3GB Just Cause 3 Day One Update Explodes Bugs And Optimises Performance

It’s not even day one just yet, but Just Cause 3 has already received its Day One Update. If you’ve managed to get a copy early through whatever means then it’s available to download now, weighing in at a fairly hefty 3GB. I say early because it seems as if quite a few people have obtained copies already, thanks to a number of stores breaking street dates.


Just Cause 3 went gold well over a month ago,  so Avalanche Studios has had plenty of time to tackle any out of the box issues. With this first update we get a number of performance improvements and optimisations, along with the usual bug fixes and last minute tweaks.

Just Cause 3 Fixes and Improvements

• The Medician Department of Nature Conservation has pored over every inch of our beautiful island for cracks and removed them
• The Medician Department of Motor Vehicles has taken measures to acquire poorly-tuned vehicles and burn them
• Di Ravello’s Militia has been given a refresher course in combat and spatial awareness as per General Ravello’s recent mandate - This looks to be a boost to AI, presumably to make them behave less like glorified target practice.
• The Medician Department of Infrastructure has made some adjustments to certain roads to prevent traffic jams - I love a good traffic jam for carnage so I’m sad to this tweaked.
• Various stability/crash fixes
• Various camera fixes
• Various Havok destruction optimisations which should help improve frames per second performance
• Various localisation fixes and updates to suit different territories
• Various worldsim improvements - Relates to general open world actions and means citizens go about their day in a more believable manner.

Just Cause 3 Missions, Challenges and Random Encounters in the Open World

• Various minor mission bug fixes
• Various minor challenge bug fixes
• Fixed some various issues with Random Encounters

Just Cause 3 Graphics and Animation Optimisations

• Various Level of Detail (LOD) optimisations - Alterations to the point at which textures and modules switch between high and low detail versions.
• Various lighting optimisations
• Various animation optimisations

Just Cause 3 Audio Tweaks

• Various level and EQ adjustments
• Rebels riding with Rico Rodriguez will now be less abusive to one another. Someone must have let this get a bit of control if it’s getting special attention.
• Fixed a few rare audio distortion issues involving destructible objects with lots of moving parts