Players of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint eager to face off against a homicidal cyborg this holiday season will have to postpone their plans for a month. In a post on Ubisoft’s official Ghost Recon forums, a community manager announced that Title Update 1.1.0 for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint will be delayed until “the latter half of January.”
The explanation given was that more time is necessary to polish up game content and make additional bug fixes. This delay means that the long-anticipated Terminator Live Event as well as other fixes mentioned in the game’s monthly update notes will not be released until early next year.
Update 1.1.0 was originally supposed to go live on December 18, 2019. In addition to the Terminator Live Event, it was intended to fix a few audio and gameplay issues—such as making sure enemies don’t shout when killed with a headshot—as well as tweak enemy AI, basejump mechanics, and night vision goggles. Additional unannounced fixes were planned as well.
The live event was originally announced at E3 2019 as a free update for the game. At the time, little information was given other than a pair of glowing red eyes onscreen and a second or two of composer Brad Fiedel’s iconic theme song, but the message was clear. A time-traveling cyborg was scheduled to make an appearance in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint at some point in the future.
An entire story arc has been created for the Terminator Live Event to explain the appearance of the T-800 and his goal of exterminating all life in the area. The game takes place on the island of Auroa, where a drone development tech company has fallen under the control of a hostile force known as the Wolves. So that could serve as a possible explanation for the T-800’s visit.
Even if players miss Breakpoint’s Terminator Live Event when it’s released in January, they will still be able to participate in the event’s main story missions and earn the associated mission rewards. However, rewards specific to the event can only be earned while the event is live.
To coincide with the release of the film Terminator: Dark Fate in November, the relentless Terminator cyborg visited a few other video game franchises. In October, a few characters from the movie, including a T-800 and a Rev-9 Terminator, made a cameo in Gears 5, and a T-800 appeared to show off his fighting prowess in Mortal Kombat 11.
Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Source: Ubisoft Forums, GameSpot