Here's the Patch Notes, though FYI these are more overview-style, they clarified that detailed notes will arrive closer to the PTS date later this week 👉 www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/the-division-2/news-updates/4nCvudIbhKyqzMT1PTfup9 How are y'all feeling about Project Resolve?!
Not a single thing in those notes about the specializations revamp they talked about in October 28, 2021 in their Intelligence Annex. GG Massive. You straight up said "we'll do a thing", and then said "fk it". Good job.
A massive undertaking to improve the health of a game is...bigger than people might understand. It shows a support for the game from the higher ups that is all about keeping it alive and great.
Honestly all these salty players comments below are uncalled for. Who cares if new players get stuff easier compared to the vets. This game is about to end in 2025 so let people have fun and QQ. If you don’t like it you know where uninstall is. Seriously more people playing would be great addition instead of having to carry a noobie or getting grouped with poorly geared and under shade lvl
To be honest, it is a lil shitty that people just starting out are getting things I've been trying to find for years. Plus that is also why most of these games player count are dropping, they would rather cater to the casuals rather than the people who actually love and play the game the most. So it's a pretty valid argument in all truth
This is just fantastic. Well done Massive, this is going to go a very long way to making this already excellent game even better. Wha a lovely early Christmas present ☺️
@@laudy76 THIS is how you retain a player base. It’s a really smart move on behalf of Massive to curry favour with the fans and show them what they’re capable of when funds and resources are committed. IMO we’re still a good 4 years out from D3 going live, so keeping us engaged with this world they’ve created will be great segue once it lands. To me at least, this is a phenomenal game, with an embarrassment of content and depth, it doesn’t need to get “better”, but the fact that it will is just icing on the cake.
absolutely incredible. The best part of all this is that it’s seemingly coming out of NOWHERE. The best change by FAR is the widespread weapon and brand buffs. It’s going to open up a ton of opportunity to try new builds and experiment for upcoming meta changes. Can’t wait for this to go live!
blows up many things, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I just think it's a ton of work and they aren't likely to do it to my satisfaction, lol. here's to hoping they do a good and thorough job!
I WAS SHOCKED during stream how many aspects they wanna improve! Big GG for all devs! One thing i would like is PVE Dark Zone rotations, they mentioned that during stream but doesn't look it's coming, unless there are opinions under PTS to add something like that, we would be in favor of it, they could make super tanky enemies, slightly worsen loot and that could be it! So many players would enjoy that. It awesome to be part of active game and being hyped about updates and changes!
They stated that they have no intention of removing PVP from the DZ's, which is my personal preference Glad you're overall liking the changes they've pitched!
The change to mods is fantastic. Have always wished they would just auto-replace lower quality mods when you find higher quality ones. That’s a great change.
I remember playing this game a few years ago on PS4 I got quite far had all the DLC and absolutely loved the game... It was such a blast. I've had a PC for about a year now and completely forgot about Division 2 and all the fun I had. It went on offer a few days ago on Steam and I instantly bought it, already played so much. It is so amazing to see such a brilliant game still getting love nearly 8 Years after its release. So looking forward to these new updates and improvements. Hopefully all this love and support goes far and brings more players to the Division Community.
Those balancing patch notes gonna be long and fun to read through can't wait Also that new tinkering menu where you can access the expertise /recal menu on the fly is a huge change
Concerned about talent changes for my builds, but I like alot of things. Project rewards enchantment, awesome Open world loot improvement, awesome Buffs to mediocre options awesome Stability improvements, awesome After finally finishing expertise a few weeks ago. I have been farming for exotic components. You need so many! I only have 8 lvl 24 items. Hopefully, more exotic components sources and the amount adjustments help.
I have been a fan of The Division since the first game and have played The Division 2 off and on since release. I'm just getting back into it again and it looks like the timing is perfect. Looking forward to these changes and what the future has to offer.
🎉The game barely has any monetization aside from the expansion (which you can get for dirt cheap with a sale), some cosmetics, and season passes (which I've never felt locked away too much content). These devs are putting SO much work into the game, and yet have asked us for so little! High praise to the team, and honestly I wouldn't even be mad if they added more paid systems into the game to help monetize it. Thank you so much for this INCREDIBLE game that has had me DEEPLY immersed into this amazing story countless times. ❤
I agree, They have been good with that. Season leveling is easy and doable to get to 100. Cosmetic skins in store are optional, events give a chance to get some of the set. 160+ levels in a week or two is a bit much for casual play (plus the not getting keys bug still persists) should be a key every 3 levels instead of 4, summit farm and how they did us players I'll never forgive or forget. Lastly, don't ever bring up more monotization as something you don't mind. Especially promoting it in a game that doesn't have much of it, so little that it's unnoticed or really cared about. Like an unspoken word. Leave the microtransactions to COD Fortnight and the Disgraced Halo Monotization Infinite. Just don't, it's an ignoramus though.
(1) of the reasons that I subscribed to you Rogue is that you keep ME updated on news as soon as it is released and love that! Like I said, one of the reasons👍
This all sounds pretty great and much of it addresses things I've been hoping for. I wish a lot of this could've been implemented some time ago, but I'm not complaining.
THIS... WAS... HUUUUUUUGE! It's really awesome they're tackling many issues on the game. I'm EXTREMELY glad they're adding the "recal" setting in the menu. Sooooooo frustrating fast traveling to areas and accessing the table. Ugh! Thanks for the great updated notes! 😎✨✨✨
Really looking forward to the changes, most notably the ability to optimize/expertise in inventory. On the mod situation, I'm REALLY hoping that won't apply to GEAR mods, cause if so it'll pretty much ruin all of my builds. On the loot scaling, here's hoping the next step is to remove purple loot from heroic difficulty all together.
Glad they still love this game and putting their heart, soul and time. Hate the DLC is delayed but Massive is wrapped up in several projects. New players need quality items early to hook them and grow the lore and the Division universe.
I really think this is great news, I'm a huge pvp fan in the first division game and to hear any changes to conflict and the dark zone gives me hope yet for the division 2. Keep up the great work rogue
Yooo! This was Sooo needed! I can't wait. I have plenty of other games to play. I'll still do this seasonal and manhunts. I'm just glad things are going to get balance and fixed.
Sounds like a massive undertaking. (Punny i know) fingers crossed all goes smoothly. The game has needed these changes along with stability updates. I was beginning to wonder if it could handle any major content added in after the problems they've had with updates. Awesome job devs! After "the day before" fiasco it's good to see some companies doin it right!
Thx for the video RG! I hope the team will buff heroic npc‘s or create a new world difficulty. The game will become easier with more powerful weapons & gear that we can optimize for less costs.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this. It SOUNDS like it's going to be an awesome overhaul and help out with alot of the things that currently hurt the game, however I've learned that when it comes to something this complicated and with this much of a wide variety of fixes, there are most certainly gonna be some phuck ups along the way. I'm curious to see how bad thise will be and what effect they'll have over the game overall. Still excited though. ✌🏾💪🏾✊🏾
Project Resolve and Season 3: Vanguard are gonna pretty much bring new life into the game. I'm so excited to speculate how this game will go out with a bang before Division 3.
I think you mean Utilize the time adequately. We've seen the two year lul of content and what came after. Not to mention the pushed back updates and what pushing back store/ gameplay content that only lead to. Which was more issues and problems. Since the first and I believe second Division team moved away from this game. The C tier team is doing their best however it's been a rough go and they are still figuring things out. Best of luck to em, but definitely haven't seen anything in the past year that would make me stay or keep coming back.
For me most important thing in games is how fun it is to play. And i am not good shooting but enough to complete missions and getting better sunglasses. I mean if you want challeges you can get it if you want peacful roadtrip its okay also. I love shooting enemies into kneels.
This is just amazing. How many time have they been working on this? This is pure dedication for the game and the players. Too bad DLC delay, but this is HUGE. They're gonna touch literally EVERYTHING in the game (except Sepcializations LOL). And speaking abut that, this past months I was having great ideas for a possible future Spec revamp like for example: D50 handgun of Survivalist would be way more usueful with Demo, cause using the Mortar turret always applies bleed to enemies. Or Survivalist grandes with Firewall. The key would be letting us designate those unique tools for any Spec we want. So... as I said many times: WHAT A GOOD TIME TO BE A DIVISION FAN
I think it sounds like these changes or going to be a good fit. I am looking forward to it, hopefully with all of the “fixes” they don’t break it. Thank you for the content man !! Keep it up 🎉🎉🎉
D3, A possible way to make the game easier for beginners is to introduce a Baby mode. In this mode, the players would respawn after dying two or three times in a scene. Then they would be allowed to move forward to the next one.
Like other commenters have pointed out, this makes the game way better for us (fixing bugs especially will give us quality of life improvements). But from the way things have been talked about, it sounds like the developers have also modernized some of their software and processes, so they're out of that rut that many of us have felt that parts of the game have been in for a while. This might just make the game more easy to work on, and therefore, make the team working on the game happier. That's the best takeaway for me.
I've played for years. I've started over my account to play without new players this year. So, I've noticed, i was running through the game easy. And said to my team, "i don't remember this game being this easy".. now I know why. Which isn't bad for me, because it's all about fun now.
This is VERY good news to hear. Got some of my family that will be playing this in the coming year. Just wanna add RIP to everyone who had done extreme detailed state charts for best weapons/dmg output 😂 Which imo I feel is good news. Thanks for the straight forward breakdown of what's to come 👍
Well bro after we left the champions League against Bayern Munich yesterday this is a good news for us at least for our game since our fb club is done 😂😂😂
I'm glad that they're doing this because it's better to fix what u have then put out new content that can create new bugs. Also the PvP changes, chief's kiss. I hate with a passion that solo player's can get demolished by 4 player team (in the dz) with 0 chances of getting 1 kill/down (unless u have maxed out gear). Last thing, descent, I'm excited because I need like 50 BP (one of them being emperor's guards) and it takes me 45 minutes to 1 hour to get to and kill the nemesis just for the 50% drop for the reconstruction cache.
As a returning player, I absolutely welcome the changes they patched in, especially the PVP changes and the skill mod inventory space. If the mod inventory space works, perhaps it can be carried over to the gear mods as well. Lord knows we carry way too many mods that are only used for certain builds. The expertise and optimization cost reductions are a boom to hear (makes it less grindy) and being able to reroll the 3rd attribute of exotic weapons is golden but I agree on the point that everyone would just roll Dmg to targets out of cover so making it harder to get the rolls you want on an exotic is a good albeit temporary way from making the attribute being saturated in the game. I would say increasing the cost of rerolling the 3rd attribute on exotics (similar to the recalibration table in Div 1) would be a great way to prevent the attribute from being saturated imho as it forces players to farm for credits and resources to reroll the exotic to their specifications. Weapon buffs are nice to hear but some nerfs should be thrown in also, especially for the RPM of the incursion SMG (at least for me). Overall, Project Resolve really lays the foundation that can be used currently and for Division 3. With Div 3 being too early to tell so far, they can use what they learned from Project Resolve and put it to use for the foundations of Div 3. Hoping for the best for both games.
What a news, I'm so glad about the majority of these changes and can't wait for them to go live, the dlc news is a lowblow for me but I'm still happy nonetheless. Thank you for this video, I knew I missed some from the stream. Cheers Rogue! 🍻
I'm glad they are working on the stability of the game. Increasing the brand bonuses after the 1 piece will make it worth a bit more for some players with no exotics or named items. But making so the exotics can be rolled, I think that might backfire. I like the fact that every time you get an exotic, the stats are the same 3 stats and not random, so you know what you are getting. I do like the revamp of the skill mods, that has been so annoying. Some skills just has more variations and has to have more mods while other barely has more then 1 and only has 2 slots. We only have 100 slots in the backpack to hold them all and I'm already up to 98. With the expansion they added a bunch of new skills but the slot count stayed pretty much the same, so we had to get rid of a bunch of mod for the older skills to make way for the new one. Reducing the cost for optimization and expertise is a good but from what I can see it still a bit high to me. What they need to do is make decent have better rewards. Going through all that only to get a bunch of caches with random rewards just doesn't feel right.
I bought this game with all the DLC and stuff on sale last year, but didn't get to play it so far. This might be a good thing, because the stuff i see looks like it's a bit easier on newer players, which is great for newcomers!
Questions/comments I have in n particular order.. 1. Skill mods, so we no longer get maxed out dups, so now I can't share a maxed out dup with a friend or one of my other toons? I'd much rather just keep or delete my dups as I choose. 2. They mentioned play test for console players but only with a level 40 toon? what is that about? 3. They features for putting out fire and bleed should be across the board and not just PVP. 4. Not a fan of locking weapons and gear to certain game modes, instead those modes should have vanity items tied to them, they could have dozens for all I care. As you do more vids on this topic I will definitely have more question/comments/concerns as my head is on overload as there was a lot there to soak in and getting ready to go on vay-cay until Jan 2.
1. I don't know how sharing would work with this new system, will need to be tested 2. She meant that if a console player were to want to participate in the PC PTS, they have an option to start a fresh Level 40 character even if you have no prior progression on PC
@@RogueGold I have a few buddies I run with and we are constantly sharing our dups, I'd hate to lose that ability, Mod space has never been a problem for me (or them) Between my 4 toons I'm using 42 mods out of a space for 400, weapon/gear space yeah do something about that, THAT is a problem with space.
@@Libertarian1776 100% on mod feedback. it's a minor QoL thing, but has negative repurcussions. Id much rather they turned the whole mod system into something like the recal library or weapon mods and give us back those 100 inventory spaces previously taken up with mods. You just sacrifice a higher mod (or it adds it automatically) and then you can make/slot as many as you want in whatever gear or skill. I'll miss the printer filaments though from the deconstruction? Maybe? not sure?
Its nice to see they are still supporting D2. Only shame i cant play that game anymore. I've tryed so many times to get back to it and catch up with the content but second i enter any safe house i see people with 10k+ SHD and then i see mine around 180 and instantly dont want to play anymore. Maybe its becuase i have no one to play with anymore and im tired of playing solo and sadly thats not just an issue of D2. R6 Siege is practically unplayable due to server issues resulting in constant matchmaking and connection errors for many people especially when i premade group and due to that everyone who was still willing to play with me have quit all games from Ubisoft that still have multiplayer of sorts including those that were basically terminated for multiplayer last year. Only thing some of them are still willing to play is League of Legends not because its a good game but because there is pretty much no barrier to entry but i cant play that anymore either. I never had stability issues with D2 as much as i can remember but on the cheater issues did they move to R6 Siege after getting banned on D2? Because there is so many of them in there right now.
Hey wanted to comment sooner but I decided to go deep on Descent today (got BSd by Rogues on loop 25 ugh...) Initially I was salty when they announced the delay , but I also realized something; This coming Summer is going to be LOADED, in particular that is when The First Descendant comes out at last, so it's actually kinda smart on their part to dodge that - there is a good amount of hype behind that game and rightly so. Diablo 4 should also be getting it's major rework to itemization around then and if talk is to be believed it's gonna put the game on everyone's radar big time. But more importantly than all of that, this is something us Division veterans have been begging and pleading for FOR YEARS. Rogue, honestly how many times have I said in your own stream comments that the game desperately needs a big balance pass? Well we're finally getting it and I am loving the bulk of these changes. The only bits I'm concerned about (and I've not read the patch notes) are the Descent changes. I really don't think weekly rotations will fix the problem, it could actually make it even worse - particularly if the list isn't curated and just done by an algorithm. If they're not going to nerf enemies like they should, then they at least need to buff a lot of the talents (they should do that anyway) as many of them are redundant or have strictly better options. Skill selection is also a major problem, and if they want to shorten runs they should change the mode to actually favor rather than punish multiplayer (enemy HP scaling is absurd) anyhoo I could write a whole dissertation on how to fix Descent lol. I'm just glad they are finally making the effort to fix the game because it is as overdue as this comment is long XD (sorry)
I wish that they would change skill mods and gear mods so that depending on your major attributes would give you higher values for the mods that you equipped.
I think it's a strategy to make people come back and not forget about that the game exist because Division 3 is under development now. They want people to crave Division 3.
I would like to think that Massive saw what Bungie was doing with their episodes after final shape and figured 'Let's try that, but let's do it now and fix everything before the adding the dlc.' I'm glad to see they are gonna improve the Optimization costs and hopefully the crafting costs. Many new players are under the belief you can take a low stat gun and craft it with care to max. The ingame economy as it stands doesn't support that style in my opinion. I am looking forward to what comes from this new roadmap.
Them pvp changes sound interesting for sure. All the other changes sound good too. Looking forward to it. They should have done this a long time ago tho
When do the changes take effect? Especially the skill mod changes, changes to loot containers dropping gear at your level, the more rewards for events, missions & weekly/daily projects? It all sounds awesome. I played Division 1 & 2 at launch but fell off and missed WarlordsNY. I just came back and am having fun, gonna do NY dlc today.
@@RogueGold AWESOME !!! Thank you so much, i might jump in the PTS. Always loved the world/lore they created and all of this sounds fantastic. Especially for a player that hasn’t been around since launch, perfect timing to jump back in.
The new Gila guard with 3 percent armor Regan plus with the updated foundry bulwark and the Emperor's Guard Knee Pads will be insane 5 percent armor regen
I was part of a console gaming workshop and asked what’s my thoughts on today’s game developments… my answer, I’m a Division daily since its inception, now TD2 is in year 5 content….. so instead of giving me a Forza 8, give me a Forza great! A refined game is a great game and I don’t mind that young/new players have it “easier” for me, a challenge was put out, and I accepted… plain and simple!
That med kit will be a problem for those that can get extra armor on a med kit it will proc intimidate instant without needing adrenaline rush so now you can use vigilance or companion with intimidate with extra armor
You know, as someone who played Divison 1 and 2 and had to suffer, i see noobs not having to suffer as a win. I mean how fucked up is the thought process "I had to suffer, so you should as well."
To me its good enough to finish other games while waiting on TCD3 or heartland i still play it just to help friends who started other then that i still enjoy division 2
Something super trivial, but gear dye and gear skins not sticking with it reverting. 1st world problems, but why have all the gear skins and apparel if it just changes randomly, reverts back, and other weird effects like color changes.... Weapon balancing is going to be tricky, and saying that they're going to buff underperforming weapons to bring them inline will likely end like this: Weapons that were performing will feel weaker, and likely there will be (probably many) cases where the guns that were buffed are now stronger than the others that weren't. IMHO, the biggest problem with Damage to out of cover is it really should just be removed to compensate OR have it innate to each weapon regardless. One way they could do this is to get rid of the Weapon Damage and replace it with DToC. Everyone's going to roll 15% on a weapon and run DToC in almost every case. The alternative is to provide a useful alternative like skill related attributes like Skill Haste, healing, or skill damage. One could make the argument that its not realistic to have an attribute like that, but they already do on the Capacitor...as you fire, your skill damage goes up, or on high-ends you trigger a talent. If its always the 3rd attribute that can be rerolled, make the 3rd attribute more diverse and allow people to roll it for a specific build...that is how talents rerolls largely work. I believe just baking in the extra 15% weapon damage into the gun....maybe change it to maxing out @ 15% when the weapon becomes proficient would even make sense. And when you are proficient with the gun, every one you get is automatically max 15% damage. There is just no situation where anyone is okay with a weapon not being max damage. I actually believe the same for armor on gear, though for specific builds, people often roll it off like running a hybrid striker with skill tiers. Though I believe it would be easier and cleaner to have max armor innate to the armor piece when proficient. The we could placeholder that main attribute for something else...that can be build related or just removed. The reason I would like to see it go this route is that adding armor doesn't actually reduce incoming damage. It just adds more hit points to your armor...that's it. If they changed the blue major attribute to something like Reduces incoming damage by X%, it would make more sense as a tank build.
They need to change the lightweight m4 to an assault rifle and the lvoa I would also love if they added the ability to hide skills on your character and the appearance of the mods on our guns , and I would love if they let us use a smg with the bull work sheild those would be some dope changes
That’s great news!! In a world of games that are broken, full of micro transactions, this is absolutely great news I’m so happy they are still supporting div2 to this extent Fooooooooken awesome
Empress getting 20% skill damage at tier 2 is crazy with how Skill efficiency already gives you an additional 10% at 3, my Hybrid build bout to get even better 👀
Here's the Patch Notes, though FYI these are more overview-style, they clarified that detailed notes will arrive closer to the PTS date later this week 👉 www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/the-division-2/news-updates/4nCvudIbhKyqzMT1PTfup9
How are y'all feeling about Project Resolve?!
Not a single thing in those notes about the specializations revamp they talked about in October 28, 2021 in their Intelligence Annex. GG Massive. You straight up said "we'll do a thing", and then said "fk it". Good job.
A massive undertaking to improve the health of a game is...bigger than people might understand. It shows a support for the game from the higher ups that is all about keeping it alive and great.
Agree, compare to Red Dead Online, this level of improvement is improssible to imagine.
Well, they're still charging 30+30 for base and WONY, for a game its age, so they're definitely making their bucks for all of this.
Honestly all these salty players comments below are uncalled for. Who cares if new players get stuff easier compared to the vets. This game is about to end in 2025 so let people have fun and QQ. If you don’t like it you know where uninstall is. Seriously more people playing would be great addition instead of having to carry a noobie or getting grouped with poorly geared and under shade lvl
I doubt it's ending in 2025 😉
This comment is basically my opinion on the people being salty about the game, and believe me the game won't be dead once the dlc drop's
To be honest, it is a lil shitty that people just starting out are getting things I've been trying to find for years. Plus that is also why most of these games player count are dropping, they would rather cater to the casuals rather than the people who actually love and play the game the most. So it's a pretty valid argument in all truth
To me it seems they are making these changes in prep to compliment more content. Division 3 realistically won't be coming out until 2027
@@Xx_401_Reaper_xXplease just drop the “I suffered so everyone else has to suffer too” mentality dude. 😑
This is just fantastic.
Well done Massive, this is going to go a very long way to making this already excellent game even better.
Wha a lovely early Christmas present ☺️
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Man this is so encouraging to see! I feel like the game was in such a dark place for a while and I'm glad to see them giving it some much needed love.
@@laudy76 THIS is how you retain a player base.
It’s a really smart move on behalf of Massive to curry favour with the fans and show them what they’re capable of when funds and resources are committed.
IMO we’re still a good 4 years out from D3 going live, so keeping us engaged with this world they’ve created will be great segue once it lands.
To me at least, this is a phenomenal game, with an embarrassment of content and depth, it doesn’t need to get “better”, but the fact that it will is just icing on the cake.
absolutely incredible. The best part of all this is that it’s seemingly coming out of NOWHERE. The best change by FAR is the widespread weapon and brand buffs. It’s going to open up a ton of opportunity to try new builds and experiment for upcoming meta changes.
Can’t wait for this to go live!
Maybe they can rework certain talents and brand sets to be more useful
What’s the eta tho any time soon or
blows up many things, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I just think it's a ton of work and they aren't likely to do it to my satisfaction, lol. here's to hoping they do a good and thorough job!
Around february I think@@lllllll5990
I WAS SHOCKED during stream how many aspects they wanna improve!
Big GG for all devs!
One thing i would like is PVE Dark Zone rotations, they mentioned that during stream but doesn't look it's coming, unless there are opinions under PTS to add something like that, we would be in favor of it, they could make super tanky enemies, slightly worsen loot and that could be it! So many players would enjoy that.
It awesome to be part of active game and being hyped about updates and changes!
They stated that they have no intention of removing PVP from the DZ's, which is my personal preference
Glad you're overall liking the changes they've pitched!
Yeah the entire point of the DZ is no mans land removing that would be genuinely braindead
PVE DZ? Oh helllllllllllllllllllll NO!
@@spzm3665lmao.
Why do we need pve dz? Just go play the regular map lol. If it's loot your worried about well targeted loot is a thing.
The change to mods is fantastic. Have always wished they would just auto-replace lower quality mods when you find higher quality ones. That’s a great change.
unreal change, so happy for that. Love the recal/optimisation changes too
I remember playing this game a few years ago on PS4 I got quite far had all the DLC and absolutely loved the game... It was such a blast. I've had a PC for about a year now and completely forgot about Division 2 and all the fun I had. It went on offer a few days ago on Steam and I instantly bought it, already played so much. It is so amazing to see such a brilliant game still getting love nearly 8 Years after its release. So looking forward to these new updates and improvements. Hopefully all this love and support goes far and brings more players to the Division Community.
Love to hear that! Lots of great stuff coming for the game indeed 🙌
Those balancing patch notes gonna be long and fun to read through can't wait
Also that new tinkering menu where you can access the expertise /recal menu on the fly is a huge change
Concerned about talent changes for my builds, but I like alot of things. Project rewards enchantment, awesome
Open world loot improvement, awesome
Buffs to mediocre options awesome
Stability improvements, awesome
After finally finishing expertise a few weeks ago. I have been farming for exotic components. You need so many! I only have 8 lvl 24 items. Hopefully, more exotic components sources and the amount adjustments help.
I have been a fan of The Division since the first game and have played The Division 2 off and on since release. I'm just getting back into it again and it looks like the timing is perfect. Looking forward to these changes and what the future has to offer.
Perfect time indeed! Welcome back!
🎉The game barely has any monetization aside from the expansion (which you can get for dirt cheap with a sale), some cosmetics, and season passes (which I've never felt locked away too much content). These devs are putting SO much work into the game, and yet have asked us for so little! High praise to the team, and honestly I wouldn't even be mad if they added more paid systems into the game to help monetize it. Thank you so much for this INCREDIBLE game that has had me DEEPLY immersed into this amazing story countless times. ❤
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I agree, They have been good with that. Season leveling is easy and doable to get to 100. Cosmetic skins in store are optional, events give a chance to get some of the set. 160+ levels in a week or two is a bit much for casual play (plus the not getting keys bug still persists) should be a key every 3 levels instead of 4, summit farm and how they did us players I'll never forgive or forget.
Lastly, don't ever bring up more monotization as something you don't mind. Especially promoting it in a game that doesn't have much of it, so little that it's unnoticed or really cared about. Like an unspoken word.
Leave the microtransactions to COD Fortnight and the Disgraced Halo Monotization Infinite. Just don't, it's an ignoramus though.
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Thank you for the recap Rogue! Much appreciate it, unfortunately I didn't have time to catch the Livestream, so this is valuable!
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Im so glad they decided to keep supporting this, ill keep buying the season pass if they keep it up
This all sounds pretty great and much of it addresses things I've been hoping for. I wish a lot of this could've been implemented some time ago, but I'm not complaining.
THIS... WAS... HUUUUUUUGE! It's really awesome they're tackling many issues on the game. I'm EXTREMELY glad they're adding the "recal" setting in the menu. Sooooooo frustrating fast traveling to areas and accessing the table. Ugh! Thanks for the great updated notes! 😎✨✨✨
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Let's hope all this goes well.
When is it
This was better than new content, it's awesome to see how much love the game is getting.
A lot of people have said "delay new content, fix the game," and they got it! 😄
I was literally cheering at my desk at work. So many fantastic changes coming!
Thankyou for the breakdown RG. It's appreciated.
👊 Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the big MASSIVE news, RG!
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Really looking forward to the changes, most notably the ability to optimize/expertise in inventory. On the mod situation, I'm REALLY hoping that won't apply to GEAR mods, cause if so it'll pretty much ruin all of my builds. On the loot scaling, here's hoping the next step is to remove purple loot from heroic difficulty all together.
That new mod feature is exclusively for Skill Mods 👍
Thanks God this game still getting good treatment, I love this franchise all the time and will keep loving them.
Glad they still love this game and putting their heart, soul and time. Hate the DLC is delayed but Massive is wrapped up in several projects.
New players need quality items early to hook them and grow the lore and the Division universe.
I really think this is great news, I'm a huge pvp fan in the first division game and to hear any changes to conflict and the dark zone gives me hope yet for the division 2. Keep up the great work rogue
Great times ahead for PVP indeed!
That skill mod QOL update is MEGA!!! Skill mods are a pain in the ass inventory wise
All this sounds so awesome and exciting :D
Indeed!
Yooo! This was Sooo needed! I can't wait. I have plenty of other games to play. I'll still do this seasonal and manhunts. I'm just glad things are going to get balance and fixed.
Loving this update news. It should make for a more healthy dark zone.
Absolutely!
I like your optomism, but until they chuck the cheats out on lengthy bans then these changes will mean nothing in the DZ.
Sounds like a massive undertaking. (Punny i know) fingers crossed all goes smoothly. The game has needed these changes along with stability updates. I was beginning to wonder if it could handle any major content added in after the problems they've had with updates. Awesome job devs!
After "the day before" fiasco it's good to see some companies doin it right!
So great for this community! We did it Agents!
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I am happy that they are willing to improve this game especially the state of other games like Destiny 2. Smart move!!!
I hope they can pull this off! Sounds super promising!
Thx for the video RG!
I hope the team will buff heroic npc‘s or create a new world difficulty. The game will become easier with more powerful weapons & gear that we can optimize for less costs.
Is legendary only for missions?
I'm cautiously optimistic about this. It SOUNDS like it's going to be an awesome overhaul and help out with alot of the things that currently hurt the game, however I've learned that when it comes to something this complicated and with this much of a wide variety of fixes, there are most certainly gonna be some phuck ups along the way. I'm curious to see how bad thise will be and what effect they'll have over the game overall. Still excited though. ✌🏾💪🏾✊🏾
I was really hoping for a skill overhaul with this. So many underperforming or unused skills. The skill mods update will be awesome.
hopefully this brings me back to the game.... looking forward to it
hey great video thanks for the division 2 content
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3 piece gila and emperor's guard about to be crazy
Project Resolve and Season 3: Vanguard are gonna pretty much bring new life into the game. I'm so excited to speculate how this game will go out with a bang before Division 3.
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The ninja backpack builds are gonna be crazy if set skills are going up lol
Man , is a good time to be a division 2 fan
I just bought the game with huge discount so I’m excited to be in division community again since my last 3 years of my division 1 experience
Nice!! Welcome back!
So excited for these changes, for me i prefer if they take their time for new content while doing big balancing and QoL passes like that🎉
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I think you mean Utilize the time adequately. We've seen the two year lul of content and what came after. Not to mention the pushed back updates and what pushing back store/ gameplay content that only lead to. Which was more issues and problems. Since the first and I believe second Division team moved away from this game. The C tier team is doing their best however it's been a rough go and they are still figuring things out. Best of luck to em, but definitely haven't seen anything in the past year that would make me stay or keep coming back.
You should never get purple gear when looting on heroic so I am super happy they are changing that ❤
For me most important thing in games is how fun it is to play. And i am not good shooting but enough to complete missions and getting better sunglasses. I mean if you want challeges you can get it if you want peacful roadtrip its okay also. I love shooting enemies into kneels.
This type of love is why i buy the season pass every season, on 2 different platforms. Love all of it.
This is alot to take in, and it sounds like great news.
Also, I want that SHD Christmas sweater. Seriously.
do want ugly SHD xmas sweater was my first thought too!!
@burningairline It was available on the Ubi store last year, but they've since shut the whole thing down :(
@@RogueGold boo!
I'm so excited for the new changes coming to Division 2.
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These are welcoming changes, especially for me and my partner that just recently started playing with me.
That's awesome!
This is just amazing. How many time have they been working on this? This is pure dedication for the game and the players. Too bad DLC delay, but this is HUGE.
They're gonna touch literally EVERYTHING in the game (except Sepcializations LOL). And speaking abut that, this past months I was having great ideas for a possible future Spec revamp like for example: D50 handgun of Survivalist would be way more usueful with Demo, cause using the Mortar turret always applies bleed to enemies. Or Survivalist grandes with Firewall.
The key would be letting us designate those unique tools for any Spec we want.
So... as I said many times: WHAT A GOOD TIME TO BE A DIVISION FAN
im looking forward to the projects!
I hope they make it so you can rejoin a Descent game when you disconnect, after hours of lost grinding that would be so fantastic.
I got burnt out and quit for months but these changes will bring me back
I think it sounds like these changes or going to be a good fit. I am looking forward to it, hopefully with all of the “fixes” they don’t break it. Thank you for the content man !! Keep it up 🎉🎉🎉
🙏 Thank you for watching!
Man, Daria makes my eyes very happy indeed 😍
D3, A possible way to make the game easier for beginners is to introduce a Baby mode. In this mode, the players would respawn after dying two or three times in a scene. Then they would be allowed to move forward to the next one.
Like other commenters have pointed out, this makes the game way better for us (fixing bugs especially will give us quality of life improvements). But from the way things have been talked about, it sounds like the developers have also modernized some of their software and processes, so they're out of that rut that many of us have felt that parts of the game have been in for a while. This might just make the game more easy to work on, and therefore, make the team working on the game happier. That's the best takeaway for me.
I definitely agree! Hopefully that's the case in practice 🤞
I've played for years. I've started over my account to play without new players this year. So, I've noticed, i was running through the game easy. And said to my team, "i don't remember this game being this easy".. now I know why. Which isn't bad for me, because it's all about fun now.
This is VERY good news to hear. Got some of my family that will be playing this in the coming year. Just wanna add RIP to everyone who had done extreme detailed state charts for best weapons/dmg output 😂 Which imo I feel is good news. Thanks for the straight forward breakdown of what's to come 👍
Well bro after we left the champions League against Bayern Munich yesterday this is a good news for us at least for our game since our fb club is done 😂😂😂
Finally someone posted a break down vid sub and like for you good sir
Thank you so much! 🙏
sounds good i haven't played for a long time this might bring me back
Hell yeah!
I'm glad that they're doing this because it's better to fix what u have then put out new content that can create new bugs. Also the PvP changes, chief's kiss. I hate with a passion that solo player's can get demolished by 4 player team (in the dz) with 0 chances of getting 1 kill/down (unless u have maxed out gear). Last thing, descent, I'm excited because I need like 50 BP (one of them being emperor's guards) and it takes me 45 minutes to 1 hour to get to and kill the nemesis just for the 50% drop for the reconstruction cache.
I am excited for this.
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As a returning player, I absolutely welcome the changes they patched in, especially the PVP changes and the skill mod inventory space. If the mod inventory space works, perhaps it can be carried over to the gear mods as well. Lord knows we carry way too many mods that are only used for certain builds. The expertise and optimization cost reductions are a boom to hear (makes it less grindy) and being able to reroll the 3rd attribute of exotic weapons is golden but I agree on the point that everyone would just roll Dmg to targets out of cover so making it harder to get the rolls you want on an exotic is a good albeit temporary way from making the attribute being saturated in the game. I would say increasing the cost of rerolling the 3rd attribute on exotics (similar to the recalibration table in Div 1) would be a great way to prevent the attribute from being saturated imho as it forces players to farm for credits and resources to reroll the exotic to their specifications. Weapon buffs are nice to hear but some nerfs should be thrown in also, especially for the RPM of the incursion SMG (at least for me). Overall, Project Resolve really lays the foundation that can be used currently and for Division 3. With Div 3 being too early to tell so far, they can use what they learned from Project Resolve and put it to use for the foundations of Div 3. Hoping for the best for both games.
I've been playing hardcore permadeath with my brother in-law and it's a great experience co-op
Nice!
What a news, I'm so glad about the majority of these changes and can't wait for them to go live, the dlc news is a lowblow for me but I'm still happy nonetheless. Thank you for this video, I knew I missed some from the stream. Cheers Rogue! 🍻
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I'm glad they are working on the stability of the game. Increasing the brand bonuses after the 1 piece will make it worth a bit more for some players with no exotics or named items. But making so the exotics can be rolled, I think that might backfire. I like the fact that every time you get an exotic, the stats are the same 3 stats and not random, so you know what you are getting. I do like the revamp of the skill mods, that has been so annoying. Some skills just has more variations and has to have more mods while other barely has more then 1 and only has 2 slots. We only have 100 slots in the backpack to hold them all and I'm already up to 98. With the expansion they added a bunch of new skills but the slot count stayed pretty much the same, so we had to get rid of a bunch of mod for the older skills to make way for the new one. Reducing the cost for optimization and expertise is a good but from what I can see it still a bit high to me. What they need to do is make decent have better rewards. Going through all that only to get a bunch of caches with random rewards just doesn't feel right.
I bought this game with all the DLC and stuff on sale last year, but didn't get to play it so far.
This might be a good thing, because the stuff i see looks like it's a bit easier on newer players, which is great for newcomers!
Definitely! Hope you enjoy it once you dive in!
This all sounds good also it definitely seems they are commit to make a great game
W move from Massive , keep up the good work
Questions/comments I have in n particular order..
1. Skill mods, so we no longer get maxed out dups, so now I can't share a maxed out dup with a friend or one of my other toons? I'd much rather just keep or delete my dups as I choose.
2. They mentioned play test for console players but only with a level 40 toon? what is that about?
3. They features for putting out fire and bleed should be across the board and not just PVP.
4. Not a fan of locking weapons and gear to certain game modes, instead those modes should have vanity items tied to them, they could have dozens for all I care.
As you do more vids on this topic I will definitely have more question/comments/concerns as my head is on overload as there was a lot there to soak in and getting ready to go on vay-cay until Jan 2.
1. I don't know how sharing would work with this new system, will need to be tested
2. She meant that if a console player were to want to participate in the PC PTS, they have an option to start a fresh Level 40 character even if you have no prior progression on PC
@@RogueGold I have a few buddies I run with and we are constantly sharing our dups, I'd hate to lose that ability, Mod space has never been a problem for me (or them) Between my 4 toons I'm using 42 mods out of a space for 400, weapon/gear space yeah do something about that, THAT is a problem with space.
@@Libertarian1776 100% on mod feedback. it's a minor QoL thing, but has negative repurcussions.
Id much rather they turned the whole mod system into something like the recal library or weapon mods and give us back those 100 inventory spaces previously taken up with mods. You just sacrifice a higher mod (or it adds it automatically) and then you can make/slot as many as you want in whatever gear or skill.
I'll miss the printer filaments though from the deconstruction? Maybe? not sure?
I just hope that once Project Resolve is completed they'll still continue to tweak and balance things here and there especially for PvP.
From what they said that sounds to be the plan 👍
Its nice to see they are still supporting D2. Only shame i cant play that game anymore. I've tryed so many times to get back to it and catch up with the content but second i enter any safe house i see people with 10k+ SHD and then i see mine around 180 and instantly dont want to play anymore. Maybe its becuase i have no one to play with anymore and im tired of playing solo and sadly thats not just an issue of D2. R6 Siege is practically unplayable due to server issues resulting in constant matchmaking and connection errors for many people especially when i premade group and due to that everyone who was still willing to play with me have quit all games from Ubisoft that still have multiplayer of sorts including those that were basically terminated for multiplayer last year. Only thing some of them are still willing to play is League of Legends not because its a good game but because there is pretty much no barrier to entry but i cant play that anymore either. I never had stability issues with D2 as much as i can remember but on the cheater issues did they move to R6 Siege after getting banned on D2? Because there is so many of them in there right now.
Hey wanted to comment sooner but I decided to go deep on Descent today (got BSd by Rogues on loop 25 ugh...)
Initially I was salty when they announced the delay , but I also realized something; This coming Summer is going to be LOADED, in particular that is when The First Descendant comes out at last, so it's actually kinda smart on their part to dodge that - there is a good amount of hype behind that game and rightly so. Diablo 4 should also be getting it's major rework to itemization around then and if talk is to be believed it's gonna put the game on everyone's radar big time.
But more importantly than all of that, this is something us Division veterans have been begging and pleading for FOR YEARS. Rogue, honestly how many times have I said in your own stream comments that the game desperately needs a big balance pass? Well we're finally getting it and I am loving the bulk of these changes.
The only bits I'm concerned about (and I've not read the patch notes) are the Descent changes. I really don't think weekly rotations will fix the problem, it could actually make it even worse - particularly if the list isn't curated and just done by an algorithm.
If they're not going to nerf enemies like they should, then they at least need to buff a lot of the talents (they should do that anyway) as many of them are redundant or have strictly better options. Skill selection is also a major problem, and if they want to shorten runs they should change the mode to actually favor rather than punish multiplayer (enemy HP scaling is absurd) anyhoo I could write a whole dissertation on how to fix Descent lol.
I'm just glad they are finally making the effort to fix the game because it is as overdue as this comment is long XD (sorry)
Long comments are great! Thanks for your thoughts 👍
I wish that they would change skill mods and gear mods so that depending on your major attributes would give you higher values for the mods that you equipped.
Jeez! That's a lot of changes!
Lmao! I thought the host on the right was the one talking at the beginning and the talking was NOT matching the lips and I was SOOOOOO confused 😂😅😂😅
love it! never nerf always make everything else better.. that sells anything to a better game.
Finally expertise from inventory
My brother and I were just talking about this game yesterday. Maybe we'll pick it back up.
We'd love to have you back!
I love all of this especially now as a returning player. I just hope galvanized gets fixed.
Massive, please keep this up, so that BUNGIE CAN WAKE UP
More live service games need to do updates like this where they just generally fix the game.
I absolutely welcome these changes. Fantastic news. That DLC in 2025 crazy that the game is getting Dlcs that far after release.
I think it's a strategy to make people come back and not forget about that the game exist because Division 3 is under development now. They want people to crave Division 3.
I would like to think that Massive saw what Bungie was doing with their episodes after final shape and figured 'Let's try that, but let's do it now and fix everything before the adding the dlc.'
I'm glad to see they are gonna improve the Optimization costs and hopefully the crafting costs. Many new players are under the belief you can take a low stat gun and craft it with care to max. The ingame economy as it stands doesn't support that style in my opinion. I am looking forward to what comes from this new roadmap.
Them pvp changes sound interesting for sure. All the other changes sound good too. Looking forward to it. They should have done this a long time ago tho
When do the changes take effect?
Especially the skill mod changes, changes to loot containers dropping gear at your level, the more rewards for events, missions & weekly/daily projects?
It all sounds awesome. I played Division 1 & 2 at launch but fell off and missed WarlordsNY. I just came back and am having fun, gonna do NY dlc today.
Testing for it all begins this Friday with the PTS, a second phase is planned for January, and their tentative full launch date is February 6th 👍
@@RogueGold AWESOME !!! Thank you so much, i might jump in the PTS. Always loved the world/lore they created and all of this sounds fantastic. Especially for a player that hasn’t been around since launch, perfect timing to jump back in.
The new Gila guard with 3 percent armor Regan plus with the updated foundry bulwark and the Emperor's Guard Knee Pads will be insane 5 percent armor regen
I was part of a console gaming workshop and asked what’s my thoughts on today’s game developments… my answer, I’m a Division daily since its inception, now TD2 is in year 5 content….. so instead of giving me a Forza 8, give me a Forza great! A refined game is a great game and I don’t mind that young/new players have it “easier” for me, a challenge was put out, and I accepted… plain and simple!
That med kit will be a problem for those that can get extra armor on a med kit it will proc intimidate instant without needing adrenaline rush so now you can use vigilance or companion with intimidate with extra armor
It does not grant you bonus armor, just regular armor
Wow. Sucks the huge story DLC was delayed, but Project Resolve has a lot of good in store for the overall health of the game. About time.
You know, as someone who played Divison 1 and 2 and had to suffer, i see noobs not having to suffer as a win. I mean how fucked up is the thought process "I had to suffer, so you should as well."
To me its good enough to finish other games while waiting on TCD3 or heartland i still play it just to help friends who started other then that i still enjoy division 2
Something super trivial, but gear dye and gear skins not sticking with it reverting. 1st world problems, but why have all the gear skins and apparel if it just changes randomly, reverts back, and other weird effects like color changes....
Weapon balancing is going to be tricky, and saying that they're going to buff underperforming weapons to bring them inline will likely end like this: Weapons that were performing will feel weaker, and likely there will be (probably many) cases where the guns that were buffed are now stronger than the others that weren't.
IMHO, the biggest problem with Damage to out of cover is it really should just be removed to compensate OR have it innate to each weapon regardless.
One way they could do this is to get rid of the Weapon Damage and replace it with DToC. Everyone's going to roll 15% on a weapon and run DToC in almost every case. The alternative is to provide a useful alternative like skill related attributes like Skill Haste, healing, or skill damage. One could make the argument that its not realistic to have an attribute like that, but they already do on the Capacitor...as you fire, your skill damage goes up, or on high-ends you trigger a talent. If its always the 3rd attribute that can be rerolled, make the 3rd attribute more diverse and allow people to roll it for a specific build...that is how talents rerolls largely work.
I believe just baking in the extra 15% weapon damage into the gun....maybe change it to maxing out @ 15% when the weapon becomes proficient would even make sense. And when you are proficient with the gun, every one you get is automatically max 15% damage. There is just no situation where anyone is okay with a weapon not being max damage. I actually believe the same for armor on gear, though for specific builds, people often roll it off like running a hybrid striker with skill tiers. Though I believe it would be easier and cleaner to have max armor innate to the armor piece when proficient. The we could placeholder that main attribute for something else...that can be build related or just removed. The reason I would like to see it go this route is that adding armor doesn't actually reduce incoming damage. It just adds more hit points to your armor...that's it. If they changed the blue major attribute to something like Reduces incoming damage by X%, it would make more sense as a tank build.
They need to change the lightweight m4 to an assault rifle and the lvoa I would also love if they added the ability to hide skills on your character and the appearance of the mods on our guns , and I would love if they let us use a smg with the bull work sheild those would be some dope changes
That’s great news!!
In a world of games that are broken, full of micro transactions, this is absolutely great news
I’m so happy they are still supporting div2 to this extent
Fooooooooken awesome
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To be fair, this one is also broken and filled with microtransactions (has been for years), but we love it. It's got some soul
@@ragingmonkey4592I have spent 20 since buying this game day one so I can’t agree on the micro transactions
Empress getting 20% skill damage at tier 2 is crazy with how Skill efficiency already gives you an additional 10% at 3, my Hybrid build bout to get even better 👀
Yep!
This is clearly Operation Health all over again & we're here for it for the long road