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Traits - detailed info what each one does ?
Mon, 18 April 2022 15:53
Hello all,
Id like to know what each Trait does. In FULL detail. The descriptions mostly arent really helpful in this regard and all of them are vague at best. After an extense search, I did not found a file that contained any info on these as I found for skills and backgrounds.
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Sociable
A: Better Performance when a couple of mercs are nearby.
D: Gains no morale when no other merc is nearby.
Question 1: 'Better performance'; what is that ? +5% to CtH with LMGs, is something I understand
Question 2: 'nearby'; what is 'nearby' ? within 10 tiles range, is something I understand
Loner
A: Better Performance when no other merc is nearby.
D: Gains no morale when in a group.
Question 1: same 'Better performance' and 'nearby' as above ?
Optimist
A: Morale sinks a little slower and grows faster than normal.
D: Lower chance to detect traps and mines.
Question 1: 'a little slower'; what is that ?
Question 2: 'grows faster'; what is that ?
Question 3: 'Lower chance'; what is that ?
Assertive
A: Bonus on training militia and is better at communicating with people.
D: Gains no morale for actions of other mercs.
Question 1: 'Bonus'
Question 2: 'is better at'
Intellectual
A: Slightly faster learning when self practising or as a student.
D: Lower Supression and fear resistance.
Question 1: 'Slightly faster'
Question 2: 'Lower'
Primitive
A: Energy goes down a bit slower except on assignments such as doctor, repairman, militia trainer or if learning certain skills.
D: Wisdom, leadership, explosives, mechanical and medical skills improve slightly slower.
Question 1: 'a bit slower'
Question 2: 'such as'
Question 3: 'certain skills'
Question 4: 'improve slightly slower'
Agressive
A: Slightly better CtH on burst/autofire and inflicts slightly bigger damage in close combat. Gains a little more morale for killing.
D: Penalty for actions that need patience like repairing items, picking locks, removing traps, doctoring, training militia.
Question 1: 'Slightly better'
Question 2: 'slightly bigger'
Question 3: 'a little more'
Question 4: 'Penalty'
Question 5: 'like'
Phlegmatic
A: Bonus for actions that need patience like repairing items, picking locks, removing traps, doctoring and training militia.
D: Interrupt chance is slightly lowered.
Question 1: 'Bonus'
Question 2: 'like'
Question 3: 'slightly lowered'
Dauntless
A: Higher supression and fear resistance. Morale damage for taking damage and companion deaths is lower.
D: Higher chance to be hit and enemy's penalty reduced when oneself is the moving target.
Question 1: 'Higher'
Question 2: 'lower'
Question 3: 'Higher chance'
Question 4: 'penalty'
Question 5: 'reduced'
Pacifist
A: Gains morale on non-combat assignments (except training militia).
D: Gains no morale for killing.
Question 1: 'Gains'
Malicious
A: Higher chance for inflicting stat loss, which may also inflict special painful wounds. Gains bonus morale for inflicting stat loss.
D: Penalty in communicating with people and morale sinks faster when not in battle.
Question 1: 'Higher chance'
Question 2: 'may'
Question 3: 'special painful wounds'
Question 4: 'bonus'
Question 5: 'Penalty in'
Question 6: 'sinks faster'
Show-off
A: Better performance when mercs of opposite gender are nearby.
D: Morale for mercs of the same gender grows slower when nearby.
Question 1: 'Better performance'
Question 2: 'nearby'
Question 3: 'grows slower'
Question 4: 'nearby'
Coward
A: Gains morale when retreating.
D: Looses morale when encountering numerically superior enemy forces.
Question 1: 'Gains'
Question 2: 'Looses'
Question 3: 'numerically superior'
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The best source would of course be a file where all that info is written in but like I said, I didnt found any whatsoever.
Sincerely.
v1.13 General Gameplay Talk |
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Any Android Games Like Jagged Alliance 2 1.13?
Fri, 15 April 2022 02:33
Are there any games for Android similar to Jagged Alliance 2 1.13? I am sick and tired of wasting my time on games that turn out to be another cash grab, pay to win, pay to play, grindfest, PVP focused game, survival or build focused game, etc.
What I wouldn't give to just find an honest game that's none of those things that focuses more on the type of play style that was in Jagged Alliance 2 1.13, that uses Google services to save your game so you don't have to deal with servers that eventually stop working or losing save files on damaged phones and devices.
I would be glad to pay for a game like this but I can't find any.
I found Exiled Kingdoms but it's more of a Diablo 2 type game that takes place in the middle ages, and even though it has the right type of graphics, it's not turn based, there's no guns, and I was looking for something that takes place in more modern times. And please, no side scrollers. No insult meant, I'm just not into them.
All About Gaming |
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Wheres Shank?
Sat, 09 April 2022 01:50
Loving the new ability to helicopter in, that being said, I need to get Estonia setup as a fuel stop. I am using the latest JA 1.13 files, and playing with Wildfire, but I cannot find Shank in Tixa's dungeon! Is he somewhere else? Tips would be appreciated!
JA2 Wildfire |
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Inwalid code for second IMP character
Wed, 06 April 2022 20:39
Hello
I got steam version of JA2 Wildfire and put there: ja2 1.13 wildfire beta pl gr9300 dr2641
I use XEP624 for the first IMP merc, and then when i use BSE nothing happend just info invalid code.
When i use 90210 then it clone my first merc. Is there other code than BSE or i have to change something in ini file ?
v1.13 General Gameplay Talk |
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Runtime Error (FacilityTypes.XML Error)
Fresh copy of JA2 Gold, v1.13 from SCI, wildfire6.07 patch from SVN; Mon, 04 April 2022 23:57
Hi there,
I downloaded a fresh copy of JA2 Gold, followed by v1.13 from SCI, finally Wildfire6.07 patch from SVN.
When I started the game using ja2.exe, i got this:
RUNTIME ERROR
PRESS <ESC> TO EXIT
File: .\XML_FacilityTypes.cpp
Line: 860
Function: facilitytypeElementHandle
FacilityTypes.XML Error: Assignment type for facility 8 is unrecognized!
File: .\lnit.cpp
Line: 1477
Function: InitializeJA2
Loading external data failed
Did I make any mistakes installing the files? How can I fix it?
Thank you for your attention.
JA2 Wildfire |
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Tixa
Warden's office; Mon, 04 April 2022 20:21
Hey, all;
I'm picking up a game, running JA2_113 (7609 build) and am cleaning up Tixa Prison after assaulting main and basement sectors.
This is my first time with 1.13, and I haven't done AV, AR, or Vengeance mods yet.
I played JA2 1.12 (Vanilla) years ago, but I can remember what I did in Tixa, specifically the Warden's office.
I have Dimitri with this team (MEC 71) but he cannot 1) open the south door of Warden's office, or 2) pick the safe (cabinet);
the locker opens fine - but what does the red button do (other than sound alarm)?
Dimitri's fairly good at repairing.
I have just recruited SHANK and Thor is taking him to Estoni.
Buns has two and others have one key (a shiny key which probably fits more than an ordinary lock), but none of these seem to open the Warden's office south door. In "FANDOM" Dynamo is listed as 'Lockpick (expert)', but he can't open either of these.
Is this a "find a key from a soldier later" situation? Is there anything valuable in the Warden's safe?
Would Trevor or some other "99" MECH be able to open this?
v1.13 General Gameplay Talk |
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Mapgenerator possible?
Sun, 03 April 2022 12:44
Hi all,
Is it possible to create a map generator, which use builded elements?
I am thinking about a map generator that creates a map from given elements like houses, paths, trees.
Each element has a fixed number of tiles and they are placed next to each other by rolling the dice.
Like a chessboard, the whole map is divided into, for example, 8x8 squares and each square is filled with a selected element.
For an airport, the map will be more like 3x8 because the runway is so long.
At the beginning of map generation, you need to roll the dice to determine the type of map. If possible, the large map to determine areas such as desert, jungle, water, snow, etc..
After that, the individual maps, whether to become a city, farm, field, airport, hospital, port, junkyard, etc..
Accordingly, depending on the type, a different percentage distribution of the available elements is used.
In a city there are definitely more houses than on a farm, field or desert.
Would this be possible?
Zone: desert, jungle, snow, Water, tundra
Second zone: town, farm, field, wood, poor, rich ...
I can't upload file here: File Attachment is too big (over allowed limit of 0 bytes)
So i use this.

v1.13 General Development Talk |
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Stuck when entering a mine
Thu, 31 March 2022 21:46
Hi guys!
So here is my problem. When I want to enter a mine in Cambria, the map loads and all my characters are stuck at the entrance like I show on screen. I need to clear this mine of crepitus, so not going there is not an option. When I try to move them, red cross appears. It seems I can crouch or shoot with them tho. Teleport cheat doesn't work. When I click on the entrance to leave, message about merc being too far appears. Do you have any experience with this? I have tried launching the game with the recommended .dlls and without, no change.
Thanks for any help and glory to this neverdying classic 
v1.13 General Gameplay Talk |
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List of broken quests and bugged NPCs in Urban Chaos 1.13 Experimental (v4.6)
Urban Chaos (latest UC 1.13 v4.6 Full Experimental on r8675, not the original UC); Mon, 28 March 2022 19:29
It's commendable and awesome that the old Urban Chaos mod got reworked for recent 1.13, especially with all the AFS stuff added. The maps, the guns, almost everything makes for a great experience.
However, there seems to be a lot of bugged or unfinished NPC side-quests, which can be quite frustrating going on a wild goose hunt after an NPC dropped some quest hints, only to find the later NPCs missing or bugged (especially since there is literally zero information about them online, apart from the Polish site NPC descriptions and some quests FAQ, and that isn't entirely correct anymore. Many of the initial e-mails from general Dunlop are also buggy, as they contain no text.
I am aware the original UC authors are long gone and Wil473's very hard work on updating UC went more into the data side and compatibility, not the side quests.
I'd like to make this thread to discuss the quests and side quests - which ones work, which ones only partially and which ones seem to be outright unfinished or missing, so any other new UC players don't have to go on wild chases after missing content like I did. I know side-quests aren't the main reason people still play UC (probably more after the setting and maps), but when any quests are not working, it can be quite confusing when you go chasing after a missing NPC. Better to have such information in one place, instead of randomly being asked in years-old bug report threads...
Please feel free to add any I might have missed (with spoiler tags), I haven't even finished UC113 yet...
1. Kingpin's offer of $20,000 for the MOC disk - Broken, he turns hostile.
Toggle SpoilerWhile Kingpin offers it in the first conversation, he immediately turns hostile (along with the rest of the whole PIN faction) on second visit (just by talking to him again immediately, or waiting a few seconds). When I cheated, added the MOC list item and gave it to him during the first conversation quickly, the quest worked - he gave me the money, even mentioning a certain newspaper editor he'd like to get rid of. The MOC list remains in his inventory, so theoretically the player could kill him afterwards to get it again, just with the original JA2 campaign Kingpin (the chalice double-cross).
(it might also be a bug with one of the PIN guards patrolling the halls nearby one turns hostile after a while, which might have initiated it all - perhaps an AI issue with aggressive + on guard set for them?)
2. Rescue Miranda quest - not broken per se, perhaps, just confusing, as looks like it's impossible without making the whole PIN group hostile very early in the game.
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She was kept in prison level under the Port Kip police station (not in the aboveground cell) in my playthrough, meaning that any "stealth" rescue with blowing up the police station wall is impossible. I guess that's on purpose, since the aboveground police station has additional alarm triggers where the wall people used to blew up is. But That makes completing this quest one of the first players encounter, if they enter Port Kip as first or second city (which is probable, being so close to start) initiate hostilities with the whole PIN group, which is IMHO pretty premature at this point in the game. New players would end up aggroing the whole PIN faction right from the start and miss out on dialogue, quartermaster trader and possibly others.
Possibility of stealth rescue or something like that would be really nice, but not sure how to go about it. Perhaps by adding exit grids to the (nonfunctional) elevator in the police building and one in the basement and changing few guards near the cell to a different faction so they could be taken out safely by stealth (just killing one PIN guard stealthily still aggros them all, and that can't be changed without breaking other things).
3. Walter Smirnoff & Gun Runners - Broken NPCs (not a quest per se), some dialogue never seen and they turn hostile without reason.
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GR are a civilian faction that's initially neutral, unless players steal from them or wander into their sectors at night. Which is right as smugglers, they initially profit from player's buying of weapons at Tony's (even though most players will turn on them sooner or later)
Unfortunately, several named GR NPCs have a wrong faction set in the map files instead of set to civilian (GR), they are set to enemy faction. Meaning they shoot on sight, meaning player kills them, making them all hostile everywhere.
That includes their leader Walter Smirnoff in K14, who the player is told to contact by several barmans and neutral GR NPCs. Making him neutral by map editing shows that he has some unique dialogue lines, although that's it.
The bugged hostile ones, named "Gun Runne", are in D1, I16, B16 (MercProfile.xml IDs 152,154,199) and of course Smirnoff himself in K14 (ID 73).
4. Lynn quest (Factory manager using child labour) - Bit broken quest, NPC and dialogue.
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Talking to locals in C13 Calisto should give you a quest to "Take care of Lynn in Calisto (she's the factory manager using child labour as in original JA2).
Broken because she is again placed on the map as an enemy, not a civilian (she should belong to Crepaton faction, initially neutral). So she attacks the player on sight as they liberate Calisto, but she should be initially neutral I think. Therefore the quest completes ("Killed Lynn") even before the player is given the quest, without a chance to see any dialogue.
Broken dialogue? After editing the map to place her as correct civilian and being given the quest to take care of her form the liberated locals, she just says over and over "Not now, you are a walking target, in case you haven't noticed" like if one tries to talk to other named NPCs during combat. But the whole town is liberated, obviously. Finally, on wounding her, she has the rest of her dialogue lines, then attacks.
5. Satan's Sons quest & leader Bruno Stolitz - Unfinished and broken quest (aka Martha & Joey).
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Player is told by locals that Bruno Stolitz, leader of the gangsters Satan's Sons, is hiding in Drake (H3) basement IIRC its I3, basement lvl. 3.
Polish mission FAQ mentions Martha and that Bruno is in fact her "missing" son "Joey" (from the original JA2). Martha should give player a quest to rescue Bruno/Joey and escort him back. However, Martha is missing from the game - she should appear in G15, but her CivGroup is set to None in MercProfiles.xml and she is not placed in the map file. She is still in sector scripts though, as on entering G15 you get a "Noticed someone" NPC notification.
Editing her and placing her on map results in broken dialogue and a broken quest:
First she says the lines that she's supposed to say after you bring Bruno/Joey to her (she apparently shoots him for not being a nice boy like she thought, but an evil gang leader). Bruno/Joey gets deleted from game, even if you haven't even met him yet...
Afterwards, she says the lines that should be first, that "her son Joey is missing, please rescue him" and gives you the quest to find (deleted) Bruno/Joey.
Seeing Bruno first without talking to Martha doesn't work either.
No idea if this quest was just scratched from the mod or left unfinished, but the mention of it in the old UC FAQ and the NPC notification on entering G15 makes it look like a bug.
6. Danubian National Police Chiefs - the bright-blue uniform guys in Calisto and other cities - hostile on sight (unlike rest of DNP), but probably as intended?
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DNP faction is initially neutral, even though they are a corrupt police force that player should eradicate. But on most city maps with a police station, there is a bright-blue NPC police chief, which is hostile to you on sight.
Map files shows he is placed as enemy, even though DNP is a civilian faction. Killing him when he attacks you on sight obviously makes the whole police force hostile. This might be as intended, though, as a script-less way to aggro the police in the city? Still, it's very unclear what happens. Player sees a hostile guy near a station full of neutral police, obviously kills him and all police turn on him...
7. Carmen's headhunter quest - the Crepaton managers and their heads (aka terrorists in original JA2). Not a bug, just a warning to players.
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Carmen gives you the quest to hunt down Crepaton managers and bring him their heads. Like the terrorists in JA2, these are randomly placed. Unlike original JA2 terrorists, these are set to Crepaton CivGroup and have AddToBattle=1, so whenever a player kills one (including Lynn, the factory manager), all others - whenever they are - turn hostile. This can make it very easy to miss them in the heat of battle, as they are all in city sectors, as they show up as normal enemy hostiles (albeit with the ??? NPC mark), so a player might miss them and either kill them by headshot (ruining the head item for Carmen) or just forget where the body was. In JA2, I usually used spies to eliminate the terrorists silently, even way before taking the sector (it's a nice source of free income).
Any others I missed? Thanks.
BTW, all played and tested on latest recommended UC113 4.6 and 1.13 r8675 or later versions (I went back to 8675 to retest the bugs there). It's of course possible some of them might be due to some unknown error in my JA2/1.13/UC1.13 setup, but at least some of these seem to be in the UC113 map files themselves, so I think it unlikely.
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