Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint

EMP grenades and Panther spray ftw. 

I hate wasting time. Which is essentially what I did. Had an elite mission to do, a new one so I was like...oh I should go do it and it can be done! And it ended up taking me to...the GD Natural Hazard Center. AGAIN. And to compound the issue didn't even do it, died three times...grr.

The only reason I am even bothering to post is that here I was, sitting up in bed, watching the Unit, and waiting for sleep to take me when it occurred to me. Last time I had four of the btards bull rush me. Before they'd do it one at a time...Ubisoft is making the feckers learn, great as if me soloing wasn't bad enough.

As much as I do like the faction missions, in theory. I really wish they made the change over a week. I mean it makes sense if you can pump multiple hours into it every night but I can't so...yeah...should've mentioned that in the survey I suppose.

So did the two Elite Faction Missions of the day. Both of them were actually quite fun as long as I stayed patient.

On the first attempt I got cornered...and then sniped...in the water tower of sorts place. Second attempt I did something I rarely ever do...I stck to the perimeter instead of specifically looking for the high ground and very....slowly...whittled down the mooks in and around the base. After dodging people for the next few minutes the ground drones finally came out ao I went into the base. (Probably) used up way too much C4 on a turret. And then it occured to me...the drones were in the perimeter i was inside...so there wasn't anything to really stop me from extracting the prisoner. So I did, had to kill a couple of the guards on the way ot.... but it worked. I got him out cackling all the way.

Seonc mission took me to the island off Sinking Country which I had been to before...sort of. Accidentally fell into the surf which forced me to swim around the other side of the island and then back up on the bank, blew the genny, slowly made my way to the sniper tower. I got into an interesting moment with one of the ground drones. I would empty a clip into the thing and then I would throw an EMP grenade at the thing. This rinse washed and repeated until I killed the thing...then the actual computer hacking went very smoothly. It was in a bunker and only helicopters came to me so there was no real threat.

Yup.

So this game is getting better and better with each patch.

Picking up where I left off to look for Paula's husband which took me right to the Eternity Center. Which was fun. Actually had some good sight lines over looking the place which gave me a good opprotunity to do what I do best. So after slaughtering pretty much everyone in sight with my Barret, including a weird situation where it seemed the goons were crawling up a sheer wall...which made a better sniping position actually...I took care of the heavies...and then got stuck. So the intel pointed me to the 'basement' but I could not find the 'down'. So I went all over the place looking for it. On the sort of entrance in front, on some control towers around the base which was protected by drones and comms people...and then I went to go online looking for the hint...and sure enough it was just in the side of the place, so I just missed it...stairs...leading straight down. The resolution to that quest was a little typical but still well done.

Then onto the other branch of Skell wanting me to look into stuff to convert Madera. Went off to look for information on who bombed the Skell lab in Infinity. Boy was that...interesting...Ito was being a little on the cagey side which sent Nomad off to further investigation. And through a little Skell checkpoint then hunted down more collectibles which led to...Ghost Story, which is a treassure lead and then I got off to Polaris labs. Which was already being attacked.

Fun fact here I decided to craft the Mk. 48...the first LMG I've done. I will say about the tiered loot is it does tend to do what they said it was going to do...and push one outside their comfort zone. It was epic squeezing off a few rounds and watching them just knock back...but both LMGs and SMGs tend to be real ammo hogs.

Which leads to my thoughts on this patch. Haven't noticed too much different yet but I like what I have noiticed. Apparently the garage in a bivouac now starts with something in it, don't know if I can change it. And I was quite surprised crawling around Polaris labs...one of the Sentinel people chucked a grenade at me! I avoided it easily, and I am a bit reticient about the AI getting tougher...but I approve.

correctamundo

Bioweapon?! :eek:

And yeah I think I gave the male Ito a piece of my mind...by poking him in the ribs.

So yeah I wrapped up all the stuff with Paula finally. Probably my favorite sequence of the game so far. I really like Paula. (I even am shipping her and Nomad even though I KNOW I SHOULDN'T) And it was a quick little bit with Ito, just had to talk with him, hijack a truck...then get the truck unstuck on a rock...and then move on.

Then what followed was one of the neatest and craziest missions ever. Paula was backseat on an gunship where I was going around blowing up her batteries and servers containing her work. Helicopter with rockets blowing the crap out of everything from the air...it was cool. It also became some of Auroa's greatest hits as I actually overflew (and bombed) mission areas that I have done before like the one port with that one boat and the Fuel Storage Depot. And Assembly Hall Omega 02, where the blueprint for the Barret was. I got to an area that apparently I have NOT done, Outpost Red Weasel, and I got way too cute. I didn't want to get into any duels or firefights so I tried to get point blank range on the first server...and a bit too point blank as I crashed into the side of the tent and...yeah. THEN an bombing mission turned into the fight of my life. Paula went down almost immedietly (though it let me heal her) and the whole base was already alerted to me. I had to fight through the area with little in the regards of tactics or planning, beyond healing, ducking for cover when I could, and planning out who to kill. Perhaps coincedentally though I had an LMG...which was pretty awesome. I did get the two servers, dodging Snipers the whole way, and then got Paula up and the game then forced me to steal a helo.

But I did have a blast.

So...

Indeed.

The frustrating thing is despite across the board improvements to Wildlands there is still one or two things that could wind up making it an 'inferior' game.

But.

A: Ubisoft is looking into a fix.

B. I am learning to ignore it more and more as time goes on.

I forgot to mention:

So I think I did...three faction missions. Yeah has to be three. Though for the life of me I don't remember...one of them?

Anyways first up went back to the Auroa hospital to hunt for intel on the 'Assassins', a Skell squad was causing trouble. I was happy about going back since I sort of bull rushed the first time. And i found info on the squad and killed them.

Second hunting a Sentinel Commander. I like these missions but I hate how they are usually hiding in buildings or some such nonsense. So was clearing out the camp as carefully as I could, which tripped the alarm and got him to play peekaboo l...I killed him.

Third mission decided to pick off the Elite mission, having to capture a Skell scientist that was under guard by a LOT of Drones and Sentinel. This was a new construction site. I managed to get up on a roof and well I just couldn't find the genny for the base to shut off the turrets. Plus I had a rather unfortunate situation where I just had a Mk. 48 and the D-Eagle...which neither of them are suppressed. Fortunatley someone climbed up after me and I was just able to rush him and CQC him which, thankfully, I got a gold level SNS (probably my favorite SMG in the game). Eventually I just got frurstrated in the situation and started taking themout with the Barret regardless. Then there was a drone just crashing into the building I was on over and over like some kind of malfunctioning RC car, a couple of EMP grenades and some SMG fire took care of it, and then sniped the last two before escaping with the scentist in tow. Had to start on foot for a bit before I ran into an SUV/ Humvee.

And now Silverback is dead as well. Interesting base to infiltrate. Sneaky-beaky like and a lot of body fetching. Shark base next up!

Lets see here, oh yes the first Elite Faction Mission took me back to Camp Ferret...again. If that is one complaint about them they force me to go to the same areas over and over and over again. I know I have probably mentioned this before. It is also doubly annoying getting into any kind of death cycle when going to these previous bases...though I did get through it with some very interesting sniping.

My second Elite Mission...it reset in the middle of it so I did not even get to finish it!

Third regular mission took me back to the Fuel Storage Area that I had a lot of fun with. Approached it from the opposite angle and got to sniping. Thought it was a kill order but it was really a capture, thank goodness I didn't accidentally kill him. But pulled off some pretty good sniping work.

And then wrapped up with an Assassin Mission which took me to Assembly Hall Omega 01 which is such a fun little area for sniping. Was just going along and then went into the area to get the actual location of the Sentinel Commander. Which was probably one of the best shots I ever have done. Of course the guy just happened to be inside an building and I did not have good vision on him, I could see his legs...pretty much nothing else...but then since I switched back to Sharpshooter I knew I had armor piercing rounds which I equipped and nailed him through the wall in one shot. Then I cleared the base to find the collectibles and unique loot...then I left.