The Division 2, two years later

The Division 2 released on March 12, 2019, making it just over two years this week. During this time, a lot has happened. Several updates, modifications, bugs, controversies, teasers, puzzles, etc. Here’s what has happened since The Division 2 came out of.

• Even before The Division 2 ‘s 2019, it started to spark controversy when Ubisoft attempted to position the game as apolitical. Yet the game was set in Washington DC and would be marketed using political images and messages. (And the game had tons of political histories and traditions.) All this made the promises not to be political strange lie sold by Ubisoft to a specific group of players.
• March 12, 2019 Division 2 launched on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. It featured a huge map that was satisfying to explore, including museums based on real-world locations found in DC. Our first impressions of the game were positive and our opinion left impressed.
• The launch of The Division 2 was not perfect. An annoying bug prevented special abilities, like assault drones, from working consistently. He was finally corrected shortly after he appeared.. Less annoying problems were also detected, like a totally glitchy staircase and NPCs who behaved as if they were possessed by demons.
• A few weeks after the release, Ubisoft updated the game and changed a bunch of things. He also added a new endgame mission.
• As players continued to explore the game world, they discovered secrets. One, in particular, seemed to point to a Vikings theme Assassin’s Creed Thu. Of course today, in 2021, we know that the index was accurate as in 2020 Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been freed. Other secrets were found by players, including hidden messages that needed to be decoded. Many of these secrets were added without everyone in the studio realizing it. or how they work.
• Players also spotted a hidden detail that was neither funny nor cool. A work of art found on a building contained an insult. Ubisoft apologized for the art and removed the word quickly with a patch.

• In May 2019, Ubisoft added two new missions to the game. These weren’t just combat-oriented. Instead, they presented new knowledge, new areas to explore, and puzzle solutions. They were only available to Season 1 pass holders.
• Later in May, The Division 2 ‘The first raid of his has been added to the game. Controversially, he launched without matchmaking support after Ubisoft hinted that it would have it. It was also very hard, taking the first team to beat more than 5 hours. Console gamers struggled to beat him, but finally a few days after its release some teams on Xbox and PS4 took it apart.
• In June 2019, during E3, Ubisoft revealed that a later expansion of the game let the players go back to New York, the setting of the first game. At that time, Ubisoft spoke with Kotaku
  and explained how they plan to combat negative reactions to the game.
• Also in June a weird but let players kill animals to earn special ammo. Ubisoft quickly fixed this after its discovery.
• In July 2019, one of the biggest updates in Division 2 history went live. He added flashlights, something the players asked for since the launch of the game. It also added new missions and a new way to play the raid.. Players could now choose an easier difficulty and make matches with others. This would reward players with less powerful and rare loot, but give more people a chance to play the endgame activity.
• In August, we looked at fucking statues. It’s strange. Also around this time, Ubisoft challenged players to find a police car emblazoned with a typo. They found him quickly, but only after fans found out it was in-game at all. Before that, it had been in hiding for months.
• In October, fans found a secret boss in the game. It was there for months, like the secret to the cop car, but only after being teased by Ubisoft.
• Later in October, Ubisoft updated the game and revamped how loot and gear work. It just got easier to research the gear you wanted and modify the loot you already had. While this wasn’t the most exciting update, it was a big step forward for the loot shooter.

• In December 2019, Ubisoft added more tactical themed clothing, after some fans complained that most of the clothes in the game was too silly or awkward. Also this month, Ubisoft added a gun that shoots snowballs.
• On March 2, 2020, after a bit of a drought of new content and updates, Ubisoft released Warlords of New York City. First teased at E3 2019, this expansion was massive and saw players return to New York. This changed the way the game handled leveling, loot, and also changed how endgame progression works.
• A few days after the release, we reviewed the new extension and were happy with most of the changes and the new world to explore. Along with the new DLC, Ubisoft started season 1 of Division 2, adding a battle pass system to the game and new enemy targets to hunt down over the course of a few weeks.
• Later in March, players spent hours and hours hunting down and finding all of the game’s hidden bosses. It took work, but over a weekend they got together via Discord and solved all the puzzles and killed all the secret enemies.
• As March turned into April 2020, the covid-19 pandemic began to take hold of the world. A doctor told Kotaku about his experience in New York battling the virus, while playing Division 2, a game about a deadly virus that has killed millions of people around the world.
• In May 2020, fans datamined The Division 2 after an update and discovered a series of files and audio clips that seemed to spoil the content the following year. He also hinted at a new mode.
• The second Division 2 raid was added in July 2020. However, the race to be the first team to complete the new activity was spoiled by accusations of cheating.
• In September, leaked files found in May were found to be correct. A new game mode has been added to the game. This new mode, Summit, tasked players with making their way up to 100 floors, each filled with different enemies and challenges. In October, the mode was updated to make it a bit easier so that people actually end.
• In December 2020, The Division 2 the developers shared bad news about a planned event. Due to covid-19, the event, which was to reuse an older area of ​​the game, was canceled. Instead, some of her assets would be reworked into a smaller scale sartorial event.. Later we learned that it had to be a big crossover event with resident Evil.

• January 2021 started with some big news. The developers behind Division 1 and 2 were going to work on a Star wars Thu. Back then, gamers didn’t know what that meant The Division 2 go forward.
• On February 2, a new resident Evil The crossover event has gone live. It included outfits and gear based on characters from the popular Capcom horror franchise. The event was … meh. But the update that added the new clothes also unlocked the framerate on PS5 and Xbox Series X, letting the game hit 60 fps.
• In February 2021, as the fourth season of The Division 2 ended, it was like the game was over. But Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said otherwise during a call with investors this month, explaining that the game has more updates to come. It seemed to surprise Massive, who released a statement confirming that they originally planned to end things after season four, but would now continue to work on the game, adding more content. No specific plan was given at that time.
• Finally, earlier this month, Massive presented some plans for how The Division 2 continue to. While the game will receive a new mode and big content updates, Massive has warned that gamers shouldn’t expect this content until late 2021 at the earliest. In the meantime, the old seasons will be rebroadcast for players who missed them. It’s not the most exciting way to keep the game alive, but it’s better than nothing.

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And that’s where it is. It has now been a little over two years since Division 2 published. A lot has happened, with ups and downs.

Now, while the popular game appears to be on life support, Massive and Ubisoft are focusing on other things. But with promises of more content at a later date, it seems likely that I will start. The Division 2 a few more times before it’s all over.