State of the Game

This week's State of the Game focused on the PTS and Title Update 5

 

Housekeeping

Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance Thursday

• Fixed an issue preventing players to pick up Specialization ammunition.

 

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Title Update 5 PTS

 

=> Changes Overview

=> Patch Notes

 

=> Phases Overview

 

Phase 1 Survey / Feedback

You can fill out the Survey about the two new missions here: Link

Phase 1 Feedback Thread: Link

 

Phase 2: Raid Discovery Mode - Washington National Airport

The Washington National Airport Discovery Mode Raid is now available on the PTS and we would like to gather your feedback regarding the new difficulty mode.

As a reminder, matchmaking will be available for this difficulty. Gear sets, as well as the Eagle Bearer Exotic, are not included in the loot pool for Discovery Mode. The exact rewards are still being finalized at the moment.

=> Feedback Thread

 

Pending PTS Updates

Skill Changes

Not all skill changes are active at the moment – there will be an additional PTS patch that will add the following Skill changes:

 

Lowered the base cooldown of the following skills

• Scanner Pulse from 90 seconds to 40
• Remote Pulse 120 to 60
• Jammer Pulse 120 to 90
• Assault Turret 120 to 60
• Incinerator Turret 120 to 90
• Sniper Turret 240 to 60
• Artillery Turret 240 to 60
• Restorer Hive 240 to 90
• Stinger Hive 240 to 90
• Booster Hive 240 to 90
• Burster Firefly 90 to 60
• Demolisher Firefly 90 to 60
• Explosive Seeker Mine 90 to 60
• Cluster Seeker Mine 60 to 40
• Mender Seeker Mine 180 to 60
• Striker Drone 180 to 60
• Bombardier Drone 120 to 60
• Fixer Drone 180 to 60
• Tactician Drone 180 to 60
• Bulwark Shield 240 to 40
• Crusader Shield 240 to 40
• Deflector Shield 240 to 40

 

Shield

• Increased base health of all Shields by 15%
• Changed the shields regeneration to now be percentage based (base 5% hp/s while holstered and 2.5% while deployed).

 

Sniper Turret

• Changed the base ammo for sniper turret from 5 to 15 and mortar turret ammo from 4 to 10.

 

Bombardier Drone

• Increased bombardier drone bomb blast radius from 4 to 5 meters.

 

Seeker Mine

• Increased base damage of Explosive Seeker Mine by 14%

 

Firefly

• Decreased base damage of Burster and Demolisher Firefly by 25%

 

Brand Set Changes

• Increased Alps Summit Armament 1-piece Skill Haste bonus from 10% to 20%
• Increased China Light Industries Corporation 3-piece Skill Haste bonus from 10% to 30%
• Increased Petrov Defense Group 3-piece Skill Haste bonus from 10% to 30%

 

Gear Set Changes

• Increased Tip of the Spear 3-piece Skill Haste bonus from 20% to 40%

 

Gear Attributes, Mods and Skill Mods

• Increased the amount of Skill Haste gained from utility attribute rolls by an additional 25%
• Doubled the amount of Skill Haste provided by all Skill Haste skill mods
• Increased Hive Network Firewall Radius from +60% to +100%
• Increased Turret Cyclone Magazine Mortar Ammo from +4 to +20
• Increased Turret Ammo Box Extra Mortar Ammo from +4 to +20
• Increased Turret Ammo Box Extra Sniper Ammo from +6 to +30
• Increased Firefly Tungsten Compound and Guiding System Max Targets from +3 to +5

 

Other Title Update 5 Changes / Clarification

Crafting bench Upgrade

• You can now craft at GS 500 – so all crafted items are GS 500
• You will need to upgrade the Crafting Bench for that
• Players already on World Tier 5 will get that Upgrade just by login in
• Players that still have to get to WT5 will need to find a gear and weapon item with GS 490 or more to use in the upgrade process. (This way it does not go too fast)
• So crafting is now viable in the endgame gear economy

 

Recalibration

• You can now use crafted items to recalibrate from and to

 

Crafting Materials

• Every time you deconstruct a branded item, you will also get 1 guaranteed branded material from that.
• So even when you don’t use an item, it will still help you in the crafting progression
• Deconstructing Gear Sets will give you specialized (blue) materials

 

How to get Blueprints

• Blueprints are now shared between all activities that grant Blueprints.
  • This means you can get all Blueprints from Control Point Alert Level 3 + 4, there’s no longer a limited pool for that activity.
  • You can still buy Blueprints from Inaya and get them from Projects.

 

Blueprints can be shared between characters

• Once you hit World Tier 1 you can buy a perk from Inaya that will allow you to share the blueprints between every character that also has this perk.
• So it is optional to share blueprints between your characters

 

Clarification: Exotics dropping from Heroic bosses with TU5

• The Eagle Bearer cannot drop from Heroic bosses, even if you already own it. It’s exclusive to the raid.
• The player must have the blueprint for the crafted ones before they drop
  • Liberty
  • The Chatterbox
  • Nemesis
  • Dodge City Gunslinger’s Holster
• The Discovery mode of the Raid will also not drop the Eagle Bearer.
• You also have to get the Diamondback Rifle the intended way before it can drop from Heroic Bosses.

 

Shotguns

• They got feedback that Shotguns are a bit weak in PVE, so they plan to address that.
• In PVE they will get stronger and on PVP they will get a bit weaker.
• Specifics have not been revealed yet

 

Exotic Buff

• They removed the random armor and damage value on the Exotic weapons and items
• Now when you get (or already have one) it will be buffed to the max
• So you will no longer get strange or lower damage values when you change the GS of an item – once you have an exotic, it will be your companion.

 

Gun Runner

• Will now sell GS 500 items (also Exotics and Named Items)

 

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Known Issues

• You can check out the Known Issues here: Link
• Massive Please

 

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Roadmap

• You can check out The Division 2 Year 1 Roadmap here: Link
• The Division 1 Event Schedule 2019  

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Community Resources

The community has provided a lot of guides, tools, and lists: Link

 

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Important links

• Video
• Article on the official page

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