Ghost Recon Wildlands

[TheMix]

Riding a bike in Wildlands is always fun, whether you're doing a mission or just going from point A to point B

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Nicely done! And some primo air a few times!

[jztemple2]

I've been playing a bunch of R6 Siege lately. That would not fly. Drop by if you want to hone your skills a bit.

Every time I play R6 Siege I am sure my teammates are cursing my existence as I fail to do anything more than be a bullet magnet. And the maps are too damn small for my usual tactic of camping

The one time I played a round of three encounters in R6 Extraction with teammates I had to be carried out, incapacitated, each time

[TheMix]

I've been playing a bunch of R6 Siege lately. That would not fly. Drop by if you want to hone your skills a bit.

Every time I play R6 Siege I am sure my teammates are cursing my existence as I fail to do anything more than be a bullet magnet. And the maps are too damn small for my usual tactic of camping

The one time I played a round of three encounters in R6 Extraction with teammates I had to be carried out, incapacitated, each time

No idea about that. I only play Lone Wolf or with people I know. Playing Saturdays currently with a friend. The rest of the time I Lone Wolf it. It's all about going slow, listening, liberal use of claymores, and droning. Though I've been working on speeding things up by skipping the droning. I've found listening is usually enough. I'd be happy to escort/accompany you sometime if you want.

[jztemple2]

I only play Lone Wolf or with people I know.

Are you talking about Lone Wolf with R6 Siege? I installed it and am looking for it but can't find it

[Blackhawk]

It's playing solo in Training Grounds (previously known as 'Terrorist Hunt'.)

[jztemple2]

It's playing solo in Training Grounds (previously known as 'Terrorist Hunt'.)

Thanks! I'll take a look. Meanwhile, another video. Things go from bad to worse as the Ghosts try to find another skill point. It starts off not too badly, but I die once by mischance and then again by stupidity

[TheMix]

It's playing solo in Training Grounds (previously known as 'Terrorist Hunt'.)

Correct. And they made it a lot easier than I remember. I succeed almost every time on Normal. I've started to push things faster just to make them more interesting.

[Blackhawk]

It's playing solo in Training Grounds (previously known as 'Terrorist Hunt'.)

Correct. And they made it a lot easier than I remember. I succeed almost every time on Normal. I've started to push things faster just to make them more interesting.

They removed all of the bombers, they removed random bomb traps, and they removed the infamous 'bomb room.' All that's left are 20 or so terrorists. We ran those so many times that we started getting bored and doing pistol-only, always sprinting runs after a while.

[jztemple2]

It's helicopter versus helicopter in Wildlands!

[Smoove_B]

Picked this up years ago, played it for a few hours, then forgot about it. Saw it was on sale for $10 and then remembered, oh yeah, I own it. I've put another ~10 hours in this week. It's highly repetitive but it's providing that same satisfaction I get playing Far Cry while taking over enemy outposts. My AI partners aren't bothering me at all - they're actually pretty helpful and so far it's turned into an interesting unanticipated diversion.

The world looks amazing and the small unit guerilla style tactics is hitting a sweet spot for me. Nothing like landing in a tiny chopper outside a small village, racing into a building to get something (intel, weapon upgrade, etc...) and then racing back to the chopper to evacuate while under small arms fire.

For $10 this is a no-brainer if you hadn't seen int on sale.

[Octavious]

I somehow didn't understand what Wildlands and Breakpoint were and never played them. Breakpoint is on the PS+ pass so I downloaded it yesterday. Except for the insanely obtuse menus/mission screens it's crazy fun. It reminds me A LOT of Metal Gear which is a good thing. As there's the summer sale I grabbed Wildlands on the PC (It's 30 FPS on the consoles no thanks). It looked like the structure of that one is a bit more organized so I'm going to give that a go tonight.

[Octavious]

Got booted saying the servers are down and now can't get back in. So lame. Had less than 2 hours played so I requested a refund. I'll circle back after it's cheaper. I forgot how much I hate dealing with their crappy servers. I just want to play stuff. I don't want to wait 8 hours for it to load and then have the servers not work.

Apparently cranky me did buy it at some point and refunded it. The most impressive thing for me is that it looks like I never came back to the thread until now.

[jztemple2]

I really enjoyed Breakpoint once they implemented the Ghost Experience mode.

[Octavious]

I was playing it in immersive mode which is way better than some tiered loot nonsense. The only bummer is that they don't seem to have anything in the way of armor that actually matters. (Unless I play in the loot mode). So collecting armor is really just a fashion thing unless I'm missing something?

And my god the menus... So bad... Blowing up stuff is SUPER satisfying for sure. I was surprised at how much it reminded me of Metal Gear. Which is a huge compliment. It just looked like Wildlands may have a better mission structure. We shall see tonight.

[Blackhawk]

/edit - reading comprehension. I hasn't gots it. The comment below was about Breakpoint, not Wildlands. Move along.

I tried it a year or two ago. I got to a certain point where they introduced the progression mechanics, and I just walked away. It has the UbiSoft System Bloat issue. Menus within menus, unlock mechanics within progression systems within experience systems, currencies for one thing, other currencies for a different thing, and on and on. It was obtuse and bloated enough that it honestly killed my desire to engage with it. It seems like every Ubi game pushes that excess further, confusing complexity with depth.

I'll go back one of these days and give it another go, I'm sure.

[Octavious]

I don't know how bad that is in Wildlands but the other one in immersive mode kills off a lot of that. The mission menu system is batshit crazy though. Like seriously you can create these massive worlds and your menus are all over the f'n place.

[Smoove_B]

There is quite a bit of bloat in Wildlands though it didn't feel as bad as it did in Viking Creed or whatever it was called. The major criticism I had for Wildlands (and why I burned out) was really the paper-thin campaign story. It's there and you can certainly focus on it and probably zip around the game quickly. However, at some point you really do need to focus on side missions and optional objectives to get enough widgets to level up your gear/skills/team/support. That wasn't an issue, but sometimes being "gated" from completing something in the game because you don't have a high enough level [thing] was a little irritating.

Regardless, I'd still recommend it - namely because you can play for 30 minutes or 3 hours. I put about 24 hours into it before burning out, but I know I can just jump right back in and start doing missions again no problem.

[Blackhawk]

I don't know how bad that is in Wildlands but the other one in immersive mode kills off a lot of that. The mission menu system is batshit crazy though. Like seriously you can create these massive worlds and your menus are all over the f'n place.

Oops, Wildlands. I misread the title. I was referring to Breakpoint. Sorry.

Wildlands I played with Brian, BadDemo, and Ham Spade (BadDemo's husband.) It was fun, and I'm glad I played it, although I found it painfully easy (admittedly, we were probably playing on normal difficulty.)

[Brian]

And we all experienced the greatest helicopter landing of all time...

[Blackhawk]

Brian + vehicles. Always a fun combination.

[TheMix]

Is he aware that one doesn't always have to have the throttle set to max?

[coopasonic]

Is he aware that one doesn't always have to have the throttle set to max?

[Brian]

Is he aware that one doesn't always have to have the throttle set to max?

You mean there are other settings besides Stop and "Balls Out"?

I think NOT!

[Octavious]

I'd try to get my daughter to play with me, but I think those days are over. As soon as she hit 17 she found tons of people to hang out with online and in person. I mean from 14 on I don't think I was home more than a few hours a week so hard for me to be upset about it.

[coopasonic]

I'd try to get my daughter to play with me, but I think those days are over. As soon as she hit 17 she found tons of people to hang out with online and in person. I mean from 14 on I don't think I was home more than a few hours a week so hard for me to be upset about it.

My 17yo still tries to get me to play Breakpoint with him and I keep telling him Wildlands was better. For the record we've played a TON of both together. I will be sad when he decides he has better things to do than play games with dad. One more year until college.

[Blackhawk]

And we all experienced the greatest helicopter landing of all time...

From the other seat:

[Octavious]

Huge thumbs up for me. I'll go back to the newer one at some point, but this just has a structure that made sense to me. Cocaine bad people. Kill them one by one. Got it!

I'm kind of bummed that I missed out on this on it's hay day. I can imagine this would be a total blast with a good group of people. The gunplay is super fun. The missions are generally fun... Very impressed. I love when I miss someyand find it later so there is that.

[TheMix]

Don't forget motorcycles. Motorcycles and off-road. Tons of fun!

[Octavious]

I'm playing with a gamepad due to all the vehicles and because it's too freaking easy mouse and keyboard. I feel like John Wick if I use mouse and keyboard. Which I mean I can see the appeal but meh.

[Smoove_B]

I will give the game credit (and I mentioned it upstream) - there's nothing more awesome than loading up a small helicopter, landing, executing a quick recovery/discovery/kill and then jumping back on the helicopter and zipping to safety. It's a tactic that works great until it doesn't (related to game play progress).

[Octavious]

I parachuted onto a drug boat that needed to be blown up. Needless to say that's not a solid plan, but it was funny. I landed fine, but all the AI teammates got stuck hanging on the boat. I was going to play without them, but I find they pretty amusing. In another mission the dude got hit by a train. He was rived and said something like That's going to leave a mark. Ya no shit it was a train.

[jztemple2]

Since we've been talking about Wildlands I reinstalled it and am continuing a game I started a couple of months ago. I have finished the one skull difficulty area and had just started on one of the two skull ones. Sadly the Ubisoft Club has lost all my stats for my original playthroughs so I've only got about ten hours completed shown.

People have asked if Wildlands is the better game than Breakpoint or vice versa. Playing it again I have really come to the conclusion that they are significantly different enough that each is worth playing on its own.

[Octavious]

I enjoy the drug cartel theme a lot more then a isolated tech island. The GFX are much better in breakpoint and it feels more like a stealth game. It's also making me want to play Metal Gear 5 again which I always start play for a few hours and stop.