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First and foremost, thank you my good friend Deakul for the original Wildlands thread!  Welcome to the sequel goons! Play with goons here. It’s same place we do Division 2 and has the crossover of goons. Read the readme if you’re new. This is for PC and consoles, just like we did with Div2. Be cool: https://discord.gg/kV2HaFf When’s this launch? October 4, 2019  THERE IS AN “OPEN BETA” I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW ABOUT But mr icr sun god man, what do you mean? The beta is from 9/5-9/9. It’s free to get invited to with Uplay+. I have a lot to say on this later. Anywho...  See, it’s free. You should do this for the FREE month. It’s the only free month they’re doing. It’s brand new and launches 9/3. So, what happens is you get a lot of games to play for a month that are on Uplay. It’s $0. The most important of which for this thread’s purpose is Ghost Recon Breakpoint. $0. Do it. PC Only for this deal. Console, you gotta preorder. If you have a capable PC though, well, see above again. What is in this smelly beta? First off: preload is available now. It starts on Thursday at 6AM ET. Content: Everything can be played solo or with three other players in co-op. Four of Breakpoint’s map regions (Smuggler Coves, Mount Hodgson, Sinking Country, Fen Bog) will be available to explore. You’ll also have access to two story missions, various side missions, and eight faction missions that rotate every day of the beta. Throughout the four regions, you’ll also encounter three of the game’s big drone bosses. Each of these drone areas hide a tough fight. This includes the Murmurs drone swarm, the Aamons land drone, and the big Behemoth tank. You can stream this until your Heart is content. No NDA. OK, but about the game? What if I’m slightly interested? WELCOME TO AUROA Somewhere in the South Pacific lies the remote Auroa Archipelago, a vast land of diverse biomes that range from lush rainforests to snowy peaks. Now, it’s home to Skell Technology, an enigmatic technology giant. Initially interested in a remote testing site for its autonomous drones, the Silicon Valley company eventually turned Auroa into its “World 2.0,” a high-tech, high-security utopia of sustainable eco-cities and robotics research. Better yet, you have to go find Jon Bernthal and bring him down. It’s open world stuff. You get loot. You have fun. It’s co-op or solo. It’s got a raid now. There’s 11 biomes. Battle on land, air and sea. Co-op is jump in and jump out. The enemies are called Wolves. They’re not actual wolves. PETA would go apeshit. Now I’m stealing words from Ubisoft. GAME DETAILS MILITARY SURVIVAL Experience life as a Ghost, an elite US Special Operations soldier, as you fight back from behind enemy lines on the toughest mission of your career. INJURY SYSTEM Now when your Ghost takes damage they may also become injured. These injuries will slow you down and reduce your combat effectiveness requiring additional time and resources to heal your Ghost back up to peak fighting condition. TERRAIN AND STAMINA The world of Auroa will push your Ghost to their limits. Steep slopes will make you slip and fall, traversing water or snow will slow you down. Properly managing your stamina will be essential to surviving and fighting back. THE BIVOUAC Trapped behind enemy lines The Bivouac is a temporary camp where you and your fellow Ghosts will rest and prepare for the next mission. Clean your weapons, change classes, craft items, upgrade gear, and more. Then select desired time of day and weather before venturing back out. BUDDY CARRY Leave no man behind. When an ally is down and needs help, instead of giving medical attention in the middle of a firefight, you can quickly sling them over your shoulder and move to safety to get them back on their feet. STEALTH Use all your training and skills to infiltrate or evade your enemies as they hunt you without mercy. PRONE BLENDING As a Ghost you can disappear into your environment making you nearly invisible to your enemies. Use this feature to set up an ambush or avoid detection when cover is not available. ADVANCED ENEMY AI The Wolves and their allies are experienced elite soldiers and will communicate amongst themselves to hunt you down if detected. With a wide variety of AI archetypes and behaviors, no two encounters will be the same. ADAPTIVE COVER An adaptive cover system will automatically match your Ghost’s body position to available cover and execute advanced tactics, such as leaning to aim around corners. CUSTOMIZE YOUR GHOST Create a unique Ghost to look and play your way. With multiple classes and deep systems featuring thousands of options for both functional and cosmetic customization no two Ghosts will look and play the same. Weapons, gear, and equipment are craftable, customizable, and upgradeable using items and resources you’ll find across Auroa. Multiplayer? Yes. There is competitive PvP. There’s a raid too. There’s 4 player co-op though story or open world content. Loot and Class Progression Quoting this from a site that played the game. TIERED LOOT DROPS Though our hands-on time with Ghost Recon Breakpoint was very brief, we did notice one interesting new quirk: enemies drop tiered loot. Sure, you can always grab a dead grunt’s gun in Wildlands, but in Breakpoint goons drop different rarities of weapons. The only example we came across was a PP-19-01 Vityaz that dropped with a greenish glow, which traditionally flags in-game gear as ‘uncommon’. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to investigate its stats to see what made it different. Much like in looter shooters and MMOs, you’ll also be able to unlock gear and cosmetics from chests scattered around the world, ensuring every map marker is teeming with potential loot rewards. CLASS-BASED PROGRESSION Instead of progressing your Ghost by gradually accumulating abilities from a sprawling skill tree, Ghost Recon Breakpoint offers four classes that you can switch between whenever you visit a bivouac. Each class has its own progression tree and suite of special abilities, meaning you’ll have to specialise your Breakpoint character build a bit more. For example, you could pick the Panther class to gain access to abilities like ‘smokescreen’ that allow you to quickly break away from a firefight. More Breakpoint character classes have been promised post-launch, too. How do I buy this game? Consoles, you know how this works. PC, stay with me. And stay with me all nice and good-like: DO NOT BUY THIS FOR $60 Remember I posted above you could play this beta for free and see if you like it? If you do, you need to buy Uplay+ for $14.99. From there, you should wait for the inevitable discount. Division 2 got a 50% discount in under 2 months. Don’t fall victim. “Buy the game” for $14.99. Treat it like Origin Access, Games Pass, etc. it’s available on Uplay. I am fat with money and need to spend Here ya go then. It’s like, exactly the same thing as Division 2 buy prices:  PC Reqs Minimum specs: (Low, 1080p) CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-4460 RAM: 8GB Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 280X / Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 (4GB) OS: Windows 7-10 Recommended specs: (High, 1080p) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 / Intel Core i7-6700K RAM: 8GB Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 480 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) OS: Windows 7-10 Ultra specs: (1080p) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X / Intel Core i7-6700K RAM: 16GB Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 OS: Windows 10 Thoughts: To me, it seems like with the additions, it’s going the way of The Division this time around. It’s GaaS stuff so, with that, just know what you’re getting into. However, for $14.99 launch, as long as beta rocks the house (I think it will be really solid by the sounds), $15 is a good entry point. Let’s have some fun and play together. The Fall and Winter owns for games. Be cool to each other, help each other out, humble brag some loot and accomplishments and most importantly, let’s have fun!! Media: PVP: https://youtu.be/uLXqTRPDqcY PVP2: https://youtu.be/Ka5wV3Cr1_U Gameplay: https://youtu.be/XvHGqvV0qRg The Punisher/Reveal: https://youtu.be/BLWt9MQLVgU More gameplay screens will come when beta drops. I’ll screen some. More updates to come to round up the OP a bit more. See you all in game!
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Reserved. Do the Uplay+ Beta thing if you're PC. It's free. Post impressions. Thanks!
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Sep 3, 2019 02:14
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I'm in the beta and I'll post about it. I was in the tech test too so I'm curious to see what they improved.
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Psion posted:I'm in the beta and I'll post about it. I was in the tech test too so I'm curious to see what they improved. Same. For those of you wondering what this is like, pretend The Division and Wildlands had a baby.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:44
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Jose Oquendo posted:Same. For those of you wondering what this is like, pretend The Division and Wildlands had a baby. This is dead on. And yeah, I’ll be posting my impressions for sure. I’ll pimp out the uplay+ heavily here and on discord too.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:07
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Anyone in the beta figure out how to invite others? I followed the link and signed into the main Breakpoint website but I don't see anything for invites despite the email stating as such.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:10
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Jose Oquendo posted:Anyone in the beta figure out how to invite others? I followed the link and signed into the main Breakpoint website but I don't see anything for invites despite the email stating as such. I don't think they've sent those invites out yet? I don't see them myself.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:22
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Oh drat, didn't realize they were making this into a looter shooter. I can't hold all these loot filled games.  Good thread mate, thanks for taking up the mantle, hopefully I'll have time to check out this beta cause I missed the tech test that they did.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:36
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The tech test was really rough. No female VA levels of rough. The extra invites unlock on September 3rd at 9AM PST. I'll be trying to drop my extra ones in here since I have no friends
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Just an FYI. I’ll be crossposting this in Division thread too. __**Uplay+ Launches Today**__ https://store.ubi.com/us/uplayplus/?lang=en_US About 5 hours ago, Uplay+ launched, which is their subscription service to play the Ubisoft catalog for an unlimited amount of time. Here’s the kicker. __**IT IS FREE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH**__ Click the link above. They’re doing the free thing to get people interested of course. But do yourself a favor: set a reminder on September 30th to cancel. Do the free stuff. Play some games like The Division; Ghost Recon, Watchdogs, Rayman, and their plethora of other games. Free. Go in. Cheers!
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Sep 3, 2019 16:58
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key Ghost Recon Breakpoint facts: anyone in the beta can invite 3 people as of 45 minutes ago, so they too can preload ICR is showing up as not in the beta
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Sep 3, 2019 17:45
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Psion posted:key Ghost Recon Breakpoint facts: Oh that’ll be fixed tonight don’t you worry friend
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Sep 3, 2019 17:52
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Sep 3, 2019 18:19
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I signed up for uplay+ but as far as I can tell the only way to sign up for the beta is providing your email on the minisite for the game. Is this right or is there another way once you've got uplay+?
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Sep 3, 2019 18:40
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Psion posted:key Ghost Recon Breakpoint facts: Do you have a link for inviting people? I can't seem to find it.
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Sep 3, 2019 18:45
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Two new trailers dropped today: 15 minutes of campaign https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/09/03/the-first-15-minutes-of-ghost-recon-breakpoints-campaign-gameplay Elimination pvp: https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/09/03/ghost-recon-breakpoint-full-round-of-elimination-on-new-pvp-map-rd-center
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Sep 3, 2019 18:53
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FormatAmerica posted:I signed up for uplay+ but as far as I can tell the only way to sign up for the beta is providing your email on the minisite for the game. Is this right or is there another way once you've got uplay+? You have to go on the uplay+ website and look at the list of uplay+ games, then hover over the one you want and the "add to library" option should show up. It then should be added into your uplay client. Yes, this is stupid. The client is also saying right now that my uplay+ subscription is expired which is lol. Googling this seems like its a known issue though, probably because of all the new subscription requests. DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 18:58
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Jose Oquendo posted:Do you have a link for inviting people? I can't seem to find it. go here, log into your ubi account on this page https://ghost-recon.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/beta scroll down to the section titled "Invite 3 Friends," might require a refresh/reload SUN GOD AVATAR posted:Oh that’ll be fixed tonight don’t you worry friend i can fix it now if you want, just let me know 
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Sep 3, 2019 19:04
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:You have to go on the uplay+ website and look at the list of uplay+ games, then hover over the one you want and the "add to library" option should show up. It then should be added into your uplay client. Yes, this is stupid. Thank you! That was exactly what I needed.
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Sep 3, 2019 19:07
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Psion posted:go here, log into your ubi account on this page Go for it. Yes, send me an invite. Love you!!!!!
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Sep 3, 2019 19:13
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Sent! Also, I hope this game does not treat our antagonist seriously because this is, well, some Tom Clancy tier naming alright: quote:Face your deadliest enemy yet, The Wolves, former Ghosts who have betrayed their country. Led by the charismatic Colonel Cole D. Walker... yes, Col. Cold Walker, your nemesis.
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Sep 3, 2019 19:28
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I hope tiered loot doesn't mean this'll be like the last two Assassins Creed games where your level 5 knife didn't do poo poo to a level 10 enemy.
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Sep 3, 2019 19:36
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Psion posted:Sent! I see Hot Coldman has finally met his match.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:00
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Man, I'm bummed to hear that this is just Division + jungle. I liked Wildlands because it was different from Division and didn't have poo poo like loot to worry about. I didn't spend a ton of time in Wildlands but did have a fun enough time screwing around with a friend in the wilderness getting into shenanigans.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:27
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I think the weapon tiers will mean less in this than they do in the division, but it does make me wonder why they felt the need to make it so I could have a common level 1 HK416 or an uncommon level 5 HK416 it just seems like they're throwing everything at the wall: survival stuff, upgrade tiers, crafting, etc etc Sometimes that works out - Splinter Cell Blacklist comes to mind - but sometimes not. We'll see 
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Sep 3, 2019 21:39
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Just gathering impressions, even from the dumb places. I do enjoy the reads: Ghost Recon Breakpoint: 6-Hour Hands-On Preview Impressions http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/03/ghost-recon-breakpoint-6-hour-hands-on-preview-impressions quote:Before I sat down to play several hours of Ghost Recon Breakpoint, community developer Grace Orlady set the stage: “We want to make the player live the life of an elite special forces hunter,” she said. Well, I’m pretty sure real special forces don’t stare down former allies turned maniacal supervillains on private islands overrun by weaponized drones, but...well, if they did I suppose we’d never know about it. So sure, let’s go with it!
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Well, I just watched the 15 minute ign gameplay video. I’ve never felt my excitement deflate so quickly before.
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Psion posted:it just seems like they're throwing everything at the wall: survival stuff, upgrade tiers, crafting, etc etc I feel like blacklist worked in spite of a lot of that stuff, not because of it. Also, while I used to find it amusing, now I’m just frustrated: why do Ubisoft games keep needing to reintroduce moving bodies in stealth games?! Why is this such a hard concept to grasp?
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Sep 4, 2019 13:39
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The fact that the clothing has stats is pretty stupid, I liked playing soldier dress up without having to worry about loving damage and defense numbers. Now it's going to be like low level MMO bullshit where nothing matches and you look like an idiot because you want the best numbers? Ugh 
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Sep 4, 2019 18:51
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Shredder posted:The fact that the clothing has stats is pretty stupid, I liked playing soldier dress up without having to worry about loving damage and defense numbers. there is some form of upgrade system where you can raise the level of your items so presumably you can still do this and just craft a new level 10 hat from your level 5 hat or whatever I think it's not going to be as compelling a treadmill as they want it to be, but we'll find out in what, 15 hours?
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Sep 4, 2019 18:57
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IIRC in the tech test there was a cosmetics override where once you pick up an item it unlocked it for use and you could set up a cosmetic override so your look didn't change with your gear I may have gotten some points wrong because every time I tried to use it it'd permanently switch my female character into a dude
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Sep 4, 2019 20:07
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They added that into AC Odyssey, so youd think theyd have it figured out by now
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Bleh, I feel like more so than ever, all of Ubisoft's titles are collapsing into a Ubisoft singularity. A few years ago, they were all overly similar, but still had some distinguishing characteristics! But I don’t want Odyssey’s mechanics in a ghost recon game at all. They kinda worked for odyssey, but that game is a huge time sink as it is, and now ghost recon is becoming even more of a time sink than Wildlands? Bleh.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:They added that into AC Odyssey, so youd think theyd have it figured out by now every cosmetic change turned your character into Crunch Buttsteak so I'm pretty sure it was a bug that's gonna get fixed
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Sep 4, 2019 21:42
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Can someone remind me how long til this goes live, timezones are hard.
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Sep 4, 2019 23:32
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Can someone remind me how long til this goes live, timezones are hard. 16 hours from this post basically.
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Sep 4, 2019 23:34
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Well gently caress
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Sep 4, 2019 23:48
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If any PS4 beta folk want to team up, add me: joedbaker Make sure to put something goony in the the friend request.
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Sep 5, 2019 00:08
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Is the gunfeel the same as it was in Wildlands? It felt pretty weak to me in the last game.
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Taintrunner posted:Is the gunfeel the same as it was in Wildlands? It felt pretty weak to me in the last game. From the technical test it was straying more towards realism with some drop and travel time but it's still pretty arcade.
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