Ghost Recon Enthusiasts Unite: The Future of Our Beloved Franchise 

As long as we get a helo chauffeur instead of unimmersivly piloting a helicopter as a recon guy like this is gta, im fine with what ever

Trouble is if you make the next game sand box based that means no option to go wandering across the map causing havoc after the missions are finished. I don't relish the thought of continually replaying the same missions over and over. That means the game will be relegated to an afterthought within a few months whereas I've currently got something in the region of 1500 hours on both Wildlands and Breakpoint.

I like the format of the last 2 games.. well once they added team back to breakpoint. My wish is that we get more AI team controls and tactical planning. Stacking up on doors, AI room clearing, flanking maneuvers, etc.

You can make it all 3, but that takes more effort than I think they are willing to give. You can make it like conquest where you are restricted from going to other zones until conquering the first zone. Giving you a large sandbox to play in. Then making each mission truly mean something and allowing you to plan how you attack that area. Then as you progress through each area more side missions and the world will open up to allow that open world aspect. You can seriously have all 3 pretty easily but like I said that’s if they want to put the effort in to make it happen.

I would rather an open world. You would just explore however you want but as soon as you get near a base, Bowman (some contract) would get on the line. They would inform you of a mission at that base and it would be contained in that base. You could roam arounds however you like. The missions should sort of be like the faction missions in breakpoint. A different objective every times you get to that base. This would expand replay ability.

a Metro Exodus style open world would be best. They have different biomes with a limited open world feeling, while still maintaining some semblance of linear play styles.

Sandbox design, Open world execution and a Linear story telling would be ideal for me

I personally, I don’t want linear mission design as it restricts the player too much and significantly reduces replay value, maybe they could have a few missions that are linear but hopefully not too many. As for the other two options, provided they are designed well, I’d take either. I believe that the ‘tactical sandbox’ would likely be the easiest way to implement realistic, well thought out tactical mechanics. You could have dense urban structures, caves, sprawling complexes or just simple FOBs strewn across a large village. It would be possible to have all that work in an open world game, but it would take a significant amount of work to seamlessly implement it alongside the much more spread out loosely connected open world style gameplay. Open world gameplay definitely has its charm when you can go anywhere and do anything in whatever order you want, but it needs proper depth. Everything you do SHOULD have an impact on the world/region you are in; take out SAM sites, now you can utilize air assets more freely, take out CC center, less organized and slower response from reinforcements, etc. This system blended with a well fleshed out open ended mission design, with deep tactical mechanics would be a dream game.

The gunsmith needs a massive upgrade that should allow players to add parts more freely like in ground branch or escape from tarkov

I think it's best to have an open world mixed with planning from the first game, tons of replayability and freedom of choice. Also mod support would be great, but since this is ubisoft I don't think that can happen.

I honestly just want a sequel to Wildlands with an alive open world filled with civilians and urban areas, with an engaging story but with the graphics, physics, animations, customization and mechanics of Breakpoint! I feel like an open environment works with Ghost Recon, but it doesn't have to be a huge map the size of an Assassins Creed game. It can be the size of MGSV where it's an huge open space with numerous areas to explore and do missions in, but have multiple regions reachable only via AI controlled Helo drop off and extraction. No more of this driving and flying across the entire map like a GTA game. Some areas should be too heavily fortified with SAM launchers etc that we can't land so we have to do halo drops and take over the region before a helicopter can safely extract us. We should have full control over our squad with commands. The player should be able to direct his team to sit in one place and they stay, instead of running all around from cover to cover. There should be two fire options. A. Fire (teammate shoot from their position behind cover) B. Clear it hot (teammates advance up killing all enemies in sight). We should also be able to have an overwatch system similar to MGSV did with Quiet. Where we can direct our sniper to take an elevated position and pick off enemies while we are sneaking through enemy camps.

Yeah definitely agree I feel like we need a mix of all the past games when we talk campaign. Open world free roam but also on the rails type tactical shooter that’s also able to give many linear, immersive, cinematic experiences throughout exploration being able to tackle a tactical campaign from any direction but also encounter important pieces of cinematic moments throughout open world whether in game or cutscene. We also need a fun multiplayer pvp with different modes like plant the bomb, ground war conquests, invasions, like enlisted sort of but obviously not ww2. Ghosts should have their own force composition too like breakpoint’s operation could have been so big but they all die in the beginning because the devs wanted that lol. Ghost recon would get a lot more peeps especially if the game is fun, engaging w authentic detail in guns/sounds/ballistics, cover/foliage, camo buffs and other cloaking systems, combat outfit, atmosphere, weather, destruction, gore, anatomy, and more hair styles, natural hair color shades pls for the love of God no blue hair in real life military experience that’ll make you a huge target, squad insignia tattoos, better selection of manly faces and feminine faces. As for squad limit they need to ditch the 4 man only route and go big and add in a whole selection of ghosts that are tied in different troops, teams and squadrons like assault, reconnaissance, Team F, Team A, Avaiation Squadron, Combat Support, Signal, Troop A and Troop B consist of A B C D E F G H which could be Assault squads like I’m just spitballing composition but Ik I want campaign squads to feel more authentic which will really keep players engaged especially if they allow us to micromanage our squads and utilize their weapons properly. Squad formations and go commands also need to be there on day one for next ghost recon. Conquering the campaign should be a territorial dispute and fight so what we fight for we gain and the enemy can fight back and conquer like saints row 2 but GR. Also stealth in this next game needs to be better and introduce different ammo types if we want to get technical and stealthy or maybe players want to take different approaches and switch it up and go guns blazing. I really hope Ubisoft can add what I tried to explain. Later g and fellow ghosts

My first Ghost Recon game was AW2 on PSP where the story was different, you play as a Lone Wolf and the it was a open level design where you had multiple options to approach a specific objective. Then it was Future Soldier which I enjoyed alot and would love to see it return as a remaster...

Open world, i cant go back to linear

I would love if they add better outfit customization, like adding pouches and magazines for your weapons to your vest and battle belt and grenades, etc. And have people that actually know weapons help make the game better like call of duty did when they got help from all the gun RU-vidrs to make better weapon designs and more attachments. No Robots, gear levels, and no island that had no life to it. They should also add first person for the next game so I can clear interiors of buildings.

Really appreciate you carrying the conversation over G. Despite our preferences, coming to a place of understanding and respect is the goal. I think the franchise should look more like a Arma/GR1, but it's really interesting to see the reason why folks prefered the other options. My overall argument is this though: if you give us a sandbox, you empower us the player to play the game however we want. Those who selected open world actually don't get that. Sandbox doesn't mean you don't have open world. But it means you can play the game however you want in an open world, because the games settings allows you to. By selecting merely an open world, you're stating that you want to have a restrictive experience playing the game. We play Arma because the game allows you to play your missions however you want, with whatever equipment, map, characters, settings, etc.

All this said, i really think they need to dump the snowdrop engine.

I started playing with GRAW & GRAW2. I'm def liking the bigger open world & Wildlands was amazing, in my opinion. Breakpoint, unfortunately, was just ok at first but got much better years later. However, I hope an internet connection will NOT be required to play this next entry. The online experience was cool with raids, but let me enjoy playing offline, too. Sometimes the wifi just won't wifi, you know?

I don’t really get the split here. An open world game can have a linear story campaign, with all of the tactical sandbox strategic features as well as cater to the open world exploration and realism of wildlands and breakpoint. It’s really not that complicated imo lol.

Ghost Recon is incredibly good, even with its bad launch, the game played in a tactical and realistic way, without hud with spartan mod, and an experience that no other game has, I wish it was more realistic and tactical, many mechanics that could take advantage from rainbow vegas 1 and 2, rappelling on buildings and windows, infiltrating doors using flash, camera under the door, c4 on the door, and many other mechanics that if placed in the open world ghost recon would be perfect, having a 3 person and 1 person mode , have multiplatform, and at least up to 6 players can play in the open world together, doing the campaign, if possible 8, sound of the most realistic weapons, without futuristic things like drones please, (Enemy drones) observation drone is part of the ghost recon a long time ago, and some other mechanics from the old ghost recon themselves, from metal gear solid that you should study and apply in your own way in ghost recon, such as the camouflage system according to the terrain, interrogation, points system with helicopters fixed on the maps, this is extremely realistic, many of Splinter Cell's mechanics are very good, a real base where you plan each mission, where you are going to go, where you are going to extract, maps of the base plan or the building of the mission, if they managed to research and study these mechanics and apply them in ghost recon, which is a perfect world for this, it would be very successful, a well-made story, a well-made map, without looking like an artificial map, more weapons and customizable equipment, they can make a harcade mode to capture different types of audiences, but they also create a more realistic choice of modes, such as spartan mod, instead of turrets and electronic automatic mortars, place enemies there controlling, instead of the behemooth, place enemies inside a tank, missions more elaborate, I recommend researching and taking a look at series in this style such as seal team, swat and applying it in your own way, what the entire community has as an opinion, is that if the breakpoint mechanic combined with the wildlands campaign and map would already be perfect, literally a ctrl c, ctrl v, that's what the faithful ghost recon community would like in a next game, like codename over, I'm Brazilian and I can say that this is definitely what the Brazilian community wants in a next ghost recon, Trust your faithful community.

Bring out an open world plus a linear one. I would buy them both

Why not like they did with the Fallen Jedi series? Linear story, but each area is open? Definitely add tactical sandbox and maybe even the map planning like R6: Rogue Spear?

2:40 i don't think they mind that People love ghost recon wildland and Breakpoint because of its open world tactical gameplay that no other game offers especially on the console market Because action oriented can be found in any other open world games such as Far cry

Honestly we need an open world imo. With how weak the story of breakpoint was, the ability and freedom to create a story in my head was critical to my enjoyment. And is the only reason we still enjoy BP & WL to this day. Nobody is going to play a linear story for 2 years straight. No matter how good the story is I can only play a cod campaign twice max before I get bored and move on. Improved open world is the best option I think.

Hey G! The argument between a Sandbox and an Open World approach has always been, at least in my mind, a question of whether or not Ubisoft has it in them to do justice to the later, not how much more "tactical" one's over the other, 'cause you know they both can be approached in that way. The day this studio has anything to offer with an Open World outing that I couldn't find in an older, large Sandbox experience, besides seamless traversal of the game world, I'll be the first one to champion that, until then they should stick to smaller scales. I know you know this well but, people should remember: there's no amount of content, map size or DLC that can replace gameplay depth, refined mechanics and technical accuracy; if there was anything I've learned from going back over and over again to Terrorist Hunt in the earlier R6 and GR games is that, military tactical shooters have more in common with fighting games, rather than Ubisoft's brand of "murder tourism".

"Open World" if it was similar to Wildlands (world is alive and the story line made sense) "Tactical Sandbox" version I think would have been better suited for Breakpoint. World isn't alive except your mission location and you draw up battle plans, entry points, etc. Breakpoint was a waste of all that space Linear is for CoD. I would not purchase a GR linear game. I would just wait until gamepass and play GTA VI

You say "evolved" and "immersive;" I say "degraded" and "distracting." Clearly, open levels are the compromise to be made. It allows for the better narrative and the openness, but it removes the absence of strategy and the clumsy AI. The campaign should be a series of open levels spread across a large chunk of the planet, and then they could add one of their AI-generated maps for the mindless repetition that open-world fans enjoy so much.

Inmersibe open world ist the way whit variety of enemis biomas and vehicles too move on thems alway keep the seens of ghost recon future soldier, wild lands and breckpoint whit a litle of metal gear 5 pp and splinter cell black list and some of arma 3 ubisoft got work too doo in that!!

you just repeated 'some people want open world, some people want linear, some want sandbox' like 30 times. you would literally just say 'some people want open world but some people who like linear may find it boring but some who want open world might find linear boring' repeatedly

Yoooooooooooooo

Nice bit of click bait