Today marks the launch of the Terminator event in Ghost Recon Breakpoint and MMO Fallout is here with some tips to know before you go in.
For those looking to join in on the crossover, the Terminator event starts on January 29 and runs until February 6. You will immediately receive a notice upon login that a mission is available in Erewhon, your secret hideout. The story mission will send you out to track down the whereabouts of a mysterious person who showed up and managed to kill several drones all on her own. Spoiler: She’s from the future. How does the island in Breakpoint factor into the Terminator universe? You’ll have to play to find out.
Here are five tips on the Breakpoint Terminator event.
#1: You Don’t Need To Be Far To Take Part
The plus side is that you don’t need to be far into Breakpoint’s story in order to take part in the Terminator event. It looks like as long as you have completed the few missions you need to access Erewhon, you’ll be fine. If you bought Breakpoint just to take part in the Terminator event, you’ll need to finish roughly 30 minutes of story mode before you get to Erewhon.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint features a gear score system that shouldn’t have any effect on your enjoyment of the game. We played on a pretty low level character that hadn’t gotten too far in the main story and had no problem taking down Terminators and the standard human opponents that tend to congregate around them. At least on the first day the side missions tend to appear in lower level areas. The only thing getting further into the game will help with is making enemies easier to dispatch and having access to more fast travel locations.
#2: The Battle Pass Looks Ridiculously Fast
If the idea of a battle pass being thrown into this event has you worried, you’re in good hands. For the Terminator event the battle pass has 21 levels each of which offers some kind of customization from the movie such as the punk outfits, Sarah Connor’s glasses, and the Terminator’s motorcycle. There are also blueprints for an Uzi and an AR-18.
After completing the first main mission and day one’s three daily missions (which took about an hour total), our battle pass was already at level 10. End of day one and already halfway done. At this rated it should take three, maybe four days total to get our hands on all of the event items.
#3: Let The Terminator Do Your Work
Small spoiler; the Terminators are not working with the Skell, but they are infiltrating their bases. Once you shoot a Terminator or activate its defenses it does become an enemy to the Skell forces that are around and they will shoot at it.
Marking enemy soldiers with your drone will tell you who the Terminator soldier is, and more often than not it’s not just one. Activate the bot and watch it whittle down the base’s defenses as they fruitlessly try to destroy it. You can even string the Terminators along like pets letting them follow you around the base and pick off any Skell that try to shoot at them. Once you are free of distractions, take the Terminators down.
#4: Don’t Expect Any Stealth
Your Terminator fights are going to be loud and they are going to attract other enemy soldiers over the course of the fight. Outside of the fact that your fight with the Terminator is going to be drawn out and very loud (the Terminators dual wield shotgun/rifle), the Mk14 you are carrying will not stand for being silenced, aka you can’t put a silencer on it.
Given that your battles with the Terminator are going to involve a lot of running and gunning, you’ll need to keep an eye on your compass and deal with the numerous soldiers that are going to be alerted to your position and all the backup that is going to be called. Thankfully if your mark is in a good spot you can always find a vantage point and just let the Terminator deal with the backup. They are very efficient at sweeping things up.
This also means you’re going to want to store that sniper rifle between missions unless you really want to make an entrance.
#5: This Isn’t A World-Over Event
You might be thinking “oh great, now I’ll have to deal with ridiculous bullet sponges ruining my experience for the next week.” Incorrect.
Another plus side to the event is that it is very much contained within a few small areas. Each day is going to bring in new daily missions which revolve around a base or encampment. Outside of these daily missions, you won’t run into an army of T800s running around the island. The event is supposed to be smaller, so there are a handful of Terminators that are on the island, not a thousand.
So at the very least you know exactly where the Terminators are going to show up.
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