The Division 2 rolls out its first main replace tomorrow, beginning a mini-season of content material Ubisoft and Massive are calling Invasion: Battle For DC. Broken up into three updates, tomorrow’s provides the Stronghold mission to take down the high-tech Black Tusk faction, a brand new World Tier with new invaded missions and a brand new PvP map. On April 25th, the game is due its first eight-player raid plus the primary season-pass-exclusive Classified Assignments. Due later (however not dated) is the fourth Specialisation sub-class, seemingly letting gamers carry a minigun, as a result of subtlety is overrated.
There’s so much due in tomorrow’s replace, however you’ll must grind a bit to get to it. The Tidal Basin stronghold, that includes some high-tech fortification and Black Tusk’s huge hovercraft service, received’t unlock till you’ve wrapped up all of the common Stronghold missions on World Tier 4. The new Stronghold contains drops for 2 new Exotic weapons and three new armour units. Beyond that, World Tier 5 options the brand new Heroic checkpoint-free problem setting, new Invaded missions that change weekly and new most gear rating of 500, for much more grinding.
It’s a great factor that working round and capturing stuff within the game is so enjoyable. I second Brendan and his Division 2 review in saying that the game has virtually no story to talk of (a powerful feat for an enormous mega-budget game), however manages to make up for it by being a really enjoyable co-op shooter. Due later this month is the primary eight-player raid, Operation Dark Hours, which Ubisoft have mentioned is much extra concerned and teamwork-oriented than something presently within the game. There’s even going to be some puzzles to resolve, including to the game’s rising checklist of mysteries.
All of these things together with future episodic updates will probably be free for all, aside from the Classified Assignments, which we all know little or no about, however apparently construct on town’s backstory. Those are the only merchandise absolutely unique to the season move. Future episodes will probably be locked behind the annual move for one week earlier than turning into obtainable for all, and unlocking new specialisations will probably be potential by means of grind. So lengthy as they follow their weapons, that’s a giant step up over the primary game’s DLC splitting the player-base into thinner slices with every launch.
After Invasion: Battle For DC, there’s three seasonal updates deliberate. In summer time we’re going exterior the partitions in DC Outskirts: Expeditions. Autumn is bringing Pentagon: The Last Castle, and the Winter replace is a thriller, however PC Gamer reckon we’re going back to New York. My hope is for Ubi to broaden the 2 ‘secret’ enemy factions (creepy silent, chain-dragging sewer dwellers and urban trash-vikings) into full-fledged villain teams. They’re too attention-grabbing to relegate to the literal darkish corners of DC, though increasing their affect would possibly undermine the influence of encountering a lone chainsaw-wielding lunatic at evening.
The first replace within the Invasion: Battle For DC sequence launches tomorrow. If you might want to catch up in a rush, Ollie Toms has a guide to clawing your way up the World Tiers and beating the snot out of the robot-assisted Black Tusk mercs.
