The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release. Over two years in the making, it includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, more work in externalizing data and innumerable clean-ups of the old code base. Also notable is the better launcher experience and easier tweaking of settings for power users and modders.

Through over 1520 commits at least 61 bugs were fixed, 28 of which affect vanilla.

New Features:

A redesigned graphical launcher with more toggles, multiple mod support and the location of the main settings file (game.json)

Data files are now searched for in several places and more easily overriden

Several hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to json files for easy editing

Basic Wildfire and Night Ops support

Several new standalone optional mini-mods

The map editor now works out of the box, using bundled dummy graphics

Several smaller features like IMP import and better screen scaling options

We are shipping pre-built packages for Ubuntu, Windows and OS X. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/ Make sure to uninstall any previous versions before installing.

Build changes:

a C++11 compatible compiler is now required

Dependency on boost has been removed

New dependency: string theory, a string library (also bundled in the repo)

Warning: SDL2 2.0.6 on Linux has a fatal bug in the audio conversion code. As a workaround, the game automatically disables all sounds if it detects this version during startup. Please downgrade to version 2.0.5 or use version 2.0.7 or later.

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