Once a merc has no APs left, they cannot move. This can lead to situations where, well, mercs die, even if allies are around, because they cannot help them. This is simple. If a merc is crouched and the main hand is free, they can grab a prone person (even hostile) or corpse next to […]
One of the most powerful assets the player side has in a campaign is Skyrider’s helicopter. While it lacks armament, it can rapidly move a squad on the map with unrivaled speed. The queen herself is wary of its capabilities. Given the queen’s vast monetary reserves, it is incomprehensible why she never acquires helicopters herself. […]
The idea to have mercs equip ballistic shields isn’t exactly new. It has not come to fruition, however, as the traditional way of adding this feature would have required copying and altering a gazillion animations, which is dreadfully tedious. So instead, we’ve simply decided to take an easier way out at this year’s convention, and […]
While it is nice to occasionally have rain in order to spice up the tactical situation things a bit, there could be more types of weather than just that. Additionally it is odd that if it rains, it rains in the entire country. So we’ve upgraded the weather system. Weather can now be local, meaning […]
Because a somewhat deranged, tomb-desecrating millionaire mass-murderer (with boobs!) definitely fulfills the ‘jagged’ part, Flugente made the infamous Tomb Raider a recruitable mercenary. This is the same idea as with his Commander Shepard merc – a fully new merc with voice files from the games, complete with xml stuff and so on. Ingame background: after […]
When playing a RPGish game, I often want to play those characters in JA2. So like any sane person would, I then use tools to wade through the games intestines, pull out horrifying amounts of sound files and then create new mercenaries. This always takes a hideous amount of time and is highly demotivating in […]
Thanks to Spinasso and Flugente contributions, we can now use Max Payne as yet another merc. He works just like my other mercs, but as that would fit the third game, can be found in the most run-down bar of Arulco (perhaps he wants to take care of yet another mob?). NPC recruitment phase isn’t […]
As soon as Buns has acquired PTSD (thus disease being a requirement for this), she can be forced to change her personality. This happens if she is under immense shock (whenever she wants to switch to the cowering animation introduced by Headrock’s suppression). This normally happens under fire, but as seen in the video, a […]
Machine-guns can now be fed externally. Flugente has implemented a small feature that can alter the ways we treat MGs. Basically, we can now have dedicated ammo bearers (and thus create ‘true’ machine-gun teams). It works like this: When a merc has ammunition in his hands, and that ammo item is defined as an ammo […]
This mod ads quite a bit of functionality on the system of how explosives are planted, controlled and how they work. There is now a new item, tripwire. Tripwire can be planted just like regular mines. The important thing is that once someone steps onto tripwire, it will activate other tripwires that are on an adjacent […]
This most boring feature is to address the following issues: We have a wide variety of mercenaries at our disposal, with widely differing talents. Most are good at combat. Some at training. Or doctoring. Or repairing. Or spying. Or shoveling graves. There are, however, a few mercs that barely qualify for anything *waves at early […]
This is an overhaul to the drug system. You can now select several drug components and build your own drugs from them. <ubType> is the number of the component, the specific effects are hard-coded (couldn’t externalize those, or I’d need A LOT more tags). <ubDrugTravelRate> determines how fast the drug comes to its full effect. <ubDrugWearoffRate> determines […]
By now, covert operations is a fairly old feature. Flugente’s original idea was that the player can use this to do a bit more in their games than just kill & loot sector after sector. Do more role-play. Sabotage things. Spy on the enemy. Sadly, the game is still limited in that regard. Frankly, there […]
Every midnight snitches will give you a report about their colleagues’ opinions. Information includes: – merc whining about high death rate, – merc whining about player reputation, – merc whining about his low morale, – merc whining about some other merc (unliked, not only hated), – merc planning to quit (leave without renewing contract, only […]
A small but very interesting addition to the game, expanding Bobby Ray’s business with a whole new set of shipment locations throughout Arulco. Also the mod brings you new special locations where training your mercenaries will get boosted.
JA2’s landscape is flat. Sad but true. Let’s pretend there are hedges, ravines, sand and dishwashers. In such a lush vegetation, we could expect that running around would leave tracks, no?
Yes, we totally can. And now we can track those.
Stalk your prey (or yourself, if you run in circles)!
Let’s face it: You like to blow up things. To your understandable regret, this did not incorporate to the roofs of houses. Is it consideration for the lives of the innocent?
Of course not. You just couldn’t do it until now, as rooftops were as indestructible. Also, they could fly. Until now that is. Next time you climb a house, make sure that it still has walls. Otherwise the thing might be unstable.
ometimes, you wish things had played out differently. Specifically, you when you landed in a hostile country, you wish you had packed an SMG instead of a pea shooter, and AP ammo instead of… marbles?
Now you can select the gear that your IMP will start with. And pay for it. Also includes lots of buttons to click.
Like rebels in a stupid conflict that represents a monumental waste of human lives, resources and online news page space better reserved for non-stop coverage about ladies who got their naughty pictures stolen, you too might feel the urge to break down houses and create walls out of the debris. Hoho, now you can!
Well, not so much in the trunk (because… reasons), but as far as AIMNAS goes, you can now go insane and create walls, hills, car wrecks and refrigerators out of debris. Or teddy bears, if you so desire.
Recruiting militia provides you with a great meatshield proves that you have truly won over the hearts and minds of the Arulcan people. But sometimes, through abhorrent tactical flaws from your side unforeseeable bad luck, you don’t have enough of them. What if there were a way to get experienced militia without wasting your precious time on training them yourself?
See for yourself, as there is a way. You can order reinforcements from a new PMC.
We are fully content these are professionals. In any case, would you be so good as to authorize that huge down payment first?
Considering that Arulco is a war-torn, backwater country with a stunning total of two doctors and one nurse for the entire country, people are surprisingly healthy there. Apart from the occasional massacre of all government personnel by foreign mercenaries that is. Well, no more of that! I’ve added a new feauture to take care of that. Thus begins a new age of suffering, pain and disease!
Ebola! Malaria! Cholera! PTSD! Pregnancy!
And if you really want it, everybody can have a share of that, as a deadly plague spreads and threatens the entire civilian population!
Our codie genie anv has released another great update to this Drivable Vehicles mod, this time bringing movable enemy tanks to life. The coding is done, all we need is a new set of animations for the tanks to properly showcase movement. Tank AI isn’t perfect, but it’s not much more imbecilic than other enemies. To fully utilise the feature you’d need mappers to set orders for tanks other than stationary, specify patrol points and put them in the open – on vanilla maps they’re frequently blocked with fortifications – cause, you know, they couldn’t move before.
At work we are like a family. A family where everybody vies to escape to a better family, but a family nevertheless. Now, if we also had (more) firearms and and would gun down government soldiers (more), we wouldn’t get along as well as Jagged Alliance’s mercenaries do. They don’t talk to each other, keeping you focused on the tasks at hand.
We can’t do that, can we? Now your team will actively complain and quarrel with each other. And you can even decide in what way your IMPs will offend people today!
It’s always the same with new colleagues. At first they seem reserved, but as it turns out, that is just because of their ingrained hatred towards sassy estonian women like you. Mowing down an army patrol together thawed the relation, and he was really thankful when you mended his broken leg with a spoon. But then… he told of your drug problem to the commander! And hoards all the good stuff for himself! Also, why do all other people earn more than you? Sheesh! It’s time for the daily mandatory binge drinking session.
Yep. Mercenary relations got a bit more complicated.
Fill hearts of you enemies with terror, their ears with purr of impending doom and their noses with stench of high octane nightmare fuel as your mercs race through the battlefield in shiny steamrollers of carnage. Requested since… year 2000?!
Do you long for a reason to sneak into enemy territory? A justification for beating up captured oficers? Any, no matter how flimsy, excuse to stuff american pensioneers with C4 and send them to ‘eternal Cleveland’? This might be your oddly specific lucky day! As enemy generals require a different approach. Also contains a small story that totally doesn’t try to imitate the best JA2 LP out there.
With ridiculous amount of items introduced in 1.13 and other mods, possibly multiplied by “Drop All” option, looting selecting the best equipment for your mercs might become a chore and lead to useful gear left behind. Now, when Ctrl key is pressed, statistics of any item displayed in Description Box will change to show comparison with another items in sector inventory, allowing for quick revision of available equipment.
t’s been more than a decade since we’ve started killing redhsirts by the hundreds. Now the queen finally decided to lower her casualty rates a bit… The AI can now use medics in combat, and will be lead by competent officers bullet magnets. Learn how to spot these and other interesting people here.
What is the use of anti-materiel rifles if they cannot destroy anything? Besides weightlifting? Thought so. You can now blast holes in whatever you like, provided you use the right tools.
At the moment, type of camouflage that works on any tile depends on tile’s terrain id, which is distributed dynamically depending on tile’s position in tileset. With additional properties it’s possible to specify which camo type, and how effectively will work on any tile. Only snow camo will work on snow covered roofs, red carpet in palace won’t perfectly cooperate with urban camo anymore, thick grass in the middle of the forest will provide better camouflage than sparse grass near the road.
For too long have militia been able to hide in their cozy towns, content that your mercenaries would do the fighting… And why? Because they would lose horribly and die a meaningless death? No! Because they were away from the front. But not anymore. You can now order them to the front and make sponge up bullets for your team. Off you go, Taskforce Human Shield!
Are you unsatisfied with the rather small team sizes we have in JA2? Is your favored tactic ‘Operation Human Shield’, but you never had enough cannonfodder to begin with? Well, now you can. Team sizes have been massively increased. Test it and give feedback, and we might add this someday to the regular releases.
AIMNAS is an Item mod for JA2 1.13, adding something between 1200 and 1400 items to the basic 1.13. It is also the only mod at this point of time that uses the Big Maps project.
What would the press say about the things you do in your free time? How much food do you use? Did you accidentally wound a child when you mortared that kindergarten last week? Find out by reading the news.
It’s new, has walls of texts and pictures, and is utterly useless in combat! Yay!
Say, do you like to zoom in on people with a powerful object lens? To see what they are doing… in extreme detail, without them ever knowing? And do you then fantasize of their sudden, violent demise in a shower of gore? Well, then you’re obviously a sick freak. Or part of a sniper/spotter team.
Just saying.
Thanks to anv (and Buggler digging in old data), Waldo can now repair the helicopter. A plethora of other options have also been added – the helicopter now flies on fuel instead of greenbacks, among other things. Surprisingly, getting hit by SAMs now also damages passengers of your suicidal airdrops. Be sure to check it out.
What is the use of a helicopter if you can’t throw your employees into a warzone? Now you can, Mr.Ruthless Employer! In fact, you can drop them into the open sea. Or perhaps somewhere useful, like a rooftop. Learn how to here.
You are a sophisticated person. You know the 100 most famous ‘yo momma…’ jokes. Finally, the time to put that to good use has come! anv has externalised AI taunts to xmls. So of you have a specific thing to say to Buns before she bites the dust, this is the place to share it with the world.
Do you have a need to talk to people that aren’t there? Do you call home if you just can’t take it anymore? Would you like to nuke a piece of this messed up world ever day? Do you agree those little overpriced blinking mobile thingies are nothing for a battlefield?
If yes, then hello there, fellow weirdo. Rejoice, for now you do all that in JA2, by creating a radio operator.
Rejoice! Mercenaries will now properly bitch about people’s nationality. Or colour. Or gender. Or manners. Or looks. It’s like the internet, really. Just like it was always meant to be.
Learn how to build an ignorant racist with no manners here.
In order to flesh out your characters more, you can now define their background. A background might be a previous profession the individual had before becoming a mercenary. Perhaps he was in law enforcement, or an arms dealer? A priest, or a hitman? Or even a member of a notable army formation… It can also […]
While it feels good to conquer liberate a huge town and then posess tons of loot, I am no stranger to the dread feeling of ‘How the fuck do I move all this to my HQ?’. Especially with ‘Drop All’ turned on, the game produces lots of items, and moving them from city sector to […]
In the grimdark future of the 41st millenium, war has engulfed the entire galaxy. Mankind finds itself in a constant struggle against vile aliens, traitors an worse. On numerous planets, the Imperium has to defend itself against all kinds of threats. Wether it be massive forgeworlds, or small backwater planets… One of those numerous conflicts takes place […]
Developed as a motivator for the JA:F Ks campaign, you can now define enemies an militia a bit more. Be a militia! Or an enemy! Shoot yourself, then take your head! Wait… what?
Afraid in the dark? You run into trees, and curse Arulco for the lack of street lighting? Why not use a flashlight?
No longer will your mercs have to watch helplessly as an unconscious buddy slowly dies from mustard gas, because he has no APs left to put his gasmask on… now other mercs can put a gasmask on him. Or give him to drink. Or change his clothes. Or drug him. Or put a live bomb on him. You know, what friends do.
Attention logisticians ! Finally you can put the tons of equipment you get when playing with Drop All to a good use: equip your militia with it!
The project «Jagged Alliance 2/1 Metavira» is a reincarnation of the first part of the game Jagged Alliance (hereinafter JA1) on the base of Jagged Alliance 2 (hereinafter JA2), done close to the original game in terms of the plot, the maps and the weapon range (the classic version). The project is based on the source of JA2 modification “Night ops”. In this case, there is little left from the initial concept of “NO”.
This will be of interest especially to modders: You can now define specific gun/item selections for soldier classes. Do so via class specific gun and item choices.
Don’t you hate it when you’ve stuffed all your cities full with militia, and the enemy has no chance of taking them back ever? Miss the excitement of sudden ambushes? Then fear not! The enemy assassins feature allows the queen to send infiltrating assassins to your cities, who just wait for the right moment to jump your clueless mercs…
Modders, please pay attention! Merchants have been externalised! You can now define any NPC to buy, sell or repair stuff… You can also alter the values of existing merchants – like altering their money reserves, or the prices to which they sell and buy.
So go shopping! Start HERE
After a continuous stream of new features, Flugente has done it again, this time you can let your SEAL dreams go wild. He has added the possibility to scuba dive in deep water! For now this can only be found in development releases of v1.13 for testing and further development, this is not available in the stable v4870 release but will most surely be included in newer stable releases!
This will be of interest especially to modders. You can now define specific gun/item selections for soldier classes. Do so via class specific gun and item choices. Also contains a question concerning xml ordering, feedback wanted.
The Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13 mod that applies items and concepts from the Urban Chaos-1.13 mod to the stock Jagged Alliance 2 campaign. v4.00 implements most features up to Development Revision 5869 / GameDir 1606 (yes including the INI settings for Equip militia with guns/armour/etc).
A mod that allows the Mod Squad’s “Urban Chaos” campaign, a fan made mod for Jagged Alliance 2 from December of 2003, to be run under current development versions of Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13 (Revision 5882 / GameDir 1610). This is the “Old Maps” only release which does not include any modified/fixed maps, allowing the […]
This is a Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13 mod, designed to allow the campaign from the Mod Squad’s Deidranna Lives! Total Conversion for Jagged Alliance 2 (original Talonsoft release) to be run with the benefit of new features created since the source code was released. Beyond the basic v1.13 features at the time of release, this […]
Arulco Revisited v1.4 is here. The new version has bugfixes, better balancing and additional content. It also has improved compatibility for newer v1.13 features. Arulco Revisited for Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13 was created by JAsmine and Beka and first released in early 2012. The mod’s main goal is to make the game more diversified and […]