What happened to the vendors in the game and weapon amazon we had?

[Maelle Dessendre]

So basically there is almost no actual vendors in the game, only some that accept one kind of thing in exchange for another. So no vendors, and no weapon website, like before. I like the game, but this is very disappointing:( Why would they do that?

[Cutlass Jack]

Lack of shopping is a really odd choice for a game about mercs.
I get that its the 80's and we don't have amazon prime yet, but still.

Maybe I just haven't progressed far enough for them.

[Takichi]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Lack of shopping is a really odd choice for a game about mercs.
I get that its the 80's and we don't have amazon prime yet, but still.

Maybe I just haven't progressed far enough for them.

Its the 2000s

but you do get "Shops", just not the way you are used to it. Basicly what you get is a Flea Market how it would be in RL. Some Stuff lies at the "Store Window" which u van purchase.

Stuff which is sellable you can instantly sell from Inventory, everything else is meant to be used for Crafting/Equiping.

[HozzMidnight]

Bobby Ray's sent the devs a cease and desist letter.

[ThotsBContagious]

Originally posted by Takichi:

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Lack of shopping is a really odd choice for a game about mercs.
I get that its the 80's and we don't have amazon prime yet, but still.

Maybe I just haven't progressed far enough for them.

Its the 2000s

but you do get "Shops", just not the way you are used to it. Basicly what you get is a Flea Market how it would be in RL.

lol thats not how it would be in rl.. mercs have connections they have arms and ways to buy things without needing the local goods.. wym

before someone jumps on me for saying it, I'm just saying what merc outfit doesn't have outside connections?

[Takichi]

Originally posted by ThotsBContagious:

Originally posted by Takichi:

Its the 2000s

but you do get "Shops", just not the way you are used to it. Basicly what you get is a Flea Market how it would be in RL.

lol thats not how it would be in rl.. mercs have connections they have arms and ways to buy things without needing the local goods.. wym

They do, and maybe its possible to get that in the Game aswell, its very likely, since we got the Websites IG for it. But the Local Merchants and Vendors, dont opperate this Way.

Aside from that, most Mercs nowadays Work either for Illegal Institutions or for Professionel Armys and in Warzones where this Organisations operate and got a network. JA never got into that Territory, you are always in a backwater drop dead land without basicly any infrastructure your Mercs could use. HECK you didnt even got a lot of Intel, which for Modern Standart is absolut shaming.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by ThotsBContagious:

lol thats not how it would be in rl.. mercs have connections they have arms and ways to buy things without needing the local goods.. wym

before someone jumps on me for saying it, I'm just saying what merc outfit doesn't have outside connections?

That was exactly what I meant. It feels odd to send in a team underequipped for the job if you have the money. Not a dealbreaker certainly. But would be nice to at least get proper starter gear for my merc.

Especially since the game doesn't let you grab all your dead enemies weapons.

[JoshuaAstray]

To be honest, the absence of Bobby Ray's drive me a bit mad.
No steady ammo supply, not to mention grenades, no body armor other than scratch part from dead enemy. No weapon upgrades and I'm still using basically the same weapon as the first 2 or 3 maps.

[JoshuaAstray]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Originally posted by ThotsBContagious:

lol thats not how it would be in rl.. mercs have connections they have arms and ways to buy things without needing the local goods.. wym

before someone jumps on me for saying it, I'm just saying what merc outfit doesn't have outside connections?

That was exactly what I meant. It feels odd to send in a team underequipped for the job if you have the money. Not a dealbreaker certainly. But would be nice to at least get proper starter gear for my merc.

Especially since the game doesn't let you grab all your dead enemies weapons.

Yep, while original JA2 will random drop items, I take it that it's because you can shop anything you need, you only depends on loot for surprise like high tier gears.
But as Bobby Ray's is out of business, there are no means to limit combat drops.

[Dick__Dastardly]

It really is a bad and immersion breaking decision. Lets go invade country, we'll each bring a handgun with a spare magazine and no definite way to acquire more supplies. We should be all set.

[SovereignRO]

Agreed, we need Bobby Rays, its a major omission.

[gomisan]

Came here to say much the same thing, and SURELY there's a better way t get meds than harvesting random bushes. I'm totally out and it is ruining the fun.

[Feneck]

JA/JA2 was the beautiful weapon encyclopedia, with info, stats, sounds, modification, different ammo types, all mercs have own fav gun.

Sadly at this point JA3 looks like re-skin of X-Com.
No weapon vendors, shared ammo inventory(WTF?), weird HP system, weird stealth mechanic, weird combat initiation.

[JudgeMental1337]

Originally posted by Dick__Dastardly:

It really is a bad and immersion breaking decision. Lets go invade country, we'll each bring a handgun with a spare magazine and no definite way to acquire more supplies. We should be all set.

yeah makes no sense at all for people who are earning their money with this equipment to just bring a handgun with you and a knife. I personally would take whatever I got to get a higher chance to survive. This is just pure BS and unrealistic

[Golden Boy]

Originally posted by Feneck:

JA/JA2 was the beautiful weapon encyclopedia, with info, stats, sounds, modification, different ammo types, all mercs have own fav gun.

Sadly at this point JA3 looks like re-skin of X-Com.
No weapon vendors, shared ammo inventory(WTF?), weird HP system, weird stealth mechanic, weird combat initiation.

I have still no idea how the stupid stealth works

[mattheus.filby]

Just want to add my voice to the fact they omitted Bobby Rays!!!! At the very least its a QoL update, or got to be a MOD coming to include this?