an almost perfect operation, our impressions

In Ghost Recon Breakpoint, you have 4 classes at your disposal, and you have to choose one. If you play with friends, the choice is simple and you will easily adapt to your playmates. But for solo, you will have to choose between the Doctor, the Assault, the Panther and the Sniper. For solo play, it is strongly advised to play Assault or Panther, depending on whether you prefer to bet on discretion or firepower. Here is a list of basic skills:

Medic:

• Class Ability: Healing Drone – Heals and Resuscitates Teammates
• Class item: Care kit – quickly heals large wounds
• Passive Class Skills: Faster Resuscitation, Transport Bodies Faster, and Resuscitate Yourself Faster

Assault:

• Class Ability: Fearless – reduces recoil and increases resistance to damage
• Class Item: Gas Grenade – Creates an area that deals damage over time
• Passive Class Skills: Extra Life and Bonuses with Assault Rifles and Shotguns

Panther:

• Class capacity: Subterfuge – a smoke screen makes you disappear
• Class object: Stealth spray – makes the user undetectable by drones
• Passive class skills: Stealth bonus, accelerated movement, handgun mufflers and submachine guns do not reduce damage

Sniper:

• Class ability: Armor piercing – bullets have damage bonus
• Class item: Sensor Launcher – marks enemies over a wide perimeter
• Passive class skills: hold your breath longer when aiming, bonus with sniper rifles

To customize your weapons in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, simply go to them in your menu and press G (default) to open the customization menu. Obviously, the accessories of your weapons will not be available from the start and you can buy them at Erewhon, your base camp. If you don’t want to spend your hard-earned credits, you can always search for these accessories in the wild by rummaging through chests scattered around the map.

Beginning in late October, the first Ghost Recon Breakpoint event will take place on Auroa Island for all players. This event will bring the Terminator T-800 to Auroa Island and you will need to stop it with your squad. This is not the first time that emblematic characters from movies have been introduced in Ghost Recon, we especially remember the Predator in Ghost Recon Wildlands.

Finally, the multiplayer of Ghost Recon Breakpoint suffers the faults of the solo. If the concept of 4v4 is interesting, we nevertheless regret the rigidity of the gameplay which greatly limits movements and combat possibilities. While the balance of many aspects of the gameplay is still questionable, there are nonetheless beneficial changes compared to the previous version of the game mode, especially in terms of Time to Kill which has been greatly reduced.

Compared to Wildlands, we feel the graphic improvement with Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The details on the map and the surroundings are more than remarkable, with much less empty and wild areas than in Wildlands. We thus find ourselves in a mixture between nature and technology which blends perfectly into the environment. As for the characters, we notice a very deep sense of detail on the faces, which leaves a lot of room for the characters to express themselves and this therefore facilitates their emotional development. The black dot on the board returns to the animations which are far from being refined. If we recognize that the movement animations are interesting and adapt well to the environment in which the player moves, we nevertheless notice a great rigidity when it comes to combat. Not only is the aim complicated, especially in third person (we often find ourselves shooting next to the viewfinder, which is annoying), but the ragdolls are strangely fixed. We then end up more than once with bodies frozen in the same position when we moved them. This is probably an error that will soon be corrected, but which is currently hampering the immersion so far so successful.

Side story, we feel a desire to give much more depth to the script of Ghost Recon Breakpoint compared to that of Wildlands, which, if he had a charismatic antagonist, lacked scriptwriting interest. In the new title, we’re trying to get the player’s emotions and, above all, to erase a little Manichaeism that was too present in the previous game. But be careful, just a little, since we are still in the presence of an installation of military dictatorship. The characters, meanwhile, are treated in an interesting way but the performance of Jon Bernthal exceeds that of all and we quickly feel that the character has been much more worked than the others.

The artificial intelligence of Ghost Recon Breakpoint is not that great. The improvement promised at this level is not necessarily felt, with for example opponents unable to climb ladders or take distance. The power of AI comes mainly from its number and its weaponry. The only danger really comes from over-armed drones, as well as reconnaissance drones, which work in coordination and are above all not afraid to overtake you. As always, when your approach is methodical and slow and if you focus on stealth, you will have no trouble defeating any humanoid opponent.