The new Ghost Recon Wildlands DLC “Narco Road” is receiving a lot of criticism within the community. Many players are dissatisfied with the planned content.
Just last month, Ubisoft’s new open-world tactical shooter was released and is expected to receive its first expansion soon. Tomorrow, on April 18, the Narco Road DLC will be released (at least for premium pass holders) and will bring a lot of new content to the game.
This includes, in addition to 15 new story missions, monster trucks and other vehicle content, which many players find off-putting.
What do monster trucks have to do with ghost operations in Bolivia?
Wrong game for car races
In Ghost Recon Wildlands, you play as ghosts in Bolivia. Ghosts are a special forces unit of the military and are deployed in the game to combat the Santa Blanca drug cartel. You must complete various missions, kill gangsters, interrogate suspects, and destroy weapons to take down the gangster gangs and stop drug smuggling. You have support from rebels, whom you can regularly supply with ammunition during your adventures.
How you approach missions is usually up to you. One type of player prefers a safe approach with simultaneous shots and silencers, while other players rely on the power of assault rifles, shotguns, and grenades that are loud and explosive.
With weapon modifications, you can perfectly prepare for upcoming battles by equipping them with mentioned silencers or go for the brutal route with grenade launchers. You have these options at the gun smith, where there are over 10,000 combinations. Special enemies also drop exotic weapons that are eye-catching on your missions.
And now the first expansion for the tactical shooter from Ubisoft is just around the corner and brings what? Muscle cars, stunt planes, and monster trucks.
“We don’t want a GTA DLC”
On April 18, players with a premium pass can already access the new contents of the Narco Road DLC for Ghost Recon Wildlands. The content announced by the developers for this expansion has received much criticism from the community.
The 15 new story missions, new weapons, and new types of side missions are not the problem and are positively received by the community. Rather, it is the specific vehicle content that Narco Road brings to GRW that players are dissatisfied with:
- Race challenges
- Muscle cars with nitro boost
- Planes for special acrobatic air maneuvers
- Chopper motorcycles
- Monster trucks
In social networks, many players are negatively commenting on the Narco Road expansion. “These” are really not the contents the community expected.
- On Reddit, user kearnsy44 writes, “This will be a flop!” Those looking forward to this content should try GTA, as Rockstar already offers that. Looking at the vehicle controls of Ghost Recon Wildlands, racing is just “ridiculous,” he writes.
- User markyymark13 mentions that he does not like the direction the game is taking. He negatively points out that he has to buy the “GTA wannabe Fast and Furious DLC” to obtain the (hopefully) good weapons and other gear.
- Also, user Phister_BeHole does not like the reference to GTA. He suspects that competing with Rockstar is not a good way to give the game longevity. “Tom Clancy games are supposed to be tactical shooters. It seems that Ubisoft wants to turn the game into a half-hearted GTA. This disappoints Tom Clancy fans because the game no longer does what you expect from a Tom Clancy game. But it also disappoints GTA fans, as this is not a GTA.”
Whether Ubisoft is really turning the game into a half-hearted GTA or whether the content isn’t as bad as some players suspect will be seen upon the release of the Narco Road DLC. We have listed all contents of the Narco Road DLC here for you.
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