Jagged Alliance Galaxy: JA Online: first screenshots and dev input

JA Online: first screenshots and dev input
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Shanga on 22/03/2011 15:25:00
 
More images here:
http://jagged-alliance-online.browsergames.de/screenshots/
There is little yet known about this offspring of the franchise, but the
screenshots look interesting.
In other news, JA2: Back in Action (JA2:R's new name) has been presented at GDC
in San Francisco and got some mildly positive reviews. As the community has been
saying since day one, everyone and i mean everyone, fans, media and all, expect
a remake, not a new game. The ball is in bC's court and the clock is ticking...
http://www.gamezone.com/previews/item/jagged_alliance_back_in_action/
Jan Walker from Cliffhanger Productions, the developer of JAO, has recently
joined Bear's Pit and will be taking questions on the dedicated forum. First,
here are some of his comments on this early screenshot thing:
1) AI will run on a seperate server dedicated to it- so while it will never be
as good as a human, we hope it should be pretty decent and at least on par with
any offline game.
2) The UI is placeholder art, as we don't have a final UI yet. However I would
love to hear from you guys what you think is good or bad about it - we are very
open to discussion. And while we may not always fulfil every wish of the
community at all times, we are surely going to seriously think about every
suggestion.
3) We will offer co-op PvE and PvP shoud follow shortly.
The game visuals have a lot to do with ligthing- and that isn't final by far.
That being said, the graphic quality is going to be limited due to it being a
browser game. But we always thought gameplay is the more important aspects- or
why would there be so many people playing JA2 1.13? Not for the graphics, I
assume?
And no, we are not in closed beta by far...the amount of work is massive with us
doing over 100 missions and maps, more than 80 mercs and an AI server.
By the way- we do have crouch and run and walk
Topic is here:
http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=276947#Post276947
(and Jan is "primetide")