Ghost Recon Wildlands gets huge free update with new mission and 4K/60 FPS

Ubisoft is celebrating 25 years of Ghost Recon by heading again to Bolivia, with Ghost Recon Wildlands receiving a shock free replace that provides a brand-new story mission, current-gen upgrades, and the return of its Predator crossover.

The Ghost Recon Wildlands: Final Rites replace is out there now throughout PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, and PC, and introduces a standalone mission developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux.

Final Rites takes gamers right into a darker nook of Wildlands’ model of Bolivia, the place a fanatical cult often known as Los Penitentes has taken management of the area. The Ghosts are tasked with looking down the group’s chief, La Llorona, whereas making their means by means of swamps and dense forests designed to make visibility and navigation significantly harder.

Alongside the brand new mission, Ubisoft has additionally given Wildlands a technical overhaul on newer {hardware}.

The replace introduces 60 FPS gameplay and improved visuals on current-gen consoles and PC, together with higher draw distances, upgraded lighting and shadows, and a sharper picture concentrating on 4K decision.

Gamers are additionally being given significantly extra management over how Wildlands performs. New customisation choices permit changes to enemy behaviour, injury, weapon restrictions, pleasant fireplace, climate, problem settings, and HUD components, letting gamers push the sport nearer in the direction of both a hardcore tactical expertise or one thing significantly extra forgiving.

Maybe much more unexpectedly, Ubisoft can also be bringing again Wildlands’ Predator occasion.

The crossover initially launched in 2017 and noticed gamers looking the well-known extraterrestrial killer within the Bolivian jungle earlier than the occasion was later faraway from the sport. For Ghost Recon’s twenty fifth anniversary, the Predator is again for an additional hunt.

“Ghost Recon wouldn’t be the place it’s at this time with out the eagerness, dedication, and suggestions of its group over the previous 25 years,” stated Ghost Recon artistic director Olivier Leonardi.

“With Final Rites, we needed to create an expertise that honours that legacy — one thing that feels genuine to longtime Ghosts, celebrates what makes this franchise particular, and displays our appreciation for the gamers who’ve been with us each step of the way in which.”

Ubisoft is giving freely Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

The anniversary celebrations lengthen past Wildlands.

Ghost Recon Wildlands and Ghost Recon Breakpoint are each free to play from August 6 till August 10, whereas PC gamers can completely redeem Ghost Recon: Future Soldier by means of Ubisoft Join between August 6 and August 13.

Future Soldier initially launched in 2012 and follows Kozak and Crew Hunter in what was, on the time, a decidedly futuristic interpretation of army warfare.

A Ghost Recon Breakpoint twenty fifth Anniversary Bundle can also be deliberate for September and can embrace a number of free beauty gadgets, together with the M4A1 Tactical Brown, Wolf Enhanced Helmet, and Opheis Mk.II Hunter.

The subsequent Ghost Recon is coming

Ubisoft additionally used the anniversary to acknowledge the way forward for the sequence.

Players can now apply to join the Ghost Recon Insider Program, which can give chosen members of the group a possibility to supply suggestions and assist form the subsequent Ghost Recon recreation.

Ubisoft hasn’t supplied any substantial particulars about that undertaking but, however the launch of an official Insider Program makes it clear that one other Ghost Recon is firmly on the way in which.

The unique Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon launched in 2001 and helped set up the franchise’s popularity for tactical, squad-based army fight. Ubisoft says the sequence has now attracted greater than 60 million gamers throughout its 25-year historical past.