AG (to Richard Therrien): With Jagged Alliance 3D gone, what's next in store for the cult franchise? From your posts at SFI forums, we know that JA3 will feature not one, but 5 fractions, and even more open-ended world than in JA2Краткая информация об игре. You're probably not ready to announce the game right now, but can you drop us some hints about what to expect?

RT: Just this then: Jagged Alliance 3 will have a lot of parameters that will be subject to randomization on starting a new game. We might (or might not) have a non-random initial setup, like some sort of 'official' game. This still has to be verified but is likely to happen.

This goes so far that even some characters that you meet may act different from game to game and have different allegiances and agendas.

In that sense it may feel more open ended since the player actions should also have an impact on how other enemy and friendly factions do in that world. Player actions and decisions will also affect how people react to him and his band.

Under certain circumstances, it will be possible and desirable to undertake cover up infiltration actions and avoid triggering the area into battle by way of stealth or just by going in as strangers without apparent weapon.

The game settings will not be in Arulco this time but in a totally different part of the world. It will offer a greater range of environments than previous JA games offered.

And the game will not look like a floating platform in space.

Originally posted by Shrike:
Beamer, you are refering to the time SFI had to file for (near?) bankruptcy. I imagine things have picked up on that front ever since Silverstar Holdings took over SFI in April 2005, but you could hardly expect the original team to hang on and remain available for an eventuality like that. I am assuming that team was already split up by 2002 or 2003 anyway, as some of them worked on other games like Silent Storm (released in 2003).

Originally posted by Khor1255:
just to appeal to people who never really liked the game to begin with?

Originally posted by Khor1255:
I do seem to remember the Ironman Mode being done away with to make room for the Drop All in the interface screen but it seems to be back in the latest (June 06) release. The 1.13 is an ongoing project so of course it is not going to appeal to everyone all the time but the 'us' I'm referring to are those who've voiced opinions on the subject and not some arbitrary clique. These folks represent those 'die hards' who have taken the time to actuall try out new versions of this game instead of being perched ready to poo poo any advance made by the so called amature community.

Originally posted by Khor1255:
instead of being perched ready to poo poo any advance made by the so called amature community.

Originally posted by kropotkin:
In fact, I'm not too sure about the turn-based thing. If the Silent Storms proved anything, it was turn-based equals slow and boring... I don't think some company exec could understand that turn-based is another abstraction and convenience from the age of board games, just like a tiled playboard and D&D-style stats systems.

Originally posted by Beamer:
If you want to use one game as an example, I ask you which game was a bigger critical and commercial success: Silent Storm or UFO: Aftermath? One was real time, one was turn based. Which was forgotten and which is beloved?

Well both are gone and forgotten. There aren't any mods or maps for the Silent series either.

Originally posted by Beamer:
I've been trying to find Incubation cheap, or better free, for a while now.

My old copy is godknowswhere now. I'm usually pretty good about holding onto discs, but can't find that.