What is the major difference between difficulty settings in the game?

Is it just the amount of opponents you have to fight, or do other things change aswell?

Which game? JA1, JA DG, JA2 1.12, JA2 UB, JA2 Wildfire, JA2 1.13 ?

This is what I've noticed:

In JA2 1.12:
More enemies
Stronger enemies
Mercs have reduced night vision area. (-1)
I suspect that enemies have increased night vision (+1) as well.

In 1.13 (4870):
Generally same changes as in 1.12.

Yeah, I actually tested this a bit ago....it really is friggin insane on INSANE mode.

Tried killing 1 soldier for like forever, shot him like 10 times and was still only at Wounded or something... ridiculous.

Way too hard for me :-P

-Enemies have better armor/weapons.
-There are more enemies.
-AI is more agressive.
-Attacks on conquered areas are more frequent.
-You get less starting funds.
-Hired mercs have worse starting equipment (in JA2 at least).
etc.

Sorry to resurrect this post.

In JA2 1.12

- In Novice only one merc dies randomly in the mission in the Philippines, in Experienced the number goes to two.

Tips about games are never 'dead' thats what the tips part of the forum are for ... suppose new gamers join GOg find out about the good old games that are fun to play buy the game and got stuck, this is the place where they can ask questions about the game(s)
Anyway i never finished Ja2 UB because to difficult, started again last week but oh boy its hard, i cant remember if i chose the hard setting :D

Anyway i am getting shot at by enemies who have better arms than i have :D

I was hoping that by now some lost and long forgotten 'secret' cheats were discovered cause boy this is one hard game, one very hard to crack nut.


check attachement: ja2_unbalancedbu.jpg

fullname of the file isnt shown seems uploaded files can have limit number of characters or so ( in 2018 )

The full name of the file is: ja2_UnbalancedBusiness.jpg
cause it is pretty unbalanced, i cleared a sector and 75% of my team is rwecoevring in the cleared sector only my custom character and a NPC Manuel are fighting in the next sector
check our status : it looks grim, my custom created character ( all attributes (90)( which is nice) is getting shot at at the top of the screen ... out of view and NPC Manuel is making his maker soon.... he has a 'toy' gun while the enemies have better equipment , ....

internet results keep showing sites that still think the gabbi or iguana cheat works for JA2: UB .... it does not work...

i installed ja2 ub 1.01 and 1.05 both releases dont support the cheat the cheat is only for the main game JA2.

Anyway Ja2 Unbalanced Business is too tough and this spoils the game, i tried several memory cheaters, but they dont work, maybe there is a spyware/virus free savegame editor on the net to edit the save and give us infinite hp... but i doubt it....

Gorky 17 is alittle easier to cheat with , it takes some time but with a memory cheater you can search for changes in HP, hp is all they need ( note: poisoned members fo not benefit from this: it is in the game that those characters must die: Jill or jane or whatever her name is)
I managed to give the main characters 6999 hp well thats a lot, more then enough, it uses 2 values something like this:
99 / 129

99= current HP
129 is the max the char. has both need to be patched or else applying healtpacks will bring them back to the first value

suppose you have 129/129 and manage to find the first 129 change it to 9999---> 9999/129 will reset to 129/129
i dont use cheat engine, it reports alot as suspicous or virus by antimalware tools/ and virus tools

this is what i see when i got to the games pages in my ofline installers

Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business version 1.01 size 445 MB
Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire version 6.08 size 594 MB
Jagged Alliance 2 version 1.12 size 586 MB

JA 2 has the old build cheats so anyone can win the game .....
havent foundsome good working cheats for Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire

and Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business : this game is so hard i refer to it as Jagged Alliance 2: Unbalanced Business , havent found a working cheat sofar, seems many sites still believe that the ja2 cheat works for Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business, well it does not....



In Ja2 nobody kicks the bucket in my team unless the game has a linerar approach that requires that 1 member kicks the bucket , after playing it many times i havent met that situation yet, the char. you can create at the start of a new game has 90 ( seems to be the max) on all stats :D

JA2 U B is imo not that brutal, and i also know other people who play it on highest diff w/o any reloads and often no losses in team.
Admittedly player should remember location of campers, respectively of deadly tiles, and even then it may require a lil luck to get all mercs through.
I think the target group for JA2 UB were mainly the experienced players of the original game who became unsatisfied with toughness of JA2,
similar to Fallout Tactics as sequel, which is even harder on insane IM as the crits have far higher caps than JA2 incl UB


Perhaps use different approaches, did you try sneaky night attacks?
(give a silenced gun to night ops expert and swap it between several other mercs to kill opponent(s) in single turn, so the alarm is not raised)