Just Cause 3

Just Cause 3
Developer: Avalanche Studios Publisher: Square Enix Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Released internationally: December 1, 2015 Released in JP: January 21, 2016 (PS4/Xbox One) This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused objects. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a prototype article

Just Cause 3 is all about blowing stuff up to defeat the dictator of an island nation. What makes it so special for unused content is the fact that it was in development for about four years and changed greatly over that time.

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Unused Sounds and Music

Prototype Info

Unused Vehicles

Premium Vehicles

Various vehicles have "premium" versions that are completely unused in the final game. Many assume they would have had boosted stats, like a higher top speed or faster acceleration. Though this can't be proven, since the only difference between the normal and premium version is that the premium ones are invincible.

Vehicles with a premium version are:

• Urga Ogar 7 V8 buggy - filename: v0604_car_urga_buggy_premium_01
• Mugello Vistosa - filename: v0401_car_mugello_racingsupercar_premium_01
• Autostraad D90 - filename: v0009_car_autostraad_modernsaloon_premium_01
• Squalo X7 - filename:v1400_boat_mugello_spyspeedboat_premium_01

Debug Vehicles

Pretty much all vehicles also have a debug version. They are identical to the default or military vehicles, but are invincible. A vehicle with only minor differences is the debug Loochador. It has no jet engine effect, its engine sound sounds like a small bike and its startup sound is a voice saying "placeholder sound". There are also few debug vehicles that are not exact replicas of the default version, those will be listed under unique vehicles.

Unique Vehicles

Autostraad Snowmobile

The Autostraad Snowmobile is a completely unique vehicle. When spawning it in, it would crash the game since it lacks a "lean" file which bikes need. Once adding it, the vehicle spawns without problem, however something is up with its "wheels" which causes it to be shot away once it touches the ground.

Stria Rustico Z80

The Z80 vehicles in Just Cause 3 are versions of vehicles with a bomb attached to them. They are used in the Crash the bomb minigame and cause larger explosions, similar to the m488 "nuke launcher". The Stria Rustico tractor has an unused Z80 version, though it's missing the bomb attachment model. When it explodes, it acts just like other Z80 vehicles, however the explosion effect is the one of a regular explosion.

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  Rear view of the Z80 Stria Rustico.

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  Mugello Quipozza Z80 as comparison.

DLC testcar

The DLC testcar is a version of the Mugello Vistosa with a special paintjob. It also lacks a spoiler, has a lower poly inside and different looking rear door windows.

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  Front view of the DLC testcar.

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  Rear view of the DLC testcar.

Shielded CS Odjur

Pre-release footage showed a CS Odjur tank with a shield, similar to the Imperator Bavarium tank. The shield models can still be found in the vehicle file of the tank. Once allowing the tank to use a shield in its properties file, it works without any further changes to the vehicle.

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  Front view of the shielded CS Odjur.

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  Rear view of the shielded CS Odjur.

Civilian Mech

The civilian mech is a blue white coloured mech that has no weapon attached. In place of a weapon is a small hand-like claw. Its mech-grip can also not lift up things, but only use the mech-punch.

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  Front view of the civilian mech.

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  Rear view of the civilian mech.

Debug Mech

The debug mech is pretty similar to the civilian mech, however it uses the Black Hand paintjob and most parts instead.

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  Front view of the debug mech.

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  Rear view of the debug mech.

Submarine

The submarine does not have a vehicle file and was likely scrapped very early on, though there are some files that reference it.

• A camera script called vehicle_submarine_camera.xvmc located in scripts\camera.
• Several sound files in vehicles_sea.bank located in sound\fmod_banks.
• A few unused upgrade images in textures\ui\upgrades.

Some of the cranes at the capital's harbor.

Cargo crane

Not directly a vehicle, however according to a graph file, the cranes at the capital city's harbor were meant to be usable at one point.

The file crane_harbor_controller.gdc in graphs\props lists the following controls and text:

• CRANE CONTROLS: Left Stick
• Rotate L/R: Right Stick
• Dolly
• Right Bumper
• Toggle Magnet
• Drive L/R: Right Stick
• Magnet Disengaged
• Magnet Engaged

Unused Weapons

DLC testgun

Similar to the DLC testcar, the DLC testgun is a reskin of another weapon. It is based on the U-96 Kladivo shotgun and acts exactly the same.

Additionally, when putting it away, it will not be placed properly on Rico's back.

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  Rendered image of the DLC testgun.

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  Improperly placed DLC testgun on Rico's back.

Sungun

The Sungun is an early version of the eDEN spark weapon. It uses the model of the airstrike gun and works similar to the eDEN spark.

By default, it is set to use an invalid weapon slot, so Rico can hold it, but as soon as you use any movement that would put weapons away, it disappears. Once it is made to use a valid weapon slot, it will act similar to the DLC testgun and have an improper placement on Rico's back.

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  Improperly placed Sungun on Rico's back.

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  Sungun visuals.

It uses different looking effects and different sounds and deals no damage to targets.

Typhoon Gun

The Typhoon gun is unlike any wapon in the game. Aiming it at objects with interactions pushes them away violently. It lacks any sounds or fire effects, there are however sound files that were intended for it.

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  Rendered image of the Typhoon gun.

Guitar Case

Unlike the other unused weapons, this one is completely working already. Rico also has a special animation for it, which, just like the weapon itself, is a reference to Desperado's guitar case rocket launcher.

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  Rendered image of the guitar case.

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  Rendered image of the guitar case.

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  Special animation for Rico holding it.

Unused Locations

Locations are what the game refers to places like villages, cities, bases, outposts, etc.

UI testwall

The UI testwall is located at a lighthouse near Manaea. It contains nothing but a wall model with a placeholder texture.

Benchmark Gas Stations

This area contains six gas stations that spawn at the highway near Babica, three on each side of the road. Cars and NPCs also spawn around it. As the name suggests it was likely used to test the framerate while many things explode at the same time.

This is backed up by another file in the same folder, that, when loaded in makes all gas stations explode at the same time.

Satellite Test Base

Loading this file spawns another base at the Stingray area. You can find generators and gas tanks as well as sniper towers and a lot of invisible collision.

A mod that loads in these three areas and more can be found here.

Cancelled Ghost Racemode

On the screen of a tablet in the game is a screenshot of a menu from a ghost race gamemode, which does not appear in the final game.

Taking a closer look at the texture from the game's files, the top of the menu reads "Select a ghost to view how your friend did during the mission as you play", below it says "Select/Deselect ghost". On the right it shows the "current ghost" that is selected on the menu on the left.

Seeing how race challenges appear in the final game, it is fair to assume that this mode could have been built into that to indirectly race against your friends.

On the image in the top right, we can also see an early version of Rico with a simpler model. This texture can still be found on multiple textures in the UI files.

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  Tablet with a screenshot of the unused gamemode.

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  Unpacked texture of the tablet.

Cancelled Item Shop and Items

Item Shop

An earlier plan for Just Cause 3 was to include micro-transactions in the game. This can be seen in the earliest leaks of the game here.

Not much of this is left in the final game. What we do know from the prototype build is that the currency would have been "diamonds". It would have been possible to buy cars and weapons.

Leftovers of this shop in the game are:

• The UI file for the rebeldrop menu is still called comm_store.
• Items listed in the item.onlinec file, which lists all the items that can be found in the rebeldrop menu still have a "Purchasable" variable.
• There is a folder called "store" located in textures\ui.

Items

It seems that vehicles and weapons would not have been the only items that were purchasable in the item shop, or even from the rebeldrop.

The item.onlinec file also has variables for "Consumable" and "Collectable". The collectables may as well be the ones you can find in the final game, like tapes and ancient parts, that you could also buy instantly instead of searching for them.

The consumables however are something that's not in the final game entirely. These could have been used to give the player stat boosts. This is backed up by the fact that the "store" folder has a texture for armor. Just Cause 2 had ammo boxes all around the map that gave you additional armor, so it's not too unlikely they wanted to bring that back in the form of purchasable stat boosts. Other than that, there's also a texture with four syringes on them, called c_amnesia. Nothing else that suggests what this item might have been for can be found.

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  Armor icon.

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  "Amnesia" icon.

Unused Images and Icons

Unused Textures

The jc prototypes folder has a few unused textures, included in them are a few textures from Mad Max and some miscellaneous textures.

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  Body texture.

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  Engine texture.

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Unused Icons

Item Shop Icons

Apart from the two icons above, the "store" folder has a range of other unused icons:

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  Flares icon.

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  Nitrous icon, there's also a "zeno hurry" icon, but it's the same.

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  Cs110 archangel icon.

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  solarpw 220 icon.

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  V0009_car_autostraad_modernsaloon icon.

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  V0300_sportsmuscle_01 icon.

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  V0400_raffinati_vitesse icon.

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  V0401_car_mugello_racingsupercar icon.

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  V0500_oldmini_01 icon.

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  W012_spectre_mark_v icon.

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  W032_wraith_2000 icon.

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  W111_assault_up39_v icon, you can also see an early military paintjob in the background.

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  W121_negotiator icon.

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  "W143_fire_leach" icon, even though it shows a UVK rocket launcher.

Vehicle Icons

Car placeholder.

Icons for "the rocket" and the duck boat. Both can't be rebeldropped, so their icons go unused.

Weapon Icons

Weapon placeholder.

An icon of Skramps in a trash can.

Rebeldrop icons for the guitar case and Typhoon gun.

Upgrade Icons

All these icons can be found in the upgrades folder. The detector upgrade could have been a range upgrade to the default detector for collectibles, which can also be enabled and disabled with a game event. The three "bent knees" could be an alternative name and icon for the impact reduction when you fall from high places.

All of the icons below appear to be icons of upgrades related to the also cut submarine.

The grenade upgrades seem to simply be different names and icons for the ones in the final game, the hammer ones however make no sense and would fit nowhere in the game's theme. It must have either been a joke or there actually was a hammer item that was cut and ended up as the Thor hammer Easter egg.

The remaining icons are older versions of upgrades that can be found in the game.

Misc. Icons

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These two icons can be found in the "collectibles" folder. They were likely early placeholders for collectible items.

Unused Images

Reference Images

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Rom Images

These icons were likely used as early images for locations on the map:

The icon has "region11" in its name, though it's probably meant to be region 1, which is Insula Fonte.

The "Cimagallo" in its filename stands for Falco Maxime, since that's what it's called in the files.

Unused Text

Weapon Names

Civilian mech weapon
The civilian mech is an unused variation of the mech that has no weapons. Its UI however still shows a name where it would normally show the weapon. That name is "Lundin Peacekeeper".

SAM
The SAM trailer is never usable by the player, however if it's made to be player-controlled, it shows the name "CAPSTONE ARTAX" in the UI.

UI

Dev menu
The prototype's "switch to dev" and "switch to ship" text can still be found in the final game's UI text file in ui/ui_localization.stringlookup. It was also translated to German and Japanese.

Unused Models

Critter Scorpion

Just Cause 3 has a variety of animals, like deer and cows. In the models folder for animals located in models\jc_characters\animals there is a folder for a scorpion. There is a model for a leg, and model for its body.

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  Render of the scorpion leg.

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  Render of the scorpion body.

Removed Factions

Just Cause 3 was meant to have additional factions which were all cut either early on or seemingly late.

Mafia

According to the Just Cause 3 art book, Looch was meant to be part of this faction, there also exist several concept drawings of mafia members, also having Looch in them. In the game's files, besides Looch's regular character files in the main character folder, there are two more files called mafia001.ee and mafia002.ee located in editor\entities\jc_characters\enemies\03_mafia. Both of them are also Looch.

Police

Early promotional images of Just Cause 3 showed a police car. The police is also still mentioned in the game, but can't be found at all. Police stations however exist in some villages, but are instead held by the DRM. The police car also still exists but the paintjob was made to look worn out and can be found at police stations. The police faction is still listed in the factions.bin file, which stores the behavior of different factions, again indicating it was removed very late. Its behavior to other factions is as follows:

• Allies with Black Hand
• Ignores civilians
• Attacks pirates
• Allies with police
• Attacks rebels
• Attacks Rico
• Allies with soldiers

The files also still have files for three police faction members stored in editor\entities\jc_characters\enemies\04_police, called police_captain, police_officer and police_swat. The first two seem complete, while the swat NPC has broken animations.

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  Front view of the Stria Joia police version.

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  Rear view of the Stria Joia police version.

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  The unused police captain NPC.

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  The unused police officer NPC.

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  Front view on the unused police swat NPC.

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  View from the left.

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  View from the right.

Pirates

The factions.bin file also lists "Pirate" as a faction. This could either be an early or internal name for the mafia faction or just simply a placeholder. It is unlikely there was an actual pirate faction as it would not at all fit the game's theme. Its behavior is simply to attack everyone, but members of the pirate faction.

World map

Located in textures\water you can find a texture called water_mod.ddsc. Unpacking it reveals a map of Medici in an unusual color scheme. Landmass is represented by brown/black, shallow water is represented by green and deep water by red. What makes this special however is the fact that it shows landmasses not in the final game, and by that a lot of them. In the top we can see several islands that can't be found in the game. The ones on the left are overlayed by the Lacrima island, which is part of the Mech Land Assault DLC. In the top left we can see that the bottom of the volcano is longer than it actually is. Finally, to the left of the main island, there are three smaller islands, that are also not found in the game. After the Bavarium Sea Heist DLC, the stingray area is where they would be.

This map exactly describes the map of the early build that leaked in early 2020. The islands on top are test areas. The volcano is much longer at its south side and the smaller islands can be found as well.
The ui folder also has a scribble of the world map.

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  The "water mod" texture.

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  Scribbled world map.