StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
How many companies have 5 military shooter franchises going at the same time? And I even excluded The Division.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Frontline revealed - F2P 100-player Battle Royale [this is not a joke]
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Complistic
Member
This is embarrassing.
Cockles & Whelks
Banned
It's a hard pass from me. There's something comforting about Fortnite's obvious detachment from reality. Warzone was the same, more gritty hellscapes? No thanks
Hawking Radiation
Member
You must be joking right.
Division 2 has not received any content in months and there's nothing coming until March 2022. The player base has also dropped of a cliff due to the incompetence of Massive Entertainment having ruined the game time and time again. People got pissed off and left in droves. Last time I played on PS4 you'd struggle to get a full team of 4 going in matchmaking. There's just no one playing it anymore.
Anything related to Tom Clancy with Ubisoft is a complete and utter joke.
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Alebrije
Member
No joke but at this point is better to play division 2 at its current state than this new game.
I play division often you still.can find players on PS4 or 5 even to play Raids...its not dead.
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
You have a shit tons of BR you can try that are most likely the same as this GR Frontline. Some are even from Ubi, they just have a different name. In the meantime, tactical shooter are mostly dead.
I'm obviously not hoping for a "first person, invisible guns, reload wheels" type of game. More like a mix between Wildlands and Operation Flashpoint maybe? IDK, but not this BR bullshit for sure!
As for R6... you are comparing the old formula to a 5vs5 online PVP shooter? Really? And even with that in mind, just make a real single player experience true to the genre. Then we are all happy.
KaiserBecks
Member
Ghost Recon Wildlands had a surprisingly fun MP. Let's wait and see.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Battle Royale is currently running roughshod over the entire industry. Look at what people are playing.
Gamers seem to want Battle Royale.
Fake
Member
I guess they just listen Twitter/Facebook, thats why.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
PUBG was "too late" because H1Z1 peaked.
Fortnite was "too late" because PUBG peaked.
Apex Legends was "too late" because Fortnite peaked.
Blackout was "too late" because Apex Legends peaked.
Warzone was "too late" because Blackout peaked.
Naraka Bladepoint was "too late" because Warzone peaked.
Folks...it's not a fad. It never was.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I'll always be open to the possibility it could be good. I'm not really into dismissing games based on their type. Execution, content and gameplay matters.
TheMay30thMan
Member
The joke is people expecting anything less after Breakpoint.
CitizenZ
Banned
Yep, however, I picked up FC:new dawn for $10, played maybe an hr and said never again. No wonder their stock is in the shitter, no leadership, no writers, no one who actually works their plays games. None.
ResetEraVetVIP
Member
I agree.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Nice to see the design committee has been working hard
no interest at all for me. I'd rather they made a far cry game that was just climbing towers and no gunplay.
EDMIX
Member
maybe, maybe not.
I agree with folks saying they are pretty late to the whole BR trend, but making games takes time and maybe they wanted to see this development thru. I have nothing against that.
DOA.....who knows.
If it flops people can state "told you so" and fatigue of the whole BR concept etc
Yet sir.....what if (now hear me out) what if it moves monster downloads like 100 million or something wild like that? If you told me EA would put out some fucking F2P shooter that moved 100 million downloads, I would have told you BULLSHIT, yet here we are lol So who knows.
I think they are correct to shoot their shot. If it doesn't work out, I think it was worth it for them to try, if it does work out....then shit, they knew to properly develop a BR title, not rush it out etc.
Not liking a game doesn't mean you won't get new generation of gamers downloading it in droves. Its hard to say with stuff like this. Keep in mind, I still want a traditional Ghost Recon like we got with Wildlands.
bender
What time is it?
Ghost Recon should have never moved to 3rd Person.
Arachnid
Member
Tbh that's probably true, but I never got to play the original first person entries online when I was a kid. At this point, it feels like 1st person is oversaturated and 3rd person online games are rare, which is why I'd rather they stick to it and perfect it.
Also, holy shit Future Soldier online was fun as hell. Probably the best third person online experience I've ever had outside of Spies vs Mercs. Even Ghost War for Wildlands was fun, though I still think the game was mediocre overall. Breakpoint was just bad all around.
bender
What time is it?
I actually think a Battle Royal with the mechanics of the original titles doesn't sound half bad especially after whatever the hell Wildlands was.
balls of snow
Member
Apex days are numbered for sure now.
delirium trigger
Member
Yea, I don't play them either but so many people on this forum have been claiming BR is dead for the last few years when it just keeps getting bigger.
anthraticus
Banned
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
ripeavocado
Banned
Get over this.
This is the future you wanted by buying mtx, passes. obsessing on games for thousands of hours and watching twitch more than playing new games.
The market has changed, companies are looking to exploit those gamers, you can't even vote with your walle anymore since to vote you have to be part of the problem.
This is the future you wanted by buying mtx, passes. obsessing on games for thousands of hours and watching twitch more than playing new games.
The market has changed, companies are looking to exploit those gamers, you can't even vote with your walle anymore since to vote you have to be part of the problem.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Not being original is ubisoft trademark.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
So this means that Ubisoft have 3 Battle Royale titles in active development... Two have Tom Clancy's name attached to it... lol jesus do they even know what each of the teams are working on?
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
I am not sure why Ubisoft is trying to do here:
- Hyper Scape: Battle royale like game with custom classes like Overwatch
- XDefiant: Arena like game with custom classes like Call of Duty and Overwatch
- Rainbow Six: Extraction: Co-op tactical game like Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty (Sci-fi)
- Now this Ghost Recon: Frontline: 100 player Battle royale tactical game, more like PUBG, i guess?
LordCBH
Member
Wouldn’t be Ubisoft if they didn’t release a game into an over saturated market 3 years after if probably should’ve been. The chances of this being a success story are very very low. They’re not going to pull people away from Forknife, PUBG, war zone and Apex. This will end up being another also ran that has the side effect of pissing off ghost recon fans.
Strider Highwind
Banned
Ubisoft continues to look like a company that just doesn't play its own games man.
ManaByte
Rage Bait Youtuber
ManaByte
Rage Bait Youtuber
HyperScape was them chasing Fortnite/Overwatch.
XDefiant is just COD.
Extraction is basically just a Co-Op expansion for Siege. Even uses the Siege operators.
Frontline looks like Siege outdoors.
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
I was surprised it being an FPS - Ghost Recon has had games that employ this, but its not the staple of the series.
I dunno, Frontline looks really.. bland?
They have one thing in common - They aren't original. You could make a Splinter Cell tactical espionage battle royale, like Spies vs Mercs and that would actually sound more exciting because that's a unique gameplay formula.
As much as i want to like this, these yell that they lack soul. Maybe next up a Far Cry Battle Royale where you need to kill Vaas as omnipresent overlord?
Perhaps Avatar is that game since there aren't that many Avatar games yet, but still.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
VN1X
Banned
Three battle royale games in active development? I can only think of one other which is Hyperscape (which is dead). What are the others?
ManaByte
Rage Bait Youtuber
There aren't three. Hyperscape (which is dead) and Frontline.
XDefiant isn't BR. It's just CoD with Clancy characters.
VN1X
Banned
That's what I was thinking.
Really hope we get the XDef beta in EU soon. For all the hate Ubi is getting with these titles I sure as shit am ready for Ubi's take (or any triple-A dev for that matter) on these sorts of games. CoD has been meh, to say the least, over the past few years with the arena multiplayer side of things increasingly getting worse. Warzone was fun for about a season or two but the visual issues along with the audio fuckery makes it just too frustrating.
If Ubisoft can give us something similar but better then I'm all for it! But I guess that's not the cool or edgy thing to say so so I wont win any internet points for today I guess.
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