Ghost Recon Wildlands Gets Pseudo-Battle Royale Mode In Final Update

At the beginning of May, Ubisoft alongside Ubisoft Paris announced Ghost Recon Breakpoint: and though the next installment is on way for an early-October release, that doesn’t mean content is still coming to the 2017 preceding title. Today debuts the final update for Ghost Recon Wildlands which introduces a new mode for players to try out, Mercenaries Mode.

In the trailer for the new game mode, players are given the objective against eight different players to call for an extraction pick-up, find the LZ, and make it on the rescue helicopter before the competing ghosts do. With the pretense of a “free-for-all,” a more general term for this new mode could fall into the category of battle royale.

Ubisoft shares that the Mercenaries mode is “an experimental mode our team has been excited to try out for a long time,” in thanking for those who participate in this makeshift battle royale, players who finish one game will receive a Walker ‘Lone Wolf’ costume for their character in Wildlands.

It should be noted that despite the mode not primarily tagged as a battle royale, it still holds to be, if not is, the first with the shortest player count for a AAA title. Looking back, it could be considered that Red Dead Redemption II’s Gun Rush mode could hold the title with the game’s 32 player cap. But Techland’s Dying Light for the time took the cake with the title’s iteration of the genre Bad Blood as only 12 players could play at a time.

Are you planning on returning to Ghost Recon Wildlands one last time for the newest mode for the open-world title?

If you have yet to play the 2017 title from Ubisoft Paris, make sure to catch up with our review on the game here.

Ghost Recon Wildlands is available now for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.