Jagged Alliance Back In Action

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

I feel like a luddite Fallout fanboy on Bethesda's forum saying this, but: lost pretty much all curiosity right after the bolded part. Gut feeling.

Its nothing like Company of Heroes or Men of War

Trust me, it is still mind-numbingly hard, allbeit in a completely different way.

Is it better than JA2? probably not. the AI and pathfinding is bad, it needs more patches.

However, it is still a fun game, even if there is no more AIM or fog of war

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

...fog of war

The lack of FoW is a big minus, also hate how you don't hire your mercs for x
amount of days anymore, you just buy them and they stick with you.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Its nothing like Company of Heroes or Men of War

I'm not afraid of that: that's why I didn't compare it to anything. As a matter of fact, I love Company of Heroes, but I love it for different reasons than I love Jagged Alliance.

Trust me, it is still mind-numbingly hard, allbeit in a completely different way.

Difficulty is not the point either. The point is that they changed it. I compared myself humorously to the Fallout fanboys who screamed even before Fallout 3 was released "IT SUX BECOS THEY GO CHANGE SUMFINK", but I can't help it in this case: I can't think of Jagged Alliance in any other way than the way it was originally done.

Too many games these days have abandoned such turn based style, whereas the original JA2 still resembles to me at its best a good game of chess, where early moves can determine long term success or failure. It has aged well. Therefore I'm sad to see that they are fixing what wasn't broken in the first place.

FOW is supposed to be coming back as an option in the next patch/update ,(iirc it was originally in the game but it got pulled because the game wasn't "fun" with it on according to the playtesters!)
Can't say I miss the turn's that much ,no more raging while my merc's get gunned down during the militia turn