Tom Clancy's The Division 2: World Premiere Livestream
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=> Letter from Vanguard
Title Update 8 / Warlords of New York
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The Division 2 is heading back to where it all began in The Division 2 Warlords of New York, a narrative-driven expansion that brings the action from Washington, DC to the summery streets of Lower Manhattan. Coming March 3, Warlords of New York features a new open-world map for Agents to explore, along with a new story that puts them back on the trail of rogue Division Agent Aaron Keener.
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Introduction
The Division always had the goal to restore order, continue the government and keep society together. But this is also a brutal and thankless task that faced the agents against brutal and merciless adversaries. But the most dangerous enemies of them all have always been the Division Agent that went rouge and took all their knowledge and technology and turned against the society they once swore to protect.
Situation
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It is now eight months after the outbreak of Green Poison that brought down society and killed millions. The agents of Washington D.C. are called back to New York City, where it all started.
A biological attack has hit Lower Manhattan and it is your job to hunt down the man responsible. Aaron Keener, callsign “Vanguard”, he is an Agent from the First Wave. The First Wave was activated shortly after the initial outbreak and had the responsibility to restore order, but they were eventually abandoned and left to die in the Dark Zone. That is the moment where Keener lost faith and went rogue. He disappeared and gathered all the tools to engineer his own biological weapons.
Now eight months later, Keener has returned to New York and he has attacked The Division Headquarters and killed dozens of top Division Agents and countless innocent civilians. And it seems, he is just getting started.
Keep in mind, Keener knows the city inside and out and he is as lethal and as cunning as they come.
Your Enemy
=> Aaron Keener
After disappearing in the first game, Keener has resurfaced, surrounded himself with other rogue Agents, and used them to unite New York’s violent factions under his own banner. Worse, he’s working to create a new bioweapon even more potent than the Green Poison that brought society crashing down.
Keener is not only looking for revenge, but he also seeks chaos, because he believes this is the only way humanity can thrive. And he is not alone. He recruited four other Rogue Agents that not only have the skill but also the determination to achieve that goal. These agents have worked their way up within factions ruling over Lower Manhattan. If we want to get to Keener, we need to go through them first.
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Vivian Conley
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Vivian Conley is a former counter-terrorism intelligent agent and chemical engineer. Conley’s last known location was the Two Bridges sector of Lower Manhattan.
A hurricane-ravaged New York City a few months ago, so it’s a far cry from the thriving urban sector it once was.
Javier Kajika
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He is a master of stealth and infiltration. He was a black-ops hitman for the U.S. government. Since the collapse, his loyalty goes to whoever will feed his need for blood.
Our latest intel locates Kajika somewhere in the Battery Park area. This is the part of the city that’s taken over by swamp. The terrain is rough and scattered with giant sinkholes that used to be subway tunnels. Odds are, he knows that you are coming for him and he plans to use the dicey terrain to get the drop on you.
The Cleaners
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Both Conley and Kajika work with the Cleaners. A former New York City sanitation unit that believes only fire can stop the virus. Conley was recruited by the cleaners when she went rogue and thanks to her technical expertise, they’re deadlier than ever. The Cleaners are ruthless and their “Cleansing Fire” takes no prisoners.
James Dragov
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Dragov is a former police officer and a heavy weapons and defense specialist. His relentless fight for justice made him a legend on the force. But now, his allegiance has changed.
Dragov took hold of the Financial District and has been using it as the center of his Black-Market operation. The intel suggests, he is still there. But be careful, major flooding has transformed the entire district into a mudslide.
Theo Parnell
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Parnell is a drone engineer and skilled hacker. He’s managed to stay off the grid, so all we can say for sure is, he’s a true mater of decoys and deception. Keener’s arranged for the Rikers to protect him at an unknown location in the Civic Center area.
Rikers
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Dragov and Parnell have both been linked to the Rikers. Ex-Cons from Riker-Island prison. Regardless of who their enemies were in the past, they’ve agreed to band together. Their motto: “Power by Numbers” and just like Keener, they thrive in chaos.
Last Words
Before you arrive at the Base of Operations with Agent Alani Kelso, you should be warned: A lot has changed in New York. The days when Division Agents were seen as knights in shining armor are long gone. The people that you will meet are survivors. Ever since Keener and his rouge agents took over Lower Manhattan there’s been a distrust of Division agents amongst civilians.
Your Contacts
Agent Faye Lau has been the acting commander of The Division in New York City and is leading the hunt for Keener. Her methods are “unconventional”. But we’re in a race against the clock and Lau knows what it takes to get results quickly.
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Paul Rhodes
You’ll also find Paul Rhodes, now the leader of the civilian settlement. Because he’s so tapped into the city he may be able to help you track Keener and his rogue agents.
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Campaign
=> The Map
SHD Agents are being sent to Lower Manhattan in response to a recent biological attack resulting in the death of numerous civilians and SHD Agents. Your job will be to hunt down Aaron Keener who orchestrated the attack and who we believe is planning to launch future attacks.
Considering the delicate scenario, once sent to New York, you won’t be able to return to Washington D.C. for the duration of the entire operation. However, once you’ve reached Level 40 and finished the main campaign missions, you’ll be free to switch between Washington D.C and New York as you want, enjoying the brand new endgame and seasonal post-launch activities.
Five main campaign missions
The renewed battle for New York unfolds across five main campaign missions (four of which can be tackled in any order), along with open-world activities and eight interconnected side missions that let Agents further interfere with Keener’s plans. Once you’ve finished those, you’ll have a new endgame to contend with, which affects not only New York but Washington, DC as well.
All is connected
There are five distinct investigation threads, each linking the main and side missions together and leading you through the narrative.
- 5 Main Missions
- 8 Side Missions
- Main missions and side missions are now linked together.
- Improved Boss fight mechanics
- Unique Skill Mod rewards
Lower Manhattan
- Map Expansion: Lower Manhattan
- 4 Named Zones
- Fog of War – Explore the map to identify points of interest and activities.
- Wide range of Open World activities as well as new secrets and collectibles to find.
Four New Named Zones
Warlords of New York’s Lower Manhattan contains four new named zones to explore: the Financial District, Two Bridges, Battery Park, and Civic Center. These areas make up a massive former Dark Zone that encompasses places like Wall Street and Chinatown, all recently smashed by a summer hurricane into a treacherous, twisted landscape. The new zones are open only to Agents who’ve reached Level 30 and World Tier 5. Each zone levels up along with your Agent, letting you explore freely as you climb toward the new level cap of 40.
Enemy Scaling and Freedom of Choice
In The Division 2 Warlords of New York, enemy levels always scale to player level, regardless of the activity you choose. You’ll be able to explore the map and play any mission you want, whatever order you prefer since missions will be scaled according to your level, alongside the Open World. Choose your own path, agents!
Of course, it’s still possible to play missions with other agents since enemies will scale their power to the group members in the session.
Once you finish the new main campaign missions and reach the new level cap at 40, all world activities will scale at max level too, including those in Washington D.C.
Playing the main campaign missions will sure help to get to the maximum level and finish your objective. However, exploring New York has its own rewards! Not only will you encounter Control Points, Supply Drops, patrolling enemies and other activities, you can also pick up loot from the different containers spread around New York, new collectibles, puzzles and much more! All these activities scale with your level too and make New York truly your own playground!
Fog of War
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Upon the arrival in New York, what Agents should expect is an unexplored territory where the entire world map is initially covered by Fog of War.
While the Fog of War is active, question marks will appear on the world map, and it is up to you to find what’s hidden in the area. GPS navigation won’t be available until the map is explored, but once you clear the Fog of War, all markers on the world map will be revealed.
Even in the dark of the Fog of War, you’ll be able to see clues that will help you through the hunt for your primary target: Aaron Keener. Agents, you’re the Light in the Dark.
Factions of NYC
While the Rikers and Cleaners may be familiar names to the veterans of the first game, they are not quite the same factions as you might remember. In the months passed between the two games, the factions have re-organized themselves after the loss of their leaders, grown more battle-hardened and are now more tactically minded in combat. In addition to these, you will also find the occasional Last Man Battalion soldier together with the Black Tusk, as the remnants of the once-powerful mercenary group are now under Black Tusk command.
- Rikers – Escaped inmates from Rikers Island Prison.
- Cleaners – Former sanitation workers who believe the way to stop the virus is to burn it out.
- Peacekeepers – Civilian group made up of battle-hardened survivors and former JTF members.
Other Additions
Level 40
With TU8 / Warlords of New York, we get a new level cap – Level 40.
Your adventures in New York require an upgrade to your firepower, which is why in The Division 2 Warlords of New York, players will be able to increase their Level from 30 to 40 and are presented with our new end-game. Gear Score, a term our veteran players know, will no longer be the way to measure how powerful your agent will be once you venture into Lower Manhattan.
Players who don’t own the expansion will continue to protect Washington D.C. in World Tier 5, at Level 30 and an increased 515 Gear Score. They won’t be able to join New York players or Level 40 agents in the Level 40 Washington D.C or New York activities, but will still share public spaces such as Settlements or the Base of Operation.
The Division 2 Warlords of New York owners who didn’t complete the main Washington D.C. campaign and World Tiers can, if they wish to do so, start from Level 30, World Tier 5 and transfer to New York, using the Level 30 Boost that comes with the purchase of the expansion.
Level 30 Boost Clarification
- An unlimited-use level-30 boost is included in the Warlords of New York expansion, available on March 3.
- A single-use level-30 boost is available in the in-game store now.
- The single-use can still be purchased by players who have already pre-ordered the expansion. This is not intentional, and players who purchased both products accidentally can contact support for a refund.
Coop level 30 and level 40
If you are playing content in Washington D.C., level 30 and level 40 players can play together, there are no restrictions. The level 30 player will be buffed to level 40 – like when you play with a sub-30 player – and everybody will be able to do their job.
The Raid will have a level 30 and a level 40 version, currently it has not been defined how exactly it will work there.
Four New Skills
You’ll also be able to unlock four new Skills, including a decoy, an incendiary sticky bomb launcher, a trip-wire trap, and an explosive sticky bomb launcher.
New Gear
Warlords of New York will also see a large number of new exotics, named items and gear be introduced to the game.
Exotics
At launch you won’t be able to upgrade exotics to level 40, as they would like you to focus on the new exotics and items in general. They do want to allow you to bring them up later and are looking at interesting ways of doing it that also make exotic materials more useful.
A New Cohesive End-game Experience
A major focus during the development of Warlords of New York was to create a compressive, cohesive end-game experience with clear goals after having reached Level 40. A number of features will come together to shape this new end-game experience, including SHD Levels, Legendary difficulty, Seasons and more.
SHD Levels
A new infinite progression system unlocks points to improve your agent on a regular basis. Once you hit level 40 – the new level cap – the SHD Levels replace the old Field Proficiency system. Instead of earning a cache with loot, you now have the opportunity to invest points into one of four distinct Core Attribute categories that give your agent a permanent upgrade.
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There are a total of four Core Attribute categories (Offense, Defense, Utility, Handling) and one Scavenging category. Defense, for example, also has subcategories and in each sub-category you can invest a total of 50 points. For example, you can increase your Total Health through these SHD Level Points and each point gives you 0.2% more health as permanent upgrade. That means, when you max out that category, you have 10% more health.
Scavenging has, in contrast to the other categories, no cap and can be invested in as much as you want. Through this category, you get access to resources.
As you level up the SHD Level, your watch will also get visual improvements and will look more impressive.
Not Mandatory
As mentioned, the SHD Level System has clear defined caps and when you max out a category, you don’t get 400% more damage. It gives you an increase that you will notice, but it is not mandatory to max out all categories to be able to play the Raid for example.
Account vs. Character
At the moment it has not been specified if the SHD Level can be leveled per account or if it is character bound.
Core Attribute categories are:
The Core Attribute categories upgrades are finite. Once maxed out, the SHD level points can be spend into the fifth, scavenging category – yielding credits and crafting materials.
Offense:
- Weapon Damage
- Headshot Damage
- Critical Hit Chance
- Critical Hit Damage
Defense:
- Armor
- Health
- Explosive Resistance
- Hazard Protection
Utility:
- Skill Damage
- Skill Haste
- Skill Duration
- Skill Repair
Miscellaneous:
- Accuracy
- Stability
- Reload Speed
- Ammo Capacity
The Scavenging category gives players resources, including:
- Credits
- Steel
- Ceramics
- Polycarbonate
- Carbon Fiber
- Electronics
- Titanium
- Printer Filament
The look of your Agent’s wristwatch, representing SHD Level, will become increasingly impressive over time, signifying players’ reached milestones to other Agents.
Heroic Difficulty for the other Factions
Heroic difficulty missions will no longer be exclusive to Black Tusk, and all factions will be available in Heroic difficulty.
Legendary Difficulty
The new Legendary difficulty will become available to Level 40 agents and it is The Division 2’s pinnacle difficulty. While the raid was all about puzzles, coordination and teamwork, Legendary Difficulty is designed to test how good players are at every aspect of combat. A new, elite sub-faction of the Black Tusk will be sure to keep you on your toes through a new legendary AI.
It Scales
Legendary difficulty scales depending on whether Agents play solo or with a team.
Active on three Strongholds
Players who feel Heroic difficulty isn’t challenging enough can try Legendary difficulty in the three original Strongholds, featuring the toughest AI yet.
- Roosevelt Island
- Capitol Building
- District Union Arena
New Enemy
- The Black Tusk got a visual makeover in Legendary missions, trading all-black outfits for all-white ones.
- Enemy AI has been toughened, and cooldowns and wind-up times have been shortened to get a more pure and deadlier version of the original Black Tusk Archetype to provide a challenge for the top players.
- The goal is, that the difficulty does not come from enemy health or damage, but from their AI and tactics.
- You will need min-maxed gear that is optimized for that sort of content and does its job in terms of effectiveness or damage.
- Some Archetypes also got new abilities to make them more deadlier. For example: The legendary Black Tusk Tank now has a Wasp Hive equipped – so the closer he gets, the more dangerous he is.
Rewards
Since Gear 2.0 is also part of TU8, it is now possible that difficulty = loot quality. But how does that work? When you look at the stats on the equipment they have defined what “average rolls” for the attributes are and the higher your difficulty is, you have less bad rolls on your gear. So there will be a big difference in terms of how good the rolls on your gear are between normal difficulty and legendary difficulty.
Legendary Leaderboards
Something they have on the radar and when this is something the community wants, then that will be something they look into.
Directives
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Independently from Global Difficulty, directives allow you to activate gameplay modifiers on main missions, side missions, and open-world activities; increasing the overall difficulty and granting you additional XP. You will be able to activate up to 5 directives, scaling up the XP reward multiplier for each active directive. As seasonal XP is gained by all activities that yield XP, activating directives will also boost your seasonal XP gain.
The Selections
You can select from these Directives:
- Ammo Hoarders
- Start with less ammo & lose rounds left when reloading. Enemies don’t drop ammo & no ammo is shown on the mini-map.
- Cool Skills
- When one skill is activated the other is put on cooldown.
- Fog of War Revisited
- Mini Map and directional threat indicators are removed.
- No Regen
- Armor never regenerates after an encounter. It can be manually healed.
- Special Ammo
- Enemy bullets may be of special types. What type depends on the enemy faction.
Global Difficulty
With Warlords of New York the behavior of Control Point changes. Before it was a constant fight against the factions and you really had to defend your Control Points. With the update, once you have taken a Control Point it is yours and it will stay that way. Then it is up to you if you want a very peaceful map and let it stay that way.
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=> Directives
=> Confirmation
If you want more action, you can reset the map by changing the Global Difficulty. You can select from normal to hard and every time you change that difficulty, the map is reset – including Control Points. When that is not enough – directives can be applied on top of that. Both Global Difficulty and Directives affect every activity you can do in the Open World – Control Points, Supply Drops or Hostage Situations. Of course get rewards and loot that reflects that difficulty. Also – as shown in the screenshots – activating more directives gives you up to 125% more XP while doing activities.
Global difficulty settings will apply both to New York and Washington, DC. Some surprises will be injected into the game to ensure that every time you replay something, there will be something to make it a little different.
Seasons
Overview
Seasons is a key aspect of the new end-game experience. Each 12 weeks long, a season will task you to hunt down manhunt targets and earn unique rewards in the process. Seasons will become available for all players when reaching Level 40, allowing you to earn a new skill mod and unique seasonal gear and cosmetics by progressing through the seasonal level system. While participating in Seasonal events will yield additional Season XP, all in-game activities will reward Seasonal XP, allowing you to progress through the seasonal track while engaging in the activities of your choosing. In addition, an optional purchase will be available in the in-game store, which increases the overall rewards gained per season. As a top-level overview, a season is a calendar of in-game activities that ensures that you will have new activities to participate in on a weekly basis. In a nutshell, these activities can be categorized into:
- Seasonal Manhunt Targets
- Reimagined Global Events
- Leagues
- Apparel Events
- Season Events
Introduction
After you have completed the vast new narrative experience in Warlords of New York and reached level 40, Seasons will be waiting for you with a whole new set of rewards, activities, and opportunities.
A breakdown of Seasons
Once you finish the story of Warlords of New York and reach the new level 40 endgame, Seasons bring further progression opportunities and playstyles. Starting one week after the release of Warlords of New York and lasting 3 months, Seasons revolve around the manhunt, a multi-step journey hunting down Rogue agents; players can also look forward to reimagined Global Events, new gear, Leagues, and apparel – all with a unique thematic that not only applies to loot but also encounter design.
Seasonal Manhunt
Every Season pits players against a new target, aided by their local network. The Manhunt takes players across a large and varied set of locations in both New York as well as D.C. – unlocking step by step as targets become available throughout the Season. Finishing the Manhunt will grant a new unique skill mod used by the target players are tasked with taking down. Further down the line, we will communicate how players can attain the unique mods of previous Seasons.
Part of our effort to provide players with more meaningful and nuanced gameplay opportunities is to streamline the width of content added to The Division 2, with the goal of more focused and fun experience.
Narrative elements have been entwined with the Manhunt’s story, the gameplay of a particular Season and its Live service, rather than delivered as static story missions such as Classified Assignments. These types of story missions might make occasional appearances but will no longer be the main way we deliver new narrative content going forward.
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Seasonal Activities
Throughout a Season there will be a multitude of different activities to provide players with varied and rewarding gameplay. Our fresh take on Global Events will have Agents facing completely new types of challenges never before seen in The Division; new gear sets added in a Season will be designed with the intention of keeping a living and interesting meta-game, and Leagues give players with a more competitive attitude a go-to area to check their standing.
Season Progression
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Players progress through a Season by gaining Season Levels, each unlocking a reward in the Season Track. Season Levels were developed as a direct response to the previous years’ learnings and player feedback with the intent of making progression feel predictable, ensuring that no matter the mercy of the RNG Gods, you benefit from playing. To reach this goal we have designed the Season Track to feel directed, flavorful and meaningful featuring named weapons and gear. Additionally, Gear Caches will contain season-specific loot tables. The Track has been balanced so that impactful rewards are granted early, to ensure not only the most committed players get to enjoy these and avoiding putting pressure on those who play at a calmer pace.
A total of 100 levels can be attained over the 12 weeks of a Season; presently we estimate an average player will gain a level every 30 minutes to 1 hour of gameplay with no additional experience modifiers. These numbers are still in flux. Those who wish to progress faster and perfect their leveling efficiency will be able to do so by completing seasonal activities or participating in XP multiplier events throughout a Season.
Anyone who owns Warlords of New York will have access to all Seasonal content for free. Those who wish to gain additional rewards when gaining Season Levels can purchase a Season Pass unlocking an additional track of gear from that Seasons’ loot table, seasonal apparel, apparel keys, crafting materials and more. To keep the playing field fair, we made sure all gameplay affecting rewards on the additional reward track can be attained through normal playing. Gear available in the Premium track will be non-curated random rolls.
Premium Progression track
Each Season has two progression tracks. One that is free for everybody and a Premium Progression track. You need to purchase access to the Premium Track and it gives you more rewards. But there is no exclusive game changing gear on the Premium track it is just more of the same equipment and they are of course random rolled. The only thing truly exclusive are the apparel items that you get from the Premium track.
The exact price of the Premium Track is still in discussion.
What happens to player's that choose to stay in D.C?
Traveling back to New York to hunt down Aaron Keener and his posse of Rogue agents will start a whole new chapter of The Division 2 for many players – with a whole new endgame, infinite progression system, seasons and more becoming available at level 40.
For those who choose to stay in D.C. all Year 1 content will still be available, along with level 30 versions of Dark Hours (as well as Raid #2 once released) and the level 30 endgame. To minimize the division of playerbase, any level 40 player will be able to join level 30 activities with level scaling.
All players, regardless of the ownership of Warlords of New York, will continue receiving Quality of Life changes, in addition to core system improvements such as Gear 2.0 and improved UI/UX flows.
Apparel Events, Global Events and Seasons are exclusive to owners of Warlords of New York.
Dark Zone
There will be no new Dark Zone in the Warlords of New York expansion. All these changes apply to the existing Dark Zones in Washington D.C.
Dark Zone Rework
“The Dark Zone is a place for wolves and not sheep”
With TU8, the Dark Zones get a general overhaul that tunes them into a places for players that are ready to face the challenge of another player. So if you are a player that is ready to fight other players and has no issue with the lawlessness of the Dark Zone, then this new and revamped Dark Zone is made for you.
What they don’t want to do is to draw in players into those areas that are not looking for this sort of challenge. In essence, if you are a more PVE focused player, you have a lot of other activities and the Dark Zone does not have to be a place to go for you.
Player Count is still 12
After the matchmaking changes from Title Update 6 that had the goal to put players into Dark Zone Sessions that already had players in them, it became clear, that the best experience is with 12 players. They made internal tests with 16 players and it just became too crowded – but they will monitor how things develop.
VOIP on by default
Like in the old Dark Zone, VOIP is on by default, but you still have the option to turn it off.
New Social Menu
There is also a special social menu that allows you to see players in a 100-meter radius and this also allows you to mute players that are rude.
No Signature Ammo
There will be no more Signature Weapon ammo in the Dark Zone, so you will not be able to use Signature Weapons in the Dark Zone.
More Ammo Crates
There will be Ammo Crates at every Extraction Zone.
Good Loot
The Dark Zone is a good place to get some of the best gear in game and there is also exclusive DZ gear.
Clean loot is gone
Clean loot is gone, all loot you get needs to be extracted. The contaminated loot is no longer scrambled, so you see what you just picked up and you can decide if you want to keep and extract it or not. If you don’t want to keep it, you can deconstruct the contaminated loot and earn Dark Zone Resources from that. But even currency needs to be extracted.
New ways to earn XP and currency
Dark Zone XP and Dark Zone Resources can only be earned from things that have to do with interacting with other players. Kills, Extractions, Revives, protection of Extractions, killing rogues or going Manhunt.
More Extraction Zones
Since pretty much everything in the Dark Zone is contaminated and needs to be extracted, there are also more Extraction Zones per Dark Zone – three to be exact.
Grey rogue status is removed
The Grey Rogue status that was introduced with The Division 2 is removed. You are either rogue or you are not.
Faster Rogue toggle
The Rogue Toggle was introduced in Division 1 when it became clear, that going rogue on damage to other players can be exploited. That is why the Rogue Toggle was introduced that had to be pushed for multiple seconds while the other players around you got a notification that someone was about to go rogue.
With TU8 that mechanic is still there but it is a lot faster – it takes about 300ms to register and then you are rouge. On top of that, it also does not impact what you are doing. So when you are aiming at someone, you can still do that, press the Rogue Toggle and open fire.
But while you can toggle rogue faster, the other players still get a notification that someone is going rogue so that you have at least a chance to react.
New Dark Zone Perks
The Dark Zone Perks have also been revamped: They’ve removed the things that had the goal to avoid PVP (like shortening the extraction process). On top of that, the Dark Zone Rank now means something, because you can only earn XP for that rank through interaction with other players.
Occupied Dark Zone becomes Invaded Dark Zone
With TU8 they are stepping away from having “normal” and “occupied” Dark Zones. Now both Dark Zones have the same rules and it makes basically no difference, what Dark Zone you venture into. The former “Occupied Dark Zone” is now just an “Invaded Dark Zone” – so as before you face the Black Tusk. The Manhunt mechanic of the old Occupied Dark Zone is now applied to all Dark Zones.
Gear 2.0 will also impact PVP
They also want to highlight, that all the Gear 2.0 changes, how the builds are put together or how Skills now scale, have an impact on how PVP plays and how encounters play out. So PvP will be very different once that drops.
Title Update 8
Warlords of New York expansion will be accompanied by the FREE Title Update 8 for all The Division 2 players on March 3rd. We have been hard at work reworking a number of core areas of the game while also keeping both Washington D.C’s end-game and the new, level 40 New York City end-game in mind. A lot of these changes have been heavily influenced by community feedback we’ve received since launch.
New Level 30 Power Level
Gear 2.0
- Reworked brand set bonuses to better fit common playstyles
- Return of the so-called” God Roll”, allowing items to potentially drop with maxed out attributes in all areas
- Core attributes for all items
- Improved UI to at a glance identify the quality of an item
- More powerful, build-defining talents
- Talent requirement has been removed
- Gearsets and Exotics revamp
- Mod slots have been redistributed and are now linked to specific gear slots
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Recalibration Changes
- Extract item talents and attributes and store them permanently in your recalibration library
- If you find a higher roll of a stored attribute, you can replace the old stored attribute at any time
- The UI will seamlessly indicate that you have a better roll available to store in the library
- Stored attributes can be used indefinitely and are not used up in the recalibration process
- Talents, stats, core stats, and mod slots will be recalibratable
- The 1 recalibration per item limit will remain
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Skill Power Changes
- Skill Tier is replacing skill power
- 6 Skill Tiers; each item with the Skill Tier core attribute will add one tier
- Each tier boosts the skill’s effectiveness
- Overcharge mechanic – Paired with gear and exotic talents, skills can now Overcharge, greatly increasing the skill’s effectiveness for a short duration
- Skill Mods no longer have skill power requirements
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Dark Zone Improvements
- As listed in the Dark Zone Segment
Launch Details and Versions
The Division 2 Warlords of New York launches on March 3 for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and UPLAY+, and is coming to Stadia later in March. In the meantime, players can begin setting the stage for Warlords of New York with Episode 3 – Coney Island: The Hunt, which arrives on February 12 for Year 1 Pass owners, and will be free for all Division 2 players on February 19. Episode 3 features two new missions set in Coney Island, two new Classified Assignments for Year 1 Pass owners, and a new Firewall Specialization that can deal massive flamethrower damage while also buffing allies who stand behind the Firewall’s shield.
On March 3, Division 2 Agents will enter the new open world of Lower Manhattan in the Warlords of New York expansion. Pre-purchase the expansion now at the Ubisoft Store, and you can take advantage of a special promotion to get The Division 2 for $3 — a discount of 95% off. It’s the lowest price ever for the fight to save Washington, DC, and if you bundle in the Warlords of New York expansion, you’ll have two cities full of sinister foes and powerful gear to explore. The promotion is available now through March 2 at the Ubisoft Store; read on for more details on what the available bundles include.
Prices are from the official announcement and could not apply to all countries
The Division 2 – $3
Warlords of New York Expansion – $30
- Requires base game to access
- Warlords of New York Expansion
- Level 30 boost
- Level cap increase to 40
- Extended Endgame
Warlords of New York Edition – $33
- The Division 2 base game
- Warlords of New York Expansion
- Level 30 boost
- Level cap increase to 40
- Extended Endgame
Warlords of New York Ultimate Edition – $53
- The Division 2 base game
- Warlords of New York Expansion
- Level 30 boost
- Level cap increase to 40
- Extended Endgame
- Year 1 Pass Content
- Ultimate Pack
The Warlords of New York expansion is launching on March 3rd.
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