Optical camouflage

Optical camouflage is an advanced technology used by The Ghosts, Bodark, Los Extranjeros and Phantoms. It cloaks the individual, rendering them nearly invisible. The camouflage is available on uniforms or in a unique cloak. The optical camouflage disengages with sudden movements, such as firing a weapon (either suppressed or not suppressed). The system is voice-activated, and is formed by metamaterials.

History

The Ghosts used an optical "cloak" on a mission to Chelyabinsk province, Russia. Four members of the Ghost team also used optical camouflage during Operation "Take Down Overlord".

Cedrick Ferguson's team also had working optical camouflage during their missions to Bolivia, Africa, Georgia, and Russia. Their drones also had cloaking ability too. They also faced Bodark troopers with their own cloaks.

They continued to use it on a mission to Colombia and Yemen commanded by Andrew Ross.

The mercenary unit Los Extranjeros make use of Covert Ops specialists led by Luis Rocha are equipped with optical camouflage. They are able to field the units based on their official work with the Bolivian government and their corrupt influences. However, their camouflage can't hide them from IR vision both the Ghost's Cross Com and the Skell Tech drones. Nor able to prevent being deactivated by the drones' EMP shock.

In Operation: Silent Spade, Kozak used Skell Tech's prototype PHANTOM VG52 model as a field test which impressed Nomad's team. Which Nomad questioned "Reactive camouflage?". However standing up, firing a not suppressed weapon (turns out suppressed worked well) or taking hits will disable it. Nonetheless, Major Scott Mitchell even remarked that if it wasn't Kozak's desire for fieldwork they would have lost him to the tech company.

Optical camo can be used after finished Operation Silent Spade.

Operation Motherland

Optical camo
General information
Type	Advanced cloaking device.
Role	Experimental miniature personal cloaking device for special operations forces, capable of making its user near-invisible by refracting light.
Users	Bodark Ghosts

With the inclusion of the Conquest gamemode in Operation Motherland for Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the optical camouflage was added along with a new type of enemy utilizing the device. The projector device is solar powered and can be recharged during the day, though Mark II-upgrade allows it to be more sensitive towards light, allowing it to gather reflected sunlight off the moon.

Upgrade branches

The optical camouflage can be upgraded from Mk 0 to Mk III versions, with individual upgrades earnable by collecting camo points found throughout the Auroa archipelago. Once all the upgrades have been activated, no more camo points can be earned from the world.

Mark I-upgrade

Mark II-upgrade

Trivia

Optical camouflage was first seen in Ghost Recon in the live-action trailer for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

The optical camouflage features in the singleplayer and multiplayer of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It allows the player to become almost invisible to enemy forces. On screen the character looks as if light is bending around him so as to let the player know where he is. This is not actually Invisibility because the player is still visible in singleplayer if the enemy is in close proximity to the players position. This also deactivates when the player is moving while not in crouched or prone stances.

In multiplayer the optical camouflage is only available to the Scout class, and the effect is lessened, and the player cannot move around. This is so that this ability is not too overpowered. At level 28, the player may choose the Augmented Camo ability to allow them to move around like in singleplayer (again only while crouched or prone).

Optical camouflage also appears as an ability of the Recon class in Ghost Recon Phantoms.

Optical camouflage's depiction in Wildlands and Breakpoint is inconsistent with it's debut in Future soldier, It is chronologically first depicted back in Wildlands during Operation Silent Spade by Kozak which occurs in 2019. He calls it a prototype from Skell Tech. This however is contradicted by Los Extronjeros in the same year, where their covert ops troop deploy with it in a way suggesting it is being properly produced without explanation. In Breakpoint, one year after Future Soldier in 2025, Bowman brings up the Bodark base to strike in the first region in Operation Motherland, she says "I suspect you'll be able to find the experimental tech that makes the Bodarks invisible and intel on Ito's location." This contradicts Future Soldier itself as both the Ghosts and Bodark used the technology.

Appearances

• Ghost Recon: ALPHA (used by Bodark)
• Ghost Recon Future Soldier: Future War (First appearance)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Choke Point
• Ghost Recon Phantoms
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands (Fallen Ghosts DLC and Kozak used it in Operation Silent Spade mission)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Operation Motherland Conquest Mode)

External links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_camouflage