Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

[daniel77733]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

At what point does the game open up? Meaning tutorial stuff is over.

Damn this thread is dead, guys on here must not be enjoying the game?

The Escape of Lydia DLC is separate from the main game and takes place on two linear maps. Once you finish the prologue in the main story campaign, the first region map opens up. There's three region maps. I opened up the second one a few hours ago. You basically have a world map which has three region maps on it and you then click the region map so you can see it.

Yeah, this thread is dead but that was expected. I'm enjoying the game and currently at the start of ACT II. Not a 9/10 or anything like that but definitely NOT lower than a 7/10 in my opinion.

[daniel77733]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

Still playing. Currently about halfway through the story and going at a pretty good pace. In 36 1/2 hours, im 58% complete overall. Five bugs/glitches. Fell through the world twice while jumping off a ladder. Got an error message and was kicked out to the PS4 home screen. Had the game freeze on me during the last mission I did. Fifth was there being no tires on the car and yet I was still able to drive it. LOL.

Game might be lower than a 7/10 as the more I play it, the more things that bug me. The maps are glitched. You can clear an outpost yet they will still appear on the map. Collectable item icons don't appear on the map that you're in but will appear on the other map. Problem besides that is that the icons for the collectables were already collected yet the icons show up anyway. The percentages that appear for each region map appear glitched.

The world is pretty much dead except for the few village/town areas. No cars, no people, nothing. You can only drive around your car and the buggy if you have the DLC. All other vehicles are locked. Except for dears, wolves and I think it was chickens, there's no wildlife at all.

Having to repeatedly press the buttons in order for the game to register it is annoying even though I figured out that if you double tap the button (for example "right on the directional pad"), the menu pops up and you can change your ammo type.

Story is getting a little better but at the same time, I was kind of expecting what just happened. Also, didn't like that a certain character kind of eliminates themselves which I thought was just weird and stupid.

Haven't used the crafting system at all yet since I have so much money most of the time but I will start using it if/when I have to. I do keep acquiring all the materials as im so used to doing that in every open world game.

Don't like that enemy outposts respawn if you drive/go past them. I honestly hate this. I can understand it if I clear out an enemy outpost and then have to back to the same outpost due to it being a story mission (which has happened twice) but otherwise, once I eliminate an outpost, it should be eliminated. Materials respawn which I can understand but I would prefer them not to respawn.

With all of that said, im still enjoying the game for what it is and it is what I expected it to be - a poor man's Far Cry which is fine as it's giving me that fix.

The game does look beautiful in 4K HDR and I love when it rains and snows. I will still be completing the game 100% and hopefully, the game doesn't glitch out my progress. LOL.

With GameFly shipping out Ghost Recon Wildlands to me today, it's basically time for me to really start finishing up SGW3. Definitely happy that im playing through SGW3 before playing through GRW as I know GRW is the better overall game.

For those of you who are playing SGW3, I hope you guys are enjoying the game because despite the bugs, glitches and flaws, I am actually enjoying SGW3. If I wasn't, I would have quit playing it long before 36 1/2 hours in. LOL.

[daniel77733]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

Well.....literally just finished SGW3 a few minutes ago. 98% overall completion. Long story short, if you know what to expect, you'll probably enjoy this game but if you're expecting a lot, you probably won't enjoy this game.

Story and characters weren't bad but the execution and ending were. Seriously, unless you're near the end, you're not missing much. Wasted potential on a few characters, a decent swerve that was also wasted in the last few missions.

Haven't decided on a final rating but if I decide to give it a 7/10, it should be considered very lucky but to be honest, im probably going lower. So much wasted potential.

Missions were for the most part good as were the objectives but the game reuses the same areas for a lot of these missions, side ops and the wanted criminals which is a shame because there's a good amount of areas in the game that aren't really used in any of these areas which is disappointing to say the least.

Played on hard mode. 67 hours with 98% completion. Scout Mode Enemy highlight was set to NO. Aim assist was also set to NO. Extended enemy tagging options was set to YES. Bullet camera was set to NO for the entire game.

World is literally dead even in the small town areas. Limited to one car and the buggy if you have the season pass. Literally no life at all in the game. Probably saw more wolves and dears than actual NPC's. Three maps wasn't needed at all. One, maybe two would have been good enough. Mainly because like I said, you never go to several areas so it's like, what's the point in them existing?

Visually, the world itself looks good in 4K/HDR. I can't complain about that. Character models leave a little to be desired but the facial animations were still better than MEA at launch in my opinion based on what I have seen from that game. Music was okay at best mainly because there wasn't a lot of it. Here and there during missions and it was pretty much the same or similar throughout. The sound effects were good and the voice acting was passable at best but not horrible or anything.

Gameplay wise...sniping is excellent. Stealth is solid. General gunplay though not so much. Just too loose and not good compared to other FPS. Basically, it's serviceable.

Now the bugs/glitches/etc.

- Fell through the world twice while jumping off a ladder (amazingly, you can't step off the ladder as you literally have to jump off despite being on the bottom step...I avoided this for the most part by just falling from the top to the bottom as opposed to climbing up or down...most part, didn't even take any damage).
- Game froze on me three times.
- Had one system error while playing.
- Completed one mission by going out of the exfiltration area to watch me blowing something up but because I was outside the area, once I did that and completed the mission, it didn't register so I had to replay the mission.
- Played for an hour or so with no tires on the car you use to drive around. Literally no tires. Reloading solved the issue.
- Had a glitch with the assault rifle secondary weapon where at times, pressing the square button or any button for that matter while having this weapon as the main weapon in use didn't work. I had to change weapons. After a few minutes of doing various nonsense, this somehow reset and fixed itself but it happened at least twice from what I can remember.
- During one later mission that had buddies on your team, I was advancing, died and restarted from checkpoint. The buddies were literally a few feet in front of the enemies and weren't seen.
- Enemies appear/disappear based on how far away you are. While some will say 250m is the minimum, I literally walked around a base with no enemies despite it being a mission. I had to restart the game and the mission.
- Map has problems...outposts will appear and disappear depending on if you did them or not but if you go back to that area, they respawn which honestly, I hate. Once an outpost is cleared, it should be done.
- Also on the map, you can see the collectable locations but only when you're in one of the other maps. For example, if im in the Dam map, I can see the collectables for the Mining Town map but when I go to the Mining Town map, they disappear.
- Killed a few enemies with stealth kills yet I would be knifing air as the enemy would disappear behind me or whatnot dead. In fairness, I have seen this bug in other games including Far Cry.
- Initial map loading is long. On the Samsung EVO 850 SSD, this load took about 2 1/2 minutes. Once the map is loaded, dying and restarting from checkpoints and fast travel were super quick. On the base HDD, I have read reviews that said the initial map load takes about five minutes.

Can't remember anything else off the top of my head. Oh crap. Just came to me. HORRIBLE Escape of Lydia DLC. Mentioned this in an earlier post. It's only two missions which are basically linear cut off maps of the main game. Think Sniper Elite 4 but smaller.

Can definitely see why the game received low to bad ratings but in fairness, I did enjoy the game for the most part. Hell, if I didn't, I wouldn't have played and completed 98% of it in 67 hours. After typing all of that, I can't and won't give this game a 7/10. Overall, a 6 or maybe 6.5/10. Haven't decided yet. Will be in the 6 range though which on my scale is an "above average" (7/10 is "good" on my scale) game. I can say however that this game craps all over Homefront: The Revolution in pretty much every way and that unlike that game, SGW3 did in fact give me my Far Cry type game fix and I should be good until the eventual FAR CRY 5.

On an unrelated note - I will be starting Ghost Recon Wildlands tonight or tomorrow and just base don the open beta that I played (didn't play the retail version as I was playing Horizon at the time) that despite it's problems, it's still BETTER than SGW3 which granted, is to be expected but still. Expectations and execution are very different things.

[The Kid 24]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

Damn, you're making me want to go back to GRW.

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[daniel77733]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

Damn, you're making me want to go back to GRW.

LOL. Sorry. SGW3 is what it is. I don't think that it's as bad as the critics say it is because even if you add up all those bugs and glitches, they equal maybe 10 minutes total out of 67 hours of gameplay. Like I said, if you go in expecting a poor man's Far Cry type game, you'll most likely enjoy it like I did. If not, then you'll be disappointed.

I will say this though.....despite my above average score, I have no regrets buying the game for $48 GCU. I played, completed and enjoyed my time with it for what it is as opposed for what I wanted it to be. I know that GRW is the better game but in fairness, Ubisoft is my number one third party, publisher, developer and go to company.

[The Kid 24]

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Flight... Are you/did you enjoy the game?

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[Flightwhite24]

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Flight... Are you/did you enjoy the game?

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Haven't played this in over a week due to just lack of time and my Nintendo Switch.

The Switch has basically become my No 1 console lol. I still get a few games of The Show 17 in but all I want to play is Zelda and run a few races a day in Mario Kart 8 with the hour or 2 a day that I sometimes get.

I'll get back to it at some point but this game takes patience and I can't sit that long mapping out strategies that might take up to an hour to complete.

It's not a bad game by any means but when I have masterpieces to play that's what I'm rolling with.


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[The Kid 24]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

So BB told me this doesnt have a trade in value yet... How the hell could that be? GS has a trade-in value.

[daniel77733]

Re: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. Will this be the version that they hit out of the park?

So BB told me this doesnt have a trade in value yet... How the hell could that be? GS has a trade-in value.

This is my number one complaint with Best Buy. They literally take forever to post trade in values for games. This sometimes takes up to a month. I'll give it the month of May and if it's not posted by then, I'll just take the cash at GameStop.

[The Kid 24]

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This is my number one complaint with Best Buy. They literally take forever to post trade in values for games. This sometimes takes up to a month. I'll give it the month of May and if it's not posted by then, I'll just take the cash at GameStop.

Yea that's what Im doing as well.

[The Kid 24]

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FYI... BB is offering $24 trade in.

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[daniel77733]

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Was just going to post that. $24 plus $2.40 GCU 10% bonus so $26.40. Not bad and about $5 more than GameStop credit. Game cost me $25.85 for about 70 hours of gameplay and "owning" the game for three weeks. Can't complain. Once the second expansion gets released later this year, I'll rent it from GameFly since I have my saved data backed up on a USB flash drive.