What is the replayability of this title?

[TrickTimer]

What is the replayability of this title?

[WiseCog]

If you play hardcore it can last a few days, or maybe weeks for some.

However in JA2 I mostly played to max/collect everything in a run (level all merc, train militia, gather all character). Then I dug down until boss lady starts sending insane amount of troops, allowed crepitus to escape from the mines, and then I roleplayed fights (and hoarded all the sweet loot boss lady sent me) until I got tired of the game. Then I did it all over again. One save could last me months of gameplay due to how the map layout and story turned out.

You could play forever on one save in JA2. Something that is missing in this game.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by TrickTimer:

What is the replayability of this title?

That's a bit soon to ask.

For answer above, he rushed the game in few hours, and he alone did it.

So don't expect any of his comment is the norm. He is probably more a top world genius that should better spend more of his top high level brain on better more complex activities as science.

And I'm not saying anybody lie, but quote the dev provided a cheater, so better be cautious with comments arguing the game is very easy.

[Will]

Well I've replayed the same 4 starting levels over and over and over and over again because I run out of money and have to restart....but I don't think that is what you mean ;)

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Will:

Well I've replayed the same 4 starting levels over and over and over and over again because I run out of money and have to restart....but I don't think that is what you mean ;)

Good point, was it fun? For JA1 that was very bad with me I enjoyed a lot this phase of retries because each time I tried different approches and different mercs. Very few games are as good than JA1 for first parts retry. I suspect JA3 will suffer a bit of being more a RPG.

[m4ndr4ke]

Pretty high i would say. Each encounter can be very different, depending how and where you started the fight, you have tons of mercs to try, and even the scenario offers you some choices that affect the story

[Lanani]

What m4ndr4ke said. You have many different mercs to choose from, so many different team/gear setups to try to approach combat with. At certain points in the story you will have the option to approach situations differently with different outcomes down the line (e.g. early on you run into a guy who claims to be an innocent bystander, but you suspect might be in with the bad guys--do you shoot him or let him go? Your decision will influence further encounters with NPCs down the line.)

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Lanani:

What m4ndr4ke said. You have many different mercs to choose from, so many different team/gear setups to try to approach combat with. At certain points in the story you will have the option to approach situations differently with different outcomes down the line (e.g. early on you run into a guy who claims to be an innocent bystander, but you suspect might be in with the bad guys--do you shoot him or let him go? Your decision will influence further encounters with NPCs down the line.)

I would still temper a bit the decisions thing, many player "decisions" will only drag player into degraded fame with local and degraded income, so the decision level of those "choices" is pretty low.

Past that i have no comment on replay value.

[CutMeat]

Originally posted by WiseCog:

If you play hardcore it can last a few days, or maybe weeks for some.

However in JA2 I mostly played to max/collect everything in a run (level all merc, train militia, gather all character). Then I dug down until boss lady starts sending insane amount of troops, allowed crepitus to escape from the mines, and then I roleplayed fights (and hoarded all the sweet loot boss lady sent me) until I got tired of the game. Then I did it all over again. One save could last me months of gameplay due to how the map layout and story turned out.

You could play forever on one save in JA2. Something that is missing in this game.

I share your playstyle as well.
I thought we could play the same way in JA3...there are stable respawn of enemies

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by TrickTimer:

What is the replayability of this title?

is about 4-5 runs ( different or same outfit at least 1-2 times )after that it gets stale ( my runtime on this title is ~132 hrs ), i recommend taking a break then coming back once some big overhaul mods and/or bigger mods get done, that is all

[sandman25dcsss]

If you like the combat, there are mods to multiply number of enemies by 2-5 so potentially the game has much higher replayability than expected.

[Twelvefield]

This thread started a month ago, so the replayability has improved over that time from mods and the new patches no doubt.

[Rincewind]

the lack of player charakters stops me from replaying the game.

[Yuri Kossori]

currently on the 2nd play through.
my 1st is almost blind.
2nd is doing as many quest as I can (current)
already planning for a 3rd with a Melee-ish IMP.
all playthroughs with different A team characters.

playthrough No. 0 is a test run to try to understand how the game works at least the basics to avoid myself from complaining most of the mechanics.
and im still experimenting since we dont know everything yet.

my game is still vanilla. no mods yet.

[ferengi]

First run took me about 70 hours. It actually gets more fun the second time when you've developed an intuition about character perks and the weapons in the game. I'm running a melee focused squad right now, playing the game feels like watching a Steven Seagal movie. Hilarious and completely over the top.

[sandman25dcsss]

I completed 4 runs: normal team with overpowered mods, normal team, melee free mercs only (IMP, Flay, Smiley), solo ranged Ivan with overpowered mods. Took about 120 hours by my estimate (I have 170 hours but that includes unfinished runs and work on mods).