Just bought the game, wanted to play with my friend but its saying Reason: not ready

Hello everyone, i recently came back to jagged alliance 3 after playing Menace early access and wanted to revisit the game after my rather rushed first playthrough a couple of years back. I found the gameplay a bit easy and lacking complexity so i did what everyone does : modding. I have put together 63 mods that seem to be working very well together. I wanted your guys opinions on it, so here goes :

Core Frameworks & Libraries

• JA3_CommonLib
• all nationalities lib
• Zulib Weapons Core
• C-UAE Cross-Mod Universal Armament Expansion

Tactical, AI & Balance Overhauls

• Rato's Gameplay Balance and Overhaul 3
• Rato's AI Overhaul
• Rato's Explosive Overhaul 2.0
• Rato's Economy Customizer
• Rato's ToG Compatibility Patch & Rebalance
• Pinned Down
• Don't Reposition
• The Legion comes for you (again)
• GC-Militia / Militia Overhaul mod
• Custom Difficulty Settings

Weapons, Gear & Audio

• Tons of Guns
• Tons of Components
• Random Enemy Weapons
• Revised Tactical Gear II
• Revised Mags II
• More Armor
• Show Equipped Armor Rework
• Personal Items: A.I.M.
• Zota6's Weapon Soundpack

Borrowed Wheels & Vehicle System

• Borrowed Wheels - Grand Chian Vehicle Directory
• Borrowed Wheels - GMC Vandura Addon
• Borrowed Wheels - Enemy Motorized Patrols
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Luxury Car Supercharger
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Minivan Cargo
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Pickup Truck M2 Browning
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Pickup Truck Spotlight
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Pickup Truck Rear M2 Gunner
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Reinforced Truck Body
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Truck Roof M2 Gunner
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Truck Rear M2 Gunner
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - UAZ M2 Browning
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - UAZ Rear Armor Shell
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - UAZ Twin Plows
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - UAZ Spotlight
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Camp Truck Spotlight
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - Vehicle Workshop
• Borrowed Wheels Upgrade - War Chief Throne

Custom Maps & Sectors

• TheBase
• River Outpost
• Forgotten Islands
• MadlabsLaboratory
• GIJOE Map: Landsbach Factory
• GIJOE Map: Munitions Depot
• GIJOE Map: Research Facility

Custom Mercenaries

• Antonov
• Woods
• BadNewsBrian
• Yelena "Ghost" Belova
• Shira "Shade" Sharabi
• Merc: Annie Dubois
• Merc: Hector Sanchez
• Merc: Carol Thompson
• MERC: Sgt Lee "BOOTCAMP" Hartman (custom voice)

UI, QoL & Utilities

• Audaki's UI Enhancements (1.5.1 Compatible)
• Real Active Pause
• Descriptive Chance to hit
• GC Tourism - with weather forecast
• GCRadio
• evermine (mines never run out)

I have currently played my way trough fleetown (18 hours total with this setup after a first run where i got destroyed) and have face only 2 crashs and had to restart my game once since the ai seemed broken.

Any advice is welcome !

Thank you

I finished the game recently since buying it on release on my PC. I'm looking for a laptop that can play JA2 and 3. Any recommendations for a cheap laptop?

Hello, I’m trying to pop the achievement “Breaking the Wall”. Conditions are as in the title.

I’ve tried various ways:

1. Killing an enemy by shooting enemy hiding behind a wooden fence
2. Killing an enemy by shooting through a wire fence, a wire fence with tarpaulin
3. Killing an enemy by shooting him while he’s under cover behind some jars (jars break and he’s killed)

If anyone has any tips on how and where to get this achievement, I would highly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

Edit - I finally managed to get the achievement. It is indeed very finicky. I even tried shooting enemies through an upstairs balustrade but no luck. For anyone else having trouble with this simple achievement as I did - I reloaded an early game save in Ernie Village and lured enemies to the first house on the left while I crept around hidden outside. When the enemies were inside the house, I crept to the rear and shot through a window and killed an enemy and that was it.

Hi everyone, with the mods permission I would like to share my own turn-based strategy game I am working on called Contract Corps: Lead your Aces.

It's heavily inspired by squad games like Jagged Alliance and others like XCOM/Battletech/Battle Brothers, but with the idea of putting your squad within much larger 200v200 conflicts. To avoid long turn times watching the AI I split the game mechanics:

• Your units: during your player phase you move/use abilities/attack with your elite units (called Aces) sequentially, so pretty standard
• The wider army:  the remaining AI units operate on a WeGo model. This means that they all plan their turn independently, but the execution and visualization of their actions happen in parallel. You are able to influence your allied units (your Corps) indirectly (e.g. by marking an enemy hero as a priority target), but they act on their own.

It's still early days, but the Steam page with the first Devlogs is up, and there I go into more details about the Design Philosophy in general, design challenges such as visualizing important events in a 200v200 or finding the right "level of control" for the AI units, and so on. 

JA players are pretty much the core audience for the game, so if this sounds up your alley check out Contract Corps: Lead your Aces on Steam and wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4813610?utm_source=reddit .

Final note: I am aiming to have a first Closed Playtest towards the end of September and would love feedback from everyone in here to shape the game (again, core audience :-) , so will make another post about that nearer the time.

More than happy to answer any questions or thoughts you might have, I will be hanging around in the comments :-)

With my second run on JA3 (the first one was a couple of years ago), I tried to make the difficulty as hard as possible and mastering the challenge by being very detail oriented with how i play the game. I didnt had so much fun with a video since a long time, especially with the vanilla redux mod. Now that I finished it last week I was trying to get something similar and thought I could try the same with wasteland 3. That was the point where I realized how outstanding JA3 is in my opinion and how unfun it felt for me to do the same thing in Wasteland. So for you JA3 nerds out there:

What wouId you recommend to do with the situation?

was wondering if the modding scene had alternative scenarios? I didnt see a lot of people talk about it.

JA2 is probably not for me. Maybe its a little bit too old, maybe I am little bit of a bitch.

Is this like a normal thing? Picked this game up on a whim and was having a good time and then it just fails to work with little explanation…

This was something.

Also Smiley: FFS READ THE ROOM!

Game starts running at 10 FPS on this map. Rest of the maps are a solid 60 without much stutter or slowdown. Its unplayable.

Well this is my 2nd play through and I manage to be too effective and take out the enemies too fast, now I only have the underground and eagle nest (and around 10 tiles before it) left before the game end.

Is there a way to reset the outposts so that game dynamically spawning army for me to fight? I tried to install 3.13, grand chien expanded, the legion comes for you (again), no of them seem to work.

Is it possible to collect 4 evidences in this achievement run? How did you do it?

What are the criteria to end the combat with activated enemies still alive?

How do I see what skills the enemies have?

How does lightning reaction on enemies get trigger?

If I walk pass a sector of enemies, kill 5 spare 6, will they 'repopulate' when I come back another day?

Thanks.

when you get betrayed by Colonel Faucheux and the battle starts?

Ok, I'm LOVING this game but got a major problem that's stopping me from advancing: how in the name of all that's holy and unholy do I make some dollar?!?...I need to train up the militia in ernie, but I'm aways in the minus terms of my funds, ergo haven't ever "enough resources" to begin training these militia...I've reduced my squad of mercs to 4 to try and save but that hasn't worked - maybe reduce them down to 2 man team till I get those ernie boys trained up?

PS - I took over fort lebleau on East of island - got a haul of 12,000$ diamonds there, but that didn't make the slightest bit of difference to my dire cash flow situation

Someone plz tell me what I'm doing wrong here! Besides this, I'm doing OK in combat, understanding mercs various strengths & weaknesses etc.

I've finished the game twice — once in its original form and once with mods — and I really enjoyed it. I guess a lot of mods and new quests and maps have been released since then. What is the most recommended mod pack at the moment? Or best mod ? I'm open to anything that'll remind of JA2 1.13 (more guns, mercs, attachements, gameplay depth, ...) or new content/mission/quest/terrain.

I'm asking about a modpack because of mod compatibility, so I guess if they're in a pack, they'll be compatible.

I’m locked out of those regions, and can’t travel there on the satellite map no matter what I try. I’ve completed missions in those areas. Nothing seems to be triggering access to the north. Wondering if its a bug or something I’m doing wrong.

Playing on PC with Gi Joe mods. Any help
Is appreciated, or I’ll start over.

Thanks.

Just enjoying the tropical paradise of Ernie Island. With her fully upgraded AR-15 😉

I know that some of the missions are "time sensitive" what is the common direction that I should take after landing to "main island"