The explosion simulator known as Just Cause 3 is coming soon. From the 1st of December, you can explore the sandbox and blow up all the things. If you want to blow up things with friends, though, that’s not an option at launch. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be added in later.
Speaking to GameSpot, game director Roland Lesterlin explained that Avalanche did look at adding a multiplayer mode to Just Cause 3:
We did talk about it a lot. The modding community even created a multiplayer mod for Just Cause 2 that was super fun, really cool. The same way that Just Cause 2 was known as a beautiful sandbox in a giant open world, and it surprised many people that consoles could even do that, we wanted to have that same experience… with updated physics and player mechanics, and concentrate first and foremost in the main player.
What we found was that a lot of players loved sharing videos of what they did. So we wanted to work on the asynchronous side of things. The challenges, ghost mode within leaderboards, being able to challenge your friends to beat feats you did in the world. Having these great PS4 Share feature and the Xbox upload feature, and Steam now has a spectator mode too. Having all these things in there feels perfect for a Just Cause game. It doesn’t mean we wouldn’t think about what to do with multiplayer in the future, but for this first time around we wanted to pour all our love and energy into a great single-player sandbox to start with.
I really like asynchronous multiplayer. Sure, it’s not the same as running around with your friends in the moment, but it’s cool to leave them challenges to try to beat in their own time. At least people can have some of the fun of multiplayer without coordinating schedules. That said, I’m glad to hear that they might still bring in multiplayer at a later date – the Just Case 2 multiplayer modes ended up making a ton of people happy and it would be nice for it to come from the developers this time around.
Last Updated: November 11, 2015
konfab
November 11, 2015 at 20:21
Just cause it is a single player game, doesn’t mean it isn’t fun.
Enigma
November 11, 2015 at 20:35
I see what you did there…
WitWolfy
November 12, 2015 at 06:58
Meh… Most games are better off without MP. Look as AC Syndicate and the UC collection. Didnt miss it at all.
Allykhat
November 12, 2015 at 08:50
The Multiplayer Mod added a lot of life to JC2, I think if they release the MP after launching the SP it may be beneficial. Wait till everyone has clocked the game then bring them back with an MP mode
iusedtobe(a)regular
November 12, 2015 at 11:11
Focus on single player is what I like to hear, leave the MP to FPS and rather give us a great SP experience.