Rugged Coalition

Anyone got the M82? It did 56 damage in the arsenal trailer, so I'm curious to see if enemy can survive a hit.

If you would have checked the dev diaries and forums beforehand you would have known what to expect. I'm sure the German previews also described and showed how the game was. This way you could have lowered your expectations. Or they should have released a demo. Although I don't think THQNordic would have wanted to waste resources on something that would just result in lower sales.

In the way you try to describe the events as if Russia or pro-russian people are blameless victims and that all the opposition to them are nazis.

I made a marksman so that I could use it in combat with my squad all the time to see how the personalities interact with a "custom" character. But as LoboNocturno says, I haven't seen much yet.

You should probably check if there are updated drivers for your GPU. Does this happen when you're in the main menu (with the 3d background), or only in-game? What if you change the details to low in options/display -settings?

There was an implication that JA2 "headgear freedom" didn't offer any choice or offered less choice. I simply gave an example where this wasn't the case. I also wrote about the late game in the message above yours... to add to that, I checked a savegame on day 70+ and Bobby Ray's didn't have any NVG on sale, so I don't think it's trivial to get the absolutely best gear for all mercs later in JA2. In JA1 you had only one slot for weapon accessories, so you could either attach a scope or a silencer. Is this a better system than in JA2 which allows both of these to be attached at the same time?

I thought you were not going to discuss politics? Or do you mean that you will just ignore posts if someone points out your false claims or asks you questions, while you continue to make new accusations? You do realize that people can just read on Wikipedia about 2014 Odesa clashes to find out how misleading (kindly put) you are? Or that people here might have a general sense of history and politics to understand why there could be animosity towards Russia(ns) in Ukraine and Moldova?

Remember sandman25dcsss doesn't want to discuss politics. 😉

Some guys being the (lawfully elected) Ukrainian parliament and overthrown being voted out. And killing of Ukrainian population was going on, probably a good reason to vote him out.

Looks like none of the parameters create a file that small either. I guess they have developed a more efficient compression method for the hpk files? And JA3 can't extract the files compressed with this old method the tool uses at the moment? You could try using the --dont-compress-files parameter, file sizes don't match, but if the game detects it doesn't need to apply any extraction it might work.

It's quite simple then, you kill the enemy by any means necessary.

No, only JA1 and JA:DG were for DOS, JA2 was Windows (and Linux later).

If there's a singular enemy that can be killed with one shot, why would you waste a grenade? Who doesn't take a 99% shot?

We know that JA is not a full simulation, it's not deterministic (CTH 100% or 0%). There is RNG. If you don't show CTH your brain makes up the stories why the shot hit or missed. And with if you pile up enough systems and details on top of each other, at some point, it creates that lovely experience that is playing JA. Thank you for the discussion. Let's see how JA3 measures up.

So you agree that in early to mid-game JA2 can offer more meaningful choices regarding this mechanic? Aren't you worried that JA3 incentivizes the player to skip night missions entirely? Typically in the late game JA2 you would have a dozen or so mercs in three squads or more scattered all across the map. Items would also be scattered all around the map. If you have all maxed out gear for a character, you have earned it. (Trust me, you rarely want to waste compound 18 on spectra helmets in JA2, so you wouldn't have the best possible head armor even in end game.) Oh... and it doesn't make you OP.