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The Division 2 Receiving Changes For Balance, Skills, And More In Future Update

April 4, 2019
by Garrett E.
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The Division 2 has been chugging along, with players continually coming back for more of the glorious action the game has to offer. That said, the dev team at Massive Entertainment has a bounty of content planned for this year. The next big update to arrive will be for Invasion: Battle for D.C., and it will be bringing a host of changes along with it.

Prior to the update itself, the developers have been kind enough to outline some of the big changes that are inbound for The Division 2 players. Taking to the game’s subreddit, the dev team highlighted the upcoming balance changes, skills changes, alterations to mods, and much more. You can check out more on what is to come with the Invasion: Battle for D.C. update below:

First Apparel Event

With the “Invasion: Battle for D.C.” we will also get the first Apparel Event
The Special Event will last for four weeks (April 5th – May 2nd) where players can get Special Event Caches.
The Special Event Caches contain cool new outfits and other things like emotes.
You can also get Masks from these caches.
Everybody will get one Special Event Cache for free in the first week – if you log in before Thursday.
Year 1 Pass owners get three additional free caches when they log in during the event.
There will be ways to gain more free caches – like specific projects that you can finish.
Special Event Caches don’t have any duplicates.

Balancing Changes

With “Invasion: Battle for D.C.” we will also have the first balancing pass
Keep in mind, it is very early in the lifecycle so this is a first step in balancing to address some peaks.
There is also a lot of talk about PVP – this update will not focus specifically on PVP balance, this is something for a later date – but some of the small changes will, of course, impact PVP.
The Sniper M700 and the Rifle MK17 will get a damage reduction.
Crit Damage and Headshot Damage will be lowered across all existing gear, so if you have equipment with these stats on it, they will be different when you log in on Friday.
“Safeguard Talent” (extra healing) will get an internal cooldown so that it can’t be up all the time
Demolitionist Talent “Crisis Response” (when armor breaks you replenish your ammo) will also get an internal cooldown.

Skills Changes

Sniper Turret

Sniper Turret has been reworked
You will have a button above an enemy and the Turret will then shoot that NPC and it will automatically track it.
When you aim at the same NPC you can also specifically control where the shot will go (headshot or weakpoint etc)
That should make the Sniper Turret more accessible.

Chem Launcher

The handling of the Chem Launcher has been a bit awkward.
Now when you activate the Chem Launcher, it will activate and you can use it like a weapon until you put it away.
That should also give you more control about the skill

FireFly

Aiming mechanism has been reworked, so you can mark targets faster

Skill Mods

The Skill Mods have been revamped
The Bonuses you get from the Skill Mods correlate now with the amount of Skill Power required to unlock them.
They are now within the bounds of the Skill Power that you can get on your gear and they also changed the amount of Skill Power that you get on your gear.
So even when you have less Skill Power on your gear when you log in on Friday, don’t panic, you may be able to unlock a lot of mods that you could before.
With these changes skill builds should become a lot more viable.

Weapon Mods changes

As of now, the Weapon Mods always had a positive or negative aspect on them.
But that meant, what was designed as a reward for missions and activities could also have a very negative effect on your build
That is why all the Weapon Mods have been rewamped:
All weapon mods got new values, new positives, more in line what they would do in real life
They also have lower values – since they don’t have their drawbacks anymore.
The only time there are negatives now on the Weapon Mods is when there are multiple mods – like magazines – one of them will have higher positive values, but also some negative values.
For every slot, there is a mod for every type of stat that has no negative values.
Now you can choose the mods you want to use and that should also be more fun.

The Division 2 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The Invasion: Battle for D.C. update is set to arrive on Friday, April 5th across all platforms. As for the full patch notes, the dev team did make mention of the fact that they will be lengthy, but they don’t know exactly when they will arrive. Keep it tuned to Don’t Feed the Gamers as this story develops, and for other gaming goodness going on right now, check out the following:

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