I’m looking for something new to play with my squad and bring us back together. But our tastes are starting to meander apart a bit. And I’m hoping for an online game (ideally cross platform Xbox/PC, but PC only would be fine.)

The short version: We loved DMZ, we played Warzone in Urikstan, Urzikstan Zombies, and now Warzone: Verdansk 2, and PUBG both in BR and in bot/custom mode. I’d love something like Ghost Recon Wildlands with less narrative constriction, and more shaped like a BR or extraction game, but PVE and just our squad. (Not really something wave-based like Helldivers.) We’re also known to rarely hop into a Minecraft server together.

The longer version I wanted to type out more than I wanted to sleep right now: COD: Warzone 2’s DMZ mode is an extraction game with a fine mission pool (collect # items running quests, several unique missions, dailies, weeklies, season missions, and a few low intensity boss/special unit runs,) a good map (wide variety of areas that are thematically cohesive, random NPC generation in areas so they usually feel fresh,) COD “action movie feeling” gunplay, low intensity crafting (under the guise of trading items for gear,) and a wonderfully simplified inventory system made friendly for my console user buddies. (Every item was one slot, and the number of slots depended on the size of your backpack, but maxed at like 9 so it wasn’t crazy wild on a controller.)

After a little over a year they basically stopped advancing it, and we went back to the typical Warzone battle royal mode. The next map, Urzikstan, was okay. We also played the Zombies mode in that, which was DMZ with fewer missions and PVE alongside other squads in the server. Then they switched the BR map to Verdansk, which was fine for a brief detour but it’s old by now.

Of my squad, one really liked Urzikstan’s Zombies mode because it was very low intensity, but us other two didn’t like it that much. But now the other is more feeling PUBG matches (sometimes BR, sometimes just bot matches where we rampage over everyone, again, less intense.) And I can’t get them both excited in another PVP game because we’re just not that sweaty/good anymore. We’re in our late 30s and 40s and nothing captures the lax feeling of early DMZ that was very casual friendly with occasional spikes of tense gunfights. (It Became all PVP by the end of a couple of seasons.)

I’m looking for something in the shape of those games we like, with that top tier world especially. It doesn’t have to be a new game either. I’d love something like Ghost Recon: Wildlands. (The last time we tried that we all bounced off of it, sadly, as it was so narratively strong.) But something with a nice sized interesting map (again, comparing it to Warzone,) with good map variety, and a good mission pool, would be phenomenal. But I just don’t know of anything. And I’m just hoping I’ve missed something that’ll be obvious to someone else.

Thanks.