Ghost Recon Breakpoint - 10/4/2019

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:23 pm

I've just started playing GRB after the update and it seems that for the Faction Missions the Battle Points and Reward for each mission are no longer displayed in the mission list. I guess I'll try a couple of them and see if they are still the same 100/50/15 breakdown.

UPDATE: First faction mission I tried should have been 50 BP and was indeed that, so apparently the points haven't changed, they just aren't being displayed anymore.

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Now the Battle Points and the Reward are showing up in the list again. Must have been something cause by the first playthrough after the patch.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:05 pm

You know what's frustrating? Being given one of those "hack the computer" faction missions. I know that the moment I hack it, I'll get a two minute timer and all sorts of reinforcements will show up. So this time when I got one, before I hacked the computer, I completely cleared out the facility of all enemy troops, laid down land mines on the two roads giving access to me, and even parked a truck to block any incoming fire. Then I did the hack and... success! No timer, no bad guys

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:44 pm

I don't believe it applies 100% of the time, but I've found that the hacking missions that end with the 2-minute defense timer usually have a turret conveniently located to cover the approachs, while the ones that are complete as soon as you do the hack usually don't have a handy turret.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:49 am

I have over sixty hours in so far and I'm still enjoying it. I'm not that far into the campaign as I keep wandering off doing faction missions. And I'm pretty much always moving on foot unless I'm faced with a real tough mountain traverse or long water crossing.

Two high points recently. One was having to enter a large manufacturing facility to destroy a truck. I figured the best entry option was at the far end from me, which necessitated a long crouching and belly crawling move along the outer concrete wall next to a river. Of course I ended at the wrong end from the truck

. The defenders included a couple of automated mortars plus a pair of automated gun turrets, two aamons, plus a crapload of guards. However, there was a large three story building near the end I was located. The only access was by ladder so I went up there. There was some low cover, but it overlooked most of the facility. So I then spent the rest of the game day picking off mortars, guns and guards while using a suppressor so they weren't able to pinpoint me. It was very satisfying to eventually clear the whole facility without them being able to locate me till only the aamons were left. The aamons were tougher but I was in Sniper Class so I went loud with a sniper rifle and eventually busted them.

The other high point was a side mission and I can't really talk too much about it, except to say that not only did it take place underground, but it was a completely unexpected series of locations. Very cool.

And a few images (click to enlarge). This first one, well, this stuff looks important!

I love the GRB map. This is the reason I move on foot, you can really appreciate the countryside:

I ran and jumped off this cliff, but my parachute didn't work

I was so tempted to run all the way along this elevated conveyor belt thingee:

Only Sentinel would put a powerboat in a pond less than the size of a football field:

Finally, the most satisfying feeling in the game, standing next to a Behemoth you have destroyed:

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:32 pm

This game continues to reinforce the bad habit I have of immediately reloading after firing off a few rounds, rather than waiting and assessing the situation. I've already been caught a couple of times today by more bad guys as I was impulsively reloading.

It also continues the shooter game tradition of never selecting a partially used magazine, even through I am constantly putting them away when selecting a new one. It seems to be a constant presence in most shooters; I can't remember but I do think I played at least one game where a partially empty magazine stayed that way until you took the time to replenish it, I just can't remember which game.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:53 pm

There was a video of this guy, like level 20, going after a Wolves Island that's level 200. It's rather entertaining.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:25 pm

Arma will select full mags until you don’t have any, then load the used ones.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:33 am

I've reached 70 hours in the game and I'm starting to burn out on it. I burned out on faction missions a few days ago and so went to the main and side missions. They have tended to be more involved in that I've had to travel to different locations to complete just one mission, which is showing me parts of the map I haven't seen before. The gameplay doesn't change much in doing the missions, so the appeal has to be in the way the missions present a story. And unfortunately the story isn't very immersive for me. I'm learning more about Skell and Sentinel and Auroa, but so far the different threads haven't woven themselves into the whole cloth of an immersive tale

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This is different than Wildlands, where the various lieutenants controlled different parts of the criminal enterprise and so taking down the sub-lieutenants to get to the lieutenants to get to the big cheese made sense. However, I'm pretty sure that after a break I'll come back to Breakpoint with a refreshed outlook and give the missions another try.

One more thing. Apparently I'm not doing enough to help the whole Auroa/Skell economy in that I have about eighty thousand Skell Credits in my account. I don't need to buy weapons or clothing as I keep finding those and I'm able to craft most items I use. I hate the idea of spending good Skell Credits to but tattoos or hand signals or motorbikes. The one thing I would spend money on is ammunition but they won't let me buy that, so I'm forced to keep dry gulching small enemy detachments with headshots to collect their ammo

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:57 am

Once you purchase a vehicle, it's unlocked for request from the bivouac, and can be dropped every time you do it, which is every time you fast travel. I recommend the rocket attack helicopter.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 11:34 am

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:57 am Once you purchase a vehicle, it's unlocked for request from the bivouac, and can be dropped every time you do it, which is every time you fast travel. I recommend the rocket attack helicopter.

Oh, I know about that, but I prefer to steal my rides

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:10 pm

I finished up the main story today. I still have 20 side missions along with the daily faction missions to keep me occupied until some new content drops. I'm guessing the Terminator event will be timed with the opening of the new movie, so that should be less than a couple of weeks off. In the mean time, I'm pretty much at the effective GL cap. There are occassional GL 252 drops, but for the most part all the loot is at GL 250 for me now.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:32 pm

I feel like that world discovery stat may be the tiniest bit broken unless it is counting the land you have literally set foot on, the space between your footsteps remaining undiscovered.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:06 pm

Yeah, it's definitely bugged. It hasn't increased at all in over two weeks.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 1:52 pm

The Chapter 2 Faction Missions have started:

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:05 pm

I've got my cancellation in for the end of month, but I'm still playing it. I'll have certainly gotten my $15 out of it, but there's not enough to grab me and keep me going like Wildlands had.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:18 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:05 pm I've got my cancellation in for the end of month, but I'm still playing it. I'll have certainly gotten my $15 out of it, but there's not enough to grab me and keep me going like Wildlands had.

Too bad, I'm still enjoying it.

Also I've noticed that most of the Faction Support Missions now yield 30 Battle Reward points, rather than 15 as before.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 11:06 pm

The good news is that I've topped out all four of my classes at ten

The bad news is with the newest Outcast Faction main mission, Cross The Line. I'm at the part where I'm supposed to rescue Dr Sigrid Bloom. I've failed twice because...

Spoiler:

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:20 am

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:18 pm Also I've noticed that most of the Faction Support Missions now yield 30 Battle Reward points, rather than 15 as before.

They've also increased the daily cap to 600 battle points, so it's now worthwhile to do some support missions if you're grinding out tiers.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:10 am

I'm finding more variety in the missions now, main, side and faction. I mentioned in the spoiler above one faction mission that requires a different approach than any I've seen before. And I just completed a side mission where I had to protect someone but without being anywhere near her. I failed it twice because I didn't figure out the unique parts of the mission, but once I did it was a fun challenge.

I did see in a YouTube video a somewhat cheesy way to take down a base. I tried it on a couple of bases I was sent to on faction missions that I had already visited and cleared out at least once before. The cheesy way is...

Spoiler:

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:39 pm

I'm kind of jammed up on one faction mission today. I need to get intelligence from a "roaming villager", but I'm not sure that I've ever run across such an NPC, and I certainly haven't been able to find one today.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:05 pm

Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:39 pm I'm kind of jammed up on one faction mission today. I need to get intelligence from a "roaming villager", but I'm not sure that I've ever run across such an NPC, and I certainly haven't been able to find one today.

I had the same thing happen yesterday, I was told I could get the info from any Sentinel soldier, but I went through an entire base without finding one that had the info circle above their head.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:30 pm

Yeah, sure enough, I stopped looking for "roaming villagers" and just raided a base, and promptly found a Skell technician who pointed me in the right direction.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:03 pm

I played for an hour this afternoon and had a great time finally beating the mission I posted about above. It took me two tries to infiltrate an enemy base and grab the commander without getting gunned down

. Just as I grabbed him and held him with one arm while I had a pistol in the other, enemy soldiers rushed to the room so I used him as a shield while taking pot shots. I finally got the info that the person I was looking for was riding around in a convoy.

So I fast traveled to a bivouac near where the convoy was running, grabbed a car and went out to set up the usual ambush; land mine to take out the lead escort, assault rifle with a grenade launcher to take out the follow car, then shoot out the tires on the truck. The first two parts of that went well, but the truck rushed off

. I had moved away from my original vehicle but there was another one near by, so I went in pursuit. The damn truck was going really fast and it took a while to catch up. Just as I reached it we went past a small roadside base. The truck slid to a halt and I jumped out and was immediately shot at by an assault 4x4 that came from the base. Had that been the only opposition I would have been fine. It wasn't...

Several armed aerial drones (murmers?) showed up to the party. I was being shot at from all over and was alternating gunning at them with an LMG and using syringes like an addict. The only thing that saved me was that I was the class that had the smoke bomb special action plus the spray that hid me from the drones. Even then I had to fight off the soldiers from the 4x4 and a few that joined from a nearby campsite. I used up almost all my AR and LMG ammo, that's the first time I've had that happen. In the end I rescued the VIP, although I had to drive her off in a truck with three flats

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:39 pm

Your signature quote seems appropriate for that story.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:03 am

Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:39 pm Your signature quote seems appropriate for that story.

Yup, that's been happening a lot

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I had a mission where I had to go rescue some scientist and bring her back to a lab where she could hack some agricultural drones. I did the whole rescue thing, which was exciting, then brought her carefully back to the lab so she could start her hacking. And as soon as she started I got one of those two minute countdown timers

. I did a good job fighting off the attackers, except I missed one who ran up a back stairs and shot my scientist

. I thought, hey, I'm going to have to redo the mission, but no. Instead I had to go through several fields directly killing the agri-drones. That turned out to be a better deal since I got parts from each of the downed drones

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In another mission I had to grab this boss guy. Trouble was, he had two soldiers in the office with him, including a heavy. And the boss guy was trying to kill me as well

. After failing twice, I finally got to the office and for the first time I can remember I used flashbangs in a mission. I stunned all of them, killed the two soldiers and then grabbed the boss. Oops! A bunch of bad guys started heading towards the building and I doubted I could hold them off with my pistol. So I klunked the boss over the head and dropped him on the floor, then fought and killed all the bad guys coming at me. Then I threw the boss over my shoulder and carried him through the rest of the mission:

And I've done enough Battle Reward missions to unlock the 416 Shorty:

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:17 pm

Oh oh....Ubisoft delays its entire 2020 slate after Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s “underperformance”

Ubisoft planned to launch three major titles early in 2020: Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Gods & Monsters. The publisher has announced that all three of those titles will be delayed to its next fiscal year, which begins on April 1, 2020. In its financial report, the publisher directly connects these delays to production changes that have been implemented after the poor reception to Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

Hmm, so how does this affect any future decision I make about keeping my Uplay+ subscription?

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:10 pm

I'm sure we can beat Sentinel, they can't even hang a map right side up!

OK, so let me get this straight. I can trespass before this point, but not beyond this point? Do I have that right?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:48 pm

After dying in seconds several times to Walker on Advanced, I kicked it down to Arcade, and it still took me three tries to kill him.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:15 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:48 pm After dying in seconds several times to Walker on Advanced, I kicked it down to Arcade, and it still took me three tries to kill him.

Yeah, that's an ugly mission and quite out of family regarding cheesiness versus the rest of the missions I've encountered.

I'm closing in on ninety hours played and still enjoying the game. I've been distracted by The Outer Worlds but I'm a bit unhappy with that so I might be back on GRB as soon as tonight. Uplay+ will turn out to be quite a deal if I keep enjoying the game the way I have.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:23 pm

New post from Ubisoft: TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON® BREAKPOINT: MOVING FORWARD

Since the launch of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, we’ve been listening to you. We have been carefully reading the conversations online, and have met some of our community members in person to discuss the game.

We can’t stress enough how much we appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts about the game. And while these first weeks have been rougher than expected, we are taking your feedback to heart. We deeply care about this game, the Ghost Recon franchise and you, our community of players, and are committed to improving it.

Thanks to all the player feedback we gathered on the game and to our constant communication with our Delta Company community leaders, we are ready to communicate on where we currently stand, but more importantly, where we want to go....

Spoiler:

1. Technical State of the Game

Our first priority is to improve the technical state of the game. We know many players had a difficult time with game bugs and unexpected stability issues at launch and we are making every effort possible to address these issues as soon as we can.

With Title Update 1.0.2, released on October 15, our team made numerous improvements to the game, focusing on the most pressing issues that could be addressed in this timeframe. We are working on further improvements that will be coming soon with TU1.0.3 in mid-November, including fixes on the Drone deployment, on changing the fire rate, on NVGs blocking crosshairs and on the Mission Completion notification pop-up.

Title Update 1.0.3.1, coming around end-November, will include further improvements and updates on the most pressing community feedback.

Alongside this post is an update on the Known Issues of the game, and the highest priority issues.

2. Post-Launch Content

As we focus on improving the game, we also want you to know that our commitment does not stop here. We are dedicated to supporting Ghost Recon Breakpoint in the long term with plenty of post-launch content and special events to keep the world constantly growing and evolving.

You will get your first taste with Project Titan, our first ever Raid, which will release in December, and The Terminator Live Event, which will release shortly after that. In order to make sure we remain agile and flexible, we’ll come back to you with more details including specific release dates at a later stage.

3. In-game Economy

We also heard the criticism regarding the in-game economy. That is why we are currently working to make adjustments according to players’ feedback in the next few weeks, making the experience for players more comfortable.

4. AI Teammates

We announced at E3 2019 that AI Teammates would come back to Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and they will. Ghost Recon Breakpoint was designed from the ground up to be enjoyed in co-op up to four players, and as an innovative pure solo experience. As such, adding back AI Teammates to the game is a major undertaking that will still require time. We will update you as we progress towards their release.

5. Freedom of Choice

Finally, we are aware that some of the design choices made have caused polarized reactions and discussions regarding the direction taken by the Ghost Recon franchise.

We are happy to see players embracing the new elements of the game, but we also understand that there are areas of improvements. Some of you would like our new survival mechanics to have more impact on your experience, while others dislike the tiered loot progression we have added.

One of the key elements of our vision for Ghost Recon is to immerse our fans in a gritty and authentic military experience.

In line with this vision and the feedback we received, we are working on a more radical and immersive version of Ghost Recon Breakpoint. We also want to let you tailor your experience to the way you want to enjoy the game, since freedom of choice has always been part of the Ghost Recon DNA.

It’s still too early to share details on how that will work exactly, but it is top of mind for the team and we will keep you updated as we progress.

6. Conclusion

We know that we have a lot of work ahead of us to get the game where you want it to be, and that not everything will be addressed or released as fast as all of you might like. Big changes can take time to make sure they are done right, but we still want to be as transparent as we can about the current state of development.

In order to ensure we are tackling the right topics at the right time, we are also looking into releasing a Community Survey that will help you to express yourself about the future content and improvements of the game.

To all of those who have jumped in and to those who are thinking about joining us – please continue to share you feedback. This is only the beginning and we look forward to the future together.

The official www.ghostrecon.com website will remain the main source for all future updates.

The Ghost Recon Team.

I've reached ninety hours in the game and am still enjoying the experience, so I'm hoping any changes they make don't screw up the good stuff. They definitely can fix the looting system; the only real pain in the neck, err, thumb for me is having to repeated dissemble weapons and gear in order to pick up more weapons and gear

Also, I thought I'd never be able to enjoy the game without AI teammates, but the game is a lot of fun to play solo. It has that Lone Wolf mode vib from the earlier Rainbow Six series.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:14 pm

Some more random screenshots:

Now that's one really well balanced rock:

I swear, I was just trimming some rose bushes:

Come for the fight against Sentinel, stay for the views:

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:16 pm

52 hours and 50% story completion before I ran out of month. Not bad for $15.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:25 am

I'm at 99 hours and 64% complete. I've been playing most every day, but I'm ready for a break with RDR2.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:34 am

I finished off tier 49 for the battle rewards today, with just under a month to spare, so I'm probably done with the faction missions for the time being.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:55 am

Max Peck wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:34 am I finished off tier 49 for the battle rewards today, with just under a month to spare, so I'm probably done with the faction missions for the time being.

Are there still faction missions available for you?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:01 pm

Yes, it looks like there are still daily faction missions but I've completed the battle rewards progression until they start the next episode/act, so there's no need to grind them out every day now.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:05 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:03 pm My 13yo still asks me about this game on an almost daily basis. I keep telling him we'll play when there is a (good) discount. I couldn't find any kind of pre-order discount. Having to buy two copies really makes me think harder about a purchase. I think I spent like $180 on BL3, but we are getting a LOT of play time out of that. We've been playing it non-stop for the better part of . amonth.

Sunday I finally bit the bullet. I decided to go with UPLAY+ through the holidays. We are having a lot of fun with it, though we are constantly running into things we are NOT prepared for. Also, my son has a habit of running off to find targets to level up his class rather than watching my back. I agree with him that Wildlands was better.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sat Nov 09, 2019 2:13 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:05 pm
coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:03 pm My 13yo still asks me about this game on an almost daily basis. I keep telling him we'll play when there is a (good) discount. I couldn't find any kind of pre-order discount. Having to buy two copies really makes me think harder about a purchase. I think I spent like $180 on BL3, but we are getting a LOT of play time out of that. We've been playing it non-stop for the better part of . amonth.
Sunday I finally bit the bullet. I decided to go with UPLAY+ through the holidays. We are having a lot of fun with it, though we are constantly running into things we are NOT prepared for. Also, my son has a habit of running off to find targets to level up his class rather than watching my back. I agree with him that Wildlands was better.

I started 6 days ago. I now am level 30, rank 10 in all classes and all of the skills unlocked. My gear score is 188 so there is room to grow there. I guess I'll start the main missions now. I've settled on the Panther class. I like sneaking around and have upgraded most SMGs to Mk 3 and a decent number of snipers and DMRs too because I like killing drones with them (and turrets and radio operators).

I've played a lot of co-op with my son. It's nice to have someone to watch your back.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sat Nov 09, 2019 5:28 pm

I stopped for a while due to Red Dead Redemption 2 coming out, but I'm sure I'll be going back as after 102 hours I'm at only about halfway complete in the main campaign. I'm at gear level 220, topped out in skills, XP and classes. There is still a lot of the map I haven't explored and I haven't cleared out at least half of the bases/camps/residences.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:37 am

Patch notes for the 1.0.3 update, being released November 12th.

Our next patch, Title Update 1.0.3, will be deployed on all platforms on November 12. We have identified, fixed, and improved many aspects of the game but more importantly we endeavored to address some of the most pressing issues based on community feedback.
Download Time and Size

Please note: Whether you purchased a digital or a physical edition of the game, you will need to download the patch before playing.

The size of the patch depends on your platform, the region, and your preferred language.

Xbox One: 7 GB
PlayStation®4 system: 7 GB
Uplay PC and Epic Game Store: 6.7 GB

Patch Highlights:

Fixed an issue that caused the drone to stop deploying on some occasions.
Fixed a bug that caused some players to respawn under the map.
Fixed an issue where changing fire rate while ADS deployed the drone.
Fixed an issue where L3GP night vision goggles blocked the weapon reticle while in third-person view.
Fixed an issue where the "Mission Completion" tutorial pop-up would display after every loading screen.
Improvements made to the issue where scopes would flicker when players ADS.

Ghost War:
Sniper weapons no longer one-shot while using the Rolling Thunder perk.
Fixes implemented to Ghost War stat tracking.
Ghost War stats are now display correctly in the loadout menus.
Shooting downed enemies will no longer trigger hit confirmations.
Added a cooldown to the Ping system to avoid spam.
Mission interaction is now prioritized over vehicle interaction.
Players can now do a camera shoulder swap while in cover. It will also rotate the main player on the spot.

Stamina:
Increased the base stamina by 66%.
Increased stamina re-gen speed by 75%.
Reduced the stamina consumed when sliding by 50%.

Fixed a bug where players could get stuck after using their ability or frags while Panther Class is equipped.
Realigned the angle of the panoramic night vision goggles to align better with the character's eyes.

Full patch notes:

Spoiler: