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I can't find Skyrider.

Sat, 30 September 2006 03:08

I've searched the froums and followed all the advise. No pesants or anyone can tell me of his location. I just installed the 1.13 patch and have asked every pesant/person in Dressen. What do I do?

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The endgame makes me want to set myself on fire

Wed, 27 September 2006 10:07

I've been trying to finish JA2 vanilla and the endgame is making me so frustrated because the difficulty level jumps considerably at the end of the game compared to how difficult it is in every sector but Meduna. I know some people like to talk about how they play Ironman and never reload saves but I just don't understand how that's even possible at the end of the game since getting your team to kill everyone in a Meduna sector seems to be at least 50% luck and 50% technique.

Right now, I got my team into Deireanna's palace by using the secret passageway in the garden. Actually, I think that going in that way is more difficult than knocking down the front gate. The reason is that at the front gate you can just park your squad outside the gate and snipe at the enemies who can't rush you. If you go into the palace you get swamped by elites with superhero-like vision ranges and accuracy and even with 12 mercs present everyone keeps getting blasted to chunky salsa.

That's really the crux of my issue: I think that computer assistance for the bad guys has gone into some kind of obscene overdrive. In the first place, both elites and redshirts seem to have this new, miraculous ability only in Meduna to see enormous distances and even the redshirts seem to always be able to interrupt you or shoot first unless you approach them from behind. What really annoys me is how sometimes you'll get an interrupt with, say, 3 characters. You start firing with one character, and then the enemy interrupts your interrupt. The result is that none of your interrupting characters get to use their interrupts! They lose their turn just because the first guy to try and interrupt was himself interrupted, which makes absolutely zero sense. I think that I would be able to kill everyone in Deidreanna's palace by bottlenecking a doorway if only they didn't have this ability to snipe my characters through a doorway at what appears to be 2 or 3 times the sight-range of my own characters.

So, I have two questions which I would like to ask the JA2 experts on this forum:

1.) What strategies do you use to win the battle in Deidreanna's palace when you enter using the fireplace secret passageway?

and

2.) Is there a key somewhere I can use to get into the throne room? The reason I ask is that in my savegame where my 12 mercs enter the palace through the fireplace they only have one LAW left which they've been using to blow open the northeast corner of the fireplace room, since Steroid with a mechanical skill in the high 80s dosen't appear to be able to kick, crowbar, or lockpick the door. However, I might as well withdraw through the fireplace again and get more LAWs if I'll need at least 2 LAWs to even be able to get at the queen.

and, lastly,

3.) The game won't crash or have weird bugs if I started out coming through the fireplace but later decied to leave and come in through the front gate, will it?

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Editor for JA2

Fri, 22 September 2006 07:23

I have read about there being a lot of editors made for JA2, is there anyone who is kind of similar to the official JA2UB editor? All I really wanne do, is put out some good weapons to my team, around Omerta. Cuz I think it is a bit weird for a group of Mercs trying to take over a country to start out with a few pistols!!! Is it possible to add a chest with guns and some armor (and some money maybe), in Omerta?? I know it wasn't possible in the JA2UB editor, so I just made a new sector over the sector where the helicopter crashed, and I was in business. I don't want the best weapons, but at least something that has a range of 20...

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Scientist gone AWOL??

Sat, 16 September 2006 04:42

I completed the game without completing this "quest", am I supposed to find him somewhere? I played it quick, so I only visited cities, SAM sites, the prison and the secret weapon facility. Have started over, playing in SCI-FI mode, and will take the entire map this time, just wondered where I can find him.

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Hummer ran out of Gas

Sat, 16 September 2006 04:37

My Hummer ran out of Gas. Is there anyway to refill it? I have lots of Gascans, but don't know what to do with them, or how to use them. v1.12

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Deidranna, where is she??

Thu, 14 September 2006 00:34

Thought she would be in her palace in P3, but I haven't found her there. The only person there is Elliot, and he's no help.. or? Kind of stuck here. What should I do? Is she hiding in another sector or something, or is there an underground level I haven't found???

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How many days to complete game?

Tue, 12 September 2006 12:30

Just wanted to know how many days you guys normally use to complete the game? I have used 21 days now, and have just captured 3 sectors in the capital. So I think I will be able to complete it today. Got every Merc in the city. So if I don't get to many severe casulties, I should be able to take them down without having to heal them! Got lots of Reg Boosters!

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Tanks!!

Tue, 12 September 2006 12:23

Just wondered what you guys think about the tanks, and how you usually take them out. I've had some problems with them (lot of loading) before I managed to blow the up. I used the LAW, but need to have a clear view, which was difficult to find sometimes, each time I thought I had found a good place to shoot from, there was a sniper which I dind't know about, so the Airport in the Capital took a couple of hours to get through. Have to admit this was the first time I have been up against tanks, hopefully it wont be as hard next time.

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New portraits for JA2

Fri, 08 September 2006 09:51

Where can I find them?

I know tehy exist, but my search on the net found nothing. It appears as the old sites I knew had tools and downloads jsut dissapeared...

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Alma Soldiers

Thu, 07 September 2006 07:35

Are any of the soldiers you meet in Alma for Hire?? Two of them attacked me after I talked to them, don't remember their names at the moment, but the third guy, where the bomb blew a hole in the wall and was injured, he was nice, but he said he was going home to his family or something, and disappeared. Then I read something about some soldier being available for hire. Any truth to this? Conrad I think his name was...