History YMMV / JustCause3

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In ''VideoGame/JustCause2'', causing Chaos involved destroying essential bits of public infrastructure, like water towers, gas stations, and electrical substations, making some players feel like the cause of an InferredHolocaust and/or EsotericHappyEnding. Here, destroying infrastructure is reserved for the military bases, while in the towns and cities you destroy things related to propaganda, like statues, billboards, and loudspeakers.

* GoodBadBugs: Dying while attacking a military base when using the DLC Bavarium Wingsuit will cause the base's [={{SAMs}}=] to remain inactive while the player is in-flight when they should lock on. Considering SAM carts are the only real threat to Rico when using air-raid tactics with the wingsuit, this makes dying ironically beneficial.

* GoodBadBugs: Dying while attacking a military base when using the DLC Bavarium Wingsuit will cause the base's {{SAMs}} to remain inactive while the player is in-flight when they should lock on. Considering SAM carts are the only real threat to Rico when using air-raid tactics with the wingsuit, this makes dying ironically beneficial.

** Also the jetpack unlocked in the "Air Assault" DLC. This changes the somewhat challenging wingsuit / wiregun / parachute gameplay to a jetpack with a recharging thruster and ''on-board weaponry'', with a guided missile launcher and a powerful minigun. There's barely any need to use vehicles after getting it, and it was heavily critizicsised in reviews of the DLC for rendering so many of the core gameplay mechanics utterly redundant.

** The M488, [[EleventhHourSuperpower unlocked after the penultimate story mission,]] is a Bavarium-infused rocket launcher that is basically a portable version of the warheads at Falco Maxime. The explosion it creates is ludicrously powerful, capable of obliterating pretty much anything in a single shot—an entire outpost can be razed to the ground with no more than two shots. Combine this with the Gear Mod that lets you carry twice as many rockets, and you're essentially a god among men while wielding it.
** Also the jetpack unlocked in the "Air Assault" DLC. This changes the somewhat challenging wingsuit / wiregun / parachute gameplay to a jetpack with a recharging thruster and ''on-board weaponry'', with a guided missile launcher and a powerful minigun. There's barely any need to use vehicles after getting it, and it was heavily criticised in reviews of the DLC for rendering so many of the core gameplay mechanics utterly redundant.

** The Online Leaderboards for non pc users (who can just block the game using a simple rule in the windows firewall). As soon as the game loses connection, the game pauses and asks you whether you want to try and reconnect or if you want to play offline. Can't connect online anymore for whatever reason? You're forced to repeat the choice until you get back to the servers. Want to play offline? Yeah, that's a good fix... until you open up your Commlink (which you ''will'' do to find missions, side missions and collectibles) and then the game tries and reconnects ''without asking''! ''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave And there's no option to turn it off!]]'' (Save disconnecting your console from the Internet entirely.)

* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo General Sebastiano Di Ravello]] is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a sociopathic {{pyromaniac}}. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, in addition to starting a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed [[PlayerCharacter Rico Rodriguez]]'s parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment When introduced]], he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining Bavarium fast enough. When he has a a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".

** All the side challenges. They feel like a way to pad out the game and justify the always online leaderboards, but they can get unreasonably difficult to beat - in fact, a good portion of them are genuinely impossible to get 5 gears on unless you spent some time upgrading with some mods and/or found a better tool than the default one it starts you with (which also doubles as GuideDangIt since in most other games activities would be unavailable until you reached a level where you can beat it). It's extra silly when you realise to get those gear mods you have to ... play those challenges. Basically, the game expects you to play through a bunch of the challenges once to get a bunch of gears to unlock upgrades so you can replay all of those challenges to get the full 5 gears. These are not fun enough to justify playing through them at least twice. The worst part, though, is that many fun and useful mechanics are locked behind these gears (such as the ability to close the wingsuit as mentioned above, as well as things like vehicle nitrous and booster explosives), so you're semi-forced to do the challenges unless you really don't care about any of them. As [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] put it, "the best part of the game is when you're doing really cool, crazy, chaotic things, but the game is also actively encouring you not to do it!"

** Even the [=PS4=] port has become abysmal regarding [[UpToEleven framerate issues]] as of Patch 1.03.

* DisappointingLastLevel: The final region of Insula Striate is huge compared to Fonte and Dracon, and also incredible empty. While there are plenty of towns along the south coast, the entire northern half the island is just a few scattered military bases (and plenty of ruined towns due to something called [[NoodleIncident "The burning of the North"]]) and liberating these parts can be a serious chore if just for the sheer amount of distance you have to traverse between settlements. By this point, you should have captured several airbases. Fly the not-f18 bomber over these settlements and bomb them for the convenience.

** Side Street Sprint is another particularity nasty one. Set both offroad through farmland and on narrow city streets in a game with very few cars capable of effectively tackling both terrain varieties, combined with some of the sharpest turns of any land course.

* AccidentalAesop: There's a surprising emphasis on remembering and honoring the past. It's the point of two of the collectibles (lighting candles at shrines and paying homage at tombs) and flavor text for military bases often mentions Di Ravello having some longstanding building or geographical feature destroyed to make room for it (Vis Electra used to be a six hundred-year-old vineyard).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The second game involves destroying essential bits of public infrastructure (water towers, gas stations, and so on) that gave players feelings of an InferredHolocaust of an EsotericHappyEnding. Here, chaos is primarily done by destroying relatively non-essential structures, like statues.
* CompleteMonster: [[TheGeneralissimo General Sebastiano Di Ravello]] is the brutal dictator of Medici, as well as a sociopathic {{pyromaniac}}. Having usurped Medici's democratic politician Rosa Maunuela, in addition to starting a civil war, in which he had President Dante ripped limb from limb, Di Ravello also uses forced labor to mine the magnetic and explosive element of bavarium, to make super weapons for world domination; it is implied he wishes to do this to satisfy his pyromaniac needs. It is also revealed he was behind the coup that killed [[PlayerCharacter Rico Rodriguez]]'s parents, as part of a deal he made with the Agency. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment When introduced]], he orders one of his men to kill themselves for failing to stop the rebels, before ordering his army to raze the liberated town of Costa Del Porto. He later has Dimah tortured for not mining bavarium fast enough. When he has a a bavarium missile built, he decides to test it by launching it on another town. Exasperated by Rico's interfering with his plans, he beats one of his men to death and orders another attack and calls for the assassination of Manuela. Even when defeated, he has no remorse for his actions, only lamenting the end of his empire before deciding it's only fitting his legacy "ends in flames".
* DemonicSpiders: While all drones [[note]] Introduced in "Sky Fortres" and "Mech Land Assault" expansions. [[/note]] can be quite a headache to deal with, the [[https://justcause.fandom.com/wiki/Suppression_drone Suppression Drones]] stand out as particularly nightmarish. For starters, Suppression Drones are almost as big as tanks and just as tough. Second, they use Bavarium-infused miniguns that inflict big damage and some models even fire ''anti-air missiles'' that can track you while wing-suiting. And those Bavarium-infused missiles pack a punch, so you better be good with the barrel roll technique or they'll make ''very'' short work of you. All this makes them quite a challenge when they do show up, especially if you're not equipped with a rocket launcher or grenade launcher weapon. Also worth noting that they make strange, robotic/animal sounds that can be [[HellIsThatNoise quite unsettling to hear]] and give them a very eerie presence.

* DisappointingLastLevel: The final region of Insula Striate is huge compared to Fonte and Dracon, and also incredible empty. While there are plenty of towns along the south coast, the entire northern half the island is just a few scattered military bases (and plenty of ruined towns due to something called [[NoodleIncident "The burning of the North"]]) and liberating these parts can be a serious chore if just for the sheer amount of distance you have to traverse between settlements.

* SpiritualLicensee: The Bavarium Wingsuit has its own mounted machine gun, missile launcher, and jet pack. Using only these tools makes the game so much like IronMan you can't help but wonder if Avalanche wasn't working on a game for that.

* DemonicSpiders: While all drones [[note]] Introduced in "Sky Fortres" and "Mech Land Assault" expansions. [[/note]] can be quite a headache to deal with, the [[https://justcause.fandom.com/wiki/Suppression_drone Suppression Drones]] stand out as particularly nightmarish. For starters, Suppression Drones are almost as big as tanks and just as tough. Second, they use Bavarium-infused miniguns that inflict big damage and some models even fire ''anti-air missiles'' that can track you while wing-suiting. And those Bavarium-infused missiles pack a punch, so you better but good with the barrel roll technique or they'll make ''very'' short work of you. All this makes them quite a challenge when they do show up, especially if you're not equipped with a rocket launcher or grenade launcher weapon. Also worth noting that they make strange, robotic/animal sounds that can be [[HellIsThatNoise quite unsettling to hear]] and give them a very eerie presence.

* DemonicSpiders: While all drones [[note]] Introduced in "Sky Fortres" and "Mech Land Assault" expansions. [[/note]] can be quite a headache to deal with, the Suppression Drones stand out as particularly nightmarish. For starters, Suppression Drones are almost as big as tanks and just as tough. Second, they use Bavarium-infused miniguns that inflict big damage and some models even fire ''anti-air missiles'' that can track you while wing-suiting. And those Bavarium-infused missiles pack a punch, so you better but good with the barrel roll technique or they'll make ''very'' short work of you. All this makes them quite a challenge when they do show up, especially if you're not equipped with a rocket launcher or grenade launcher weapon. Also worth noting that they make strange, robotic/animal sounds that can be [[HellIsThatNoise quite unsettling to hear]] and give them a very eerie presence.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Rico leaving the Agency because they want to keep Di Ravello in power could've been a critical examination of foreign policy and whether something right for the country can still be morally wrong, but is simply used to show that ItsPersonal for Rico.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the storyline mission "Rico and the Rose", Rico must use a fighter jet to protect Rosa Manuela's plane from enemy jets that are loyal to Di Ravello. At one point, Rosa's plane becomes damaged so Rico flies near it and takes control of the plane by ''throwing Rosa's pilot out of it and to his death''. Rico essentially kills an ''innocent person''. [[HeroInsurance But he is never called out on this for some reason]].

* MostAnnoyingSound:
** Di Ravello's speeches over speakers. When liberating a town, you'll probably end up wanting to pull those down first.
** The obnoxious rapid heartbeat that plays whenever Rico is low on health. Which will be heard often, as Rico barely has any health/damage resistance in this game.
** The bands playing in each liberated town will soon become very tempting targets simply due to how incessant their playing is.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Rico leaving the Agency because they want to keep Di Ravello in power could've been a critical examination of foreign policy and whether something right for the country can still be morally wrong, but is simply used to show that ItsPersonal for Rico.

** Unlocking all vehicles from the Rebel Drop by bringing them to a garage (which is required for 100% completion) isn't particularly hard overall, except for one ''brutal'' example: the Squalo X7. The fact that [[GuideDangIt it spawns in one or two specific places across the entire map]] is the least of your worries.

* EarWorm: The "doodoodoo doodoo do" celebration music that plays in liberated settlements.

** All the side challenges. They feel like a way to pad out the game and justify the always online leaderboards, but they can get unreasonably difficult to beat - in fact, a good portion of them are genuinely impossible to get 5 gears on unless you spent some time upgrading with some mods and/or found a better tool than the default one it starts you with (which also doubles as GuideDangIt since in most other games activities would be unavailable until you reached a level where you can beat it). But the worst part is that in order to get those gear mods you have to ... play those challenges. Basically, the game expects you to play through a bunch of the challenges once to get a bunch of gears to unlock upgrades so you can replay all of those challenges to get the full 5 gears. These are not fun enough to justify playing through them at least twice.

** All the side challenges. They feel like a way to pad out the game and justify the always online leaderboards. But far worse is how unreasonably difficult they are to beat. A lot of races cannot be beaten with the vehicle given to you, and you have to wait a while to get a vehicle that can actually win. Destruction challenges cannot be won with the destructive tool given to you and can only be beaten by finding an attack helicopter somewhere. But the worst part is how from a lot of challenges you need to unlock upgrades for Rico to beat them, which can only be done by completing challenges, which means you have to beat them once to get enough gears to unlock an upgrade so you can complete a later challenge so you can unlock an upgrade so you can go back to the first challenge to beat if more fully. These are not fun enough to justify playing through them at least twice.

** Monte Dracon Tour has a lot of branching paths, many of which makes it impossible to get 5 gears with the ones that do being far from the obvious ones. It also one of the few wingsuit courses where you are pretty much forced to use the air brake at a couple of points, normally a death sentence in these challenges.
** Five gearing Mountain Marathon Tour will make every other wingsuit course feel trivial by comparison. Not only does it have a lot of hard to pull of dives and turns, but it also requires you to navigate around a tall tree at high speed and ends with an almost completely vertical dive down a cliff and at an angle.

** Side Street Sprint is another particularity nasty one. Set booth offroad trough farmland and on narrow city streets in a game with very few cars capable of effectively tackling booth combined with some of the sharpest turns of any land course.
** Due to a bug that was never patched, the Laguna Blast and Round the Bend Blast challenge's are borderline impossible to get all 5 Gears for, due to an invisible wall right near the target that causes some of the target vehicles to be unaffected by the blast unless the bomb car is launched at a very specific angle.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The final fight against Di Ravello, while taking place in a volcano, involves him using a helicopter equipped with a power shield, which the player has destroyed a dozen of times through the missions and clearing outposts. The fight is generally agreed to be pretty disappointing. Doubles as a DisappointingLastLevel since that's all there is to the mission.

** Due to a bug that was never patched, the Laguna Blast challenge is borderline impossible to get all 5 Gears for, due to an invisible wall right near the target that causes some of the target vehicles to be unaffected by the blast unless the bomb car is launched at a very specific angle.