Are you serious with the Barrel Bash?

[Doc]

Here's a few reasons why it sucks:

• Barrels can turn you by 180° (As can enemies and bad steering, but that's to be expected)
  
• ALL enemies are teamed up against you and NEVER attack each other
  
• Enemies don't need to destroy a barrel at the Checkpoints, you have to, or else you have to turn around, drive back and pretty much lost already.
  
• Enemies that aren't even partiticipating can show up and make your race a living hell, because their only goal is to kill you. (I had three cars come in randomly into one race and trying to ♥♥♥♥ me over... THREE)

Did you even test this minigame before release?

Apart from the barrel bash, I like the game to this point very much, but if you could patch this stuff, so I could actually have fun playing the minigame, that would be pretty nice.

And yes, I know it just got released today, so I won't expect it to be immediately patched, but some time in the future would help.

[Wildhunt78]

Agreed, a terrible and frustrating mini game that currently has no enjoyment.

[Ruinous]

Should try the one where you've a dozen enemy trying to kill you with a bomb strapped to the car on a timer. Took me a good few tries to get that one down :D

[Doc]

Originally posted by Ruinous:

Should try the one where you've a dozen enemy trying to kill you with a bomb strapped to the car on a timer. Took me a good few tries to get that one down :D

I actually had a pretty fun one.
It just had a goal, and the challenge was to just use your own path, no boundaires. Although all of the AI only split to 2 different roads, so I was the only one that raced offroad.

[Memnoch]

The thing you have to accept here is that making a mutli-platform game means a lot of baggage gets dragged along with it on to the PC. There are now certain facets of these games that HAVE to be included else risk failure. Make no mistake, much like movie sequels or remakes they have a set of bullet point items that have to be included, and they dare not exluded them. Things like:

Timed mini-games. Examples would be those chases for songs in AC: Black Flag.
Vantage points. Climb these to expose more of the map a la AC (you can blame AC for a lot of these actually!), Far Cry 3 and 4 etc.
Activities!! Yes, gameplay in an open world game has been reduced to a number of activiites dotted across the open map.

Just Cause 3 will be no different in this regard. It will have all of these I guarantee it so I can see why some have called this game Mordor with cars because that game also has some of these gameplay elements. They won't break the mold for fear of the game not selling.

[Holo The Wise]

I completed my first run of this frustrating mini race. After failing 6 times figure i try not steering and letting off the gas when i hit them, didnt burn out once on impact, then again it may be luck. But every check point no spin 180

[RoRo™]

I've only done one of these so far, but I didn't really find it to be that much trouble? None of the barrels threw my car 180 degrees, and the AI sucks so badly, I didn't find them that tough to just pass and outrun.

Do these become more frustrating in the later points of the game or something? (I'm only in Gutgash's territory right now.)

[PlevisVesel]

If you choose a light fast car, it will be turned around by the barrels. You need to stop accelerating before you hit the barrels and hit them straight on. If the car is angled it will swerve.
Another way is to get a heavier car.
Problem is that when you choose the car at the start, YOU HAVE NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CLUE WHICH IS WHICH.
As for the enemies ganging up on you, they are easily dispatched with the shotgun, especially since you start at their backs and most will have their gas tanks exposed.

[Memnoch]

Also if you need to retry a race it doesn't give you a chance to change your car. You have to quite out of the race and then go back and restart. An option to change a perhaps poorly chosen car would have been the way to go.

[PlevisVesel]

There are a lot of bad design choices:
- Not being able to choose a different car if you lose a race
- Not seeing the stats of other cars
- Not being able to fast travel with other vehicles. Clearing up minefields is a damn chore.
- Not being able to store a melee weapon in the car.
- Not having a minimap in the damn strongholds, to see where the hell the project sites are located. - Not being able to run in the damn strongholds
- Really small storage space for ammo. I mean come on the max is 7 shells? Really?
- Not being able to fast travel to liberated camps, this artificially increasing the length of the game with boring driving

[Memnoch]

Regarding the minefields:

1. You don't need the buggy to find them, it's just easier. They will appear if you are near enough to them.

2. You can find the mines in them without the buggy, you just need to be "lucky" enough to drive over them. I've found 1 that way but never found all three. It's surprisingly hard to find the mines!

[FreedomFighter]

How to win any Death Race race.
1. Fully upgraded and buy all Magnum part.
2. Use Arcangel on those race.
3. ?????.
4. Harpoon the ♥♥♥♥ out of them.

[PlevisVesel]

Originally posted by Memnoch:

Regarding the minefields:

1. You don't need the buggy to find them, it's just easier. They will appear if you are near enough to them.

2. You can find the mines in them without the buggy, you just need to be "lucky" enough to drive over them. I've found 1 that way but never found all three. It's surprisingly hard to find the mines!

Yeah you can find them, but they kinda blow your car up. One doesn't kill you, but you need to wait for Chumbucket to fix it fully to get the next one. That takes a looooot of time. I'd rather take the buggy out. Especially now that I have the lvl4 shotgun and I can pretty one shot kill most vehicles

[+]3D[+NuclearRodent]

yeah the races ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suck. great game, poor playtesting on the minigames

[Judge Lazar]

Just wait until you try and use the "rockstar energy drink" promo vehicle. It's so small you can pass between barrels.

My advice is just kill all the other racers. You don't get penalized for it and eventually ammo will not be an issue. At least that way you can focus on driving and some of the races have short cuts.

Also don't worry too much about Griffa tokens either. You will get enough to fully upgrade Max from other things. Just worry about finishing and unloacking the special vehicles if you're trying to 100%

[mckrackin5324]

When the Magnum Opus is not an option,the race is not an option...for me.
And I ONLY race if the story requires it...Mario Cart sucks. lol