I finally finished the game *spoilers*

[Grayef]

Maaaan, what a ride !

After 80 hours I finally finished JA3!

And no, I didn't do all sidequests, I savescummed a lot and had to restart the game four times.

What an amazing journey this was.

From liberating Ernie village with a squad of four mercs to fighting like hell in that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ corridor leading to Corazon, I am flabbergasted!

Yeah I didn't have the best ending. In my case it resulted in having commies selling the green diamond at the auction, birth of super soldiers, world red plague pandemic, major turned into a martyr and massacres, Grand Chien will have to survive all these disasters.

But man... This game felt like a proper adventure that I missed from Jagged Alliance 2 and XCOM 2.

Granted, the game isn't perfect and I'd write all pros and ♥♥♥♥ in my review on Steam. But it definitely captured the Jagged Alliance spirit.

Oh dare I say I will miss my mercs.

Slaughtering enemies from afar, Fox smiles with her glistening skin with sweat. Mouse frowns in the distance as she had just committed a stealth kill, wondering what everyone finds in Fox.
Barry and Red on the other hand are having a laugh loading those mortars and bombarding enemy positions.
Livewire keeps munching on her chocolate covered peanuts as she aims at that legion lieutenant but Flay will have none of that as he has the same prey in his crosshairs.

Rubis (IMP) struggled with explosives but manages to stun a few soldiers.

From the smoke of the battle emerge two men from the Hood, Magic and Ice bantering on how they should " put a cap in those dudes".
Simmering in a long conversation, Thor explaining why eating meat is bad and Blood shrugging thinking cutting peppers the way he does is way more violent than eating meat.

Raider is securing a perimeter while Meltdown downs a beer and empties her mp5 in that melee fighter.

Sadly, Scully, Raven, Sydney and Scope never joined the team. Outgunned, outnumbered, they had to leave Grand Chien from Ernie Island after commandos took over.


I will miss this team, these mercenaries from many places, many eras. This team... This jagged alliance.



I'll uninstall this game and will wait a year to play it again. Hopefully with dlcs and more content.

For now, a well deserved break before I start Baldur's Gate 3!

Have a nice one lads and free Grand Chien !

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

Originally posted by Grayef:

Thor explaining why eating meat is bad

thor is now ruined for me

[Grayef]

Originally posted by SCZCelestrian:

:cozybethesda:

Originally posted by Grayef:

Thor explaining why eating meat is bad

thor is now ruined for me

Not gonna lie I found it weird to turn Thor into a hippie guru... He wasn't like that in ja 2. Sure he was young and quirky but that was it

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

nah, he already was a vegan hippie in JA2. havent hired him yet but i guess devs did just as a good job with him as with the rest.

anyway ~70% on my 2nd run done and raven threw around a bunch of extremly ... entertaining... lines with wlad the tinkerer.
guess i have to make hardsaves before talking to any npc, move out every merc but one to get all those spicy lines.

[Grayef]

Next run I hire Raven with Raider just for the lines.

I'd like Vicki too

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

vicky is surprisingly good on all fronts.
the dual wield is questionable as on all mercs but lore is lore.

i think the autorepair only works for gear she wears (not inventory) so that´s a bit more micro management to optimize (reduce repairtime significantly).

also she doesnt have the "games for modern audiences´s strong independed black waman of colour" accent (mostly fake jamaican but really bad).
rather she reminds me of a wow classic troll (which is jamaican again, but done really well). very enjoyable voice actor. i´m already thinking about dropping steroid from the first hire crew completely and get vicky as mechanic for squad#2, rather than squad#3.
the only downside is that she doesnt really show up on the likes&dislikes (which is a positive and a negative even talking purely about dislikes)

really enjoyable merc


did run#1 with immediatly hiring raven (7 days only tho bc money), which was very much overkill (together with a MM imp that is).
however she´s the perfect fit for squad #2 some days after getting raider (who drops into A2, while squad #1 goes to get flay, larry & fleatown).

not sure if putting my JA3 waifu into squad#2 is a mortal sin... probably

[engager6]

Originally posted by SCZCelestrian:

vicky is surprisingly good on all fronts.

Well, she is, but the main front she is good at is to drain all your money to oblivion when she levels up a bit. She is cool and all but way too costly, even with perk OP as hell she is way too expensive when she levels up... 60K for 2 weeks? Come on, GTFO *****.

Wonder what she does in her Jamaican place, pays bills for whole village? Or maybe smoking weed 24/7/365. Her salary is just nuts, that is why i always ended firing her, any rokie merc can be better than her if trained and will cost much much less.

As for her "dialogues", they are too generic and empty, nothing interesting at all, beside her funny accent and looks. This is kinda a problem in this game, women mercs are relatevely few and uninspired: Livewire, Fox and Mouse are ok, but for the rest of them? Garbage with zero interesting to say.

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

Originally posted by engager6:

Originally posted by SCZCelestrian:

vicky is surprisingly good on all fronts.

Well, she is, but the main front she is good at is to drain all your money to oblivion when she levels up a bit. She is cool and all but way too costly, even with perk OP as hell she is way too expensive when she levels up... 60K for 2 weeks? Come on, GTFO *****.

Wonder what she does in her Jamaican place, pays bills for whole village? Or maybe smoking weed 24/7/365. Her salary is just nuts, that is why i always ended firing her, any rokie merc can be better than her if trained and will cost much much less.

i´d make a "joke" about a female (merc) becoming more and more expensive, but i dont want to be banned (from this forum at least).

on my current run, getting A2 after ernie island (not going for commie-town thus low rep (not sure if linked tbh)), immediatly starting to build squad #2 with raven, raider, etc and finishing squad 2 (&put it on the road) right after getting the fleatown mine.
sent squad 1 north, squad 2 to port cacao. as soon as port cacao mine was captured, squad 3 was set up.
during early squad 2 set up money was a almost gone (tho all contracts were long enough). while setting up squad 3 money was already less of a "problem".

so vicky going for 60k... tbh even if that would be the weekly rate, i wouldnt care with my current route and if money would seem to get close, i´d simply get other mines before doing west-mid-part exploring & quests.


mines need another tweak, because buying every possible vendor item just to scrap it as often as possible... yeah. economy isnt on point.

[engager6]

Originally posted by SCZCelestrian:

i´d make a "joke" about a female (merc) becoming more and more expensive, but i dont want to be banned (from this forum at least).

mines need another tweak, because buying every possible vendor item just to scrap it as often as possible... yeah. economy isnt on point.

Well, you can do intersting observation by yourself. Check out the MI mine incomes towards daily cost of leveled Vicky, you will quickly realise that this "female (merc)" requires several mines to fund her. What makes even less sense - is her dialogue, where she often mentiones stuff like fixing rusted junk and car parts. Why in the world she needs so much money that several diamond mines (at 100% loyalty) need to work in sole purpose of paying her salary. Eating up funds for breakfast is certainly her best talent i must say, even mercs like Ivan (the destroyer of the worlds) pale in comparison.

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

maybe she funds some communist NGO and is too ashamed to admit it or that communist NGO has some serious dirt (true or not) on her.

however this also means that getting 3 squads up and going as fast as possible reduces the possible XP / merc. this not only makes the game more interesting (planing- /time-optimization-wise) but reduces the chance of mercs actually getting too expensive (maybe the case if going for full legendary mercs).
obviously double T3-talent stacking is ... strong... aF... but really not needed, but doable if one wants that one really f*cking dangerous squad.

ha, ivan skipping languages class again. 28 years and maybe a dozend english words. now that´s some serious asylum seeking mat... never mind.
ivans pretty cool tho

[Grayef]

Come one Haemimont , took me ages to write that prose about the game. Witness meee

[Grayef]

Come on*

[Grayef]

Me*

[Losk Osmanthus 路渐秋凉]

Congratulations.

ugh...xcom. it was okay until explosives destroyed all tactics.

Thor only have 76 starting medic, soo don't take his advice too seriously. His treatment is better than placebo at best, but I love that guy until his salary went through the roof.

I see you keep mostly recruits --- same as me! Apparently we are advised to try those better mecs but I just have no idea why are they so good looking at their everywhere perks, arguably better stats and that double salary...


I do feel that you've missed out a lot of things though, much similar to my first play-through which ended one day ago. Have you been to the night club and discovered more adolnis corp's conspiracy? who did you pick as the culprit in the twin mansion?I'm in my second play through and it went much more side quest focused.