Jagged Alliance Online: Reloaded

I have 117 hours on the Steam Edition (discontinued), so disregard my .4 hours for this game. I only bought it because it was on sale and I wasn't really liking the idea of playing from the discontinued version, despite it not actually being any kind of issue. On the plus side, all of my Steam Edition stuff carried over; if you own the Steam Edition and have been thinking about getting this copy as well, do it. Right now for $2.50 + ($.74x4) you can have all 4 of the perm mercs; if you already had them with the Steam Edition, you will get them again. This is great on paper, but be prepared to powergrind for cash/mats to kit them out. ;) Also, any Achievements you have will transfer between the two titles, so there's that if you're looking to pad your cheev stats a little. If you've played the older JA games, don't expect this to be anywhere near them. It's quite lacking in a side-by-side comparison. The character development is somewhat lacking, as you only have a handful of physical stats and weapon skills (each with their own skill point pools to spend from as the merc levels). The gear is somewhat awkward. - Head/Body to be equipped with Light or Heavy armor; there is no middleground and you're more or less forced to spec into one or the other. - Weapon 1&2; you have 2 slots that can each hold any weapon of your choosing, but with the limited merc class:weapon skill setup, you will likely end up going with archetypical stuff (sniper mercs will have sniper/pistol, scouts will have rifle/shotgun, etc). - 3 Ammo Belt slots; this is where you put your actively-used ammo for the weapon(s) you carry in battle. Generally, 1 box of ammo per weapon + 1 special ammo type for whichever weapon you prefer (AP for your close range, perhaps) - 3 Hip Belt slots; this is where you put your consumables such as medkits, injection kits, energy drinks, etc. - 6 Backpack slots; you can carry additional weapons, ammo and consumables here and transfer them to the appropriate slots during a mission. This is also where you will usually place the loot you pick up during missions (unless you equip them in their corresponding slots, of course). -- None of these categorized slots can be upgraded to expand their capacity, unfortunately. Further, the weapon/armor crafting becomes somewhat tedious. It isn't /terrible/ but it's very farm-grindy. Do handfuls of missions to get a couple hundred thousand dollars, then spend $30k+ to do the crafting itself (for 1 item), +thousands of dollars more for 'insurance' to keep your components from breaking on failure, and even more $ on the crafting kits needed to actually craft anything to begin with. Failure results in loss of money and components (unless 'insured'), so this results in a potentialy COSTLY experience. Just for a singular item. You can both farm and purchase nearly every component needed, but eventually at higher levels you'll generally have to buy a small crate of each item, then craft a number of those items together to up-tier it to a better 'quality', then craft a number of /those/ up-tiered components to make even better ones. Then you take the required components and craft-combine them with "craftable"-flagged weapons/armor to advance said weapon/armor to its next state. When you max out at L50, you'll pretty much end up with a bottlenecked set of gear you can modify, and that will usually only have 1-2 different craftable options (based on components used). It could be so much better than it is now, but even now it's so much better than the trainwreck garbage it used to be years ago. Your headquarters is where you will be able to hire mercs and buy/sell gear. There's an on-site 'hospital' and mechanic shop, both of which can be upgraded by gathering the proper resources + $. These upgrades will add passive bonii (different upgrades boost different stats) to mercs' stats, or add storage space for armor/weapons/ammo/consumables. While this is a neat-o thing to help further enhance the already-limited mercs, it does add quite a bit of grinding to the game. I won't get into the missions, mainly because it's been so long since I've gone through all of them; however, they were all generally interesting and had a decent amount of replayability. Some more than others, some not at all; many will be forgotten while others will be required to farm along the way for cash/components/resources ('Back to the Roots' to get TREE SAP <--- This will be your endgame grind for a while) There's also Warzones and PvP, which I didn't personally do any of. A few warzones here and there to see what it was about, but never any PvP. Overall, I'd say it's worth any JA fan to at least look into. However, I would not suggest getting hyped about it being anything near what JA2 or JA:BiA was (BiA was real-time garbage; but that's a whole different review). It does a much better job than the recently 'revisioned' JA game.. "Flaming Pile Of Wet Fart Garbage" was its title, I think? Anyhow, it's not a nightmare like that failsauce, but it's nowhere near the originals.

Is there no way I can play this game?

Ill be completly honest. I genuinly miss this game. I played far to much while it was a free game and it introduced me to this fantastic franchise. R.I.P. JAO:R

this game is ♥♥♥♥. I bought it purely for some middleschool nostalgia.

Great turn-based strategy game the singlepalyer mission are chalenging. I fyou liked the past JA games or like turn-based strategy games you will like this game.

Эта игра мне понравилась-рекомендую!

отличная тактическая стратегия. рекомендую любителям подобных игр, всяких Мастеров войны, Xenonauts, XCOM и т.п. В игре найдём кучу оружия, кастомизация персонажей и много другого.