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Ghost Recon Wildlands Previews and Beta info
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gutterboy44
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Saw in the Ubisoft forums that a community manager did address AI awareness scaling with difficutly. "This is inaccurate. The AI are impacted by the difficulty setting." To what extent, who knows. But it is not just a damage scale setting, it does impact AI in some form.
Gucci!
There's a video of a guy playing at max difficulty and enemies are blind and dumb beyond credulity.
Even if it DOES scale with difficulty, it clearly doesn't scale enough.
Beta is going to be a big deciding factor for a lot of people.
I don't think videos always convey gameplay that well but I do hope there are clever AI beyond what's been shown.
gutterboy44
Member
The recent videos and closed beta look like they are going to be the same build. So if it changes we won't likely see it until release or maybe open beta. There is no way they are going to get AI to a level of a full stealth game in a squad based open world game . That is a gameplay compromise. However, they should do their best to make the most challenging difficulty challenging. Right now it seems AI accuracy increases as well as decreasing your damage resistance. Increasing AI vision sensitivity would be nice.
Increasing accuracy and decreasing player resistance is the cheapest approach to this. It's entirely artificial difficulty, as opposed to actual AI. It's a bit like the laser aim, super health, unlimited skills/grenades enemies of the Division. No real AI to speak of, instead just a bullet sponge slog.
gutterboy44
Member
Yep, accuracy increases always drive me crazy. The more elite the enemy the better their accuracy should be, but it is annoying when trash mobs are laser accurate. At least with wildlands the TTK will be even. We can kill them as quick as they can kill us which is not the case in Divison cause of RPG stuff.
Precision grenade spam has to be the shittiest AI shooter mechanic ever. It ruins so many games. Just put in some throwing margin of error FFS! Destiny, uncharted, Division all sniper grenade spam. Last night playing uncharted 4 I was hanging from a ledge and grenade after grenade perfectly landed right at the edge. Not a single over throw that bounced over. It feels so cheap. Nothing will ever top CoD World at War in highest difficulty. There was one part that made me stop playing that game it was such egregious spam.
The positive thing is games are slowly pulling in more refined mechanics from other genres. I don't think wildlands is going to be that game, but at some point there will be the equivalent of an open world Hitman. I love the way you can see information spread in that game. People passing one to another the info on a suspicious person. So cool.
Precision grenade spam has to be the shittiest AI shooter mechanic ever. It ruins so many games. Just put in some throwing margin of error FFS! Destiny, uncharted, Division all sniper grenade spam. Last night playing uncharted 4 I was hanging from a ledge and grenade after grenade perfectly landed right at the edge. Not a single over throw that bounced over. It feels so cheap. Nothing will ever top CoD World at War in highest difficulty. There was one part that made me stop playing that game it was such egregious spam.
The positive thing is games are slowly pulling in more refined mechanics from other genres. I don't think wildlands is going to be that game, but at some point there will be the equivalent of an open world Hitman. I love the way you can see information spread in that game. People passing one to another the info on a suspicious person. So cool.
Yeah, i hope i get in, lol.
Well, i'm probably going to buy it even with dumb AI, just because the larger idea of the game is still appealing to me (but i also enjoyed Shadow of Mordor) i just hope it'll be a bit more than that.
Pjsprojects
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Not Division level,more like Farcry graphics. Which engine does the game use?Updated PC graphics..
Custom engine made for this game.
DeaDPo0L84
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I was really hoping this might be somewhat close to a SOCOM experience but after watching some videos nope. The search continues on consoles for a true tactical tps.
I wonder what settings are these.Updated PC graphics..
Lanrutcon
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Updated PC graphics..
Looks ok. Not gonna win any awards, but it's definitely not ugly.
Gives me a Far Cry 3/4 vibe.
DJSebolski
Member
Why are they releasing unfinished product? No PVP at launch for Ghost Recon hahaha pathetic. This game is DOA
Personally, PVP is the last thing I want out of this game.
Ha, oh wow, it's maxed after all.1600x900 for windowed play
Not bad considering the scale of the game.
M.W.
Member
I agree. This game will sell quite well.
HackTheSlash
Member
Signed up for the beta. Hoping i get in. This game has captured my curiosity recently.
"Here comes the cavalry trololol!"
Razgriz-Specter
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Do we got a code begging thread?
I tried to register but my Ubisoft account has an old email so im screwed.
I tried to register but my Ubisoft account has an old email so im screwed.
Played the beta on PS4 today, and I found it pretty disappointing. It feels like a mix of the vast barren open world of Just Cause and the story/mission structure of Far Cry 3/4.
As soon the first cutscene showed the cartel hierarchy of each area, and sent you out on a mission to start working your way up the list, it just felt so familiar. I feel like by now someone must have an idea of how to do an open world game in a new and original way.
As soon the first cutscene showed the cartel hierarchy of each area, and sent you out on a mission to start working your way up the list, it just felt so familiar. I feel like by now someone must have an idea of how to do an open world game in a new and original way.
Man, I also wanna play the demoUpdated PC graphics..
Looks great for an open world game but I can't help but feel this screenshot has been downsampled too hard (probably not judging by the aliasing) or there is some sharpening effect on.
Man, I also wanna play the demo
Looks great for an open world game but I can't help but feel this screenshot has been downsampled too hard (probably not judging by the aliasing) or there is some sharpening effect on.
Probably sharpening.
+ its 1600x900 so certainly DSR would help too.
Is this the reddit list?
If so it's the same guy who posted that image in the Discord I believe.
Also really not doing the game justice because this shot is pretty much only foreground looking at dirt, and background is so far away and foggy it could just as well be a skybox.
What's crazy imo in this game are the draw distance and the vistas, how expansive the world is and how much you can see of it, that would be the very real and tangible difference with Far Cry, that shot doesn't show this.
for example when the guy jumps out in parachute at around 3:06 in this vid https://youtu.be/vmuPlWdDB9c?t=3m6s
I think it's pretty crazy, and it seems this was just the PS4 version going by other press event footage.
That's what I'd want to see if anyone was gonna leak a PC shot.
Links to both?
Its not a bad looker for sure.
Its not the same guy who posted the image leak, i think, but the information might have gotten around, anyway: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wildlands/comments/5q8mmt/ghost_recon_wildlands_weapons_list/
as for the image;
its the one above, 1600x900 posted in Discord.
Same guy talked about datamining the closed beta build he have.
Where's my G36c?
HK G36C is supposed to be there
Pjsprojects
Member
I thought the beta started next Friday?
It does, for public not under NDA.
Pjsprojects
Member
Ah so Lifeline just broke an NDA...
That is the most likely scenario, yes.
Myself and 3 of my friends all signed up. If we get extra codes I'll save one for you. PM'd you so you can remind me.
Razgriz-Specter
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Thank you.
This.
If I wanted PvP I'd be booting up R6 Siege anyway, Wildlands is going to be all about the Co-op mode for me and my friends.