Trivia / Ghost Recon Breakpoint

• Actor-Shared Background: While primarily known as a skateboarder (and a pioneering legend no less), Jace Skell's actor Rodney Mullen is also a Linux devotee and an advocate for open-source software, having come from an engineering background^note Mullen was born and raised to an intellectual family; he himself was a tinkerer obsessed with how things work and is considered by some to be a polymath. prior to taking up skateboarding as a full-time career. Mullen also stated in interviews that he basically channelled his personality onto his character.
• Author's Saving Throw: The developers have made major improvements and changes to the game since its initial release to address fan complaints, and have continued to regularly release new content (including new story campaigns). This is a notable contrast to Anthem, which was released around the same time with many of the same live-service design ideas and had a similarly poor initial reception and was ultimately abandoned as unsalvageable by the publisher E.A. after one major content update. Unfortunately, Breakpoint eventually succumbed to the same fate as Anthem, as in April 2022 Ubisoft announced they were killing the game after Ghost Recon Quartz, their attempt to incorporate NFTs into the game, failed to meet financial expectations.
  • In response to backlash related to the heavy monetization of the game, especially the essentially pay to win "Time Savers", Ubisoft quickly removed most of the egregious pay to win items from the in-game store, claiming that they weren't intended to be sold.
  • The "Ghost Experience" update is intended to be one by addressing a large number of fan complaints, adding options to turn off the hated gear level system and include significantly more realism such as being able to turn off regenerating health, limiting the amount of bandages that can be carried, and making ammo management more crucial by making it so reloading without emptying a magazine first results in ammo loss.
  • Fully customizable A.I. teammates were added to the game in a July 2020 update, allowing single-player players to get a similar squad combat experience as Wildlands.
  • The third episode was originally to be titled "Transcendence", which going by the title and the plot of the main campaign likely would have had something to do with Brain Uploading and fighting the much-derided drones, possibly in a manner similar to the equally dimly-viewed Golem Island Raid. The developers then announced that they had responded to player feedback and retooled the episode into Red Patriot, which sees the Ghosts working with long-running character Scott Mitchel to stop a terrorist plot conducted by campaign Big Bad Trey Stone and the remains of Raven's Rock, the villains from Future Soldier. The episode is also structured around an HVT hunting mechanic similar to the one found in Wildlands.
  • One of the common expressed disappointments about Red Patriot was that Bodark was just 8 officers, instead of being a new faction with new units like Los Extrajneros from the Fallen Ghosts DLC in Wildlands. In Operation Motherland, the game's season 2, that's exactly what happens; Bodark is now a full new faction with their own distinct troopers (who are equipped much more professionally than Sentinel) and 4 new types of Elite Mooks.
• Milestone Celebration: 2021 was the series' 20th anniversary, so for it several free cosmetics were added to celebrate 20 years of Ghost Recon, including the original group emblem from the first game and costume sets to play as Alicia Diaz from Ghost Recon 2, Scott Mitchell from Advanced Warfighter, and John Kozak from Future Soldier.
• The Other Darrin: Nomad is voiced by Alex Mallari Jr. (male) and Alix Wilton Regan (female), taking over from Steve Byers and Andrea Deck.