Ubisoft have revealed that Year Two of Ghost Recon Breakpoint will kick off with the return of Splinter Cell’s favourite operative, Sam Fisher. He’ll be joining the soldiers on the ground, to fight back against Not-The-Punisher, his mobs of cannon fodder goons and possibly the Terminator. What a time to be alive.
Compared to The Division 2 and its glorious emphasis on maths as you take cover, Ghost Recon Breakpoint in its current form is just lacking a certain oomph to help set itself apart from the pact. Ubisoft is hoping to rectify that with the “biggest, most complex update” they’ve got in their post-launch arsenal, a feature called Immersive mode that’ll amp up the challenge and “address many of the top concerns raised by our community” according to the publisher in a new update.
The Experimental Mode is being used as a faster, more accessible Public Test Realm as a means to evaluate drastic gameplay changes.
The survival aspects that were hyped ahead of Breakpoint’s launch don’t offer much other than an annoying limp should you cock up in battle, and the tiered loot system is alright at best. Ubisoft has promised a fix for those legitimate criticisms, one that was expected by the end of February but it looks like this new immersive mode is taking a little longer to be perfectly cooked.
Following a developer update, game director Jeff Kaplan has revealed the incoming implementation of the “Hero Pool” system which hopes to solve issues of meta stagnation. I played Overwatch for a very long, long time. It was almost a ritual, getting home from campus, making a disgusting meal only a student (or Darryn) could tolerate and spending a few hours …
My theory regarding a successful expansion is that they usually do one of two things: Deepen or Grow. The Depth expansions take a system that was already in the base game and flesh it out even more, adding features that build on what was already established. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Growth Expansions add something that wasn’t in …
The latest update introduces a host of new unlockables, loadout slots, game modes and a new weapon, the crossbow. Remember the good old days when game updates were only a couple of gigs? Those were simpler times, to be sure. When the latest game needed to be patched and/or updated and you could still play it that same night? Magical …
The already massive deck-building roguelike has just grown even bigger with the introduction of The Watcher and the Potion Lab.
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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