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| Bear's Pit Forums - Home of the Jagged Alliance veterans since 2000 In Category: Gaming | Rate This Forum! Body Text: Menu The Forum News Index JA Galaxy #ja-galaxy IRC Links Mods Tools Templates Fansites Other Links Polls Current Polls Poll Archive 1 Poll Archive 2 Poll Archive 3 News Archive Search our news archives: View all news items Mod of the Month News About Strategy First. A news report at Gamespy dated 20 September 2004 indicates Strategy First filed for Bankruptcy Protection at Quebec's Superior Court on August 18. Article is located here So what future is there for the two proposed next generation Jagged Alliance games, JA3D and JA3 contracted to Russian developer MistLand? Are we ever likely to see any more commercially released Jagged Alliance games? Looks like it's wait & see as events unfold. (Bearpit, September 20, 2004)Show all news Latest JA3 News Head on over to RPGdot where a brief outline of JA3 story & setting have been announced by Mistland. Article is located here (Bearpit, August 6, 2004)Show all news JA2 Urban Chaos Patch from Dr Quack Thanks to Dr Quack for assembling an interesting patch which alters core values & statistics for various JA2 UC weapons & items. File is 184K self extracting .RAR. NOTE: Patch will only work if you gave JA2UC installed. It will not work with standard JA2 or Unfinished Business. Please visit this announcement where his readme explains the details. Download links are in the thread. (Bearpit, July 29, 2004)Show all news JA2 Urban Chaos Review at RPG Magazine JA2 Urban Chaos has been spoken of highly at RPG games magazine. Their review is located here (Bearpit, July 18, 2004)Show all news JA2 Urban Chaos UTILITIES Pack Mod Squad JA2UC UTILITIES pack is now available for download. Many thanks to Batman who assembled the various utilities into a single GUI format and more recently Wodan for creating the PDF guide explaining various aspects & tricks associated with using the map editor. Thanks to Sirtech for their original utilities PROEDIT & BETA EDITOR without which we would be nowhere today. Deep appreciation goes to the various techs who donated countless hours researching then creating these programs ... Toxic, Zephalo, Bimbo, Azrael, Batman, Linx ... there are others who will nudge me after not seeing their names on the credits list. JA2UC was created with these tools. Now you can alter many aspects of the game to suit your own whims including - road network, maps, numbers of enemies, all NPC - RPC statistics plus many other functions. Check the Technical Section forum inside for discussions about these programs. Download UC UTILITIES Pack here Available from Fileplanet. Use the two lower free servers. Weight 5.7 megs in a zip. (Bearpit, June 23, 2004)Show all news Jagged Alliance 3 Announced Jagged Alliance 3 Announced Strategy First have officially named Mistlands studio in Russia as the developer of 2 new Jagged Alliance titles. Jagged Alliance 3 plus Jagged Alliance 3D. Read all the details here Timeframes for release have been estimated at 2.5 to 3 years so maybe in time for Christmas 2006. What sort of Jagged Alliance is likely to emerge ? .... Check Strategy First's own dedicated Jagged Alliance 3 forum frequented regularly by none other than SF's vice president Richard Therrien so they must be serious. Strategy First's JA3 forum is here So are these 2 titles going to comprise a large stand alone single player game (Jagged Alliance 3) then a smaller stand alone game with multiplayer, map-mission editor & tools similar to Jagged Alliance Unfinished Business & Deadly Games (Jagged Alliance 3D)?. Some serious questions are .... 1. Why didn't Strategy First continue using former Sirtech team members who spent over a year on development & research with a JA3 prototype. They have experience, a track record plus excel in dark wise ass humor which has been a hallmark of the series. 2. What sort of game will Mistlands end up creating? Will they use an overall concept planned by Ian & Linda Currie - Chris Camfield for JA3 as an official follow on for the series or start with a new idea? 3. Are any former Sir Tech staff going to be involved and in what capacity ? We are sure to get bits n peices of information along the way but the best news is .... there are likely to be new generation Jagged Alliance games on the shelves eventually. (Bearpit, June 10, 2004)Show all news JA2 Wants You! Work on the most complete make-over of our good old Jagged Alliance 2 (beside UC, that is) has begun. Thanks to the source code being made public by Strategy First, a team of the best JA2 programmers have united under a common goal - to make JA2 moddable. The project has attracted a massive interest and the team is growing larger by the day. We've started to get things organized, setting up a CVS, walking the code, dividing the tasks. If you feel up to it and you know C, we have a free white hat for you and a friendly welcome. If we pull this off, we can finally have unlimited mods, multiplayer and anything you've ever dreamed of regarding JA2. JA2 Wants You Now! Join "Project Source Code" today! (Shanga, March 15, 2004)Show all news JA2 source code to be released! According to a news report published by the German magazine "PC Games" and Avault, Strategy First will release the source code for "Jagged Alliance 2" together with "JA2 Wildfire" expansion due this spring. To quote Chris Camfield, the former Gameplay Programmer of Sirtech, it's a "pretty cool move" on SFi's part. Also according to Chris, the sources are written in C, which made a couple of Bear's Pit natives very-very happy. If confirmed and materialized, the move would bolt JA2's place into the "All Times Gaming Hall of Fame", together with an esquisite crowd (Doom, Panzer General and a few others) of oldies but goldies. And the ensuing user modifications will keep the interest alive just enough for SFi to develop the sequel to this great game, namely JA3. We can asssume that the decision to pack the source code with "JA2:Wildfire" was partly due to the huge success "JA2:Urban Chaos" (free) usermade mod has had. Only this kind of move could've matched JA2UC's popularity. And only this move could've made the MOD Squad happier than ever. Afterall, in the end, everyone will get what they want. The modders - their much wanted source code. SFi, the respect of the Jagged Alliance community and some nice sales. (Shanga, February 26, 2004)Show all news Question of the Day Which of these solutions for presenting JA2 in game progress information do you favour. Retain ruler cohorts cutscenes as they exist in JA2 - UC. Replace cutscenes with short animated movies featuring scenes similar to newscasters on CNN - Fox News reports. Have both traditional cutscenes featuring ruler cohorts interacting plus news reports on a ratio of ... 2 cutscenes 1 news report. Have both traditional cutscenes featuring ruler cohorts interacting plus news reports on a ratio of .... 1 cutscene 2 news reports. Oh my, I have trouble deciding. Download JA2UC UC Setup -2mb uc_uni_001.zip - 10mb uc_uni_002.zip - 10mb uc_uni_003.zip -10mb uc_uni_004.zip -7mb uc_int_001.zip -32mb uc_eng_001.zip -10mb uc_eng_002.zip -10mb uc_eng_003.zip -10mb uc_eng_004.zip -10mb uc_eng_005.zip -10mb uc_eng_006.zip -10mb uc_eng_007.zip -10mb uc_eng_008.zip -10mb uc_eng_009.zip -10mb uc_eng_010.zip -10mb uc_eng_011.zip -10mb uc_eng_012.zip -10mb uc_eng_013.zip -4mb Official patches, guides, readme documents, news etc are located here Bear's Pit Forums v.2 Graphic Concept by Ciprian Dudau Copyright 2000-2004 by Bear's Pit Forums |