GROUND BRANCH

This is a rough one. 1.0 seamingly came from no where, but I figured it would have some serious improvements, and while it does, it's just not enought to recommend. It's by no means bad, but its really lacking. I'm also reviewing this from a solo perspective, as I don't play PvP. First off, the AI improvements are welcome, but they are still very simple. In night operations, they literally just stand there for you to shoot them. Hitting an enemy causes them to flee, but they don't really make any noises, which is odd as you'd most certainly yell if you got hit in the shoulder by a 9mm round. In the day time, they are oblivious to you, until they're not - at which point they're aimbots. They still walk around looking lost and confused. They do run about, yell, talk, open and close doors, and react to sound decently, but its still too easy to one tap them all in the dark as they don't appear to communicate with each other. There is no gore. There is no visible blood, wounding, limb damage or dismemberment. (and I mean NO blood at all, even a 12 gauge within 1 meter just leaves a round circular "hole") Blood will not splatter on a wall behind an enemy, as there is NONE. I get that the game's focus is not on blood and gore, but its really jarring shooting someone with these powerful weapons yet there's no visible damage. Gunplay is good, guns feel impactful (until you don't see a lil bit of blood) and have the right weight and feel. There is no manual bolt or rack option, your character will always complete a full reload, and releases the bolt/ actions the slide/bolt automatically. This sucks as its why I play the competitions game (Yes, that one), I really hope we get this as a feature, as it adds a lot of immersion. You can disable the power on night missions like other games of this genere. Audio is certainly the best part about the game, with great sounds, ranging from footsetps and environemntal noises to the sound a body collapsing. The graphics are also really really good, and environments feel real, and lived in. The operations centre has been remade and looks really cool. Overall, it's good, but personally not at 1.0 level, and feels super lacking. I've had GB since launch, and not much is different here. If you've played it before, it is not worth the reinstall. The competition, OPERA.... is much more fun to play, it has an awesome gore system, allows for really imersive-manual racking and bolting, and the movement feels more intentional. Enemies lie there screaming in pain while dying, and the whole game feels more focused on realism.

Crazy that this is marked as 1.0

Very little content for 1.0, AI is pretty terrible, and no promised AI teammates.

Honestly, there's no way to turn off head bobbing as according to posts from developers the camera is attached to the mesh for "true first person". To attach a camera like that with no spring arm is silly and while I get the reason I also get sometimes things do not work well in a game and having the camera attached to a mesh and it's animations does not work for me. Do not buy this game unless you want to be flailing around like Michael J Fox while playing.

This game is not ready for a 1.0 release, still feels buggy and lacks mechanics that the dev said were going to be added

If your looking for a tactical game get operator it does everything this game wants to but better , controls and gameplay feels stiff , sound design isn't very good at all , no matter how much I mess with my settings all scopes look like they have the worst version of any AI upscale model. The enemy AI is either brain dead or will smite you with 1000 suns the second you step foot into a room. And the night vision feels awful. it feels like they updated the ready room and added some radio talking and said its ready for 1.0 . ready or not and operator are far superior tactical games to get over this

A mostly unfinished game that the original developers have abandoned, forcing microprose to step in, only for microprose to announce a 1.0 release that is months if not years too early. I assume this is some ploy to quietly cut development if the game doesn't perform well enough, given that it's been stagnating in early access hell with little to no improvement for the past half decade. Focusing on story mode instead of sorely needed gameplay additions is quite clearly just them scrambling to put together a game that they think the public will see as "worth the money" in order to scrape what's left out of the tactical shooter cash barrel. The AI is still braindead, many core and promised systems are still missing, and there's just a lack of any real focus on what the core gameplay is meant to be other than "customize a gun and then shoot it at targets that move and sometimes shoot back". It doesn't give any of the sort of feeling the game promises to give. It's just a sequence of asset flip shoot houses that you can change the skybox of. Desperately needs more time in the oven that it likely won't get due to mismanagement and burnout on the original developers' end, and a desire for a quick cash influx on Microprose's end. Sad.

after 350 played alone and in tactical groups I get disappointed after every new update -bad optimization/ less better run after every update -missing features asked by the players -slow development -no map maker/map importer ( that can help the game be more vast with out the devs stressing for content ) -the controls sometimes can feel unnatural, even more when trying to jump on stuff, the vault system has a bug that will make you vault not stop if you have a object in front, and on the big maps like tanker you can die at any moment or any can spot you ( idk if they fix the bug in the V1.0 but I don't have the same wishing to play as I played it before ) the game has enough stuff to play with and even more then before with the new updates but the optimization is very bad with every update, if you don't use anti-aliasing TAA the grass and trees leaves will flaker like crazy and if you use the TAA, the scope is very fuzzy, there are games with more stuff happening on the screen at once but runs better, in this game it has no reason to run this way... the V1.0 is here... and I'm not interested to play the game... please optimize the game.

Got conned into thinking this game was going to be good since I loved ghost recon 1.

This “1.0” is unacceptable. The game is not in a state to be released out of early access. Makes someone wonder if the devs are trying to cash out, or if they are trying to boost sales to fund more development because they are so slow there is no possible way to sustain at the rate they update