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@Solaris_Wave Yes you could kill almost all enemies with a single headshot with a high damage weapon. May the black mercs needed 2 or sometimes 3 headshots. Am currently playing JA2 Wildfire and i really like the weapons stats (range & damage) there. If a 50 calibre sniper exist in JA3 i dont know but a 50 calibre would easily penetrate against any helmet, so 1 shot should be enough.

@WILDFIRE Totally agree with you, part 2 was the best, to be a bad merc villain suited so much to Van Damme. Then the comeback of Arnie and Bruce Willis, also Chuck Norris was there. Jason Statham VS Scott Adkins (Yury Boyka) the battle was also not bad in part 2. Part 3 was also ok watched it lots of times, you can imagine Wesley Snipes somehow like Blood Hanson. 😁 And Antonio Banderas was so funny, quirky a little. Part 4 for real ? Didnt watched the trailer as yet, but part 4 arent making too much noise like part 1 and 2.

Enough ? Its too much lol, you could not use it in a real fire fight. Unless you wait in a corner for the perfect shot but still not preferable, once it hits though its all over.

@Hongweibing The bald black guy is very possibly Gus or Pierre ( The guy on the cover, i have a feeling may Pierre can joins us too later on but you also have the chance to kill him to earn loyalty points in the final showdown of the small island)

I like Blood`s face in Jagged Alliance 3 but they made him look like Danny Trejo from Desperados with his outfit and endless knifes. See the scene yourself : Imo they could better make a Mexican merc Danny "Machete" Trejo like and Blood could still look a lil different. So Blood becomes very similar like Danny Trejo in Desperados.

Even Shadow looks mild on the portrait and his hairs looks very smooth just like he newly outta shower and put a dryer to his wet hairs. Most of the mercs appearances are seriously going to Fortnite (a popular game for teenagers) direction. @Lunokhod For most people it was hard to see in JA1 & JA2 that Vicki had a rasta (dreads) on her already, it always appeared from the small sized portrait like she had short hairs, myself i realised much later after playing it. The colourful beads are may too much for a merc appearance and her face looks too innocent in JA3 but still 1 of the best looking female mercs imo after Fauda and the SWAT officer Higgins. Imo the best battlefield mercenary outfit goes to the IMP with red beret (simple but good) and also Grizzly, Fidel, Fauda, Raven are good.

I have also noticed the empty sectors are incredibly small sized, even smaller then in XCOM2 lol. Wished the sectors were a little bigger and also how the mercs running effortlessly here and there without getting tired kill the realism imo, even much slower mercs like Steroid have the same pace as other faster mercs. Then again i also noticed what is so unrealistic is once you do headshots, most of the times the enemies survive a headshot even with a AK-47, back in JA2 headshots were very deadly, hope they can balance it better, headshots should harder to make but once they hit it should kill, if not bring you to critical status.

@LunokhodI have to agree with Ice, he looks even way younger like a teenager in JA3.

I have found already a lil eastern egg of Jagged Alliance 3 hahah. In 1 of the early mainland sectors there is a graveyard where you can checkout the names and 1 of the names is Arch Stanton, he was from the legendary mid 60 movies The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. Checkout the scene here :

@WILDFIRE Did you also saw some gameplay in the mainland and also of the legendary mercs ? I also agree the map designs are good but i feel like the maps are also small just like in XCOM2. But it seems like distance shooting is possible (didnt see it as yet but i have a good feeling for it), like from 100 m - 150 m etc with a sniper rifle. @Lunokhod Some black people are extremely smooth though as they did plastic surgery lol, checkout Antonio Tarver (a famous boxer, who also played as the main opponent in Rocky 5), even in his mid 50s he has a face like a mid 30 person. Magic looks most definitely smoothen as in JA2 he had a angry face and surely i didnt even realise Magic was black still the day before, he looks like a dark tanned guy or latino like in JA2. Am ok with Vicki though, she is a Jamaican and can look a lil more colourful, still looks much better then Fox or Mouse imo. Oh ok cause i knew somewhere was writing Australian, it would be better though if they made him as Australian cause we dont have any merc from down under. And we got none mercs from South America, pretty disappointing imo.

@Kordanor The 6 tiles Ernie island (we can also call it tutorial island) takes a good 6 to 8 hours of gameplay you know. May it could be too much for a demo idk. But the demo idea isnt bad but most of us will buy it directly anyway. Most streamers saying the release date will be possibly mid to end of summer 2023, so we are possibly 3 to 4 months away.

About AI not so sure yet, Corazon Santiago says : "Those Legion guys arent smart and also not well trained" that could be also a reason why they are less organised, lets see how more elite enemies will act on battlefield and as i mentioned most streamers playing it in easiest level, a streamer also mentioned that the AI is sometimes easy but at times also very tricky, it should get a little more balanced imo.

Go directly to the last 30 mins of the video, you will see a intensive battle.

@Kordanor There is some similarities for sure, you got even intel just like XCOM2. I watched now more then 10 hours gameplay and i would say its a mixture of JA Rage & XCOM2. Many streamers also complained that the % is missing like in XCOM2, as it was there in the very first trailer but they took it away. There will be surely lots of missed shots but lets see. Also you said the enemies dying faster then our mercs (which are more durable), dont forget most of the streamers played in easiest difficulty which make the enemies more vulnerable.

Some merc portraits & stats may you didnt see as yet. The portraits looks surely cartoony without a doubt but guess we need to get use to it but i like so far the few I.M.P. figure models (esecially the 1 with the red beret), hope they will make at least 10 male & 10 female models. Btw wasnt Scully the 1 and only Australian merc that represented down under ?

The roof view looks not bad.

Nice 20 hours of gameplay review but its in German.

Who wants to watch more gameplay JA3 footages of the BETA version, come to Twitch right now and watch Cringer as he is playing on live. https://www.twitch.tv/cringer

He says he is really impressed about the game and he also mentions that the game looks pretty big. Myself i cant wait for tomorrow 17:00 !!! It sounds so promising. 😍

@LunokhodElliot you idiot! 😄

@Lunokhod Dont agree with you at all about Jagged Alliance 3. I posted abouit it too, it looks really nice but like i said before it would have been even much more interesting for me if it was a turn based game (at least in the battles).

It suits very well to Van Damme & Yury Boyka to be elite vicious black mercs.

@HendrixYes i know, with olive top and olive leggings, and a baby blue omg (or is it dirty white? cant see well). Yea Billy was surely more serious, but i was mentioning his talent, Billy also had kind of spiritual 6th sense so the 360 degree overwatch will resemble a little to it.

@Hendrix Which means he could have possibly a Russian nationality ? Also in the last dev stream, Boyan mentioned about Omryn`s talent that he has a 360 degree overwatch, he must be like the native guy from Predator somehow with 6th sense. See here in 40:16 Omryn talent

I also prefer the RPC`s more then the AIM mercs especially in 1.13. My own character (I.M.P.), Dimitri, Miguel and 2 or 3 mercs from A.I.M. are enough still 2/3 of the game most times, its also good to save your budget. You dont really need to hire 5 or 6 AIM mercs still late game. I also like to leave in each town 1 merc for training militia and so i can also jump into the battle sometimes (would interest me, do you also jump to the raided sector even if you have only 1 merc?). So it would make sense to make may 5 - 7 less mercs but have 5 or 7 more RPC`s around the map. It was said we would be having around 40 mercs, which means together with the RPC`s may it will easily reach to 50 mercs. @Hendrix Lets see what kind of background Omryn has ? He looks kinda like a native American or also like a Mongolian (Asiatic look).