Division 2: Title Update 6 brings PVP and DARK ZONE CHANGES!

This week for the Division 2 State of the Game, Chris Gansler (Community Developer) , with guests from Red Storm Terry Spier (Creative Director) and Keith Evans (Game Designer) talk about Division 2 including loot changes and the game’s future.

General Information

• Priority Alerts
• Public test server (PTS) Out now
• Title Update (TU6) next Month (October)
• More TU6 changes information next week.

Priority Alerts

• Eagle Bearer Nerf (They are listening so please voice your option)
  • They believe it is still too strong. But having one weapon for everything is too much. Checking Exotic Talents for everything.
• No Maintenance this Thursday
• PTS is up and running
  • Wave 2  of the PTS is going to add a lot of changes
    • Weapon and gear balances
• Title Update (TU6) next month
• Fredrick on next week to help with all the changes with talents and such.

Developer Interview – Terry Spier and Keith Evans

• Dark Zone in TU6
  • Priories what are being looked into
    • DZ incentives
    • Full servers
• Present PTS changes
  • Players are asking for more players in the DZ. They are keeping it maxed at 12 players and trying to force servers to stay at that.
• Supply Drop changes
  • Randomly drop in multiple different places for instance in unmarked landmark locations. Causing better gear drops and boss/player battles.
  • Supply Drop can be dropped in the Occupied Dark Zone only protected by Black Tusk named bosses.
  • Small percentage that when you put in your flare, Black Tusks will invade your extraction.
• New Resource
  • Overhauled Thieves Vendor to give different stock and trade Dark Zone resources to give you more loot and containers.
  • Terminal Hacks give things around you glowing to follow.
• Removal of Normalization at max level
  • And giving you a boost to 500 if you are under it.
  • Automatic Toggle to see normalized gear.
• Meta Changes to prevent only one build in DZ
  • Boosting burst damage with Skill builds. Removal of Tanky DPS builds.
• Conflict
  • Better Incentives
  • Gear changes at end now getting Match Completed Reward as one.
  • Weekly Conflict Project.
  • Full Overhaul
  • Switch Loadouts
• New PVP Mode
  • Team Elimination
  • Best of Seven – New boosts also added

“Will these huge changes bring PVP back? We could only hope.”