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Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions[message #337148]

Sun, 26 October 2014 02:47

Tango

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Registered:July 2006

First impressions:

I'm sure a lot of aspects of the game will improve in the coming of time; attachments, shops etc.

For me there are three big things that are fairly critical to me only kind of enjoying the game at the moment:

1. Why on earth can the game not remember player postions within a sector after fast forwarding on the strategic layer. For me half the fun of defending a sector in JA2 was experimenting with defensive positions and layouts of mercs, weapons etc. I think that the engine may load sectors every time after you fast forward but in that case why are loot item locations stored persistently but character locations not. I find it really hard to beleive nobody mentioned this in testing at all.

2. Enemy turns take far too long to process, it is very much like all enemy movements even the unseen ones are processed in real time, very much like the Silent Storm engine. Makes for very long battles for very little purpose. Suspect this might be another engine issue.

3. The cover system is currently non existent. Seems to me like the objects don't really have defined heights etc. Walls can be seen, shot and attacked through. It plays very much like a 2d game rendered in 3d, not a true 3d experience where you constantly have to think about differential heights, crests and overwatch like in 7.62, Silent Storm or the UFO series.

I really, really want to be hopeful but I get a horrible feeling that the above 3 issues may be more to do with how the game coding and unity have been used rather than something that can be fixed.

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		JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Mauser on Tue, 21 October 2014 20:07
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Nasenbaer on Tue, 21 October 2014 21:16
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: dethica on Tue, 21 October 2014 23:57
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		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Wed, 22 October 2014 01:54
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Vortexdr on Wed, 22 October 2014 17:15
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Wed, 22 October 2014 21:01
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Boge on Wed, 22 October 2014 21:36
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Wed, 22 October 2014 22:19
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Mauser on Thu, 23 October 2014 01:15
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Thu, 23 October 2014 12:54
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: amoult on Thu, 23 October 2014 23:02
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Fri, 24 October 2014 00:23
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: grim on Fri, 24 October 2014 02:29
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Mauser on Fri, 24 October 2014 05:56
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Sooner on Fri, 24 October 2014 07:21
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: amoult on Fri, 24 October 2014 15:22
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Fri, 24 October 2014 19:02
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: batanen on Fri, 24 October 2014 19:39
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shadow21 on Sat, 25 October 2014 11:36
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Arulcish_Lion on Sat, 25 October 2014 17:00
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: grim on Sat, 25 October 2014 21:31
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Arulcish_Lion on Sat, 25 October 2014 22:32
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Sun, 26 October 2014 00:22
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Tango on Sun, 26 October 2014 02:47
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Sun, 26 October 2014 03:05
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: grim on Sun, 26 October 2014 03:20
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Tango on Sun, 26 October 2014 12:32
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Mauser on Sun, 26 October 2014 12:50
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Sun, 26 October 2014 13:03
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Arulcish_Lion on Sun, 26 October 2014 17:57
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: JayM on Mon, 27 October 2014 21:08
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: grim on Mon, 27 October 2014 22:05
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Mon, 27 October 2014 22:55
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: JayM on Mon, 27 October 2014 23:46
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: JayM on Mon, 27 October 2014 23:56
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Tue, 28 October 2014 01:04
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: JayM on Tue, 28 October 2014 11:37
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: Shanga on Tue, 28 October 2014 13:05
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: JayM on Tue, 28 October 2014 15:00
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: JayM on Tue, 28 October 2014 15:06
		Re: JA:F Steam release first impressions By: amoult on Tue, 28 October 2014 15:06
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