Jagged Alliance 3 from Haemimont Games

[Zed Duke of Banville]

You get a good machete very early on in fleatown as well. Almost as if the game's trying to tell you something.

Where exactly was it? I dont remember any machetes there. I did get a bunch of nice stuff from lootboxes, some books and even metaviron syringe.

It's in a crate near Lalee's house if I remember correctly.

The unique machete called "The Thing" is obtained from Luigi's bodyguard Joseph, which you can pick up after the fight between Boss Blaubert's gang and Luigi's gang, as long as Joseph dies in the battle. It has slightly more base damage than the regular machete (18 versus 16), a higher base critical hit chance (15% versus 5%), and a larger bonus to damage from the wielder's strength (unspecified).

 

[Nortar]

Other than what i mentioned before there was surprising lack of cringe and wokeness in the the writing. But can't say i like it either. Plot twists are just meh and predictable. But the merc banters and dialogue interjections still deliver.

Predicable plot comes with the genre I guess.
Where there ever any sofisticated plot twists in 90-ies action movies?
The moment you see Korazon with that scar on her no-nonse bitch face, like 5 minutes into the game, you know you'll end up in conflict with her.

The best melee weapon I found so far is The Thing, which you can get as early as in Good Place.
Is there anything better?

And one more pic to your collection of interactions with Chimurenga:

Spoiler

Edit: Looks like I was too slow mentioning The Thing.

 

[Fargus]

Ivan called Igor a useless piece of shit, but he seems fun to keep around. Love the references.

 

[Beowulf]

The best melee weapon I found so far is The Thing, which you can get as early as in Good Place.
Is there anything better?

You can sharpen a regular machete to get more base damage than the Thing. I think it still has more crit % though.

 

[ArchAngel]

Think I took a leap of faith here, gentlemen, cause what seemed to look like a cautious but still essentially just a road accident,
now is starting to look more like a work in progress, with the the potential to actually get somewhere.
As far as I'm concerned, just being able to mod out scramble turns would be sufficient to elevate it.
Could be possible, if only via a hackjob of giving everyone the equivalent of Fox's unique trait.

It would not be enough. Enemy groups are still blind and deaf and can be taken down at day time with magical stealth that basically lets you walk up to them and set overwatches (even easier with pause mods which is probably reason why it was not in the game). This plus shorter ranges of weapons (result of blind and deaf enemies) makes combat much worse than JA2.

 

[ArchAngel]

I know its redundant to repeat here but seeing 'nu-xcom' system in jagged Alliance is simply disgusting. Living in the age of decline...

Don't listen to Archangel, he hasn't even played it and has no clue what he's talking about.

Hey fangirl. I've "played" enough to see your shit that you are eating.
I know this is your main cope mechanism but it is not working.

 

[Cyberarmy]

And one more pic to your collection of interactions with Chimurenga:

Grizly also have really fun interactions here. He's 'Murica incarnate and I'm loving it.

 

[Alienman]

Damn. I tested the mod that gives full damage to assault rifles for burst and full automatic fire, and it surely changes things up for the better. Things die very quickly, and it actually puts fear in me when the AK guys approach. Wish I had discovered this mod way earlier. The only problem is that the AI is still way too suicidal. They keep running like lemmings straight into the killings fields. I hope someone can mod that AI and make them a bit more hesitant, maybe probe with one or two, not the whole squad.

 

[Beowulf]

So, another pod bullshit that makes me regret playing Ironman:

Basically I talked to this working girls abuser and the AI turn started - before I could do anything Dr Q was slashed for critical 127 dmg.
Shit like this is unaviodable without savescumming or preapring in advance with multiple overwatches for every conversation, unless you know that you are perfectly safe (vide: savescumming)

 

[ArchAngel]

So, another pod bullshit that makes me regret playing Ironman:

Basically I talked to this working girls abuser and the AI turn started - before I could do anything Dr Q was slashed for critical 127 dmg.
Shit like this is unaviodable without savescumming or preapring in advance with multiple overwatches for every conversation, unless you know that you are perfectly safe (vide: savescumming)

Tnx for beta testing this game for the rest of us. But again if you are playing ironman you will need to expect a few deaths

 

[Cyberarmy]

Basically I talked to this working girls abuser and the AI turn started - before I could do anything Dr Q was slashed for critical 127 dmg.
Shit like this is unaviodable without savescumming or preapring in advance with multiple overwatches for every conversation, unless you know that you are perfectly safe

Just grenade them?

 

[ArchAngel]

PanteraNera out of all decline here you are the biggest disappointment here. I always assumed you were this autistic hardcore gamer that only wanted the "True experience" based on how much you shit on and nitpicked Phoenix Point (like Sensuki that had a low res CRT monitor for true BG1 experience) but no, you are a hypocrite and like the rest. Such a shame.

 

[Strange Fellow]

So, another pod bullshit that makes me regret playing Ironman:

Basically I talked to this working girls abuser and the AI turn started - before I could do anything Dr Q was slashed for critical 127 dmg.
Shit like this is unaviodable without savescumming or preapring in advance with multiple overwatches for every conversation, unless you know that you are perfectly safe (vide: savescumming)

To be fair, this is a natural consequence of the game having dialogue that can result in hostilities, unlike previous games. If it didn't have the pod system you'd be subjected to an initiative roll instead (or worse, automatically lose initiative the way enemies do if you provoke the attack). The only solution that doesn't result in bullshit deaths is if you're automatically granted the first turn every single time combat starts, which would be ludicrous. For better or worse, the fake first turn the enemies get will result in fewer bullshit deaths than any reasonable alternative, as enemies rarely spend it attacking.

 

[Ghulgothas]

How's that 1.13 playthrough coming along, ArchAngel?

There's a demo available now.


And an accolades trailer.

 

[Modron]

Eh developers have forgotten that the introduction of games rarely makes for good demos. Should just give you a prefab/armed squad and deploy you against an outpost or maybe that defense of the southern port city mission with the granny gang.

 

[spectre]

To be fair, this is a natural consequence of the game having dialogue that can result in hostilities, unlike previous games. If it didn't have the pod system you'd be subjected to an initiative roll instead (or worse, automatically lose initiative the way enemies do if you provoke the attack). The only solution that doesn't result in bullshit deaths is if you're automatically granted the first turn every single time combat starts, which would be ludicrous. For better or worse, the fake first turn the enemies get will result in fewer bullshit deaths than any reasonable alternative, as enemies rarely spend it attacking.

Dialogue leading to combat happened in JA2, off the top of my head: when you uncovered terrorists or pissed off the army base personnel.
The solutions is to just code in a fucking interrupts system (I swear, everything bad about the same can be traced back to not having that system in place)
This way you still take damage when ambushed, perhaps even losses, but highly experienced and more nimble guys might still try and turn around a crappy situation.

 

[PanteraNera]

PanteraNera out of all decline here you are the biggest disappointment here. I always assumed you were this autistic hardcore gamer that only wanted the "True experience" based on how much you shit on and nitpicked Phoenix Point (like Sensuki that had a low res CRT monitor for true BG1 experience) but no, you are a hypocrite and like the rest. Such a shame.

Honestly, I gave you one serious reply regarding JA3 and you went going like:

and a bit of:

And than I was like:

 

[Strange Fellow]

Dialogue leading to combat happened in JA2, off the top of my head: when you uncovered terrorists or pissed off the army base personnel.

I couldn't think of an example, but you're right.

The solutions is to just code in a fucking interrupts system (I swear, everything bad about the same can be traced back to not having that system in place). This way you still take damage when ambushed, perhaps even losses

Like you say, it's not actually a solution to the problem Beowulf is having. There isn't any good solution, other than reducing damage such that a merc can't possibly die in one turn, which is lame and gay.

To be clear, I don't disagree with you about interrupts, but you can't blame Dr. Q's death on them.

 

[Alienman]

The military base had one officer or something that get pissed off and unload a whole magazine into you. And the bounty hunters I think.

 

[spectre]

Like you say, it's not actually a solution to the problem Beowulf is having. There isn't any good solution, other than reducing damage such that a merc can't possibly die in one turn, which is lame and gay.

To be clear, I don't disagree with you about interrupts, but you can't blame Dr. Q's death on them.

Yeah, that one sounds like poor encounter design. No argument here.
There was a similar situation on the tutorial island with the minefield, although it had a less extreme outcome for me.

 

[Modron]

You actually had a few moments to shuffle away before they went straight into combat after starting dialog with them as far as I recall.

 

[ArchAngel]

How's that 1.13 playthrough coming along, ArchAngel?

There's a demo available now.


And an accolades trailer.

Slowly as I had to leave home for the seaside, but what I played confirmed me how much superior it is to JA3. Why do you think I took my shitting on JA3 to next level?
Now I am even more disappointed by what we got.

 

[ArchAngel]

PanteraNera out of all decline here you are the biggest disappointment here. I always assumed you were this autistic hardcore gamer that only wanted the "True experience" based on how much you shit on and nitpicked Phoenix Point (like Sensuki that had a low res CRT monitor for true BG1 experience) but no, you are a hypocrite and like the rest. Such a shame.

Honestly, I gave you one serious reply regarding JA33 and you went going like:

and a bit of:

And than I was like:

Nah, you kept leaving buttons on all my post like an autist. I was here on 'Dex before these buttons of decline so lets talk instead.

 

[Beowulf]

Basically I talked to this working girls abuser and the AI turn started - before I could do anything Dr Q was slashed for critical 127 dmg.
Shit like this is unaviodable without savescumming or preapring in advance with multiple overwatches for every conversation, unless you know that you are perfectly safe

Just grenade them?

That requires preexisting knowledge about how the encounter will pan out.
Tbh in my first playthrough I never had them killing my mercs in their first activation.

 

[Alter Sack]

Do items you get vanish if the inventory is full?

I 'bought' a loot box with metaviron and it is nowhere to be found.