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This is a list of all known bugs and glitches in Just Cause 4 and their solutions.

Bugs and glitches are problems with the games programming that result in errors, crashes, omissions and/or unexpected behavior. Most cause problems during play, some can be used to exploit and gain an advantage in the game, or to just have some fun.

See also: Bugs and glitches disambiguation.

Common info about the article[]

All glitches should be marked with the game platform tags:  PC  ,  PS4  ,  PS5  ,  Xbox One  , or  All Platforms  .

Just Cause 4 has a number of patches (see Just Cause 4 Patch history), but not everything is fixed.

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. If more patches have come out since the report, a glitch may again become unconfirmed.
  • "[Resolved]" - When there is at least 1 known way to solve the problem. In most cases simply reloading a saved game is enough.
  • "[Semi-resolved]" - When a solution works in only some cases, or if the problem keeps reappearing.

Keep in mind that not everyone will necessarily encounter each of these. Some of them are rare and may be difficult to reproduce.

Also keep in mind that the game developers do not necessarily read the wiki. This is not an official JC4 bug-report site. We have some glitches listed at the wiki, because they're known to be common and because we know the solutions to some, not because the developers would read them.

Standard thing to try in case of major reoccurring glitches with the PC Steam version: Open the Steam main window and then click on the "LIBRARY" tab at the top. Then right-click on "Just Cause 4". Then click "Properties...". Then click on the "LOCAL FILES" tab. Then click on "VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES..." Then Steam checks the game files and replaces any that seem to be corrupt.

Planes do cartwheels [Resolved][]

 PS4    Xbox One  

Planes and aircraft will occasionally do cartwheels or spin around very quickly. For AI, this is speculated to be a pathing error, but for the player, it may occur when flying close to a tornado.

This seems to have been fixed by one of the patches.

Some game setting keep resetting themselves[]

Screen resolution keeps resetting [Confirmed][]

 PC   (Windows 7 and Windows 10)

If the screen is 1920x1080, the game automatically sets it to 1280x720 almost every time the game is turned on. It's easy to set it back to what it should be when customizing the graphics settings, but for some reason this setting wants to go back to this default.

This is believed to occur when the game automatically detects that the CPU might be below requirements and then adjusts accordingly. The game might still easily be able to run at a preferred resolution. The player is advised to try their options.

Fullscreen option resetting [Unconfirmed][]

 PC   (Windows 7 and Windows 10)

For some people, the game resets the fullscreen option to windowed every time it is launched.

Although easy and fast to reset manually, it is annoying to have to set it back to fullscreen every time the game is launched.

Rico gets stuck in a bridge [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One   While wingsuiting, Rico can get stuck on a not yet lowered bridge in ragdoll mode if he flies into one at the corner. Other places on the bridge not confirmed.

Which bridge and which exact corner? It sounds like there may be a small hole in the bridges solid body. Holes like this may be invisible, because the visible walls are programmed separately.

Planes take off strangely[]

Planes take off vertically [Resolved][]

 All Platforms  

Pointman Scout Tank (Army of Chaos, left rear corner)

Rico may be in a semi-rare Army of Chaos Pointman Scout Tank, but the EM-979 Airliner is not taking off properly in this screenshot

At Aeropeurto General Benitez, some EM-979 Airliners take off vertically.

They seem to take off normally most of the time, but rarely there's a plane that flips 90 degrees up the moment it leaves the ground and then goes straight up for a while.

This happens when the front wheels spawns in the ground. Once the player approaches the plane, the wheel pops out of the ground and the whole plane suddenly jumps 90 degrees up.

This may have been addressed in a patch, making this glitch rare, but recently (2021) someone has seen it again.

Planes take off too soon [Resolved][]

A player-controlled plane can easily take off in under 100 meters, but the A.I. planes seem to be programmed to try to look more realistic.

At Aeropuerto General Benitez, the planes taking off may take off a little earlier than usual. Similar to the vertical takeoff glitch, the plane will try to fix itself and go back to its regular path, so it'll dive back down to the ground and resume it's "takeoff" like nothing happened.

This one can be made to happen when you grapple a car to the front of the plane, but this would not count as a glitch then. It only counts as a glitch if it happens on its own with out any interference from the player.

This may have been addressed in a patch, making this glitch rare, but recently someone has seen it again.

Invisible water [Not an actual problem][]

 All Platforms  

JC4 Tansparent water glitch

If you grapple yourself behind a waterfall, then the screen of falling water makes nearby river water invisible.

This is useful to see just how deep the rivers are and if there's anything at the bottom.

A quarter of a fountain [Confirmed][]

 PC    PS4   (Probably all platforms.)

JC4 map design error at Alqollacta

The town Alqollacta has a fountain that is 3/4 inside adjacent buildings. The fountain itself is not a problem, it's reasonable to think that the fountain could be built this way, but the upward stream of water is inside the building. The stream is higher than the building so it comes through the roof.

Game gets stuck when customizing controls [Resolved][]

 PC   Occasionally when customizing some controls, it becomes impossible to back out of that part of the menu. By default, it should be possible to back out by using the right mouse button, but sometimes anything the player presses, or clicks will be misidentified as a wish to set the controls to that. There is no way to navigate away from the menu and the only solution is to use the task manager to End Task for the game.

This was solved by a patch from December 14, 2018. The patch added a permanently usable back button to the bottom right of the menu. Initially this could either be clicked on, or activated with the left control key. Some later update changed this to the back button.

Game gets stuck on death [Semi-resolved][]

 Xbox One   Rarely, when Rico dies, he doesn't respawn but instead the screen shows his dead body. You can still move the camera though. When you quit and load the game back up it is fine, but it does keep occurring.

Weird fire effect [Unconfirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Operation Thunderbarge (weird glitched fire)

Weird fire effect, seen during Operation Thunderbarge.

It is rare, but it is possible for the fire effects from an exploded helicopter to look really weird/cool.

This can also happen to Black Hand land vehicles, but the fire is usually horizontal.

Weird lightning effect [Resolved][]

 All Platforms  

Lightning strike glitch

Weird lightning effect.

The lightning strikes harnessed by the DA 9.3 Lightning Gun's secondary fire storm grenade sometimes look weird. Although the strikes and the explosions last for a fraction of a second, it is possible to notice that there's a weird dark gray rectangular shape that appears for a brief instant before immediately disappearing. This seems to have been fixed by some patch.

Helicopter spawns inside a platform [Unconfirmed][]

 PC    Xbox One  

JC4 glitched helicopter spawn point

A helicopter may spawn inside the landing platform at Prospero Astillero. If this happens it may seem fine for a while, but it'll destabilize and blow up soon.

Similar stuff has been very rarely seen at a few car parking lots, but with out a explosion.

Login failed [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

When starting the game, you might get the error message: "Login failed. The SQUARE ENIX servers are currently unavailable. Online features will be inaccessible until the SQUARE ENIX servers can be reached."

The options are "retry" and "go to offline mode".

The "offline mode" stops the player from seeing online features such as player high scores (you can only see your own offline).

Retrying multiple times should normally result in a successful login. This may take over ten tries. Apparently sometimes it either doesn't work, or it would take an unreasonable number of retries.

Progress wiped after a death [Resolved][]

 PS4  

If Rico dies mid way through a mission or doing whatever, the game wipes all the progress and forces the player to restart at the beginning of the game.

This seems to be fixed, possibly by the December 18th patch.

Tank tracks spin in wrong directions [Confirmed][]

 PC  

When any of the tanks are made to turn sharply at a very low speed, or if a tank is made to turn around on the spot, the tracks will be spinning in the wrong directions, as if the tank was turning the other way.

2 mission markers [Confirmed][]

 PC    PS4  

The mission Mazmorra Rescue has 2 mission markers. They're only about 20 meters apart from each other and have the same text. This does not affect gameplay and the mission starts normally.

Semi-transparent duplicate object in a mission cut-scene [Confirmed][]

 PC  

Sandstinger Train Robbery (Army of Chaos train and crane truck)

Notice the semi-transparent duplicate gun turret.

The ending cut-scene of the mission Sandstinger: Train Robbery has a semi-transparent duplicate of the large gun-turret.

There are 3 problems with this:

  • The duplicate turret is on an Army of Chaos train car. Story-wise it makes no sense for it to exist, because the large gun turret is suppose to be unique. It's fair to assume that the Black Hand might have more somewhere, but the Army of Chaos definitely have only 1.
  • The gun is pointing sideways to fit on, because it would otherwise be obstructed by the rest of the train. This is very poor train layout.
  • How come it's semi-transparent? This is a glitch, or a developer oversight.


Melee attack on a vehicle kills driver [Unconfirmed][]

Whether the vehicle is flying or not, if you go up near the driver and melee attack, it'll work on any vehicle and if the driver is a soldier, it will take 2 hits. This probably happens because as it is a AOE attack, it kills the driver through the vehicle just as it kills them if bullets are used.

Parachute/Wingsuit not working [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

Sometimes after landing or grappling somewhere, you won't be able to use your parachute or wingsuit for a certain amount of time. You can still jump and grapple, but can't use the parachute or wingsuit. After a while, you'll be able to use them again.

Duplicates in the supply drop [Resolved][]

 All Platforms  

The supply drop list has some duplicate items in it. It's impossible to make the second of them active. Attempting to click on a duplicate will highlight the first one.

Patches have removed the duplicates.

Supply drop pilots reset [Resolved][]

 PS4    Xbox One  

It has been reported that somehow the pilots can get reset to only Fortuna and Bulldog (and sometimes just Bulldog) being available, even at chaos level 10. It's unknown how it happened.

It has also been reported that random pilots can just become locked.

Closing the game and restarting it will fix this.

Duplicate factory in supply drop menu [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

In the list of factories in the Supply Drop menu, Prisa Automóvil is listed twice.

Missing bridge on the map [Confirmed][]

 PC  

The map doesn't show one of the bridges directly east of Prospero Balística.

Controls for special vehicles are not displayed [Confirmed][]

 PC  

The special controls for the crane helicopter and tractors and possibly also the other special vehicles might not always be displayed, even if the HUD is still set to "display all".

90 degree jump [Confirmed][]

 PS4  

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Just Cause 4 Weapon Glitch

Rico jumps at a 90 degree angle when trying to obtain a weapon.

Offline mode doesn't work [Unconfirmed][]

 PS4  

When offline, the game will not allow you to play, as it will repeatedly show a text-box saying "Offline mode" and "Ok".

SAM sites have no collision [Unconfirmed][]

 PS4    Xbox One  

The top part of the SAMs in Solís might have broken, or disabled collision models, allowing Rico to clip through them (go inside it).

Under the map [Confirmed][]

 All Platforms  

There are several ways to glitch under the map, through the terrain. The waterfall behind El Abismo has multiple underwater caves. The caves are under the river, at the bottom of the waterfall. One of these caves leads out of the visible map, to an infinite sea under the map. See the video below for the exact glitched spot. Even with the video it's hard to find and likely to drown Rico multiple times.

There is no terrain here, apart from some visible wrecks under some lakes. Grappling onto these wrecks will teleport Rico under-ground.

When underground, the world is above you, glitching in and out of view. Far, far below is an endlessly deep ocean. As you go deeper, a weird black shape should appear. Lighting will get really messed up. If you go even deeper, you may see a tiny yet noticeable "horizon". It's grey and white and shining.

There's no way to get to the seabed - if there even is a seabed - of the underground ocean. Even with an invincibility mod so Rico won't drown as he swims deeper, it's impossible to find an end to the ocean. Most likely, there is a limit, and the game will crash when the player gets there. But even so, nobody has ever reported reaching the bottom of the ocean.

It is advisable to bring the weaponized "Skystriker" wingsuit to utilise its boost for travel and a railgun or the Renegade rifle to use their drones. The wingsuit itself can not boost itself out of water (like the JC3 version can), which is why the drone-deploying gun is needed. The player can then grapple the drone and thereby get into the air. With out drone, the player could swim east for about 15 to 20 minutes until the ground in close enough to the water to be grappled.

If you travel to Illapa you can see the moon easter egg and a long vertical stone tunnel on top of a giant cube. The tunnel is used in the final mission. Other points of interest include all bases that are known to have underground areas.

There is another way to go underground, but its unknown whether it works every time: by dropping a supply drop crate on Rico's head. Sometimes, he will get squished and fall through the ground.

Another way is through the use of mods (PC only). Using the entity spawner, set the gravity to -10,000 (world gravity -10000). This will make the world's gravity 10,000 times stronger (even though it's a negative). Also, make sure you turn on invincibility (event player.invulnerable). Now, fast travel to any location and free fall. When you hit the ground fall right through it and get to the underground world. Yet another way of doing this is by free falling. As you fall, "pause" the player (event player.pause). Doing this will make the player invisible and frozen. Estimate the time it takes to reach the ground from this height. Once that time is over, "unpause" the player (event player.unpause). You'll find yourself underground.

This glitch is similar to one found in Just Cause 3 and not a proper "glitch" as such. This is actually very helpful and convenient for allowing players to explore hidden areas.

Also, similar to Just Cause 3, you can get underground when a vehicle off a despawned, derailed train carriage hits the ground (happens most often in a Fellhawk Jet Fighter.)

Underground gallery[]


Video instructions for under ground[]

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Just Cause 4 Under the ground glitch

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Just Cause 4 - OUTSIDE THE MAP GLITCH!


"Sol Velocista" is named differently [Confirmed][]

 PC   Probably all platforms.

The "Sol Velocista" is named differently from the other Dare Devils of Destruction DLC vehicles. They each have a letter at the end of the name to indicate the upgrade level. This letter is normally separated by a space, but in this case it's separated by a minus mark. This is likely a minor glitch.

Spontaneous gas station combustion [Confirmed][]

 All Platforms  

On the road between Joya Del Sol and Zambullida, there is an Espetrol gas station that will spontaneously explode for absolutely no reason. This happens when the gas station is approached by the player.

Double dumpster [Confirmed][]

 PS4    Xbox One  

The gas station between Joya Del Sol and Zambullida has a dumpster that has another dumpster within it. The double dumpster, if approached by the player, will proceed to jerk about violently for eternity. This will make a lot of noise and can be potentially lethal for civilians standing around.

Video for reference.

DLC remains locked even after purchase [Semi-resolved][]

 PS4  

This is a common problem, discussed here.

According to a Square Enix support site, this is a problem with the PS4. Their advice is:

"Following the PlayStation®4 firmware update on 30th May, we are aware of an issue on PlayStation®4, which may cause errors when accessing DLC for some of our games. Please visit the following page on the PlayStation Support website for troubleshooting steps that should resolve these issues: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/help-library/error-codes/ce-32809-2/ If you continue to experience issues, please do not hesitate to contact us directly."

 PS5  

It's also possible for DLC to be purchased and be marked as "installed" on a store page, but the "In game contents management" might not mention any DLC at all.

The solution is to uninstall everything relating to the game and reinstall it.

HUD disappears [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

While playing the game, all text from the screen disappears. The objectives disappear from the top left corner of the screen, the ammo count in weapons disappears from the bottom of the screen, the control guide disappears from the right hand side of the screen, and the text from the AR lens disappears as well, making it impossible to locate things.

Turning the game off and on again might fix it.

There's a setting in the game menu that allows the player to turn all those things off, but this should never happen on its own.

"Demon egg (10)" doesn't work [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

The supply drop item "Demon Egg (10)" can not be selected with the mouse. Clicking on it will select the adjacent "Demon Egg (1)" item, which works fine.

The 2019.08.15 update moved these items to the bottom of the list, but the "Demon Egg (10)" still can not be selected.

Current solution: It can be selected if the items are navigated using arrow keys.

Both Demon egg supply drop items always new [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

Even after going onto them and using them they still have the new flag. This stays when you restart the game.

Floating items and crude textures [Confirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Unfortunately the game has no co-ordinates, so it's impossible to accurately report many locations.

  • Some really crude hill texture near Punto Norte (see the gallery below).
  • The racetrack texture in the Quya stadium does not match the shape of the road surface. The vehicle is constantly visible, but looking at the road from different angles reveals that the road is partly floating over a meter off the ground.
  • There's a couple of large floating rocks at one of the tunnel entrances at Zona Tres.
  • Several small towns have been seen to have floating chairs and even houses where one side of the house is in the air, allowing the player to see under it.
  • There's a lake near Casa Apu. Next to the lake is a road. A large rock (the size of a truck) is on the edge of the road, near a road sign that warns of falling rocks. This large rock looks OK from a distance, but closer, it can be seen that the road texture that should be covered by the rock is visible through the rock. The rock looks sort of semi-transparent along the lower edge where it makes contact with the road.
  • Aeropuerto General Benítez has several road entrances. One of these, located at the south-east of the airport, connects directly to the I-80. About 20-50 meters to the north of this entrance, near the fence, is a multiple meter area of floating grass.


Supply drop container might just stay in the sky [Confirmed][]

 PC  

It's possible that the container could just stay in the sky where it spawns. If the player goes up there and grapples it (or touches it by other means), the container will fall down like normal. This glitch seems to be very rare, so it's not a real problem.

Game has no sound [Resolved][]

 Xbox One  

If a newly installed game has no sound, go to the Xbox settings and turn on "mono audio".

Vehicles behaving erratically [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

Sometimes vehicles can behave erratically when they hit something, even if the hit is only minor. This glitch has been observed in the form of the Emsavion Cropduster spinning very quickly in the air and the Spearhead Transport being flung many metres into the air. An common scenario is the collision of two helicopters. This results in them suddenly bouncing apart and being thrown many meters away while spinning like crazy.

"Fatal error in the graphics driver" [Resolved][]

 PC  

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JC4 graphics driver glitch

Graphics fail.

All the time on certain configurations, when the game is launched, the graphics are "corrupted" and when explosions happen, the screen turns white and black and in certain areas visibility is gone. The game is also more likely to crash in this state.

Solution: As indicated by the error message in the below gallery, this is not a glitch in the game itself, but rather in the graphics driver. It is therefore advised to download and install the latest video card driver. This can be done at either the Nvidia site, or the AMD site, depending on your video card.


JC4 on Epic Store [Resolved][]

 PC  

JC4 was launched on the Epic Store some time in early 2020. The game was free on that store (really payed for by the store in order to get more people to become customers for the store).

Unfortuneately, many people got various random errors about the game refusing to launch and/or crashing.

This was addressed in a patch on 2020.04.20.

Weird flying man at Prospero Robótica [Confirmed][]

 PC  

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Just Cause 4 Weird flying man at Prospero Robótica

You may encounter a flying person at Prospero Robótica. They are standing still, next to the lower cable car station. As demonstrated in the video below, you can just knock him down from there, or grapple him down.

Defender machine gun shield doesn't collapse [Confirmed][]

 PS4   PC  

JC4 Defender MG glitch

This seems to be a rare glitch that when one uses the Defender Machine Gun, deploys the shield, and then tries to collapse it, the shield will still be deployed.

Fast Traveling to a new location fixes this, or restarting the game.

This sounds potentially very convenient, if this non-collapsed shield is actually functional. There's a chance that effect-wise the shield is collapsed, but visually it's not. So if possible, we need to find out if the shield stops bullets during this time. And if so, we need to find out how to reliably trigger this glitch.

Invincible NPC at Prospero Aeroespacial [Confirmed][]

Invincible NPC glitch 1

He doesn't die.

Invincible NPC glitch 2

Explosions have no effect.

 PC  

Go to Prospero Aeroespacial in the Umina region. Then, go to the end of one of the runways suspended by the large building. There will be an Army of Chaos rebel looking at something with binoculars. This rebel seems to have infinite health, or is incapable of getting hurt. Shooting him or grappling him or even blowing him up with explosives will have no effect. Retracting any movable object with him will result in the other object moving towards him, regardless of weight. The rebel is always rooted to that spot on the runway unless you grapple kick him, which will result in him being movable.

It seems like the only way to kill him is by using the largest explosions in the game. The only two ways to kill him is by 1) using the large bomb easter egg since it has the ability to make objects despawn, effectively killing him, or 2) using large ballistic missiles, which also have the ability to make things despawn.

Prisa Chapoteo [Unconfirmed][]

 PC  

Apparently, some people might not unlock the Prisa Chapoteo in the supply drop in the English language version of this game.

It's not known why this is, because some people do have it.

Scorched earth in the top left [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

Perla del Desierto (scorched ground glitch)

Scorched ground seen at Perla del Desierto.

Rarely the top left corner of the screen, up to the limits of 1280x720 pixels, may display front-like scorched ground textures at random areas.

Turning the game off for a moment should fix this. It might even get fixed by fast travel, as that also forces the game to reload the map, but that's unconfirmed.

Crash to desktop at Cabo Marrón island [Unconfirmed][]

 PC  

Many players report crashes happening on approach of the western island off the coast of Cabo Marrón on the Epic Games version. No error message appears during this crash, although Event Viewer will silently log an "Event 1000, Application Error" for JustCause4.exe (Exception code: 0xc0000005, Fault offset: 0x0000000004531648). This bug prevents completion of a wingsuit stunt and of 100% completion of the game.

The same reports mention that purchasing the expansion pass of Just Cause 4 prevents the issue from happening. This is not an acceptable resolution for owners of the base game.

Slow rendering when riding a missile [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

If the player grapples to an Agency submarine missile and rides it to a distant place, the game may have trouble loading the target area fast enough, which results in the player being able to enter normally solid structures, such as buildings. If the missile is about to crash into a building in that location, it will go right through and Rico will be stuck inside.

This is possibly because the game doesn't have enough time to render in the details, since the missile has an extremely high speed almost superior to a real modern fighter jet's top speed.

Fast Travel teleports the player out of any stuck location.

Camera can be clipped into places that should be incapable of being seen [Confirmed][]

 All Platforms  

JC4 Camera glitch viewing internal of plane

The inside of an EM-979 Airliner can be seen due to a camera glitch while the player is in a vehicle nearby.

Driving any vehicle, it is possible to turn the camera (view angle) around the vehicle. Parking a vehicle near another vehicle can allow the player to see into other vehicles. For most vehicles there is nothing of interest, but looking into helicopters and planes reveals that they normally have detailed interiors and additional crew/passenger compartments.

This reveals that some vehicles were designed with the intention of them having the capacity to carry and deploy soldiers. See also: Vehicle seating.

Vehicles stop before entering Nueva Voz [Confirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Nueva Voz (cars stopping at entrance)

The cars stopping for no apparent reason (something exploded causing the queue to be shorter).

For some reason, vehicles on the highway bypassing Nueva Voz stop at a little restaurant area/tunnel west of the city. The only way to fix this issue is to provoke the civilians into a panicked state where they speed off at full speed.

It is believed (no real evidence) that at some point during game development, there used to be a checkpoint of sorts on that road. This was cut from the game, but the traffic was not updated to this fact.

Game freezes when dying, or when entering the menu [Unconfirmed][]

 PC   (Epic Games)

Reportedly: "This happened to my computer I don't know if it's from it or from the game but I restarted it and nothing changed, when I die or I press Escape the game freezes and I need to press Alt F4 and then to open the game again to respawn."

The Epic Games version of the game is known to have been extremely glitchy when it was released. Most of these glitches were fixed with in a few weeks. We don't currently know what to do about problems in the Epic Games version.

SkyCastle Cargo Jet vibrating [Unconfirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Whenever Rico stands anywhere on the SkyCastle Cargo Jet, the entire planes seems to vibrate a small amount. The vibration isn't crazy, so it's only noticeable when Rico is on foot, as this makes the camera continuously shake a lot. Apart from making the player dizzy, it is also hard to aim and grapple. On the other hand, when he's in a vehicle, the vibration is barely even noticeable.

Animals stuck on cars [Confirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Cow on car glitch

The glitch.

Animals being stuck on cars are relatively common in JC3. As of JC4, this glitch is much rarer. This happens when an animal (or any NPC) somehow gets on top of a vehicle that has a stunt position. The NPC can only get off the vehicle by jumping. Same as Rico. This means that NPC types, like animals, who can not (or will not) jump are stuck on the vehicle.

This is not really a bad glitch, because it can be used to create humorous improvised stunts and other funny situations.

Combatants engaging in civilian activity (bug or a feature?) [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One   or  PS4  

BH grunt fixing car (possible glitch?)

Rarely, a Black Hand soldier is seen doing things that civilians do. An example is this grunt fixing a car. It is reasonable that their vehicles also need maintenance.

Grenades thrown by Agency soldiers [Unconfirmed][]

It has been reported that the Agency operatives in Danger Rising seem to be glitched, as they have a grenade throw animation, but don't throw grenades at all when the animation is played. It seems like some developer forgot to add grenades.

Debug cursor seen in an easter egg [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

It was discovered in a "promotional copy" that during the "Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy" minigame easter egg it's possible to see some type of item on the screen, which is believed to be a "debug cursor". That's some type of left-over from game development that should be disabled/removed from the final game. See this video at youtube.

Spearhead Transport collision waterfall [Confirmed][]

JC4 Spearhead waterfall glitch

Notice the Spearhead Transport hundreds of meters below. Also note that Rico is standing on a Weapon Crate so he won't fall into the glitched waterfall (water physics apply on the top of the waterfall).

 PC  

Spawn in two Spearhead Transports (you can use the rebel drop since they only have one or two spawn points in freeroam). Position them so they face each other. Make sure the ramps are nearly touching. Then, drive one forwards into the other. This will make them glitch inside of each other. For unknown reasons, both boats will start sinking until they hit the seabed. Strangely, as the boat sinks, the water displaced does not rush back in to fill the empty space that the boat used to but no longer occupies. Instead, it will make a waterfall of sorts. Water texture on the waterfall is stretched and deformed. Collision detection is broken as well.

Click here for a video (by User:RicoStarrs).

For players without mods, this could be used to measure the depth of the surrounding ocean with out having to dive all the way and risk suffocation.

Stormalong EM Zero glitches[]

The Stormalong EM Zero has several glitches, likely because it's very different from all other guns in the game.

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Just Cause 4 but tricks and glitches

Both Stormalong EM Zero glitches are demonstrated somewhere through this compilation.

Glowing ball following Rico [Unconfirmed][]

 All Platforms  

There are several ways to do this. The easiest is to parachute in the air and use the primary fire to lift anything. Then, close the parachute and Rico will soon be put into semi-ragdoll. He'll automatically put away the gun. As a result, the object levitated will keep moving in one direction forever. The Stormalong will continue being used, although it doesn't seem to reduce ammunition. The result is a glowing electrical orb that should be the Stormalong's "muzzle flash" following Rico everywhere. To get rid of this ball (and stop the levitate object from flying away), equip the Stormalong and it will disappear. The levitated object will be launched away.

NPCs in cars spazzing out [Unconfirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Find a vehicle with an NPC in it. Then, hold down the primary fire button for a split-second. It can't be too short, but it can't be too long, either. If you time it right, the NPC(s) inside the vehicle will be clipped through it. The game's programming really doesn't like it when two objects occupy the same place at the same time and will make the two objects spazz out until they become unstuck. Most of the time, the NPC(s) will spazz out inside the vehicle and make it do flips and turns before eventually falling out of it, killed by the broken collision detection.

Flying plane cockpit [Semi-resolved][]

 All Platforms  

Sometimes, blowing up an EM-979 Airliner or SkyCastle Cargo Jet while it's taking off will make the plane's cockpit will spin around in an orbit-like way, weirdly flying upwards. The remaining pieces of the destroyed plane will remain still. The glowing blue circles and fire from the jet-engines stay on either side of the cockpit, where the engines would usually be. These engine glow things have no collision detection and go through everything.

Flying Airship cockpit [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

Similar to the version with the plane except much rarer. The cockpit on the bottom of the blimp can spin around with smoke coming from the areas where its engines were.

Plane cockpit gets launched [Unconfirmed][]

 All Platforms  

Somewhat similar to the flying cockpit glitch, sometimes after blowing up a EM-979 Airliner going close to the cockpit piece can make it get launched into the air incredibly fast. It seems to launch straight up unless something causes it to change direction. After a while it slow down and eventually fall back down. It may do a small bounce before launching.

Plane cockpit launch video.

Rico says the wrong lines [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

After completing Los Demonios, traveling back to the locations where there was an 'infestation' and fighting the Black Hand can cause Rico to say unusual lines. These are the lines he would usually say while fighting the demons such as "You're not eating me" and "Disgusting" which are both weird things to be saying while fighting the Black Hand. This probably occurs because the developers didn't write the code for Rico's lines to be changed back once the mission had been completed.

Civilian vehicle speed limit still active after hijacking [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

Find a civilian-operated car, any car will do (but a fast sports car would demonstrate this better). Hijack it with the interact button (E on PC) and as Rico opens the door and throws the guy out, immediately hold down any direction key (forwards will best demonstrate this, so W on PC). The player will soon notice that despite flooring the accelerator, the car refuses to go any faster than 30-40 kph, even if it's something like the Verdeleon Eco. This speed limit seems to be the limit of a civilian's car, which makes Soíno traffic more realistic and allows the player to easily catch up to any civilian car using the wingsuit and hijack it easier.

To escape the speed limit, bring the car to a stop and continue driving again. The car will be normal now.

SMG-2 glitch [Confirmed][]

JC4 SMG-2 glitch

 PC  

If Rico picks up a SMG-2 from a weapons crate, there's a chance the weapon will appear invisible and Rico's arms will be stuck in a weird position.

This was observed at Casquillos Vacíos.

Music glitch [Unconfirmed][]

 PC  

It's not known how or when this happens, but a player has observed the game playing combat and mission-specific soundtracks during random freeroam, with no heat.

This also seems to be the only way (in the game) to hear mission-specific soundtracks outside of the missions themselves.

The mission Behind the Lines is impossibly difficult [Confirmed][]

 PC   (Epic Games.)

Reportedly, on the Epic Games version of the game, the mission Behind the Lines can be impossibly difficult. More specifically, the truck can get blown up from enemy gunfire already at the first roadblock. There must be something wrong with the truck's health there, because normally the truck loses only 5-10% of health on its entire journey.

Air-dropped vehicles glitch together [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you airdrop large vehicles such as the spearhead transport or the SkyCastle Cargo Jet on top of or very close to each other they will glitch inside of each other. This causes them to fly around vibrating and could cause any of the following:

  • The two glitched vehicles if positioned correctly can hit you under the map. See here for reference.
  • Usually the SkyCastle Cargo Jet will blow up once its glitches inside the other vehicle, but occasionally it will become indestructible, it is however unflyable. See here for reference.
  • Spawning one of those vehicles into a moveable terrain piece e.g. the merry-go-round or a raiseable bridge can cause the object to fly around and make strange noises. See here for reference.
  • If you spawn one of those vehicles into the merry-go-round, the horses it breaks off become invisible from certain angles, although they still have collision detection. See here for reference.
  • Grappling onto the vehicle while it is vibrating can cause you to get launched away while grappling. See here for reference.
  • Doing this enough will make you unable to request for more air-drops. To be able to get more air-drops you either have to kill yourself or get far enough away.

Forever boosting car [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you compete in one of the races from the daredevils of destruction DLC, once you have finished the race and the event is over there is a chance that one of you opponents cars keeps activating its side-booster. It will keep doing this even if the driver is destroyed and/or the car blown up. Going close to the car (but not touching it) will make your screen show the injured HUD. Even though you take no damage. You stand there normally and do not go into ragdoll mode like you usually would when hit by something.

Boosting car video.

Stuck inside Cueva de la Ñusta [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

Glitch at Cueva de la Nusta

The trap is at the players position.

Somewhere inside Cueva de la Ñusta is a place where the cave texture is glitched in a way that if the player goes there, the ground will sort of trap the player. It's possible to escape by fast travel.

Invincible Rico [Semi-resolved][]

 PC  

If a player sets some type of mine at a computer console during a mission and then detonates the mines while at the same time accessing the computer, then Rico will die in the explosion, but because operating such a computer is a small cut-scene, the game may immediately respawn him near the computer. After this, Rico will no longer take any damage from anything at all. Falling, gunfire, explosions, etc. The effect lasts even after the mission ends. See here for a video of it being done.

The game probably resets Rico back to normal once it's turned off and on again.

Self-flying helicopter [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

In Prospero Aeroespacial, there is a Black Hand (and after Umiña is secured through Aeroespacial Sabotage, Army of Chaos) Firebrand Scout Chopper hovering in front of one of the buildings with no one inside it. Rico can enter the flying helicopter and he does not throw anyone out. Using his grapple, Rico can enter the helicopter and land it.

This is not a glitch, as pilot-less helicopters can be observed at other locations. However it does look weird.

Helicopter vs. defense cannon [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you fly a helicopter into any Defense Cannon, the helicopter will get flung back by hitting an invisible wall around the gun's barrel. Sometimes hitting it will cause the helicopter's weapons to come off. This makes the helicopter spin around uncontrollably and eventually explode.

Hoverboard tracks destabilize weapons on a boat [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you drive an armed boat over the hoverboard tracks around a submarine, the boats weapons can vibrate around. If you hit a track hard enough, they can come off the boat for a second before snapping back on. This makes it seem as though the weapons are magnetized to the boat.

Emsavion Airship spins [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you turn sharply while in a Emsavion Airship, the airship will occasionally keep gaining speed the longer you turn.

This is not so much a bug or glitch per se, but it looks weird.

Invincible Garland's stunt crew [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One    PC  

If you walk close to one of Garland's crew who is trying to get you to enter a vehicle e.g. to escape the Black Hand, they become impervious to damage from getting hit by a vehicle. Note that this does not always work.

This could be intentional, because that NPC acts as a mission trigger and therefore benefits from durability in a game where random vehicle crashes can often happen.

See here for reference.

Cow Gun and explosive object [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you shoot any explosive object with the cow gun, it makes the usual jet of fire. But no matter how many times you shoot it, the object will not explode. This is because the Cow Gun is programmed as a weapon that doesn't deal any damage.

See here for reference.

Delayed falling [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you shoot out the windows on a hangar's roof while standing on it, it can take you a couple of seconds to start falling.

See here for reference.

Water-walking NPCs [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

In some villages near rivers and lakes you can find NPCs spear fishing. Occasionally the NPCs will be standing on top of the water in a depth where they would usually be drowning. If you swim up and hit them or shoot them they will fall down and start drowning.

See here for reference.

Black Hand act weirdly [Confirmed][]

 Xbox One  

  • During the first mission, Black Hand soldiers sometimes move and act weirdly. They can move jerkily, glide, and sometimes don't notice Rico. See here for reference.
  • If you get close to a Black Hand soldier while they are aiming at you they will sometimes just keep walking instead of hitting you with their gun. See here for reference.

Brawler Mech and Merry-go-round [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If Rico picks up the merry-go-round using the Brawler Mech's gravity gun, he can go to where the merry-go-round's base is, drop the merry-go-round, and get pushed under the map. Sometimes he will get stuck into the ground.

The vehicles on trains act weirdly [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you knock the vehicles that are being carried by the train off they can fall through the map or have parts of them fall through the map. You can use air lifters to bring them up and then use them as normal. But sometimes they either are able to drive through buildings, trees and similar stuff, or get a huge hit point increase.

Rico hijacks but is a passenger [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

If you hijack a vehicle that has something on top of it and is being pressed into the ground you sometimes will not throw the driver out but will become a passenger. You entering the car will often free it and then the NPC driving will drive away and then slow to the speed limit. To become the driver you must exit and then hijack it again, this time you will throw the driver out.

The game flickers [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

For some reason the game flickers a lot so much so that it can cause nausea and hurt your eyes. Dying does not fix it but quitting the game and restarting does.

Drone pile-up [Unconfirmed][]

 Xbox One  

Sometimes if you stay in one place for a while around Hanasacha, Black Hand drones that for some reason are following the roads will pile-up in the air at streetlamp level.

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