Dagger Directive

The AI is just incredibly frustrating. You can shoot someone with a suppressed rifle and a bastard 100m behind you heard it and comes running and beams you through a bush. CQC is basically non-existent as the AI once again react and beam you instantly. I love the idea of this game, but really this AI just isn't is at least for me. Ground Branch, a game bundle with this one, doesn't have perfect AI, but I VASTLY prefer it to this

Very badass little tactical shooter! There are tons of weapons, attachments, and equipment to choose from. You can use classic and well-known weapons like the M16A2, M4A1, or M21, modernized variants like the M16A4, cutting edge developments like the M7 "spear" rifle (complete with a smart scope that can auto-zero for distance), soviet counterparts like the AKM, compatible NATO alternatives like the L85A2 or HK 416, or even lesser known experimental weapons like the OICW or G11, complete with their experimental features (such as the airburst setting for the OICW, or the hyperburstfire on the G11). You can pick an SMG to reduce your ammo weight to carry more utility equipment, a sniper rifle to make those long distance shots, a shotgun to dominate in close-range encounters, and even grenade launchers or anti-tank launchers for heavy firepower against stronger targets. As far as equipment goes, you have various types of grenades, various manually-detonated landmines (such as the SLAM and Claymore), multiple types of drones, satchel charges, and even chemlights. You're spoiled for choice, and you're allowed to carry whatever you want into battle. The missions are reasonably well built, and the AI that inhabit it are well configured and tuned. They respond to all the stimuli they should without being omnipotent. They can lay down some focus fire on your position from a good distance away, but don't nail you immediately, so even a firefight you lost manages to still be a firefight. The AI can see in a cone in front of them, but don't hear super well; they'll hear gunshots well, but the battlefield is a loud place, so they won't notice your footsteps until you're very close. This allows you to maneuver around them and trick them by distracting them. Close range gameplay and stealth gameplay both have many strengths, weaknesses, tradeoffs, and simple choices in this regard. Sometimes I fool the AI so hard I can run up behind them and get a knife kill! All projectiles are simulated using a simple ballistics system. This ballistics system models both the travel time of different types of bullets (45 ACP travels slower than 5.56), and the parabolic trajectory of the bullet and how your choice of sighting system must account for it. Every scope has a "zero" distance where the parabolic trajectory of the bullet aligns with the crosshair, but only some scopes let you adjust that zero distance, while others don't and instead give you bullet drop (or rise) guide markers to rely on. It's complex enough that you're making a choice both when you choose the weapon and when you decide to use it, yet simple enough you can figure some things out in the field and get up to speed quickly! It's also just enough detail to keep sniping gameplay consistently fresh, and not too much detail that becomes inscrutable. Sniping is fairly strong, but has these simple marksmanship challenges to keep it fresh. The game is reasonably well optimized. The graphics are simple, and the game runs fairly well on modern hardware. If you struggle, you can turn off features like the shadows or even the grass. (And grass is handled consciously by the game as well; if you have grass enabled, the AI can't easily see you through it and you can exploit it for stealth if you know what you're doing, whereas if the grass is disabled then the AI can see you through it). It's nice to play this game and experience many of the modern features I wanted out of a modern and well-balanced tactical shooter without major compromises in how the game is meant to be played compared with how I actually play it, which is not a promise many other tactical shooters make. Don't get me wrong, the game isn't trivial to run on every computer to the same extent that a real retro game is, but it feels as though it is reasonably competently optimized for what it is, and the parts where it might struggle a little are, for the most part, those parts where you do have modern features (like real-time shadows or decent models). The only issue is that the Poseidon ship where you pick missions, choose your loadout, and customize your character isn't quite as well optimized as the actual real missions. However, they have already rolled out a patch with some optimizations that address this specific area of the game, and while it's still not perfect, it's a lot better than it was before. On top of this, this is just the hub area of the game where you don't complete objectives or engage in combat, so the reduced performance is a bit annoying, but you're not in any danger or risk when it happens. The multiplayer in this game is pretty strong as well. Joining pubs is fun because this game supports joining a game in progress. If you join a mission in progress, you parachute into the mission from the sky and pick your loadout as you drop. You don't get much choice where you drop, and sometimes you're dropping into an enemy position, so it's a mad dash to pick a loadout from a list of them (you can make your own loadouts and save them to the list back on the Poseidon ship) and to shoot back at whoever's shooting at you so you can land safely. I wish I had a little more control over this drop process, or I at least got to pick my loadout before I started dropping, but I appreciate the chaos. If you or a teammate dies during a coop match, the dead player can be revived. This keeps tension in death and ties it to teamwork; you aren't tied to your teammates too hard, but if you stray far away from them to do something, you accept the risk that if you die, it takes a long time for you to get revived. And, if you die in a really dangerous area, it gets more tense and spooky as more players die trying to clear the area or rescue you. This tension compounds further if there is a time-sensitive objective in play (such as a convoy you are tasked with destroying before it traverses the map), as your death tasks your teammates with both upholding the objective and trying to rescue you to return the squad to full fighting capabilities. However, the fact that you can get revived and still contribute to the mission after you do means there is way less boredom or disappointment when you die than in other tactical shooters, yet it doesn't lose the tension because death or just the mere threat of it is still enough to shape your decision making. Though the game is in 1.0, I believe it will get a few extra features or polish updates over time. We already got a patch with some bug fixes and even a few additional optimizations. One feature I hope they add is some kind of ammo management tailored to shotguns. Shotguns are powerful, but each shotgun shell takes the same physical inventory space as a grenade does, due to limitations inherent to how it's designed. That's not enough ammo to use the shotgun consistently throughout a mission, so I end up deciding not to take a shotgun even though it is an effective weapon that I want to use. To get around this, I hope they add an item that helps me manage and carry more shotgun shells in way less space, such as a shotgun shell box, that way I can finally enjoy using this weapon type without running out of ammo for it partway through a mission (In fact, I have pondered using the modding system to do it myself!). As expansive as the weapon sandbox is, I also wouldn't mind a few extra official weapons; it'd be nice to have a pump action shotgun and a high caliber pistol such as a magnum revolver included as part of the official armory.

best coop game for 4 since helldivers 2

carrier drone + impact grenade enough said

Imagine the best parts of ArmA, that's it. This is the Ghost Recon to GROUND BRANCH's rainbow six

This is one of the best shooter games i have ever played, i cannot wait for this game to grow into a huge community!

A game that has boldly gone where no tactical shooter has gone before it: Releasing an actually fun 1.0 release. (Dude this is so much fun, especially with friends).