SWATJester_os
November 15th, 2008, 12:33 AM
Was reading through the LP's* on the SA forums and came across this one. I am extremely intrigued. It's apparently a semi-real time version of jagged alliance with an extensive weapon database.
Action consists of you issuing your mercs orders, and then unpausing the game and they'll carry them out kind of on their own in real time, with the speed depending on their skills, the type of action, etc. The game is apparently rather buggy, but so were the JA games, and so was Stalker. Both are two of my favorites (I mention stalker because this is also a russian made game)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/762CombatExample.jpg
Here's the weapon list:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/guns.gif
And a clip from the LP thread battle:
Four pairs of boots moved softly along the packed dirt of the route between Sagrada and Campesino. The road wasn't paved, but it was also free of rocks and gravel, making it easy for non-offroad vehicles to traverse it.
Garfield finally spat out his cigarette. "Sorry, fella, looks like Russkie cigarettes ain't gonna be replacin' my Pall Malls anytime soon."
"Russian tobacco is bitter, yes," said UED with a nod. "Is taste you get later, I am thinking."
"An acquired taste, you mean," corrected FZH995. "Besides, you shouldn't smoke. They put sodium pentathol and other mind-control chemicals in every cigarette. That's actually what induces addiction, but they want you to believe it's harmless nicotene that does it."
Kammat arched an eyebrow, tucking his rifle under his arm. "They?"
FZH995 whirled on him, her eyes full of fire. "They."
UED blinked, leaning over to Garfield. "Why is crazy lady one with explosives?"
"This looks like a good spot," said Kammat. "There's a rise from which we can cover the road. "
"Ayuh, reckon it'll do," said Garfield. "We get ourselves in the brush and pick them off easy-like."
FZH995 scoffed. "There won't be anything left to shoot after my traps get through with them." She pulled a block of TNT from her cargo pocket and got to work rigging it to a tripwire.
Kammat slung his Mosin-Nagant and pulled out his pistol. "I'll pull security while she sets the traps," he said to Garfield and UED. "You guys do your thing."
"Hah! It will be the slice of cake!" laughed UED as he and Garfield moved up onto the plateau.
Garfield rolled his eyes. "Lord give me strength."
FZH bit off the excess tape and spit it out. "There, my babies are ready to go."
Kammat nodded silently, keeping his sight picture down the road.
Garfield was first to reach the overwatch position, he gestured to UED to hurry up, then silently pointed down onto the road, where an armed man wearing fatigues was walking down the road.
This red stripe is the area our tripwire will cross. An enemy will have to pass through this area in order for the explosive to be activated. Traps can be set at any angle and any length up to this long.
With Kammat still covering her, FZH995 moved up to select a spot for her traps.
Up on the plateau, UED and Garfield dropped into the prone.
"Did they see us?" whispered UED.
"Dunno," Garfield whispered back, "but I can hear 'em millin' around down there. They sound right close."
UED went silent for a moment, then nodded. "I hear them too, my friend. I believe they are passing along the road right under the noses we have."
"FZH, watch out!" shouted Kammat. "I've spotted some gunmen!" He holstered his Colt and swung his rifle out into his hands, taking quick aim, trying his best to keep his teammate out of his field of fire.
Unfazed, FZH995 continued calmly tying the wire around the last stake. "It is FZH995," she said in an annoyed voice, not looking up from what she was doing. "You say the whole thing every time. If you don't, you're playing into the hands of them."
The stock M44 muzzle flash was way too wimpy, so Squint edited a settings file and boosted it up to more realistic (and awesome) levels. The reason for the M44's huge muzzle flash is that the 7.62x54R round it fires was designed for rifles with much longer barrels. All that extra powder burns up and sends a huge fireball out the front, making people at the range stop and look over at you. It's fun.
A round flew by FZH995's arm, and she finally got into gear, running past Kammat as he returned fire.
His shot only grazed the target, but it was enough to stall the approach.
Kammat checked his three-o'-clock to see FZH995 safely making it up the hill. He looked back at his target and decided to regroup with the others rather than stay out in the open.
Garfield and UED had since shifted position to catch the gunmen as they moved along the road, though getting too close to the edge of the plateau was risky.
Garfield drew down on the trailing gunman as UED got into position.
"Gat-dammit, sure could use some glass right about now," he grumbled.
"Glass" in this case means "scope." "Glass" is also used as a verb sometimes, meaning to watch or scan something through a scope. A sniper glassing a treeline, for example, would mean he is watching through his scope for hostiles to emerge from the woods.
The boom from UED's M44 shook up Garfield's sight picture right as an unseen round grazed his shoulder.
"What the hell're you shootin' at, fella?" he shouted. A moment later, he felt the sting of the cut the round had left.
"This man who you do not see!" laughed UED. "But I see him, yes, and now he is wery unhappy to be shot!"
"Well, thanks, sumbitch almost got me," he murmured grudingly. Garfield lowered his rifle, ignoring the pain. "poo poo, they're comin' up to the junction. We best get with the others and tag 'em at the choke point."
The two turned and ran across the plateau to see FZH995 and Kammat already proned up and watching the approach.
"I hope there aren't too many of them," said Kammat, his eye looking down the sights of his M44. "If we get swarmed here there's nowhere to fall back to."
Explosives don't really work the way Hollywood portrays them. When TNT explodes, there is a flash and some smoke, but there is not a huge fireball, and certainly not a fireball capable of chasing someone down a hallway. The same goes for frag grenades: a bang, MAYBE a flash, and a puff of smoke. No fireball.
A puff of gray smoke shot into the air down from the road, coming with it a deafening pop. FZH995 grinned, looking over at Kammat.
"Sounds like someone adopted one of my babies," she said.
Kammat was the first to spot a gunman coming up the approach. He was already prepared.
His shot hit the man in the shoulder, spinning him around and knocking him to the ground. He lay still. Kammat cycled the bolt on his Mosin-Nagant.
"That's another one," he said.
"Fine shot, fine shot," admitted Garfield.
Growing impatient, FZH stood up and ran over to the edge of the plateau.
UED looked over his shoulder. "Where are you going now, crazy lady?"
"I'm going to check the road," she said. "See how many of them there are left."
UED looked down the firing line with a confused expression. "I am not understanding. Who is 'them'?"
Kammat shook his head a little bit. "Don't ask."
FZH995 skidded to a stop as a burst of submachine gun fire kicked up grass along the edge of the plateau. She jumped back from the edge, growling.
"Gah, still more of them down there! And they know where we are!"
"What do you think we should do?" Kammat asked the other two riflemen.
Garfield moved up into a crouch. "I'm on' relocate," he said. "If the prey knows where y'are, then don't be there, I say."
"Is good plan," said UED. "We will stay here and be the bait for the fish."
In his new position watching the approach, Garfield settled back down into the prone, just in time to see the head of a new attacker poke up over the hill.
The shot was an easy one for the hunter.
This screenshot was included just because it is awesome. For all its faults, the game really does model every fragment of a grenade and every bullet as it flies through the air, as can be seen here in the lower-left corner.
The gunman fell back with a mortal wound to the chest from Garfield's Mosin-Nagant.
The next man up the hill was less cautious. Garfield swore as he cycled another round into his rifle; the body of the man he'd just killed was blocking his shot.
As if to answer this problem, UED and Kammat fired in unison while FZH995 winced and covered her ears.
Both shots hit home, one going into the man's side and the other into his left leg. He dropped to one knee, then slumped the rest of the way over, quickly bleeding to death.
Garfield shook his head as his shoulder began to throb. "Ain't gonna do no more good here," he said to himself. He hopped up into a crouch and moved back to the firing line.
I don't know why the game is making everyone hold their knives weird. They still work, the weapon model just not oriented correctly.
Seeing Garfield returning, Kammat stood up. "We have to make sure there aren't any more along the road," he said to the others. "I'll put overwatch on the southern approach. Garfield and FZH nine-nine-five can cover UED as he checks the bodies for anything that might pose a threat to vehicles."
"Am I the only one confident in my traps?" asked FZH995.
UED stood up, slinging his rifle and pulling out his knife. "They probably avoided second trap after seeing first trap exploding," he said. "Trap cannot aim, it can only sit there and be trap."
FZH grumbled to herself as UED and Kammat moved out.
UED knelt by the nearest corpse, cutting the man's shirt open and checking his pockets.
"No bombs, good," he said, moving on to the next body.
"This man is having a nice Uzi, but also nothing to explode here."
Meanwhile, Kammat settled down into some tall grass and kept watch along the southern pass toward Campesino.
"Ah, you must be guy who got exploded, because there is not much of you left. Is big shotgun you have, my friend, but is all you have."
"...and nothing with this one either. Is looking like the smooth boating for Cobalt Flame vehicles all the way to Campesi—"
A shout from Kammat stopped him.
"UED! Movement in the clump of trees at your eleven!"
"Eleven" here means "eleven-o'-clock," or just to the left of straight ahead.
UED smiled and shouted back, sheathing his knife and getting his rifle ready once again.
"Many thanks for the heading up, my good man! I shall flush this one as I flush a poop after I have pooped it out into a toilet!"
The Russian approached the clump of trees cautiously, his rifle raised and ready to fire. He finally spotted the man, who was trying desperately to hide from the Cobalt Flame mercenaries.
"I am seeing you now!" called out UED, startling the man. "Do not be trying the funny-business with me, okay? I am mighty Russian bear, and I will use my great claws to—"
"Hey! Do not run! I will be forced to shoot you if you continue the running from me!"
The man finally stopped and turned, perhaps to say something. UED, however, did not want to risk it being to fire the RPG at him.
He ran the man's throat through with his bayonet, pulling it clear and then pushing the man over with the side of his rifle.
"Ah, was fun," said UED. "I use bayonet, just like in Great Patriotic War.
UED returned to the others, and the team swept the area, finding no other combatants.
"I found an RPG," said UED to the others. Kammat nodded and texted the team's report back to Cobalt Flame.
FZH995 stroked her chin. "An RPG attached to a tripwire... I wonder if I could swing that..."
As they started their walk back to base, Garfield fell into step alongside UED.
"Hey, fella, uh... could I might try another wunna them cigarettes?"
Yes, the game tracks every single fragment, shell, and round fired.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/002-23.jpg
Yes you can bayonet someone with an M44.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/002-39.jpg
*Let's Play threads
Action consists of you issuing your mercs orders, and then unpausing the game and they'll carry them out kind of on their own in real time, with the speed depending on their skills, the type of action, etc. The game is apparently rather buggy, but so were the JA games, and so was Stalker. Both are two of my favorites (I mention stalker because this is also a russian made game)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/762CombatExample.jpg
Here's the weapon list:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/guns.gif
And a clip from the LP thread battle:
Four pairs of boots moved softly along the packed dirt of the route between Sagrada and Campesino. The road wasn't paved, but it was also free of rocks and gravel, making it easy for non-offroad vehicles to traverse it.
Garfield finally spat out his cigarette. "Sorry, fella, looks like Russkie cigarettes ain't gonna be replacin' my Pall Malls anytime soon."
"Russian tobacco is bitter, yes," said UED with a nod. "Is taste you get later, I am thinking."
"An acquired taste, you mean," corrected FZH995. "Besides, you shouldn't smoke. They put sodium pentathol and other mind-control chemicals in every cigarette. That's actually what induces addiction, but they want you to believe it's harmless nicotene that does it."
Kammat arched an eyebrow, tucking his rifle under his arm. "They?"
FZH995 whirled on him, her eyes full of fire. "They."
UED blinked, leaning over to Garfield. "Why is crazy lady one with explosives?"
"This looks like a good spot," said Kammat. "There's a rise from which we can cover the road. "
"Ayuh, reckon it'll do," said Garfield. "We get ourselves in the brush and pick them off easy-like."
FZH995 scoffed. "There won't be anything left to shoot after my traps get through with them." She pulled a block of TNT from her cargo pocket and got to work rigging it to a tripwire.
Kammat slung his Mosin-Nagant and pulled out his pistol. "I'll pull security while she sets the traps," he said to Garfield and UED. "You guys do your thing."
"Hah! It will be the slice of cake!" laughed UED as he and Garfield moved up onto the plateau.
Garfield rolled his eyes. "Lord give me strength."
FZH bit off the excess tape and spit it out. "There, my babies are ready to go."
Kammat nodded silently, keeping his sight picture down the road.
Garfield was first to reach the overwatch position, he gestured to UED to hurry up, then silently pointed down onto the road, where an armed man wearing fatigues was walking down the road.
This red stripe is the area our tripwire will cross. An enemy will have to pass through this area in order for the explosive to be activated. Traps can be set at any angle and any length up to this long.
With Kammat still covering her, FZH995 moved up to select a spot for her traps.
Up on the plateau, UED and Garfield dropped into the prone.
"Did they see us?" whispered UED.
"Dunno," Garfield whispered back, "but I can hear 'em millin' around down there. They sound right close."
UED went silent for a moment, then nodded. "I hear them too, my friend. I believe they are passing along the road right under the noses we have."
"FZH, watch out!" shouted Kammat. "I've spotted some gunmen!" He holstered his Colt and swung his rifle out into his hands, taking quick aim, trying his best to keep his teammate out of his field of fire.
Unfazed, FZH995 continued calmly tying the wire around the last stake. "It is FZH995," she said in an annoyed voice, not looking up from what she was doing. "You say the whole thing every time. If you don't, you're playing into the hands of them."
The stock M44 muzzle flash was way too wimpy, so Squint edited a settings file and boosted it up to more realistic (and awesome) levels. The reason for the M44's huge muzzle flash is that the 7.62x54R round it fires was designed for rifles with much longer barrels. All that extra powder burns up and sends a huge fireball out the front, making people at the range stop and look over at you. It's fun.
A round flew by FZH995's arm, and she finally got into gear, running past Kammat as he returned fire.
His shot only grazed the target, but it was enough to stall the approach.
Kammat checked his three-o'-clock to see FZH995 safely making it up the hill. He looked back at his target and decided to regroup with the others rather than stay out in the open.
Garfield and UED had since shifted position to catch the gunmen as they moved along the road, though getting too close to the edge of the plateau was risky.
Garfield drew down on the trailing gunman as UED got into position.
"Gat-dammit, sure could use some glass right about now," he grumbled.
"Glass" in this case means "scope." "Glass" is also used as a verb sometimes, meaning to watch or scan something through a scope. A sniper glassing a treeline, for example, would mean he is watching through his scope for hostiles to emerge from the woods.
The boom from UED's M44 shook up Garfield's sight picture right as an unseen round grazed his shoulder.
"What the hell're you shootin' at, fella?" he shouted. A moment later, he felt the sting of the cut the round had left.
"This man who you do not see!" laughed UED. "But I see him, yes, and now he is wery unhappy to be shot!"
"Well, thanks, sumbitch almost got me," he murmured grudingly. Garfield lowered his rifle, ignoring the pain. "poo poo, they're comin' up to the junction. We best get with the others and tag 'em at the choke point."
The two turned and ran across the plateau to see FZH995 and Kammat already proned up and watching the approach.
"I hope there aren't too many of them," said Kammat, his eye looking down the sights of his M44. "If we get swarmed here there's nowhere to fall back to."
Explosives don't really work the way Hollywood portrays them. When TNT explodes, there is a flash and some smoke, but there is not a huge fireball, and certainly not a fireball capable of chasing someone down a hallway. The same goes for frag grenades: a bang, MAYBE a flash, and a puff of smoke. No fireball.
A puff of gray smoke shot into the air down from the road, coming with it a deafening pop. FZH995 grinned, looking over at Kammat.
"Sounds like someone adopted one of my babies," she said.
Kammat was the first to spot a gunman coming up the approach. He was already prepared.
His shot hit the man in the shoulder, spinning him around and knocking him to the ground. He lay still. Kammat cycled the bolt on his Mosin-Nagant.
"That's another one," he said.
"Fine shot, fine shot," admitted Garfield.
Growing impatient, FZH stood up and ran over to the edge of the plateau.
UED looked over his shoulder. "Where are you going now, crazy lady?"
"I'm going to check the road," she said. "See how many of them there are left."
UED looked down the firing line with a confused expression. "I am not understanding. Who is 'them'?"
Kammat shook his head a little bit. "Don't ask."
FZH995 skidded to a stop as a burst of submachine gun fire kicked up grass along the edge of the plateau. She jumped back from the edge, growling.
"Gah, still more of them down there! And they know where we are!"
"What do you think we should do?" Kammat asked the other two riflemen.
Garfield moved up into a crouch. "I'm on' relocate," he said. "If the prey knows where y'are, then don't be there, I say."
"Is good plan," said UED. "We will stay here and be the bait for the fish."
In his new position watching the approach, Garfield settled back down into the prone, just in time to see the head of a new attacker poke up over the hill.
The shot was an easy one for the hunter.
This screenshot was included just because it is awesome. For all its faults, the game really does model every fragment of a grenade and every bullet as it flies through the air, as can be seen here in the lower-left corner.
The gunman fell back with a mortal wound to the chest from Garfield's Mosin-Nagant.
The next man up the hill was less cautious. Garfield swore as he cycled another round into his rifle; the body of the man he'd just killed was blocking his shot.
As if to answer this problem, UED and Kammat fired in unison while FZH995 winced and covered her ears.
Both shots hit home, one going into the man's side and the other into his left leg. He dropped to one knee, then slumped the rest of the way over, quickly bleeding to death.
Garfield shook his head as his shoulder began to throb. "Ain't gonna do no more good here," he said to himself. He hopped up into a crouch and moved back to the firing line.
I don't know why the game is making everyone hold their knives weird. They still work, the weapon model just not oriented correctly.
Seeing Garfield returning, Kammat stood up. "We have to make sure there aren't any more along the road," he said to the others. "I'll put overwatch on the southern approach. Garfield and FZH nine-nine-five can cover UED as he checks the bodies for anything that might pose a threat to vehicles."
"Am I the only one confident in my traps?" asked FZH995.
UED stood up, slinging his rifle and pulling out his knife. "They probably avoided second trap after seeing first trap exploding," he said. "Trap cannot aim, it can only sit there and be trap."
FZH grumbled to herself as UED and Kammat moved out.
UED knelt by the nearest corpse, cutting the man's shirt open and checking his pockets.
"No bombs, good," he said, moving on to the next body.
"This man is having a nice Uzi, but also nothing to explode here."
Meanwhile, Kammat settled down into some tall grass and kept watch along the southern pass toward Campesino.
"Ah, you must be guy who got exploded, because there is not much of you left. Is big shotgun you have, my friend, but is all you have."
"...and nothing with this one either. Is looking like the smooth boating for Cobalt Flame vehicles all the way to Campesi—"
A shout from Kammat stopped him.
"UED! Movement in the clump of trees at your eleven!"
"Eleven" here means "eleven-o'-clock," or just to the left of straight ahead.
UED smiled and shouted back, sheathing his knife and getting his rifle ready once again.
"Many thanks for the heading up, my good man! I shall flush this one as I flush a poop after I have pooped it out into a toilet!"
The Russian approached the clump of trees cautiously, his rifle raised and ready to fire. He finally spotted the man, who was trying desperately to hide from the Cobalt Flame mercenaries.
"I am seeing you now!" called out UED, startling the man. "Do not be trying the funny-business with me, okay? I am mighty Russian bear, and I will use my great claws to—"
"Hey! Do not run! I will be forced to shoot you if you continue the running from me!"
The man finally stopped and turned, perhaps to say something. UED, however, did not want to risk it being to fire the RPG at him.
He ran the man's throat through with his bayonet, pulling it clear and then pushing the man over with the side of his rifle.
"Ah, was fun," said UED. "I use bayonet, just like in Great Patriotic War.
UED returned to the others, and the team swept the area, finding no other combatants.
"I found an RPG," said UED to the others. Kammat nodded and texted the team's report back to Cobalt Flame.
FZH995 stroked her chin. "An RPG attached to a tripwire... I wonder if I could swing that..."
As they started their walk back to base, Garfield fell into step alongside UED.
"Hey, fella, uh... could I might try another wunna them cigarettes?"
Yes, the game tracks every single fragment, shell, and round fired.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/002-23.jpg
Yes you can bayonet someone with an M44.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/swatjester/002-39.jpg
*Let's Play threads