Jagged Alliance 2: Last Stand

Last Stand is a new modification of Polish group Iron Squad, founded 30th December, 2004, best known for its Polish version of JA2: Urban Chaos and JA2: Vietnam SOG '69. Modification was first known as "Projekt X", misterious project, that only information about was it is being made. Nevertheless, it has aroused a great interest among Jagged Alliance fans.

Modification was officially annouced at IS Site 28th June, 2007. This is first annoucement, so there isn't much information. You can forget about screenshots, too early But we have prepared something different, something you haven't seen until now in Jagged Alliance World.
Especially for you we have prepared a special teaser! It is not sloppy one, we tried our best to put in it game climate. There is no game screenshots, though. It will introduce you to a plot, which will be main element of the game, move you somewhere around the Balkans, to a country torned by an interior conflict, to a place of betrayal and revenge!

Check it yourself here and now! Download and watch teaser!
Download Teaser JA2: Last Stand!

Characteristics:

• Totally new, most interesting plot, you have ever seen!
• New country torned by a new conflict!
• New map, main menu, laptop!
• Over 250 new maps!
• New characters!
• New terrains!
• Lots of new objects!
• New weapons and items, including Polish ones!
• Two language versions!
• ...Main character!

We are targeting very high. We want to defeat JA2: Urban Chaos, even if we wil not made it, you can expect something big!

- JA2: Last Stand (english) - Teaser
- JA2: Last Stand (polish) - Teaser
- Iron Squad - Official website
- Jagged Alliance Center - Polish forum

Great news Len, finally oneself we will wait for modification from Iron Squad

wow, a teaser for a JA2 mod! not bad, not bad! would also make for a nice intro video.

i also like the focus on plot. i really like complex plots!

Lenn, i really hope this mod will be developed for 1.13? because before this year is over, there will be a lot of changes and new features, which will greatly expand the gameplay and possibilities for modders, not counting all the serious bugfixes.

i wish you guys luck and a high working morale, as well as way too much spare time!

Mauser: I'm glad you like it In this mod story will be very important. Now it's not enouth to go straight foward, plot will have huge influence on our moves.
Of course mod will be based on 1.13. This summer we'll show you first brain washing screens ;), at least I hope so because se still have much to do.

trailer great , lot to live up to

@ Lenn: no problem, i can wait. just take all the time you need and turn it into quality.
good quality management and dedication is very important to any mod, but especially to heavily story driven ones. you´ll need a lot of NPCs, story objects, information sources to make it believeable and compelling.
so you´ll need a lot of good voice acting and scripting to make it really work, just ask the scorpion about that.

the more time you take to produce quality, the more new features 1.13 will offer to be utilized by you. so don´t hasten it, it´ll be your and our benefit for sure.

The teaser did not show anything from the game, to bad, thou it was a cool teaser...

Hope to see some actual game fotage, that would be cool, or just the menu, map, anything...

Norse: The movie doesn't show anything, because it's a teaser, which purpose is to show no details ;).
Of course we will show something else, but as the project is still in the early phase, we would rather wait with it.

ok, thats allright, Great teaser anyway...

Lenn, have a question... are you going to be making an English version of this mod? I took note of you naming yourself as a Polish group, which makes me fear that this mod is going to be available ONLY in Polish and it would be very bad for me, because I can't speak any Polish (and have no opportunity to learn any) and as the story is very important for this mod, it would frankly suck. So, do try to make it in English too, will you?

Certainly , don't worry. We are a Polish group , but we've been translating JA2 mods into Polish for 3 years now, so we've got some experience in it
However it's still quite a lot of time left till the release. We want every element to be perfect. In Last Stand the action will be depicted in slightly more "movie-like" way (see the teaser) and it requires work

Well, that sounds great! I definitely look forward to this one, although I understand it'll take plenty of time. Do you think a release could be possible before Summer 2008?

I'm glad. It's still far from the finish of the work ,but believe me - patience pays off Will we manage the summer 2008? It's qiute probable ,especially that the release was scheduled for second quarter of 2008

What an audacious project! It even has a teaser! It's excellent to know it will have an english version(it's rare on Europe mod releases).I hope it won't be abandoned later in the dust.

well done boys

How is the progress?

Sorry for not writing so long.

The work is still in progress, but it's going slow. Right now we're working on things like map or story. Only few people work with it, but the crew should grow up soon

On consolation:

any nearer a release Lenn ?

maybe its the last stand for Last Stand?Hope not !

I actually looked at the teaser , seems much more like Silent Storm , hmmmmm ? Not really JA at all.

well is any progress yet?

Anyone is this coming out or not?

Lockie: The teaser was just a projection of the creators' vision. That movie simply introduces to the atmosphere of the plot, which will surely be extensive

Altough slowly, no reason to conceal that, the work is progressing all the time. We lack people willing to do the job - mainly graphic artists and programmers, so if there's someone who would like to help, we'll definitely be able to find him some work to do

I think that the progress will gain a bit of speed, since we aquired some maps and objects from Bartek0511 that were supposed to be used in JA2: New Caledonia (the project has been canceled).

Hopefully someone here might be able to help, as I'm looking forward to seeing more . Thanks for the update Lenn .

How is this project coming along, guys? I'm really looking forward to playing this mod.
(I hope I'm not poking a dead body, as it's about 5 months since last update.)

Hanakin,

Here's what it says on the official site:

That was dated April 5th, so i guess sometime soon there will be some screen shots.

And here we heard it would be out last summer ! Worth waiting on though

It's been some time since the last piece of info was presented, time for an update.

The early version of RIS report on Cameria, as well as its map, have just been published
--> check
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The report is in Polish, no English version available yet (it's gonna be published after releasing the final version of RIS report) --> try google translator:)

edit: here's the link to the article http://www.ironsquad.eu/readarticle.php?article_id=64

Nice ;P

Looks like one of the Grand Theft Auto maps. Either GTA3 or GTA: Vice City.

Looks great. But how long it will takes for finishing the mod?

Well, we're not going to finish it soon. Our main problem is the lack of sector designers. Fortunately, we've just acquired two experienced ones, so our situation has improved. Unfortunately, I can't tell you how long it will take to finish Last Stand. We don't know it for sure yet. What I can promise is letting you know when most sectors have been completed. I don't know how much I can disclose, think it's up to Len - he's the boss.

edit: English grammar:)

Thanks Maras , for any info you or Len can provide , this mod has a lot of people here excited

Hopefully its not gonna take another 2 years

I take it that this one died too.......

Still working on it I believe .

bad links.

no download .

Who can give me a useful door for the mod?

Thanks

It's been a long time since creators said something about Last Stand.
Anyhow, as far as I know, Jazz came into Iron Squad roster to add some brainpower for LS, and this is more than one could want when working on a modification.
Also, Len showed one screenshot from editor on the time of New Year's eve ;-) I somehow forgot to show it and it's interesting that it hasn't been brought up here till now..

Yeah , I saw it on Last Stand website , looks pretty cool !

Yo lockie, I don't have Last Stand on JAGalaxy yet, do you have a download link somewhere? I couldn't find it here.

I looked at the Polish Web site (for 5 seconds), clicked on Download in the menu to the left, but couldn't find Last Stand. Would love to put it up on JAG.

Rather you will see frozen Sun than done Last Stand.

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.ironsquad.pl/artykul4/jagged-alliance-last-stand-autorska-modyfikacja/&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhgYnNvsziHOGcrhuMVAJCTxRinT7g

Try this Dieter .

Is that the top down tron / jagged alliance game , or a new mod by yourselves ?

This mod from the beginning had no chance to do and finitely.

Sorry , I don't understand that statement

It is my opinion about LS. That all.

Do you mean Last Stand will likely never be finished ? And , what IS Frozen Sun ?
Lockie .

a metaphore like 'frozen hell'

Ahh , I see .
Ta oh wise one .

Yes

When the Sun( Sol) freezes over? For many, many, many........years