The new DLC Narco Road is not well received by the Ghost Recon Wildlands players even after testing it themselves. What is bothering them?
In recent days, the excitement about the new Ghost Recon Wildlands DLC “Narco Road” has been considerable. The leak showed race cars and monster trucks, which met with little enthusiasm from the tactical shooter players. Even now, after players have been able to try out the content themselves and not just see it in pictures, it appears that the community is dissatisfied with the expansion. There are many reasons for this.
Most of the community does not like the DLC
For a few days now, you have been able to extensively test the Narco Road DLC if you have a Premium Pass. For players without a Pass, the expansion will be available from April 25.
When the first images of the DLC leaked, players were amazed that there would now be monster trucks and nitro-powered cars in the tactical shooter. However, at that time, there was hope that the content in Wildlands might “not be as bad as feared” and that the images might convey a false impression.
The feedback on social media, however, speaks a clear language. Players express a lot of criticism about Narco Road there. Complaints are especially about the new character that you have to create for the expansion and the new weapons that are not really so “new.”
- You have to create a completely new character for Narco Road, starting at level 20.
- There is no access to your collected weapon arsenal from the main game.
- The “new” weapons in the DLC are just renamed variants of weapons that already exist. Furthermore, they are not customizable. Players use the weapons in the expansion only because they are the only weapons available.
- Skills that you have unlocked in the main game have been reset.
- Narco Road only uses its own, smaller map, which consists of sections of the main game’s map.
- The animals in the animal trade missions do not come out of their cages.
- The grim, dark aura that players perceived in connection with drug smuggling and sinister gangs is destroyed by the flashy race cars with nitro boosts and monster trucks racing over the mountains.
- The airplane controls leave much to be desired and could be better developed. Wildlands has been struggling with criticism of vehicle controls since the beta phase.
Ubisoft stated, however, that Narco Road has always been planned as a standalone expansion and should deliver a completely different gaming experience than the main game. The features of Narco Road should not be linked to the storyline of the original Wildlands.
What sounds like an interesting differentiation causes frustration among players. The “back and forth” between the main game and the expansion quickly becomes annoying. As an example, there are the seasons introduced with patch 3.0. You cannot access these in the Narco Road DLC, but must switch back to the main game first.
Many of our readers also do not view the DLC favorably thus far. The “new” weapons do not convince and overall the expansion simply does not fit into the game, as can be read in our comments on Facebook and Mein-MMO.de.
The players hope that Ubisoft takes the harsh criticism of Narco Road to heart and that future DLCs fit better into the game. Do you believe that Ubisoft takes the feedback seriously and makes future DLCs to please the community, or is the train gone?
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