Recent reviews by BuckBiu

A fun little open world sandbox, graphics is good, story is.... horrid, and it doesn't help the fact that you can play the mission in any order you want, leading to some weird moment where a character mention a character that you killed like they're still alive.
Gameplay wise though it is fun, not realistic at all but full on arcade third person shooter stuff.
Although technically there's a lot of content it all get repetitive as Ubisoft game goes so the only way I was able to get 140 hours was messing around with friends.
If I were you I would get this game on sale, not full price.

I was skeptical at first but the game exceeded my expectations in a good way.
Quick pros and cons:
Pros:
-GREAT Sound design, adds a lot to the immersion. (Except for the weapon handling, that is still very lacking)
-GREAT Atmosphere, really made me feel like I'm fighting in a battle.
-CQB in this game actually felt scary for me and Ready or Not doesn't even come close.

Cons:
-Average gunplay, animation is stiff and controlling guns feel clunky.
-Performance jumps between awesome and slide show
-Enemy AI isn't smart but your friendly AI is even dumber and will absolutely get you killed.

The pros really does stand out for me and kinda outweights the cons but the cons can't be ignored either so I hope it is addressed later in the early access stage.
My major issue with this game is however it does get repetitive fast despite the procedural map.
The game is also asking for WAY too much for what it currently is, I'd wait for a sale of at least 50% or more.

Challenging gameplay

I edged to this game

Its not a game but more so just a chore, since there is no fail state, you are given a gun and a list of what to do and you simply follow that list, I would've liked it better if I actually have to figure out what is wrong with the gun instead of following a pre defined task of what to do, this lead to the process of all gun being all too similar: Get gun, figure out what parts you need to replace, Buy said parts, replace parts, clean guns and boom you're done. Which as you expects get boring VERY quickly.
Although the details on guns are good and its cool to see how guns are constructed I'd rather advise you to not get this unless you just have money to burn.

Get this game if you have money to spare, and this game probably won't leave early access any time soon.
As it stands right now Ground Branch is incredibly shallow.
Gameplay revolves around either securing a laptop or killing all bad guys.
There's all the cool stuff that I really like, such as customization both on your person and your weapon of choice, down to what gears you put on your characters.
Gun play is very stiff, which some likes, I do not.
The game also have a very slow development, you will play all the game have to offer within 5 hours and the game gets repetitive afterward.
Overall Ground Branch has a lot of cool features, but they're just that, cool features, when it come down to actually using these feature in gameplay there isn't much depth to it and it becomes really boring, if you want a more finished CQB tactical shooter experience, you might be looking for Ready or Not.

Its like Spec ops: the line if you were a jet fighter


oh and the game is really fun I edged to it

I can't recommend the game in the current state.
Its another extraction shooter on the market.
If I have to be honest, this game feels like one of those old scam game, 2010 looking graphics and a very pre alpha tarkov gunplay.
To clarify though, I don't think this is a scam project (I don't actually know lol) but with the current state that its in it is NOT that fun, I don't have a positive thing to say about the game, it just feels "ok". Here's a few thing I want to say about the game.
-Meh gunplay, its a generic tactical shooter kind of gunplay with nothing special about it.
-Floaty movement, there's barely any inertia and feel of weight.
-Terrible UI design
-Generic AI, they don't really give too much challenge.
-2010 looking graphic

As with most early access project, wait a few months or a year so this game gets polished, hopefully.

I want to love this game so badly.
Is this game overhyped? yes.
Do I like it? hell yeah.

So why do I NOT recommend this?
Because this launch is ROUGH, think of it like this, you're buying a promise that'll hopefully turn out well like Ready or Not, which, with the way its going, seems good so far.
Lets go over the stuff I got in my first 15 hours.
-Confusing UI, they're not directly explained to you or even hinted.
-Performance, by this game standard, a lot of people's PC become "last gen", my Ryzen 7 and RTX 4060 TI can run this game on medium graphic with 60-110 fps
-A lot of bugs, some game breaking, like getting stuck on rocks or between bushes, forcing you to leave and lose your gears, but this is early access, so this will likely not stay true for too long.
-AI that feels very tanky, you can hit them a LOT of time, with your entire mag, even, and they will be standing up, so unless you hit a SURE headshot, they won't go down easily at all, other times, they die instantly, so its very inconsistent.
-Gunplay is comparable to Ground Branch, albeit, a bit "smoother" feeling, but the movement still gives it hiccup.
-Looting is not that exciting.
-Enemy AI is inconsistent, sometime they run into wall, one tap you, other time you can bum rush them with a knife.
-Constant disconnection, and more often than not, rubberbanding.

So why do I like this game? because I feel like this game does have potential, but a rough launch like this will definitely throw a lot of people off, including me, so while I enjoy the game's funky gunplay and the medical system, I don't really recommend this to anyone unless you got a beefy PC and some money to spare, if you're looking for an alternative to Tarkov, wait out like a month or a year. I will update this review in the future once I feel like I can recommend this game.

I refunded the game so I didn't play past 2 hours but I didn't really get a good first impression.
On my first few missions the enemy AI seems to just... clump together? it becomes turkey shoot with how ridiculously easy it is.
However, this game is in early access, so maybe they'll fix it later, right?
The good I got from this game is the more satisfying gun-play than that of Ground Branch, this game has way more feature than both Ready or Not and Ground Branch but it is kind of a buggy mess and generally I didn't really had fun in the 2 hours of my test.
If the game were actually completed and all those problems get polished out, I will give this another go.