Perhaps it would've been nice to have a standard difficulty across the world, with an increase in challenge achieved by harshening the punishment for death ('easy' would keep their bonuses, 'normal' as it is, 'hard' for a complete restart). Even more so when you've already completed a couple of missions, as you know you'll have to go back and do those challenges again. The constant restarts can be frustrating. You can also play co-op, and bring Hurk along for the ride, should you have an eager buddy. There's certain objectives that you can complete that are dotted around the mini-map (it's not a new area, rather a repurposed take on the game's second half) that grant the player bonuses come the end of the mission, but these bonuses don't carry over to the next game, so the player will have to complete these tricky missions time and time again, although it should get easier as your character - Ajay - gets stronger and stronger through repeat plays.

This feature is made less punishing because the equipment you earn on your travels, and the skills you unlock as you level up, are retained by your character and return every time you start again in the tower (skills and crafted gear are retained, whereas equipment is how you left it when you died). There's a permadeath-like mechanic, whereby when a player dies they head back to the start of the mission. The player has to make their way to that spot, picking up gear and abilities as they go, giving them a better chance of surviving the final encounter against waves and waves of enemy soldiers. The premise is relatively simple: there's a helicopter extraction planned to take place in thirty minutes time, in a designated spot up in the mountains. It starts with the player, unarmed and minus all of their accumulated skills, waking atop a tower with villain Pagan Min chatting away in their ear. It's actually set at a certain point in the story campaign, not long after an encounter with the titular prison, and in this DLC we're exploring what happens thereafter.

For a piece of DLC with the word 'prison' in the title, there's very little in the way of locked doors and iron bars in this unique sandbox campaign.

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