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The answering machine messages are in. Boys, we're back
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Rip Pops.
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Jul 14, 2023 14:53
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Has anyone found the slur yet?
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Jul 14, 2023 14:56
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Croccers posted:Has anyone found the slur yet? I will when I can get past initial merc selection since the ones I want (some, anyway) are on mission and I don't know if this does the JA2 thing of 'they could die on another mission unless you leave voicemail which prevents this'
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Jul 14, 2023 15:01
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All mercs automatically reload when combat ends, 10/10 GOTY
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Jul 14, 2023 15:09
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Both Ice and Blood unavailable on first run. Booo this game. Wanna hear Nails say "don't touch the vest scooter" though.
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Jul 14, 2023 15:18
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JA2 is one of my all time favorites. I have been waiting so long for this.
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Jul 14, 2023 15:22
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Two things to complain so far- My video card is struggling with it, was recording and it crashed. Never had this issue before Sound mixing is all over the place, the opening cinematic was loud enough to peak even after lowering the game volume That's it, otherwise it feels real JA2. Starting with Mouse, Ice, Dr. Q and an IMP who looks like Dale from The Castle (it's the vibe)
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Jul 14, 2023 15:27
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Always been interested in this series as I loved the new-style XCOM games and have been looking for new tactical games. Would love it if people could post general impressions as they play.
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Jul 14, 2023 15:28
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Restarted until a bunch of mercs I wanted weren't offline - ended up with almost all of the Elite rank unavailable. This bodes well
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Jul 14, 2023 15:33
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The IMP test is lot more over the top this time... but it did make me laugh.
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Jul 14, 2023 15:36
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The animations are cute. When they run into cover they actually shuffle/scoot to slow down.
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Jul 14, 2023 15:37
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Croccers posted:The animations are cute. The enemies do action rolls lol
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Jul 14, 2023 15:41
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Xarn posted:The IMP test is lot more over the top this time... but it did make me laugh. You can't access it until you've hired mercs and hit land, right?
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Jul 14, 2023 15:51
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Iymarra posted:You can't access it until you've hired mercs and hit land, right? You can access it immediately with IMP Web tab at the top of the web browser
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Jul 14, 2023 15:57
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Iymarra posted:You can't access it until you've hired mercs and hit land, right? I've been looking at this youtube playthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKV6WBdfBU which seems reasonably competent and they do the IMP test before the first map.
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Jul 14, 2023 15:59
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Aw no Buzz or Lynx. No more forcing the world's most divorced couple to fight in the same squad. I'm assuming most missing mercs will be modded in fairly quickly though. Raider and Raven are still in so at least that power couple survived. Buns loathes Fox, Fox is still super horny for Wolf but hates Steroid, they kept a lot of the previous Merc relationship dynamics going at least. The unique perks each Merc gets are pretty neat also. Fidel throws two grenades at once, etc... No selecting a specific voice for your IMP though, that sucks. RIP "TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH!". Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Jul 14, 2023 16:01
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I'm not a huge fan of needing to click on every character again to assign movement. You have to click them once to select them and then click again to show the outline where they will move. Seems like they should have just make right click move like in real time gameplay.
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Jul 14, 2023 16:03
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Gyoru posted:You can access it immediately with IMP Web tab at the top of the web browser I just realised you had to exit the initial hiring screen and oh my god, the password We're back
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Jul 14, 2023 16:03
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Oh no Biff what have you done.
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Jul 14, 2023 16:20
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forgot I can't get Fox and Steroid at the same time, she's so much better now ugh choices also Grizzly? you're out of the point team, that upcharge makes you just another body
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Jul 14, 2023 16:23
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Goa Tse-tung posted:forgot I can't get Fox and Steroid at the same time, she's so much better now ugh choices Yeah Fox's gains since JA2 have upgraded her to "Actually a good frontline medic instead of a backup". Perk seems useful as well.
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Jul 14, 2023 16:25
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the fact that this is apparently actually very good is loving wild to me after however long of disappointments
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Jul 14, 2023 16:35
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Forgot this was coming out today. I preordered it months ago based on developer diaries and a few previews and it just finished downloading/installing. Hope I have time to play later today, but definitely this weekend and will try to post some thoughts.
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Jul 14, 2023 16:35
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How does the game factor in who the squad leader is (a star)? Fox is my squad leader despite reshuffling the squad and reforming it entirely, but my IMP merc has a higher leadership than her - unless it's Fox's teaching perk that makes it her by default.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:07
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Iymarra posted:I just realised you had to exit the initial hiring screen and oh my god, the password xep624?
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Jul 14, 2023 17:14
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exploded my first head game owns
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Jul 14, 2023 17:23
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Yeah Fox's gains since JA2 have upgraded her to "Actually a good frontline medic instead of a backup". Perk seems useful as well. Fox was always good and i will not listen to any disagreement 
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Jul 14, 2023 17:26
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I just met Luc and he told me how the Legion got to his son. Pretty much the 101 out of the fascist playbook. Immature writing my rear end. It just shows how broke brained gaming journalism is nowadays, when they blatantly ignore good stuff like this, while focusing on the one or two things their Twitter brain did not like. Anyway, it's 2023 and we suddenly have a good (maybe great if the game keeps it up) Jagged Alliance title again.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:27
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Did they really record lines for talking to every npc with any merc? Cause I was not expecting my hired mercs to actually have voiced lines in conversations. Also...you can't see the hit chance or am I blind?
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Jul 14, 2023 17:30
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Jack Trades posted:Did they really record lines for talking to every npc with any merc? Cause I was not expecting my hired mercs to actually have voiced lines in conversations. Hit chance is hidden specifically as a design decision. You need to play this poo poo by ear and roll with the punches, my friend. The devs did post a mod on the workshop today to make hit chance visible, but note that the difficulty of the game was balanced on the assumption you don't know.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:32
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Lmao Raider now refuses to work with Hitman, I guess he got tired of Hitman always hitting on his wife. Also all the AOL instant messenger style screen names the mercs have in the hiring window are great.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:35
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Jack Trades posted:Did they really record lines for talking to every npc with any merc? Cause I was not expecting my hired mercs to actually have voiced lines in conversations. Here's how it works: when you click through the dialogue options, there's a chance that one of your mercs says an additional line in reaction to that choice. For example: Igor understands Luc's situation. Grizzly is eager for the machinegun that Grease Basil mentions...and so on...it's looking good so far if the rest of the game is as reactive as the tutorial island.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:46
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Hammerstein posted:Here's how it works: when you click through the dialogue options, there's a chance that one of your mercs says an additional line in reaction to that choice. Oh, CRPG style. Of course. I don't know why I didn't think of that.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:51
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Can someone confirm that if you don't move your merc you can spend all AP into aim? like JA2? that's all I need to get this game.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:51
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Initial impressions: the game feels like it runs slower than it should. e: the gameplay itself has a few rough edges but it seems fine. I guess the litmus test going forwards is if the combat areas get more complex.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:52
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Alchenar posted:Initial impressions: the game feels like it runs slower than it should. Turning down View Distance and Object Detail helps a lot and so does turning on DLSS (or FSR or XeSS) with a lower Resolution Percent. Neither of those impact visual quality much.
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Jul 14, 2023 17:54
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Do not ask unstable explosives enthusiasts you encounter in the wild about "jokes", it, uh... Well, you remember Smoke from JA1? Of course you don't, he liked those kinds of "jokes".
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Jul 14, 2023 17:58
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HKS posted:Can someone confirm that if you don't move your merc you can spend all AP into aim? like JA2? that's all I need to get this game. It seems like you can only spend 3 extra AP on aiming.
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Jul 14, 2023 18:06
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Jack Trades posted:It seems like you can only spend 3 extra AP on aiming. Is there a hard limit of one firing action per turn, or if you have the AP for it can you eg blast off your action-cheap pistol as many times as you have AP for?
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