Just Cause 2 multiplayer mayhem gets launch date

Take GTA Online, remove all the grinding, remove all the microtransactions, add in grappling hooks, 599 clones of you controlled by other equally insane players and a dash of Planetside 2.

That’s the premise of the Just Cause 20 multiplayer mod, which will appear on Steam as a free download on 16 December 2013.

The mod recently went through a successful beta period and was greenlit to appear on Steam. It will require that you buy and install Just Cause 2, but the mod itself will be free and will require no extra money from players.

The Steam integration will allow players to join on their friend’s games or even spectate on matches. Because the game adds six hundred players together on the same map, it’s a little more crowded than you’d find in, say, a Battlefield 4 match, or the Fallout 3 multiplayer mod. The insanity is top-notch and on par with what typically happens in a Planetside 2 match.

Although the final mod will only release on the 16th, you’ll have your chance to play it before then. The mod creators are going to be giving out Steam keys on their page for anyone eager to hop into the beta that will begin on the 7th December and ends on the 13th.

If you don’t have the game yet, it’s around R150 on Steam at the moment. The system requirements are rather light too – a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz or AMD Phenom X3 2.4Ghz, 4GB of RAM and a Nvidia Geforce GTS250 or greater or AMD Radeon HD5750 are the recommended specs for the game.

It should be pretty playable on a system with an AMD APU like the A10-6600K, although the visuals will have to be turned down a bit. A full multiplayer server may require a modern quad-core processor, at least 8GB of RAM, a Geforce GTX650 or Radeon HD7750 for playable framerates.