Jagged Alliance 3 - You are idiot, but I forgive you

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Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Unlucky7 posted:

Bleh, just realized I misread when the game would be out on Steam. Thought it was unlocking tonight. Aw well.

Oh FFS it's on American time isn't it? So "14th" as in 11pm 14th.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 06:18

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 17:29

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Biff only quits on a kill in 1/DG.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 09:17

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

You can activate your code on DLGamer if you got it through there.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 14:12

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Has anyone found the slur yet?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 14:56

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

The animations are cute.
When they run into cover they actually shuffle/scoot to slow down.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 15:37

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Oh no Biff what have you done.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 16:20

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Ugh, if you detect the mine, just pathfind around it uuugh.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 16:20

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Dandywalken posted:

Im more ammo starved than Wagner atm. Fidel on the RPD ran me dry, and he wanted 20k for a 2 week contract reup!

Econ is def kicking my rear end since first mine ran dry. Hopefully Porto Cacao will last longer

Yeah I'm having more issues with ammo more than anything. I'm trying to diversify but it's still a struggle. I did grab an upgraded version of the starter .44 revolver and that's pretty loving good.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 19:43

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Cute. The Main menu has the mercs on your current save standing around.

TheWeedNumber posted:

Can you move multiple squads at once on the map?

Yes

grate deceiver posted:

You know what, knives are cute and all, but put the cheap homemade supressor on the Gewehr and you can drop fools like nobody's business. If I find an elevated position and there's isolated dudes anywhere on the map, or even patrols/groups of 2, I can easily just snipe them and never get detected. Practically free kils.

Yeah, the Improvised suppressor is insane. Kalyna is an elevated rainy night headshot machine with one. I like to use the Quick Prism scope so I can shoot then adjust position.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 09:37

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

I've done Fleatown then south to Port Cacao. Nothing everyone having grenades couldn't solve.
Good Place is nasty without stealth killing though.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 11:54

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Holy hell, Meltdown with a deployed Minimi waiting for the ambush to start. :aaa:

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 14:36

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

She's hustled me once out of 47 days of employment.
Now Fox when you have Steroid, that's a hustle.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 16:42

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Shotgun guys I can manage, it's the hyenas that can run across the whole screen and hit your mercs for 20+ damage two times.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 20:38

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Usually it's what I save my grenades for. But this is my secondary squad and they don't have any.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 20:46

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Turin Turambar posted:

Any opinions on this?

It seems there is a soft time limit in the campaign, in money eventually depletes

I haven't had the Port and the Diamond Red mine deplete yet. I feel like this is an anti-turtle feature so you actually go out and capture land instead of sitting on your hands to buy the $$$$ mercs.
But gamers be gamers and hate any timer at all.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 22:05

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

toasterwarrior posted:

The active pause function is also a devtool thing so it's kinda part of the base game, I hope it's not too unstable to use or whatever.

I just want it because the game loves to spawn dudes on top of you and setting folks up into overwatch for an ambush is sluggish with the UI and animations. So I reload to set them up beforehand

# ¿ Jul 18, 2023 07:47

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Xerophyte posted:

Obviously the exact ranking now depends on the parameters chosen but one result is

I like how it takes until the 9th position to get to someone that can competently repair gear. And takes all the way to 14th to get another Explosives expert.
I'm surprised the average Marksman skill is so high.

The Leadership = Sat Movement Speed blew my mind when I figured that out.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 14:46

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Question about post Refuge Camp/Corazon:
Does storming the bunker on Ernie Island end the game or do you still need to go after the other two missions/targets?

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 17:43

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Exodee posted:

Like the other goon said you need 100%. For me just doing chores around town and getting the merc guy to give over the diamond was easily enough though.

You don't have to do the green diamond stuff to get it to 100% btw.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 21:11

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Missing Name posted:

Finally able to install and play for a bit. There is a difficulty curve for sure, but I'm quite rusty at the genre.

I am a horribly broken individual, but I really, really got used to the controls seen in the Brigade E5/7.62/Marauder series. I keep wanting to right-click to rotate the camera around my dude

I also eagerly await the inevitable Tons o Guns mods. Think of the pure debauchery of gun porn people will make. It's perfect.

For example, this is an early gun store inventory for 7.62 with the Mercapocalypse mod. At the worst trader.

(Later inventory screenshots available by request.) Just think, that janky game had enough of a following to create that monstrosity. Now imagine what the JA fan base will do to this new game.

Why even bother putting .22 in apart to puff up the numbers of guns?
I really hope mods don't go this route with your only choices being Massive floods of Crud or Basic Game Selection. Even v1.13 takes it a touch too far. Who cares about 1565644 variants of the AK47 being in game?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 08:14

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

TeaJay posted:

Boy, the difficulty spike after Refuge camp is real.

I went to intercept one of the patrols going to Fleatown and had a huge number of enemies who made short work of me even with two squads. Would I better off to let them take the towns, rest a bit and then just start taking stuff back?

Pretty much. They're a lot more manageable when they're only 12ish guys and not a blob of 25+ dudes.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 08:54

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

loving hell MD, I expected this from Meltdown not you.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 14:29

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Dandywalken posted:

Apparently a dude on Mod nexus or Moddb made a mod to disassemble ammo for gunpowder. Def interested in that

Disassemble ammo for gunpowder mostly works (You do it via Craft Ammo op) but the Scrap from Ammo is broken af.

How SMALL are you making the pieces?!?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 14:54

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

TheWeedNumber posted:

e: also fidel won't reup because he didn't kill people last engagement. If you wanna keep fidel on the team, keep him killing apparently. And fauda charged me extra for minimal combat action.

Fidel has always been a lil bitch about Kill counts.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2023 06:56

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

TheWeedNumber posted:

Yeah and I feel that but like Barry and Larry are all I needed for demo. By the time I had enough grenades to utilize fidel I was recruiting for squad three and the competition for kills at that point is fierce. Sorry buddy, make next play through.

He's gotten better since Metavira! He wouldn't move at all if you started shooting at someone until they were dead.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2023 07:14

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Fighting Elegy posted:

They really need to make the game go back to real time after a few turns of being undetected. Sheesh.

Yeah it's weird about that.
Ok sure I didn't 1-turn stealth drop that patrol of 3. But the 7 other dudes on the other side of the camp are still counted as ZZZ so ???

# ¿ Jul 23, 2023 09:18

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Huh, finally had my first crash.
I'm going to chalk it up to my deathblob of 20 mercs and heavy rain. But mostly blaming the heavy rain.

I wish night would look a touch more nightish.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 13:15

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

DLC Inc posted:

is there any reason to use handguns beyond Ernie Island? currently have dual pistols and an AK on Meltdown, figured the accuracy perks she has would be fine but for the most part only have pistols for alt loadouts where the other hand is holding an explosive.

Totes. I stuck Meltdown with a single Anaconda (The upgrade of the Peacemaker) with Long barrel and UV Dot sight switching between AP/HP ammo when needed from mid-game all the way to end-game. Cheap damaging ammo and cheap shots.
The Deagle is ok, can't snipe with it like the Anaconda but does a touch more damage and you can put suppressors on it. I didn't care much for the .50 conversion because I didn't get a lot of SLAP ammo for it and the range decrease is blegh.

Honestly even the Peacemaker with a Long barrel is a good early-game sidearm.

I'm in the Mortars Suck camp. The one-turn delay and the random spread when they actually drop, it's poo when you could just rain 40mm instead.

Croccers fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jul 24, 2023

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 19:52

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

I feel like the Oil Filter suppressor should decrease Reliability, it's pretty OP as is.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 20:26

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

I finished it up this morning and I'm already thinking of doing a Super Squad/6 mercs only run after storming 2 out of 3 final areas with a blob of 15+ mercs :v:

# ¿ Jul 25, 2023 08:05

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Gadzuko posted:

I'm pretty sure I have spent more scrap on bipods than everything else put together. Thermal scope from nothing but scraps and a random microchip? No sweat. Two aluminum sticks on a hinge? loving impossible

Not just impossible to build, but loving impossible to attach too. Not like those Oil filter suppressors though those are easy and last 5eva.

I was wondering if you could cheese the story by killing important Plot NPCs at the start. You can't. Booooo.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2023 10:29

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

evilmiera posted:

Well this is annoying. I know for a fact I killed the Colonel (snipershot to the dome) but the email I got from Emma said I didn't. Heck I distinctly remember taking down that entire outpost without a single HP hit and I got the achievement to show for it.

Did you loot him after the battle?

# ¿ Jul 27, 2023 09:27

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

I tolerate Biff because I treat him like Wimp Lo.
I bet Biff has squeaky shoes too.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 13:58

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

My mate didn't know this so I'll share it here too :shrug:

:
Barry only checks his own inventory space when it comes to Shaped Chargers. He will keep making more Shaped Charges if you off-load the stack to another character.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 15:13

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

You get +5 town rep with Ernie if you don't take it.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 18:37

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

I find Sniper overwatch midding. Sniperwatch hurts a lot when you whiff or clank terrain with the 1 shot they get off.
At least AS overwatch shoots more bullets. Overlap a spot with 2 mercs (I had Raider and Meltdown) and I found it more useful than Sniperwatch. Even if it doesn't kill once you start modding guns for it, it softens up the target so you can spend less AP on aiming with snipers.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 13:08

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Mortars are improved by using grenade launchers instead.

It's not even that one turn delay but the fact that the AI knows to move out of the way.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2023 01:41

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

Arrath posted:

Looking at that extra weapons mod above, it got me thinking. Considering Gran Chien has some French colonial legacy, it would have been kinda neat if the early game "WWII surplus" tier gear was ancient French poo poo instead of the same old, boring rear end German junk.

Forget the MP40, lets rock some MAS-38s or MAT-49s!

What's that? 17 variants of AK's? SURE!

# ¿ Aug 27, 2023 12:46

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

More games needs to steal how Gears Tactics did overwatching.
Like how JA3 stole it.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2023 11:04

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 17:29

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

a podcast for cats posted:

Did anyone play Phantom Doctrine?

I remember being vaguely intrigued when it was announced because of the turn based tactics + Cold War espionage setting, but never picked it up and the name is generic enough that I kept confusing it with other games.

grate deceiver posted:

I did, it was pretty fun for a while. I liked the setting and aesthetic, I liked the spin on the formula where you don't necessarily want to kill everyone on the map. Ultimately I didn't finish it because there wasn't enough mission and tileset variety, after a while you're just doing the same thing over and over.

It's deff one of those games where you don't want to sit around on the map and grind up too much. While you're grinding you'll repeat the maps over and over and over then when you finally tackle a Story Mission you'll have to do some pre-Story grinding after it on that same stuff.

What scares me is there's a longer New Game+ campaign with an expanded story.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 07:03

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