Requirements

To play

• A legitimate copy of Ghost Recon Wildlands for PC, installed through Ubisoft Connect or Steam. WildM never ships, patches or cracks game files — the game is always started through its own platform, which checks your licence exactly as a normal launch does.
  • The launcher detects the game in this order: a folder you chose by hand in Settings → Game, then the Ubisoft Connect install (registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Ubisoft\Launcher\Installs\1771, value InstallDir), then Steam libraries (libraryfolders.vdf → appmanifest_460930.acf). The folder must contain GRW.exe.
• Ubisoft Connect installed, even for the Steam version: Wildlands always goes through Ubisoft Connect. The launcher starts it in the background if needed (and starts Steam with -silent for the Steam version).
• Windows (the launcher, the injector and the client are Windows programs).
• A WFX.re account is recommended (your name and identity on servers). You can skip linking with Later and still join; your player name then comes from Settings → Account.

No anti-cheat in the game folder

If anti-cheat files are found inside the game folder (EasyAntiCheat, BattlEye and similar), the launcher refuses to launch for your safety. Anti-cheat processes of other games running in the background are only reported as a warning.

To host a server

• Node.js (the game server has no npm dependencies; it uses the built-in fetch and AbortSignal.timeout, so Node.js 18 or newer).
• Two TCP ports reachable by your players: HTTP (default 30120) and game sync (default 30121). See Ports, LAN & firewall.
• A WFX.re account and a server key (sv_key) from the Portal if you want the server to appear in the public list. A server without a key still works for direct connections.

To develop plugins

• The client framework is C. The fork builds with MSVC (build_wildm.ps1, Visual Studio Build Tools) — see Building the client and Writing a client plugin.