Ghost Recon Wildlands

[Danimal]

Well I'm not giving up on it. I want to try it on my PC and see if it makes me feel sick. I suspect not, I really should of downloaded it to my XB1 hooked up to the 4k TV but I didn't.

[TCrouch]

Terry:
Does GR: Wildlands feel like The Division at all? If so, then I'm all in. The Division is one of my favorite games, period, of the last five years.

Combat is pulled straight from The Division, without the "sticky" cover. You don't hit a button, you just run into cover and it happens. There aren't as many wildly different tech toys (no seeker mines or turrets, for example), but you can use your drone to revive people, provide explosive charges, EMP blasts, etc.

It's more like a slightly-more-realistic Division. With a much larger world. If you go into the game just thinking of it as The Division in a much larger playground with more lethal combat (no more emptying clips into people), with vehicles and more realistic tech toys, you won't really be disappointed.

If you go in expecting something like Arma or huge scale military conflicts, that won't happen. This is more more intimate engagements. You might be up against 35 enemies in a town, but you could take them all out with 35 bullets if your aim is good. The trick is to NOT alert everybody at once, and take them out in groups, sort of like a stealth game.

[10spro]

Oh I love being stealthy and catching them one by one. I am still playing the latest 'Hitman' and I've learned to be more patient when it comes to stealth kills. It takes more time, something you may want to do Solo if that's your thing. There's definitely some 'Division' aspect of the game in here, you just don't need to craft your arsenal as much which I don't mind at all.

If people want the old style of Recon game, you may be disappointed. After all when have you seen a painted guerrila dude driving a Masseratti.

[Danimal]

I would say in my limited experience the one thing it doesn't have like the Division does is the loot drops. The Division was more like Diablo where the loot drops were one of the motivators. After talking to Terry some more, I realize I missed a lot of what this game has to offer by just jumping in coop without knowing how to play, but I didn't see loot drops but maybe I'm wrong.

[TCrouch]

There aren't drops. But you find weapon crates with parts. After one tutorial mission I have reflex sights on my MP5 and AR. That changes aiming, without the need for iron sights.

What the Division does for loot, Wildlands does for "explore and find stuff", really.

And the weapon parts you find and can swap out while in the field are very similar to modding weapons in the Division. You have a LOT deeper skill tree in Wildlands than you do in Division, though. Can do everything from revive speed to C4 to sprint stamina to health boosts to weapon sway to hip fire accuracy, etc. What the different guns did in the Division--your skills do here, which I'm OK with.

[Teal]

To be fair, I'm not expecting to be ARMA or OP:FP. GR, at it's best, hasn't been either of those. I'm still very partial to the original GR on consoles, but I know I'm remembering through rose colored glasses. I loved the previous GR's, even the last one (minus the 'protect the asset on rails' stuff). I dig the Division. So it sounds like I'm good.

I DO think we need another OP:FP with the current gen graphics and processing power. Holy cow. Would that be amazing or what? Also, nothing I do is going to keep our data under the limit for the next 12 days other than going off the grid, so...I might just download the damn beta anyway...

[TCrouch]

Also, nothing I do is going to keep our data under the limit for the next 12 days other than going off the grid, so...I might just download the damn beta anyway...

Now you're talkin'!

I can't believe it. Teal is going to be playing a current-gen game that's still new, before it's been out for years

[Teal]

Also, nothing I do is going to keep our data under the limit for the next 12 days other than going off the grid, so...I might just download the damn beta anyway...

Now you're talkin'!

I can't believe it. Teal is going to be playing a current-gen game that's still new, before it's been out for years

LMAO! True that, true that...

[Diablo25]

Finally got the beta downloaded. Had some issues last night. Hoping to get some time with it in a bit.

[Danimal]

Take back everything I said, played on the PC was a load of fun and much better than standard Xbox. Terry and I did some coordinated take downs, just had a blast.

[Teal]

Well, I downloaded it. I'm weak as water. Lol. BUT IT ALLOWED me to kick the tires for myself, and I gotta say...I cannot wait to get my hands on the full game. Holy moly.

[Danimal]

I'mm too tired to edit this, but here is 2 hours of Terry and I playing on the PC

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/124559798

[Diablo25]

Well, I downloaded it. I'm weak as water. Lol. BUT IT ALLOWED me to kick the tires for myself, and I gotta say...I cannot wait to get my hands on the full game. Holy moly.

Loved it. We got owned a few times but that plane getaway was hilarious! Get in! Get in! Lets go! Lets Go!

[Diablo25]

Just played some more campaign solo and man its fun stuff. Like you guys said it definitely has a Division vibe to it. Got a little bit of a grasp on controlling the squad with the right bumper in the session I just competed. Love grabbing intel, skills points, marking supplies, and ranking up. Its turning out to be better than I was hoping for. Looking forward to the final release more.

[Danimal]

[Jimmydeicide]

That looked awesome guys.
Teal , looked very Flashpointy to me. Now I'm intrigued.

[RobVarak]

Kopp-Etchells effects on the rotors, particularly with the NV enabled, is some seriously delicious eye candy.

[Danimal]

Though I would post some daytime footage from last night as well.

[Teal]

That looked awesome guys.
Teal , looked very Flashpointy to me. Now I'm intrigued.

Y'know, I wouldn't put the game firmly into that category, but the more I play, I see hints of it. It can get HARD, the AI is actually pretty lethal when they're on to you, and it's a fine, fine addition to the GR library.

[Diablo25]

I know this is quite obivious but its best to not engage the bad guys every time you see them . I was doing that early but now I've started picking and choosing my fights. That was a good move

[Diablo25]

A little solo player action using the AI interface

https://gameclipscontent-d3015.xboxlive ... 55cd27b4f8

[pk500]

My GR: Wildlands beta experience mirrors that of Danimal.

I played the opening mission solo and thought, "What the f*ck?" It wasn't Ghost Recon. It was Grand Theft Bolivia having a nice morning three-way with the Just Cause and Far Cry sisters.

The AI was idiotic. The weapons were too accurate. I was bumming hard.

So I saw Teal playing online and messaged him. I asked him what he thought, and he said he loved it. Teal loves his realistic shooters, and I always respect his opinion. So I thought: "Huh? Is he playing the same damn game?"

I figured I probably was missing something, so I joined Teal in a co-op game. The result was a similar scene to Chuck Heston parting the Red Sea in "The Ten Commandments."

We played a mission in which we had to raid a jungle camp at night, and it was INTENSE. Probably took us eight or 10 tries and two distinct changes in strategy to beat those hombres. And it was TOUGH -- on the normal skill level! We had to talk and help each other the whole time, almost like we used to with Danimal in Operation Flashpoint: Red River.

Teal and I also played another mission last night in which we approached a camp from the side of a mountain at night and had to destroy four missile launchers. We got SLAUGHTERED, regardless of our approach. We came damn close one time to eliminating the bad guys, but that was it.

So much fun. Thanks so much to Teal for opening my eyes and showing me this game's true identity.

This is the open-world Ghost Recon game we all wanted. Moving to Bolivia and moving away from the BS futuristic weapons of GR: Advanced Warfighter has revived this series in the same way moving to the rarely-traveled era of World War I has been a defibrillator for the Battlefield series.

Pre-ordering today.

[Diablo25]

Team and myself had a ball the other night. Get ready for March 7th.

[Diablo25]

Get ready to do this a lot! Teal and I got pretty good at it when running into those UNIDAD dudes.

[Jimmydeicide]

Hand job? What button is that.