Boring and repetitive !

This 3 mods is a MUST:
Tracer and Smoke Trail Removal[www.nexusmods.com]
Sound Edits FIXED (Hitmarkers - Headshots)[www.nexusmods.com]
Spartan Mod (+Spartan UI)[www.nexusmods.com]

And the changes I think makes Spartan better:
- Ammo carry reduction (9mm - 55, 5.56/7.62 - 60, 45acp - 42 rounds. 338 is 30 and the 12 gauge is 21 shells)
- Ammo drops reduction by additional 50-75%
- Spartan damage is 30% instead of 100%
- Additional stamina reduction by 25-50
- Engagement distance increase to 450%
- Player weapon range increase to 20%
- Detection range is at 250%

Also you should play:
- With no HUD (except ammo count indicator enabled, and mission 3D objective displayed (small yellow dot))
- Immersive mode
- Normal or Hard difficulty (hard recommended)
- Navigator turned off
- 1 carry weapon, no AI companions, and syringes heal wounds (optional)

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I found this game setup the best way to play, and good compromise between hardcore and enjoyable gameplay.
With this setup campaign experience is day/night.

The only right way how this game should be played today.

Long-time fan of Ghost Recon, since the OG days & Island Thunder.

When this game launched, it had an identity crisis. Ubisoft being Ubisoft, saw logic in trying to further homogenise their franchises, which meant Ghost Recon got the "Division" treatment. Not a good fit for a GR game, they already had a franchise serving as a looter shooter, so this approach served only to harm Ghost Recon's image.

The sought to rectify that with the introduction of "Immersive Mode" and numerous parameters you can tinker with to make the experience difficult, from damage received, to AI detection, to minimal HUD as well as injuries not being healed by syringes or being able do deploy magical vehicles from a bivvy.

In many ways, this worked for me. The game had finally found some footing. It felt good to play, enemies died fast but would react fast unless you prioritised the right targets, drones if left on via world parameters can be very dangerous and honestly, everything set to extreme / minimal HUD made for a reasonably immersive experience. No worrying about having the right gear level weapons or any of that tosh, just customise your loadout from unlocked blueprints / gear, pick an appearance you like and there are plenty of good options for gear and boom, off you pop.

The gunplay felt good, movement felt mostly decent save for the cover system feeling a bit awkward, plenty of tools / gadgets to use, variety of classes to pick and level up for bonus perks that alter / enhance a style of play + new customisation options for gear.

The problems with Breakpoint arise for me when you consider the foundation it was built upon. Because areas were initially closed off with gear levels, this causes issues, as the map is entirely open now, which led to me killing an important antagonist SUPER early on and completely disjointing the narrative. It's not that GR is known for a compelling narrative, but it just felt off, weird. I don't like the UI for Breakpoint either, it's messy and the objective board sucks design wise.

I also don't like that enemies can zone in on your exact position once alerted to your presence. You could fire off a shot from 500m away, silenced, and they'll triangulate your position rather easily. The map has a lot of large open areas too, and as I mentioned early, the cover system is super finnicky and not always responsive anyway.

Anyway..

If you want a solid military sandbox to play around in, whack on Immersive Mode, crank up the settings to where you feel comfortable and you'll have plenty of map and terrain to play around with. I still have LOADS left to tackle after my time with the game, not even halfway done, but that's to be expected with Ubisoft and their bloating of games.


Really, if Ubisoft had any merit these days, this could have been a toe-to-toe contender with the likes of MGSV. Bit of a shame really, as we're dying for a great single player Ghost Recon, Rainbox Six or even Splinter Cell at this point.