News Liste Jagged Alliance 3

Highlights

Combat

• Ricocheting shots are now simulated and have a chance to damage characters and objects nearby.
• The remaining number of overwatch attacks will now be shown on the combat badge above the merc's head
• Various improvements to melee attack animations
• Fixed some cases where conflicts would not end
• Made the "Run and Gun" attack sequence more fluid
• "Run and Gun" would no longer make shots against dead enemies
• Enemies no longer redeploy when a merc retreats
• Handled cases where melee attacks would fail to execute
• Fixes to free aim melee attacks and melee attacks against objects
• Melee animations connect better when the attacker and the target are on different elevation
• Fixed some cases where the Surprised enemy state was applied incorrectly
• Grenades that don't deal damage will no longer destroy objects
• Fixed some cases where the camera was in the wrong position or got stuck
• Bug fixes and improvements to the "Remote Detonation" action
• More fixes for combat effects never ending (incl. Zoophobic and Claustrophobic)
• Fixed an animation issue causing enemies to sometimes start displaying a crouching animation before dying
• Fixed a rare case of neutral units walking around during combat
• Smoke objects will no longer provide a cover spot
• Infected are no longer incorrectly considered to be in a crouched stance
• Fixed some attacks being incorrectly labelled as Free Aim in the UI
• Fixed cases where wrong firing modes would appear for weapons that do not have these modes
• Made the AI units reload more visible (community suggestion)
• Fixed the AP costs when using doors and windows
• Improved performance on combat start
• Handled cases when entering the overwatch area did not trigger an attack
• Civilians killed by allies or neutral units no longer incur a loyalty penalty (community suggestion)
• (Spotter talent) The Marked combat effect is now applied only during combat and on start of combat
• Combat tasks that require something to happen in the same turn now work correctly when reentering combat
• The "Put this apple..." and "Make them suffer" combat tasks can no longer appear together
• Certain Combat tasks objectives (e.g. “Killing Spree”) now properly handle animals
• The "Knife Juggler" combat task can now be completed only by the merc who has the task
• Improved the logic for civilian units cowering during combat
• Aim effects from weapon mods are now applied to overwatch and interrupt actions (community suggestion)
• Fixed a case where applied wounds did not lower the max health
• When using the Revenge perk, the damage is checked for the whole attack and not for each separate shot
• Tired and Exhausted voice responses will no longer play during combat
• Fixed some cases when prone units faced the wrong way
• Fixed some cases where a merc will get stuck in an aiming pose when interrupted by another player in multiplayer
• Improved how some terrain objects affect cover and line of sight
• Light/darkness indicator is properly updated during deployment
• Added spark FX when bullets hit hard walls
• Fixed cases where the flare burning sound was not played
• Added additional FX on buckshot burst
• The burning FX on objects will no longer disappear after save/load
• Visual FX are now properly removed when disarming landmines

Exploration

• The Suppressed combat effect no longer persists out of combat
• Enemies are more likely to react to their buddies getting shot nearby
• Fixed some cases where enemies would not redeploy properly when they are attacking a sector
• Searchlights are turned off when defending a sector to not compromise sneaking mercs
• Fixed cases where searchlights were not revealing mercs
• Improvements to how/when mercs stop movement in Exploration mode when seeing mines (community suggestion)
• Improvements to the Hyena roaming logic
• Fixed a case causing mercs in Overwatch to teleport at combat start
• Fixed interactable discovery not working occasionally
• Handled rare cases where windows and doors became invisible
• Fixed some appearance issues with electricity wires

Inventory

• Some stackable items like knives can now be scrapped (community suggestion)
• The “Weapon shipment” item can now be opened from the sector stash.
• Fixed the recipe for disassembling the TNT proximity detonator
• Mercs no longer lose their special items when their contract expires
• The “Cash stack” context menu option no longer appears for single items
• Fixed cases where weapon mods that changed the magazine size did not update the remaining ammo properly
• Removed the "Equip" option in the context menu for the “Weapon shipment” item
• Mercs were are no longer able to equip or give items when they are too far away from each other using the context menu

SatView

• Balance changes to shipments and enemy attack frequency
• Fixed some rare cases when a conflict would break when assigning mercs to squads above and underground
• Fixed timeline icons for shipments not updating in some cases
• Fixed a case where defeated enemies were not shown in the auto-resolve UI
• The route line of highlighted squads can no longer be hidden behind other route lines
• Fixed rare cases when double-clicking a squad in SatView did not position the camera properly
• Mercs that are being trained are automatically removed from the operation when they reach the highest possible stat with the current trainer(s)
• Travelling from an underground sector to the above-ground sector will no longer trigger a voice response
• Fixed some cases where the Well-Rested status was lost when wounds were healed
• The R&R operation will no longer trigger a voice response on finish
• Fixed not being able to un-pause satellite time in some rare cases when pressing multiple buttons at once
• Opening the SatView when all mercs are dead no longer causes the game to freeze
• Fixed an infinite money exploit based on starting and cancelling Operations
• Using herbal medicine to remove the Tired combat effect will now properly update the timeline
• Fixed incorrect timeline icons remaining in the SatView for aborted or stopped operations
• Added an icon to distinguish inventory and sector stash items when selecting items for a Repair operation (community suggestion)
• Repair operations will now also allow repairing items from another squad in the sector (community suggestion)
• Fixed some cases where the Travelling voice response was played in sectors with enemies
• Starting an operation will now properly play a sound effect

Quests and scripting (Spoilers)

• Fixed a case where the conflict would not end if Biff was already dead when you enter Hill Station
• Fixed a case where some of Pierre's banters after the world flip at Fort L'Eau Bleu were not playing
• Pierre is no longer unarmed when returning to Ernie Island
• Stopped some of Pierre's banters from playing when the combat at Fort L'Eau Bleu was initiated through stealth
• Bounce will now play a banter when you interact with him after defeating Siegfried
• Fixed conversations with too many options causing a freeze (e.g. Emma’s conversation in Port Cacao)
• Characters killed by overwatch or interrupt attacks are properly counted by quests
• Fixed a discrepancy between the written and voiced text in the Bounce conversation
• Bug fixes and improvements to "The Docks" quest
• Handled a case where the note about the machine gun in the "Helping Ernie village" quest appeared before talking to Basil
• Fixed some cases where dead NPC would still play banters
• Minor fixes to the “Twin Manors” quest
• Fixed multiple problems in the Boss Blaubert conversation regarding Smiley and Luigi
• Handled some cases where the "Voodoo people" quest would not progress
• Fixed a note in the "Chalet de la Paix" quest pointing to the wrong NPC
• Bug fixes and improvements to the "Herman is missing" quest
• Properly handled the cases with the remaining treasures after the main treasure is found in the "Treasure Hunting" quest
• Fixed some banters in Ille Morat not playing occasionally
• Disabled the phrase for reuniting the Coffee Beans if they are already reunited
• Properly show some disabled phrases in Headshot Hue's conversation
• Improved the wording of the notes in "The Dead Poachers" quest
• Several voiced lines are now played correctly instead of being text only

UI

• Added a welcome message when starting the game after a new major patch has been released
• The "Show More" info is now disabled by default
• Added a different icon for mechanical traps (community suggestion)
• Added Depth of Field sliders in Photo mode
• Tutorial popups will no longer appear if the player has no controllable mercs
• Player badges are now visible in the enemy's turn
• Added a fade-in to the end turn button at the start of the player turn
• Fixed cases where quest and item badges would appear over nothing
• An incorrect warning about multiple allies in danger no longer appears
• Weapon and grenade damage no longer appears as 0 in the sector stash after auto-resolving conflicts
• Enemy badges will now update properly when the unit visibility changes
• Fixed some UIs that were not scaling properly in 4K resolution
• UI improvements to the Mercs Control menu
• Improved selection for some interactable objects
• Typo fixed in the “Ice Storm” talent
• Fixed a rare case where the melee attack avatar was not in the right place
• Fixed not being able to get to 0 points in the IMP stats UI when using the arrow keys
• Restored the Aiming article in the Help section
• Added "Action Cancelled" notification when an action gets interrupted
• Fixed shipment badges sometimes missing in tactical view
• Disable the Next/Finish button when no answer is selected in the IMP test.
• Stopped displaying scrollbars in the Conflict screen when they are not needed
• Units will no longer change their color when they die
• The keyboard shortcut for accessing the inventory works properly in the A.I.M. Evaluation screen
• Fixed a case where joining a multiplayer game will produce an empty error message
• Fixed how menus expand when the UI scaling is less than 100%
• Fixed an issue with mercs appearing twice in the UI when a merc being bandaged dies
• Fixed some cases where the Snype messages were getting cut off
• The Outro images are now properly fitted to the screen

General

• Fixed some cases where sounds are still played when the master volume is set to 0
• The "Modding Expert" achievement will no longer unlock on a failed modification
• The "Time Is Money" achievement is now unlocked as described
• Many tweaks and improvements when using a controller including new QoL options
• Desyncs fixed
• Various optimizations and stability improvements
• Added a functionality that checks for keybinding conflicts when new keyboard shortcuts have been added