Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands Beginners Guide and Basic Gameplay Tips in 2021

Quick Start Guide

What is GR:Wildlands ?

• Wildlands released 03/2017 – ..with 2 DLCs and several Updates till 2019
• one of the real AAA heavyweight games (already 6.8 million players in Beta)
• well received Cross-over that puts GhostRecon-series into a huge open-world
• sandbox-style exploration and immersive options keep you interested for long.. esp. COOP
• captivating story and very good grafics (even 2021) as well as cinematics
• Playthrough time: 80-100hours.. +2 DLCs (15hours each)
• Tier1-mode: ..to reach Tier 01 ~400hours
• farming 95% of the Gear: 800hours (6-10 months ..casuals 1-2 years)^^

Some Facts first..

1. best weapons come via hard quests in some regions (or SeasonPass/DLC.. or RealMoney)
2. most things/quests need to be discovered
3. Loot Crates only get you “custom design” normal weapons (can´t be tweaked 1% = SH*T)
4. Story is quite nice, but you´ll have barely scratched the surface in first 20 hours
5. Clearing all regions will take well above 100 hours.

Difficulty

 Easy / Normal / Advanced / Extreme

• new Players should familiarize with the game in NORMAL..
• upon reaching Level 30 (FG:35) enter “Tier1-mode” (scroll down) for additional Rewards(!)
• hardcore option: “Ghost Mode” (Permadeath) barely rewards the risk, still deadly

Once you step into a new Region, always do this..

• capture Pimps/Captains (usually in fast sporty cars.. -> just deactivate the cars, then GRAB)
• secure Intel and talk to informants
• collect new Weapons/Attachments (often in UNIDAD base or similar difficulty)
• enough digging will start the Story-quest for each region

Rebel-Backup:

Doing Rebel-Sidequests (green) rewards several Bonuses. You need the Resources to improve your Perks and depending on the type of Quest you increase your Relationship with the Rebels – making them valuable assets:

• a big help is Mortar Support against heavy Resistance
• a pack of leveled up Rebels makes a big difference

Perks:

Upgrading your Perks is elemental to succeed in this game. Better Perks are quite costly and you will have to find/collect Perk-points on the map by securing related Intel first

Pro tips:

• Stealthy Playstyle helps a lot
• Suppressor reduces gunfire-sound
• Attention with penetrating rounds (->enemies hear it hitting metal/concrete behind)
• Attack fortified enemy bases at Night (reduced Detection-range)
• Upon reaching Tier25, play Coop or check out “Ghost-mode” (Permadeath)
• Check “Tools of War” -Guide, especially since I added all SniperScopes recently
• Always check player-stats before you befriend anyone, Coop is crawling with gun-blazin lunatics (esp. weekends) -> Look for 40%+ / 50%+ (aka Ranger) ..and you will enjoy the game

Enjoy the game..

Sniper Mastery (Expert Marksman)

Note: It´s mandatory to train at least 150m / 200m / 250m shots for DailyChallenge
This is more or less Sniper-Basics. But depending on Mission and Game-mode secure shots @250-450m are extremely helpful
-> needless to say this requires a lot of training ^^

Example: T5Xi Tactical (best SniperScope) + .50BFG
(weapons with similar bullet-drop: HTI / Tac50 / SR1 / SRSA1 / M40A5 / M1891 / SR-25)

My Rule of Thumb: below red cross ~250m.. 1st line ~370m ... 1,5 clicks ~500m ... 2nd line ~600m

Distances: 250m / 360m / 500m / 600m

Max. Distance vs Soft-targets (humans) is ~590m (despawn-distance) Max. Distance of halfway secure shots on bigger targets (vehicles) is 600-900m 700+m should be regarded "Art".. -> requires a select handful of weapons ..

• Be extremely cautious when trying to engage moving targets. If not sure, use “Sync-Shot” !!
  Especially UNIDAD can backfire, if you miss or just use weaker weapons that can´t kill 1-hit.
• If you shoot from a hill or at enemies in a tower, ADJUST your aim accordingly. Don´t forget..

Infiltration (Stealth)

Playing “Ghost”-style is fun, but challenging. The game tries to mess up your stealthy approach from different angles, that means you need to be aware what´s going on around you.. otherwise you die fast. The following Screenshot should give you a rough idea..

Possible Solution:
– Entry via Helicopter (tricky, but saves you some hassle)
– Prone position, then start secure spotting with Drone
– 2 snipers, Alarm, Gatling, 2 Gunners, and some Sicarios
– Attention: Sniper + Sicario on the other side of the basin (Welcome to Wildlands^^)
– Reinforcements: Deactivate the AlarmTower or spot/deactivate the Generator
– Convoy: Escorts/Heli can mess up any mission, be careful

Tier1-mode

Once maxed (Lv.30 /FallenGhosts Lv.35) activate Tier1-mode, IF you search for a true Challenge. Enemy Reaction-time increases each Tierlevel, while you can upgrade your weapon damage further.
note 1: You can deactivate it any time, if you struggle with a mission
note 2: Upgrading weapons in Tiermode to Lv.30 involves a ton of farming resources

You start at Tier50, upon reaching Tier40 you get the awesome DesertTech HTI Sniper Rifle
Activating Tier1-mode changes Difficulty according to Tier level (-> below Tier30 = EXTREME)
note: Tier1-mode is harder “by Default” ..that means Tier20 is harder than normal “Extreme”

• Tier25 possible in same STORY-Playthrough ..by clearing all Regions and defeating ALL Bosses ..plus regular farming of Convoys
• Tier20 and below is Coop-territory (quite slow doing it solo.. -> Healing Drone ftw)
• Tier01: well, it takes time.. Tier25->Tier01 around 6 weeks with dedication ^^

XP / Tier -Points

..besides the +50% BOOSTERS (+25% for teammates) from STORE and the +5% permanent XP Bonus for SeasonPass-owners, I´ll list some ways to optimize your Leveling^^

BestXP-Sources:

1. Convoys (Pro-style: Spot, Sync, Clear, Grab)
2. Boss-Missions
3. Unidad-bases (Stealth-clear)
4. SantaBlanca bases (ALL Rebel-Skills max)
5. Story Missions
6. Collecting Documents + Legends
7. Discover new Locations (marked: “?“)
8. Enemies

OptimizingXP-Gainon targets:

-> Rule no.1 : Don´t get spotted! ..If you do, kill them fast before alarm

1. Undetected
2. MARKED (WeaponAim “RMB”, Drone, Binoculars, RebelSpotting “AreaDetection”)
3. Headshot / CQC

Best sources forTier-Points:

1. Convoys (Solo)
2. Convoys (Coop -Taskforce/Friends)
3. several Boss-Missions
4. Convoys (Coop – Random)
5. Rebel Missions
6. Story Missions
7. Enemy Vehicles with 3-4 passengers (->Spotting first)
8. Secondary Objectives (Generator,Jammer,..)
9. Enemies

Daily Challenges

Once you are strong enough and play Tier1-mode, make sure to do as many daily challenges as you can, since those reward you with a lot of FREE CRATES ^^

CRATES (-> new Gear)

Your main source of new Gear. Daily Challenges are mandatory to grow your weapon arsenal..

DailyChallenges can get you 10 Prestige-Crates and 1 SpecOps-Crate every week.

Note: every 20 Prestige-Crates opened, you get a free SpecOps/GhostWar crate, too

Drop Rate (Crates %Chance)

note: Battle-Crates (SpecOps / GhostWar) are special and valuable, as those cost money or require WeeklyChallenge.. these Crates will ALWAYS pop items you don´t have yet.
-> That means, at some point you will get all the Legendaries, DESPITE low Drop-chance for Legendaries as shown below .. and once you got everything ~300 Credits every time^^

My “Drop-Rate” -Stats (~700 hours):

(Btw, you can find your stats here: https://ghostreconnetwork.ubi.com/en-GB/ghost)
-> Login (or Create Ghost Account) before: https://ghostreconnetwork.ubi.com/login

Game Modes (GhostMode, Mercenaries, …)

Singleplayer (offline + online)

• Standard: Story/Campaign
• Ghost Mode (PermaDeath)

Multiplayer (online-only)

• Standard: Coop (Story)
• Guerrilla (4 player Coop vs Waves) ..resource-farming in Coop is faster
• Ghost Wars (4vs4 Team PvP) ..handful of players (mostly weekend)
• Mercenaries (8 player PvEvP ) ..dead

Backup Location (Save-files)

Wildlands (Steam-version):
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\…\3559”

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