Google has added three more games to the Stadia library just as they promised to do before 2020 arrives, though the trio comes with a catch.
Yesterday, Borderlands 3 and Dragon Ball Z: Xenoverse 2 hit the Stadia streaming catalog, and today Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint follows them into the library. Borderlands 3, however, is asterisked with the note that the game Stadia players access at launch does not have all the patches which the game has received on other platforms.
"At launch, the Stadia version of the game will reflect all updates and fixes that were released through October 24," announced the tech company in a press release. The most current version of the game will arrive in the new year. That leaves the game in its pre-Halloween state, taking in just its first three patches and leaving out new end-game content that has since arrived in the game.
It's an awkward space to be in for Stadia, asking your players to jump into Borderlands' Halloween update while other platforms are appropriately playing the holiday update, and it comes after a few rough months for the new platform that also featured some inconsistent connectivity, a launch lineup lacking many new highlights, and some glaringly missing features like achievements and family game sharing.
In better news for Stadia and its players, the Stadia version of Breakpoint offers an exclusive gameplay feature called Stream Connect, which grants players a new picture-in-picture mode allowing you to observe the screens of up to three teammates to better coordinate your tactics. Google says this feature is only possible thanks to the cloud technology running Stadia.
Dragon Ball Z: Xenoverse 2 released on most platforms in 2016 before moving to Switch in 2017. It earned a Fair average of 73 from OpenCritic reviewers. Borderlands 3 fared better with an 80 average from 122 reviewers. Ghost Recon Breakpoint did poorest of the trio, both critically, with its 57 average, as well as commercially, as cited by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in a recent sales call. The game's apparent rush to market has since led to the French publisher reworking their AAA strategy as they delayed three Q1 2020 titles into a later period to ensure they launch in the best state they can.
