get some ammo. Take down the snipers with your grapple. Once you get the mounted gun, take out the statue and the SAM to the left of the temple. Make sure you have double SMG's at this point.

As soon as you kill the chopper, grapple down to the beach area, spawn a jet and fly towards the next mission. When landing the jet, aim for the fuel station(1000 free chaos).

Mercenaries Must Die

Grapple your way into the training camp. Land right next to the captain, dual SMG to the head until he dies. As soon as he dies, grapple directly to the airport runway, where a jet should be taking off. Steal it and head to the next mission. When approaching the next mission, shoot missiles and bullets around the general location, as there are a lot of objects to destroy and chaos to get.

Stranded

As soon as the mission starts, grapple to the air strip, spawn a jet and fly to the island(jet is a lot faster than the plane they give you). As you approach the island, line up your plane heading slightly left of the "smoke signal". This will mean when your plane blows and veers right, you will end up bang on target and save time. Hop straight into the truck, drive it to the next location. As soon as you reach it, get out and try to grapple jump up the towers(very hard). Head to the first tower, and attempt to grapple jump up it(I have been having a lot of problems with this). Kill minimal amounts of enemies, blow the tower, head to the second tower using the pipe lines to grapple between them. Blow up the tower, then head along the pipeline to the third.

Grapple the pipe twice, then grapple above the platforms. Grapple jump up the tower if you can as that will get you to the top very fast. Throw 2 C4 explosives in the middle. Then jump off towards the direction of the cargo truck, and blow the C4 AFTER you jump off. This will skip the cutscene and save you time. Hop in the cargo truck. This section is annoying, just be careful heading off the bridge and going around some corners, as you do not want to lose those boxes.

When you reach the beach, hop out, call for the black market, exit the menu(will speed the mission end up), then call for extraction to the island to the south west of the next mission, specifically at your stronghold. Land on top of one of the warehouse roofs(safe building used previously), spawn a jet and fly to the next mission.

Rico's Day in Court

Grapple straight towards the sniper location. Get to the highest platform as otherwise your view will be clipped. Snipe both witnesses(zoom in makes it easier). Then find a flat building, spawn a jet and take off towards your next mission.

One Deadly Sin

Grapple straight onto the highway, onto the councillors car, shoot him when he leans out, then grapple north to the next mission(which is close by).

The next five missions.

[b]Pilgrimage[/b]

Essentially an auto scroller, don't go too far ahead or you will be reset for "leaving the mission area". Use this time to get some ammo. Take down the snipers with your grapple. Once you get the mounted gun, take out the statue and the SAM to the left of the temple. Make sure you have double SMG's at this point.

As soon as you kill the chopper, grapple down to the beach area, spawn a jet and fly towards the next mission. When landing the jet, aim for the fuel station(1000 free chaos).

[b]Mercenaries Must Die[/b]

Grapple your way into the training camp. Land right next to the captain, dual SMG to the head until he dies. As soon as he dies, grapple directly to the airport runway, where a jet should be taking off. Steal it and head to the next mission. When approaching the next mission, shoot missiles and bullets around the general location, as there are a lot of objects to destroy and chaos to get.

[b]Stranded[/b]

As soon as the mission starts, grapple to the air strip, spawn a jet and fly to the island(jet is a lot faster than the plane they give you). As you approach the island, line up your plane heading slightly left of the "smoke signal". This will mean when your plane blows and veers right, you will end up bang on target and save time. Hop straight into the truck, drive it to the next location. As soon as you reach it, get out and try to grapple jump up the towers(very hard). Head to the first tower, and attempt to grapple jump up it(I have been having a lot of problems with this). Kill minimal amounts of enemies, blow the tower, head to the second tower using the pipe lines to grapple between them. Blow up the tower, then head along the pipeline to the third.

Grapple the pipe twice, then grapple above the platforms. Grapple jump up the tower if you can as that will get you to the top very fast. Throw 2 C4 explosives in the middle. Then jump off towards the direction of the cargo truck, and blow the C4 AFTER you jump off. This will skip the cutscene and save you time. Hop in the cargo truck. This section is annoying, just be careful heading off the bridge and going around some corners, as you do not want to lose those boxes.

When you reach the beach, hop out, call for the black market, exit the menu(will speed the mission end up), then call for extraction to the island to the south west of the next mission, specifically at your stronghold. Land on top of one of the warehouse roofs(safe building used previously), spawn a jet and fly to the next mission.

[b]Rico's Day in Court[/b]

Grapple straight towards the sniper location. Get to the highest platform as otherwise your view will be clipped. Snipe both witnesses(zoom in makes it easier). Then find a flat building, spawn a jet and take off towards your next mission.

[b]One Deadly Sin[/b]

Grapple straight onto the highway, onto the councillors car, shoot him when he leans out, then grapple north to the next mission(which is close by).

CptBrian

2015-10-07 06:09:18 am

Relax

So who wants to do a 100% run?
http://justcause.wikia.com/wiki/Just_Cause_2_100%25_completion_list
lol