[DevDiary 6 - Combat, Part one]

Just now, Woody said:

@KyleSimmonsYeah I have no idea who the f wouldn't be in favor of showing chance to hit, this is pretty much a staple of all modern RPGs and even non modern ones. I could count the amount of RPGs without chance to hit on one hand most likely.

I don't think this is something that needs to be debated very much, there are much better things to debate.

There should be CTH in JA3 and even if for some reason devs don't want to include it, they should allow people to toggle it.

I think the developers honestly began trying to come up with new ideas for JA, which is great, but then they forgot to check if these new ideas, despite being new, were also a good fit for JA. Which they are not, some of the time.

New ideas are good, but if the new ideas suck or are better suited to another genre (and almost every new idea is good in some way or has something going for it, but it doesn't mean it should be implemented in every genre or franchise), and it doesn't mean every new idea should be implemented in the current project being worked on.

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6 minutes ago, Kordanor said:

Only modern games, possibly taking XCom as a blueprint.

Back in the days, CTH was not always shown. JA1 , JA DG, JA2 didnt Show the chance. Neither did XCom (the original) or Terror from the Deep.

The thing is, that in nuXCom the Hitchance needs to be displayed as you only have 4 characters each with 1 attack (2 actions: 1 Attack + 1 Move). So you need to weigh in chances exactly for every single action. A miss of a single shot might also end up being super frustrating, a downward spiral very quick.

With old XCom and Jagged Alliance that is not the case. Old XCom you had many more characters, and you had Time Units (TU), same as JAs Action Points. So you could shoot like up to 10-15 times per turn. So each shot has much less of an impact and things start to "average out".

Not really, CTH was in lots of RPGs going back to Icewind Dale.

Basically every RPG had CTH

I'm sorry but none of the reasons you described pan out

Silent Storm had CTH

modern jagged alliance sequels like Rage had CTH

All old and new RPGs have CTH

XCOM has CTH

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Just now, Kordanor said:

You mean exclusion? As a CTH display is not included.

Yes, forgive me. I mean CtH is probably a good idea to include. It's included in almost every other strategy game right?

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I'm a little bit worried about the inclusion of CtH but I have full support behind the dev team