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[Let's Play!] Jagged Alliance 2: GnT - Episode 1.5: Death is actually easy.
Kris_xK
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ZOMG! IT'S TIME FOR:
LETS PLAY FEATURING GAMES AND TECHNOLOGY!
EPISODES:
EPISODE 1: Welcome to Mercenary Park
EPISODE 1.5: The Road to Drassen
First of all, use less caps. Second of all, what the fuck is Jagged Alliance 2 and why the fuck do I care?
First of all, you're a douche.
Second of all, Jagged Alliance 2 (JA2) is one of the greatest turnbased strategy games of all time. According to who? According to me and a bunch of dudes on the internet. Clearly we are the authority on what's cool. Anyways...
Turnbased Strategy? Is this "Civilization 8: You're a Tribe Again"?
Nope! This is a squad based strategy game, you only control individual mercenaries and never more than like 20 at a time. You go from map to map, taking it over, kicking ass, picking up equipment.
So its like Final Fantasy Tactics/Disgeae/My Mom?
Sorta yeah (AS IN NOT AT ALL. HAPPY GOOMBA?). Nobody has spikey hair tho, and you're not an orphan who has to save the universe because you're a noble spirit (read: you want to get into that cleric's pants). You're doing this for money! MONEY. That and you kinda like killing people.
In regards to this being like your mom, if your mom has lots of tiny little men running around inside her, then: 1) Yes its like that and 2) Your mom is pregnant.
Really, if you have no idea what this game plays like, think X-Com. If you still have no idea what this game is like after that, go back to playing with your Pokemons.
Ok so I'm interested. What makes this so special from the other 9 billion Lets Plays out there?
Wow, what a perfect question to talk about this LP's SUPER MEGA UNIQUE AWESOME FEATURE!
If you know anything about this game, you know it has the ability to create your own Mercs. What I'll be doing in this LP is using predominantly using custom mercs.
However, these mercs will be based upon posters from this forum.
AMAZING!
Custom mercs have a variety of available skills available to them, and can make two of these skills their specialties. These skills range from hand-to-hand combat, to lock picking, stealth, night missions, ambidexterity, to sniping.
I'm not able to dig up a complete list right now and I'm at work so I dont have access to the game, but you get the idea. I'll update the op with a complete list later on.
In addition, merc's can have distinct personality types ranging from normal to "Fucking crazy." These don't really have a huge impact on gameplay, so I may avoid them and just "play" the characters with specific personalties.
I'm not only interested, I want 15 minutes of fame on these boards! MAKE ME A CHARACTER!
Ok, so heres what you've got to do:
- Post your name
- Post what skills you would like to have (You can only have 2! You can have 1 if you wish to be an "expert")
- What type of personality do you have? Are you brave? Timid? Or are you just retarded?
- Male or Female? I'll be assuming male when in doubt
- Make noise. I'll be putting in the most popular choices first because I'm a complete whore.
We can have up to 6 posters going at once. Don't worry if you don't get in, I'll be replacing characters as they die off.... and I believe plenty of that will be going on.
Gameplay details (if these don't make sense to you, thats cause you don't play the game):
JA2 w/ 1.13 Mod
Insane Difficulty
Realistic (I fucking hate those bugs)
Ton's o Guns
Bobby Ray's Selection: Intermediate.
THIS WILL BE A SCREENSHOT/ANIMATED GIF LP
SKILLS FOR KILLS AGENTOr Merc...
For those unfamiliar, heres a SS of the available abilities.
And the skills! You don't have to be specific with these (because I'm going to need someone to be doctor) but you certainly can specify if you want (and I may blithely ignore you as well)
WHAT THE FUCK!? I didnt get in! No one loves me!
Easy tiger, calm down.
This LP is gonna have a huge body count of dead mercs... on both sides. If you didnt get in, just wait, post more, and you'll get in for the next squad.
News and shit!
We're at Drassen. Its kinda ugly so far. Updating this week.
THE CURRENT SQUAD
SAMMYF
Kind of a pervert. Touched Pacos' Taco, then blew off his bean burrito.
ROBERTO
Asshole
MANTIS
Surprisingly, not dead.
1/2 of my ninja girls (despite being male)
Bill Crosby may hate you, but I adore you you little sniping maniac.
THE FALLEN:
ROSHIN
Died Day 1, 11:54 - Shot to death by some foul mouthed punk
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I'm sure there will be plenty of space after that.
You're so in the game day one.
Ok. You used to be able to Dual wield P90s but 1.13 took that out. 5-7s is a no brainer tho.
Skill: Heavy Weapons EXPERT
Personality: Utterly retarded. I mean UTTERLY. As in, he doesn't know how to point any gun BUT heavy weapons in the right direction.
Also NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE.
I'm not sure, since I'm pretty sure it was a Windows game rather than DOS, but if you want to try it, definitely do not buy it on Steam. There are several crippling problems with the version on Steam and Strategy First has decided not to fix it for years.
Skill 1: EDIT: Fuck it. They've removed martial arts, so I guess I'm going "hand to hand." My character name might as well be "hand job."
Skill 2: Night Vision
Weapons of Choice: (1) machette (2) throwing knives (3) smoke grenades
Personality: Super fucking annoying. This guy is white as a sheet and grew up in fucking Wichita, Kansas but he wants everyone and his brother to think he's a ninja from a clan of ninjas. His dad's actually a VCR repairman (so SammyF knows some electronics and mechanics--that way he's not a complete waste of space for you). Once you get past his super fucking annoying personality--peeling back the onion, if you will--you discover he's also really fucking creepy. He uses his machette to collect heads and keeps them under his bed at the airport. No one knows if he masturbates while looking over these trophies, but no one would be particularly surprised.
Noise: REAL ULTIMATE POWER.
You may use EMC(SWS/SWCC) John Turner with a nickname of either Sparky or Chief.
Electronics and Teaching are my skills.
I wont give you the service jacket, just the highlights. Trained new recruits at RDC Great Lakes for a couple of years till retirement. Before that, earned SWCC (Not SEAL, but the guys that transport the SEALs) and served in various operations. Before that, served a long tenure of service onboard CV-64 (USS Constellation) and was part of the Sunset cruise decommissioning team.
Prefers to use the Sig P226 sidearm as well as either an MP5SD or M4, though he's been following the SCAR trials religiously and likes both the XM-8 and SCAR-L.
It works on vista, be sure to run in admin and I'd suggest buying it from Strategy First's website rather than steam (crazy, I know) THEN upgrade to the 1.13 mod/fanpatch, which among other things includes a lot of changes to the exe, removing SI's annoying online verification (which on vista never works because the game always runs in a new virtual enviroment whenever you start it, so it never thinks its registered) Run in compatability mode of course. I use the 98/ME setting myself.
Question to the OP, are you going old or new inventory? Just curious.
Name: Arrath
Skill 1: Auto weapons
Skill 2: None (so expert in auto weapons!)
Weapon of choice: AK-47 w/drum adapter and handgrip or some G36 variant with c-mag adapter. (Or be lazy and go RPK/MG36)
Personality: All problems can be solved by bullets. Lots of them. Preferably fired while standing/crouched, thus the handgrip rather than a bipod. Laying on the ground to fire off a 25 round auto burst is for pussies. Think Rambo with the M60.
Noise: Who needs noise, I can't hear a fucking thing besides a loud ringing after emptying my latest magazine.
Name: Bill Cosby
Skill 1: Explosives
Skill 2: something related to explosives or enhances exploding things (Never played JA2 so I dont know the skills) if there are no more explodey skills then just use pistols
Weapons: c4, tnt, any explosive device, grenades and a high caliber pistol.
Personality: Has a great need to watch things explode. Loves all things that go boom, also enjoys the art of burnination.
Noise: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
I think one of the newfangled automatic grenade launchers is just right for you!
Could you fill me in on what problems the Steam version has?
Name: Roberto
Skill 1: Knifing
Skill 2: Throwing
Personality: (Edit) The FAQ says there's an "Asshole" personality. Let's go with that!
Preferred weapon: Knife, of some sort. (Not played JA2 before) If you must, you can give him a pistol backup.
I'm a big fan of X-com, but haven't played JA or JA2, so I'm eager to see this game.
Frequent crashes that seem to be tied to important parts of the interface and memory leaks, if I remember right.
Skill 1: Bustin' heads
Skill 2: Jumpin' in and out of beds
Personality: Slob.
Weapon: That yellow thing.
Noise: I've got beer and... vodka.
General bugginess from the original release, some of which are fixed in the mods.
Missing/corrupted cinematics that can cause problems with fresh downloads of the game from Steam.
Pain in the ass to mod.
Crashes often.
Some texture oddities, distorted/discolored textures, etc.
Some others I don't really remember.
Skill the First: Explosives; fuck your sissy little firearms. If it isn't grapefruit sized and so full of explosive powder that twitching it doesn't make it explode then it's a weapon for babies.
Skill the Second: Doctor; let's just say that I'm a twitchy kind of bastard, and furthermore the babies I'll be working with will need someone to stitch their heads back on when they keep poking it out of cover.
Personality: Normal, oh yeah! You want to play hero? Do that in your own time. No point in doing anything fancy if you die doing it and then can't do anything else ho ho who feels like they're clever now?
Gender: I'm a man, man. Am I Rambo's meaner cousin? No, but when you step on the ground carelessly and see your legs arcing gently over the horizon away from your body, you'll know who's responsible. 8-)
Loud Noise: "They're going to have to glue you back together, in Hell!"
Loud noises!
YES, an auto-nade launcher is just about perfect but I'd also want some placeable explosives to blow up buildings and what not.
There are those as well, timed and remote (as well as land mines) and remotes have 4 channels you can set them to, allowing all kinds of staggered detonations!
Name: Christine
Skills: Sniping and Sniping Related Things. Like shooting stupid fishes in bucket...
Personality: Optimist. I'd insert a huge grin here, but you wouldn't be able to see it. You know. Because I'm sniping you.
Gender: Female.
Noise: "Another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone..."
Here's one for Carch, see if you can recognise it.
"They're going to have to glue you back together, in Hell!"
Ahhh... gamefaqs. The one place I didnt check.
Going with the new inventory. Sometimes it can be confusing as shit, aggravating, expensive, and a general hindrance but it makes me feel cool.
Come on dual thigh pistol holders? How friggin sweet is that?
Why have you made my life a lie?
Skill 1: Knifing.
Skill 2: I don't know. Something that works with a mad transvestite doctor who has a disturbing fixation with shiny knives and surgery.
Personality: Mad. Transvestite. Nasty fixation with knives. Collects knives. Tends to mirror himself in the blades and whisper "Stabby, stabby!". Responsible for some horrific surgical experiments, most with fatal outcomes. Likes brightly colored knee-length dresses.
I have a feeling you're going to lose this particular contest, partner.
Everyone wants to see gifs of my faux-ninja getting shot in the face with a 12-gauge shotgun while he impotently waves around a machette and makes ninja noises (an obvious oxymoron, since ninjas are silent). PUT IN THE WHITE NINJA.
Edit: Wow, I see Roshin really up'ed his game. Reminds me of my neighborhood in DC -- we get a tranny stabbing every six months or so when his/her angry boyfriend gets out of jail.
Put in the tranny!
Awesome, I like the NI as well. Nothing like one merc carrying 12+ 40mm grenades, 4 on each thigh and a load in his vest.
They're really no fun to fight and not very interesting to fight either. They're just frustrating and stupid.
Not really. Focus fire on them and they're pretty easy. It's not as if they're particularly cunning. Plus there has to be some use for all those non armour piercing rounds.
They also give you that hardening agent once the job's done.
Skills: Stealth & Night Ops
Weapons: As long as killing someone with it doesn't alert the guy next to him, I'm fine with it. So silenced stuff and *sigh* knives, I guess.
Personality: It's a good thing Rob is decent at what he does (sneaking and killing quietly), otherwise everyone would find out that he's a fucking pussy. Will run away from all bad situations where he doesn't feel on top of things. Also, people skills, not really. Has a tendency to showboat and act all Rambo, but *only* when the bad guys haven't spotted him.
My computer at home works, just barely. Its capable of running JA2 and SMAX right now, and thats about it.
It just doesn't work well.
It's called "Hand-to-Hand" in this patch. The also renamed the "Elevated Position Accuracy Bonus" to sniping.
I'll be landing in Omerta trying to take Drassen tonight. I think we'll be going for a predominantly knifing squad, which should be entertaining. I'd be surprised if we can even take the airport.
PLEASE NOTE:
Choosing Hand-to-hand, knifing, and throwing skills as your abilities will probably result in your (hilarious) death.
You have been warned.
Hey. Hey.
You chose knives for me.
Thank God I switched to camo? Can you let the game run until night falls before you send the mercs into Omerta? I'm not even optimistic on our ability to take the first sector.