Ghost Recons: Wildlands & Breakpoint - The Bear and Badger

FranticPea

Paul the sparky wrote:

I've got to say, this is diabolical in single player. Why don't my team shoot anyone outside of the sync shots? The choppers and back up jeeps are also a bit of a fun tax if you just want to scoot about and shoot stuff too.

I'm sure it'll be a laugh in MP though.

FranticPea wrote:

Shit solo, incredible co-op.

Flashpoint was shit solo too.

Paul the sparky

Aye, but you'd have thought things would have moved on from then. I remember playing through GRAW on the 360 solo and my team chipped in. They even managed it in Conflict: Desert Storm on the PS2, you'd leave your sniper in a good position and when it kicked off he'd pop heads for fun.

These bozos are scampering about in my line of sight not shooting anyone.

The cover mechanic is also piss. Can't seem to take cover in a doorway and lean out to pop a few shots off.

g.man

I wonder if they've tweaked things since the private beta then, because in that one I'd spend ages sneaking into towns only for my entire team to go all Leroy Jenkins at the most inopportune moments.

Doorways would be tricky, but if you hunker down behind cover, there's a little indicator on your aiming reticule that appears to tell if you just have to pull the trigger to pop up and fire.

Paul the sparky

I've been taking a few out by sniping, getting them riled up and letting them come to me. Backup screeches up in a car or three and although the AI were gracious enough to point that out to me they'd not open fire. One was in my line of site as the bullets were coming in, did fuck all. Dunno what's causing it, maybe because they've not been spotted but I have? They don't need an order to go loud do they? I'd have thought bullets flying would have given them the clue.

The cover is odd. Sometimes you snap into it and a pull if LT sees you pop out and aim, other times you just point your gun at a wall/rock/fence and have to reposition. It'll take some getting used to, but it feels poor in comparison to stuff like Rainbow 6 Vegas and The Division.

I like the idea behind the game overall though, feels more like an MP MGSV than OpFlash from what I've played, but it'll be fun enough.

afgavinstan

Definitely up for some Reconnery this evening gents.

Blocks100

Does this play anything like the original Mercenaries? Because I notice this is 3rd person and I dearly loved the former game.

FranticPea

It's basically a 4 player co-op version of Mercenaries

Blocks100

FuuuuuuuuuuCK

Webbins

I thought my squad were less gung ho than in the first beta but I didn't have bother making them fire. I got them into position and then used the fire command. It's more fun parking them up out of the way and going in Sam Fisher style though.

Paul the sparky

afgavinstan wrote:

Definitely up for some Reconnery this evening gents.

I'll be up for a bit of that action.

Wookie was on earlier, we should hopefully get a full team going.

Stevotatersdeep

This game is a smear of shite on the ghost recon name.
I'm legit shocked at how awful it is especially off the back of the division (a game i sunk a lot of time into) I can't think of a game in recent memory as unutterably bad as the beta/demo for this was.

Car handling? shite.
Feel of the aiming? shite.
Handling of aircraft? comically shite.
Graphics? Shite.
Framerate? Shite.
Lip sync? Varies between non existent and shite.

How did they fuck this up so badly?

Webbins

Judge it on the full release, not an alpha/beta/demo, Stonochalicedeep.

Paul the sparky

What's up with the car handling though? Can't get the hang of it, it's either going straight or chucking in a 90° handbrake turn, nowt in between.

The chopper controls are wonky too, fuck knows what's going on there.

Paul the sparky

Day one though.

Webbins

You can lower the sensitivity of the driving in the options, I think there's two options that affect it. May be flying options too. I find the flying suffers from being tied to one stick, which I think they've done to simplify it but I'm used to twin stick flying. Should be optional.

Stevotatersdeep

Paul the sparky wrote:

What's up with the car handling though? Can't get the hang of it, it's either going straight or chucking in a 90° handbrake turn, nowt in between.

The chopper controls are wonky too, fuck knows what's going on there.

Its shite that's what! Much like it's shite but to a lesser extent of shite in watchdogs 2.
Must be a Ubisoft thing, everything else they already got right in the division and this is a huge leap backwards.

pantyfire

The Division world and cover system married with this games shooting and recon the target/plan your assault mechanisms and it would be great.

afgavinstan

Good rally on this with Chaz and then G and Franny for a bit last night. Any other point in time I'd be all over this day one, but with Yakuza 0 still sitting there, I can't really justify it. Plus it's Ubi, it'll be £20 within six weeks for sure.

Still, great beta. Really enjoyed it.

g.man

Stayed on last night and flew round that new region in a chopper for a look-see. Found some abandoned mine workings at the top of a mountain...which lead me to an entire underground base in the mines. Some real James Bond shit went down clearing out that nest of fools.

ShabbyMcCrabby

Keep me.posted for when you get it Gav and I'll dive in too. We can scrub together.

afgavinstan

Fo sho Shabs. Think mano is doing the same!

FranticPea

Bolivia complains to France about its portrayal in video game

g.man

I'm sure they'll change their tune when Team Awesome arrives bearing gifts of beads and bullets.

FranticPea

Yeh but what about all the burned out helicopter carcasses littering their beautiful landscape?

g.man

I like to think of those as tourist attractions.

Chazmano

I loved it.......mabe I have lower standards but I'm choking to play this tomorrow

pantyfire

The second beta actually turned me off it.

ShabbyMcCrabby

afgavinstan wrote:

Fo sho Shabs. Think mano is doing the same!

Chazmano wrote:

I loved it.......mabe I have lower standards but I'm choking to play this tomorrow

Apparently not.

afgavinstan

I know, the dick. Peer pressuring me to fuck.

g.man

Went to local indie. Sold out of standard edition already. Wanted 80 bills for the gold edition with season pass. Fuck that says I!
Wandered down to Game.
They're selling the standard edition today!

boughted

g.man

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