Nanos GbR is finally ready to release its Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod, six months after the modding team released the first beta build to the public, and we couldn’t be more excited. We were already big fans of Rico Rodriguez’s latest adventure and now fans can shoot, race and fly across Medici with up to 100 friends and strangers from the Just Cause 3 community.
The good news is the Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod will be released on Thursday, July 20. Players will be able to connect to servers that support up to 100 users and explore the island of Medici together. The multiplayer mod won’t support NPCs or AI, so you’ll definitely want to find a server with other users on it, and you can’t change your player model yet. So keeping tabs on your friends might get rough if/when large groups are nearby. Nanos also says they’re planning to add Steam achievements in the future, and experienced mod makers can already script their own custom game modes, races, etc to be used in JC3 multiplayer.
The bad news is the Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod won’t be as feature-complete as nanos was hoping at launch. The team says it’s already working on version 1.1, which will include many of the features (like tethering) which had to be pulled from this week’s build. But there’s no word on when the next iteration of the JC3 multiplayer mod will be ready. It probably won’t take another 18-plus months. But it could be late 2017 (or even early 2018) before Just Cause 3 players are tethering each other to planes, boats and automobiles.
For an early look at the Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod, take a few seconds to watch the short teaser trailer published earlier this month. Then head down to the comments and let us know what hijinx you’re planning to get up to when the JC3 multiplayer mod is released.
Just Cause 3 is available for PS4, Xbox One and PC. The game’s first multiplayer mod heads to Steam later this week.
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