Just Cause 2 Vehicle glitches

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This page is a sub-page of Just Cause 2 Bugs and glitches. It was created, because the bugs page became too large and difficult to properly organize.

Vehicle glitches are vehicle related bugs and glitches. These are problems, caused by the game programming. The game platform tag ( PC  ,  360  ,  PS3  , or  All Platforms  ) should be added to all of them.

All of them have to be marked for correct status too:

• "[Confirmed]" - When a glitch has been seen by more people, or can be easily reproduced.
• "[Unconfirmed]" - When nobody else has seen it and there are no pictures/videos of it.
• "[Resolved]" - When there is at least 1 known way to solve the problem. In most cases simply reloading a saved game is enough.

Surviving a vehicle explosion [Confirmed]

JC2 Glitch Showcase -- Delayed vehicle explosion death

 All Platforms  

If you drive a vehicle like a car or truck off a mountain, sometimes it will explode, but you will still be in the car and alive. The player's death is delayed until the vehicle comes to a halt.

Equiping a 2-handed weapon in a vehicle [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

JC2 Glitch Showcase -- Driving with a two-handed weapon equipped

This is a fun and simple glitch. If you have a Shimuzu ATV 110 and you stunt jump into it from you parachute while having your 2-handed weapon equipped, you can shoot your 2-handed weapon from your ATV.

It also works with any other single person vehicle that isn't a motorcycle. The steering wheel will move as if Rico was steering it, but Rico's arms will not be touching it, making it look like he is moving it with his mind.

Car suspension glitch [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

Suspension glitch.

Car suspension can sometimes appear much higher than it should. Entering the car will fix this.

Stuck in the air after exiting a car [Unconfirmed]

 All Platforms  

Very rarely, exiting a vehicle (like a car or truck) while it is rolling will cause the player to teleport out of the vehicle, and the player will be stuck in mid-air and be frozen in place with his arms stretched out like he is holding on to an invisible steering wheel. Be warned, the only way to get out is to load another saved game or to get killed. However, when the vehicle is destroyed by the enemy, Rico will sometimes return to the walking position.

Rico's arm, stuck in the back of a bike [Resolved]

 All Platforms  

Sometimes when turning on a Makoto and jumping off Rico's arm will become stuck in the back part of the bike. A solution is to exit to the main menu.

Shaking boats and cars [Unconfirmed]

 All Platforms  

Sometimes Kuang Sunsets have a glitch where half of the ship starts shaking manically. 

Sometimes cars will begin to shake erratically making them unbearable to drive.

Civilian vehicle crashes [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

This isn't really a glitch. These are examples of the traffic a.i. being less than perfect.

• Planes will sometimes crash into the Motorway/Highway bridge towers in Panau City. They can also crash at the Panau Falls Casino.
• Cars may crash into barriers and explode. This was seen at an intersection in the snowy region.
• Some boats in rivers/canals will crash into each other or the river banks. Boats can also crash into beaches. When that happens, the driver jumps out.
• Some cars spawn inside each other and explode.

Vehicle discoloration [Confirmed]

 PC    360  

Occasionally, some vehicles will change colour. So far:

• G9 Eclipses turning chrome, with lots of detailed reflections.
• Civadier 999 turning bright white.
• Aeroliner 474 jets turning chrome, with lots of detailed reflections.
• Niseco Coastal D22 turning bright white or bright green.
• Sakura Aquila City turning bright white.
• All Tuk Tuk Laas turning red during some Races like "Up Your Alley." They'll look like the one you drive in the race.
• The red Fengding EC14FD2, located at a Reapers stronghold can turn white, when the sky turns dark. Upon entry, the whole truck "lights up" like neon, in a very white light. Every time Rico gets out, the light would go off.
• Si-47 Leopard turning jet black and bright white.
• Civilian Niseco D18's will turn military green when driving the military green Niseco D18 from Pulau Berapi near civilians.
• The red Columbi Excelsior from One Deadly Sin can turn into a white/silverish color.
• Marten Storm III turning jet black.
• Pattani Gluay Touring turning bright white.

Some have speculated that after driving around in the game for a long period of time, usually between 30 and 60 minutes, vehicles will start to glow.

Usually when in idle the vehicle will be normal white color, but in use by a civilian, soldier or Rico, the vehicle will have its abnormal glow, this is demonstrated in this video (link to YouTube) and in this video (also YouTube).

So far the only known fix is to restart the game.

Parachute related glitches

Infinite fall with parachute [Confirmed]

JC2 Glitch Showcase -- Staying still in mid-air

 All Platforms  

Not really a glitch, but still kind of interesting. If you hold left and down, you hang still in the air.

Invisible Parachute [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

Just Cause 2 Odd Glitch

If you open the parachute in a certain situation, the parachute will be invisible. You can still perform any action you could if it were visible.

Easy stunt driver points [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

Just Cause 2 easy stunt driver points

Grappling a car to an Aeroliner 474 at the Panau International Airport and getting into the car as the plane is taking off will give you easy stunt points.

Rowlinson K22 eagle-eye view [Resolved]

 All Platforms  

You can suddenly hit some invisible barrier, while flying a Rowlinson K22 helicopter. This causes the camera to jump around for a few seconds, after which you will have an eagle eye view of everything as if you were hundreds of meters above where you actually are. This problem may fix itself after a short time.

Underwater H-62 Quapaw [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

JC2 Oddities -- Underwater Quapaw

If you ditch it over water, it won't blow up when it hits the water. It gets glitched and goes underwater with the alarm and red lights still flashing and the sound of the blades still spinning. It goes about 5 meters deep then it resurfaces then repeats the same thing over and over.

Fly H-62 Quapaw with alarm and red lights [Confirmed]

 PC  

While flying a H-62 Quapaw you can exit it, causing the red lights and alarm to be activated and then re-enter the helicopter while you're Skydiving. You will be able to fly it normally, but the emergency lights will remain on.

Exploding military vehicles [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

Many small Military base outposts that have a Maddox FVA 45 have it in a glitched spawn point where the car should have items leaning against it, which usually causes the vehicle to catch on fire and explode, or at least obtain heavy damage when it spawns. At some locations the vehicle spawns inside a small shed, destroying the shed. This can result in the player being credited with the 50 Chaos points for the destroyed military vehicle and even gaining Heat, depending on the situation.

Near the Reapers stronghold Pemainan Racun, past a nearby Panau Military Checkpoint, a Chepachet PVD next to a Gas Station spawns inside a palm tree, causing it to explode and giving the player 50 Chaos points as the player nears. The location is X:13705; Y:25100.

Blaine's invincible Snakehead T20 [Unconfirmed]

Sometimes at Karl Blaine's Residence, there will be a glitch on the Snakehead T20 that spawns at the small dock. The Snakehead will be able to sustain fast impacts and crashes with anything. Explosives and bullets will still harm the boat. This has been fixed by an official patch.

Exiting car grenade glitch [Unconfirmed]

If you are braking whilst exiting a car, you can throw/drop a Grenade and when you have fully exited the car you can pick it back up.

Rico shooting at the Tuk Tuk Boom Booms window [Confirmed]

 PC  

There's a glitch in the PC version of the game that causes Rico to fire one of his one handed guns simultaneously every time he fires the gun on the Tuk Tuk Boom Boom. This results in a hole in the front window, which keeps getting bigger with every shot. Shooting sideways is safe, because Rico will also shoot that way. Shooting backwards will make Rico wait until the camera is pointing forward (or to the side) again to make the shot.

UH-10 Chippewa with no rotors and/or weapons [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

Just Cause 2 Invisible rotors?

There is a glitch where a UH-10 Chippewa has no rotors and seems to fly in perfect control as if it had rotors. In the video the glitched Chippewa had been hijacked. This is a relatively common glitch and can be seen in most, if not all versions of the game. The same helicopter can sometimes appear during Heat with out weapons. An unarmed rotorless helicopter is quite rare. There is no known fix for this, but at least it happens rarely. When it happens, the helicopter usually has only 1 soldier, so it's completely defenseless.

This glitch happens most frequently at Communication Outposts, when the outpost gets air support. It can also happen at Fasility Gunung Timur.

Helicopter spawning inside a building [Unconfirmed]

We used to have a video of this, but the link is broken. No further data at this time.

Entering an aircraft can make Rico teleport [Unconfirmed]

It's not known what game versions this can happen in, but it has been reported to be possible in any aircraft.

Sports cars become too common [Resolved]

 PC   This is intended behavior. If a player occupies certain vehicles, that vehicle will be used more commonly by the spawning system to minimize memory usage. You can test this yourself by visiting the Panau City Docks District and entering a sports car, as the small spawning pool there will make it seem like sports cars are suddenly very common. You can also see this in a lesser manner when driving over a highway in a garbage truck.

Pulau Berapi AH-33 Topachulas are poorly parked [Confirmed]

 All Platforms   There are two AH-33 Topachulas at the western harbor of Pulau Berapi. One spawns normally on the helipad, but the other spawns against a building. When you try to take off in it, the blades hit the building repeatedly and damage the helicopter.

Another AH-33 Topachula spawns near the SV-1007 Stonewall on the eastern part of the base. This one also has a terrible spawn point, hitting the terrain when trying to take off.

These terrible spawn points are more like design errors than bugs/glitches.

Sensitive planes [Confirmed]

 All Platforms   When double-grappling a car to a plane as it is taking off, if the car so much as bumps the plane mid air, the plane explodes and falls out of the sky. This also happens if you bump planes along side an NPC flying another plane.

Planes are much less sensitive to crash damage while their wheels are down.

Shimuzu Tracline from Black Market [Resolved]

 All Platforms  

When ordering a Shimuzu ATV 110 from the Black Market, the player will get a Shimuzu Tracline. This is supposed to happen, as the ATV 110 is not a distinct vehicle. It simply has a different name in the Black Market menu.

Civilian cars spawning in military bases [Confirmed]

 All Platforms  

Civilian vehicles can spawn on the roads inside larger bases. The vehicles get confused at the ends of the roads and try to turn around, often just crashing. This can be used to humorous effect, since civilian traffic is rarely present at such places. It only happens at a couple of specific bases. One of them is a naval base on an island somewhere in the south-east.

Chevalier Ice Breaker with wrong name [Unconfirmed]

 360  

In the black market, its name can sometimes appear as "dlc name txt 07".

Impaling a boat [Confirmed]

Sometimes, when crashing full-speed into another boat, your boat will phase through the other boat and get stuck, embedding itself in the other boat's hull and destroying both boats. Is this even a glitch, if the same thing happens in reality?

We used to have a video of this, but it was made private.

Moving vehicles while driverless [Confirmed]

 PC  

On rare occasions, it is possible to encounter any vehicle spinning in place while devoid of a driver. This results in a vehicle being parked in the middle of a road.

This glitch has been seen with a Wilforce Range X, Hamaya Oldman, and a Boyd Fireflame 544, but this can likely happen to any vehicle.

Helicopters bob up and down [Resolved]

 PC  

If available, adjusting the vsync settings is said to fix this.

No collision on the Pattani Gluay's operating spot. [Confirmed]

 PC  

Rico can walk through the steering wheel of this boat. This also occurs on the Pattani Gluay Pro 2 model. Other boats sourcing from this brand will have to be tested.

It is likely that this is intentional, to ease the coding of the boat entering animation. Otherwise these boats might need a unique entering animation where the player walks past the steering column.