Danger Rising

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Danger Rising is the third downloadable expansion pack for Just Cause 4.

The main poster/promotional image for the expansion.

Description

Initial short description was "Danger, Rico’s former employer mysteriously appears in Solís, bringing advanced technology, secret weapons and specially trained operatives.."

Longer description was released as the expansion pass description on the official Square Enix store: "Armed with a new prototype hover board, Rico vows to take down the Agency after learning of their plans to eliminate him. Tom Sheldon joins Rico on his mission and the pair begin by investigating a large submarine which has surfaced ominously off the coast of Solis. Could Rico be out of his depth against The Agency? The odds are mounting and the hunter is about to become the hunted."

After the release of the trailer, the description was set to: "In Danger Rising, Rico vows to take down the Agency after learning of their plans to eliminate him. Tom Sheldon joins Rico on his mission to stop the Agency with the all new game-changing Hoverboard and gravity-defying The Stormalong EM Zero – a gravity gun that significantly upgrades Rico's arsenal!"

Danger Rising downloadable content became available on September 6th, 2019. Gold edition and expansion owners received a 7 day early access and became available for them on August 29th.

According to Victoria Setian, senior producer at Avalanche Studios, this is the largest one of the expansions.

Plot summary

The Danger Rising DLC is unlocked after Agency Distress Beacon, but plot-wise it's set after the completion of Operation Illapa.

After the destruction of Project Illapa by Army of Chaos, The Agency sends a large fleet of seven submarines to Solís. Tom was tipped off about their arrival and invites Rico to investigate. They are ambushed, and manage to fight off the attackers. They then realize Rico was being tracked by The Agency through his Grappler, which he kept even after quitting. They also eventually learn The Agency presence here are led by Emerson Miller, and while elimination of Rico and Sheldon is of high priority, their ulterior motive remains unclear.

After destroying all other submarines, Tom locates Miller and his flagship, the USS Statesman, so Rico could confront him. For more details, please refer the mission's respective article.

New items

Vehicles

• C3 Canvasback Hovercraft - A new version of the Agency Hovercraft.
• A5 Coyote Assault Chopper - The Agency version of the Firebrand Scout Chopper, but can also drop naval mines.
• Hoverboard for Rico.
• Several large submarines that surround Solís. These are stationary vehicles and act as enemy bases that must be completed.
  • USS Conquest.
  • USS Watchdog.
  • USS Visionary.
  • USS Whitefeather.
  • USS Codetalker.
  • USS Westward.
  • USS Statesman - Miller's command ship. This is featured in the mission Rogue Agent and it can be visited afterwards.
  • Unnamed 8th submarine. This is a wreck near USS Visionary, and is said to be a Black Hand wreck.
• 2 types of drones:
  • Small machine gun drones.
  • Bigger drones that operatives can stand on.

Weapons

• Stormalong EM Zero - Gravity "gun", with a function similar to a Mech GRIP.
• Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug - Powerful shotgun that propels enemies away with a secondary fire that shoots boosters.
• Yellowstone Auto Sniper Rifle - Automatic sniper rifle that can deploy a remotely controlled drone.
• Niagara 9mm Bullpup - Assault rifle. It can lock on targets if needed.

Enemies

Main article: The Agency.

There are 3 types of Agency operatives. All of them are equipped with grappling hooks, marking the first time in the series with enemies that can grapple around if Just Cause 2 Multiplayer and Just Cause 3 Multiplayer are not included.

• First are normal agents equipped with the Niagara 9mm Bullpup, Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug, and less commonly the Yellowstone Auto Sniper. These wear tan fatigues.
• Second are agents wearing green. They seem to have barely more armor than the normal agents. They're armed with the Niagara 9mm Bullpup, Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug, and rarely Yellowstone Auto Sniper.
• Third are "ranking agents". There's only about 10 of them, but they're quite a bit tougher. Rico even recognizes a few of them as former colleagues. These are all armed with the Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug.

All of them have a grappler that looks the same as the Just Cause 3 grappler, but with only Just Cause 2 grappler functionality. They grapple themselves onto walls and ceilings a lot and can also grapple onto drones at will.

Trivia

• Compared to the not so successful sales of Just Cause 4 and its other DLCs (On Steam, 61% of the base game's reviews were positive, as of 17 Aug 2021), the Danger Rising received much better reception (with 88% reviews being positive). According to this, the developers listened to the suggestions and criticism of players and reviewers and addressed some of them in Danger Rising.
• The Agency is known to possess advanced technology, such as personal shields, which were previously mentioned at the end of the Bavarium Sea Heist DLC for Just Cause 3. The Agency also has some bavarium due to their past alliance with Sebastiano Di Ravello, although their supply is surely limited, because that alliance ended and the new government of Medici doesn't want to sell that technology, or resource. Ultimately Bavarium did not make an appearance in this DLC.
• This DLC was initially known as "Danger" and later as "Agency Strikes Back", before finally being renamed to "Danger Rising".
• Content related to Danger Rising are immediately avaliable after completing Agency Distress Beacon, where Rico meets Sheldon on Solís. However, as mentioned before and implied in dialogue, the DLC is actually set after Operation Illapa.
  • On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that The Agency has ties to Oscar Espinosa, and is technically aware of Rico's whereabouts, so naturally they would want to defend their own interests against his meddling at any point in the game.
• For unknown reasons, this DLC is only able to be completed up to 92%. As such, this makes 100% in Just Cause 4 impossible. The reason for this is unknown, but there are some theories:
  • There's some cut game content that they forgot or failed to completely remove from the released DLC, so there are some missions or tasks that the game counts as part of 100% completion, but you can't do them since they were removed.
  • Danger Rising does have some notable cut but not fully cut content:
    • Agents are said to have a program to throw grenades, but never do it in the released version of the game.
    • There is an Agency version of the Daggershark Jetboat that never appears in the game, but can be spawned in using mods.
  • They could have messed up the calculation. The last 8% could have been meant for something else.
  • The game didn't register something being completed and added 0% to the completion upon something being completed.
• This is the only DLC in Just Cause 4 that does not add a new region to the map.

Gallery

Initial announcement picture.

Screenshot from the first teaser. There's a fleet of giant submarines.

USS Watchdog.

The submarine is surrounded by floating destructible objects.

A5 Coyote Assault Chopper.

An Agency cruiser, the front end of USS Conquest and a few A5 Coyote Assault Choppers.

C3 Canvasback Hovercraft.

An agent is using a new white gun. This turned out to be the Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug.

Rico is flying on the hoverboard. The weapon on his back is the new Stormalong EM Zero.

An agent wielding a Sequoia 370 Mag-Slug.

The USS Whitefeather at night.

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