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ArchAngel

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In Incline news 1.13 is crazy! I liberated top left SAM site and Mine and game sent a stack of 69 (!) soldiers at me.
And I didn't even get a chance to fill them all with militia. At least I got additional free Merc there that is part of 1.13 mod and it seems I will need to let that mine fall and do some partisan tactics by waiting for the stack to split up. I got a decent 8 man squad now and I can take on 15 or so enemies without casualties unless I get unlucky.

If I can keep this mine I can finally hire a small team of top mercs to start clearing right side of the map south of Dressen.
At least don't pretend that that AI is any superior. 69 scrubs in early game is analogous to nigger faction in JA3

acefe51985.jpg


Zerg rush! Yes, they are climbing into fullauto
998a16443f.jpg
They do tend to rush forward in hopes of overwhelming you but they will also try to run from the side to flank you if they can.
I just had one such fight, 8 vs 16 elite soldiers. I had to use most of my grenade launcher ammo to survive it. Smoke grenade also saved my ass as it cut off flanking route for them long enough for my wounded guy to crawl back into safety and for me to thin out the numbers of front rushers. Luckily they had no snipers or Mortar dudes in this fight.

I noticed another big difference between JA2 and nuXcomed JA3. Explosives seem to always hit with pinpoint accuracy in JA3, it is why they are way too effective there. Here even with my dude with Demolitions he still misses half the time when throwing them. And I do not even try to use grenade launcher with merc that does not have Heavy Weapons perk. He is costly (Brain) but a master of LMG and Grenade Launcher and most effective member along with Buns that has our only effective Sniper rifle (I only got 1 10x scope)
 

raeven

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In Incline news 1.13 is crazy! I liberated top left SAM site and Mine and game sent a stack of 69 (!) soldiers at me.
And I didn't even get a chance to fill them all with militia. At least I got additional free Merc there that is part of 1.13 mod and it seems I will need to let that mine fall and do some partisan tactics by waiting for the stack to split up. I got a decent 8 man squad now and I can take on 15 or so enemies without casualties unless I get unlucky.

If I can keep this mine I can finally hire a small team of top mercs to start clearing right side of the map south of Dressen.
At least don't pretend that that AI is any superior. 69 scrubs in early game is analogous to nigger faction in JA3

acefe51985.jpg


Zerg rush! Yes, they are climbing into fullauto
998a16443f.jpg
They do tend to rush forward in hopes of overwhelming you but they will also try to run from the side to flank you if they can.
I just had one such fight, 8 vs 16 elite soldiers. I had to use most of my grenade launcher ammo to survive it. Smoke grenade also saved my ass as it cut off flanking route for them long enough for my wounded guy to crawl back into safety and for me to thin out the numbers of front rushers. Luckily they had no snipers or Mortar dudes in this fight.

I noticed another big difference between JA2 and nuXcomed JA3. Explosives seem to always hit with pinpoint accuracy in JA3, it is why they are way too effective there. Here even with my dude with Demolitions he still misses half the time when throwing them. And I do not even try to use grenade launcher with merc that does not have Heavy Weapons perk. He is costly (Brain) but a master of LMG and Grenade Launcher and most effective member along with Buns that has our only effective Sniper rifle (I only got 1 10x scope)

wait, does this mean you finally played JA3?
 

spectre

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Brothers I have started a Steam page here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3017444441

Feel free to tell me how shit my builds are
Re: the sniper build, perk choice looks ok. When it comes to attributes:
Wisdom is trained by identifying pickable flowers in the sector (only way to train it from what I've seen), so you should always make rounds with your IMP first so that xir gets all the increases.
(followed by the mechanical guy, which highlights all the salvageable shiznits). Of course, it should be maxed as you suggest.

I wouldn't get too low on AGI, I think you only get 10 AP on 65, which won't be enough to get all aim levels on a scoped rifle
without some sort of a well rested or morale buff.

Marksmanship trains very easy (and there are plenty of magazines for it). It's absolutely okay to start with 80,
and I even went down to 70 with a build that started off just knifing people in the tutorial island.

I see your point about explosives, but like you say, explosive experts are really easy to get.
Main purpose here is not to get splattered on mines, and I'd have to research what the sweet number is for that. 50 might be too low,
but my best guess would be around 60-70.

Low health low strength snipers is as old of an archetype as they go, but I found STR a right bitch to train (not to mention the low inventory space).
Health trains a lot when being doctored on, but there's the usual conundrum, you don't want to risk getting hit with this build, also no telling if you're going to stick around for the procedure.
You may want to devote some early game time for training with a guy like Wolf.

Psycho is indeed problematic to get, I tend to fix this with Meltdown. Not sure if it's used as much for quests, so far the only "must have" was for recruiting coffee beans
for the N-Night event (and the stupid cunts needed more babysitting than they helped, in my experience).

For Igor build, I think when going melee, you want all the grit generators, at least vanguard.
 

ArchAngel

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In Incline news 1.13 is crazy! I liberated top left SAM site and Mine and game sent a stack of 69 (!) soldiers at me.
And I didn't even get a chance to fill them all with militia. At least I got additional free Merc there that is part of 1.13 mod and it seems I will need to let that mine fall and do some partisan tactics by waiting for the stack to split up. I got a decent 8 man squad now and I can take on 15 or so enemies without casualties unless I get unlucky.

If I can keep this mine I can finally hire a small team of top mercs to start clearing right side of the map south of Dressen.
At least don't pretend that that AI is any superior. 69 scrubs in early game is analogous to nigger faction in JA3

acefe51985.jpg


Zerg rush! Yes, they are climbing into fullauto
998a16443f.jpg
They do tend to rush forward in hopes of overwhelming you but they will also try to run from the side to flank you if they can.
I just had one such fight, 8 vs 16 elite soldiers. I had to use most of my grenade launcher ammo to survive it. Smoke grenade also saved my ass as it cut off flanking route for them long enough for my wounded guy to crawl back into safety and for me to thin out the numbers of front rushers. Luckily they had no snipers or Mortar dudes in this fight.

I noticed another big difference between JA2 and nuXcomed JA3. Explosives seem to always hit with pinpoint accuracy in JA3, it is why they are way too effective there. Here even with my dude with Demolitions he still misses half the time when throwing them. And I do not even try to use grenade launcher with merc that does not have Heavy Weapons perk. He is costly (Brain) but a master of LMG and Grenade Launcher and most effective member along with Buns that has our only effective Sniper rifle (I only got 1 10x scope)

wait, does this mean you finally played JA3?
No, but I spent enough hours watching other playing it trying to figure out if it as decline as previews and dev diaries seemed to show. And it is decline, then I decided to play JA2 1.13 first while waiting for an overhaul mod for JA3 that turns it into a proper tactical game and closer to JA2
 

raeven

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Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
 

ArchAngel

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Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
Why would I waste hours playing shit JA3 when I can enjoy my first playthrough of 1.13 for JA2? I already wasted hours watching people play JA3 to learn if it is really shit.
 

ArchAngel

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Look at this awesome inventory (on strategy screen):
JA2img1.jpg

Also this is just one possible look. This is super customiziable with different gear you can find/buy
 

Abu Antar

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
We know. Most people here have it rated as one of the best strategy rpgs of all time. We have played it multiple times.

I'm glad you like it, but we already know. Nothing is going to top it.
 
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Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
Why would I waste hours playing shit JA3 when I can enjoy my first playthrough of 1.13 for JA2? I already wasted hours watching people play JA3 to learn if it is really shit.
I've wasted seconds seeking out JA3 stuff in the JA3 thread due to you posting your JA2 stuff.
We are simply not the same.
 

ArchAngel

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Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
Why would I waste hours playing shit JA3 when I can enjoy my first playthrough of 1.13 for JA2? I already wasted hours watching people play JA3 to learn if it is really shit.
I've wasted seconds seeking out JA3 stuff in the JA3 thread due to you posting your JA2 stuff.
We are simply not the same.
Go cry to your mommy..
 

raeven

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Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
Why would I waste hours playing shit JA3 when I can enjoy my first playthrough of 1.13 for JA2? I already wasted hours watching people play JA3 to learn if it is really shit.
Because then you can hang out in this thread and give meaningful, educated criticisms of this game that it is apparently so important for you to deride.

Alternatively, you could fuck off out of this thread entirely.
 

ArchAngel

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If you don't like the game why are you posting in here? You are a strange person
I am comparing new shit with awesome (modded) original.
Same like we did all the time in NuXcom topics, or nuFallout topics, Dragon Age topics and others.. including games that are not direct sequels like Phoenix Point..

I am sorry that you feel bad about JA3 sucking and feel worse when I state it.

Only reason people get mad when you state something sucks is if they do know it sucks, they just do not want to admit it.
It is same like fat people that get mad when you tell them they are fat. And there seems to be a lot of "mad fat" people in this topic LOL
 
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ArchAngel

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I do not know if this was improved in 1.13 or part of original JA2 but I am amazed how well pathfinding works when not in TB mode.. JA2 was released 1999, BG1 was 1998.. how did IE engine manage to fuck up pathfinding so bad..
 

PanteraNera

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Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
Why would I waste hours playing shit JA3 when I can enjoy my first playthrough of 1.13 for JA2? I already wasted hours watching people play JA3 to learn if it is really shit.
I've wasted seconds seeking out JA3 stuff in the JA3 thread due to you posting your JA2 stuff.
We are simply not the same.

If you don't like the game why are you posting in here? You are a strange person

Just play through the free demo and then you can keep bitching about it without being ignorant
Why would I waste hours playing shit JA3 when I can enjoy my first playthrough of 1.13 for JA2? I already wasted hours watching people play JA3 to learn if it is really shit.
Because then you can hang out in this thread and give meaningful, educated criticisms of this game that it is apparently so important for you to deride.

Alternatively, you could fuck off out of this thread entirely.

Maybe it's time to call infinitron for a split

Infinitron
 

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