Jagged Alliance 2 1.13 is a marvelous game
where else you can play as:
>A South African, alcoholic doctor who thinks that every race has its place and enjoys toying with explosives as a hobby
>A hungarian explosves expert who actually learned his trade the sane, safe way. In the classromm
>A Russian Chechnyan war veteran alcoholic who is the newphew of the best mercenary in the bussines
>A German who thinks that Demonic bugs from fuck know where are cute, adorable, cudly creatures
>A military hardass who may or may not have a raging mancrush for one of strongest mercs in the bussines
>An American Humanitarian aid worker turned useless rebel
>Some random jackass who'se greatest Hero is Vlad The Impaler
>A southern redneck mechanic who somehow got part of his colon removed because he OD'd on some pumpkin seeds
>An Insane knife nut who cherishes his skills by carving the alphabet on people bodies while they are still alive. Ot atleast the vowels anyway
>A retard rebel who'se whole work consists og holding the door
>An American postal worker who vents his frustrations by killing random shmucks with the help of a Workers union
>An old ass doctor who'se better at bludgeoning people with a golf club rather than doctoring
>An old ass veteran merc who fucked some tramp in a tent trailer, knocked her up and is pissed off because the kids are leeching of off him
>A mental retard professional wrestler who mostly get hired to move boxes
>An undercover rebel who was hidden in the woods for years.
>A Londoner punk who really hates being british and actually knows martial arts + has night ops training
>An all around jack of all stats mercenary that trains a defence force in his spare time
>A military cadet dropout who has a major stick up his ass, but nonetheless a very loyal and competent soldier
>A seriously egoistical Hungarian leutenant who uses Machine guns like they're BB guns and has a gift of training people to do the same
>A former French marine Sniper who can't swim
>A retard rebel who'se whole work consists og holding the door
I played through vanilla, not sure if I want to go with that 1.13 mod or whatever it's at now. It looks like a case of "too many cooks."Woody?
>>340268057
try it
if you don't like it, don't play it
I liked Conrad and his engrish.
1.13 right away or play vanilla first?
>>340268603
1.13 adds a lot of shit and ramps up the difficulty. Play vanilla for a bit.
I fucking love putting my mercs under heavy fire only to hear them freak out.
I wish I could play it, but it crashes on me every time I scroll the map with the cursor.
>>340269452
THEY'RE GOING BALLISTIC ON ME
>>340266440
>>An Insane knife nut who cherishes his skills by carving the alphabet on people bodies while they are still alive. Ot atleast the vowels anyway
best paired up with a mental Cuban explosives expert who wishes after death to be a big black bird going from war to war and picking at dead bodies
>>340268603
Play vanilla first and then when you get sick of getting a pack of gum only from a guy who was shooting you with rifle, switch to 1.13.
how much will it take for me to get into JA2 as pretty much a tactical babby?
>>340270376
lots of save scumming
>>340270376
3-4 days if you don't drop it the within the first hour.
>I'm bleeding. That's cool
IF YOU BITE IT, ICE, WHO'S GONNA FEED THE DOG.
First line that popped into your head?
>>340270715FUDGE
>>340270715
Fuck this worthless cunt god I hate her so much
>>340270715
That will do, Ira.
>>340270842
just give her a good rifle and watch those amazing luck shots (because high Dex and Wis)
This game is fucking magical.
>Buy it in a Steam sale Feburary because I hear it is good
>Drop it for a bit
>Come back to it three weeks ago
>81 hours played
Also, favorite experiences with the game?
>Give Stephen a Steyr with laser sight
>He misses less shots full auto than my snipers do semi-auto
>340270715
WE STILL HAVEN'T GOT ALL OF DEIDREANNA'S MEN.
I still have no idea what to do when you cleared up Drassen
>>340267670
kek
>>340271086
Go capture other towns, take the SAM sites, train milita, send the Queen bitch flowers saying "Sorry for your loss".
>>340271086
>find the fat fuck priest, either in the church or in one of the bars
>talk to him with Ira or someone with good leadership
>optionally: return to Omerta a day later (or hire a new merc and land him in Omerta), go to the rebel base, talk to Miguel to recruit Dimitri
>>340271086
1. Train militia with Ira
2. Find the pilot
3. Capture the SAM site near Drassen
4. Get new mercs and form 2 squads
5. Send Squad 1 to Alma
6. Send Squad 2 to do quests in San Mona and capture Chitzena
>>340270979
The mercs and their lines, but boy could you run yourself into a corner if you lost a couple and then were stuck with the poor ones.
>>340266440
>a game which refuses to run properly without having to download an unofficial update, then an update for the update
>it still boots to a black screen
bravo
>>340271341
Steroid's are fucking 10/10. I have to play the game without wearing my headphones because of how much the mercs in general make me laugh.
>GROOVING! for the first time
>>340270561
>That gore
Is this a mod?
>>340271596
underage ban please
>>340271596
pretty sure vanilla JA2 also had explosive headshots
you just need to do enough damage
>>340271724
I don't remember fountains of blood in JA2, but I guess I never rolled crits.
I always loved the inventory management in this game and the sheer amount of guns you could get.
>>340271865
JA2 has a lot of gore, even rotting corpses.
>>340266440
>start game
>get to Drassen
>dick around for a week
>start new game
>repeat
>>340271347
>fucking up the install
kill yourself
>>340272021
even without 'enemies drop everything' it can quickly become a nightmare to manage
>Day 12
>probably about 80 guns still waiting to get sold to Tony
>just can't stop stealing more guns off enemies
>>340270715A DRIVEN BITCH
I wanted to play this game once but then I read that after you've taken a certain piece/amount of land then a nearly infinite counterattack begins and you'll run out of ammo before you've shot all the baddies. Even that more soldiers spawn than there are people in Dressen.
Is that true?
>>340273502
At some point in development that was the case, but they disabled it.
You can enable it again in 1.13.
>>340273502
It's not so bad if you're prepared for it. It's just that on your first playthrough you probably won't be prepared for it.
Also, in 1.13 there's an option to turn off the counterattackif you're a pussy.
>>340273502
in vanilla, the Drassen counter-attack doesn't really happen
you might get the occasional standard 20-or-so attack
in 1.13 they enabled the counter-attack. depending on the difficulty, it'll be 60-80 soldiers that arrive quite short after taking over all of Drassen. it's doable if you savescum and/or use cheeky tactics
>>340270715
IM LEARNING
>Not training barney the dinosaur to be a mass murdering killing machine
Smhtbqhfam
>>340270561
>>340270767
>>340270245
>>340271841
Not being able to window this game pissed me off
Installed it on an old-as-shit laptop, but the game did not or could not play as smooth as in these webms, and half the features of 1.13 didn't even work
man what the fuck
shame every sRPG after JA2 is worse. Sentinels come close but never had a personality
>>340274138
works for me
try re-installing
>>340274948
Huh. Alright then, I'll try again.
Love the hell out of this game. There is something magical about it
YFW you come across super secret swamp laboratory on accident
>>340276113
Mfw they shoot mortar shells at me from the rooftop
>>340276113
>yfw drassen counter-attack, your assault rifles shipment from bobby ray's didn't arrive today, and all you have is pistols
>"Well... Whatever you were expecting isn't here. Could try again tomorrow."
>>340272265
This but also dick around in san mona and rarely chitzena. How do I force myself to complete it?
>>340273502
Not really. It's only in the mod and it's like 1 full sector stack of elites, not infinite. With careful recon and ai exploiting it can be completely trivialised.
>>340276403
There's a fuckton of cool places to go. Desert prisons, alien bugs in the mines, you can go build a robot, recruit a serial killer into your team, go beat up some lions with your bare fists, go nuclear on bunch of retarded rednecks. I usually find cool stuff to do, unless until the Capital.
>>340277026
Well fuck, now I want to play it yet again. Can't decide between going solo+locals or squads of mercs tho. Can you start with mercs only, no mc? I don't think I ever tried.
>>340266440
been wanting to replay and so been wanting to ask. heard it first from /k/ and played with their recommended setup which include a mod/patch for loads of weapon/guns and tacticool shits. is that mod the 1.13 patch or it something else entirely? it's years ago so i can't remember/dig jack shit
>>340277305
Sure you can
Love this game. No better turn-based tactical combat exists.
I'm not too good at it though. Made it pretty far but never beat it. Scared to try 1.13.
Hey boys I really want to get into JA2 1.13.
Wich mercs are the best to start a new game?
>>340277456
Most likely it was, but ja2 modding history is complicated with some major projects and minor forks/branches/add-ons that more often than not end up as part of main 1.13 setup, sometimes disabled by default.
How different is JA2 from Fallout Tictacs?
>>340270715
I liked her. Thought the accent was neat.
It was like she was choking on a dick when she spoke.
>>340277860
your IMP, MD, Barry, Grunty or Grizzly, Igor
>>340277860
Igor and Blood. Both are cheap, have great agility, learn quickly, and get along with some of the game's best mercs.
>>340277860
Get someone who can swiftly train your militia, like Wolf or Raider.
How was this allowed?
>>340278094
>>340278173
Thanks for the fast replies i will try it when I arrive home
>capture 4th town
>tanks start rolling in
Watching them drive over every fucking obstacle in the fog of war is kinda nerve racking.
Is there a way to disable them? They were buggy as fuck in my playthrough.
>>340277860
>>340278573
The ex-swat duo is well balanced, not too expensive, morale-boosts each other and friendly with some of the best mercs later
>>340271320
Right I made a new start with the aussie with a shotgun and Buzz, liberated Drassen and gonna do that
But I got a floppy disk, what should I do with it and where is the pilot?
>>340279404
keep the floppy disk. you can recruit slay with this.
assuming you changed the ini setting so he stays forever
the pilot is somewhere around drssen, talk to the locals they should give a general direction
when I installed this again I used the windowed mode trick and everything, but the strategic map interface is eternally grayed out and none of the features appear.
>>340271596
Vanila ,puppy fag
Best rts ever. Oh why! OH FUCKING WHY HAD THE REBOOT HAD TO BE SUCH A HUGE PILE OF SHIT!!!! GOD WHY!!!!
NO NOOO NOOO YOU MONSTERS BASTARDS!!!!!NO NO NO !!!AHAHAHAHA NO !!!
>>340280471
>rts
U wot?
Is Gold the one I should get? There's also Wildfire which is apparently worse.
I'll probably just get the original on GOG, but it's still weird that Gold is 20 euros on steam, and the original isn't even available.
>>340277456
oh well ill just try the 1.13 first then. any dl link, or it's available from steam workshop?
>>340281138
Steam version dont works with 1.13 so its better to go for GoG wich fully supoort the shitton of mods
>>340281481
Great, GoG is cheaper anyway. Still, weird that JA2Gold on steam doesn't even have user reviews.
>>340281324
Read this
>>340281481
>>340281552
Thats because valve remove all the neg reviews an the game at this point still don have a positive review
>>340266440
Meh I can think of at least 10 games where you can play as all those characters.
>>340281798
post them nigger
>>340281481
>>340281552
already got the steam version from last year sale, what do? pirate it? people say it's work fine with steam version but i think they talking about 2011 build or something, not the latest 2014 one
Reer that "stable" 1.13 is very very outdated and this should be used instead:
http://kermi.pp.fi/JA_2/v1.13_Releases/Unofficial/English/Depri/SCI_113/
>>340282202
Sorry no time, I... have to... uhm.. do laundry, yeah laundry. Sorry.
>>340273502
Hide in a room with no windows, close the door.
Drop everyone who opens the door. 90 times.
>>340277957
A lot.
For instance, they don't have that retarded crouch-walk animation, and stealth actually works in JA2 (that's one of the worst things in FO Tactics), although it's not really viable until you get a few items first.
>>340278809
I think there is. In Vanilla they're always behind pillboxes, they don't move.
Drassen is pretty trivial when you realise it doesn't activate until you take the third sector.
You can just take the mine and the airport and then spend time buying weapons and training militia.
>>340282202
7.62 hard life/high caliber
>>340283782
good choice. Thats still not 10. I just wanted to call that nigger out on his bullshit.
>>340270376
Vanilla JA2 is not that hard. I was able to steamroll through the game in a couple hours.
JA2 1.13 kicked my ass though even on the lowest difficulty.
Squad leader with grenade launcher and machine pistol is my favourite main character.
>>340284068
But still, those mercs are just as wacky as the JA2 ones.
>>340281481
>Steam version doesn't work with 1.13
Fuck, so I can't ever get 1.13 to work on mine?
>>340267670
underrated post
>>340266440
Canadians used to be so un-PC in the 90s, to the point that they released crazy games like Jagged Alliance.
Now they have a literal cuckold as a leader, PM Justin Trudeau.
What happened?
>>340280471
>>340284649
just fucking pirate it
you paid for it anyway
>>340284370
Pretty sure some ja2 devs were actually involved. Or maybe it was only for first game (Brigade E5)
>mfw overwatch fans
>>340277860
Disable new chance to hit. That thing's garbage and turns the sharpshooters in the game into moles.
>>340266440
goddamn learn to spell motherfucker
>>340266440
GET SHOVEL
>Nails is my favorite merc
>1.13 just keeps making him shittier with every update
Inb4 they mess with the vest
>an undercover rebel who was hidden in the woods for years
Who? Is this one of the OCs they've been adding over the years?
>>340287563
Just learn to hand-edit his character info via notepad, I do the same thing to make the Arulco rebels actually semi-worth using just because I like their dynamic so much.
>>340287563
>Hire Nails
>Stephen hates him
>Had to get rid of him or Stephen
>>340288268
Manuel Rivas
dude from Unfinished Bussines
Fatimas husband
http://jaggedalliance.wikia.com/wiki/Manuel
>>340286140
Who thought this NCTH horseshit was a good idea? Goddamn son, how do you even spend that much time developing an entire new aiming subsystem and fuck it up that much?
>>340288380
Stephen only has a problem ih he and Nails are in the same sector
just separate them
>>340289091
Oh neat, I'm about 2 years out of date I think, last cool thing added to the game IIRC back then was a joke zombie apocalypse mode, I really need to see what's been added since then.
>>340289342
the zombie mods got taken out
the mercs from jagged alliance 1 and adealy games have been added
a lot of other shit
>>340289250
That was the problem, I couldn't; the enemies kept rushing one sector of Balime and I had all my mercs there.
Hi team it's possible to modify the hotkeys?
>there's a JA2 thread on /v/
>>340290908
Go find cleve blakemore
>mfw after 5 years of playing this shit I learned you could just punch Pablo to make him stop stealing from your shipments instead of paying him every goddamn week
>>340290908
Its an underapreciated classic
people don't post because they are afraid nobody will respond
I feel bad for saying this but this game kinda confusing to me due the unending menus and not understanding very well the controls in combat.
>>340291881
don't worry
everybody new gets confused with this game
hell, even veterans discover something new with this game
>>340291881
If you're younger than 25 or so this is understandable; JA2 alone was several levels more sophisticated than most games from the 00's onward, and 1.13 adds enough complexity to the mix that your average gamer isn't even going to know where to begin.
Check out some YT playthroughs of 1.13 to get a feel for the flow of the game, and study the wiki like it was a holy document.
And drop your goddamn backpack.
>>340266440
>A group of modern day mercenaries dressed as nazis and using only German WW2 weapons to overthrow third world country
great game, I think it's time to replay...
>>340271841
oh yes, .50 cal from 10 meters to the head
or even better25mm out of modded in M109
>>340270715
YOU GOT MY EAR
other than IoV, CosDB/DBBMod what are some good mods?
>ДAЖE HE ДУMAЙ OБЛAПOШИTЬ MEHЯ - УБЬЮ CУКA.
What did he mean by this?
>>340291139
>tfw you will never experience usenet drama and shitposting firsthand
>>340294281
>Guns. All guns. Like finger on hand.
>>340285246
Found it, it was actually character designer/writer. Also 7.62 and E5 has all the same mercs.
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,11396/
Didn't know he also worked on Silent Storm tho.
>>340295171
>Silent Storm
Shit, now things are beginning to come together.
>>340266440
sirtech didn't deserve to die
at least they went out with a bang
>>340295313
You know the deal man
>you are now manually recalling that JA has had not one, but two shameless nostalgia cash-in 3D reboots that play like hot garbage
>wiping out the entire sector solo with Magic.
Snapperheads beware
>>340296735
>some guy did a solo shadow run
How?
Why would you do something like that?
>>340296735
>not nestling into the corner of the map and killing every enemy with Reaper and a .338 sniper rifle before they can even get within 60 squares of him
It's like you don't even want to siphon their spirits with a straw.
This is the game that made me understand exactly why police/SWAT call for reinforcements when storming a reinforced position (in real life).
Even 2 or 3 guys defending a single room can be a challenge for your 6 mercs. After the first 4 or 5 bad encounters, I just said fuck it and chucked nonstop grenades from every window I could find. The game gives you a ton of them, anyway.
>mfw throwing a grenade inside the factory
She is evil, a driven bitch!
JA2 1.13 broke me of my long ingrained habit of always saving explosives in games and never getting around to using them.
Let the jumping grenades, C4, and 60mm mortars flow like wine.
>>340296571
There's even more shameless nostalgia clone "Jazz: Hired Guns" aka "Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge"
Note also that is's a slav game and "Z" is "З" in cyrillic.
>>340297382
lol wrong thread
>>340297091
>wanting to get buttfucked by reinforcements this hard
>>340297412
In Vanilla, I only started using mortars when trying to destroy the tanks in the airport of the capital city, because the LAWs kept missing shots (only later I learned you should use them from a roof), and they're very cumbersome to carry around.
I never used many grenades, but they're really good to flush people out of rooms.
>>340297252
Hah, I used Spetsnaz tacticsone mortar shell to damage wall of a building so the insides are exposed to the open, second mortar shell with mustard gas to wipe out everything that lives, and few more shells just for good measuredoesn't work so great in citiesI mean it works great, but afterwards local people either hate you or are dead
>>340297557
Reinforcements are a joke as long as you have the side of the map you're hunkered down in secure. They just feed intot he killzone from the other end.
>>340295171
>Also 7.62 and E5 has all the same mercs.
Well, yeah the main plot of 7.62 is that you are a merc who return to the island and you are a veteran of it.also silent storm have the same design.
>start a new game with NCTH enabled
>stop playing once I realize my LMG user is more accurate 9/10 then my sharp shooter
How do you fuck up so bad?
>>340291159
>My face when killing the General with six people at once in Alma
>"You have no chance of winning, soldier."
>As soon as combat starts fucking unload into him
I tried playing this a white back but I remember not enjoying it because I pretty much had to constantly tell every merc what to do all the time.
Is there a way to sort of automate the process or something?
>>340299106
In combat? God no.
Moving around on the map or out of combat, there are a shitload of key combos that automate basic tasks like dropping gear or reloading all equipped weapons.
>>340299106
No, you can't make the game play itself.
>>340294281
My russian is shit, but something like "If you scam/don't pay me, I'll kill you, bitch.
The only thing that keeps me away from playing this is the idea of losing soldiers to the point that i dont have anything left by the end of the game.
I am use to XCOM UFO Defense where if i lose a very valuable soldier i can just send a rookie with a bunch of vets and have him trained up.
In this game however you only get a handful of player-made soldiers and a truckload of mercs that are expensive and if they die, their number goes down and down until you are left with shitty ones.
I wish i could take shitty guerrilla soldiers and control them as my mercs.
>>340299854
You can. You can recruit four rebels throughout the game, and there's some locals and others you can recruit but pay daily.
There's also the shitty MERC units you can train to be as good as the AIM ones.
>>340299854
>Ever letting your mercs die
Also, people will stop working for you sooner than you'll run out of people to hire
>>340299854
I think there was a mod for IMP recycling.
>>340299854
Don't be a pussy, make sure they won't die.savescum if you must
>>340266440
>JA thread
>3rd mm6 thread in the last week
What happened to /v/? Did people suddenly develop taste?
>>340299281
Yeah this is what I mean, it was a bore telling every single merc what to do constantly when moving around
>>340299854
JA2 is infinitely more forgiving towards putting your men in danger; unless you are crazy unlucky, the odds of one of your men getting blown away instantly as often happens in XCOM is very remote.
More often than not, YOUR forces are the apex predators on the field up against dozens of lesser scrubs.
And if they do happen to catch an unlucky burst of 5.56 to the face, well, go back to your last iron man save and try the battle again.
>>340300316
summer's close so people have more free time for timesink games that require dedication
>>340300210
I am trying to look for it but i dont find it, also you can put mods with 1.13? I thought that 1.13 had a fuck ton of mods and you could play around with them.
>>340299996
I should try that
>>340300429
>>340300260
Save-scum it is then, but i think that kinda takes away from the thrill of these types of games, there was a time where i was behind cover ducking and some guy from a window did a burts and it hit my merc killing him somehow
>>340300381
Well, off hand, you can manually highlight all of your squad with mouse gestures, and there's also a key that auto-chooses all mercs in the current squad; this will force them all to move at the same time.
There's a ton of things like this that make movement and basic tasks simpler, read up on the wiki, it should have at least a list of keyboard shortcuts for the most vital functions.
Even JA2's rendition of Hardcore/Iron Man mode allows free saving outside of combat; don't consider yourself cheating if you have to re-do the whole damn map again just because the last bastard still there got a lucky shot after a 30 minute firefight.
Normal Mode save scumming, turn-by-turn, shot-by-shot, however, is omega pleb-tier.
>Play with the new Chance to Hit measure
>Able to scroll down and use up to sixty action points to seemingly guarantee a head shot
>Always miss, use all your action points, and get fucking killed
I guess the old targeting system is better than the new one- the New targeting system seems to guarantee you will be missing all the time for no reason at all.
>>340301131
Shit i didnt knew that, i will play it like that.
Is better to lose 30 minutes than losing a merc because bullshit
"SNAPPERHEAD"- yelled Magic excidetly as he walked past the common snapping turtle enxlosure in the zoo
also snapperhead seem to be slang for knucklehead
or a dumbell
>>340301157
It really is, no doubt.
I tend to use and abuse every wacky new mechanic they put into 1.13, but jesus christ I will not touch the new hit system with a rented mouse/keyboard.
Let's play guess the merc
GOD, GIVE ME STRENGTH
>Print out the short-cut keys to Jagged Alliance 2 in size 14 font
>It's nine fucking pages
Every six months I drop my campaign, start a new one with new IMP's and a new crew, finally get the airport and the two small towns to the north secure, and then I drop the game and come back only to forget the dozens and dozens of short cuts you need to memorize.
>>340301670
Why the fuck aren't the enemies affected by it
Reaper can't hit with a fucking rifle 10 squares away, while Ivan gets his head blown off by some faget with a .38 special half the map away
>>340301670
Why is it so bad? How did they make it so bad? It seemed to make so much sense, but then you attempt to utilize it and despite Fox being an ambidextrous Pistolero dual-wielding two Five-Seven's with laser sights and Graser ammo she still can't hit a red shirt from ten tiles away.
>>340301741
Barry Unger
>REMAIN CALM, IT'S JUST BUG
>>340301941
>>340301857
I base this on nothing but random bits of 1.13 forum shitposting and conjecture, but I believe the NCTH was the grand idea of one of the more influential code monkeys on the 1.13 project, and they couldn't veto its addition to the game without untold levels of butthurt and eDrama.
That said they thankfully let us toggle it away effortlessly, but I can't conceive any other reason why it hasn't just been outright removed by now.
What his problem ?
I know he's good, but still
Who here has any good JA2 kill stories?
I had stolen the Kingpin's treasure and he had given me two weeks to give it back. So on the 13th day at about 3 in the morning I surrounded his house with four mercs. I lockpicked his doors shut so no one could escape through the doors and proceeded to load up all my mercs with 40mm grenade launchers containing mustard gas.
So I shot the mustard gas into his house, which is annoyingly long and not wide at all. After about six or seven turns of hearing people choke out and gasp, I sent in Monk and Shadow to clean up the mess. The Kingpin had found a single corner that hadn't been exposed to the gas, and took a few failed pot shots at Monk. Monk proceeded to hit him directly in the face with another mustard gas canister and I watched him suffocate to death.
What other game lets me lock a man in his own home and then mustard gas his entire family to death?
>>340302370
There is no problem.
>>340301770
I feel you, just reinstalled because of this thread and I'm stuck in the same situation
Someone should do a video of mercs' reactions to those giant bugs in the mines. I would, but I fucking hate going through the mines, that place gives me the creeps and claustrophobia.
>>340302631
you can extract the sound files files using the Dragon unpacker.
>>340302370
He suffers the same problem all other "high-tier" recruitable NPCs do; by the time you can recruit him, he's several levels below the (previously) rank amateurs you've been honing into killing machines for the last 20 hours, and demands exhorbinant pay on top of it.
>mfw Miguel thinks he can contribute to the war effort now that 3/4 of the map has been conquered, only to find that Biff is a better soldier than him by a mile at that point
>>340302408
Shit son, I don't know. What other game lets you gas children with mustard gas?
>>340303061
>Own all the north and center of the island
>Decide to find the secret lab, and search for the robot
>Find the robot, slap an M60 on him for good times shits and giggles
>Look back at the map
>Only own a third of it
Man, when you start pushing south towards Balime, the Queen doesn't fuck around.
>>340303061
I recruit him right after Drassen.
He pays off. Teaching + Machinegunner is a sexy combination
>>340303192
Fallout lets me put C4 and primed TNT on children, letting them carry it back to the fence that they work for and then blow up both the fence and all the child thieves.
But mustard gas? Only Jagged Alliance 2 lets me cover an entire fucking area in mortar'd mustard gas. Speaking of which, I have NEVER been able to get mortar's or Radio's to work in JA2 1.13. I can never call in strike support VIA radio even if someone has a mortar equipped in the adjacent sector, and the mortar never seems to set up properly.
I think this thread has convinced me to replay again- but this time with the old CtH method. I refuse to put myself through the new CtH method anymore, which I have been doing for over 4 years.
>>340303316
I've started doing that too, thanks to the handy .ini option to make all the rebels join up once the Drassen quest is finished.
Vanilla behavior of "Ehh meng, go conquer six towns and then I'll come along maybe" is horseshit; you're already within arm's length of Medina at that point.
>>340303468
>4 years of NCTH hell
>>340303468
Curious, RE: your mortars and radio issues. You are using the radio with a person who has the new "Radio Operator" skill, and the radio has a charged battery, yes?
Also, the radio function to call in mortar strikes is infinitely better used with adjacent Militia; they shit out mortars for free, and even a full stack of mere green militia can pepper the hell out of an area.
>>340278094
MD worth it? I usually went for spider for her godly medicine skill
>>340303817
I've beaten the entire game on NCtH. Think about that for a minute. Think about the thousands and thousands of reloads I have done because I scrolled down, put 65 AP into a single torso-shot from ten tiles away, and then fucking missed it.
No more. NO. FUCKING. MORE.
>>340303839
Of course. I am using someone trained in Radio Operation, it's equipped on their back, and has a full battery. Never. Ever. Fucking. Works. Ever. I really want it to- it'd really come in handy when I move from the central town towards Alma or the prison for example, but it just doesn't fucking work.
I have four different JA2 1.13 installations on my PC. I'm going to find my Alruco Revisited one, start a new game, and after 30 fucking hours of gameplay and securing the starter towns we'll see whether or not it works.
that truly is the worst part of starting a new JA2 game, that initial mother fucking push every single god damned time. It's a game that, once you've played it a few times, you fucking dread to start and dread to finish but have a fantastic time in-between.
>>340303908
MD is basicly the Gumpy of AIM
His godly wisdom makes it easy to train him. He also starts with the meele perk. Also cheaper than Spider
>>340303061
Worth it for his broken English and handsome face.
>>340296571
Don't you mean 3? Back in action, flashback and that other one by the back in action devs
>>340303961
Why did you punish yourself like this ?
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?
>>340304181
Damn, this is a tricky one. I hate to sound patronizing, you won't believe how many "what do you mean my backpack drains 1/3 of my AP" moments I get when talking about 1.13 functions with people, so I always go with the insultingly basic parts first out of habit.
Do your radio functions on the strategic map work, such as Radio Interference to block reinforcements, or Eavesdropping? If not, it sounds like an outright scripting conflict, if yes, I might have an idea.
>>340304235
I see now. I also made use of Flo for fun to piss off Hitman.
>>340302408
>that one prison that gasses its prisoners if the alarm goes of
>fail to sneak my way though multiple times
>through power of save-scumming learn where the gas switch is
>load one guy full of explosives and have him sneak his way to the outside wall of the switch room
>set up plastic explosives around the wall and have rest of my squad facing it within safe distance
>BOOOM goes the wall
>firing squad lights up that bitch inside the room
we stealth now
>>340304634
>Pissing off Hitman
Why?
Is like the cool uncle that only shows up during family gatherings, ace
>>340304731
Have they changed this to lethal gas? It was merely Tear gas last time I played that far, which kind of ruins the fun.
>>340304575
If you'd like to add me on steam to shoot the shit about JA2 and give some possible tips down the line for when I restart my game, feel free. Always good to talk to a fellow Merc.
Man, a successful JA2 thread on /v/. This is making me nostalgic for pre-Japan time.
This looks like my kind of game... Looks like I'll get it during the sale
Who is the best Sniper
And why is it Gaston ?
>>340305287
Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow.
>>340304875
I'm honestly not sure, it was my first experience with gas so I assumed it was lethal
>>340304875
IRL mustard gas isn't even that lethal. In WW1, I think it killed about one man out of a hundred. Of course, the effect on the rest were bad enough that they probably wished they were dead.
>>340305494
Shadow isnt friendly, suave, sophisticated and a womans man like Gaston
I would probably be emberassed to go to a club with him
>>340305241
Just pirate it or get the GoG version, do not buy the steam copy, it a shit.
shit gents
What the fuck do I do now
>>340306271
Win the game?
You've got good teams. Good stats. Good armory. You've clearly been collecting for what must be in-game mont----
>Day 50
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
>>340306271
Grab more SCARs.
>>340306425
I may have increased the income by a few percents
It felt rather gay that Deidranna can hire and arm all those fucking blackshirts with the equipment they have while getting at most 40.000 grand a day
>>340306829
You doubled the income, and ordered all that shit at Drassen Airfield?
Step the fuck out of here son this is for Tacticool peoples and not scum.I always increase mine income by 20%.
>>340307010
I didn't fucking double anything
this was from a SAM sector defense.
late game is pretty fucking silly
Anybody know how to customize IMP's initial load out?
You know what I like about Jagged Alliance ?
There are around 150 mercs in Jagged alliance 2 alone
each of them gets about 110 lines each
And yet they are more interesting and well written then most vidya characters these days
>>340307616
Remember the swat husband and wife? There's one other merc who likes the wife, obviously husband hates him. And there are special long dialogues just for when the three of them are in one sector.
>>340307946
better written than most love triangles these days
it isn't "In-your-face" like most of these go, but still relavent
I really got to stop making these
>Always take Monk with me, always.
>Also like to take Conrad with me when I find him
>They absolutely hate each other
>Monk's been with me over 100 days but threatens to quit at the end of the month
>Monk and Conrad are stuck together in a SAM defense mission alone and survive, killing dozens of black shirts
>There's special dialogue where Monk admits he thinks differently of Conrad now and he'll stay
>His dislike trait and moral debuff disappears
This game came out 19 years ago and other RPG's can't even do this shit anymore. This game was made by a few dozen hillbilly Canadians high as fuck and on Newfoundland Screech and this game is better than every tactical RPG that has ever come out since.
>>340309325
Grunty is my homeboy.
>>340309516
>There's special dialogue where Monk admits he thinks differently of Conrad now and he'll stay
What the fuck, this is news to me
>>340309516
You sure about that m8?
>>340310347
He's done it with both Conrad and Ivan Dolvich.
There are certain characters that, under duress and after significant morale boosts (I am guessing here, I don't know the mechanics behind it) with each other in the sector the characters will ease on their hate of one another, or remove it entirely.
It's not true with all characters I think, but I know for a fact Monk learned to work with both Conrad and Ivan without threatening to leave, and there was dialogue for it.
>>340294749
Bruv Cleve has been on most websites (and been banned)
I didn't think he was real until the sir tech auction proved his existence
this is a man who believes he has titanium neadarthal bones
>>340311114
All I'm saying is, the files say he'll hate ivan for 22 days and get over it, but he'll hate conrad after 20 days, and I haven't touched the files. And that's their mod tool, which I'm more inclined to believe than a testimony.
tl;drpics or it didn't happen :^)
