Feature guides

1.13 adds or overhauls dozens of interlocking systems. Every one of them has a dedicated guide, each verified against the current game data and source code. This page groups them so you can find the right one fast.

Combat

• New Chance to Hit (NCTH) — the optional realistic aiming model
• Suppression — pinning enemies down, and staying calm yourself
• Interrupts & reflexes — the improved interrupt system
• Weapons & ballistics — ammo types, overheating, dirt, jamming
• Explosives & breaching — locks, doors, walls, demolitions
• Camouflage & stealth — not being seen, day or night
• Weather & environment — rain, night, smoke, gas and terrain
• Fortifications & tripwire — building your own defenses

Gear & inventory

• Inventory & LBE — the New Inventory System and load-bearing gear
• Weapon attachments — the slot-based attachment system in play
• Bobby Ray & item progression — why the good guns come later

Your people

• Skills & traits — the new trait system, every trait explained
• Creating IMPs — point-buy, disabilities, multiple IMPs
• Hiring & contracts — AIM, M.E.R.C., growth modifiers, PMC militia
• Morale & opinions — what your mercs think of you and each other
• Reputation — the hidden employer rating
• Snitches & informants — gossip, propaganda and prison spies
• Support roles — spotter, assistant machinegunner, radio operator
• The Robot — Madlab's creation: control, upgrades, repair

Survival & subsystems

• Food & water — the optional hunger and thirst system
• Drugs & disease — medications, side effects, epidemics
• Covert operations — disguises and spycraft
• Prisoners of war — capturing and interrogating enemies
• Retreat, defeat & capture — when battles go wrong for you
• Random events — the Mini Events campaign popups

The strategic layer & the enemy

• Militia — training, commanding and equipping your garrison
• Facilities & assignments — what mercs can do off the battlefield
• The strategic war — how the Queen fights back
• Rebel Command — directives and the A.R.C. website
• Know your enemy — classes, roles, generals, tanks, zombies
• Enemy tactical AI — what the AI does and how to tune it
• Vehicles — Hummer, ice cream truck and the helicopter

Almost everything here can be enabled, disabled or tuned — see Configuring 1.13 and the Ja2_Options.INI guide.