April 2008 (Build: 2085)

 

 

New

- New Inventory

-  A lot of new shortcut 

- Items and Weapons

- Full German and Russian translation

- Allowed militia to wear camo- Enabled music in windowed mode- New options in ja2.ini- New options in ja2_options.ini- Added missing description texts for IMP skill rooftop sniping and camouflage

 

Changed

- INS key for overhead map is back

- Max distance visible is more consistent in being calculated based on the soldier and direction rather than a fixed number

- Removed breath reduction for soldiers that are not in loaded sector

- Added A* path finding

- JA2 window now refuses to move to negative cords

- Most of the Sir-tech credit names were displayed in dark blue color. Now all credits name are set in "dark-white" color

- Enabled enemy / militia ammo choosing to be limited by coolness

- "Professional Sniper" skill and changes made to aiming and scopes in the CTH calculation functions

- Adjusted the scope vision bonus so that it plays on range with a minimum attainable reduction equal to the scopes minimum range value

- Replaced wrong text for ironman in German version in the start new game screen

- Updated 1.13 credits

 

Fixed

- Fixed some variables not being initialized

- Fixed memory leak in new inventory

- Fixed some variables not being initialized

- Fix for slow bullets and other slow animations

- Fixed problem with items with default attachments not comparing to base items correctly

- Fixed inventory memory leak

- Removed an inconsistency between quickload and regular load

- Fixed sticky keys due to loading screens

- Fixed infinite loop/hang after an assertion failure

- Fixed problems with missing tile effect in places such as Alma and Tixa underground

- Fixed potential problem with buffer overruns

- Phantom militia fix

- Fix for incorrect, sometimes negative, values of items sold to locals

- Editor:  Fix for use of uninitialized variable in undo

- Editor:  Fix for clipping bounds that are offscreen (causes crash)

- Fix for AP bonus reading from ja2_options.ini

- Fixed mine indexes when looking for creature infestation of mines

- Fix for militia reinforcements.  Also a change:  If you refuse reinforcements, none will come for the entirety of the battle

- Increase size of cover and LOS grids to fit max radius

- Change the way Alt-L handles reloading

- Fix for freeze when AI killed by mines or other self-inflicted wounds

- Fixed breath APs

- Fix for mouse movement when clicking on mercs.  In windowed mode would move the cursor to odd places on screen

- Enemy group invasion tactics fixed.  Now reinforcements come from all directions, same as from surrounding stationary reinforcements

- Removed shuriken check

- Fix for uninitialized group in reinforcements

- Fixed AI deadlock when multiple soldiers occupy the same tile

- Fix  to reset Pablo so that future thefts can also be punished

- Fix  for missing enemies in mobile group when player invades

- Sometimes if you press with the right mouse button on the radarmap, the overhead map view was not displayed

- Fix for enemy invasions and reinforcements

- Fixed HE Ammo Bug

- Fix for the "CONT" that won't go away

- Fix for AI seeking climb point in toxic gas

- Fix for civilians trying to climb the roof to seek noise

- Fixed punching and stabbing

- Fix for militia transported to NOWHERE during autoresolve in a different than current sector

- Weapon CTH at extreme range now calculated with soldier's real sight max

- Fix for 1% chance to hit target when distance is > 52

- Many memory leaks plugged

- Fix CTD in mouse regions

- Infant/Young creatures use restored spit instead of molotov

- Suppression should no longer work on mercs in medium water

- Prevent mercs from falling and flying back through obstacles

- Throwing a grenade at the tail of the plane in Drassen should not result in a CTD

- Editor: Fixed CTD in editor when changing detailed civ placement from wheelchair to jeep

- Sam sites with index >=5 lacks ability to train militia

- Some fixes on soldier direction calculations

- Fixed night combat chance to hit

- For expert difficulty level, that leads to adding INSANE_ELITE_BONUS after applying of EXPERT_ELITE_BONUS

- Editor: Fixed memory leak and CTD with editor summary info

- Fixed print-screen for full-screen mode

- Fixed update of items for which auto/burst does not apply when swapped into the hand

- Moved helicopter in Estoni so that it is unblocked by a weed and can therefore appear completely

- Fixed conditions where the game should remain paused but doesn't, and where it should unpause but doesn't

- Fixed appearance of save game corruption when a game with different inventory set is loaded.  Note that such games can still cause odd behavior and CTD's

- Fixed soldiers unable to fire if an error happened while firing the off-hand weapon

- Fix animation system problems with soldiers interrupted while changing stance, such as twitching and not being able to navigate around obstacles

- Prevent splitting money while an item is in the hand, which would result in losing the original item

- Fix reverse of X, Y when checking visibility through a roof, which could make soldiers falsely visible/invisible

- Prevent militia from simply waiting on the border when enemies are known to be in the sector

- Fix stack overflow for soldier inventory debug display

- AI can now use all climb points for climbable buildings, not just a random few

- Fix to not allow flat roof butted against slanted roof to be identified as a climb point

- Prevent soldiers who cause an interrupt from a special action from continuing on their path after being interrupted

- Prevent soldiers who enter or leave deep water from moving a space too far and turning back

- Fix AI units to reload/rechamber off-hand when necessary

- Fix to prevent soldiers from climbing the wrong building while moving toward a disturbance

- Fix to prevent soldiers from doing nothing when a climb point is not nearby

- Fix to prevent rain and storm from happening at once

- Fix memory leaks in strategic pathing

- Fix AI soldiers losing ready stance while deciding next move

- Fix for clock problem when dual wield or auto-fire causes a soldier to turn on the first shot but knocks him down on a successive shot

- Fix for medics in autobandage trying to open locked or trapped doors and causing UI lockup due to door open menu popup

- Prevent attempts to turn or climb roof when soldier collapsed

- Fix problems when mortar or RPG randomly assigned to a soldier but cannot be added for whatever reason

- Pathing favors beginning path on orthogonal and using as few turns as possible (mostly old behavior)

- Prevent interruptions when soldier climbs up, which can cause fall into building just below the target roof position

- Fix pauses due to soldiers hurt in previous turn

- Fix soldier path not reaching destination when thrown by explosion damage or heavy gunfire

- Restore pathing to cave and underground exits

- Fix too many AI ending up on the roofs

- Fix infinite recursion for tank sighting.  This could have a side effect of causing sight glitches, but that's much better than a stack overflow/CTD

- Fixed bug when merc cannot automaticly leave the ring after boxing

- Fixed bug, appearing as overlapping text in insurance web-site on high screen resolutions

- Added support for Russian city names and Items

- Fixed contract length exploit (hire merc for 2 weeks for the price of 1 day)

- Fixed insurance emails repeating when you choose "delete" but then say no

- Fix overflow when combining two items with high counts (such as 200-round boxes of ammo)

- Path AI fixes

- Fixed issues with non-interruptable animations causing infinite clock

- Fixed some issues with soldiers not reaching their plotted destination

- Fixed escorted players who were cowering, being unable to move after joining party

- Only allow militia to climb roofs if their orders allow them to move

- Fix bug where AI might climb the wrong roof on the way to the destination roof

- Allow AI who have gone outside their patrol grid, to return to the grid

- Filter buttons under used category in Bobby Rays

- Hand to hand combat (knifes, claws, ...) was disabled in auto battle. 

- Creatures are gone if you compress time in strategic and select auto battle

- Speck sends wrong mail if any of the 4 new guys (Text, Stogie, Biggens, Gaston) level up

- Item duplication bug

- If the merc arrives with the helicopter at night (defined in the ja2_options.ini) it was daytime in tactical

- Fixed a problem with Nails so he always starts with his leather jacket, even if you don't buy his gear

- Fixed an exploit where no enemies are present in starting sector

- Fixed an item duplication bug related to the item description window and unloading a weapon

- MadLab fix related to handing him a weapon with attachments

- Editor: Bugfix to resolve a Map Editor problem where you would constantly receive a "Major Version Update" message

- Fixed a bug in the "sell all" strategic inventory screen options. Money now gets sold without modification and unreachable items can't accidentally be sold

- Bugfix to stop a CTD that could occur if the system inadvertently tries to stack two money objects that have a 0 uiMoneyAmount amount

- Fixed a CTD that occured when reloading a weapon from the sector inventory panel

- Fixed the sector inventory panel so that you could reload weapons that could be stacked

 

 

July 2007 (Build: 1080)

 

 

New

- Items and Weapons

- Menu option: Low CPU Usage

- Optional ja2.ini parameter to select window mode instead of Full-Screen (SCREEN_MODE_WINDOWED)

- Added window around windowed mode of JA2

- Added error and quit if JA2 started in window mode in >16bpp color depth

- Externalized game progress weights

- Allow dead I.M.Ps to be replaced

- Add another way to progress in the game (sectors visited)

- Added INI setting to disable stealing

- Remove attachments and unload all weapons in sector (Shift+F)

- Added  INI setting for RESTRICT_ROAMING and REVEAL_ITEMS_AFTER_COMBAT

- Externalized sector loadscreens to TableData\Map\SectorLoadscreens.xml (INI setting: USE_EXTERNALIZED_LOADSCREENS)

- New item throwing animation in crouched stance

- Externalized game starting time

- Added checks so enemies don't try to chuck RPG grenades with their hands

- Added possibility, so that mod makers can add their credits and display them in the credits screen (BinaryData\Credits_Mod.edt)

- Shift+M moves all items in sector to location of selected merc

- Ctrl+Y deletes all items of selected type from the sector inventory

- Alt+Y sells all items of selected type from the sector inventory

 

Changed

- German Items and Ammo description text

- Location of the Helicopter information box in Strategy Screen in High Resolution

- Increased inventory capacity for I.M.P items doled out in TableData\IMPItemChoices.xml

- Changed ammo given to I.M.Ps so they have at least two clips for their main gun

- Updated credits screen to the 1.13 Credits

- Moved ja2.set (game settings file) to a custom data directory defined in ja2.ini

- Allow more slots for I.M.Ps.

- Changed the way tracers are visualized, so they work more like real tracers instead of a light fountain

- Enabled investigation of lost city sector by the enemy

- Removed Omerta from the list of "unimportant" sectors (Estoni and San Mona still "unimportant")

 

Fixed

- CTD in German Version if you press 'q' in tactical

- CTD when Skyrider is escorted to his Helicopter in Drassen (before Skyrider talks to the mercs)

- Some menu descriptions

- Some crashes when loading 4xx built savegames

- Tactical militia command: Stopped merc from moving to militia in combat if he doesn't have a headset (radio)

- Correct wrong (some pixels) strategic map buttons alignment

- Some bugs which occurred when loading a 1.13 savegame which was saved under an older 1.13 build

- End move & LOS bug ('END' button has two different actions)

- Sniper Deadlock

- Grenade AP loss

- Chance to Hit

- Rooftop chance to Hit

- Allow different types of GL grenades to be attached to the grenade panel and the ALICE pack

- Grenade launchers (allow reloading with valid ammunition only)

- Stacking items in sector

- Wrong placement of the terrorists pictures on the files section in the laptop

- Allowed queen to attack Omerta before day 2 at 7:45AM and Drassen before day 3 at 6:30AM

- The reinforcements are not reassigned anymore when the sector where they were going to is captured by player

- Omerta garrison is not reassigned anymore when queen fortifies cities

- Text placement in insurance laptop pages in higher resolutions

- CTD when someone fell off the west side of a building 

- Assertion failure when Skyrider leaves a sector where a merc cannot be woken up 

- Boxing fixes: Opponent no longer "seeks cover", ie jumps back out of the ring; no longer will pick up a gun from the ground while boxing

- Disappearing corpses (and possibly items) when cursor hovers over a square on the rooftop

- Roof inaccessible tiles problem

- AI hang while deciding on an action (fire 0 rounds on auto)

- Automated scrolling if you talk to someone in small maps (ie: Rebel Basement) in high resolution (1024x768)

- Scrolling problem in radar map in small maps (ie: Rebel Basement) in high resolution (1024x768)

- Sometimes a mortar is chosen but later rejected, but the grenade class was not reset

- Cannot shoot enemies in the head if they are standing in the water

- Soldiers are much less willing to forfeit their turn over an attempt to use more APs than they have

- Removed early setting of muzzle flash. This would allow enemies to get an interrupt before you even fired

- If AI tries to drop something while standing it would cause deadlock

- Change to greatly speed up closing the sector inventory window in an unloaded sector

- Shift+R (autoreload) doesn’t check if the ammo is accessible/visible

- Fix to enemy sector investigation:  Was deducting from redshirts when elites investigated

- Fix to tanks to add them in their original spot when a new one cannot be found. Should modify to remove old wreckage in this case.

- AI tries to fire mortar when no room for it

- Tanks try to throw knives

- Animation deadlock when crouched soldier's final destination is to jump a fence

- Path issues where a soldier would sometimes jump the wrong fence

- Brute force to finally make militia show up when they're supposed to

- Stop assertion failure for stack of 6 throwables

- Report correct damage and AP for stacked throwables

- Print screen for full-screen mode

- Soldier do not continue towards destination if previous path ended with a special move

- Newly placed tanks do not drag away old wreckage if present

 

 

January 2007 (Build: 687)

 

New

- Items and Weapons

- Sam sites externalization (TableData\Map\SamSites.xml)

- Added notification when you try to create a new I.M.P and you already have the maximum number of mercs (18) in your team

- Tooltips on the enemies are only displayed, if the enemy can be seen by the selected merc. This only takes effect if tooltip detail level = 1 (limited) or 2 (basic)

- Army externalizations (TableData\Army)

- Added ability to use ogg-files in speech and sound files

- Added armour filter buttons (helm, vest, legging, plate) to Bobby Rays

- Added misc filter buttons to Bobby Rays

- Slow progress for enemy items choice added in the Ja2_Options.ini

- Enemies and militia can have ambidextrous skill and a second gun (only elites and regular troops / militia)

- Added new menu option: Silent Skyrider

- Cleared I.M.P activation text box after a new I.M.P was created

- Queen tries to get the cities back after they were liberated, just like the Sam's

- Added possibility to dismiss a vehicle without passengers

 

Changed

- Updated TableData\Map\Cities.xml, so player can choose if militia can be trained in town or not (Ja2_Options.ini)

- Translated tooltip strings for German Version

- Changed APs for stealing from 10 to 14

- You cannot steal items from head, body, leg or face until the enemy is collapsed (lying on the ground)

- Set max number of towns (50), town sectors (260) and sam sites (50) on strategic map

- Reworked some Items and weapons

- AP costs for reloading a Grenade Launcher or a Rocket Launcher by attaching an item are taken now from TableData\Weapons.xml

- Updated German Items and Ammo description text

 

Fixed

- Misplaced I.M.P email three days after I.M.P was created

- Inventory scroll buttons on personal web site

- Enemy landmine bug

- CTD in Drassen Mine battle

- CTD when trying to recruit John & Mary and there is only one free place left in the team

- Issue with visibility of enemies after raising scoped gun

- CTD after you have placed your mercs before the attacking occurs

- Wrong APs deduction from stealing

- Sometimes you get Nada objects from stealing

- CTD when trying to add 13th town in TableData\Maps\Cities.xml

- CTD after talking to Darren in San Mona (in the boxing club)

- Endless clock after stealing

- Improper sam site marking for Strategic AI

- Secrets on strategic map and other externalized stuff are not properly initialized, if user loads a saved game before he creates a new game

- Reinforcement problems

- Wrong text placement in the florist gallery website

- Mary & John cannot be escorted if you have 16 mercs in your team

- Memory leaks

- Tracer bullets animation starts some tiles away of where the shooter is

- Gabby did not show up in Sci-Fi mode

- Invisible Ira bug in rebel basement

- Militia, came as reinforcements, tend to stop at a halfway, if main battle is at the opposite side of map, they are coming from.

- When merging an item to a stack of items all of them were converted to a new item

- Militia always has equipment one level lower than enemy when slow progress is on (slight re-balance of militia involved battles)

- Invalid APs deduction when shooting - player saves one AP, if he raises weapon first and then shoots

- CTD when tooltiping on militia and no merc is in that sector

- If queen retakes mine sector, player still gets income (money) from the mine although the "Daily Income" string on Strategic Screen is shown correctly

- No explosion if the rocket launcher was reloaded manually (with attaching a rocket / grenade)

- German “Umlaute” are not always displayed correct for item names

 

 

October 2006 (Build: 602)

 

New

- Auto save feature

- Load I.M.Ps with multiple spaces in the nickname

- New optional armour coverage mod

- Added EDITOR_SCREEN_RESOLUTION setting to Ja2.ini

- Strategic movement costs externalisation (TableData\Map\MovementCosts.xml)

- Added INI Setting and ability to manually train mobile militia at a cost

- Added INI setting and ability to train veteran militia

- Added sector variation (TableData\Map\AltSectors.xml)

- Added INI settings to remove mercenary on-assignment deaths, and also set the number of deaths per difficulty level

- Added INI settings for delaying veteran militia training and mobile militia training

- Added INI settings cost modifiers to promoting green militia to regular and promoting regular to veteran

- Added INI setting to stop thunderstorms and still allow rain

- sound manager now logs driver capabilities

- Added EXPERIENCED_ELITE_BONUS setting to INI file, functions like the bonus for higher difficulties.

- enabled town names in cities.xml

- reworked cities.xml handling section, added new fields

- fix that allows game to accept both capital and small letters as a y-coordinate of a sector in MovementCosts.xml

- updated most of the editor screens to the high resolution. Editor should now work with high resolution.

- updated some editor files for the high resolution

- Added support for 255 tilesets in editor

 

Changed

- Ammo weight calculation

- Reorganized structure of xml files

- Enabled town names (TableData\Map\Cities.xml)

 

Fixed

- Jeep & Eldorado share the same animation like the Hummer

- Enemies do not wear NVGs at night

- Gas mask was always worn in low-level tooltips

- CTD when bullets hit door

- Enemy tooltip fixes

- CTD bug when stealing

- CTDs with multiple IMPs

- I.M.P emails show profile of Barry Unger

- Wrong chance to hit calculation on RPG rocket launchers

- CTD in German version when using auto fire

- Intense save/reload fix

- CTDs with tanks

- Average column in laptop profiles was not correct calculated

- German.Items.xml can now use "Umlaute"

 

 

September 2006 (Build: 502)

 

New

-Added <scifi> tag in Items.xml

-Added auto-aim to spread fire to make it actually useful

-Added Bobby Ray’s filter buttons to guns, ammo und used items

-Added ENABLE_CREPITUS flag to Ja2_options.ini. This flag will allow you to enable/disable crepitus in Sci-Fi mode, but you can take advantage of the items that only appear in Sci-Fi mode

-Added ENABLE_ALL_WEAPON_CACHES and ENABLE_ALL_TERRORIST flags to Ja2_Options.ini (Requires new game)

-Externalized assignment (repair, doctor, training) constants to Ja2_Options.ini and added a few for good measure

-Added new items

-Enabled Map Editor again

-Proper loading of map versions 5.0, 5.25 and 6.0

-Vehicle inventory

-Additional enemy/militia drop item system, which uses new XML-files (EnemyWeaponDrops.xml, …)

-Ability to variate sector maps between common and alternative during generation of a new game. This feature can be switched off for individual sectors.

-Put a stop to enemies and NPCs running into gas and fire

-Externalized AP costs for attachments or an attachment-by-attachment basis

-Added <APCost> tag to Attachments.xml

-Made mercs say quote when blinded by flashbang

-Enable enemies to fire underslung GLs

-Allow view of sector with no soldier in it

-Toggle on/off rain sounds in the option screen

-Added missing brightness level text string to the German version. Press “F” in tactical screen

-Added flashbangs, which only work indoors or at night

-Added STRATEGIC_EVENT_SEND_TROOPS_TO_DRASSEN flag to Ja2_Options.ini

-Added ALLOW_SOLDIER_TOOL_TIPS flag to Ja2_Options.ini (Hold “ALT” and move mouse cursor over enemies)

-Silencer burst sounds

-Dynamic ammo weight option

-Different camo kits (wood, urban, desert, …)

-Toggle on/off craws in the option screen

-Localized item and ammo string for German and Russian version (German.Items.xml, …)

 

Changed

-Increased chance of damage from gas by 5%

-Some items status and graphic tweaks

-Fire always damages

-Changed <bipod> tag in Items.xml from a boolean to an integer. It is now the to-hit bonus for the bipod

-Random GL grenades chosen by enemies now limited by player progress

-Removed MAXIMUM_MILITIA_SQUAD_SIZE_BATTLE from Ja2_Options.ini

 

Fixed

-Display cover

-CTD when new merc arrive in Omerta

-Airstrikes still occurring

-Auto resolve is not working with big enemy groups

-Bobby Ray’s not stocking things later in game if they were illegal when game started. (Requires new game)

-Bobby Ray’s item display error

-Negative ammo prices

-Integral bipods not working properly

-Breaklights not working in Drassen Mine sector

-Dying soldiers don't fallback into obstacles anymore, but they still fallback through walls

-Vehicles sharing same animation

-Freeze after loading any saved game at a second time

-Attachments not costing APs

-No militias are present in the sector for the battle, even though they do appear on the strategy map.

-Wrong laptop zooming animation

-Enemies turn around in tactical (turn-based-mode) between the players turn

-Grenade through window bug

-CTD in strategy screen, when enemies try to retake a city sector

-Freeze in Grumm sectors after ending a players turn

-Crash during enemy turns in Tixa sector

-Misplaced merc screen position in high resolutions

- Stop Roaming militia from entering city sectors and impassible sectors.

-CTD in I.M.P screen

-90210 not working properly in I.M.P screen

-Mercs complaining about really good equipment

-Smoke grenades have the same effect than mustard gas grenades

-Invisible enemies

-Manuel reload for two one handed weapon

-Barrel extender falls off while none is attached

-Wrong ammo colors, if you remove the ammo from the weapon

-Enemies wear sun goggles at night

-Curious CTDs, if Windows 98 is the operating system

 

 

June 2006 (Build: 306)

 

New

 

- Rain and lightning visual and sound effects (Can be modified and turned on/off in the INI file)

- Visibility radius decrease when rainig

- Weapon relyability decrease when rainig

- Possibility to spot the enemy at night with lightning

- Aiming without shooting with "L" key

- Added status of the items to item 'tooltip'

- Added an AutoPenalty stat to Weapons.xml to complement BurstPenalty

- Added a NoSemiAuto stat to Weapons.xml to enable weapons that are Full-Auto only, code also added for AI to not use NoSemiAuto weapons in semi-auto mode

- Added an APBonus stat to Items.xml to enable items to give you an APBonus/Penalty (ie: heavy armour)

- Burst sounds externalized, SilencedBurstSound tag added to weapons.xml

- Added two new Merge options: Use_Item (6) and Use_Item_Hard (7), which enable the use of a single item on another single item. The hard one performs a mechanics check. Use_Item_Hard can be eventually be used for caliber conversion kits, etc. (But we still need to add code to dump the old ammo).

- Enabled the AimBonus and ToHitBonus stats to be read in from worn gear

- New weapon sounds, with bursts up to 50 bullets

- Added 200+ new guns, 30+ new grenades, 9+ new grenade launchers, 4 new rocket launchers, 8 new knives, a new throwing knife, 2 new armour attachments, 50+ new armours, 10+ new misc. items, 6+ new weapon attachments, 15+ new ammo calibers & 12+ new types of ammo (including cold-loaded variants)

- added fonts to display russian letters for Ivan

- added 007.edt (Ivan) with proper encoding (use it only on english version, in german version everything is translated in german)

- Soundmanager v1.1 added (supports MP3 and OGG formats)

- Added a "Previous" and "Next" button to the merc account screen

- Added bullet tracers (& tracerEffect to AmmoTypes.xml)

- Added militia control in tactical (can be turned on/off in ja2.ini file)

- Aiming/readying gun: shows in red the points needed for readying gun

- Added tile lighting animation effects to tracer bullets, forced muzzle flash on tracers so enemies can see you, regardless of flash suppression

- Deadlock delay adjustable in ja2.ini

- Sight Range adjustable in ja2.ini

- Enable/disable vSync in ja2.ini

- Play weapon sounds on higher volume adjustable in ja2.ini

- New feature: Militia movement on strategic map v1.3

- New feature: Automatic reload - Press Shift+R in tactical to reload all weapons of your team with magazines from sector inventory

- New feature: Swap items - Press Shift+N in tactical to swap sungoggles and nightgoggles

- New feature: Rearrange sector inventory - Press Shift+S in tactical to rearrange sector inventory

- Externalized Explosion data for exp. animations, sounds, etc.

- New key: Climb/Jump - Press "j" in tactical to climb the roof / jump over the fence

- Externalized settings for Madlab quest, Mike and Iggy

- Externalized visibility decrease for rain

- Added control to skip strategic events (set ENABLE_EMERGENCY_BUTTON_NUMLOCK_TO_SKIP_STRATEGIC_EVENTS to TRUE to enable, press and hold NumLock in strategy screen to skip strategic events)

- Externalized BREATH_GAIN_REDUCTION_PER_RAIN_INTENSITY setting

- Added additional damage multiplier to explosives/melee/guns

- Made camobonus not depend on gear status

- Externalized more strategic AI settings

- New German translation

- added limited vision option

- tool tips for Bobby Ray added

- new feature: manual reloading for bolt-action rifles and pump-action shotguns

- added code for enemies to carry money items / wallets w/actual deposit-able cash

- new setting in game options: Space selects next squad, when turned on there is no need to press Shift+Space to select next squad

- added Lalien's 8AP aiming code

- added option (in preferences + shortcut = 'q') to fire grenade launchers at higher angles, thereby allowing ranges to increase to 45+. It's an option so grenades don't always need to be fired so high. It should also allow grenades to be fired over obstacles.

- added option to choose whether extra aim levels apply to rifles only

- leadership increase when commanding militia

- added a message for breaking locks/doors

- externalized settings for mobile militia

- Bonus AP Setting to give enemies extra AP in INI file

- Added underslung GLs to enemy loadouts (w/ammo) and enabled the AI to use them

- Added externalzed AI settings for unlimited troops and aggressive queen and enabled them for all difficulty levels

- Added menu option to show weapon ranges in tiles/meters

- Allowed to enter tactical view for any visited sector

- Added menu option to show/remove item shadow

- activated 'skip' button for all meanwhile screens

- enabled AI to fire at opponents seen by other AIs on Expert & Insane

- added item status values (1-100%) to selling price calculation for selling to locals

- removed disk space check because it was coming up with a warning despite the fact that I have 12 GB space free

 

Changed

- Changed missing screens (from previous Versions) to the High-Resolution

- Swapped internal shopkeeper character numbering to match the Prof.dat in 1.13 (Gabby/Smithy)

- Changed the location of the savegame structure - Each mode contains its own savegame folder in its own data-folder

- Added code to use the Accuracy tag in Weapons.xml

- IMP.dat file changed to save a different file for each IMP

- Different existing IMPs can be loaded by typing their names in the IMP webpage

- Changed required camouflage amount to show merc as camo'd to 50%, due to some new items affecting the camouflage %

- Changed the air strike options to be: "tons of guns" and "10 tons of guns"

- Used the BigGunList stat in Items.xml to determine whether items can show up depending on the selection from #9

- Completely redid all the existing weapons' stats (and a couple images).

- Changed some weapons' calibers, such as the SVD dragunov to 7.62x54r and the Type-85 to 7.62x25mm.

- Moved most of the old 1.13 specific weapons around in Items.xml to new spots. The items.xml file now goes to over 1000 (w/some "nothing" entries for organization)

- Kept all the UB weapons, and some new weapons/items inside the old 350 item limit, so they can be assigned using ProEdit.

- Altered the binary files so pro-edit can see the right item names.

- Throwing knife code changed, so that we can have more than one type of throwing knife. For now, this means that tossing your knife into the dirt won't un-bloody it.

- Reinstated 5% to-hit bonus for using a pistol w/two hands (nothing in offhand) that the devs commented out

- Some changes for international versions

- Re-enabled Ironman-Feature in the "Start new game screen"

- Re-enabled laptop animation

- Moved new game settings from ja2.ini to Ja2_Options.ini

- Changed descriptions for options menu items

- Game version length changed

- removed some files

- extended item info on tool tip

- Cosmetic changes to the strategy screen

- changed scope ranges to be % of base visible range

- removed the +50's from the bonus calculations

- restricted aiming by scope min. range, 4 APs for no scope, 6 APs for min range >= 6 tiles, 8 APs for min range >= 9 tiles

- updated aiming levels to use a % of sight range, and to allow only rifles & sniper rifles to use aiming levels > 4

- made default militia settings less aggressive

- renamed and updated prof.dat files by difficulty level and tons of guns selection

- re-sorted shopkeeper items by name, since there were too many to list otherwise.

- vision range bonus applied only in front direction when using scope or another item with tunnel vision effect

- finding tunnel vision bonus changed

- rooftop vision bonus changed to % instead of tiles

- vision range bonus changed to % instead of tiles

- Enemies tend to carry a little more ammo now, so they won't run out so quickly when using Tactics like Suppression fire.

- Rewrote enemy sniper code to take advantage of new weapon raising and vision bonus code

- w/aggressive setting enabled: increased queen attacks on sectors after losing towns (ie: reduced her turtling up into meduna after losing some towns) -- requires unlimited reinforcements

- removed lighted spots from valid locations to move to for flanking, finding cover and running away

- moved the running out of lighted areas code to after the main Red AI - this will prevent enemies from running into and back out of lighted areas; however, it might also mean that they end up running straight through the light sometimes

- reduced minimum default status for bonus depreciation from 100 to 85

- increased enemy group size sent according to specific events (first battle, lost town, lost sam site) to be minGroupSize + old value

- increased probing attacks from queen after player conquers a sector

- increased admin-type troops being promoted to redshirt troops on hard/expert and insane (just garrisons on expert)

- decreased quality of items dropped by enemy soldiers, based on difficulty level, as per the following formula: (dif_level - 1) * Random (20), so 0% for novice, up to 60% for insane

- always show game progress in version info (was only when using cheats)

- updated breaklight duration checks to allow us to have shorter duration breaklights

- The weapons were deprecating too fast due to wrong item in reliability calculation (2x gun reliability, now gun + ammo reliability)

 

Fixed

 

- Bugfixing with the High-Resolution screens

- Made tactical map loading code more robust against maps with bogus buildings

- Made tactical map loading code more robust against maps with characters with bogus locations or schedules

- Commented out all the Air Strike code. Air strikes should now be completely removed.

- Bugfix: Auto Resolve CTD - No crash anymore but there is no background image when you select mercs to retreat and there more than 36 militia in sector on 640x480. Also cheating is removed (count of enemys that fight was not more than 32, now 256) .

- Workaround for CTD/Freeze when viewing cover/LOS

- Bugfix: CTD when climbing on roof. (Lighting.cpp LightRevealWall and LightHideWall additional check added)

- Bugfix: not possible to hit enemy on roof, bullet hits something just after shot

- Bugfix: CTD when try to pickup items from dead body. (Tiledef.cpp check CHECKF( usIndex < NUMBEROFTILES ); added into GetTileType and GetWallOrientation)

- Taking screenshot with high resolution is now working

- Bugfix: CTD from AutoResolve screen when attacker uses knife

- Items with coolness = 0 are "illegal"

- Made wirecutter cursor appear for utility knife when able to cut fences

- bug fix: breath reduction while raining

- refresh for laptop screens fixed

- bug fix: CTD when shoot at soldier and see items afterwards (happens not always)

- bug fix: CTD when clicking on buttons

- screen shots are not overwritten anymore

- check for invalid sector in GetCurrentBattleSectorXYZAndReturnTRUEIfThereIsABattle

- bug fix: CTD when enemy throws a grenade

- fixed strings for Auto Resolve

- Bugfix: Crash when a Merc with Marksmanship < 10 used Autofire.

- Bugfix: Militia will no longer go hostile when a cow or crow is killed by an explosion caused by the player.

- Bugfix: Added a check to make sure there is no hidden soldier in destination gridno when climbing up/down.

- bug fix: CTD in endgame when killing Deidrana

- disabled code for CD-ROM check (game was killed every time when USB-Stick was removed)

- pre-load enemy weapons with the ammo type that was selected for them instead of the default type

- ensured enemies have a minimum number of bullets, rather than a random # of clips (at least 20 bullets) This should stop those guys with the sawed-off shotguns (2rd capacity) from running away after 5-10 shots.

 

 

November 2005

 

- New data directory structure. Default data (copliant with v. 1.12) is located in the Data folder, while data specific to mod 1.13 is located in the Data-1.13 folder. Users can make their own custom data folders and switch between them. See install guide for more details.

- JA2 Editor (Released Seperately and still using the 10-07 code base)

- Hi-Res Version (Released as an exe patch)

- Explosive skill increase for setting and disarming mines and traps is restored. However, neither action succedes automatically as before: a skill check is performed as with other explosives (it is, however, easier to disarm your own mine/trap).

- UB tilesets add-on, which enables the use of maps using JA2 UB tilesets in JA2.

- Added confidurable option to adjust ALT-LMB selling price and turn it on/off in INI

 

Bug fixes:

 

- Busy mercs no longer assigned to squads when no mercs free in sector, except when an air strike occurs. Can remove mercs from all assigned squads (to fix this bug when it happened in an older version) by pressing ctrl+alt+s.

- Various airstrike-related fixes.

- "Ghost Squads" have been fixed.

- Snipers can no longer fire without a spotter (AI fix).

- Fixed a bug that caused wisdom to improve too fast when picking locks.

 

 

October 2005

 

- thermal optics

- tunnel vision

- weapon stat bonuses

- vision and hearing range bonuses

- Default attachments - created and added when item is created

- Launchables that decrease in status, instead of being removed, when launcher's mag size > 1

- Burst & spread fire for grenade launchers

- lockBustingPower stat for "knock-knock" ammo types

- BurstAPs stat replaces bBaseAutofireCost

- CamoBonus and BestLaserRange stats

- percent volume reduction

- Audible warnings using a previously unused merc quote when enemy tanks or rocket launchers are present

- Maximum Tilesets is now 255, with no additional code changes required to add new tilesets. (UB Tileset add-on Pack Available for Download)

- GL Burst cursor-type toggle option in preferences screen (also shift-G)

- UB style reveal all enemy gear when sector cleared

- time-of-day-dependent vision bonuses scale better with time of day

- Item bonuses scale better with item status

- Laser scopes now operate most effectively at a certain range, decreasing their bonus beyond that and don't operate as well in bright light.

- Air Strikes added

- IMP items configurable in xml; includes options for random items and items for any stat/specialty.

- IMP clothing colours vary by portrait

- Adjusted the IMP male body selection so that it allows you to have a large body, regardless of portrait, and won't replace your martial arts skills w/HTH, but rather just give you a smaller body.

- Breath overflow bug fixed.

- Basic settings externalized into INI file, including starting cash, enemy difficulty and numbers, militia numbers and cost of training.

- Turn random IMP Personalities and Attitudes ON/OFF or pick and choose your own attitude and personality.

- Make the MERC Website available at the beginning of the game.

- Option to allow all Mercs from MERC available as soon as the website is available.

- Sniper rifle damage upped by 10 pts each

- C-Mag adapters (9mm and 5.56mm)

- 100 rd Beta C-Mags (9mm and 5.56mm)

- 40 rd 4.6mm mag for MP-7

- mustard gas mortar shell

- 6 rd 20mm HE clip for OICW

- 6 rd cylinders (frag, smoke, stun) for MGL Mk.1

- 20 rd 5.7mm mags for Five seveN (We need to clean these images up at some

point)

- MP-5A2

- MP-5SD3

- MP-5N

- UMP-45

- Five seveN pistol

- P7M8 pistol

- G36K

- G36C

- G36E

- MSG-90A1

- Bennelli M4 Super 90 shotgun

- AK-103

- RPG-7

- HK MP-7 PDW

- Commando Mortar (in addition to regular one)

- OICW, with integrated grenade launcher and 6-shot 20mm HE mags (GL

supports 2-shot bursts)

- Milkor MGL Mk.1 40mm grenade launcher (with 3-shot bursts possible)

- Tex's Hartford 6 shooters

- Characters added from UB: Gaston, Stogie, Tex, Biggins

- Relevant quotes added for Speck to say. These guys are usable with the creatures and will say some new/reused quotes

- Enemies can use the new GL bursts

- Enemes can use suppression fire to try send you to the ground and make you lose APs (but not out of visual range)

- Fixed several LOS fixes causing a CTD in the game.

- The LOS indicator now works correctly at night.

- Vision bonuses no longer apply to worn items in-hand

- Control + LMB on map inventory screen to permanently delete items w/out confirming

- Alternate + LMB on map inventory screen to sell items to the locals for 25% of their value w/out confirming (configurable)

- Ctrl-D turns ON/OFF the Enemy's Drop All option

- Externalized: Enemy Item Choices, IMP Item Choices, Ammo Types

- Added Lockbuster Ammo

 

 

September 2005

 

- Item limit removed

- autofire shots slow down a bit when the firing enemy is off-screen.

- Multiple Interrupts. So now if you pass on your first chance, you can have another.

- UB Style IMP generation screens

- It is now possible to drop leadership to Zero.

- Rebalanced stat gains

- Flash suppressor

- Reflex scope

- Reflex sight

- When throwing knives, you will now stop if you see a new enemy.

- Autofire now has same penalty as burst after the first bullet

- Incorrectly calculated AP cost for shooting, throwing etc. (minor difference)

- C-7 has 3 round burst instead of 5

- Colt Commando renamed to M4A1

- L85A1 renamed to L85A2

- Pistols should all cost about 1 AP less to shoot

- MP53 renamed to HK 53, since it uses 5.56mm ammo, it also uses slightly

less APs

- AI tweaks to reduce the number of enemies on the roofs, and make snipers only shoot when they might actually hit you

- Enemies should be less likely to come looking for you than in previous versions. This should reduce the huge, immediate carnage upon entering a sector, and provide more smaller battles instead.

- Externalized: Enemy Gun Choices

 

 

Summer 2005

 

- Initial Release

- The extended ear shows the enemy location in all modes, not just Platinum.

- Multiple IMPs & 90210 code re-enabled

- Fixed the Autofire/Burst bug, where you couldn't do burst fire unless the

weapon also had autofire.

- The canteen/camouflage bug, where you couldn't apply items to the merc's

body.

- Insane difficulty level added

- BR Options added

- Iron Man mode removed

- The 0 AP grenade bug, where throwing grenades didn't cost any APs.

- The 0 Min. AP cost for AI throwing grenades bug that resulted in a CTD.

- Added autofire to rifles, SMGs and LMGs (including UB weapons)

- G11 and SKS can attach Talon

- Minimi holds 200 rounds

- HK21 holds 100 rounds

- RPK holds 75 rounds

- 200 rd 5.56mm belt for minimi

- 100 rd 7.62mm belt for hk21

- 75 rd 5.45mm drum for RPK

- RPG!

- RPG ammo, including HE, AP and Fragmentation

- 9mm Heavy

- .50 Cal

- 9mm Large (50)

- 9mm Large AP (50)

- 9mm Large HP (50)

- Barrett .50 Cal Sniper Rifle

- H&K PSG1 Sniper Rifle

- VAL Silent Sniper Rifle

- Calico M950 pistol

- Calico M960A SMG

- Calico M900 Rifle

- Enfield L85A1 LMG

- TAR 21 LMG

- Micro Uzi

- Enemies can now snipe you if they have a sniper scope, even if you're out of visual range, but still visible to another enemy (spotter)

- Enemies can now climb on roofs. Sometimes they will stay up there and snipe you.

- Enemies will now flank your position

- Enemies no longer get up and charge straight at you after dropping prone

- Enemies take cover more often

- Externalized: Weapons, Items, Magainzes, Attachments, Attachment Combo Merges, Launchables, Attachment Info, Incompatible Attachments, Compatible Face Items, Explosives, Armours, Sounds, Merges, Ammo Strings / Calibers, Shopkeeper Inventories

- Fallback animation added. Now enemies can fall backwards when they die.

- Brothel re-enabled

- Zero stats are trainable (configurable)

- All stats are trainable up to 100

- No loyalty penalty for inactivity

- Prof1.dat - Prof4.dat - Extra prof.dat files for Easy(1) through Insane(4) difficulty. (currently all the same)

- Added INI Setting for PLAYER_AP_BONUS functions just like the enemy AP bonus

- Camo and other effects are taken into account when aiming at a body part

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