GROUND BRANCH

一坨屎，我就知道你们把1036叫1.0其实还是1036，没什么惊讶的，我惊讶的是你们他妈的居然敢把硬盘容量占用到100个g，你这什么垃圾游戏一点深度也没有的破玩意居然敢占用老子100个G的ssd容量？我2020年买的，都他妈六年半过去了ai还是各种像机器人一样卡死在墙角，但是枪法奇准百米打爆你的狗头，讲真的你这ai寻路和动作动画做的都不如20年前的幽灵行动尖峰战士。最不可饶恕的就是最最基本的枪械手感都做的一坨屎，现在你只要冲刺一秒钟两个手就像得了帕金森，准心乱晃根本打不了，这种体能我建议你回家种田吧还当什么特战啊？开枪的时候瞬间卡顿掉帧，全自动莫名其妙卡顿，真的你他妈一个打枪游戏连开枪都能卡，我是真的没见过第二个fps有这样傻逼的毛病了

Mid performance, bad AI, 1.0 is a joke. Don't buy

1.0 needs a lot of work. enemies feel more like operators then the operators. couldnt get a steady sight picture on a poorly trained terrorist from 50 feet away with quad nods but he tapped me in pitch black darkness. inflated aimbot difficulty is not real difficulty. guess my ground branch operatives little arms were so tired from shouldering my rifle for more then 10 seconds. its a shame really ive had this game for a long time and was very excited for 1.0. guess ill come back with some updates and give it another chance.

It's funny cause they say 1.0 but what they mean is 0.1

Considering the several years of development this game has been under, you would expect something decent. No, the devs just sodomise you by bloating the game 2.5x what it originally was in terms of size and then expect you to just "deal with it". Considering the fact they think this is somehow acceptable (meanwhile OPERATOR achieves the same results in EA with less than half the size of the game currently is now) tells you all you need to know. just buy OPERATOR, much better experience, AI and maps.

usually I'd recommend this game to people, especially people who are into milsim-lite games like myself. but this game is absolutely not ready for full release, there's so much unfinished stuff here calling it early access was already a questionable stance, releasing it as '1.0' feels too scummy in practice for me to recommend it now.

"1.0 update" and its still just early access lmfao dont worry though guys!!! we added more ak platform rifles for no reason!! haha!!! instead of making new features!!! also forgot to mention the fact that the ai is 10x worse! they 1 tap you from any distance! great job bfs! this game is genuinely a prime example of the microprose effect though. buy out a game studio or offer to publish and completely drag it through the dirt.

OPERATOR's early access feels more complete than Ground Branch's 1.0, hold off especially if like to play solo as they have yet to add allied bots for a true single player experience. Wouldn't count on that being any time soon as the enemy AI they currently have is nowhere near polished.

Tasted operator and this can't compare.

This one's painful. ** TLDR: Ground Branch has had many, MANY years to get it's AI right, and the 1.0 release simply does not bode well for the ideal future that many of it's most dedicated fans have dreamed of. The enemy AI is lacking enough in it's simple, un-immersive behavior for me to not recommend it, even with extensive AI difficulty tweaking options. ** Ground Branch has been one of the coolest projects that I've had the pleasure of following for a very long time in the milsim shooter space. I remember seeing extremely early footage over a decade ago when it was very proof of concept, and the very notion of seeing a physical bullet leave the barrel of the rifle was so novel for me that I had been loosely following the game ever since. When I finally picked it up a number of years ago, it felt so damn good being able to play a simple milsim sandbox with high amounts of customization, whether it was for your character, loadout, mission, or even AI difficulty. The game has always had very slow but steady development, similar to Project Zomboid's story, and I've always been fine with that. It's always been a game that I would half recommend to friends, one of those "if you're okay with the knowledge that you're paying for a milsim with good roots that will feel like it's forever in progress, then yea buy it." I'm willing and able to put up with all sorts of jank and lack of polish if I feel that a game has good bearings. I bought DayZ standalone on day one of its Early Access, and I've loved it from day one all the same. Ground Branch has always had this refreshing aspect to it where it's always felt like a privilege to play as a milsim fan. It always felt like a game that knew what it wanted to be, and just needed more time in the oven compared to other games for it to one day fulfill all of that beautiful potential that it seemed dialed in on. Plenty of amazing maps, weapon customization with no meta loadouts, scenario customization to your heart's content, it's had so much going for it for so long. The one *glaring* issue that GB has had for years and years, is that it's AI has always been just short of feeling fun to fight. My disappointment with the AI engagements is not regarding janky animations, or imperfect reaction times in either direction, or voice acting, or time to kill; the AI for YEARS has felt as if you are fighting paper targets. Sure, depending on your AI settings and luck, sometimes those paper targets instakill you and it feels like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Sometimes the AI instakill you because you made a mistake, and whereas other games would forgive you and handicap the AI with slow reaction times, GB decides to smite you for your sin. That is not the problem. The problem at this point in time, is that the AI has never CONSISTENTLY felt fun to engage. They have never CONSISTENTLY felt as if they communicate with each other. They have never CONSISTENTLY reacted believably to being shot at, or to adapting to a match where there's been gunfire and death for 3 minutes straight, or to using any kind of tactics other than "pick random cover regardless of context"... The moments of the AI being janky and clustering in a doorway, or idly walking over their comrade's body and not caring, or having 3 enemies panic and run for cover while 3 other enemies in the same exact area walk like nothing is happening... It still feels like I'm fighting paper targets more than half the time, and I cannot recommend the game because of it despite EVERYTHING else that the game does offer. I'm really not trying to sound overdramatic, I don't regret my purchase those years ago, but there's a reason that I pick the game back up every major update just to put it down shortly after, consistently, year after year. It's simply because the AI does not feel worth fighting. Playing with friends or a group helps with the replayability, and the PvP scene has always been this aspect that's stuck in "potential purgatory" where it's never fully been realized. But the AI is just not fun or engaging to play against, and I feel incredibly demoralized that I finally feel like I have to give it a thumbs down with it's """1.0""" release. I hope one day they actually get overhauled and the devs prove me wrong, because they clearly know how to do so many things right. But I'd be lying if I said that I'm not incredibly disappointed to see the engagements in this state after so many years. There's plenty of things that this game offers and does well, you'd probably still get your money's worth if you had a group to mess around with for a while, but the most important aspect for me in games like this are intense, believable engagements, and I do not feel like Ground Branch, with it's 1.0 release, provides that.