The Division: Incursions Update

Incursions

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Story and Background

• Falcon Lost will be the first Incursion
  
• It takes place in a Water Treatment Plant and is a LMB Stronghold, because that is not really something that you bomb, when you want to take back New York
• Captain Perez reassembles the LMB to keep control and now it is our job to stop the rest of the LMB
  
• Multiple voice-overs and discussions that will be different each time
  

Tactics

• You won´t be able to camp in Falcon Lost
• There will be new enemies: Drones – they will flush you out of cover and need to be shot down
• You really need a good group and tactics, will be very difficult with PUGs
• It is not only about gear but also a lot about player skills
• You need synergy between playstyle

Matchmaker

• Matchmaker is confirmed for Incursions. There is a Gear-Score recommendation for hard-mode and for Challenge Mode, you won´t be matched with players that are below a specific score.

Checkpoints

• No checkpoints in Incursions, when you die you have to start over

Weekly lockouts?

• No weekly lockout for incursions you can play them as many times as you want.
• The first time in the week you will get a very good reward, and after that you will get good rewards

Future Incursions

• More Incursions are planed (Columbus Circle is already confirmed for the Conflict update in May)
• Future incursions will have different mechanics

Rewards

• Best/new gear and weapons than everywhere in the game (also new named weapons)
• Gear-Set-items

Difficulty


The Difficulty of the Incursions is very high, because it needs group coordination, tactics and also good gear to beat the Incursion.

Incursions have two difficulties:

• Hard Mode that will require the equivalent of the current level 31 high end gear
• Challenge Mode that will require the new gear-sets

The devs could beat the hard mode, so they made it more difficult. The QC players needed days to beat the Challenge Mode Incursion.

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Trading

Player can drop items to give it to the other players in the group that were present as you got the item

Restrictions:

• Dark Zone you have to go to a Checkpoints to trade the item (safe area)
• Dropped loot can be picked up by all players in the group
• Items can be dropped and traded multiple times in the 2h window after pickup

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New Feature: Assignments

• There will be weekly and daily assignments
• You can earn Phoenix Credits and Division Tech
• Good rewards in general
• Example: killing 10 Cleaners

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New Dark Zone Activities


Supply Drops

• Drop from the sky that happens every hour on different locations and have very good rewards
• Only the first group that gets there will get the reward.
• Supply Drops are protected by hard enemies
• When you get the supply drop, you don´t have to extract them.

In general, they will add new activities in every future update

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Spectator-Cam

• When you die during a group-mission, you can follow other teammates
• You can switch between your teammates, look around and help them until you are revived

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Gear-Sets

• There are 4 gear sets
• Finding and equipping four pieces from a single set unlocks a new, never-before-seen talent for your Agent, which the developers aren’t revealing yet.
• You will also get a setbonus when you have a specific number of set-pieces equipped
• Gear sets will have other talents than what we already have
• Different gearsets per playstyle
• Are more powerful than High-Ends gear pieces – but you have to equip a multiple number of items to get the buff – but gear sets don´t have gear talents
• Help a lot in the group synergy when players of the group have different sets

Sentry’s Call

• This is the Snipers Gear set

Striker’s Battle Gear

• Combat Assault set

Path of the Nomad

• Dark Zone / Solo oriented set (very vague)

Technician’s Authority

• Support and Tech-Bonus

You can get Gear Sets from:

• Incursions
• Blueprints that can be bought
• Drop in Challenge Mode Missions
• Dark Zone

Gear Score

• After you reach level 30 you are measured by gear score / now you don´t see player level but the gear score
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  The gear score is calculated by the gear you are wearing and is based on the quality and item-level
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  Gear score is also included in matchmaking. Matchmaking will also include the items you have in the inventory.

Player Level Cap

• Agent level is still capped at 30, but your gear score can boost your abilities beyond your level, and are touted as a new way of leveling up for top-level players.

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Release Date

April 12th 2016 - on all platforms.