I want to play JA2 again. But which version should i buy ?

[CrimsonKing]

So many versions on gog, i dont know.

If i wanted to play the best JA2 and also with mods which i assume exist, which version should i buy ?

[CrimsonKing]

Guys ? Anyone ?

[sePL80]

JA 2 Gold edition is the one where you can play version 1.13, which is ...the most complicated version. (You have so many options there with wearables which all provide different slots to carry items with you, makes it somewhat complicated in my opinion.)

Right now I am planning to play JA2:Wildfire with the JA2 Classic DLC.
With this, you get the better screen-resolution, bigger team-size on maps and various other little fixes provided by JA2:Wildfire, but the classic game/story of JA2.

You can get deep discounts on JA2:Wildfire and the DLC on sales.

edit: I may have been wrong about the higher resolution and team-size of JA2:Classic DLC for JA2:Wildfire...

Still, if you have played JA in the past, you will probably have lots of fun with Wildfire. And it is not as complicated as the original JA" Gold with 1.13 update.

[CrimsonKing]

But i was reading that wildfire is a cash grab, incomplete and buggy ? Is it not ?

[Lotor13]

Does it work on Win 10?

[Plastik20xx]

I believe Wildfire was a community patch basically. It models things like weapon damage differently. I think it's best to play JA2: Classic mode. I wouldn't call it a cash grab, I'm glad the option to play it is still available here on Steam. Wildfire is much harder than the base game.

[Spookykid]

Originally posted by sePL80:

JA 2 Gold edition is the one where you can play version 1.13, which is ...the most complicated version. (You have so many options there with wearables which all provide different slots to carry items with you, makes it somewhat complicated in my opinion.)

Right now I am planning to play JA2:Wildfire with the JA2 Classic DLC.
With this, you get the better screen-resolution, bigger team-size on maps and various other little fixes provided by JA2:Wildfire, but the classic game/story of JA2.

You can get deep discounts on JA2:Wildfire and the DLC on sales.

edit: I may have been wrong about the higher resolution and team-size of JA2:Classic DLC for JA2:Wildfire...

Still, if you have played JA in the past, you will probably have lots of fun with Wildfire. And it is not as complicated as the original JA" Gold with 1.13 update.

You can run v1.13 with this version Thats why the included JA2 classic, infact this used to come with 1.13 on steam but the modders didn't want legal trouble so they asked for them to remove it.

Just copy Ja2 classic game files into a new folder and download v1.13 and unzip the files into the new folder you created, Create a Shortcut on desktop named v1.13 and wallah you got 1.13 up and running

[Ksenofanex]

JA 2 Gold 1.12 with Stracciatella.

https://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/

[MagikGimp]

It's confusing isn't it.
The original game Jagged Alliance 2 was released in 1999. This is now the DLC for Wildfire on Steam (for some reason) which was originally a standalone expansion (2004) that played the same as the original game but was a harder campaign. A SECOND version of this expansion came out in 2005 when another company purchased the rights to it. More features such as larger squads and higher display resolutions were introduced in this newer "version 6". JA2: Gold Pack came out in 2002. It consists of the original game with the other first expansion Unfinished Business[jaggedalliance.fandom.com](2000) (AKA v2.5, not to be confused with Wildfire v5). You could import your saves from the original JA2 to use in UB. I don't know what version of Wildfire is on Steam but I assume it's 6. It's not very important these days anyway as mods greatly improve stability on modern computers.

It's hard to say how everything will be downloaded on Steam. I own the games on CD and while I have keys for Steam I haven't installed any of the games this way. I do know that the v1.13 mod[thepit.ja-galaxy-forum.com]does work with Wildfire but there is a separate section for it here.[thepit.ja-galaxy-forum.com]It does work with Gold but I don't know where UB fits in with the Steam install. Hopefully the original "Classic" JA2 DLC for Wildfire is installed separately too if you want to use those files for 1.13. You can't buy UB on Steam on its own so the advice that 1.13 doesn't work with UB doesn't apply here. What they mean is that it doesn't work with the original expansion but works OK with Gold. (ref.- http://thepit.ja-galaxy-forum.com/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=187&)

Stracciatella[ja2-stracciatella.github.io] is a good way to go for the original (and Gold) game. It does also work with Wildfire apparently.

Wikipedia article that describes all this in more detail[en.wikipedia.org]

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somebody got it to work on mac?