Ghost Recon Breakpoint & # 39; s Ghost: loot less, more action

There is a difference between living on land and pillaging. From the launch of October to last week, Tom Clancy & # 39; s Ghost Recon Discount played like a game the engineers didn't understand the difference. Thanks to the Ghost experience, delivered in a large pan last week, it's now OK.

Ghost experience is the new "dive mode", that developers promise last fall will be highlighted Discount from what the players expected. It has multiple selections and prefixes that, in the smartest, most underrated sense, change the tone of a single player game for the better.

A good replacement for Ubisoft Paris is obvious in Ghost Recon diehards: No more gear points. This automated robbery program has made it easy to get undermined Discount and deal with players with something very similar Stage 2 by Tom Clancy. I know I found myself reluctant to shoot at the start of my career Discount, I make sure to clean up the entire area of ​​all gear pieces, all available, all weapons.

But when the diving mode was enabled, it took about two extinguishers for me to realize that I was wasting my time with such backlash. And that's a good thing. Gear itself is gone; there are no bags, pants, gloves, or boots that provide lumber or a better number than you received. Although the weapons are easily controlled from all enemies that throw at one, you swap with any weapon in your active slot. This is also the weapon found on the globe.

The battlefield Success

So, whatever Sentinel's stoges are going down, the discomfort will be extremely important, especially if you spend any time developing or customizing your reliable rifle. If so, what's the point of robbing a weapon from the body? Hey, think of the time I took out a four-man police officer with a grenade, firing two while the others were scattered around the edges.

I had a Scorpio semiautomatic rifle and a Vector submachine rifle to me, but what I really needed was a rifle to push these guys down so they wouldn't charge me. Aha! The crappy MK17 single enemy dropped will do the trick. I changed my Scorpio with it, finished the job, then went back and got my trusty rifle. This kind of battle development, caused by a new limitation on the Ghost Experience, is what Ghost Recon should be about.

Ubisoft Paris is careful to convince players that the Ghost Experience is not one thing. Although there are six settings that can be changed dramatically (such as the difficulty of the enemy, the presence or absence of that gear), three of them are multiple choice stages, any of which can be changed. Honestly, it sounded like a great video game game, where I was able to make good choices to challenge my strengths and minimize my weaknesses.

I was inclined to give myself extra help and awareness on the example, with the trade endless for endurance, a little health rehabilitation, and a few bandages in my pack to heal injuries. This is because, frankly, I am such an avid shooter in the struggle that I need NPC markers when I see someone else on my scale or recon drone.

With the "small" package of interface settings, the enemy's power is extremely large (without it, I had trouble eliminating various patrols in the garden and even the simple "effective" AI setting works.) It makes it very difficult for anti-personnel. solutions, such as bombs, mines, and especially drone syncing, are increasingly needed and involved in the game.

No more great heroes

In particular, Ghost Experience is a package of strategic limitations to clear that easy path that has caused great product confusion in the middle Discount and Article 2. You will lose ammo by reloading; you cannot change your luggage to the field; you can't, in a funny way, buy from a catalog of weapons and vehicles in bivouac – you have to go back to Erewhon. All of these things were limiting that, yes, a target player could force themselves into a sort of meta-game. But as survival strategies I enjoyed Fallout 4 and Far Cry Primal, it's really reassuring to know that the developers will support me in playing their game, however I wish to do that.

This immersion all starts with stripping that gear range, a pursuit that many have felt is a bigger point of the game than the game itself. In fact, all gears have been removed from the game, except for cosmetic changes; I no longer carry hats, boots, or holsters because they could handle a better buff. My gear is limited to what I am wearing, one or two weapons I carry, and then the more common ones like explosives, health supplements, and more.

In vanilla Discount, I felt like squeezing a wheelbarrow full of firearms & # 39; goodies, which just seems ridiculous with a game that has to be survival and adaptation to the needs. In Ghost's experience, I would simply switch my luggage to bivouac or to the world of Erewhon's game hub, with one surprising observation: Any player-made weapon you find in the world becomes an unused roll. It's a good tradoff – the endless types in the arsenal, but only available at a reasonable time.

All of this creates the realization that my trusted weapon can actually be a long-term friend. Investing in its development and personalization really means something to me now. In Discount for a gear note, as soon as I've put the color options on the barrel of my sniper rifle, clip, and stock rather than getting a better one. And I've been fooling around with the look of my character, because all new boonie hats or backpack is another thing to try.

Now, it's about action. I am not in the hunt for Auroa for things that work better than I have for myself; I'm here to kill bad guys and submit this story. Not too long ago to give Ghost Recon Breakpoint clearly, it's a bit of a proclamation like "the game is good now," or "this is a game we should be playing." (AI team players are still needed, of course.) But I can say that Discount it now offers a more refining and unique experience, one that we must return to for a fresh perspective – or restart.

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