Multiplayer in “Just Cause 2” through the help of modding was definitely possible, but that’s about as far as we can go in praising it. It had its obvious issues and was generally limited by what the developers could and couldn’t do, and in the end it turned out that there was quite a lot that they couldn’t do.
Because of this, some have been hoping that the new game will make modding a more streamlined experience, although there have also been hopes that this wouldn’t come at the expense of flexibility in what exactly can be modded.
That’s usually a common tradeoff when it comes to modding systems, and hopefully Avalanche are going to handle this correctly and focus on what truly matters to their players. Because a lot of people want to see this game as flexible and moddable as possible.
There’s still some time until it arrives on the market, and we’ll probably hear a little more about the special plans that Square Enix and Avalanche Games have for the title once December 1 approaches. Until then, we’ll have to take the rumors that we can get and try to figure out which of them can be trusted and which should be ignored. Currently, there’s a lot of misinformation about the game going around, but at least the developers are keeping track of the important things in their dev diary.