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New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 2:24:14 AM

RinoaHeartily
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I have played jagged alliance before.. not a hardcore JA fan, but been there b4 (didn't complete the game)

Anyway pretty new to this game, and have a couple of questions, hope some kind souls can shed some light on these.

1) To attack npc, am I supposed to shift click or something.. I kinda forgot what i did, but i manage to turn the marauders to hostile from neutral.

2) I remember in JA or any tactical squad strategy game when you aim, there sort of a percentage of hitting the enemy pops up... how do i enable this in hired guns?

3) My squad icon disappeared and i read it will be fixed in the upcoming patch, am i right?

4) What's the point of the IPA test? The results don't seem to affect my character one bit?

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 3:07:50 AM

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1. Hold down the CTRL key when aiming at a target.

2. HG does not have a % hit chance indicator for you to enable. And in JA2 it's a feature that was added in the v1.13 mod, it is not in the vanilla (1.12) JA2.

3. That's what we've been told.

4. It depends on how you answer the questions. But, IMO, the entire idea of the test is just to annoy players by making them jump through hoops to try to get the character that they want. It's pretty stupid, even more stupid as a poor Russian-to-English translation.

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 5:09:57 AM

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3) My squad icon disappeared and i read it will be fixed in the upcoming patch, am i right?

To officially confirm for you - yes this is a top priority issue we are working on fixing.

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 7:35:22 AM

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Thanks a lot for the updates. That's a major bug(missing squad), a show stopper. Any ideas when the finalized patch be released?

Shodowarrior, that % hit chance thingie.. would be great to have it in a mod(I read you are a great modder). Better still if supported by the developers(hint to Sean)

Co-incidentaly.. i was surfing this publisher site called Strategy First. It seems there is a JA3 in development? I thought this is the JA3 with different skin?

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 8:48:37 AM

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Any ideas when the finalized patch be released?

This week (tentatively).

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 10:01:51 AM

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ORIGINAL: RinoaHeartily

Shodowarrior, that % hit chance thingie.. would be great to have it in a mod(I read you are a great modder). Better still if supported by the developers (hint to Sean)

I'd be delighted to add the feature. All I'd need is access to the game's C++ source code. Which is highly unlikely to happen.

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ORIGINAL: RinoaHeartily
Co-incidentaly.. i was surfing this publisher site called Strategy First. It seems there is a JA3 in development? I thought this is the JA3 with different skin?

HG is not JA3. HG was originally going to be JA3D, but the developers had a disagreement with the JA license holder (SF) and had their license revoked. GFI decided to continue developing their game, so they had to remove all copyrighted references from JA. HG is also an unfinished game. There are a lot of missing features. If you want to know more about the history behind HG & JA3, you can easily find it by using Google.

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 12:41:03 PM

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ORIGINAL: RinoaHeartily
Thanks a lot for the updates. That's a major bug(missing squad), a show stopper. Any ideas when the finalized patch be released?

FYI, this bug is caused by adjusting anything in the squad window while a squad is moving. The work-around until the official update is released is to not do that. We've confirmed that if you avoid that the bug doesn't happen. Unfortunately once it does happen you have to go back to a previous save, it can't be fixed once it's done, just avoided.

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 1:32:28 PM

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Erik, I have posted and sent in a save file to Sean, that shows this is not what is happening

(thought I CC'ed you to that email)

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 1:38:44 PM

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Sarge, it may not be happening to you that way, but it's how it's happened to me (and others). It's very possible that there is more than one trigger for this problem. One root cause, but more than one way to trigger the symptoms. Let's not confuse cause with symptoms.

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 2:33:30 PM

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well, from what I have seen, it looks to be the other way around, I think it is being treated as the symptom when something else is the cause, when it may be something else, I am seeing the same bug, with out the moving troopers around during moving

I have seen it 3 times with out doing what is said to be what is causing it

so as you say, it may have different triggers

which so saying, they already thought they fixed this bug

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 3:36:02 PM

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Yes, it's fixed, we should have the official update out later this week.

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/15/2008 4:51:11 PM

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Yesterday it happened to me too...
After a countless number of CTDs and hang ups during the Costal City sector, sometimes corrupting save files, I finaly managed to end that sector and that nightmare, but only to have a new hangup this time while exiting the sector right after approving looting, and when I started the game again all my game files of that sector were missing my squad and the only savefile that works is previous to entering the sector

I will need to redo the hole sector again, and who knows, I will have the same nightmare with savegames...

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RE: New to this game need help on couple of questions. - 12/16/2008 1:07:26 AM

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Erik

Can i confirm this bug doesn't pop up when i do things while the squad is stationary; and then move the squad after i am done.
I did this right after north road.. moving them to safari. I can't be 100% sure. But i remember assigning doc and patients, trainer and students and then moved the squad.

I could have tinkered with the assignments while they moving. I can't remember.. they were in the jeep, if i remember. LOL.

I am alright if the game let me assign first then move. If the game doesn't let me assign and the move... it's a major show stopper.

Eric/Sean

Any ideas if they are adding the hit percentage pop ups? I really like this feature and i am sure many do! It makes the game extremely fun with that!! pls pls pls add it in.

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