Just Cause 4 – Easter Eggs
The Just Cause games are known for many things: exaggerated physics, wingsuits, parachutes, massive explosions in addition to a deliciously unashamed B-movie vibe alongside them. But the third-person action-adventure franchise has some other tradition: equally a repository for elaborate in addition to plentiful Easter Eggs.
The Abandoned Jurassic Park Enclosure
In the north-east of the map, hidden inwards wooded hills inwards the Delta Rio Wanay area, lurks a mysterious abandoned building. Emblazoned with the logo: “Project Solisian Amber” – a reference to the amber from which dinosaur deoxyribonucleic acid was supposedly extracted inwards the films – it’s a carefully cribbed re-create of the Velociraptor chemical compound from Jurassic Park.
Although abandoned – a lone moo-cow roams roughly within (again a Jurassic Park reference, equally cows were lowered into the Velociraptor chemical compound to human activity equally food) – y'all tin lav create produce upward to a command tower in addition to activate a console, which triggers nonetheless some other (voice-based) Jurassic Park reference which nosotros won’t spoil for you.
Video Building
Cheesy popular band A-Ha’s 1985 unmarried Take On Me was renowned for its arty video, featuring a faux-pencil-drawn visual trial which was ground-breaking at the time. Clearly, it’s a vocal that has exceptional pregnant for Avalanche Studios, since its legendary video has been recreated inwards Just Cause 4.
Head to the metropolis of Vista Futura inwards the Abundancia district, in addition to you’ll honour a half-constructed building. Enter it, in addition to you’ll ask heed Take On Me playing; caput upward to the bit floor, in addition to y'all volition honour yourself inwards a painstaking reconstruction of the video, consummate with pencil-outline graphics, in addition to a normal-graphics expanse inwards which a adult woman is dancing. Head towards that, in addition to she’ll trip the lite fantastic with Rico.
Tribute
Towards the eastern border of the mount attain inwards the Picos Helados region, y'all volition honour what mightiness only last Just Cause 4’s nigh imaginative Easter egg. On a white rocky platform sits a cauldron in addition to a pickaxe. Walk upward to it, press Use in addition to y'all volition honour yourself inwards a curt but perfectly reconstructed version of ane of 2017’s nigh bizarre in addition to uncompromising indie games: Getting Over It.
Just equally he did inwards the original, Getting Over It’s creator Bennett Foddy provides a quirky, philosophical commentary, spell y'all endeavour to navigate Rico – straight off stuck inwards a cauldron, armed exclusively with a pickaxe in addition to confined to a side-scrolling perspective – to the destination of a level. Which is every flake equally fiddly in addition to frustrating equally it was inwards the master copy game. Clearly, Avalanche Studios loved Getting Over It…
The Cow Gun
Head to the south-west of the map, to the north-east of Vaivenes in addition to y'all volition come upward across a quaint-looking farmhouse. On the stoop exterior it sits a unique gun – in addition to since it’s non only a weapon but an Easter egg, it also operates equally a reference to Just Cause 3’s DK Pistol, which caused the heads of everyone Rico shot to inflate similar balloons.
Just Cause 4’s equivalent is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than deliciously ridiculous: it’s a cow-gun. It’s utterly useless against anything other than humans (and when y'all comport it around, you’re effectively restricting yourself to ane usable gun), but it’s good worth finding if y'all fancy a laugh.
Shoot anyone with it (including Black Hand enemies) in addition to they volition plough into anthropomorphised cows. They’ll move along doing what they were doing previously, which throws upward all trend of comic possibilities, in addition to volition walk on 2 legs similar humans. Except they volition also await similar cows. And if y'all striking the cow-gun’s alt-fire, Rico volition also plough into a cow.
PUBG’s Frying Pan
Just Cause 4’s Getting over It homage isn’t the game’s exclusively tribute to ane of Avalanche Studios’ favourite games. In the minor hamlet of Don Hector, inwards the Abundancia region, if y'all snoop roughly for a while, you’ll come upward across the balcony of a household on which sit down 2 objects. H5N1 crate (with which y'all can’t produce anything) in addition to a frying pan. Those 2 items operate equally a shout-out to PUBG.
Walk upward to the frying pan in addition to striking Use, in addition to it volition supersede Rico’s whip equally his ane in addition to exclusively melee weapon. It genuinely feels a flake to a greater extent than powerful than the whip when y'all occupation it on an enemy, in addition to so it constitutes that rarest of things: an Easter egg which is also thoroughly practical.
Toy Off-Roader
Solis’ metropolis of Quya, to the north-east of the country, is supposed to last a hotbed of resistance to Oscar Espinosa – in addition to it also harbours a slap-up Easter egg. It takes a flake of finding: y'all must root roughly the favela-style component subdivision of town, higher upward the huge stadium. But stashed roughly the side of a house, y'all volition honour what looks similar a kid’s toy pedal-car, inwards the shape of a jeep.
However, that toy off-roader isn’t what it seems: it mightiness only last the fastest automobile inwards the game, in addition to it’s sure as shooting the nigh hilarious one. Rico Rodriguez looks utterly ridiculous when he climbs into it, but it industrial plant similar whatever other automobile and, equally with in addition to so many of Just Cause’s Easter eggs, is the source of endless amusement.
The Mile High Club
This is likely the nigh self-referential Easter egg inwards Just Cause iv – the Mile High Club, supposedly a nightclub in addition to brothel, get-go appeared inwards Just Cause 2 (where it was located on an airship), in addition to it returned equally an Easter egg inwards Just Cause 3. And yep: it’s acquaint in addition to right inwards Just Cause 4, also (close to the northern coast of Solis, inwards the Umina region, to last precise).
You’ll honour it half-way upward a forested mountain, serviced past times a helipad. Outside, there’s a large bar area, but if y'all wander inside, you’ll honour a veritable cornucopia of references to past times Just Cause games. There’s no sign of a brothel, but this fourth dimension around, the interior is a fully functional club, with the recurring graphic symbol Bolo Santosi (from Just Cause 2 in addition to 3) on the decks.
Among the dancers is a creepy-looking guy inwards an all-over light-green body-suit (who could also last spotted inwards Just Cause 3), in addition to Santosi’s decks, naturally, were manufactured past times Just Cause’s imitation hi-fi fellowship Panau Sonic. In effect, Just Cause 4’s Mile High Club is a pose out of Easter eggs packaged together.
Custom Numberplates
Not maybe the nigh thrilling of Easter eggs, but wherever y'all become inwards Just Cause 4, it’s worth taking a await at the numberplates on the cars. Some of them, for example, spell 4VA LNCH, spell others spell JC7 C4US. More divertingly self-referential nonsense…
Barbecues in addition to Outdoor Raves
You mightiness fence that they don’t properly qualify equally Easter eggs, but in that place are 2 recurring themes inwards Just Cause iv which render slap-up insight into what the practiced folk of Solis similar to produce when left to their ain devices.
Firstly, y'all larn the impression that non many of them are vegetarians – create produce roughly the household balconies inwards whatever random town or metropolis inwards Just Cause 4, in addition to y'all volition eventually honour a barbecue going on, with heaped plates of prepared nub waiting to last torched. Not exclusively that, but the Solinos beloved a practiced rave.
Usually – hilariously – to the accompaniment of cliched Andean pan-pipe music, pretty much every village inwards Solis contains a grouping of people having a practiced sometime outdoor rave – in addition to at to the lowest degree ane of them volition last enthusiastically wielding a laid of glow-sticks.
