/v/ - Video Games

I haven't played it, but from what I've seen Ground Branch looks pretty good, albeit it's early access. Made by an ex-Red Storm developer, it's basically a proper Rainbow Six sequel, just made by an extremely small team. You can customize everything, from pouches, to how far your sight is down your rail on your rifle. Like I said, it has an extremely small team of a couple of people, so updates are very slow. It might be what you're looking for.

There's Tarkov I guess, but there's a lot of retarded decisions in the game and now it's currently the "flavor of the month" with twitch streamers, so the lead devs might listen to them in addition to Reddit. I heard some ex-SOCOM guys were making their own SOCOM-esque game but I haven't heard anything about that for a while.

>>16834423

>no game about tacticool high school girls operating in a live warzone.

Why did sword art online have to be the only IP to push this?

>>16834466 (doublechecked)

>>16834325

Cheeki.

still the king, rainbow six siege tried to copy this but will never come close to it.

>>16834411

>Hidden and Dangerous

Man that was a good game. I played it about 10 years ago when it was released for free to promote the second game. Dated graphics, but missions are good fun. I recently bought the second game and I expect it will also be good.

>>16835805

Siege was supposed to be close to SWAT but the devs abandonned the co-op/TH side and decided to go down the hero shooter meme and esports.

They've pretty much killed the R6 franchise (and most of the Tom Clancy IPs).

Quarantine is their next "Rainbow Six" game.

>take a look at Moskvich and Blyat Ukrainelord because I bought it years ago and forgot that it came out of Early Access

>see this

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>>16836520

Quarantine is legit ripping off Metal Gear Survive. Let that sink in.

>ghost recon: wildlands

>nowhere near as realistic as the previous games

>outside of the hardest difficulty, it's easy to just kill everyone and stealth in and out of locations because bodies disappear almost immediately

>multiplayer was DOA due to coming half a year later

>eventually had crossovers with other tom clancy games, adding new features related to those games (future soldier stealth camo, take downs that give map awareness like that brazillian woman from rainbow six: siege

>had a leveling/XP/gear system where you had to grind supplies and scavenger hunt for new equipment, which is dumb considering you already come with your own equipment so why can't they just leave some at safehouses?

>not bad on its own, but a tom clancy game it was not

>new ghost recon game, breakpoint

>sequel to wildlands

>it's going to be more realistic

>it's going to have an injury system if you take too much damage

>it's going to have hunting and scavenging for food and supplies

>it's like actually being an on-your-own innawoods operative

>releases

>the injury system is just wrapping a bandage around your leg

>there are classes

>there's a battle pass

>the game is so buggy that they gave everyone the battle pass items because it didn't work most of the time

>quick-travel in a survival game

>all equipment has a fucking gear score like destiny

>online only

>if your sniper rifle isn't at the same gear score as the enemies it may not even be a one-shot kill

>they added a fucking raid like world of warcraft or the division

>you literally fight a metal gear

>there are items only available in the raid and it goes from an infiltration and exfiltration game into a cover shooter

Worst part is that Ubisoft learns their lesson, but it's always too late. Wildlands became pretty decent after they released Tier 1 difficulty because it enabled permadeath and forced players to infiltrate instead of just drive in and shoot. They did all the cool stuff too late to save it. The same'll happen here, as it did with For Honor and The Division 1. The only game they've released recently that was FUBAR at release was the Rayman games.

>>16836522

>Quarantine is literally copy-pasted Siege without PVP. Who the fuck is dumb enough to buy it?

wasn't it supposed to be f2p or something?

also both division 2 and breakpoint bombing got them so scared they're "re-evaluating" all their upcoming games, so we have to wait and see..

was actually looking forward to it because most co-op stuff is part of a full blown game, just give me some random maps I can do with some mates in 30-60 minutes without having to grind hours beforehand

>>16836667

>Wildlands became pretty decent after they released Tier 1 difficulty because it enabled permadeath and forced players to infiltrate instead of just drive in and shoot.

>permadeath with wildlands shit-tier aimbotting and outright cheating AI

>get disconnected at the wrong time and lose your savegame

>decent

>infiltrating and not just sniping from 200m away or bombing everything with heli

as much as they added and I have to give them credit for it, in true ubisoft fashion it's always 1 step and them falling on it's face. tier mode was a good idea on paper, but having to grind convoys and the few dynamic copy-pasted missions for exp was fucking retarded. the ghost mode added shit to make it more realistic (like only one weapon and you can't switch in the field, meant you had to plan what to bring) and was exactly what me and some mates wanted but of course they had to add retarded permadeath.

pvp apparently was pretty good but no one buys wildlands for it - the smart move would've been to have a f2p version for neets and BRs who want to grind with crossplay with extra shit when you own wildlands. would have made even more sense with the mini-battle royale mode they added later.

>sequel to wildlands

>it's going to be more realistic

this time they didn't even take 1 step and decided to faceplant the asphalt directly. there's good shit in there but it's a complete directionless mess trying to cater to as many demographics as possible. "just enable the modes if you want more realism hurr" is fucking retarded when all it adds is more annoyance that has zero gain in rewards. might as well playing on your head for another retarded challenge.

even their lootnshoot aspect is completely pointless since it plays exactly like wildlands once you have hit cap, there's zero point in getting higher since it's all relative anyway, all it does is gate you out of specific stuff which is anything but realistic. same with the leveling system which becomes completely pointless once you hit 30. you don't even get extra shit for perpetual leveling like division 1 put in fucking years ago

the raid itself is ok but another thing they went full retard with. you need a full team to even explore the island, so no comfy solo or 2 player operatan till you hit the boss, even tho there's a fucking trigger to check if you have a full team before you can even do the boss. especially considering matchmaking it would make a lot more sense to just let people run around how they want with the harder mobs and then get a group for the bosses.

>the escape from tarkov community

>>16837424

Another anon called it "Russian Star Citizen" and I can believe it seeing these cultists Nikita calls "fans".

The new COD strangely has the opposite affect where apparently every nigger hates it because it's "too slow" and isn't like the newest ones.

>>16837760

He even calls it work. So, what, I had to open a new prepaid card at my bank since Xsolla is a fucking Russian scam transaction service and wouldn't accept my card, then pay 35 eurodollars PLUS a 10 eurodollar tax, only to be unable to play the game, because the developers TO THIS DAY lie about the system requirements for the game on their website? That's fucking work? I paid to work? Nigger, I paid for a functional, playable videogame, because that's what it was advertised as. "Beta access" doesn't mean that there isn't a single functional feature in the entire fucking game. Beta means that the game has the vast majority of the mechanics and groundwork finished, and that you're fleshing out content. And yet, it's been nearly four years since the game became playable, and all they add are superfluous features that airsoft faggots jerk off to, while the game has no foundations and is sinking into the mud under the weight of their spaghetti code.

>>16837777

It abso-fucking-lutely is Russian Star Citizen, since they're selling the game 100% on the vision of what they want, not what the game is right now, the feature creep is rampant, but actually good features get removed because the developers are hilariously incompetent.

>singleplayer campaign called Russia 2028

Gone forever, "the technology just wasn't there"

>proper offline mode with progression

"That's too much work and nobody would play it", random Russian hackers without access to the sourcecode slap a functional server emulator with offline progression together in under six months

>they want the entire gameworld to be one big, interconnected map

But the game can barely run the tiny maps they have, while the game doesn't even look that impressive, with terrible textures, massive pop-in and criminally bad character animations they refuse to re-work.

>they want the game to be a "realistic firefight simulator"

But they constantly flip flop between changing realistic parameters for game balance, and using "but that's realistic" as an excuse for when they don't want to re-work a terrible, broken system. Prime examples are the Mosin getting nerfed for "game balance" when the redditors that run super expensive gear to just stomp new players into the ground were getting styled on by big dick mosin lads. The opposite is their INEXPLICABLY RETARDED SKILL SYSTEM, where, if you level up your strength to maximum, you SPRINT AT NEARLY THREE TIMES THE SPEED of someone with unleveled strength, or the awareness/stealth movement skills. Which, either make you hear footsteps and gunshots better, or make your own footsteps more quiet. Or the biggest offender of all, the recoil control skill, where if you max it, you get 40% less recoil on all guns in the game. Now, if you've half a brain, you can tell how utterly retarded this is, but every time someone complains about it, either BSG, or the autistic cult around this game goes "but that's realistic so why change that???".

Plus, you'd think these skills would level logically, right? Hit shit with melee or carry heavy shit for strength, right?

Utterly fucking wrong my man. The fastest ways to level strength are to randomly throw grenades, and to WALK BUT NOT SPRINT while carrying heavy shit. Because sprinting, levels up a different skill, which overrides your strength progress.

I ended up giving my friend my account, because he could actually play the game and was interested, so I guess my 45 eurodollars weren't entirely wasted.

>>16837888

>The Mosin change

That'll never not piss me off. The redditor fags that complained about the Mosin were the bitches that wore top-tier armor every raid and literally walked around out in the open because you're virtually invincible in Fort armor. They got so mad that somebody using TACTICS with a mosin would one-shot them and Nikita fucking listened to them.

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>>16845144

>Reddit

>Constructive Criticism and Fun

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>>16845144

>>16837326

>I unironically think that Breakpoint was better than Wildlands, despite all the dumb things like the lack of actual enemy, the drones, the shitty RPG mechanics from The Division.

they both have their strengths. wildlands map is just fuckhueg and varied with enough unique landmarks for missions and shit that makes exploring it fun. also better story where it's not another OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING but "nono you can't have a narco state even tho it's not much different than your usual dictatorship shithole" (so it's more the usual glownigger shit) where your progression makes somewhat sense.

breakpoint has the gameplay refinements but does look worse (still fucking pretty but somehow consolified), smaller map, less unique places. also has a few more enemy types you have to take care off which affect operatan (bagman, reinforcements) and better AI (not hard considering wildlands dumbfucks) with long patrol routes so you have to constantly check location and/or need to plan your kills and what to do with the bodies.

story is meh and setup makes zero fucking sense with everybody stuck in that cave which apparently everybody knows where it is except the bad guys. ever heard of moles or simply torturing it out of people (which they do anyway)?

RPG shit really doesn't matter, headshots still kill instantly, gearscore is relative anyway and stats are the same, only the bonus rolls are different, but since there are only like 5-6 different ones it's fairly easy to get the one you want. why they ever felt the need to even shoehorn it in and never do anything with it I don't know (otoh it's a good thing since nothing is worse than retarded looter mechanics on the level of division 2).

that being said even with guided mode and on extreme, as fun as it is the worst part is still AI. I don't expect skynet but outright obvious shit like night/weather/foliage having zero effects on npc perception and immediately knowing where to look is fucking retarded (even more so when said NPCs complain they can't see shit and want nightvision goggles). just drop a guy in middle of bumfuck nowhere in the night and see what I mean.

they also had a snatcher easter egg in the terminator event, which is the kind of shit I would buy the dev a beer for.

>>16834325

>Hitman 2: Easily the best Hitman game this gen even if it is silly at times rivalling untitled good game. Setting up the perfect """accidents""" rather than just shooting a guy is the ultimate satisfaction in this game.

It's a broken piece of shit worse in every way than 2016.

Setting up your perfect accident straight for youtube funny/ironic epic kill compilation is force-fed to you regardless of your choices in the options menu because the only thing NPC's talk about in SHITMAN™2 is a critical vulnerability that will always lead to the target dying.

>>16836526

Of all the things Masahiro Ito could've been doing he was designing creatures for Survive.

At least survive has an actual OST, and the CD comes with MGO soundtrack collection.

If you don't play sniper elite 4 on authentic plus you should just play on easy, but even then SE4 has fucked accoustics and you can bait enemies out from bunkers by running on the ground 50 meters above

Magazzeno Facility was one of the most tedious maps to do on A+

>>16845628

>evaxephon

>>16845153

Yeah, at this point they should remove the V, there's nothing vintage about it anymore.

>>16845619

The big difference between Wildlands and Breakpoint is that Wildlands was made for co-op, while Breakpoint doesn't (even though they keep saying it in the menu).

I remember playing Wildlands and being bored because the map was too big and there were objectives that you couldn't do alone (AI squad mates are too dumb). It's a shame because I really like the setting and the whole taking down the cartel stuff.

My biggest issue with Breakpoint is with the world building and the story. It's so generic and anti-Tom Clancy. Why the fuck would I shoot drones and big robots in a Ghost Recon game? Bullet-sponge behemoths, seriously?

I've unironically re-installed The Division 2 (never played since the game was released) and I'm having fun despite the shitty gear score/loot system. I wish I could do the raid but I have no friends. DC is definitely less comfy than NY in the winter.

>breakpoint has the gameplay refinements but does look worse

There are cool looking places but yeah, you can see where they didn't bother, like the road textures (pic).

>they also had a snatcher easter egg in the terminator event, which is the kind of shit I would buy the dev a beer for.

I haven't played the Terminator event yet, is it good?

>>16846554

Are you fucking stupid?

2016 is the Season 1 of HITMAN™

HITMAN™2 (not to be confused with Hitman 2: Silent Assassin from 18 years ago) is the shitty downgrade where fun mechanics are removed in favor of le epic scripted kills and babby-mode tools like tranqualizer guns, electric phone and emetic bombs.

HITMAN2™

>game is fucking broken with xray vision, punch glitch, briefcase freeze, big item stashing, puke targeting which they broke and can't even fix for half a year

>Ghost mode abandoned halfway through

>only 5 new maps on release

>the fucking scam that "special assignments are" literally elusive target with replay mode.

>sniping between sniper asshat and main game is completely different

>sniping isn't viable in 2018 (wasn't in 2016 when they remvoed wallbangs) like it was with OG lee hong assasination, blood money or any other game

>the absolute waste of time, money, minimal effort that the sniper assASSin mode is, with no actual ballistic simulation nor a point-and click adventure but some half assed bullet travel bullshit and useless scopes

>entire game mode that was cut, called "assassination race" and the other one that still has items implemented that had something to do with infections and cures, probably Poz-chase mode

>last 3 months of updates is just fixing typos in German or Russian instead of addressing actual bugs

>UI is a clusterfuck designed by a subhuman who only made mobileshit interfaces.

>>16846743

If you have 2016 and purchase any version of 2018 you get 2016 as DLC for the newer client.

2018 (2) (PINK) isn't worth playing past Miami

Unless you're really autistic about muh briefcase (that's not even properly animated) and hiding in foliage, play 2016

>>16846783

he meant HITMAN™2 not Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

>>16847792

>Have you done the raid in Breakpoint?

only up to the second boss, to see what the fuzz was all about. couldn't be arsed to find a proper group on discord and it's a chore with randoms. but the first fights we're kinda enjoyable since it's less about unloading constantly into a boss and having to coordinate properly.

>Have they even cleared up the suspicions about the expansion not being Year 2?

only the shit on their website, but I doubt there will be a year 2. year 1 was already pretty worthless. it's all expansion + battle "season" pass for 3 months now. so at best 4 seasons till the next expansion, but I wouldn't put it past massive to shit out another low effort "expansion" sooner for 30 bucks you have to buy on top. will probably be survival or underground this time (since that's what a lot of people ask for constantly)…

>The game was on sale recently, I think it was around 2 or 3 dollars on PC

they took a note from EA's playbook, ea tends to sell off the base game for a few bucks (or even free, like they did with bf3 for a week) so people buy the premium pass and the shortcut dlcs. but it's not like the game was expensive before, they sold the fucking epic version off with gpus/cpus purchases for a while now, and with the game bombing even secondary copies were cheap.

>The sync shot was a good idea but sometimes the AI would lose the target right when you wanted to activate it.

dunno, never really used it much because "wait 30 seconds, kill 3-4 dudes, rince repeat" was too cheese for me. usually parked them outside and just snuck in.

>I know, people like 21Kiloton or other Division youtubers got blocked on twitter by the leads because of their constructive criticism. I think MarcoStyle even stopped playing the game.

fuck, that made me remember how back in div1 the cm (hamish-or-whatshisname) had some "whoa dark zone guys, how cool is that??!" promo stream and got shit on so hard buy cheaters that he just took it offline for 10 minutes and came back playing on xbone. galaxy brain move launching on pc without any form of anticheat. even cheat engine worked.

>I remember doing the Splinter Cell event in Wildlands solo, it was interesting and nice to hear Michael Ironside again.

same. also remember it driving me nuts on expert because of the shoddy enemy AI, the stealth mechanics and the mission design where you suddenly have to defend that shit. clearing out the base every fucking time beforehand to not just get overrun was tedious at best.

bringing back ironside was definitely a nice move and came out of fucking nowhere. shame they had to fuck it up beforehand with how they handled blacklist (actually liked the new guy, but trying to soft reboot it was fucking retarded. all they needed to do was to make him his trainee or replacement looking for fisher).

Pic related is peak operatan. Change my mind, or maybe don't waste your time and go play it if you haven't yet.

>>16837888

i literally only play the game so I can fuck around with the guns, the only redeeming quality. The looting system is obnoxious and makes zero logical sense, the map design is tedious at best or fucking cancer at worst, the game runs like dogshit regardless of settings or what you're running. All that shit is just annoying, but the worst part is half the time you can't even fucking play because the servers are down or acting like shit, 30 minute matching times or my favorite, spawning in with 3 fucking minutes left in the raid. And if you even bring up this issue you just get called an entitled baby for wanting to play the shitty early access game you payed 40 burger bucks for.

I figured the community would overlap with the stalker community meaning there'd be a lot of support and guides and whatnot to make the game more enjoyable. Instead the game is populated with streamer retards and the general variety of reddit cocksuckers. My first experience with the game was being confused as to how i'm even supposed to get into a match or what your goal is, there's no tutorial or even a fucking tooltip, but if you mention this then you just need to get good. Once you figure out how to actually get into a match, you're greeted with a group screen, so you figure you have to be in a group to play, makes sense since the dev page called it a squad based shooter, so you get invited to a squad and join. The game takes 40 minutes to load and immediately upon spawning in the dude that invited you just shoots you in the face and takes your shit, and this is somehow a good game design and should never be changed. The insurance system is never explained so the first time I died I figured i'd get my insured gear back if no one takes it, only to realize you need to grab it from the messenger that the game never tells you about and puts an arbitrary time limit to get it back because reasons. So I assumed that because it's insurance that must mean if it fails to get your gear back you get the money back, since that would be insurance, but no. The fact I even have to question how the mechanic works is baffling since any competent game would provide a blurb telling you what it does. So the first 100 hours are just spent trying to understand how to play the game, not even the mechanics. Games not holding your hand is one thing, but not even giving a basic description of vital components is absurd. I'm not even concerned that new players will be alienated, i'm just irritated by how much of my fucking time is wasted on menial crap.

So then after dealing with the obnoxious bullshit, the pointless busy work, the cancerous fucking quests that are designed to waste your time, and the community that makes me want to suck start a shotgun what do I get? A mediocre looter shooter with some nice gunbuilding mechanics.

Mind you this isn't even mentioning the blatant false advertising on the games page which says it's an open world game, or the fact the 100 dollar edition is literally pay to win since you start with funds, some of the best armor, trader rep which skips the irritating busy work quests, a big inventory that circumvents the entire concept of having to manage your gear, and a gamma container which lets you just hatchet run into a map, stuff it full of valuables safe knowing you'll never lose that shit. The worst part is the game has so many great concepts and systems that are ruined by greed and retardation.

Honestly, I think the stalker community are the battered housewives of the games industry. They constantly fall for fucking miserable games and slurp it all up because they sound great on paper. It kills me inside.

>>16855275

>>16845635

Here, I corrected the image for you. Mistyped the case on the member reference but I'm too lazy to fix it now.

>>16855299

>>16855275

>>16845635

>recently checked him out on jewtube

>~2,5 mil subscribers

>still releases updates that get millions of views

>pulls $2,7k on patreon

top lel

>>16855413

>>16837701

I wish I still had my squad of tacticool LEAFS in contact. We used to ace everything SWAT and Rainbow related.