GROUND BRANCH

Не покупайте данный продукт, мужики. Релиз: - переделка нескольких карт (появилось клипование перса в стенах). - переделка анимаций персонажа (начал шагать по воздуху, бегать как смущённая аниме-дама) - возможная переделка звуков (либо всегда были такими глухими) - добавили два калака и рпк (забыли добавить ластохвост) - добавили режим экстракшн (найти и довести до эвака ботика, который любит стоять в стене и застревать в кустах) - добавили (вернули) операции! Целый сюжет! Релиз как ни как (две миссии. Одна на старой карте, вторая на новой клипующей)

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I don't normally write reviews, but this game just grinds my gears in a way that I have to warn others. Ground Branch is such a rip-off its not even funny. 1.0? What a joke. I came back after half a year for this supposed 1.0, but was met with what feels like an alpha. Stay away, there are far better options out there. Let me recount my experience so far, and then I'll give a run down of the general state of the game. [h1] My experience [/h1] I started the game up yesterday and was struggling with the first mission because despite being 00:30 and I need NODs to see anything, Muhammad in his flip-flops has Allah whispering in his ear about my exact location. Skill issue, I guess, so I put it down and tried again today. Well, right off the bat, I got soft locked in the spawn area because all the doors were locked and I didn't bring the heavy breaching charge, and there are no other breaching options like kicking or picking. So I had to pop off a few rounds with my unsuppressed pistol to get a guard to open one of the doors. After that, I managed to clear the compound slowly and carefully. This is also when I found out that sound does not travel from inside to outside, as an enemy was shooting at me from three feet away on the other side of a window and there was zero audio. After clearing the compound, I could not progress the mission any further, because I couldn't find the HVT, nor could I find the intel. Turns out you have to interact with the guys head, and that doesn't work very well when it is in a tight space like the corner of a shower. As for the intel, it only spawns after you confirm the target. Nice! Anyway, I ran out of time before reaching the extract and was met with a mission completed screen, green letters and everything. I clicked "next mission" and was greeted by the same mission. I cannot play the next mission! So is there no next mission? Did I actually fail? Who knows... [h1] General feel [/h1] It is rough, to say the least. Movement is just... weird. Despite using high graphical settings, the image still appears smeared and the IR laser was ghosting like crazy. I'm honestly not sure about the FPS as I didn't check, but it felt consistent; I didn't notice any chopping or stutters, but maybe the smearing covered it up. I also had to use VSync despite not needing it in any other game and having a FreeSync monitor; I kept getting tearing on the lower third, and it only happened when using NODs. The weapon customization is decent, but to be expected in this genre. It is still quite limited for some arbitrary reason. There are predefined slots that you can only put certain attachments in, and I kept getting clipping errors despite the two objects not actually touching. Scopes also do not (more like no longer, as they did before) respect eye relief. The Elcan Specter for example, has a relatively tight eyebox of just a couple inches. I put that thing halfway down the rail and could still see through it just fine. Also, the optic moves closer to the camera when crouching/prone, so you'll get your optic set up in a good spot and then crouch and now its an inch closer. I could see the scope sliding up and down the rail as I stood and crouched. The Elcan is also designed to work with night vision, but does not in the game; so lack of detail there. Also, only accessories can be customized, so sights, lights, grips... There are several AK variants taking up space because there is a different one for each barrel length and furniture (like long/wood, short/wood, long/rails, short/rails, and then each caliber). I guess that is more of a neutral design choice, but other games do it better by allowing the furniture and barrels to be switched out. As for the AI, they are both superhuman and mentally incapacitated. In the short time I played that past couple of days, I've had them: get hung up in a corner stairway, just standing there menacingly. Instantly snap onto and one tap me. Look directly at me for several seconds before turning away and then 180 no scoping me. Forget that bullets come out of the gun rather than eyes and magdump a wall while angrily staring at me over the windowsill. Attempt to shoot me through a doorframe. Prefire me as I'm clearing pitch dark rooms. Throw several grenades over a wall and right at my feet. Throw a grenade at a location I was undetected at a few minutes ago and then never again. [h1] Final thoughts [/h1] Don't.

The game has been in development hell for 8 years as I understand it. It looks like it's going to continue to be in development hell for at least a couple more. The recent 1.0 release is a fairly blatant lie. We're still in early access, folks. AI are still braindead terminators and it feels like this recent update actually made them even worse somehow, the campaign only has two missions and the scripts appear to be AI slop, and the game as a whole still kind of feels like a tech demo. It's not a bad gun sim, but the guns and barbie kitting system aren't good enough to recommend the game as a whole, because there's not enough game aside from them.

Been playing this game for a hot minute now and I cannot recommend this game, OPERATOR, is a better alternative and less buggy. This game has been buggy since forever and the updates are very slow, only played this because there were not a lot of alternatives to this game; 1.0 just came out and it feels like it is still an early access title.

Ground Branch has been in development for years and has had so much time to develop the game, yet in every area it's fallen so incredibly behind. It is impossible for me to recommend since Operator has become a far better experience than ground branch with gameplay, AI, gun customization, and mechanics. Don't get Ground Branch, you want Operator, go get that game.

The ol bait and switch. Do not buy

Very tough, have to play it slow and use comms. With a good group though, it offers a lot of sandbox flexibility.

It's impossible to recommend this game in its current state as a "1.0" - barely functional AI, minimal features as is, hardly any new content in this update. Just simply not worth getting yet when there are other options that seem to be more fleshed out.

There is a weird socioeconomic thing going on with gaming; on one hand, the number of titles and distribution of those titles has exploded, but on the other hand, the quality and level of finish for those titles has diminished. Early access has given a lot of developers the platform to fund their product, but less and less are getting finished by whatever goal they set for themselves. Early Access and 1.0/finished labels are effectively meaningless when development is expected to continue past release, and when expectations set before said release persist past that imaginary Kármán line. This is a 1.0 release as Nicaragua has democratic elections, in name only. By prior gaming terminology, this is what would be available in a free demo set years before the release of the finished product. If Ground Branch has an extant future, then it will be in years that it sees the level of finesse accompanying most final products. Myself and others paid full price for what is the [i] framework [/i] for the demo some years back, and we are just now getting the incremental advance that is this release.