Just Cause 2

Just Cause 2

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Just Cause 2 [100% Achievements Guide]
By Sparrow~
Hello Achievement Hunters!

Just Cause 2 is really [at least for me] fantastic game, and achievements are pretty easy in my opinion, but if someone have a problem with few, or with all, this guide is for you!
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Story Related - Achievements
Welcome to Panau

Complete story mission 1.
Unlocks after you get into the chopper after being dropped to Panau

Casino Bust

Complete story mission 2.
Unlocks after escorting Karl Blaine to his mansion

The White Tiger

Complete story mission 3.
Unlocks when you find Tom Sheldon in Aztec temple

Mountain Rescue

Complete story mission 4.
Unlocks when you rescue Jade Tan from the mountains

Three Kings

Complete story mission 5.
Unlocks when you kill these 3 guys on 3 towers in this mission

Into the Den

Complete story mission 6.
Unlocks when you find out Pandak Panay's location and escape from trap

A Just Cause

Complete story mission 7.
Unlocks when you kill Pandak Panay and defuse the rockets [In Badass Style B)]

Top Agent

Bonus for completing the game on normal difficulty.
Look - Legendary Agent

Heroic Agent

Bonus for completing the game on hard difficulty. Also gives you the bonus for normal difficulty.
Look - Legendary Agent

Legendary Agent

Bonus for completing the game on extreme difficulty. Also gives you the bonus for hard and normal difficulties.

Extreme Difficulty, isn't really very hard, all you need to do is run from cover to cover and shoot, and of course you must use Health Stations if you are really, really low on health. If I would be You, I would complete the game on Normal or Hard first. You know, to learn the game mechanics, weapons, missions, and techniques for few hard moments.

NOTE: Story Missions unlock, when you do some amount of Chaos, so destroy what you see, do Fraction Missions, and do everything to gain Chaos :D
Strongholds/Factions/Chaos - Achievements
Gaining a Foothold

Complete 3 stronghold takeovers
Look - Conqueror of Panau

Conqueror of Panau

Complete 9 stronghold takeovers.
What are strongholds? They are very guarded places, you can takeover them in a specific faction missions. They will give You fast travel option, escape from Heat, free 100% locations if you look closely. You have 3 strongholds for 1 factions. And the most important thing. You must defend the technician, if he dies, the mission is automatically failed.

A Trusted Ally

Complete 49 faction mission
There isn't something special here. You must do all faction missions, they will give you money, resources, chaos, black market drops, and they aren't very long [Max. Approx. 20-30 minutes].

First Taste of Chaos
Cause chaos for the first time.
This will be you very first achievement, just destroy a barrel or kill somebody.

Saboteur

Complete 100 sabotages
Look - Destroyer

Destroyer

Complete 1000 sabotages
What are sabotages? You know these buildings with big white Panau Star yes? So destroy 1000 of them. Just fly here, there and destroy everything with White Star. Achievement should pop quite fast.

Destruction Frenzy

Destroy 30 objects in 60 seconds.
I'll be honest. I did this one in first mission, i just got on a turret and destroyed everything i saw in my FOV. I wasn't even hunting for this one, I did this accidentaly.
Collectibles/Challenges - Achievements
Collectibles are really annoying sometimes for achievements hunters, but I found out those in JC2 kinda easy.

Up to the Challenge

Complete 10 challenges
Look - Up to the Challenge 2

Up to the Challenge 2

Complete 50 challenges
What are challenges? They are kind of 'Time-trials' you have to fly/drive/run/swim through checkpoints in given time. There are 75 challenges in total. Few of them are annoying but most of them You should do without a bigger problem.

Finders Keepers

Collect 100 resource items
Look - Leaving No Rock Unturned

Leaving No Rock Unturned

Collect 1000 resource items.
Resources. They are kinda easy to find, all you need to do is follow your Signal Strenght on minimap. If you are very close, it will be blinking and showing on map. 1000 is really big, but in game are nearly 3000 resources. So be happy you don't have to collect them all :D Resources are giving you bigger max health and parts [Weapon & Vehicle] to upgrade'em :)

Faction Benefactor

Collect 150 faction items
There are 300 faction items in game. There is NO signal for them. But just like in resources, if you will be close it will be showing where it is on the minimap and the screen. Just collect 150.
They are giving you a little amount of chaos ;)
The faction items are marked as blue dots on the map

Globetrotter

Discover 100 locations.
Just fly on map and discover those yellow squares.

Freeroamer 1

Reach 100% complete in 15 locations
Look - Freeroamer 2

Freeroamer 2

Reach 100% complete in 100 locations
To get 100% in location you must:
- Destroy Everything with White Star
- Collect all resources
- [OPTIONAL] Kill Colonel
Just fly from city to city and do it :D
'Kill...' - Achievements
NOTE: Civilians aren't counted as kills. Mind that when you'll be killing what you see.

Body Count

Kill 750 enemies.
It will pop throughout the game.

Unarmed and Dangerous

Kill 50 enemies using melee attacks.
Run > Push 'Q' few times standing in front of enemy > Go to next enemy > Repeat

Gravity is a ♥♥♥♥♥!

Kill 30 enemies by using the grappling hook and making them fall to their death.
Simply - Someone is in high place like Water Tower? Just pull him down with your hook :D

Follow Me!

Kill 5 enemies by dragging them behind a vehicle with the grappling hook.
One of easier I think. Find an enemy, hook him [Hold 'Q'] to the vehicle and drive till' he's dead.
Do it 5 times.

Hang'em High!

Kill 30 enemies while they're suspended in the air with the grappling hook.
Just like in 'Follow Me!'. Find an enemy, hook him to the ceiling and kill him. 30 times.

Juggler

Kill 30 enemies while they're falling through the air.
This can be one of the harder. The enemy must be falling from the sky and you must to kill him before he touches the ground. I don't have tactic for this anyway, just pull someone from high place and shoot him up.

Road Rage

Kill 30 enemies by mowing them down with vehicles.
Get in the car, do some chaos, and drive down the standing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ which are shooting to you and your beautiful car!

Marksman

Kill 50 enemies with headshots.
Easiest 'Kill...' achievement i found out, because you can do it in first 2 missions. Just steady aim in the head and POW! Shoot. 50 times :D

Killing Frenzy

Kill 20 enemies in 60 seconds.
As 'Destruction Frenzy'. I did it accidently in 1st mission, while I wasn't even hunting for achievements.

Piñata Party

Kill 5 enemies with the melee attack while they're suspended with the grappling hook.
Look - Hang'em High!
These 2 achievements can be synerged.

Professional Hitman

Assassinate 25 colonels.
There are 50 colonels in game. Every one killed gives you some amount of money and chaos.
They're throwed out on whole map. They are powerful, but remember, even they can be killed with good headshot. So took off your sniper and shoot :)


Invincible Warrior

Kill 50 enemies in a row with inventory weapons without losing health.
This is one of the hardest in game. You can't use helicopter weapons, stationary miniguns, nothing except your inventory. I did it with a YouTube help
Wrecking Ball
Kill 5 enemies by smashing them with an object tethered to your vehicle with the grappling hook.As before, YouTube comes in handy
Vehicles - Achievements
Test Driver

Drive 30 different vehicles.
Look - Trying Anything Once

Trying Anything Once

Drive all 104 vehicles.

This is the most annoying and the hardest achievement. First of all, few of these vehicles are super rare of have special spawn point. Second, achievements says 'Drive' but you have to just get to that specific car, you never entered. I won't list all of the vehicles here, but I'll give you a YT viedo with all vehicles. But really, leave this achievement to done last. But one thing I know, you don't need to have DLC to do this achievement.

Road Trip

Travel 75 kilometers by land vehicle
Pretty easy. Get into the car and drive here, there, few minutes and achievement will pop.

Please Step Out of the Vehicle

Hijack 50 enemy vehicles.
Need a car but a Military is attacking you? Hijack their car, tank or even helicopter 50 times till achievement will pop :D

Stunt Driver

Get 100 stunt driver points
Go to the first Reapers stronghold [If you already takeovered it], get into the car, and fall from all this cliffs near main gate. Get back to base. Repeat it few times.
Misc. - Achievements
I Believe I Can Fly

Base jump 1000 meters
Go to the Mile High Club and jump from there, DO NOT OPEN THE PARACHUTE till' left corner will say "Base jump - 1000 meters", then open parachute and land safely.

Bridge Limbo

Fly an airplane under 30 unique bridges in Panau.
There are many, really many bridges in Panau, take a airplane and fly under them and try to not crash :D

Low Flyer

Fly an airplane close to the ground for 30 seconds.
I found out the easiest way to do this is on the desert. Fly little up and stick near the ground but don't touch, hold like that 30 seconds. [Like in 'I Believe I Can Fly', the left corner should progress ;)]

Parachute Climber

Open the parachute and then land on foot 300 meters above the starting height
Look - Top of the World

Top of the World

Stand on foot at the highest point of Panau
You can synergy it with 'Parachute Climber' easily. Here you have a place where that point is:
Halfway there

Reach 50% completion in the normal mode or mercenary mode.
Look - Perfectionist

Perfectionist

Reach 75% completion in the normal mode or mercenary mode.
Let's start with the important thing. What is mercenary mode? When you end the game, you can still continue it in Mercenary Mode, finish other quests, or do a completion.
Second thing, what is completion? Everything you takeover, collect, destroy, and kill colonel counts for the completion. You must do 75% [!] of it. It took me the longest time. I just flew from place to place and i was doing 100% locations as much as i could.
Thanks!
Thanks for reading my guide!
If I helped you in even 1 achievement, be so nice and give a like, share it, or if you really liked it, add it to favourites.
That's all what I wanted to say.
Goodbye Achievement Hunters!
Do a nice massacre in JC2 :)

Special Thanks to:
- Kill-Cam Celebrity ~ Reminding that civilians aren't counted to 'Kill...' Achievements
HGN | GΛBE - Reminding bout' blue dots mark Faction Collectibles
114 Comments
Eyalonsky 18 Sep @ 12:29pm 
i got invincible warrior while playing on casual difficulty w/o going for it or knowing about it
either im lucky or casual is too easy
Gengarbey 14 Sep @ 6:57pm 
Thanks I'll be using this guide :steamthumbsup::steamthumbsup:
RaysKow 6 Jul @ 10:47am 
top
Sayori 2 Apr @ 12:51am 
I read their "dumb tips" and it was very helpful, especially parachute climber.
Thank you Michanicks., don't listen to this idiot.
The Robotigs 20 Aug, 2023 @ 1:17am 
nobody will read your dumb tips this game is EASY to 100%
Michanicks 8 May, 2023 @ 9:01pm 
16) "Parachute climber" - it's a big problem in guide, it doesn't teach how to climb. By slingshoting an then parachuting you need to grapple the higher point and then use forward and/or backward keys to get the speed and height (forward for speed, backward for height) over steady enough hill, not the high wall which will stop as. At the top you need to lower yourself right on your feet, without jumping/grappling toward the ground. And you can use any big enough hill/mountain, top of the world is not mandatory.

17) "Perfectionist" - repeating my previous point about "100% 100 locations".
Michanicks 8 May, 2023 @ 9:01pm 
14) "1000m base jump" - players will not know High Mile Club until they already find it, you need to mention it's a stationary airship on the eastern coast and it's even marked and painted on the map;

15) "Bridge limbo" - in a pinch overpass bridges will count too and you can easely find them on the map.

16) "Low flier" - flying over the water near the coast (you can fly surprisingly far from coast) is even easier because you will not crash up to sand hill.
Michanicks 8 May, 2023 @ 9:01pm 
11) "Trying all vehicles" - you need to mention that many hard to find vehicles are obtained through doing time trials (so player could focus on that achievement after completing 50 challenges), and that similar looking cars still may count as different ones, and that Black Market non-dlc cars are required too, and that DLC cars are helping a lot since they are not required, but still counts toward the achievement, and that your Journal have list of non-dlc vehicles you've tried and you haven't tried yet;

12) "Road trip" - better to tell that you don't need to focus that achievement since doing 50 challenges/all faction missions will get you these 75km;

13) "100 stunt points" - focusing that achievement is waste of time, while you gonna do 50 challenges and just randomly use cars you will getting points simply for keeping the high speed and rarely jumping. Farming points one by one is annoying waste of time;
Michanicks 8 May, 2023 @ 9:01pm 
7) "Juggler" - is easy when you use automatic weapon, like SMG, presumably upgraded one, you don't even need a high place for that;

8) "Kill 25 colonels" - carrying a sniper rifle the whole game just for them is counter-productive when you have armed vehicles, miniguns and the fact that any headshot will kill them, so it's better to get closer (which is still far enough from them spotting you) to kill them with any weapon enemies will actually carry ammo to, like example, revolver or LMG;

9) "Kill 50 enemies without losing health" - you can take small damage as far as you can regen it back, so you need to hide well to heal, and using wrong weapons will not reset the counter, you can kill 25 enemies right, then kill 9999 enemies with helicopter, then kill 25 more enemies right and get achievement.

10) "Wrecking ball" - helicopter is still much easier, video is wrong because they tried to kill civilians which are not counting toward ANY of achievements;
Michanicks 8 May, 2023 @ 9:00pm 
5) "100% 100 locations" - as above, i would suggest the reader to take over all the marks on the map as they walk from one mission to another, otherwise at the endgame farming them will become a torturous grind. Also, to make guide even more full, you can add that hardest to notice destructable is transformer on wooden pole so player would check out for them, and if then can't complete a base, it's may because in 100 meters from it (which may seem too far to check out) there is big interactive destructable, like example, a pipeline console or big relocator with 3 consoles;

6) "50 melee attacks" - just attacking enemies like that may cost you a lot of health, especially on higher difficulties. Better to wound enemies with shots so they fall (or to grapple them), then finish then off, that way they both can't hurt you and will cost you less/no ammo;