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Wraith Recon Frontline beta test delayed one daytime before IT was set to start

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Ghost Recon Frontline was declared penultimate calendar week as a free class-based battle royale typeset in the Clancyverse, the alone cinematic setting in which Jim from The Billet is an action hero. Frontline wish support multiple modes, battles of to a higher degree 100 players, and, unlike most battle royales, also features an extraction mechanic akin to Hunt: Showdown: After additive a series of objectives, teams must hold out against an enemy onslaught for a set period before escaping. Sounds fine, right?

The plan was to hold the best round of closed beta testing from October 14-21, just Ubisoft announced today—one day before the scheduled start—that it's distinct to lay things on hold.

We have an important message regarding Ghost Recon Frontline's Closed Test. photo.chirrup.com/ne1VgOLMJFOctober 13, 2021

"We have decided it is uncomparable to postpone the closed try out for Tomcat Clancy's Haunt Recon Frontline," Ubisoft tweeted. "The ontogenesis team is dedicated to creating the best experience possible. We'll dea details on the brand-new date for the closed test as soon as we can."

The terse message says nothing about the reasons for the delay, which seems especially curious given that information technology was set to start just a week after Frontline was revealed—a date that Ubisoft would have been quite confident in, in other words. But it's likely that Ubisoft did not foresee the reaction to the game itself. Niko Partners senior psychoanalyst Daniel Ahmad speculated on Chirrup that the test was suspended "because of how poorly [Specter Recon Frontline] was received," and it's non rough to undergo wherefore: The announcement video on YouTube has four times as many a dislikes arsenic likes, Reddit almost at once predicted doom and gloom for the entire franchise, and replies to the twitc about the wait are filled with calls to cancel the whole thing unqualified—often accompanied by demands for a "real" Ghost Recon mettlesome.

I don't call up Frontline looked bad by any measure when it was announced, and the addition of an extraction requirement could be a really playfulness twist: Extractions made for a really intense coda to Mass Burden 3 multiplayer missions, room back when. Simply it's a late arrival to a political party already dominated by Call option of Responsibility: Warzone, Apex Legends, and Get off from Tarkov, and follows the inferior-than-stellar Ghost Recon Breakpoint—not exactly a solid point of departure. Meanwhile, Ubisoft is still dicking some with Splinter Cell, which has not gone unnoticed by Tom Clancy halting fans either.

I've reached unstylish to Ubisoft for more data happening the reasons for the delay, and if an updated launch target has been typeset, and will update if I experience a reply.

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