Jagged Alliance 3 from Haemimont Games

[Fargus]

Just stormed Pierre's little fort and discovered that niggers have weakness to mustard gas and headshots. They also like to dance around in the mustard fog and run through it so they could die faster and spare me some time. Also local camper Jamal with rocket launcher nearly sodomized my IMP merc and Raven but got shot in the face.

 

[raeven]

Looks like modders are already fixing some of the stupid design decisions of the game, like armor not showing up on your mercs.



Apparently, someone just enabled a code that was already in the game for it.

What an excellent demonstration of why this was a bad idea in the first place.

 

[Tyranicon]

Don't worry. The rocker launcher dudes have like a 40% chance of blowing themselves up by point-blanking a wall.

 

[Fargus]

 

[Tyranicon]

I do like the realism in how the enemies are retarded.

People will say brain-dead AI, but nah fam. It's realistic.

 

[Surf Solar]

I wonder what the uncontested authority on Jagged Alliance, Lilura , has to say about this here game.

(gaem is shit btw, everyone comparing it to JA2 should be beheaded)

 

[Strange Fellow]

Do I really need to kill all the commies in Pentagruel to take control of the mine?

Not that that's a problem.

 

[Fargus]

I heard all mines will deplete eventually, is that true?

 

[Fargus]

Zed Duke of Banville

 

[Strange Fellow]

boys I am getting properly fed up with pixel hunting a million billion containers on ever single goddamn map

modders get a move on

 

[Alienman]

boys I am getting properly fed up with pixel hunting a million billion containers on ever single goddamn map

modders get a move on

Gotto be some pain to it, otherwise why even have it. The option is to ignore, if you can fight the gaming autism that is

 

[bobocrunch]

I'm honestly surprised by the writing, I expected gen xer cringe and an inability to discern tone (especially with slavs) but the game rides the line of goofy and serious really well. Even stuff like the arthurian / monty python trash dump people the only jokes are ones with actual punchlines, references, and the idea of a landfill feudal council. All of the characters take the world and their situations seriously even if they're unserious characters and situations and that's missing from so much of modern writing

 

[Ghulgothas]

The cornball humor won't gel with everyone and there ain't as many hits as there are misses, but I have to give this game credit for actually making me laugh on more than one occasion.

Spoiler

 

[Zombra]

I got sucked in last night until 1am which is always a good sign. All the combat grannies died to the last, but took out half the attack force in return, and I got to loot their guns. Win-win.

On Commando difficulty, I was able to preserve the lives of all but one. Rude Trudy just starts too isolated to rescue in time.
To be fair I save scummed after seeing where the town defenses were actually deployed (in my mind we were able to coordinate after I basically sat there waiting for 3 days).

And yeah I already have 15 hours in the game over 2 days played, while still trying to do normal weekend things. It's different, which we all knew it would be, but it goddamn sure scratches the itch.

 

[Ghulgothas]

I got sucked in last night until 1am which is always a good sign. All the combat grannies died to the last, but took out half the attack force in return, and I got to loot their guns. Win-win.

On Commando difficulty, I was able to preserve the lives of all but one. Rude Trudy just starts too isolated to rescue in time.
To be fair I save scummed after seeing where the town defenses were actually deployed (in my mind we were able to coordinate after I basically sat there waiting for 3 days).

And yeah I already have 15 hours in the game over 2 days played, while still trying to do normal weekend things. It's different, which we all knew it would be, but it goddamn sure scratches the itch.

I was lucky enough to stumble on an FN FAL early on along with a pair of 40mm shells for its underslung launcher; two shots from Nails exposed the west force to Buns' sniper fire while Hitman and Q handled the guys in the north. In the end, only lost two militia troopers.

No essential NPCs here, and I've had two battles after this where keeping a named character alive for the whole fight was an exercise in frustration; but in both cases each had a reward to give and something to say afterwards. And both accounted for gunning them down after the fight for what they had on them.

 

[Darkwind]

Maybe they started working on it, finished half way and just commented out all the code?

Probably, you can see the clothes clipping through the armor in the above clip. Fair amount of work to make sure every model plays nice. Only games I've seen do proper armor/clothing layering is Silent Storm Sentinels*, KCD, and Examina. (*and thus Hammer and Sickle as well).

Also looks to be modeled but not textured. Those bright white smooth models are what your typical Blender model looks like before you've applied normal maps, and then textures, etc. to it.

 

[Darkwind]

I'm honestly surprised by the writing, I expected gen xer cringe and an inability to discern tone (especially with slavs)

You are either confusing Xers with millennials / zoomers or you are an actual retard if you think Xers are cringe spend even a nanosecond in the presence of a Zoomer or Millennial with their stupid ass everything is ironic jokes aren't we edgy with our totally self-aware humor. Hurr durr...

 

[Zombra]

On the subject of civilian deaths, I had a great moment in that same sector where my whole team was on the upper floor of the "vantage point" market building (the intel system in the game is a super cool addition). The civilian merchants were all running out as the enemies were coming in one by one. I lined up a perfect sniper shot to the head of an enemy as he entered. The bullet passed clean through the enemy's skull, through the doorway and into a fleeing civilian's spine, killing him instantly and costing me loyalty with the town. The type of thing I might consider save scumming but luckily there is the "TO THE BITTER END" setting that disables saving during combat! Nice!

 

[bobocrunch]

I'm honestly surprised by the writing, I expected gen xer cringe and an inability to discern tone (especially with slavs)

You are either confusing Xers with millennials / zoomers or you are an actual retard if you think Xers are cringe spend even a nanosecond in the presence of a Zoomer or Millennial with their stupid ass everything is ironic jokes aren't we edgy with our totally self-aware humor. Hurr durr...

This insistence on being not cringe in the really tryhard way is why you guys are cringe, it's a different type. You are the fat gut-having bar dwellers like Hitman

Raven, ex-LAPD SWAT killing a black guy and his pet hyena: "This country desperately needs an animal control unit... other than me"

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Zed Duke of Banville

Tried to replicate:

Spoiler

Other fitting responses from the random generation:

• Most likely.
• You're better off not knowing.
• You may rely on it.
• Yes, definitely.

 

[Vityaz]

Looks like modders are already fixing some of the stupid design decisions of the game, like armor not showing up on your mercs.



Apparently, someone just enabled a code that was already in the game for it.

What an excellent demonstration of why this was a bad idea in the first place.

I mean it obviously looks bad since the model is unfinished, lacking a texture and is not properly fitted to the body, but my point was that the code and intention was there. And something can be done about it if the mod tools are at least half as good.

 

[Beowulf]

Do I really need to kill all the commies in Pentagruel to take control of the mine?

Not that that's a problem.

No, you'll get to 50 loyalty just by fighting the Legion, then you can do 1 or 2 quests (preferably including distributing this work of propaganda).

And the commie leader will realize that the revolution betrayed its own ideas and will step down giving you the mine.

 

[raeven]

The sector size varies by a huge degree. Many are smallish but some of these sectors absolutely dwarf anything in JA2.

 

[Beowulf]

Yes. I fell in love with the game.
There is only a handful of things that disappoint or frustrate me.
The biggest one is the UI and inventory management, which is pretty barebones (and might be the reason why there are no real vendors, but you purchase predefined items by interacting with the map).
And for the combat it's this damage reduction. At the beginning I didn't think it would be that big of an issue, but the way this damage reduction works for bursts and full auto actually promotes the degenrate silent sniper gameplay.
Basically if single shots are preferred, than why not use those with highest single shot damage - hence why sniper rifles trump assault rifles in this game. And if you pick a sniper rifle, why not attach a silencer.
Machine guns have their own niche and are actually useful, but you need to manage your ammo well if you are using one of those - either craft a lot of your MG ammo, or switch to a different ammo standard for the rest of the team.

 

[gogis]

This game is a good reminder why we should be grateful for JA2's existence.

Are people actually playing JA2(1.13) regularly or am I missing something? My last run was last autumn and I already logged more hours in this than then. Probably because Drassen/mine/retaliation starting sequence became a bit stale with repetition. Game's fine. It's different, it's clunky, but it's much funneh than both Wastelands or whatever garbage we were fed in past 20 years