>>2068815
I remember showing JA2 to a friend when it released in like '99 or so. Big strategy buff so I figured he'll love it. As soon as he saw me moving mags, weapons and other stuff between mercs he was like "this is some shit inventory management game, I'm not playing it". It's funny because a few months later he picked up Diablo 2 and that was all he played for over a year.
>>2069144
Last time I checked there's new character sprites or whatever so that all the gear is shown on the character, this also applies to portraits and there's also a bunch of AI mods. Personally, I checked out when the new AP system was introduced, I still come back to 1.13 from time to time, but aside from new gear and a few other things, I try to keep it close to vanilla. It's great that people are still introducing new stuff to the game, it just shows how great it is, but 1.13 kinda feels like bloat in recent years. I used to play Straciatella, then it got shitty and recently GOG unfucked their wrapper so you can alt-tab without the game freezing, so I can't find a reason to play 1.13.