Important JA2 features seem to be missing.

[stargatebarney]

I see nothing to indicate that their will be a Sci-Fi Feature or an adults only version. I think that a blood, language and sex filter should be included. The old Sci-Fi play is a great way to increase repeat playability. Mad scientists, Mutants and Aliens: Oh my!
Another thing that seems to be missing is that Initial Psych-eval. It is one of my favorite parts of Jagged alliance 2.
What happened to M.E.R.C. How are we expected to play without Speck T. Kline?
Where is "I'm Learning" Ira?
A few things that I would like to see included are:
- a grappling hook system for climbing.
- rope ladders
-crossbows and other archery equipment
- zip-lines
-usable forms of transport: boats, submarines, bicycles, motorcycles, carts etc...
All of which can be broke down for parts in improvising other useful items.
-stun guns, tasers and pepper spray

[Stuurminator]

IMP and it's psych eval is still in. Sadly, it doesn't look like you'll be dealing with Speck in this one. Ira is probably either aiding in Arulco's reconstruction or back in America, though as a humanitarian aid worker, it's not *impossible* she'd find her way to Grand Chien.

[Dumeka]

Originally posted by stargatebarney:

I see nothing to indicate that their will be a Sci-Fi Feature or an adults only version. I think that a blood, language and sex filter should be included. The old Sci-Fi play is a great way to increase repeat playability. Mad scientists, Mutants and Aliens: Oh my!
Another thing that seems to be missing is that Initial Psych-eval. It is one of my favorite parts of Jagged alliance 2.
What happened to M.E.R.C. How are we expected to play without Speck T. Kline?
Where is "I'm Learning" Ira?
A few things that I would like to see included are:
- a grappling hook system for climbing.
- rope ladders
-crossbows and other archery equipment
- zip-lines
-usable forms of transport: boats, submarines, bicycles, motorcycles, carts etc...
All of which can be broke down for parts in improvising other useful items.
-stun guns, tasers and pepper spray

Ian Currie the creator of JA and JA2 along with Brad the Producer of JA3 confirmed that Ira won't be in the game.
Ian Currie said that she was a very hated character by many US players because of her accent or behaviour or whatever. :(
I told them during the live stream that she is actually one of the top wanted characters in the list of characters on the steam topic along with others and they both laughed saying it is so crazy cause no matter how they are do it there will always be split opinions but back to the day most people disliked her and that was one of the reasons they left her back in Arulco and they don't plan on adding her in JA anymore. :(

[Devine]

A lot of people, if not most people, seem to have disliked the Sci-Fi mode (me not included :D), so I doubt it'll find its way back into the official parts of the Jagged Alliance-series any time soon, unless someone does a (probably crappy, let's be honest :D) Sci-Fi-spin-off at some point. (Now I kinda wanna see a Far Cry Blood Dragon like JA sci-fi-spin-off, even if it's crappy :D)
There is a chance someone is gonna mod the sci-fi elements back in I guess.

We did see a glimps of some MERC-elements in JA 3, but only for I think a couple seconds in one of the trailers, so I would expect it more being along the lines of a side quest or easter egg, rather than a full 2nd web page to hire people from. Maybe finding a couple of them in-game and being able to hire them like Ira, Miguel etc. in JA 2 ????? Looks like they wanna keep that a secret for us to find out after launch, how exactly they will fit in.

I doubt Ira, Miguel etc. will be back in this one, since they were there because of the specific storyline of JA2. So unless one of them decided to get an Ice Cream Truck in Grand Chien (mod?? wink wink :D), we won't see them again.

In terms of transport, it looks like we're only gonna be able to hire boats from specific harbours to get across water (akin to the helicopter in JA 2, just get in at a harbour, get out where ever you wanna go), so sadly no vehicles to use ourselves.

It would be nice to see some of that in the future or some of the other stuff you mentioned, but looks like it won't be in this game, unless the game is successful enough for them to make something like a big expansion that adds lots of features or unless modders are gonna add it in (which is always a possibility with the great modding community of this series).

[Demo]

Originally posted by stargatebarney:

- a grappling hook system for climbing.

u wot m8

but aside from that, yes maybe 1 or 2 crossbows would be cool, good idea for DLC, you can also have some stun guns that probably wouldn't work against armored opponents, or would be difficult to pull off as you'd have to run up close.

I don't think that's the only thing JA3's missing however, I reckon JA3's been heavily modified to be like XCOM, both from a perspective of how short distance each engagement is, to how there's a few smaller engagements per enemy group instead of one big engagement, which is not the worst thing but nevertheless, and there's also these dumb special abilities everybody has that I think takes away from the strategic aspects of JA3.

[uncle nick]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1991722998
Sorry to plug another game over here, but is this the JA2 XCOM 1.13 clone with Sci-Fi that some people desperately crave for?

[Rampage]

Originally posted by uncle nick:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1991722998
Sorry to plug another game over here, but is this the JA2 XCOM 1.13 clone with Sci-Fi that some people desperately crave for?

no

[Pepper]

Originally posted by Dumeka:

Originally posted by stargatebarney:

What happened to M.E.R.C. How are we expected to play without Speck T. Kline?
Where is "I'm Learning" Ira?

Ian Currie the creator of JA and JA2 along with Brad the Producer of JA3 confirmed that Ira won't be in the game.

I don't see the point of bringing Ira in JA3...

She is an environmentalist and human aid worker, who took up a gun, when things became unbearable in Arulco.

She is not and never was a mercenary. Why would she leave her chosen home country and go to Grand Chien?

Also she doesn't have the skill to survive in the field. She was more of a liability than an asset. All I ever used her for was as medical assisten and liaison / training.

[Stuurminator]

Originally posted by Pepper:

She is an environmentalist and human aid worker, who took up a gun, when things became unbearable in Arulco.

She is not and never was a mercenary. Why would she leave her chosen home country and go to Grand Chien?

In fairness, Grand Chien seems like a strong contender for humanitarian aid.

[uncle nick]

Originally posted by Pepper:

...she doesn't have the skill to survive in the field. She was more of a liability than an asset. All I ever used her for was as medical assisten and liaison / training....

Yes, just like you and everyone else, many of us originally thought she wasn't very useful. Then, someone said you could train her to be a marksman. So great, another excuse to replay JA2. I think the people who trained Ira, this was a horrible but fun exercise, but the payoff was this satisfying sense of achievement. This memory of Ira is still fresh on our minds.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=472369136

[Pepper]

The best thing in ja2 was the imp bug. It was fixed in version 1.4 but it was the funniest thing ever.

You could distribute skill points for your avatar and then start over. The skill point pool would be reset but the changed stats would not.

Essentially your avatar would start with all skills and attributes at 85. It just took an hour to go through the process. Only to get the test results 3 days later and find out you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and needed to start over )

[Hellstorm901]

I really want the SciFi stuff in as an option and seeing there being wild animals attacking in the trailer made me wonder if it will be added because those wild animal attacks in theory could be spawn swapped to mutants or aliens

[Rampage]

Originally posted by Pepper:

The best thing in ja2 was the imp bug. It was fixed in version 1.4 but it was the funniest thing ever.

You could distribute skill points for your avatar and then start over. The skill point pool would be reset but the changed stats would not.

Essentially your avatar would start with all skills and attributes at 85. It just took an hour to go through the process. Only to get the test results 3 days later and find out you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and needed to start over )

who would ever want to do that?

[Dizzy Ioeuy]

Originally posted by Rampage:

Originally posted by Pepper:

The best thing in ja2 was the imp bug. It was fixed in version 1.4 but it was the funniest thing ever.

You could distribute skill points for your avatar and then start over. The skill point pool would be reset but the changed stats would not.

Essentially your avatar would start with all skills and attributes at 85. It just took an hour to go through the process. Only to get the test results 3 days later and find out you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and needed to start over )

who would ever want to do that?

but it was "the best thing...." bruh

[sandman25dcsss]

Many games provide cheat codes for that, there is no fun in wasting an hour.

[Muton]

will there be base management, research/development, manufacturing, supply/logistics management, etc?