The latest patch introduced by Full Control (the developer) while brought lots of bug fixes and improvement (notably shop interface) has introduced a rather annoying bug where every female in the sector will start in prone position. On first thought, this is actually not a big problem until you try to save the game during combat and you have female mercenaries in the squad. If you load the previously saved game, you'll discover all female mercenaries will start in prone position!

Since changing stance during combat costs 2 Action Points (AP), you'll probably will have to spend at least 2 AP to change from prone position to crouch position. This probably will make game becomes much harder because those precious AP can be spend on other important thing such as shooting or aiming instead. A lot of players has been complaining for the developer to fix this bug but so far nothing has be done.

Fortunately there is a temporary fix for this bug. It will not get rid the bug but at least minimize the impact of the bug. Instead of making changing stance to cost AP, we can mod the game so changing stance will not cost any AP at all. So when you load the game, you can change stance for female mercenaries to crouch or stand without any penalty.

To mod this, you need to modify GameRulesSettings.json file in the game folder where you install the game through Steam. To find the file, just type GameRulesSettings.json in search bar in Computer or Windows Explorer. If you install mod, there could be several version of the files.

This is the path of the file if you play game without mod:
[Folder you install Steam eg. c:/ProgramFiles(x86)]/steam/SteamApps/common/Jagged Alliance Flashback/game_Data/StreamingAssets/Original/Data/GameRulesSettings.json

This is the path of the file if you play Revival mod:
[Folder you install Steam eg. c:/ProgramFiles(x86)]/steam/SteamApps/common/Jagged Alliance Flashback/game_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods/subscribed_372300298/Data/GameRulesSettings.json

You can open the file using Notepad but you might find the text looks chaotic. For myself, I'm using Notepad++ and you can download it through the Internet.

Search for APForChangeStance text. There's number 2 besides the text. That means it cost 2 AP to change stance during combat so if we want to mod the game so changing stance don't cost any AP, change 2 to 0 and save the file. There are other things you can change but for now let's test it whether it works or not by playing the game.

Shanga has written a detailed explanation on changing many things in GameRulesSettings.json file through his guide. It's a good idea to refer to his guide.

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