1761

just now bought the dlc for this, are all the guns unreloadable unless you buy them again? My wallet’s gonna suffer, Rico’s gun is pretty awesome.

1762

The strange thing was the first time, I somehow knew there would be a crash if I touched it again and so I just watched it. Then I had to go give into curiosity and mess with another one that was nearby. The crash didn’t feel surprising at all, and I wonder if I was subconsciously picking up on a subtle game performance change or something, or if I was just remembering a similar experience in some other game in the past.

1763

I think this is the case. At least, I know that each time I load a save or die I have to buy the parachute thrusters again (and so, I often just pass on buying them).

1764

Ah, I see. For some reason I got the Tuk Tuk Boom Boom without paying for any DLC, and yeah, having to spend lots of cash on more in-game DLC delivery definitely demotivates its purchase.

Last night another super late night. I was going to go to bed when I did the satellite-launch mission and found myself flying a cool jet. So of course I had to take it on an afterburner tour of the entire southernmost coast where I had no landmarks at all – flying low and slow enough to get the “Location discovered” marker, especially when piloting on PC with keyboard, is interesting in itself. Wound up doing a meandering route all along there, got lots of map landmarks and a few weird things that must be investigated later. I love it when this game turns into a super mellow flight simulator.

Edge magazine had a little blurb at the start of their July 2010 Hype section, wishing that more games had positive / beautiful imagery. So many are dark, gritty, grimy, grim. They mention the new Test Drive Unlimited as an example of a simply lovely environment that’s downright relaxing to tool around in.

I’ve realized that, more than anything else, is why I’m so hooked on this game. Whenever I get tired of the combat I can sail away and go sightseeing. Whenever I get tired of sightseeing, some kind of combat is always right to hand. The sunrises in this game are just so gorgeous, and tooling around a bunch of islands in a jet is almost idyllic. So the game has a stream-of-consciousness flow to it that simply dissolves time.

Um. Yeah, so anyway, I am going to try to force myself to do some plotline missions soon, because I need to break the jaws of this thing, otherwise I may never have any other hobby again.

1765

This game just gets bigger and bigger. Still hopelessly hooked. On both the game and on mounted guns. Speaking of which, is there any way to summon one? There’s a particularly nasty base in the SE (Fasility Gunung Timur) that has kicked my butt ten times now. This underground missile silo/base is 96% completed, but it’s a fiery hole of hell surrounded by a huge horde of beefy, demonic and possibly veteran soldiers. My health is usually pretty low by the time I make it to the bottom, and I’m having a tough time taking out the guys down there as well as the guys who followed me down the ramps. I’ve cleared out this type of base before no problem, and this one seems different. It’s heavy and slow, but if I had that giant-ass gun with me, I’d feel so much more confidant.

Edit: Must be a matter of efficiency, speed and luck. I’m probably just overreacting to this one base. In any case, I finally set the sequence and nearly blew the base, but then got stuck in the missile support structure during my escape and I died on the very top level, a mere second or two before the detonation would have occurred. (Surely not from the final explosion, which I thought I heard the beginnings of.) Apparently, death during countdown invalidates the sabotage.

1766

So, I’m on the fence a bit about buying this and some of the DLC from Steam, but now this has me curious - when you talk about repurchasing these items, does this mean repurchasing the DLC with real money, or buying the items again from an in-game vendor with fictional, in-game cash?

1767

Fictional cash. I’m more curious as to whether the price of the DLC items can be adjusted by mods, since I found the baseline prices of everything in the black market way too damn high and expect the DLC items to be likewise.

1768

Sorry, I meant in-game black market purchases, not DLC. Edit: Thanks, malkav11.

1769

PHEW.

Just finished the last story mission.

41:06 on the clock.
31.55%. Less than one-third of the fucking game.

Ay, that was fun. But now my backlog, it calls to me, and I shall go to it. But this game might just break my long-standing trend towards not returning to the well once I “finish” a game, because… 31.55%… it’s not a big number.

1770

41 pffft. I’m at 96hrs and have no intention of stopping. 'course it’s more of and off-and-on game, but I’ll be playing it for a loooooong time. :)

1771

I’m definitely at the point where I can pop in once a week or so and have fun with this for as long as I want. Totally no pressure to remember what was going on when last I played. Hop in, grab a vehicle or an airlift and go get lost in doing whatever I find.

1772

That’s exactly where I am too, though I do get away from it for longish periods.

I was considering buying Red Dead Redemption after having borrowed it from a friend, but decided that since JC2 still had so much to offer I’d dip back into that again to get my open world fix. I 100%'ed the big port city earlier, now I’m hooked again.

1773

I rented this last night. It was weird, I played it for 2 hours and put it down, saying, “eh it’s alright” and then 30 minutes later… I was back at it for another several hours. So I guess it’s pretty good.

The starting area reminds me of the province I got to drive through in the Philippines (Aklan Province) so that’s pretty cool.

1774

Well, the final tally before I have to bring the game back to Blockbuster - 9 hours, 7% complete. Needless to say I had a lot of fun zipping around and blowing stuff up. The last thing I did was head to Panau City to check it out and it did not disappoint. This is a really great game, and I’ll definitely be buying it soon.

1775

I finally picked this up on Steam yesterday. Holy wowzers! It’s really hard to stop playing this damn game because there’s just always something to do. Stupid noobie question, though. Does it ever really make sense to use the Black Market for things besides the occasional helicopter purchase to get somewhere quickly? I’m still early in the game and don’t have a ton of cash built up, but it seems really weird to me to spend $10K on a pistol when I can just go to any given town, cause some trouble and take the weapons that drop from the dudes I kill.

1776

If you want something specific, like a sniper rifle, or a certain helicopter or tank or something. But really, after a few hours you should know where the rocket-copters and tanks are anyway. They always spawn in the same places.

1777

Upgrades are the primary thing to get. Also, you might like some weapon over others and the military tends to drop some types over others.

But for the most part, no, not worth it.

1778

One of the DLC weapons is an air cannon that can send Jeeps flying end over end like they got caught up in a jet engine’s blast. I spent most of my money on that.

1779

My story with Just Cause 2.

I ordered it at zavvi.com a week ago, they were unable to send it, so I cancelled and scouted the net where could I get it cheaper than 50 euros (steam price). I found that digital shop of game.co.uk ( http://game.gamesplanet.com/ ) has it for 25 euros. So I attempted to buy it there with paypal - “payment refused” (happened to me for the first time ever). So I tried buying it with my credit card - worked perfectly. I received the game key in my email, put it into steam, downloaded the game and played it - everything ok.

Then I checked my bank account, and guess what - money got subtracted for both paypal payment (“refused” one) and credit card payment - so in the end the game cost me the same price it would on steam itself : ). So I contacted them and am waiting for answer.

Anyway, even if they fuck me over, I would not mind that much (although it would mean I would never buy anything else there), because this game freaking ROCKS.

I even bought my first DLC ever - the monster truck and the one with jetpack-like parachute. It is just so awesome - destroying satelites attached to rockets by helicopter/c4/airfighter, destroying the last one midair, then jumping off to bask in sunlight…so much fun.

1780

SuperRico mod is So. Freaking. Awesome.

Just spent 20 minutes flying over Panau like Iron Man/Super Man, racing against fighter jets and admiring the landscape.
Gotta love modders. Obtainable here.

Supereasy installation too. Just create folder called “dropzone” in game folder, put files there, and that is it. Turn off by deleting or removing the files.