DLCConfirmed30 September 2026Updated 1 October 2026

007 First Light's first free DLC is out, and it's bigger than the teaser suggested

IO Interactive's Extended Operations is live as part of update 1.3.0, adding New Game+, Photo Mode, a new '00' difficulty, the Jungle Heist TacSim operation and the Valhalla Protocol — plus more than 700 fixes.

Update — 1 October 2026

Extended Operations is now live. IO Interactive shipped it as part of 007 First Light update 1.3.0 on October 1, and the contents go well past the driving mission the teaser implied. The headline additions are New Game+, a Photo Mode and a new "00" difficulty that the studio describes as being for players "ready to show they've truly earned the number." New Game+ carries its own extras: suit loadouts, more gadget flexibility and that new difficulty tier, and it unlocks only after a full campaign playthrough. On the content side, the update adds a TacSim operation called Jungle Heist that returns players to The Pearl in Vietnam, and the long-teased Valhalla Protocol activity. IO Interactive also says it has refined weapon handling animations across the arsenal, and Gematsu notes new weapons and outfits are included. Less glamorous but arguably more significant: the studio counts "over 700 fixes and improvements" in 1.3.0, covering crashes, progression blockers, clipping, audio, localisation and UI, and credits player reports and support tickets since launch for shaping them. IO says more content and improvements are already in development. The earlier reading of the teaser — a Slovakian mountain road and an Aston Martin — is not something IO has confirmed in the patch notes, so it stays unverified; what the notes do confirm is that the DLC is considerably broader than one drive.

IO Interactive is adding free content to 007 First Light, and it is not making anyone wait long to find out what. The studio posted a short teaser on the game's social channels on September 29 with the line "A free DLC is just around the bend. Tune in on October 1st."

What the teaser shows

Very little, deliberately. The 13-second clip pans slowly across a mountain road before a grey car flashes through the frame too fast to identify, with the words "Free DLC October 1st" over the top as the shot fades. There is no gameplay, no mission name and no platform detail.

Why free matters here

007 First Light launched with a paid Deluxe Edition upgrade and a set of cosmetic gadget skins and outfits on its store page, so a free content drop this early reads as goodwill rather than a monetisation step — particularly after a bumpy few weeks in which IO shipped two hotfixes addressing path tracing performance problems on PC.

The reveal is on Thursday, October 1.

Why it matters

IO Interactive has a long record of feeding its games for years after release, and this is the first sign of what that looks like for Bond.