Jagged Alliance 3 from Haemimont Games

[Stavrophore]

The game is already pirated.

 

[cvv]

The problem with Haemimont games is that they are rarely ambitious, they are not bad per se but it doesn't go above "oh cool" and never reaches the good or cult status.
It was the case for the recent tropico games.

Not sure what your definition of cult is but Surviving Mars is widely beloved (one of my Top 10 games of the last decade) and so are the last three Tropicos. Also people who are into Diablo-likes say Victor Vran is a forgotten gem.

Also Stranded seems to be getting great reviews as well but this one is still EA, we'll have to wait and see.

This dev is seriously underrated in my book, there's been nothing but consistently good-to-great output from them for the past 15 years. (Haven't played any of their earlier games, can't vouch for those).

 

[Raghar]

Xenonauts 2 couldn't pick a worse time to release tbh. Only 4 days after JA3, unless they have insider info that this game is so short, that people will beat it in 4 days and will yearn for more of similar stuff.

Is it actually interesting. Because if it's just a Xenonauts mk2 and just a rehash of few other games glued together without theirs own effort. Who would care about half baked game made by people with low programming skills?
On the positive side, just because people would pony money for JA3, that doesn't mean they wouldn't pony money for Xenonauts 2.

Just game development should be about art, and about making games that developer wants to play. If this is just made to earn money, who cares.

Frankly, Epic would have as promo Murder by Numbers for free at that time as well. So, that would be also competitor. OK main character is brownie, there are people with weird rainbow hair colors. But, it's for free so why not try it. Xenonauts... Well, if you played 1 is there any innovation or some reason to play 2?
And with JA3 is there sex drugs and violence, or is it just a cash grab that uses names of previous games to earn bigger profit?

 

[Fargus]

The game is already pirated.

Well, GOG is a very useful platform hehe. Thanks polish bros.

Btw for those who used I.M.P., how is character creation in this game?

 

[bobocrunch]

 

[Stavrophore]

The game is already pirated.

Well, GOG is a very useful platform hehe. Thanks polish bros.

Btw for those who used I.M.P., how is character creation in this game?

You should thank russian torrent scene.

 

[Raghar]

This game has strong anti-piracy feature. It's about 15 GB big, and I'm missing HDD space.

 

[Modron]

The size of it is pretty nice actually everyother new big release is 100-150 gigs these days.

 

[Raghar]

The size of it is pretty nice actually everyother new big release is 100-150 gigs these days.

And only 4 hour to download.

 

[Readher]

Multiplayer working perfectly fine for me and my friend. The optimization is weird, my friend has a worse PC yet 100+ FPS while I'm chugging at 40-60.

It's fun to play so far, though it's certainly no JA2 1.13.

 

[Fargus]

Raghar needs to cough up some shekels for better storage device. And faster internet.

 

[Ghulgothas]

Working through it right now, about done with the tutorial island. The first few sectors there are pretty bad when it comes to constrained environments, but the Final Fort is a pretty neat little vignette of possibility, planning and set-up.

Eager to see if there's more setpiece environments like that in the game proper.

 

[Wilian]

How cool it would be if we could get "Slava Ukraini" DLC with M.E.R.C competitor called "International Reddit Legion". After capturing comms facility/military base we could use "Send NAFO" interaction to lower morale of enemy troops in the sector or cause them to move to other place preparing for fake invasion!

Problem with that DLC is that the enemy AI would be so horribly incompetent it'd feel like playing with cheat codes.

 

[Beowulf]

Yes, the first sectors are pretty small. The engagements happen on longer ranges than shown in the trailers, though, so it's not that bad.

Overall it's really good. Even merc's voicelines are more entertaining than annoying. I'm enjoying it so far.
But there is a lot of small issues with audio, enemy alertness and this combat start with first turn going to the enemies is ridiculous at times. Certain video settings don't work or reset as well.
Some design choices are also baffling, like accuracy penalty for difference in XP levels.

 

[geno]

Btw for those who used I.M.P., how is character creation in this game?

Exactly as it worked in 2, as expected.

 

[Alienman]

I like it so far. I'm actually surprised at how fun the combat is. The AI is a little bit suicidal it seems. Like if you hide, they all come running, which is nice for ambushes, but it makes the game kinda easy. Maybe the soldiers get better later on. Many things in the game make my mind go back to Ja2, and that is a nice feeling. However, there are some stuff I dislike, like ammo sharing. I just find it weird, and there seem to be no restrictions on the amount of weapons that can be carried. My Steroid has an mg42, a Kar98, an AK47, a pistol, and other mechanic stuff.

He is basically this guy:

But I'm happy with the purchase so far. I see many hours of tactical fun ahead of me.

Edit: If anyone can figure out how to force turn-based mode when in stealth, I will be a happy man. I had a chance to re-enter stealth while in TB, and it made the sneaking so much better.

 

[bobocrunch]

Tutorial island really was tutorial island, pushed onto the Cote de Azure after and almost got Hitman killed with a bad overwatch position. Playing on hard / ironman and it's enjoyable though certain weapon types and builds seem a lot better than others. Kalyna's been working as my sniper and doing surprisingly well saving people's ass with headshots

 

[cvv]

Not that it matters too much to me but gotta be honest, this looks like shit, graphix-wise.

Washed out, bland, generic and positively 2015.

Then again Surviving Mars looks 2010 at best and it's grate so yeah.

 

[Raghar]

How is weapon lethality? When I watched streamer, these high powered rifles caused low powered damage.

 

[Harthwain]

Xenonauts 2 couldn't pick a worse time to release tbh. Only 4 days after JA3, unless they have insider info that this game is so short, that people will beat it in 4 days and will yearn for more of similar stuff.

Is it actually interesting. Because if it's just a Xenonauts mk2 and just a rehash of few other games glued together without theirs own effort. Who would care about half baked game made by people with low programming skills?
On the positive side, just because people would pony money for JA3, that doesn't mean they wouldn't pony money for Xenonauts 2.

Just game development should be about art, and about making games that developer wants to play. If this is just made to earn money, who cares.

Frankly, Epic would have as promo Murder by Numbers for free at that time as well. So, that would be also competitor. OK main character is brownie, there are people with weird rainbow hair colors. But, it's for free so why not try it. Xenonauts... Well, if you played 1 is there any innovation or some reason to play 2?
And with JA3 is there sex drugs and violence, or is it just a cash grab that uses names of previous games to earn bigger profit?

Xenonauts was a response to XCOM. Straight comparision of either to Jagged Alliance is a bit of a miss.

 

[Tyranicon]

Anyone else getting the constant audio skipping?

Barely into the game and there's so many performance issues and general roughness.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Thanks for all of you who participate early performance issue finding/ bug squashing.
You know who you are.

 

[lycanwarrior]

Pre-ordered after Midnight to get that 20% discount, will likely start playing later today or tomorrow.

 

[Stavrophore]

Inconsistent framerate and indeed DLSS2 decreasing framerate. This game needs a day 1 patch for sure.

 

[Be Kind Rewind]

Come home, Slav man. The Bulgoids spent too much of the budget on getting African niggers to fuck their wives for "research", the real JA3 was released years ago.