Ground Branch vs Ready Or Not and Zero Hour?

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Looking for a tactical shooter. I've been playing insurgency Sandstorm with a friend but he no longer play it and trying to play that game solo offline is a huge pain as I need to manually input commands each time if playing with mods and mutators.

I love having lots of customization and depth for weapons like Tarkov, and preferably having the ability to swap attachments on the fly like the Stalker games.

Wondering which of the three games, if any, is the best in this area?

[Cypher]

There is a perfect example of what I said. Nothing I am wrong about period. Everything I said was actual fact with the game Ready or Not, since launch, and before release.

The fact I am told I am wrong, but not one piece of evidence is provided to counter their argument means that I am right.

If you actually owned the game, before release, then you would have a clue about what I am talking about. If you still deny it then, you simply are lying to yourself to feel good about your purchase.

When Ready or Not released the forums were on fire with upset customers for multiple pages, for the problems I have said over and over. The developers even went on a holiday for over a month, with no communication at all.

If you choose to not look into what I am talking about so be it, but don't blatantly lie saying I am wrong, because the game you cherish has all the problems I had mentioned.

As I said before the standards for released games has dropped over the years, and Bane is an example of those who accept these standards, and even defend these anti consumer practices.

[CaiNX10A]

Ready or Not is the most complete (and polished) game at this point. Be it in terms of the features (beautiful maps, amazing gameplay, decent squad AI and enemy AI and the best part, the atmopshere). It's a SWAT-style game with small maps compared to what Ground Branch will probably offer down the line.

Onto Ground Branch, the best part of the game right now is the weapon customization that Ready or Not does not have. Everything else is a bit lacking - be it the maps (which are getting the polished that they require with each patches), the AI (which is honestly not on the same level as Ready or Not), the mission builder is not yet available so for single players like me, it's mainly terrorist hunts that I am enjoying and the biggest part is that the armor system and health system are not yet implemented. So it's no where close to release, but it's getting there. I personally think GB will outshine RoN when it reaches the vision that the devs have for it, but it's not there yet.

Then there's Zero Hour, I applaud the bangladeshi devs for putting a strong competition to RoN and GB. And for the price that they are asking, it's a steal. You might as well get this if you don't have the dough to purchase RoN or GB (which I guess are on sale during this period of the year), but it clearly lacks the polish you will get in GB and RON, but it is an enjoyable game reminiscent of Rainbow Six Rogue Spear etc ...

I really enjoyed my time with Zero Hour, but with the current state of Ready or Not, I will probably stick with Ready or Not until Ground Branch is feature complete.

Publicado originalmente por Cypher:

When Ready or Not released the forums were on fire with upset customers for multiple pages, for the problems I have said over and over. The developers even went on a holiday for over a month, with no communication at all.

I agree that RoN was not very good at release, and communication was lacking. Developers are human too and need a break after a game's final release. But I personally think they were able to work on all of these aspects to fix the game, and the two DLCs having positive reviews (and a fantastic price) is a testament to their will to improve their game.

And uh ... merry christmas, while I am at it :)

### EDIT ####
Best for Offline - Ready or Not
Best for Customization - Ground Branch

Verdict: Get both! :D

[Cypher]

Zero Hour needs more people online, to have a chance. It seems it just had people playing PVP though and not PVE.

[tjl]

Publicado originalmente por Cypher:

Zero Hour needs more people online, to have a chance. It seems it just had people playing PVP though and not PVE.

A few years ago the Zero Hour devs told the pve part of the community they didn't give give a $ht about them and they should play pvp instead.

A lesson for the devs of any tactical shooter - FAFO.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Publicado originalmente por tjl:

Publicado originalmente por Cypher:

Zero Hour needs more people online, to have a chance. It seems it just had people playing PVP though and not PVE.

A few years ago the Zero Hour devs told the pve part of the community they didn't give give a $ht about them and they should play pvp instead.

A lesson for the devs of any tactical shooter - FAFO.

lol definitely skipping it then. Already got RoN. Will get GB in the future.

[Arashenstein]

Publicado originalmente por Dweller Beyond the Threshold:

Looking for a tactical shooter. I've been playing insurgency Sandstorm with a friend but he no longer play it and trying to play that game solo offline is a huge pain as I need to manually input commands each time if playing with mods and mutators.

I love having lots of customization and depth for weapons like Tarkov, and preferably having the ability to swap attachments on the fly like the Stalker games.

Wondering which of the three games, if any, is the best in this area?

I have all of those games and here is a feedback from me:

Ready or Not = The best one for SINGLE PLAYER experience. There is no PVP, and COOP is disaster, every player will do a solo rambo and finishes the mission before it even starts. There is zero penalty for not having teamwork and basically it is an exact copy of SWAT 4, even the bugs and issues of SWAT 4 is in this game too. There is no immersion, civilians walk so casually in middle of a hostage crisis and no enemy will ever flank you or rushes at you, as long as you do not open a door nothing happens.

Zero Hour = It is mainly PVP and it used to be good years ago but now it is just dead mainly cause of Denuvo. It was a realistic version of Rainbow Six Siege.

Six Days In Fallujah = The most immersive hardcore one out there and it is only COOP and Single Player for now, but there is gonna be PVP added later. There is no gun costumization, there is no weapon pickup and you basically play a survival game until backup arrives and team work is mandatory, if you split you surely die. Enemies will flank and rush and do different stuff to shoot you down and every level is dynamic, you cannot play a single mission twice as every new loading will change the level layou.

Ground Branch = This game has both COOP and PVP and also Solo, this is the most realistic one as there is absolutely no HUD. There is a very indepth gun costumization, good selection of guns and equipment. However, it is still in early access which means somethings are not 100%, like most of the guns have same SFX, the enemy AI and Friendly AI is not so advanced.

[_Jackal_]

Ground Branch, if you want a real challenge and want to feel like you are in a real scenario. Only issue is that almost every time I want to play, there are only PVE servers, which quickly gets boring.

[barps_]

my major issue with all the 3 games you listed is the bots, moving targets in most of them, unable to flank, take cover and act like real players. They just sit in rooms waiting for you to open the door so they can take your head off with one bullet lol. But then this is an issue in all PvE games because well, all the money spent in every single FPS game goes into PvP. It's a sad reality. Talking about Insurgency, I have my own community server and there is a handful of us playing it on a daily basis so if you want to hang out and have some fun let me know. Cheers

[MissNurseXochi]

Publicado originalmente por RFGCRebelAlpha:

Publicado originalmente por Dweller Beyond the Threshold:

Looking for a tactical shooter. I've been playing insurgency Sandstorm with a friend but he no longer play it and trying to play that game solo offline is a huge pain as I need to manually input commands each time if playing with mods and mutators.

I love having lots of customization and depth for weapons like Tarkov, and preferably having the ability to swap attachments on the fly like the Stalker games.

Wondering which of the three games, if any, is the best in this area?

Ground Branch is the best out of those games, hands down. Better optimization than Ready Or Not, and unlike Zero Hour… there is no Denuvo.

This is the correct answer.

Ground Branch is the best. It runs well (even on older/low-end and weaker hardware), especially with performance tweaks.

Ready Or Not is unoptimized.

Zero Hour is total garbage, especially with Denuvo.

[Andrew_WOT1]

Publicado originalmente por Arashenstein:

Ground Branch = This game has both COOP and PVP and also Solo, this is the most realistic one as there is absolutely no HUD. There is a very indepth gun costumization, good selection of guns and equipment. However, it is still in early access which means somethings are not 100%, like most of the guns have same SFX, the enemy AI and Friendly AI is not so advanced.

GB has friendly AI now?

[tjl]

not yet - coming in the next major update

[Andrew_WOT1]

How does GZW fare against GB? Anyone plays both?

[Apone]

Publicado originalmente por Andrew_WOT1:

How does GZW fare against GB? Anyone plays both?

GZW "Gray Zone Warfare is the first open-world extraction shooter"

GROUND BRANCH is a multiplayer (PVT, DM, COOP), and single-player game that simulates deniable ops by the CIA's SAC/SOG and other special forces.

GZW has more in common with Escape from Tarkov than GB.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Publicado originalmente por Apone:

Publicado originalmente por Andrew_WOT1:

How does GZW fare against GB? Anyone plays both?

GZW "Gray Zone Warfare is the first open-world extraction shooter"

GROUND BRANCH is a multiplayer (PVT, DM, COOP), and single-player game that simulates deniable ops by the CIA's SAC/SOG and other special forces.

GZW has more in common with Escape from Tarkov than GB.

Does GZW have any single player PvE content like GB? Or is it purely online like Tarkov?

[Andrew_WOT1]

Yes, there is PVE, optimization is not the best though, even on high end PCs, but it looks like the most complete and promising next gen Tarkov like experience, at least user base is larger than other Early Access offerings (GB, Incursion Red River, 6 Days)