What the bloody HELL? Maintenance, my a**! You Ubisoft guys just ROYALLY screwed me! My profiles are gone, ALL THE REAL MOINEY THAT I SPENT ON SKULL COINS AND EVERYTHING THAT I SPENT THEM ON, GONE! As far as I am concerned, Ubisoft owes me a refund for what their rank incompetence has cost me, including all the redeemables that I used (that if I want them back, I have to spend more real money...with no expectation that it won't happen again!).

I wonder: How many thousands of dollars has Ubisoft just taken from how many thousand players worldwide?

@avengergr35 Yeah, they're complete idjits. Never, ever, ever free a rebel from captivity if he's anywhere near an enemy that must be taken alive; that moron will kill him. The only use that rebel hostages are is if there are more than three to be let loose (when you don't need to abduct an enemy). If there's a generator, kill it, and then free the rebels. They will divide the enemies' attention when you attack from the opposite side of that area of operations. Now, they're still pretty damned stupid, so don't expect much; they're cannon fodder, so plan accordingly.

However, with the new DLC, the Motherland conquest mode, the rebels have a degree of greater utility. This is because as you destabilize false flag operations, the rebels become more numerous. They're still pretty damned useless, though. Again, don't get your hopes up. The rebels in Wildlands, though, proved far more effective and useful in combat.

On a different tangent, I miss the challenges presented by Wildlands' jamming broadcasters.

What the HELL? I played this game for over 200 hours on my PC with settings maxed out, and now they are UTTER CRAP!
Specs of my PC:
Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P motherboard w/Intel chipset
16 GB Skilljaws DDR4 SDRAM
nVIDIA (Gigabyte) GeForce GTX-1660 Super Windforce / 6 GB GDDR6
i5-6600K 3.5 GHz Quad-Core CPU (water-cooled)
Crucial MX500 2 TB SSD
650 W Power Supply
Windows 10 x64 Home (OEM) 21H2
EP-9636GS EDUB LOVE WiFi 6 / Bluetooth 5.1 3K Mbps Networking card

At first, it was just the Vulkan launcher that gave me crap. The regular launcher let me max out my settings. NOW, however, BOTH of them suck -[censored]! WTFF?

Now I can play this game only on my HP Victus gaming laptop:
KBD: Full-size, backlit, mica silver keyboard with numeric keypad
Monitor: 16.1", FHD (1920 x 1080), 144 Hz, IPS, micro-edge, anti-glare, 250 nits, HP Wide Vision 720p HD camera with integrated dual array digital microphones (MCS)(fRTX)
External DVD burner
OS Drive: 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Memory: 32 GB DDR4-3200 SDRAM (2 x 16 GB)
Networking: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX 201 (2x2) and Bluetooth 5 combo (Supporting Gigabit file transfer speeds)
Office: Microsoft Office 2019 Home and Student
OS: Windows 11 Home 64 ADV
Battery: 4-cell, 70 Wh Li-Ion polymer
CPU: Intel Core i7-11800H, 4.6 GHz / 2G Intel Turbo Boost, 24 MB L3 cache, 8 cores, 16 threads
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (6GB)

What the HELL? What the damned Sam U. L. Hell is going ON? This game came out two years ago! All of a sudden, my kick-[censored] desktop isn't good enough?

@gremlin-cursed Never mind; I forgot the Scorpion EVO3 takes it...plus, I managed to rank up without it (using single-shot mode with optical cloaking).

This sniper rifle is not customizable, isn't supposed to be, and does not have a silencer! …Except, it does—have a silencer, and since it does, the muzzle velocity is reduced; it's no longer a two-shot kill weapon. Now, it takes three to five shots to "kill" enemy choppers or heavily-armored vehicles. I have tried switching to other weapons, using them, and switching back, but that doesn't get rid of that daw-gamned annoying silencer, fails to restore it to its original configuration—you know, the non-customizable one. I've tried quitting to menu and re-launching, quitting to desktop and re-launching, and I've even verified the game files while the game was not running. NONE of that worked. That rifle is still a total piece of crap.

I have never attempted to mod the game, nor have I tried bypassing the protocols that prevent cheating.

While I await a reply that might present a viable solution, I'm uninstalling and reinstalling. Maybe that might fix the problem, but my hopes are not high. It looks like I just might have to delete this [CENSORED/DELETED] profile/campaign and start all over again, which really irritates me because I'm just about to reach level thirty and unlock the Desert Tech HTI. Actually, to say that I'm merely irritated is an obscene understatement.

AFTER UNINSTALLING AND RE-INSTALLING
My skepticism was well-founded; the rifle is still an utter piece of crap. I want to know: Where the frack did that damned silencer come from? How can I get RID of it?

After nobody answered quickly:
Screw it. I'll just use the damned Muddy Bones HTI until I reach level thirty, enter Tier One, and get to level forty from there to get the Desert Tech HTI BDC. I'll be damned if I'll start over from scratch for this absurd crap…only to have the same STUPID CRAP happen again. Really: How hard is this crap to code? (I'm a coder of forty years, so I'm not just whistling Dixie out my butt)

@ubi-milky Symptoms manifested again, so on 2022.04.23 @ 10:34 CST, I revalidated game files. Reinstalled dependencies @ 13:05 (was watching Netflix for a while)…and it failed to fix the auto-firing after fast travel, damnit! So now, revalidating and reacquiring game files no longer works to fix these damned problems.

EDIT: This is my last playthrough, anyway. After over 1,300 hours of gameplay, it's not as if I didn't enjoy myself...but I'm kinda wondering if that last patch might have broken more than it fixed?

I did not mention this over a month ago—in two separate posts I had mentioned two separate components of the now-identified issue, and as I recall, you protested, saying that you couldn't help me because you had no idea what sort of problem that I was describing—to wit, the firearms automatically firing after fast travelling. Now I understand that what I had thought were separate issues are but one.
Responses:
1.    I have had to validate and reacquire game files over thirty times over the last month, even trying complete uninstalls and reinstalls to no damned avail.
2.    I have not made note of days and times because the problem is every damned day, too many times to count.
3.    I have no idea what version of the game it is, as that information, for some abstruse reason, isn’t available in Properties. The Ubisoft Connect version is 2.0.0…odd—you’d think the version number would be higher than that. Oh, and the game is PC, not console (as should have been indicated by the path I cited).
4.    I am unable to locate the file that you failed to actually name. My directory is C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and I have no earthly idea what file’s size you are interested in. I’ve played 1,326 hours, and one likely file I examined is too bloody small, under 600 megabytes in size. I need a filename, as there are a large number of files the validation subroutine tests, and it never says “so-and-so EXE is your actual game file.”
a.    GRB.exe = 484,232 KB
b.    GRB_BE.exe = 825 KB
c.    GRB_UPP.exe = 538,042 KB
d.    GRB_UPP_vulkan.exe = 570,954 KB
e.    GRB_vulkan.exe = 530,682 KB

There aren't any files or directories named in such a fashion as to indicate save data residence, so I can't be more specific, and considering the sheer volume of data required for a save, none of the executive files I've detailed could possibly hold that amount of information...and it's really...colossally inefficient...to put save data in a main game EXE, anyway.

Oh, in order to give you more information that might actually help solve the problem, from now on I shall note the date and time that I'll be forced to recompile the game.

There were a couple of other posts that I'd authored before figuring out that all of the very strange problems I've been experiencing for over a month are related to one issue: repetitive corruption of game files, requiring me to rebuild the game (validate and reacquire) anywhere from once to three times a day. Here are the problems:

1. Without being commanded to do so, Nomad fires whichever weapon that is equipped upon fast-travelling to a bivouac. If it is a semi-automatic weapon, Nomad fires a single shot, and if it is an automatic fire weapon, he lets loose on full auto. When he does this he attracts unwanted enemy attention.
2. Armed helicopters begin continuously firing their armament in flight without being commanded to do so; this both attracts unwelcome enemy attention, and may even damage or destroy itself, endangering the current mission.
3. As soon as I throttle up from the ground—or try to—piloting a helicopter, regardless of whether or not it's a gunship, it immediately explodes. At the risk of seeming redundant: again, not good, for the previously stated reasons.

I exit the game, open properties, and request game files be validated. If, after validation has successfully concluded, I see installation windows for standard dependencies, that tells me that there was file corruption and that affected files were reacquired. After successful launch, all the problems go away…for a while. Then the stupid game-wrecking crap starts up all over again, sometimes forcing me to quit and go through this time consuming process three times a day. This is unbelievably ridiculous! Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

@fcac-no-moe Weird thing: Although this has been happening for days, ever since I posted this thread, it's stopped…I suppose the responsible gremlins are cooling it until I begin to feel complacent!

Just got into a chopper at a base camp, and as soon as I attempted to ascend, it exploded! Wow! Scared the daylights out of me! That ever happen to anyone else?

@bigrexxx Gee, you are so nice! You must have more friends than you know what to do with! I am in profound awe of your ability to win friends and influence people! And your gaming skills! You must be absolutely perfect! I am so jealous—you must occupy the top position of every leader board that you're on!

For your information, you gilipollas, I've been gaming since 1978. Pardon the frick out of me for not finding that cave entrance. As I'd intimated, I have already searched for the cave entrance, but I came up dry. Guys like you are why I don't do co-op.

P.S.: Thanks fer nuttin'.

@fcac-no-moe Allow me to elucidate, friend: Something like ninety percent of the time that I fast-travel to a bivouac, my equipped weapon begins firing as soon as I arrive. If it's a single-shot weapon, it fires once—not so bad, but if it's a weapon configured to auto-fire, it looses a noisy spray of bullets. The closest thing to ameliorating it that I've figured out is to ensure that the equipped weapon is fitted with a suppressor. That should be sufficiently specific.

It's annoying as Hell, especially when the equipped weapons in an automatic fire gun! It's gotten so bad that I have to equip a silenced pistol before fast travelling to such a location. I'm not even touching the mouse, so it's not EBKC. I don't suppose anyone knows how to eliminate this…dogamned problem?

at -45° (due northwest) of Galleon Cove Bivouac, itself northwest of Silver Cross Peak in the Smuggler Coves province, there is an undiscovered location that I cannot access by drone, afoot, or any vehicle. It's obviously one of two things, 1. An underground location whose entrance remains an arcane mystery (is that redundant?), or 2. A glitch; there's actually nothing there. My suspicions, however, rest decidedly upon the former, not the latter. Can anyone shed light on this puzzle?