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Old JA has several good points:
1. Too many women to kill. I don't like to kill women.
2. Too many (half)naked men and women. Soldiers don't fight naked. If I hit a naked man he must die from 1-2 bullets. Now them die from 5-6 bullets.
3 There was a stamina in old JA. If I hit an enemy he must run slower. If I hit an enemy he must lose APs.
4. In old JA AI was good (not great but very good). In this game AI is mediocre. I kill some enemy soldiers but others stand still like a stupid cows.
The message refers to the game, not your browser- we improved loading and deployed a new version and you run the old one, apparently, you need to empty your cache (ctrl f5) to reload the game
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I find it really difficult to call that strategic or even tactical, since there is only one path for your soldiers in almost every mission.
And when there are "secondary" paths, they are just small ways that quickly come back to the main path.
Add some turn limits (for archievements) that forbid you to play the "stealthy guys", that makes a really disappointing game.
It's a shame because it's a game I'd really like to love, but it gives great promises that it doesn't keep.
On the other hand, it's technically well made. I may be too used to the X-Com and UFO franchises for this game.
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To Mr. FartB: Perhaps between your boasting and demeaning comments you could offer some advice that would make the game a better experience. Your points are well taken except for the pomposity.
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I believe there's a situation that seems statistically impossible: Has ANYONE been able to achieve a gold medal on Level 37,"Homesteading". The achievement requirements are: "at least 19 head shots", "40 bullets or less", "take 3 or less hits". This means 2 bullets per head shot and at least one hit. I have 3 snipers, level 45, sniper skill in the 90's. It's my belief that one cannot even come close--a gold is a virtual impossibility, and i suspect getting a silver is too. Note to developer: I'll bet 100 gold to yours that no one has gotten a gold at this engagement.
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To continue my comments above, I should mention that my mercs have the latest and best armour, guns, etc. 3 are snipers and one a machine gunner. After being killed, the costs to repair all damage and bring them back to health is again very expensive. Levels in the 40's are extremely difficult, I can't imagine what they are in the 50's. Anyway, it's frustrating after continuing spending a lot of real $'s money to play this and getting not much reward for it. Perhaps snipers are not the best choice at these levels, but the cost to reconfigure them with different guns is too much money when not knowing if it is the solution.