Wingsuit

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The wingsuit is a mode of transport in Just Cause 3, Just Cause 4 and the cancelled Just Cause: Mobile.

Rico using the wingsuit in a JC3 promotional screenshot.

Description[]

The wingsuit is a set of small wings attached to Rico's clothing to allow the player to glide through the air while Skydiving. During skydives, the player already glides forward, but the wingsuit enhances this and allows completely horizontal movement. Powered wingsuit versions (DLC only) can even allow upward flight.

Just Cause 3[]

In JC3, the wingsuit is provided to Rico by Dimah during the mission Time For An Upgrade. Later on, the Sky Fortress DLC introduces the "Bavarium Wingsuit", adding a propulsion engine and weapons to it.

Just Cause 4[]

The standard wingsuit is back in JC4. There is also an upgraded "Sky Striker Wingsuit" (previously known as "Black Hand Prototype Weaponized Wingsuit" in early promotional materials) as a preorder bonus (later added as a DLC that can be purchased by anyone). This version has a small rocket engine and can launch missiles.

In JC4 the wingsuit has been redesigned a little, to make the wings extends further along Ricos side. They're still only as wide as his arms, but the end of a wing is now near his knee.

The JC4 wingsuit (and parachute) can both have optional different looks. Some of these were provided as pre-order rewards, some have been announced as downloadable content for Just Cause 4, but most of them can be unlocked by completing various in-game tasks.

Just Cause: Mobile[]

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Wingsuits were available in JC:M for at least a few (maybe more or all) Firebrand members (the player). Little else is known.

Performance[]

The wingsuit allows a player to move fast in the air, opposed to the slow and stable parachute. It is easy to switch between Grappler, wingsuit and parachute, so staying in the air for a long time is even easier now.

As originally revealed by the JC3 design principal, Francesco Antolini, cars are faster than a wingsuit.

Performance in JC3[]

Stopping while wingsuiting can only be done with Gear Mods. The two other options are to either crash into something and ragdoll, or switch to Parachute.

As tested by some players by setting a map marker and calculating the speed, the maximum speeds in JC3 are:

Default: 55 m/s (198 km/h).
With Gear Mods: 75 m/s (270 km/h).

Bavarium Wingsuit[]

The Sky Fortress DLC improves the wingsuit and Rico's ability to use it. The normal wingsuit gets replaced with a "Bavarium Wingsuit" which replaces the orange stripes on the suit and parachute with light blue ones. It's possible to switch between the vanilla and Bavarium wingsuit under the downloadable content tab in the options menu.

The Bavarium Wingsuit has the following features:

A Bavarium-powered booster provides limited but powered flight. The booster has a limited capacity and will recharge over time as long as it is not in use.
When about to crash into an object, Rico can kick himself away from the object.
It also allows Rico to take off from a standstill or from water. Additionally, it can increase underwater swimming speed.
SAMs, some turrets on the eDEN Airship, as well as other homing missiles like those on Trains will be able to lock on to Rico when using the wingsuit. He can avoid these by performing prompted barrel rolls at the right time.
Two mounted weapons, both with infinite ammo:
- A Bavarium Splitter-like machine gun, that will make quick work of infantry and even armored vehicles. Some Chaos objects, however, are particularly resistant. It can shoot for quite a while without needing to recharge.
- Guided missiles, which will lock onto enemies and chaos objects. Two of these are required to destroy heavily armored vehicles, but with Gear Mods up to three can be "carried" at once.
The air brake feature no longer requires Gear Mods and also allows Rico to land directly, without switching to his parachute.
- When used simultaneously with the booster, it allows him to perform very tight turns.

The wingsuit can be further upgraded with Gear Mods earned from challenges on the EDEN Airship.

Performance in JC4[]

Just Cause 4 SkyStriker Wingsuit and its HUD.

The standard wingsuit has a similar performance to the one in Just Cause 3. Compared to its predecessor, this wingsuit seems to be able to glide for longer without losing altitude. Also, it seems that it is easier to reach a higher speed when gliding than it was in Just Cause 3. At high speeds, it has a significantly larger turning circle.

The airbrake can somehow bring Rico to a dead stop in seconds, regardless of how fast he was flying.

Sky Striker[]

The "Sky Striker" (originally known as the "Black Hand Prototype Weaponized Wingsuit") is a standalone pre-order bonus/DLC that upgrades the wingsuit, much like the Bavarium Wingsuit from Just Cause 3. This version was later added to every gold edition of the game.

It provides:

A booster engine. This one can be used for longer than the Bavarium Wingsuit, and seems to have a higher top speed as well.
Rockets. These are fired four at a time and are unguided, and also highly inaccurate. It can be very difficult to aim them at moving targets, especially aircraft. However, seeing as how there's an infinite number of them and they are launched from a flying platform, they can make many missions very easy.

The Sky Striker is not capable of vertical or waterborne takeoff and Rico can nolonger kick himself away from things mid-flight. It is also incapable of tight turns and rapid changes in direction as airbraking and boosting only causes Rico to roll pointlessly. Water take-offs can now be accomplished with the Hoverboard, which comes with the Danger Rising DLC.

Doing wingsuit challenges upgrades the booster in the sense that it can be used continuously for a larger period of time before needing to recharge. The same stunts also increase the number of available missiles fired in immediate succession from 4 to 12. The booster and missiles both "recharge".

Trivia[]

The in-game wingsuit consists of small wings under Rico's arms, whereas real wingsuits have much bigger wings and an additional third wing to completely close the gap between the persons legs. See more about real wingsuits at wikipedia.
It's said in some interviews with developers that the wingsuit was inspired by youtube videos of real wingsuits.
A wingsuit model has been found in Just Cause game files. It's very dark green and has a realistic third wing to be located between the legs. See Cut game content from Just Cause.
The wingsuit was originally meant to appear in Just Cause 2, but this was cancelled because "nobody was using the cars anymore". See more about this at Cut game content from Just Cause 2.
The Sky Fortress DLC makes SAMs in Medici attack Rico when he's using the "Bavarium Wingsuit". The normal wingsuit, like the parachute, is ignored by SAMs.
- The missile car on trains and FOW cannons at Corda Dracon: Centcom will also attack Rico. The former only attacks Rico if provoked, and will launch a full barrage of missiles which are nearly impossible to dodge. The latter will attack Rico as long as the FOW is still active, but since he's not in a vehicle it won't do anything.
The Bavarium Wingsuit is a successor to the Dual Parachute Thrusters from Just Cause 2, which upgraded the usual parachute with engines.
In JC3, the wingsuit is also demonstrated to those without the game in the Just Cause 3: WingSuit Experience.

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