Jagged Alliance 3

Jagged Alliance 3

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Smart overwatch

Description
Instead of always firing at torso, even when it is blocked by an obstacle, units will fire at an open body parts or a specifically choosen part for each equipped weapon.

Mod made by vlsodqwe who gave me a permission to upload it to steam workshop. Original link: https://www.nexusmods.com/jaggedalliance3/mods/151

Description:

- You can change the default overwatch action for each weapon when available. (Single shots, bursts, full auto)

- You can select a fixed body part to shoot at, even when blocked, "kill them all in the groin" quest compatible.
When enemy doesn't have the body part (hyenas have no groins) shoots at other parts.
If none is selected units will find an open part automatically. There are 2 options here (you can switch between them in the mod options):
1) The body part is being chosen in the following order: Torso, Groin, Head, Arms, Legs.
2) Unit tries to evaluate potential damage using WIS stat (RND based). So at close range mercs will shoot at heads and at long range at torso.


- dual weapons overwatch fire both weapons and use Dual Shot AP costs (7AP on Fox) for max attacks count.

- you can change machine gun and shotgun overwatch cone size;
with an installed machine gun, in your turn you can still shoot targets at full weapon range in the cone angle

- overwatchers with retaliation perk can retaliate in the set cone angle

- retaliaton attacks use overwatch settings

- when you start combat with a machine gun set up your machine gunner gets up to 10AP substructed from the action pool. I consider it a bug or unfair. Now set up is free, but you can change it with an option.
15 Comments
Mosesjns Jun 8 @ 11:16am 
Thank vlsodqwe for mod and for the upload this mod is great!
Shuri-Sama May 25 @ 3:44am 
cool thig that this mod is also on steam now. i had this already since a long time (got it frm nexus) and i dont want to play without it anymore. one of the best mini mods ^^
Lucjan  [author] May 9 @ 12:03am 
Thank vlsodqwe ;)
Hachiryoku May 8 @ 7:24pm 
It seems to be working like a charm. The best part is, my mercs stopped shooting walls and rocks when a hand starts to come around that wall or rock.

It was a bit annoying having to figure out how to game the game just so my mercs would stop shooting inanimate objects. And certain situations just meant you shouldn't even set up any overwatches (sad face). Like if they could pop -up- from behind a rock. My mercs always shot the rock. So, it's a complete waste of time to even set the vanilla overwatches in some cases. This mod seems to takes all that frustration away. Thank you.
mikesh1958 Apr 29 @ 10:11am 
I'm sorry, everything worked. It's just that I foolishly overlooked the Hide icons option in the settings menu.
Lucjan  [author] Apr 28 @ 6:49am 
You can change the default overwatch action for each weapon when available. (Single shots, bursts, full auto)
agat.marwek Apr 28 @ 5:09am 
Can you explain more what these red symbols except target means?
mikesh1958 Apr 27 @ 1:00pm 
It never worked for me, even on one rifle a glitch appeared, that is, an overwatch that does not exist. It doesn't work, probably because of BCE GUNS
Lucjan  [author] Apr 26 @ 3:40pm 
I uplaoded a fix, it should work now. Please let me know if it helped
Zacarías Satrústegui Apr 26 @ 7:29am 
Same for me. I uninstalled nexus version, installed this and now neither of them is working. It shows in the menu but I can´t see the overwatch icon at all.

Edit: after unsubscribing, restarting the game multiple times and reinstalling the nexus version, it´s working again.