State of the Game

Warlords of New York is out for The Division 2, and it’s introducing a new kind of seasonal endgame. With Associate Game Director Drew Rechner and Associate Creative Director Yannick Banchereau on board, this week’s State of the Game livestream pulled back the curtain on the content coming in Season 1, which officially begins March 10.

Priority Alerts

Maintenance

March 3rd, 2020

Fixing an issue that prevents the objective "Reach City Hall" of the WONY introduction mission from updating and teleporting players to a different location.
Fixing an issue that causes players who quit the helicopter cinematic to get placed into and stuck in Trinity Church.
Fixing an issue that prevents players from interacting with Community Leader NPCs.
Further backend improvements to prevent ECHO errors to occur for players.

Agents, we deployed the fix for the Community Leader NPCs not working and you should be able to continue your hunt for Aaron Keener.

We are continuing to work on other issues mentioned by our players and please report any bugs or issues you might still encounter. Thank you!

=> Source

Known Issues

Game Crashes on PC

This is most likely related to DX12 issues, if that happens, switch to DX11 that should help. This is of course not a solution, but a workaround until it is addressed.

NVidia has also released new drivers, maybe updating those also helps to address the issue.

Controlpoint Officers / Kelso not being interactable

This is being investigated. In the case of Kelso, sometimes reloging helps or replaying the mission with a friend that has a similar progression.

They are working on a fix.

Keener acting strange with EMP

This is being investigated and they planning to fix that ASAP.

Echo not interactable in the open-world

This is being investigated and they planning to fix that ASAP.

Controlpoint Officers UI not appearing after interaction

This is also being investigated.

Bullet King Exotic not dropping

It is being investigated, why that Exotic does not drop from Riker Bosses.

Dark Zone and Vendor Loot Quality

They are currently looking into the loot from Vendors and the Dark Zones. This is mostly a balancing issue.

Stats not showing on Masks

This is also being investigated.

No Specialization Points on level-up after level 40

It is currently the case, that when you level-up after level 40 that you don’t get Specialization Points. That is not intended and will be addressed.

Nemesis not dropping

We’re aware of issues with all parts of that crafting quest and are working on a fix. Nothing should have changed there, so it will be like it was before once it gets addressed.

=> Twitter

Locked Characters

We have identified what's causing this and are working to create a client patch.

Source

=> you can check out the other Known Issues here: Link

Summary

Operation Dark Hours – Level 40 Version

Warlords of New York introduced a Level-40 version of the Operation Dark Hours raid. The following players were the first to complete it on their respective platforms:

PC:

Hi_Huahua.
cctv26108
qinghuan131
DZ-110
Ail..
Selfish-i
UZI-JIANZH
Shvibzik02

PS4:

Fab_Rain
xGonexRogue
IlMitchIl
Pillows_CoolSide
Cronius_Maximus
SerbAssassin
CCCrusade
Liams_IrishPride

Season 1

=> Summary

The first Season will start on March 11 where the Seasonal Manhunt begins. The goal is to hunt down five Targets and earn rewards along the way.

When the Season starts you need to complete activities to flush out your Target and neutralize it. You have 3 months to complete the Manhunt.

The Targets become available every three weeks and ahead of each Target, there is a Seasonal Event that gives you double XP towards the Season and your SHD level progression. (This is level 40 content)

The Season Summary will be updated with the Target information before it launches.

When you kill the Prime Target – you can earn the EMP Sticky Bomb Variant.

Warlords of New York – Difficulty of Content

With the drastic Gear 2.0 changes, they also had to rebalance combat.

Without the Budget System, the god-rolls are now available, so there is a big amount of power growth between random green items and completely maxed out high-end items. Because god-rolls should make a difference.

In Warlords of New York, the difficulty settings normal - legendary is not only a test of skill (taking cover, tactical awareness, etc.) but it is also a measurement of how good your gear is.

In essence, Normal difficulty is content for not optimized builds with ok rolls. If you have really good rolls and a well put together build, you can play Challenge difficulty like Normal difficulty, but to achieve that, you need an optimized build and good rolls on your items.

That is, of course, a big departure from before Gear 2.0, where Challenging or even Heroic became so easy that players basically ran through it. But Challenge difficulty should be a challenge. You should need to take cover and you should have to use tactics.

So this is an adjustment. Instead of just playing Challenging and Heroic from the start, you might need to take a bit more time on Normal / Hard to put your build together to climb the difficulty ladder to Heroic / Legendary.

It takes some getting used to and it is a journey.

With that being said, it is also very early, the expansion came out two days ago and everything is very fresh. They will give it some time to settle so that players can get used to Gear 2.0 and the builds.

If it is still an issue after some time, they are happy to take a look at it and adjust things down the road.

At the moment, they are monitoring the situation.

Time to Kill in PVP

It has been reported, that the Time to Kill in PVP is currently very short. That is of course not intended and they are looking into it.

Division Stadia - PC Cross Play

The Division 2, as well as The Division 2: Warlords of New York will launch on Google's new generation gaming platform, Stadia, on March 17. On Stadia, both the game and its expansion will also feature cross-play capabilities with PC, allowing Division Agents to play on Stadia and PC to play together. In order to experience cross-play capabilities, players must link their Uplay account with their Stadia account. In addition to cross-play, cross-progression will let players carry their Agent progression across both Stadia and PC.

=> Source