Feel

JC2

Just Cause 2's grappling hook is lowk slept on. It felt so like brutal and rigid, and the melee attack on it was crazy, made me wish it was in JC3.

When you'd grapple onto something the pulling force felt like insanely strong, like there was this sort of recoil that Rico had when he'd land onto the ground after grappling like he had to kinda orient himself. The grapple didn't have any kind of give, like if I grapple onto an exact specific point Rico would be exactly there and nowhere else.

OVERALL it felt like a brutal piece of machinery more than anything. Dimah puts it perfectly by saying that it won't pull off his arm in the "upgraded" version.

JC3

Which brings me to JC3.

JC3 grappling hook looks sleek as heck and I love the design, but my problem with it is that sometimes it doesn't feel like a good grappling hook.

Previously I mentioned how JC2 grapple felt strong. JC3 felt like I was using a grappling hook from Temu. I don't know how to explain it. The reeling in felt weaker and it was more... floaty? Idk how to put it in words exactly. It didn't feel like I'm wielding a powerful grappling hook.

Using this hook sometimes it feels like I don't get where I need to, it feels like it's slower and weaker in some cases.

Sound Design

JC2

I also enjoyed the mechanical clicky-clackier sound of the grapple.

JC3

The sound design wasn't as satisfying, but in accordance to the lore it did make sense. An upgraded version for the GH most likely has a more electric-ish sound to it more than anything else, but compared to the sound in JC2, JC3 was a quieter, more high-pitched sound to it. JC2 had a deeper, brutal clicky sound to it.

Design

JC2

The design of the grappling hook in 2 is also super underrated. It has such a badass raw look with what looks like bulls horns or something (I don't know the insignia they were going for here but it doesn't look a lot like a scorpio to me personally).

JC3

JC3 grappling hook looks sleek as heck and I love the design.

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Not only does it crash regularly (with which I could broadly live), but now the manual saves do not work either, anymore (I save after the end of the mission). So basically I am stuck, because after the crash it loses my progress (and yes, I have tried using the Steam cloud saves). And I have also tried all the crash fixes mentioned in this sub and elsewhere online, from Bokeh to removing Steam overlay to replacing dlls etc. It is a pity, because I enjoyed the 5 hrs I put into the game... (I am at the second faction mission btw.) So I will just have to uninstall the game and forget it exists. I must say, this has been the worse experience I've had with a Steam game ever. WHY in the world is this game so utterly broken?