Ubisoft is hosting a technical test and I got invited, under NDA of course, to test out their latest clone of MGS...

Some more shots of the scenery. Did I mention the retarded backstory they explain? Basically, a drug cartel bombed the Bolivian embassy, killing nobody and injuring 2 marines. Then they kidnap a guy and torture him, thus the US is sending Liberation Force Ghost Recon to go and fuck up every member of a criminal cartel

Gee I can't wait to climb radio towers to unlock missions and sidequests.

The first enemies of the game are two guys harassing a woman, gaming in 2016 lads

Isn't Cryengine about 10 years old now? Why are they using an engine based on that?

Can't argue with that. Carry on, user.

wew

Why the fuck do they do this? Just show the fucking laser. HUD elements need to be MINIMAL in games like this.

Also, are there really that many fucking watermarks all over the screen in the test build?

Shoot the woman for being a whore, then shoot the guys for being dirty kufar.

Vehicles suck ass, although its nice that this game at least remembers this feature from GTA4 when GTAV forgot it

My current screenshot keybinding whips the camera around so enjoy the effect this creates

Yep. They had a hefty NDA to sign as well, worse is they overlay useful text boxes that explain shit

Am i forgeting anything?
Do people even need to play a Ubishit game to know what to expect?

Should have expected that. Not like the previous Ghost Recons were better though.

you can turn some of it off now but yes you are on the money

You forgot the "over extended interrogation sequence" that comes with Tom Clancy games

Also these motherfuckers are shopping at the same place because I've seen three guys in this get up with the same facial hair

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I actually tested Watch dogs 2 and boy Holla Forums let me tell you that's its utter shit.

Showing off some features they put in trailers, water sucks ass, and is almost just a static gif. Sugar Canes also suck, with no animation of you pushing them out of the way, they just kinda move away from you like you smell bad

Nothing surprising about this, really.

So I aimed at a guy, pulled the trigger, and he teleported through a wall in surprise, then called all his friends and lit me up firing squad style. Meanwhile my team of useless AI partners are three miles back doing fuck all. Luckily since there is no consequence for sucking ass the game gives you an opportunity to never die

oh forgot to mention the AI speaks in a robotic ARMA style voice. Literally "Hol-D On I am COME ING TO GET YOU"

oh boy a helicopter escape sequence. Except everyone is dead, so no tension. Honestly, flying a helicopter in a Ubi game is like ripping a fish hook out of your bladder through your dick hole. W and S do vertical lift, fucking mouse tilts it and that's how you fly in this game

Nothing screams Americans more than their foreign bases flying a rainbow flag

Everyone speaks perfect English but occasionally throws in a little Spanish or whatever the fuck wetback language they speak in Bolivia

I'm out of screenshots from my first run so I'm going back in for more. Did I mention that this 'small chunk of the game' was a 20gb download?

The map is huge, but seeing as the first mission has you driving through it, I can promise there is fuck all actually populating the map.

Can't wait for the final game to be 200GB. Bravo Ubisoft. Maybe their next games will come pre-installed on SSD's instead of disks :^)
I don't know why I was hopeful. I'm going to blame MGS V for leaving me wanting an open world operatan game.

Wow what a rare sighting of the MISSING TEXTURE native to Bolivia

If you get closer however they pop in

thanks but actually no thanks

As a proud American, I encountered some Bolivian Military guys. Naturally seeing as we are liberating their country, I murdered them in an act of war and stole their helicopter

Last few pictures I'll be doing if nobody wants any more. Flew that helicopter to the upper corner of the map, found a resort, naturally a big story mission started because as a big asset Ubisoft has to explain things since they probably spent multiple millions of dollars creating the place.

Also it looks like shit

Can you at least get into the place? It's not just a huge building with locked doors and windows, right?

Every door that can be opened is already open there. There were three rooms, only one room had anything gameplay wise, the rest of the place was locked an unenterable

What a waste.

The first Ghost Recon (and its expansions) was the only good one.

I can't believe normalfags buy the whole "its a beta it can be fixed" rhetoric. The AI literally bunched up like this after I sniped a guy in the watchtower

This was 4 years in development

I got in a CQC fight and ate shit because this game has awful close quarters mechanics and my clothes got dirty, but my skin is perfectly clean

I rounded a corner in a sports car (generic lambo) and drifted into a stone wall. Surprisingly, the game let me barrel through it at 200mph, but couldn't be assed to simulate the rocks afterwards. Which is weird because RS: Siege could simulate broken wall shards and stuff for a while after an explosion.

Why do the graphics look so awful? Look at the character's head. It's like a fucking PS2 game.

What the fuck is your AI buddy doing over there?

I've no clue. It's on a high preset right now, I'll try turning it up and post results

Switching weapons, did I mention the terrible fucking animations?

I did this camp again, without alerting the guards, and if you look on the map you can see two groups of closely knit buttbuddies just hanging out

naw dude, they all had at least one redeeming quality to them like the designs, despite never coming anywhere close to the greatness that was GR1.

Now this… this takes all that is bad about Ubisoft games and slaps the GR logo on it

Most of that design is now limited to something /k/ would deem as 'terrible tactical gear'

Here's the game on its "very high" preset. Note the grass in the background and the quality of the leaves

Ghost Recon 2 was casualized shit, and the following entries never got better.

wew lad

Alright so those buttons on the side, its a little weird

1 says it switches fire mode, but it actual switches whether or not you are using a suppressor. 2 is the alternate sight mode, which on iron sights is just a slight zoom in, 3 actually switches the fire mode and I have no clue what 4 does

Dig those AI animations. I feel like I'm playing with DDDA's pawns all over again

I don't understand how this game is this ugly. This is starting to cost me frames and it looks WORSE than the Division did, which I could max out on my rig

Also check those rocks on the left side of the screen out. That's some high quality textures there

This looks awful. Fucking garbage.

This is quality work. The bodies clip through each other, the grass is cheap and covers up the cheaper ground textures. The highest graphical quality is on the character models and is still dogshit

Also that fourth guy was like a mile back, fucking flash over there using speed force to catch up

Start making bets on the ratio of diversity hiring vs. people who actually know what the fuck they are doing for this project.

So how's the stealth and the combat? I haven't played the division, so I don't know what that is like. Is it just bland shit only made difficult because your AI buddies are braindead or is there something redeemable there? lol

I haven't seen any watchtowers you use to scan the area yet, it actually seems that you yourself have to use the binoculars and scan distant locations to mark them on your map and find stuff to do.

Stealth is essentially 'mark and takeout'. Enemies will notice bodies but if you are moving quickly you can take out an entire location in under a minute. If you get caught in a battle it turns into a massive clusterfuck and you can die pretty easily. AI are braindead, only kicking into gear if you get downed.

Theres run, sprint, walk, crouch, prone. You can have three weapons, two rifle types and a pistol, all suppressed with infinite suppressors. Like most operating games, most fights end fast with a good sniper rifle.

So far its just offbrand MGS V. The thing is, what was bad about MGS V was its story and length, something this game tries to make up for, cringingly. It simply can not compete with the gameplay of MGSV

Someone in development at least has some sense of humor. This guy was standing in a field, holding out two smgs spinning around making gunshot noises.

I liberated his skull of the brain occupying it.

The AI is pretty fucking terrible. Look at the minimap, my allies are nowhere in sight and I'm about to be balls deep in enemy pussy. I got to give out three invites so I invited some friends (like a normalfag) maybe this game will be redeemed by letting you operate with friends? Will post later when I do play with them

Definitely will NOT be playing with randoms

It's a pity it's the current year and Ubisoft is making it. I want a Spic killing simulator.

fucking crashed

Lots of killing white people killing spics in this game. No murdering civilians though or its game over.

I'd imagine it be pretty cool if they made it like the Nemesis system in Shadow of Mordor, except with South American ganglords.

The dirt bike animations are actually pretty cool, some of the best I've ever seen really. Just a shame that I can't capture them, and also that its tied to a game that has vehicles that drive like massive cubes on square wheels

Gameplay wise, do they still have that ridiculous transition time between first and third person?

I remember because of how unnatural it was i felt nauseated after watching the trailer

its constantly beeing updated, just like any other major engine on the market. As far as i know ubisoft licenced a current version, forked it and changed it up a bit to better work for their specific games.
Cryengine arguably has the best rendering compoment of any engine on the marked, so its not a bad choice.
I just wish they would use it for something that isnt causalized shit.
sage for offtopic and because this is a ubisoft thread.

Heres the best I could do to capture the animation, basically it has a really good lean when you turn

Just tested it, about half a second, the camera physically pans in and out, mildly nauseating if you do it repeatedly

Don't sage, how am I supposed to make my shekels shilling this piece of shit :^)

Sick textures, as in I'm gonna fucking vomit

Is the white devil trying to stop the innocent wetback farmers from making a living by selling drugs?

And there goes any interest I had in the game. I won't live to see an ethnic cleansing simulator.

Here's an interior. Look at that fucking water bottle

Wallhopping must be in spic DNA because this nigger hops the stair railing rather than take the extra steps up to find me

The game literally uses the term "Narco-terrorists" to justify sending a heavily armed and intensely trained special forces unit to murder the government, the Cartel, and assist the rebels.

What underwear do girls wear if you play as one and take off their clothes?

Yes, but it doesn't matter what they look like. The positions of the black boxes are enough to identify the leaker.

transmog changes are locked in and there is no extra character slots

which is why I put extra boxes on the screen. Still, I'm sure I'm fucked either way

It's baffling how the game tries so hard to be immersive with graphical detail, and then clutters the screen and sound with labels, objectives, subtitles and boring story.

If there was literally no story, it would be easier to swallow than this CIA-inspired jingoistic propaganda. Because OF COURSE impressionable teenagers need to feel like a hero giving "freedom" to countries that won't submit to the world bank.

Fuck the police, you done good.

Classic.

How bad can they fuck you over for doing this anyway?

I remember TestAnon from Dragon's Dogma and dolphin porn, but don't think he caught any flak. Was there something more recent?

My final thoughts on the game

If you wanted a game where you can customize, operate, and play with friends, than ARMA still exists. More arcady stealth open world action is better done with MGS V. It is one of the few games actually set in Bolivia, but it squanders that potential with everything just being generic tacoland. Looking around, the population to cartel ratio was insane, with almost 2 civilians for every 20 cartel members.

Nothing financial, but they can kill my uplay account. I own a bunch of games on that account like Black Flag and Blood Dragon that I actually enjoy, and I still play Siege with a group of friends. Other than that being banned from ever playing Ubisoft games isn't that bad.

Yeah an user posted during the technical test of some newer ubi game about samurai and vikings. I was in that thread helping him but he wasn't very careful about the watermarks and leaked his account.

Nigger do you not know how NDAs work? They could sue the shit out of you.

Do you know how NDAs work? Literally nobody gets sued for breaking NDA, they just get blacklisted. It's way too easy to lie your way out of a lawsuit.

Honestly "drug grows take over a small south American country that already grows the plants needed for their drugs for non-drug purposes" is an OK plot if they don't try to expand it too far.

Maybe I'm just too desensitized because of retarded shit like "guy lives out the genetic memory of his great great *whatever granddad where karl marx was batman" I appreciate "cartel is bad, kill them"

I will say it would work much better with a fake country than a real one.

So in typical Ubisoft fashion, a decent framerate at 1080p on a GTX970 still requires you to turn off anti-aliasing.

In typical Ubisoft fashion they'll fuck it up even worse before release, and instead of optimizing the game they'll just downgrade the final product to look even shittier than the JC2 clone it already is.

oh no not my neetbux

this wasnt a playtester sort of agreement, where I get paid to test their product. That would be a serious violation of NDA that I wouldn't commit because I would be getting paid. This technical test is being done by people, for free. Basically a secret closed beta.

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I want an open world "make your own operator and go do some operating for dosh" game so badly. MGSV failed to deliver, this is ubitrash so its going to be shit regardless.

How hard is it to make a 7.62 high calibre/jagged alliance 2 clone except as a third person shooter with no squad/team member mechanics.

They would call GR1 gear that as well. That was all Land Warrior based shit.

The CRYE uniform designs featured in GRAW were adopted for widespread US military use, GR2 designs all were based on products used by both the military and /k/ommandos (like the military camelbak, widespread now, unseen then)

Red Storm always had access to prototype gear and operator consultants. Even GRFS designes are more grounded than anything any other vidya dev shits out.

Apparently, that's not the case anymore.

Summit Strike had a lot in common with GR1 in my opinion. And the aesthetic remained consistent with the first game.

Isn't that common in every 3rd world shithole?

Is this
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One is just cartoonish villainy the other is it's 2016.

If the game wasn't shit you'd have the option to kill all three spics for merely existing.

I'd love to have that though. It just needs to be done in a way where the AI doesn't get in the way and at the same time isn't fucking useless. Big Boss is supposed to be the lone wolf operator, but I really would have liked to take a bunch of DD members and go on SideOPS with them.

AAA studios don't give enough of a fuck to make something like that happen and not turn it into a train wreck and indies won't have the resources to create enough content. Kill me.

Someday user

At least make the team stuff optional. I'll give 7.62 high calibre some credit with that, if you're not shit you can get through the game solo. I just hate operator type games that force you to either micromanage a squad or have a bunch of AI bozos follow you around.

I wanna play as the "up and coming mercenary who gets dropped into a situation thats out of his depth and needs to adapt and improve to survive"

One of these days I'll learn how to make vidya and just do it myself, actual devs are sure as shit not going to do it

A way to handle it could have been a turn based "minigame" in the vein of X-Com.

My dream game would be a MGSV clone with more elaborate base management, with sub-quests that actually make you feel like a leader, instead of an errand boy, and a more useful way to use your DD staff.

but don't you want to play as DD staff who are in every way inferior to Venom Snake?

Venom Snake is actually inferior to any S-rank troops you get with special abilities, just like Big Boss in Peacewalker. It's kind of hilarious, actually.

I'd love a "fatigue" system that would actually make you use more of your soldiers on missions, since Venom would get tired. Alternatively, have side missions only available to your subordinates, depending on their skills and specialties, with Venom Snake giving you tactical advice.

ah the ol' squatting AI soldiers

Oh by the way, if you're still here, how is the weapon customization in this game?

That's Kojima being oh-so subtle by saying that Big Boss doesn't match up to the legend surrounding him.

Deepest

Lore

You should've saved the screens as JPEGs, they embed shit stenographically into the framebuffer

source: lol

Who cares honestly? The game will have to run on terrible drm uplay meaning the servers will hardly ever be running and when the servers are running the game will be broken by cheaters or bad game mechanics meaning no fun will ever be allowed!

Could you please tell me what the fuck those censor bars are for?

those are watermarks of either his ubisoft account or real name

Er, OP, you did a pretty good job scrubbing the major identification numbers, but Ubisoft uses MicroIdents as well. They're near impossible to spot by eye (usually only 2 or 3 color value difference, but they're detectable via software) so I highlighted a couple for you.

most devs stick 'em in the corners, so in the future I'd suggest scrubbing the borders of any images you leak, too.

On the other hand, he IS doing all this shit after getting blown up and being in a bed for years, so cut him some slack.

enjoy your aids OP

Is it still locked to third person when not ADS and 1st when ADS?

RIP in peace OPperoni.

hey rainbow six siege is okay, maybe this won't be a complete abortion

haha, as if

How does an NDA guy off the street get screen capture? This is obviously a shill thread and your game doesn't even look pirateable.

These games are boring and uninteresting and uninspired. This is trash because good games are works of art that remembered fondly for decades to come, this will be forgotten in 3 weeks because it's made by Marxist millennials and Jews.

Oh fuck off, you delusional queer. go back to Holla Forums

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yeah, no

nice falseflag shill friend

Why do the beards look like comedy props?

Sounds about right for current year america. Democracy is non negotiable nowadays.

He's not actually. With his prosthetic upgrades he has the athlete perk speed, the climber perk speed, the increased fulton percentage, fast reload perk, botanist perk and most likely any other combat parks im forgetting. Then he has the highest vitality in game, with only s++ with tough guy perk being comparable. Big Boss is actually by and far the best soldier in game, from being the fastest runner, outdone only by cyborg and raiden, to the fastest hand animations and vitality. Its just the stats try and claim he isnt. It's almost like they tried to time his progression from being an a++ with s++ tough guy perk vitality, to the powerhouse with every combat operatives perks with his prosthetic. For gameplay difficulty purposes im assuming.

Quit falseflagging, goons

Fuck off, shills.

What's really sad is you didn't even need to do this. A few descriptors and everyone could have instantly pictured what this pile of shit would look/play like. Every Ubishit game is the same. Rayman is the only exception. They keep bitching that it doesn't sell well too so they might kill that off eventually.

Ubisoft get out

I can't even begin to imagine how your retarded ass misconstrued my post as coming from a ubisoft shill.

Ubisoft shill confirmed.

You're making this too easy, fam.

fake and gay

This is how real games look like, user. NDA is for a reason. If you're used to bullshot trailers, pre-release reality might be hard to digest.

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