Just Cause 3 and 4 "difficulty" | Fandom (2025)

The Medici Military isn't that big of a threat, but just be wary when Urga Bkolos 2100s and/or CS Odjurs plus CS Navajos are in the area

Rico's grappler when upgraded sufficiently can make Rico evasive enough to avoid any enemy fire

Just Cause 4 on the other hand

The use of jet fighters in heat have not been seen since the days of JC(1), so heat in JC4 is probably the hardest difficulty of heat ever in a Just Cause game (though some Ulysses-McCoy Redclouds can still destroy any vehicle in one strike from unguided missiles)

Fellhawk Jet Fighters still fire unguided missiles, but these are four at a time, and some vehicles can only survive two or at best four rounds of unguided quad missiles

In short,

Just Cause 3 heat isn't too difficult until like heat level 5, and Just Cause 4 heat because of the no heat levels is basically having to stay on your feet and be wary of your surroundings at all times

Especially when no minute passes without a tank spawning

What is really annoying about Just Cause 4's BH is how easy it is for them to stun you. For instance, when I was playing I was fighting the BH in the frontier for fun, until a Fighter Jet comes in, stuns me with rockets, a Longbow Cannon shoots and stuns me as well, and I don't even know what the fuck took the third shot, but it stunlocked me and basically I died and could do nothing about it.

Enemies (at least to me) are easy to kill, but you have to be mobile at ALL times otherwise it's stunlock hell, and sometimes they still nail the artillery shots on you, and if you are on ground you have to wait about 2 seconds to get up everytime you are shot with cannos/rockets

And with how high BH Fighter Jets fly, it's almost impossible to get a hold on them, neither with the Grappling Hook, Tethering, nor any AA weapon.

TL:DR: JC4's BH are bad because stunlock.

That just shows that you're doing it wrong by not staying in the air enough and by not grappling around frequently enough.

Otherwise it's like you're arguing that you don't mind Rico having god-like powers, but you insist that all enemies be harmless and stationary "fish in a bucket", or "siting ducks".

It also shows that you haven't played JC1. We didn't have a wingsuit then and the early grappler could only attach to vehicles (no ground and no buildings). And at the highest level of Heat in JC1 they come at you with hordes of jet fighters and heavy attack helicopters that launch 4 missiles in a single shot and if you're on the ground, all you can do is run with a hail of bullets in your back and see how every vehicle you approach (with intent to hijack) is blown up in front of you.

If anything, thanks to the powers of the JC2 and later grappler, Rico is unstoppably powerful now. JC3 and JC4 even provide a number of super-weapons that only the player can use (lightning guns, electro-weapons that blow up vehicles, multi-shot missile launchers, guided bullets, ...). And his health regenerates to 100% with in a few seconds.

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Yes you obviously have not experienced heat in JC1.

The heat there is almost as tough as the heat in JC4.

Imagine fighter jets and helicopters that could fire missiles that while aren't homing, could instantly devastate you and/or your vehicle in under 5 seconds.

With JC2-JC4's grappler, evasiveness has never been easier.

Just grapple to a place and keep moving around.

Use shift to reel yourself in faster on PC, and use whatever controls on console to reel yourself in faster there.

Heat in JC4 I admit is probably the hardest out of any Just Cause game, but with extreme maneuverability with your grappling hook, you can survive.

I don't consider killing Rico to be an acceptable method for heat loss, but I had no idea that going for a swim is helpful.

Entering a large cave is probably also helpful, because there are normally no NPCs in them.