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
- Wave 2 of the PTS is going to add a lot of changes
- 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
- Priories what are being looked into
- 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.”