Cut/Unused Features of Jak 3 - Guard Shield, Hellcat, Rolling Glider, Giant Robot (OpenGOAL)

During the years I found many weird references in Jak 3, but not everything can be reasonably investigated without proper tools.
Fortunately, OpenGOAL makes this possible, by letting us see decompiled code and even allowing us to modify and recompile it: opengoal.dev/
Please keep in mind that Jak 3 OpenGOAL is far from finished, quite unstable.
I will keep looking into Jak 3, and let yous know if I find something interesting.
I think I never looked deeply into that riot shield I found mentions of in an earlier version of Jak 3, so maybe I should check it again.
Here are the changes I made for this video (this may receive more changes in the future), but please keep in mind that this is messy and not cleaned up: github.com/LuminarLight/LL-Op...
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[@AdjutantAntithesis]

Man it'd be awesome if someone can use those guard shields to make some kind of difficulty mod for the game someday

[@LuminarLight]

It is very easy to add a shield like that to any enemy, but for some reason the code already had it for the guards.

[@RayManiac90]

3:05 oh no Rayman lost his legs again

[@h.silvagaming]

I found Darth Maul legs😂

[@trajectory7235]

The pants running around by itself!! 😂 3:03

[@reallybadcontentXD]

Holy shit. Jak 3 is my beloved game from childhood. First time i saw this masterpice - i really thought that THIS is the best game out there and PS2 becomes my personal best console, ONLY cuz Jak 3 was in it. And after 18 years seeing that game takes such treatment - brings me joy and happiness. Can't wait to try it out for another walkthrough then it's release on OpenGOAL Big thank you!

[@MrThestranger0]

Being able to learn new things and have fun little discoveries about my childhood favorite, 20 bloody is later, is truly magical. Thank you for theses

[@ProjectRocketCHNL]

Really cool stuff luminar! loved the hellcats idea

[@Rowlet216]

I kinda hate that the Freedom League shields were cut, it would've helped show the difference between Torn's leadership valuing the lives of his soldiers and the Baron's leadership treating the Krimzon Guard like cannon fodder

[@Mattfghdghd]

Thank you so very much for showing this! I absolutely love this whole OpenGOAL project and so glad we have people like you working on it. Brings many hours of joy to my life and couldn't thank you enough.

[@LuminarLight]

I am not working on OpenGOAL, I am just a user.

[@FreemanFreak87]

I love how the video starts with "the spawn rate of fat people was too low". Already this video is a 10/10.

[@SupportGamin2024]

So many good things cut out of a great game

[@mikeexits]

I mean, half of this stuff is clearly unfinished. The giant robots are the most obvious case, and guard shields seem like a placeholder for the riot shields or something like that. They just copy pasted the Dark Maker shields onto the guards. Makes me wish they had another year for Jak 3 so they could flesh out the story better, fix some of the writing issues, and perhaps have even more variation and refinement to the gameplay. Would've been nice to have more to do in Spargus city. For such a rushed game though, it's shockingly good.

[@Matt_19-89]

I've been following Open Goal for a good while now and my God you guys are absolutely slaying it with Jak 3 (I'm assuming you're also working on that project in some capacity). It's my favorite of the trilogy and I honestly can't wait to play it.

[@LuminarLight]

I am not working on OpenGOAL, I am just a user.

[@Matt_19-89]

@@LuminarLight Aight, gotcha, still super cool stuff, I like to see cut content, especially in games I've played dozens of times already.

[@smileyday]

With this game only being in production for 5 years I would be surprised if the shields & giant robots were cut very late in the game, considering the robot still appears even on PS2 by way of glitch. The giant robot being removed from defend HQ seems to be to decrease the difficulty since Jak 2 was ridiculed for its difficulty. The Robot seems to be an absolute UNIT to try and fight lol pure speculation on my part. Great work and many thanks to the open goal team & community, saving the best series on PS2!

[@ceejay5391]

Its nice to see the yellow guards again including the hellcat cruisers but the giant robot is new.

[@alexcole9]

It really sucks that the hellcat was barley used. I would have love to drive them around the city like in Jak 2. But with opengoal we can bring some things back maybe. Giant dark jak is one example.

[@LuminarLight]

There are still references to dark giant, but I didn't look into it yet. I don't expect everything to still be there from Jak II.

[@alexcole9]

@@LuminarLight Really? I thought that was removed like the others besides the rest. Hopefully someone looks into it and make it a thing.

[@breakfastbaron5788]

I love Jak 3, but seeing these videos makes me wonder how much better the game could have been with more time in the oven. It seems like the war in Haven City was going to have a lot more going for it. Thank you for these uploads as always.

[@Santana_Art]

Yeah exactly, this game really could’ve been so much greater than it was. You can see in many ways how they wanted to focus on scale. Big wasteland, big bosses, big war. Everything was just going to be bigger and better

[@elias8981]

I love your videos so much. Each one seems like a new childhood scientific discovery of what i wished to explore about this game but never possible before

[@TheXxTanmanxX]

Really cool!! Thanks for showing us all this and the hard work you put in!

[@GeneralChrisGaming]

This week been wild so far, so many cool stuff being released , discovered or shown😂

[@robert6499]

This is absolutely incredible.

[@MM-ij1jh]

1:14 they should have kept the Hellcat Cruisers spawning like they did in Jak 2

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

Honey? Where are my blue paaaaaaaaaaaaaaants?

[@Raziel_Winged]

wow thnx for that great video

[@DaVibeCreator]

is it possible to increase number of squad guards from 4 to 16? or make guard ride a vehicle

[@LuminarLight]

Probably possible. Guards riding vehicles is mostly just an illusion. But yes it is possible, and I did some tricks to see it. But it is not in the video, nor in the changes that I ended up pushing, because it was an ugly hack.

[@biggercandybar6115]

Since you got the Hellcat cruiser working can the KG patrol bike work as well?

[@LuminarLight]

Its model is not present in Jak 3.

[@JMGO1999EternalMajorKakoEscoby]

​Could it's model be imported from Jak 2 to 3? then retextured to Blue?

[@LuminarLight]

Nobody can convert a version 7 art group into a version 8 art group, and it is unlikely that it will ever be possible. Best bet would be adding it as a custom art group, but the support for custom art groups was only implemented very recently, supporting simple one-component models for now. Will probably take a while before we can have separate components and collision and animations in custom art groups.

[@miguelaufyt6151]

Is there in Jak 3 more locations? death city, temple, origin haven city, ...?

[@LuminarLight]

Not in final version.

[@TCGexclusive]

Crazy how you can get it to spawn but don’t know what it is or how to make it appear.

[@LuminarLight]

It spawns as a giant if there is a specific flag set. I couldn't find where this flag is set. But it was easy to remove this condition.

[@jordanm2732]

It's the same shields that the dark makers use, right?

[@JMGO1999EternalMajorKakoEscoby]

Seems like it.

[@LuminarLight]

Yes. And it is also the same shield that the Titan Suit (Dark Maker Mech....) uses.

[@cityracer2]

If the giant robot was half its size would it work better?

[@LuminarLight]

Size is not the main issue. It is literally invulnerable. Can only be damaged while rolling. But it rarely ever rolls.

[@LEONGAGIN]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@user-kv2pi4si7l]

you make cool stuff

[@mrblade3412]

Wait, jak 3 is already playable in opengoal?

[@LuminarLight]

The project is fully open source so you can do it if you build the project yourself.

[@dangerjoe8911]

So you are telling me that the stupid Jak-Subreddit Joke was correct, and most people indeed never saw 100% of Jak 3?

[@alexcole9]

That's right. Now that you know. It's time to play all of Jak 3.