That stipulation hasn’t been lifted to my knowledge. A stipulation in our initial review guide said we weren’t allowed to capture cinematics because they weren’t done. I’ll also note that I’m writing this two days before release and we’ve yet to be told whether the cutscenes are final. Just Cause 4 is so chaotic, it’s almost asking for missions to break in new and terrible ways every time you load the game.

Escort missions are even more annoying though when the people you’re escorting just stop moving and get shot to death, or run straight into an explosion, or stop driving because there’s a random pedestrian in the road. There are a lot of escort missions in Just Cause 4, a problem we’ll talk about in a bit. The quest scripting’s broken on me in four different missions, often through no fault of my own. Then there are the more problematic bugs. The game also has an annoying habit of listing all the controls on the screen-except the ones you might actually need, like “Throttle Up.” That’s mapped to Shift too, by the way. Vehicles are almost unusable with a mouse and keyboard though, particularly motorcycles and planes. You should just use a controller, which is annoying because the guns work a lot better with a mouse. Also the controls are broken up into about a dozen subcategories for some reason. Remapping controls is also unnecessarily arduous, forcing you to first unmap the key you want before you can map it to a new command. You also use Shift to aim down your gun’s sights, which-again, I can’t stress this enough-I’ve just never seen before ever in the history of PC games. “1.” Then you use “2” and “3” to navigate between sub-menus. My favorite? To open the map you hit the “1” key. The mouse-and-keyboard controls are a disaster, with some decisions so baffling I’ve literally never seen them before. Borderless windowed mode is a mess, sometimes deciding not to lock the mouse to the game window and wreaking all sorts of havoc in the process. Both were running top of the line cards (a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in one and an RTX 2080 in the other, I believe).

I’ve also loaded the game up on two different machines only to have the graphics settings default to 720p for some reason. At one point the game crashed before I’d even made it to the main menu.

It’s calmed down on me since then, but I’ve still had two or three more crashes to desktop in the hours since. An hour and a half into the game I’d already had it crash on me six or seven times. It’s a whole mountain of problems though.

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