{"id":379555,"date":"2026-10-01T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=379555"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:48:13","slug":"007-first-light-gets-free-extended-operations-update-00-difficulty-and-new-game-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/007-first-light-gets-free-extended-operations-update-00-difficulty-and-new-game-arrive\/","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light gets free Extended Operations update: 00 difficulty and New Game+ arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"

IO Interactive rolled out a big update for 007 First Light<\/a> on October 1<\/strong>. The free Extended Operations expansion adds New Game+, a brutal 00 difficulty setting, Photo Mode, sharper weapon-handling animations, and extra TacSim missions.<\/p>\n\n

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Released on October 1<\/strong>, Extended Operations is the studio’s biggest post-launch update so far, according to IO Interactive.<\/p>\n

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One of the new missions is easy to pick out: it puts you in the Aston Martin Valhalla in the Slovakian mountains. It arrives after 007 First Light launched on May 27<\/strong>, when critics praised its Hitman-style mission design, combat, and Patrick Gibson’s take on a younger Bond. IO Interactive also says the game sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours and hit 4 million by August.<\/p>\n\n

If you’ve already finished Bond’s origin story and want a reason to come back, or you’re after a tougher challenge, this update looks well worth downloading<\/a><\/strong>. There’s also still a Bawma story mission on the way, following September’s PC path-tracing upgrade.<\/p>\n\n

Amazon’s Bond era is moving ahead too. Steven Knight and Denis Villeneuve are attached to a new film, and media reports are still circling around possible 007 picks including Jacob Elordi, Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, and Jack Lowden.<\/p>\n\n

You can download Extended Operations now for free<\/strong> on any platform where you own 007 First Light.<\/p>\n

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IO Interactive rolled out a big update for 007 First Light on October 1. The free Extended Operations expansion adds New Game+, a brutal 00 difficulty setting, Photo Mode, sharper weapon-handling animations, and extra TacSim missions. Released on October 1, Extended Operations is the studio’s biggest post-launch update so far, according to IO Interactive. One … Continue reading “007 First Light gets free Extended Operations update: 00 difficulty and New Game+ arrive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":379554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-379555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379563,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379555\/revisions\/379563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379555"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=379555"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=379555"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=379555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}