ORIGINAL: james_austintx
Can you check the M24 rifle? I was unable to load any ammo into it.
ORIGINAL: james_austintx
Here is what I have seen from the AI.
-They use grenades a lot more.
-They are very willing to pull out a melee weapon. This is also a bad thing because I have seen them pull out a weapon and run towards a target but they are still not close enough to hit. So they get shot to death. When they are close enough, they will maul the target in melee.
They seem to run around a lot and do things like kneel, move, kneel, then they never shoot. A good map to see this is the Safari map when you side with the bandits to kill the civis....
They did that before your A.I. tweaks though, but I do see a lot more aggressive behavior from them in general.
ORIGINAL: james_austintx
I have not noticed if they hide more yet, but I have only played an hour or two with your new settings.
Also, they DO seem to use grenades a heck of a lot better with your tweaks.
ORIGINAL: QTQuazar
Bug and Exploits (sorry if these aren't your mod's--I quit playing vanilla after half an hour in--too easy)
Major Exploit: Medikits can be used indefinitely to heal. In JA2, they would patch you up but you would have to heal through the orange with a doctor or such. In HG, you can fully heal your character by just repeatedly using the kit. Is this mod-related exploit or vanilla exploit? It's a game-breaker. Needs to be mentioned in tech support if it's not yours or Reinforce's mod's fault.
Bug: Trying to equip 30.08 ammo (as opposed to aught 6) crashes me to desktop. I think it highlights incorrectly for 30.06 weapons. Something is off, anyway.
I can also confirm james_austintx 's comments about the AI. It's not just non-combatants like on Safari--I just finished playing through the DAM. Had two mercs crossing the bridge, covering at the nests. Two enemies were at the end of the bridge. Kneeling inside the nests meant enemies couldn't get a line of fire. So they would walk back and forth at the end of the bridge, kneeling and standing up, ad infinitum. Many other enemies also did this on the map when they didn't have a clear line of fire, rather than moving to a concealed position or charging me--either of which at least would have given them a fighting chance.
At other times, they simply don't move even when it's obvious they're going to be caught in a crossfire or when they KNOW you're just around the corner. You can duck around corners, spray them, and they won't come after you on your turn (again, tested this in back of the dam). In JA2, if you missed coming around a corner, you knew you were
taking serious damage the next round.
Finally--perhaps weapon distances can be reduced? Kills are becoming even easier than vanilla. My 48-accuracy Merc with an M1 Garand hits really damn frequently for his skill level. Think some tweaking still needs to be done here.
ORIGINAL: QTQuazar
as for the medikit issue, i was guessing it wasn't yours, but i think you've missed my point:
in JA2, when you used medikit to 'bandage' your mercs, it would simply change your health bar from yellow (bleeding) to orange (bandaged but wounded). over time, either with a doctor or hospital, that merc would heal up and the orange would change to red (real health). if you were especially low in health (most of your bar yellow or close to dead in other words) when you used medikit you would regain a bit of red as well at first (especially moving from unconscious to conscious) when you used medikit. but after that initial gain, the red would not rise from *medikit use* (because no matter how many bandages you slap on that bullet hole, it's not going anywhere for a while)
IN HG, you can simply use the medikit to heal yourself right up. every use of the medikit adds a few points of REAL HEALTH--red bar. thus, i can break off firefights, sit around clicking up my merc's health, and re-engage the firefight at full health. it's like having a cleric cast cure light wounds on my merc every round.
that's a serious exploit. i've taken a merc from unconscious to almost full health across 10 rounds of combat. i don't know what they're putting in those medikits, but it can apparently cure multiple gunshot and stab wounds. makes absolutely no sense.
ORIGINAL: QTQuazar
also, i was toying around in the .xml files, and I'm thinking of re-writing the entire English dialog, since the current version is... well... embarrassing, to the point of even being confusing at times or not giving you the proper conversation keys to make a reasonable guess at the outcome of what you're saying.
.would this project be worthwhile to others? also, is it feasible for you to code new trees (with resultant triggers and actions), in the future, if i did the dialogue? or is the game code too closed? some situations like the 'safari' don't exactly offer you a wide range of choices. if that isn't possible, i'd at least like to vary the text for certain mercs to add their own personality or spin.
on that note, do the Mercs ever interact with each other? that was the best part of the JA series, IMO--finding out when one hated another, having them break into gunfights among themselves, Larry falling off the wagon, Ivan learning English over the course of two games. miss that. they had personality. made you care when one got whacked.
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