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Sorry I meant to say repayable not reliable, would be good to have EDIT option for longer then 5 seconds 😛

Does anyone have experience with starting game without dedicated skilled mechanic (I mean merc with mechanical stat over 70). Not huge fan of Steroid and Livewire (mainly dislikes for team I like to build) and I was wonder if anyone have experience with say Wolf in terms of lockpicking and gun mods? Ie whether Wolf would be viable for early lockpicking and odd gun modifications or I need retinue for that? Mid game I always get second team for repaid, crafting and militia training so that could work as long as I can get into most places early game and get suppressor on first rifle.

Agreed, fail has to be option, it makes games more reliable I never failed this particular one because I get army takeovers after I get all mines on this side of map. I guess it all depends how aggressive are you with your conquests. But that make things more exciting. I have failed couple quests myself. Not happy for accomplishment reasons but make me interesting to try again!

(SPOILERS) it will be crushed. From my exp if you have not yet, dont bother with training, waste of time. Just keep some $$ and take it like a man! Think of it like a Christmas but you dont get anything and you have to buy gift for everyone .. Maybe I was unlucky but whatever I had trained before that event felt like a massive waste of time (except of fending off early attacks). Wonder if anyone else had similar experience? For the mine income, I play commando difficulty and never had any issues with cashflow. Yea you have to play it smart sometimes but it is not that difficult to stay afloat. If you getting that low that you need neverending mines or decrease income degeneration (by any level) then you either moving way too slow or spending way too much monies for expensive mercs. Credit card society 😄

Yup could be resolution based option, 1920+ have this less have old layout.

Looks great, probably just need scroll for mercs for lower screen resolutions. It solves bunch of issues and add possibilities like ammo highlights for hovered / active gun, quick sector inventory access etc.

@Skaldy I'm too weak and too stupid 🤣 I gave back MG and did not use any utility nades, had couple flashbangs but my small brain did not acknowledged this possibility. I was going with who have bigger better bullets and they had more and better lol 😄 Learned a lot in this encounter, also perhaps get there tad too early too (Earnie > Fleetown > Mansion) .. learned a lot on that day 😄 This IMHO further stress of needing these scripted encounters so you are actually forced to think and adjust your usual strategies. Enjoy it till you can, once your little one start to reach keyboard this dream that you live will come down crashing, literally 😄 But seriously enjoy time with your little one till you can, now it is just cute and smooshy but once it grows up there will be just problems left 😛

@sandman25dcsss just exaggerating mate, as I wrote I do not see problem with spending couple min on mine field in war torn country. If anything hitbox could improve slightly and game should suggest most skilled merc in your selection to disarm mines (same with other activities). Give me back these minutes on inventory management and we are good 😉

Shooting baddies with sniper rifle is trivial too, it does not mean that it should not be there. Perhaps we come from different angle, I had no problems in clicking on mines in particular (hacking item hitbox can be dog shit at times), had no issues in disarms. The only challenge was to find one. I dont mind be careful otherwise you get tnt in your face approach. I feel like these days people want to have easy way out from everything.

Boys and girls lets focus on task at hand otherwise these discussions turning into sh#t shows. Inventory management needs a lot of work and DEV team did indicate that they are looking at better solutions that being said they do expect that to be major change so perhaps next next DLC. I would love if instead of redesign of the interface they focus on QOL improvements instead. Like sorting, easy access to sector storage, item type tabs in said sector storage. Those does not change the system and drown us in another spicy discussion, it should not be hard to implement and should be just all-round positive .. Current merc inventory whilst not perfect and leading to 8 picks vs 4 MG discussion but it is probably easiest to understand for newcomers (I think that just JA vets and people alike have real issues with it), it does simplifies tons of design and usage challanges. I was not fan of the system, but TBH did not care that much once I get into game proper.

IMHO that is simplifying this too much. I think that you want to feel stress of crossing the mine field rather than having that mindless point and click and my merc do everything for me. Appreciate the feedback but not good idea in my book.

@CersaisAdvocate I think that would be good solution, just need to work our reasonable conversion rates (perhaps 100 9mm/.44 or 50 7.62/5.56 to 1 powder) another good option would be increase in powder drops. I got less only around 20 in my 30+ hours so far.

I'm going to be another no ammo issue guy, sorry.. My experience is that ammo is very much limited resource that you have to appreciate when you have it and work around it when it is getting low. @Skaldy you have mentioned reliance on MGs, in my experience you want to use it in only really dicey situations. My first proper usage was when museum was under attack and there was overwhelming committee approaching it, I setup 2 MG for 2 turns and finish rest with AR and snipers. And Port Cacao was not my first city, I run through Fleetown and Refugee Camp before hand. Day to day I very much relay on variety of weapons, relay on explosives where possible and probably most important switching to SMGs for ambush when ammo is getting low. I'm not going to be one who say that RNG does not exist and can make your life more miserable at times (I felt bad watching some guys picking up better guns then me after going out from Earnie), but you know what they say, when life gives you lemons you make lemonade 😉 Getting back on topic, I actually do love scripted events. It is not fun first time around as you can get majorly F#$%D (hello mansion ambush, had to restart this damn mission like 15 times lol). But once you get over those humps you will learn a lot from it and it will add a lot of color to your playthroughs. I'm still on my first run (having small kid at home is not necessarily free time inducing as you can imagine 🙂 ) and I'm already looking forward to iron man playthroughs and bracing for the losses on some of these scripted missions, but for me that is definition of fun; engaging, surprising and meaningful moments that test you .. Guys that will go out alive from these will get medal and stay in my memory forever. On the end if everything would be exactly as you want with unlimited preparation available, your mercs and your perfect execution then it just would not matter, battle scars is what these guys live for ..

Stream was blast, I was not sure what to do, play game that I waited for for 20 years or join the celebrations on Twitch! Now that celebrations are over I finally had couple days to enjoy MY game and relive my teenage years, it is amazing so far. Whilst characters and dialog are super cheesy at times but I do kind of dig it, definitely it add to my reliving teenage years vibe 😄 Thanks for all the efforts so far and looking forward to what next. Meanwhile excuse me I have some baddies to destroy!

IMHO they hit perfect spot with the game. It is in acceptable shape for most old JA enjoyers and same time approachable and exciting for new in the business of killing baddies in TBS. Sure there are some odd choices here and there but possibilities are there. Oldies can enjoy this as new JA experience and hope how much game can be modded to fit their bill of proper JA successor. You have huge array of systems to play with and tune to your liking. Active pause is first mod they should install to get proper TBS experience.. New people can enjoy all the excitement of overwatch shootout without being swamped with all the systems in first 15 min of playthrough. Meet all colorful and cartoony characters to cheer up their lonely days 😉 Myself I do enjoy it a lot, having to relive my teenage years all over again playing it. Awkward and sometimes cringe dialogs make it feel at home!

yes prime shoty, AA12, 3x26dmg, 15clip

I would love to see Buzz and Lynx, there is story to be told, there is awesome and highly inappropriate banter to be had! From replay ability perspective we do not need more marksman and markswoman, we need more low/mid cost specialists. Especially explosive experts and mechanics would be appreciated to add variability to playthroughs.

Thx for inside guys, very appreciated by guys with lack of free time 😉

My suggestion is to make a use of flashbangs. I throw one and snipe at him from outside, you can easily break LoS if needed. I have not been shot even once.

Personally I will avoid those lists until get couple playthroughs under my belt but appreciate the effort for those in need @chr_isso Awesome job @DougS2K your work keep me at night crunching all the possibilities 😄

Not huge fan neither (was trolling in other topic) his vest bothers me as well, that being said he was always hairdo guy.. get new vest mate, easy fix in my book

nah need crop top..

Thats allright, kids of my kids of my kids will love it for sure 🙂

I dig it too! awesome work.. early mod support for characters will turn out great if we have more like this!

Great timing on the interview, gets me even more excited about what's coming up on Friday! Quite a trip down memory lane .. remind me some of my best and worst moments with these games. I would certainly add to the worst (beside eels) it was where in JA1 you changed the sector and immediately you got grenade falling on your whole squad. That killed my idea of ironman playthrough right there 😐 Finally, I have to concur what others have said, we often forget that behind company there are people which pour all the hard work and passion into the projects that we get to enjoy. We get to know all the boys (even if just a bit) during the diaries and streams which I really appreciate. I had a lot of fun going through this process alone and looking forward to finally get my hands on the proper JA3. PS1 Perfect opportunity to finally show some new footage this Thu whilst boys are recollecting the past?? Or Boi/yan coop ??? PS2 New wallpaper is cool, my new desktop now! I assume that we going to get new splash screens on title screen once we progress through the game, great stuff. See you on Thu and Fri!