Wildlands vs Breakpoint

[Gray Matter Guerrilla]

I played Breakpoint for a while - wasn't impressed but couldn't exactly figure out why - and recently jumped back into Wildlands. It's a day and night difference, imo.

Perhaps it's subjective but I think Wildlands created far more details in the game that is lacking in Breakpoint. From random conversations and encounters to bits of cultural information and environment detail; it wasn't there in Breakpoint (or very little). Breakpoint looks a little better, but Wildlands has more "soul" to it, for lack of a better word. While there are people (NPC populations) in Breakpoint, it feels empty and dead. Character interactions are bland and it just seems like the entire game is a grind - go here, fetch that, secure this area, that's it. While that's a large part of Wildlands, it's done better.

I doubt I'm the only one with this opinion; and I'm not looking for agreement (or disagreement) but good grief, what happened to the series? Was there a change in staff? Is the next installment going to be like Breakpoint or worse? I hope not.

/rant off

[doqumo1]

Hi, definitely I agreed with you .I remember the first time in played wildlands and fall in love with this game. The environment is super realistic , seems to be really in Bolivia ...super immersive!! I played breakpoint too and i think that Is also a good game. I think that the top could be a mix with the gameplay and environment of wildlands and the graphic and management of the weapons of breakpoint that for me Is a little better for this aspect. Sorry for my english. best wishes from Italy. have fin.Dario

[Schrader]

Dude, Wildlands on extreme difficulty with next to no hud, solo and with the first person mod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME. Breakpoint can't match that imo

[Desperado]

There is very little immersion in Breakpoint because the world is so artificial. Wildlands really feels like a real world and the NPCs are great. Wildlands also has a much darker element of violence when exploring the world and seeing locals hung from telephone posts and killed in buildings. Really feels like a major drug war is taking place. Breakpoint has no point, it's just a very very weird environment that looks good but doesn't make sense by having Google HQ looking building in the middle of swampy forest.

[Chabs]

Basically my review of Breakpoint: 1 step forward, 10 steps back.

While it improves on a number of things (customization, graphics, certain machanics,...), the core is rotten. It has no soul, no life either, and ends up feeling super meaningless. No sense of purpose, of completion, with utter dogwater story. Not like Wildlands had an amazing story, but at least it clicked. Breakpoint's feels like it was GPT generated.

I 100%ed Wildlands TWICE and had a blast the entire way. It was lively, varied and very engaging.

Ultimately, I think Breakpoint is just the result of Ubisoft's industrialisation. I saw that with Valhalla, Watch Dogs Legion and Far Cry 6: Beautiful games that end up being massive letdowns because of how stale they are.

[DragonWhite4Gulf]

Breakpoint utilizes my hardware better, but Wildlands actually feels alive and doesn't require a constant connection where you get tossed if the server fails you.

[Jurassic Fart 2]

There are too many Mexicans in Bolivia [in this game]. I can tell because I've been speaking Spanish since 1978, and the voice actors use too many Mexican words that a real Bolivian wouldn't use.

[Gray Matter Guerrilla]

Originally posted by RMJ:

Wildlands Immersive????? Just how many choppers do they have that I have to shoot down> Just as the convoys - Vehicals? There is no Chopper factory ......... I find that anti immersive! PFFT! At least in breakpoint you can disable stuff. The drone fly overs- Just how many do they have? I disable that nonsense ,got tired of moving 50 meters and have to hide from another silly fly over!

They both have their good and bad points. I prefer Breakpoint.

I think it's easy to believe that a drug cartel and government funded military would have money to buy plenty of helicopters, especially when the very rich drug cartel works/funds that corrupt government. That's how I look at it.

In my play-through of both, I found the helis and large drone to be far more annoying in Breakpoint than the aerial patrols in Wildlands, but you're right about Breakpoint having the option of turning that off. It really would have been bad if BP didn't have an option, imo.

[Desperado]

The helicopters in Wildlands aren't even a big deal to me. If you have a grenade launcher, it's one shot one kill on them. I agree, that the story line that explains Unidad is military covers why they have helicopters and it adds a good element to the game to not mess with Unidad at level 5. lol

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Rocket launchers are utter crap for taking out offensive aircraft; in comparison to high-velocity projectile weapons they are wildly inaccurate and extremely limited vis-à-vis range.

And I actually like having the Azrael drones enabled in Breakpoint—they're a welcome source of crafting components. Plus, sometimes I just feel like a fight.

Too, the way some people delight in bitterly debating "immersive versus not immersive" begs the question: Does everyone engaging in such debate actually know the definition of immersive?

I do have a complaint, though, regarding the Tier/Rewards system in Wildlands:

The game is far too short for grinding away on the tier system to get its two worthwhile rewards, Tier 40's Desert Tech HTI BDC¹ and Tier 5's LVOA-C Bad News assault rifle; to make it as enjoyable as possible, and to have these nice guns through as many missions as is possible, you have to ignore story missions for as long as you can without going batcrap nertz, spending all your time farming convoys, discovering locations, and picking up map-available skill points and medals, weapon accessory cases (which, oddly, the characters refer to as "weapon cases," which is audibly indistinguishable from actual weapon cases), and weapon cases. Plus, flying over enemy locations to garner marking bonuses, and picking fights with anyone and everybody, especially clearing out large, heavily-populated Unity bases, relying upon stealth and taxing your patience to get the most points.

¹Most of the tier rewards are gedunk trash, of no utility whatsoever, then there's the fact that the Desert Tech sniper's stats are identical to two other large-caliber anti-materiel long guns...but, it does have a nifty weapon skin, doesn't it? The next time I get the Bad News assault rifle, I'm going to scan the rest of the assault rifle menu to see if it, too, is statistically identical to another auto/semi-auto rifle.

[☣ βioClone λx-45 ☣]

Originally posted by Schrader:

Dude, Wildlands on extreme difficulty with next to no hud, solo and with the first person mod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME. Breakpoint can't match that imo

Breakpoint have much better difficulty options and the healing mechanics feels way better for said gamemode (even if nerfed in comparison to the alpha)

[The Empress]

Wildlands is superior in every way but character animations. Shame really.

[ＫＩＮＥ]

Originally posted by Schrader:

Dude, Wildlands on extreme difficulty with next to no hud, solo and with the first person mod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME. Breakpoint can't match that imo

gonna try this on second playthrough. just got the game last sale. I was on Breakpoint beta test and wasn't impressed enough to buy it. GR:Wildlands is much better imo.

[TaTaTiRa]

For me it is Breakpoint. I bought Wildlands and it works like crap compared to Breakpoint and that is the main reason. Wildlands has better small details and world and story but all that falls into water when it works like crap.

[Schrader]

Originally posted by ᶜʳᵉᵉᵈ KINE:

Originally posted by Schrader:

Dude, Wildlands on extreme difficulty with next to no hud, solo and with the first person mod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME. Breakpoint can't match that imo

gonna try this on second playthrough. just got the game last sale. I was on Breakpoint beta test and wasn't impressed enough to buy it. GR:Wildlands is much better imo.

You wont regret it

[mʘδεrn]

Originally posted by TaTaTiRa:

For me it is Breakpoint. I bought Wildlands and it works like crap compared to Breakpoint and that is the main reason. Wildlands has better small details and world and story but all that falls into water when it works like crap.

I played through both GRW and GRB more than once.
While I get that GRW is more soulful, I have to say that what REALLY annoyed me playing it, was the bullet-air-time, it was a neverending feeling of shooting through molasses. In that respect GRB is FAR superior.
Sure it has it's bugs, but in general the physics is just so much better.