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brainwrinkle posted:NCTH code guts I have never tried NCTH before because new things frighten me, and now I don't have any particular desire to ever try it.
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Mister Bates posted:Is there a way to take the Chalice from Balime without killing the polite old museum security guard? Can I just knock him unconscious and run like hell, or steal his gun? I thought you were supposed to do that in order to actually complete the mission 100% (that is, be able to train Militia in Balime afterwards)? I think there's a series of steps involving stuff like breaking into the back rooms, unlocking an alternate exit, using stealth mode, and turning off the alarm and security camera, but I'm not sure.
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Feb 19, 2012 05:59
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Mister Bates posted:I have never tried NCTH before because new things frighten me, and now I don't have any particular desire to ever try it. I don't think I could ever play without NCTH again. Aimed bursts are just incredibly fun, and it leads to a much better endgame than 7.62 NATO rifles on everyone. I've gone through most the game using Colt M4A1s on my normal mercs, and for Grumm and Alma I finally added a couple of sniper rifles and mortar guys. It would be nice to give a bit of a pity bonus to unscoped weapons though - something like 1/2 of the aim levels as a magnification factor would probably work decently.
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Feb 19, 2012 06:08
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Are there any variables in the .ini file that could be changed to buff up unscoped rifles?
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Feb 19, 2012 06:15
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Unfortunately I can't really find any, but I guess you could go through each rifle in the XML and give it 2x scope factor by default. I might try to make a new build of SVN 4870 that incorporates my idea though, stay tuned!
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Feb 19, 2012 06:35
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After a half hour of programming, it's complete! Jagged Alliance 2 1.13: Iron Sights Edition It's a drop-in replacement for build 4870, the current stable. Just run the Iron Sights Edition in place of ja2.exe in the folder. It gives a gun using ironsights a magnification factor equivalent to 1/2 of it's current aim level. For example, a G3 (Max 5 aim levels with Reflex sight) at full aim level would receive a 2.5x magnification factor, but at the first and second aim clicks it still has 1.0x magnification. This was literally two lines of code. e: Iron sights also have no minimum range, so it might be wise to tactically remove the scopes from DMRs when you know you'll be fighting in close range. Sorry for the double post. brainwrinkle fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Feb 19, 2012 |
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Feb 19, 2012 07:20
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Awesome blossom, I think I may actually try a playthrough with NCTH active now.
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Feb 19, 2012 07:37
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Sigma-X posted:I forget which female voice it is but one of them will say "I'm finished my task" and I have no idea how the writer, voice actress, and possible QA all missed it because the bad grammar is maddening. The really calm and normal one, iirc. I still prefer Female IMP 3 (I think it was 3). "Okay, let's pop some zits" makes me feel like I'm ready to mow down loads of Deidrannans.
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Feb 19, 2012 08:47
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Mister Bates posted:Is there a way to take the Chalice from Balime without killing the polite old museum security guard? Can I just knock him unconscious and run like hell, or steal his gun? Sneak in at night, when the guard is in the little apartment section. Pick the lock to the office, press the switch to disable the alarm, grab the chalice, sneak out. Magic is the man here. (And everywhere else, but especially here.)
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Feb 19, 2012 10:36
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God Of Paradise posted:Also the Drassen counter attack doesn't start, until you take the mine. So, take Drassen when you already have 40 militia-men at your side. There's also the airport, so you can resupply before taking the mine sector and setting up for the counter attack.
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Feb 19, 2012 10:39
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JackMackerel posted:The really calm and normal one, iirc. "Eugh! Takes a hell of a lot to make me puke, but that's just about my limit!" Male 2 and Fem 3 supremacy.
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Feb 19, 2012 11:14
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brainwrinkle posted:tl;dr Rifles are absolutely awful without scopes, but scopes are the best thing ever in NCTH But yeah, I got meself a couple battle scopes from Bobby Ray and put them on the two SKSs, and now they're actually hitting faraway guys quite consistently. Oh, and the two scoped Colt Anacondas on my ambidex gunfighter IMP are pretty beastly too. :3 Just took Chitzena, drat near lost Dimitri in the process. Now I just gotta find Hamous and I'll be off to Cambria. I probably have to kick up another squad, I have so much cool poo poo I wanna try shooting things with.
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Feb 19, 2012 12:00
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Nordick posted:
That is a problem I get when playing these sorts of games... I get an acute case of stockpile syndrome. I think I currently have a Merc who is sitting on an armorys worth of RPG heads that I am too reluctant to use.
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I finally did it. I finally feel like I figured out how to play Jagged Alliance 2. I started up my game with my IMP outfitted to be a crazy shotgunner. After clearing Arulco by myself, I waited a day so I could use people from MERC. I hired Bull, Meltdown, Haywire, and Razor. Took Drassen airport just spraying and praying, and then bought a bunch of replacement ammo and poo poo, including a machete for Razor and buckshot for my shotgunner. Meltdown has all the magnum ammo she could ask for, and even Ira is outfitted pretty well. I trained up a bunch of militia and had them escort me to middle Drassen. I am now covering Razor while he stabs people in the neck like some kind of god, Meltdown is making shots I didn't think she could, and my buckshot is ensuring that no one I point at ever has enough AP to do anything serious. This game owns 
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Feb 19, 2012 16:19
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What's the verdict on the squadleader? I remember using it early on and liking it but it seemed like one of those things that would become fairly average later on compared to something like Machinegunner.
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Feb 19, 2012 19:57
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NCTH makes Scully into a god for the first few days, since his L85 comes with a 4x ACOG by default. He's far better on day one than Lynx, Gus, or Reaper  E: Also he gets along with everyone 
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Feb 19, 2012 20:56
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autoweapons/machinegunner is the greatest. I cannot fully express my love for being able to accurately burst at dudes, never mind being able to mag dump at several dudes and loving murder them all back to the stone age. I did just take cambria, but now I'm going to order some more guns and things and start up Team Specialist, which will include snipers, mortars, and etc. Probably a medic, too. Also, hey, did they change the mercs' traits in the most recent version? Igor has loving hunting of all possible things and this is unacceptable. Where/how can this be rectified?
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Feb 19, 2012 20:58
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Someone ported 19 mercenaries (AIM & MERC) from Jagged Alliance 1 to 1.13.  http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=298288#Post298288 A.I.M.: Boss Snake (friend Ice) Spam Spike (friend Len) Jimmy (friend Magic, foe Lynx) Bob (friend Bud, foe Sam) Kelly (foe Reuban) Vinny (friend Beth) Leech Kaboom Bud (friend Bob) Rusty M.E.R.C.: Postie (friend Reuban, foe Bud) Reuban (foe Ivan) Leon (friend Sam) Gary (foe Larry) Sparky (friend Gary, friend Larry) Beth Sam (friend Leon, foe Ivan) v2.4 is the latest version at the time of this post.
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I have taken the middle city with the hospital but I am starting to think I don't have enough mercs at all. I only have 7 now that Dmitri and Ira were killed off (ira 10 mins ago, Dmitri about 3 play hours ago). I feel sad, but I will overcome this! Ira got interrupted at night and riddled with bullets. Dmitri was running at the 'final' enemy in a map who was running away, and the final final enemy appeared behind him, surpressed then killed him. My other mercs were too far away to help. lessons learned: -scout with night vision imp at night. -never leave mercs unattended. So I hired barry and a bunch of guys from merc as well as some other aim merc. Wish me luck, I'm going to split them into 2 squads this time.
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Feb 19, 2012 21:24
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When you eventually get at least 2 full squads going it's really weird when you attack a sector and there's this huge ball of mercs there. I'm too used to just dealing with a select handful of specialists instead of a crowd of thugs.
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I generally prefer to run with three or more squads in the late game, but I never attack with more than two at a time - more than a dozen guys at once gets to be kind of hard to manage. The main reason I even have that many is so that I've always got at least one squad combat-ready if needed, even if some of them get completely trashed in a particularly difficult fight. It also allows me to attack multiple sectors simultaneously if I so choose, which can speed up the capture of a city immensely.
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x!te bike posted:When you eventually get at least 2 full squads going it's really weird when you attack a sector and there's this huge ball of mercs there. I'm too used to just dealing with a select handful of specialists instead of a crowd of thugs. I tend to go with a swarm of scrubs throughout the game, so this happens to me a lot. Usually the most expensive mercenary I hire is Danny.
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Mister Bates posted:I generally prefer to run with three or more squads in the late game, but I never attack with more than two at a time - more than a dozen guys at once gets to be kind of hard to manage. The main reason I even have that many is so that I've always got at least one squad combat-ready if needed, even if some of them get completely trashed in a particularly difficult fight. It also allows me to attack multiple sectors simultaneously if I so choose, which can speed up the capture of a city immensely. The third squad is for filling up with the heavy weapons specialists, all carrying mortars and as many shells as they can put on their person (weight restrictions? pff… it's not like they're going to move), and then you fill the entire map with craters and vast clouds of mustard gas. The other two squads pick off anyone who accidentally wanders outside the safety of the gas…  Takes about 90% of the game to save up for it, but it's sooo worth it to take Meduna without moving more than 5-10 tiles into the map.
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Edit every merc's clothes to plain brown, equip them all with ppsh's, no armor and a steel helmet and show Miguel how to make a proper coup  Gyoru posted:Someone ported 19 mercenaries (AIM & MERC) from Jagged Alliance 1 to 1.13. This works with 1.13 right?
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Mans posted:Edit every merc's clothes to plain brown, equip them all with ppsh's, no armor and a steel helmet and show Miguel how to make a proper coup yes, and it rocks. you have to restart though. i think that this game gets unbalanced really quickly with drop all, or scopes in general. if you have even 60 accuracy your guys can be assault-rifle 5 round bursting blackshirts halfway across the map. the only real difficulties i've encountered are blackshirt snipers at night wasting militia.
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Gyoru posted:Someone ported 19 mercenaries (AIM & MERC) from Jagged Alliance 1 to 1.13.
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Rutkowski posted:Leon and Snake are dead and Kaboom have wisdom 13, how the gently caress did he make it back to A.I.M.? Kaboom is dead too. His family claims it was just a mistake, and he was merely having "a slow morning" when they removed his organs.
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Foehammer posted:NCTH makes Scully into a god for the first few days, since his L85 comes with a 4x ACOG by default. He's far better on day one than Lynx, Gus, or Reaper I wondered how the gently caress he doesn't activate Stogie's hate for Australians (like Stogie's hate for Trevor)... Also, does the OICW have some weird to-hit bonus that's not on the info list? I usually gave Magic an OICW and he decimated anything within range, but on another runthrough with an AICW and an ACR, he kept missing stuff. edit: also gently caress the new V 1.13 German sniper for hating Sidney, he's awesome.
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JackMackerel posted:edit: also gently caress the new V 1.13 German sniper for hating Sidney, he's awesome. Scope is the only sniper for me. She won my heart when she scored two headshots with one bullet in one of my games  The nice thing is she gets along with nearly everyone too (only Numb hates her, and she doesn't hate anyone).
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CCKeane posted:Kaboom is dead too. His family claims it was just a mistake, and he was merely having "a slow morning" when they removed his organs. drat, why do I remember this without having played the game for over a year? As such, I won't install this mod. More mercs is fine but keep the dead dead and reinstate those that actually fit in such as Kelly, Boss, Spam, Rusty, and Spike. You could also reinstate Vinny, Leech, Jimmy and maybe even Postie but they'd be M.E.R.C.s, nothin' else.
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Unfinished Business question: At the power plant is the entrance to the missile factory through the ventillation fan. Upon your first visit the fan is scripted to be shutdown for one minute after some amount of time, but after that it should apparently shut down one time each day. Does anyone know what time this is? Is it random? In-game minutes are longer than real minutes, so I don't want to leave the game running for 4 days just to cover all the minutes in 24 game hours, but I was hoping to enter undetected and throw some knives around. I've scoured the internet and the question has only come up once on ja-galaxy-forum, but no one knew the answer. It seems odd they would have something in the game that is so obscure and random that over a decade later still no one knows how it works.
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You might be the first person in the history of JA to play Unfinished Business
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Scope is the only sniper for me. She won my heart when she scored two headshots with one bullet in one of my games Yeah, but I remember the time one of the 1.13 versions utterly ruined her strength, so the ready times with her and an Erma were off the roof.  That reminds me, clicking the "talk" button and talking to a merc out of battle reveals they all barely tolerate each other. Scope actually politely insults Lynx if he goes off on his "women should be kept barefoot and pregnant" tangent.
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Feb 20, 2012 01:15
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DEVILDOGOOORAH posted:You might be the first person in the history of JA to play Unfinished Business That's not true. I saw two other people talking about it on the internet back in 2009.
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Feb 20, 2012 01:22
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DEVILDOGOOORAH posted:Just killed Mike with Hamous before dude could even talk He saw the naughty man.
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Was expert mode buffed or something, christ. Just got bent over in the first sector of Drassen by a couple of black shirts mixed in with red shirts. Oh derp had allow reinforcements set to true.
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DEVILDOGOOORAH posted:Just killed Mike with Hamous before dude could even talk I have that happen a lot. I see a black shirt and fire off a burst from an assault rifle and don't even register that it was supposed to be someone special unless he happens to survive the first volley. DEVILDOGOOORAH posted:You might be the first person in the history of JA to play Unfinished Business I'd play it if the 1.13 mod was extended to work with it. It looks kind of cool but I'm too used to all the stuff 1.13 adds to go back and play the original game in any form. The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Feb 20, 2012 |
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So Unfinished Business isn't worth playing? I'm curious, does it give you new maps, quests and NPC's? And if so, was any effort placed into it? Because, while it was forever ago, Deadly Games was awesome. Is this Deadly Games for JA 2, or crap? It's only 5.99 at GOG.com. Is it worth it after beating JA 2?
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Gyoru posted:Someone ported 19 mercenaries (AIM & MERC) from Jagged Alliance 1 to 1.13. Holy poo poo--I was just using the latest version of Tais' SCI (NCTH, AIMNAS, 1.13) and noticed that there were a ton of new mercs for MERC and AIM, and that, strangely, they didn't have the weird, phoned-in VA or portraits like the WF characters. It never occurred to me that decent portraits + decent VA might be because they were JA characters. Mystery solved.
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