As the setting implies, players will face off against plenty of high-tech opponents as they take on Walker and find out what’s truly been unfolding on the island. Having to take on another Ghost isn’t the only franchise-first for Ghost Recon Breakpoint, though: Ubisoft has added plenty of brand new gameplay elements that include dialogue choices, drone-intensive combat, new survival elements, and raids.

The island setting of Auroa will host everything from snowy peaks and sandy beaches to jungles, deserts, and even a volcano. While players will be able to explore the island in its entirety from the very first minute of the game, it’s not where the end-game raid events will take place. According to creative director Eric Couzian, Ubisoft is creating a secondary island that will host all of the late-game raids.

The main narrative of the game will see players push back against the aforementioned Cole D. Walker, who first appears as an ally in Wildlands. He’s got a lot of history with the game’s protagonist, indicating that the building blocks are in place for an interesting storyline. In our talks with Couzian, he explains that the end-game raids will encompass their own separate narrative, and will focus around a character other than Walker.

While Ghost Recon Breakpoint will have a PVP element at launch, the raids will be a co-op only experience with players being able to team up as Ghost operatives Nomad, Fury, Vasily, and Fixit. Much like the rest of the game, they’ll then be able to select different classes to suit their playstyles. The game will launch with five different classes, which include sharpshooter, panther (stealth), and assault (run-and-gun). Couzian states that this number of classes will raise very shortly, with new classes arriving as post-launch content.

There will be a shared progression system for raids, allowing players to earn loot and rewards that they can take back to the island of Auroa when they return to the main narrative campaign or the still-secretive PVP content.

Given how much post-launch support Ghost Recon: Wildlands has seen over the last two years, gamers should expect to see a lot of post-launch support when it comes to raids in Breakpoint.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint will release on October 4, 2019, on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.