So... this update is just to remove the Predator mission?

[LPM]

someone can check if there is something new? i cant play right now

[DaBoss985™]

everyone her saying 3 gigs but I've had to download 19.. so what the hell man? Also I just recently bought this game and didn't even get time to try that mission, that's unfair.

[Dbentzjr]

Licenses should be for permanently adding things to games, not taking them out years later, this kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ really pisses me off, it decreases the value of all future products from these companies that do this in my opinion. Its no different than Rockstar taking awesome music away from their games or Playground Games censoring music in games after you already paid for the game. Complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and Yep - its stealing if we purchase the game with these things installed then the devs remove it without warning.

[DaBoss985™]

引用自 Dbentzjr：

Licenses should be for permanently adding things to games, not taking them out years later, this kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ really pisses me off, it decreases the value of all future products from these companies that do this in my opinion. Its no different than Rockstar taking awesome music away from their games or Playground Games censoring music in games after you already paid for the game. Complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and Yep - its stealing if we purchase the game with these things installed then the devs remove it without warning.

You're totally right. I'll be calling them tomorrow for store credits refunds because i'm really not happy about this. if i knew this going to happen i wouldn't of bought the ultimate edition

[wespe___o=/;;;:*]

引用自 dobrowol：

I'm glad they removed this mission. I hated it. It was a hard one to complete.

Not hard.. stupidly unfair, especially with AI teammates. Whoever implemented that crap has zero clue about game design. Actually, that predator was harder than the real Predators ever were in the movies and the games alike.
In the end you need the Tier1 reward weapon to blast cars and strongest stuff.. kinda stupid, because this is not MassEffect or Half-Life series
Then again UNIDAD reinforcement troops below Lv.40 (Tier1) are similar.. plated all over the body and hard to kill with most weapons, especially in packs.

引用自 SgtRomad：

It was beyond STUPID to even put this crap in a military combat game, same with the idiotic racing crap. I would say that most of us are here to play combat, not BS. This is NOT a game for going after space monsters, nor a racing game... there are other games for that kind of garbage. I play GRW for the look and feel of being on a special forces team, it lets me relive my experiences while serving on a TACP when I was active duty! I urge the devs, get rid of the stupid crap, keep the game strictly military combat... drop the fiction garbage and the racing!!! Keep the game pure! If you dare put this kind of garbage in to the game, I will NOT be buying in the future!

+1 Agreed. It´s already sad the Stealth-Gameplay went out of the window in the later part of the game. Especially since they messed up better Weapons + Upgrades.. most reward weapons are just garbage. Well, UBIsoft after all
Maybe it was good they didn´t bring Ghost Recon Breakpoint to STEAM. After all, Splinter Cell Blacklist was the best by a mile.. even this is just beautiful scenery with decent tactics.. but enemies hear too well.. spy you easy after discovery.. even on long range at night without any nightvision.. shoot too far with aimbot.. etc...etc


@the guys thinking they got cheated by UBIsoft:
You all AGREED to the terms. It´s clearly stated that the company can remove and/or change content as they see fit, even without notification.
Similar things happened to other Uplay games. But it´s a mission most won´t miss, Backlash is low

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

Actually, thinking about it. The gig change is probably not because they removed a mission. But because they removed the mission from the area on the map, and sent the entire update as a module that replaced and overwrote the old module. Inefficient, but easy to do on their end.

[ElmerFuddster|TTV]

Even after this update/removal I still enjoy the game. Yes sometimes decisions are made that can make some folks mad. Can't make everyone happy, and everyone is an expert in their own head.

[Zapix]

If you haven't updated, you can still complete the mission. You'll need to start Steam in offline mode so the update doesn't apply. Play the game, Ubisoft Connect can run and needs to anyway. Despite the update on Steam, Ubisoft Connect doesn't seem to care or force you to update. Go complete the mission, quit. You can now safely update and still have the rewards.
I just did this myself, so it does work.

[Jacked Syringe Abuser]

ok shorty yuh

[Monstervillia]

well predator is out of place anyway good they remove it

[_#R3ck#_]

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引用自 #R3ck：

lol they remove sth that we had payed ....realy? that stealing!

You never owned it.

yes i did.....always read my rights as a customer....still i payed for sth and they remove it.....either give to ppl all predator items or dont remove....if you believe this is right then you are black sheep

[OGonz]

My take on this is all that say oh the predator missions are deleted thank ubi get out of here this is a GAME we are allowed to have fun and killing an iconic hunter character from the films is fun and stop acting like this game is suppose to be realistic (SgtNomad looking at you) i enjoy the mission and it says in the region it is not needed to get 100% just because u either can't do it cause u keep firing out in the open or you just take it too seriously, we paid for the predator missions just deleting its dumb they should do what COD did an add it as optional downloadable content.

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引用自 #R3ck：

引用自 ̩̥͓͔͒：

You never owned it.

yes i did.....always read my rights as a customer....still i payed for sth and they remove it.....either give to ppl all predator items or dont remove....if you believe this is right then you are black sheep

You do not own your games. Whether bought through Steam, Origin, or any other digital download service that requires a live account to play them, you are at best renting those games, with no guarantee that you'll be able to continue to do so.

[KDM 16AAB]

Depends if Ubisoft were granted a license to use the predator past what I will assume was timed content. If that content was timed then I suspect such a license will have lapsed/not been renewed. So Ubisoft will have had no choice but to remove the content.

[Sergeant Roland ®]

So, Ubi takes the time to rewrite the code and remove old content but does not have any time for adding an NVG flip down animation for our AI teammates.

Seems legit.

[Katana DK]

1.31 Patch Notes

• Fixed crashing issues.
  
• Fixed framerate drop and freezing issues.
  
• Fixed stuttering/lag issues.
  
• Performance and stability improvements.
  
• Gameplay improvements added with Wildlands.
  
• Other minor under the hood improvements.

What unfortunately isn't spelled out here ( AND WHY THE F NOT, UBISOFT?) is that the update also removes:
- the Predator mission(s)
- 6 camo items

If you have completed the Predator mission, you get to keep the item rewards.

The removal is due to expired licensing (announced on Ubisoft forums two weeks ago), and it was removed 3 years to the date since it was introduced.

A note on filesize of this update

On Steam (with no DLCs) I downloaded only 1.0 GB, others downloaded 1+ GB, however that "low" amount is due to the advanced tech of Steam - other platforms are not so fortunate;
I read a claim elsewhere that this game (at least on consoles, not sure about Uplay) is coded so that each update contains every previous update, and so each update has gotten progressively bigger, regardless of actual content added or changed. Console players have had to download 22-26 GB for this minor update (one user claimed 55 GB).