Post by TRUE EB0LA on Apr 4, 2016 10:01:23 GMT -5
ALL CREDIT FOR THIS GUIDE GOES TO JokerUnique
Your first big mission, after you have arrived on Manhattan Island, is to establish a Base of Operations (BoO) where the effort to take back New York can be coordinated and documented. Located in Pennsylvania Plaza, the James Farley Post Office was converted by the JTF and is now the place where you get your main-missions, restock your ammo and unlock new Skills, Talents and Perks. While you can find a Safe House in every District, there is only one Base of Operation in the game and the BoO will also reflect your efforts to take back New York. It will be a terrible mess at the beginning, but as you progress through the story, it will get more and more cleaned up. This entry will explain, how the Base of Operation works and who the people are, that will accompany you on your journey through New York.
Situation
When we start the game, the BoO is in very bad shape. We just have occupied the building and everything is offline. Our direct contact is Agent Faye Lau. She was badly wounded in action and will now take over the command of the BoO and coordinate the rebuild-process. While she is setting up the command-post it is now our job to take over the field operation, find the missing people and activate the Base of Operation.
Market
At the Base of Operation you will find multiple vendors where you can buy and sell items:
As you upgrade the Base of Operations you will also get additional vendors that allow you to buy your equipment right at the BoO instead of traveling across the map:
Missions
While you will get the main-missions from the people that manage the different Wings of the BoO, you can get the side-missions and other encounters from two places. First there is a JTF (Joint Task Force) officer in the lobby and also a so called Situation Board that can be scanned. This way you can get information about what is going on in the area, get missions and other tasks that will then be marked on the Mega-Map.
Stash
The Stash is located right on opposite wall when you enter the lobby of the BoO. This is the place where you can store your items and claim the loot, that you have extracted from the Dark Zone. But the Stash is not only a place to store the Items, it is also a shared bank. Every character that you have created has access to this stash and if you want to move an item from one agent to the other, you can do that with the Stash.
Crafting station
The Crafting Station allows you to craft items and store resources. (More about this in the crafting chapter)
Contact on site
Before we explore the different wings and the people that are responsible for them, lets meet your direct contact and fellow The Division agent:
Faye Lau (32) - SHD Analyst
Personnel Notes:
Lau is an expert field agent known for her keen sense of observation, fierce loyalty, and cold pragmatism. A second generation Chinese-American, Lau’s parents were killed in a car crash when she was a teenager, leaving her to raise her younger sister. Lau later joined ROTC at City College, after which she excelled through the upper echelons of government intelligence and national security. Lau now serves as a “handler”, responsible for the base’s maintenance and collecting and giving intel to the player. Competitive, driven, and full of grit, there is no question in Lau’s status as a devoted patriot or her belief in the system. Though her peers typically regard her as a strong, serious woman, she has a caustic sense of humor, a knack for knitting, and a secret love of romantic movies.
You can read her full character sheet here:
Wings
The unlock-process of the Skills, Talents and Perks are directly linked to the Base of Operation progression. But how does this work?
The Base of Operations is structured in 3 different wings. (Medical / Technology / Security) These wings are in direct connection to the Medical, Technology and Security-grid, in the Skills menu. As you do missions and gather resources to buy upgrades for the different wings, you will also unlock Skills, Talents and Perks for the specific Skill-category. When you have one of the wings maxed out, you will have every Skill, Talent and Perk this specific category has to offer and you will also get the additional Master bonus that gives each Skill additional abilities. Leveling-up the different wings is also reflected in your Base of Operations – the base will get cleaned up and after a while it will look like a professional headquarter and reflect your efforts to take back New York.
To unlock a wing, you first have to find the person that is responsible for each wing. For example, you need to rescue Dr. Kandel in the Madison Square Garden mission. After that, each wing has its own mission-storyline that will give you information about the virus, who the different factions are and what happened to the agents of the first wave. Once a wing is unlocked, you can buy a total of 10 upgrades for each wing and each time buy an upgrade, you unlock Skills, Talents or Perks.
Each wing has also its own set of Missions, Side-Missions and Encounters in the open-world that can popup on the Mega-Map (they are color-coded, so you see very clearly for what wing each Mission/Side-Mission/Encounter is) Every-time you finish a task for a wing, you get resources for the specific wing that will allow you to buy these upgrades that are more or less expensive. (we will look at these upgrades in a separate chapter)
Medical Wing
Here we have the ability to take care of the wounded and the sick. In terms of Skills, medical-skills are perfectly suited to players who wish to evolve as support and take care for their teammates during combat. To activate the Medical Wing you have to find Dr. Jessica Kandel. She is a virologist that is needed to find the origin of the virus and to create a vaccine.
Responsible:
Jessica Kandel (46) - BioMedical Engineer
Personnel Notes:
Kandel’s intellectual curiosity is prodigious. After graduating at the top of her class at both MIT and Hopkins, Kandel spent five years in a CDC fellowship before acceding to the recruitment efforts of a gen-tech start-up in New York. Widely known by her peers as a puzzle-solver, she’s never backed down from a new challenge thrown her way. Her drive, confidence, and intellect, though excellent, can be intimidating to others; and although she remains humble about her abilities, she doesn’t have time for your pride —she has breakthroughs to discover. After her mother died of pancreatic cancer when she was nine, her father raised her on the Upper West Side. Her pursuit of conquests outside of her personal life isolated Kandel from those closest to her and, later in life, led to the dissolution of her marriage. It is with a twinge of irony, then, that she finally began to come to terms with her divorce only when the Green Poison struck New York.
You can read her full character sheet here
Main-Tasks:
Technology Wing
The development of the technological infrastructure of New York will play a decisive role in its reconstruction.
Responsible:
Paul Rhodes (45) - Tech Entrepreneur
Personnel Notes:
For as twitchy and cynical as he may be, Rhodes is, by all accounts, incredibly smart. Part technical genius, expert weapons engineer, and recently-failed entrepreneur, Rhodes prides himself on sticking to his guns, even when the going gets tough. Born and raised in central Jersey, Rhodes has always lived a mobile life. Having attended Rutgers and bounced between various tech shops, Rhodes never had a good reason to stay anywhere. In 2003, his wayfaring eventually brought him to Iraq, where he served as a contractor with a PMC. During his time there, he was the sole survivor of an ambush. After escaping, he found himself grappling from the enormous burden of survivor’s guilt.
You can read his full character sheet here.
Main Task:
Information Stations:
Security Wing
Each mission will allow the city to benefit from better defenses against multiple threats and civil protection forces are increased. Safety skills will give you important defense abilities and will make you a perfect tank in a team.
Responsible:
Captain Ray Benitez (48) - NYPD Officer
Personnel Notes:
A narcotics officer for 8 years, Benitez’s entrance into the force only seemed natural, having been raised by a policeman father. Benitez is largely an idealist cop; he isn’t afraid to do the right thing, even if it means making a few enemies—a courage now rarely seen. For him, there is only ever a right way to do things, and a wrong way. Past performance reviews have rightly described him as stubborn. Relentless in cracking cases and a grand master at grudge holding, Benitez is a force to reckon with. But for as much he strives to go above and beyond the call of duty, he finds himself at a crossroads with finding the confidence to do so at times.
You can read his full character sheet here.
Main-Task:
Information stations:
SOURCE
Your first big mission, after you have arrived on Manhattan Island, is to establish a Base of Operations (BoO) where the effort to take back New York can be coordinated and documented. Located in Pennsylvania Plaza, the James Farley Post Office was converted by the JTF and is now the place where you get your main-missions, restock your ammo and unlock new Skills, Talents and Perks. While you can find a Safe House in every District, there is only one Base of Operation in the game and the BoO will also reflect your efforts to take back New York. It will be a terrible mess at the beginning, but as you progress through the story, it will get more and more cleaned up. This entry will explain, how the Base of Operation works and who the people are, that will accompany you on your journey through New York.
Situation
When we start the game, the BoO is in very bad shape. We just have occupied the building and everything is offline. Our direct contact is Agent Faye Lau. She was badly wounded in action and will now take over the command of the BoO and coordinate the rebuild-process. While she is setting up the command-post it is now our job to take over the field operation, find the missing people and activate the Base of Operation.
Market
At the Base of Operation you will find multiple vendors where you can buy and sell items:
- Weapon Vendor (weapons)
- Gear Vendor (Equipment)
- Mods Vendor (Weapons / Weapon mods)
- Rewards Claim Vendor (Claim rewards from special events like Beta)
As you upgrade the Base of Operations you will also get additional vendors that allow you to buy your equipment right at the BoO instead of traveling across the map:
- Black Market Vendor (Dark Zone fund purchases)
- Clothes Vendor (special cosmetic Items)
- Advanced Weapons Vendor
Missions
While you will get the main-missions from the people that manage the different Wings of the BoO, you can get the side-missions and other encounters from two places. First there is a JTF (Joint Task Force) officer in the lobby and also a so called Situation Board that can be scanned. This way you can get information about what is going on in the area, get missions and other tasks that will then be marked on the Mega-Map.
Stash
The Stash is located right on opposite wall when you enter the lobby of the BoO. This is the place where you can store your items and claim the loot, that you have extracted from the Dark Zone. But the Stash is not only a place to store the Items, it is also a shared bank. Every character that you have created has access to this stash and if you want to move an item from one agent to the other, you can do that with the Stash.
Crafting station
The Crafting Station allows you to craft items and store resources. (More about this in the crafting chapter)
Contact on site
Before we explore the different wings and the people that are responsible for them, lets meet your direct contact and fellow The Division agent:
Faye Lau (32) - SHD Analyst
Personnel Notes:
Lau is an expert field agent known for her keen sense of observation, fierce loyalty, and cold pragmatism. A second generation Chinese-American, Lau’s parents were killed in a car crash when she was a teenager, leaving her to raise her younger sister. Lau later joined ROTC at City College, after which she excelled through the upper echelons of government intelligence and national security. Lau now serves as a “handler”, responsible for the base’s maintenance and collecting and giving intel to the player. Competitive, driven, and full of grit, there is no question in Lau’s status as a devoted patriot or her belief in the system. Though her peers typically regard her as a strong, serious woman, she has a caustic sense of humor, a knack for knitting, and a secret love of romantic movies.
You can read her full character sheet here:
Wings
The unlock-process of the Skills, Talents and Perks are directly linked to the Base of Operation progression. But how does this work?
The Base of Operations is structured in 3 different wings. (Medical / Technology / Security) These wings are in direct connection to the Medical, Technology and Security-grid, in the Skills menu. As you do missions and gather resources to buy upgrades for the different wings, you will also unlock Skills, Talents and Perks for the specific Skill-category. When you have one of the wings maxed out, you will have every Skill, Talent and Perk this specific category has to offer and you will also get the additional Master bonus that gives each Skill additional abilities. Leveling-up the different wings is also reflected in your Base of Operations – the base will get cleaned up and after a while it will look like a professional headquarter and reflect your efforts to take back New York.
To unlock a wing, you first have to find the person that is responsible for each wing. For example, you need to rescue Dr. Kandel in the Madison Square Garden mission. After that, each wing has its own mission-storyline that will give you information about the virus, who the different factions are and what happened to the agents of the first wave. Once a wing is unlocked, you can buy a total of 10 upgrades for each wing and each time buy an upgrade, you unlock Skills, Talents or Perks.
Each wing has also its own set of Missions, Side-Missions and Encounters in the open-world that can popup on the Mega-Map (they are color-coded, so you see very clearly for what wing each Mission/Side-Mission/Encounter is) Every-time you finish a task for a wing, you get resources for the specific wing that will allow you to buy these upgrades that are more or less expensive. (we will look at these upgrades in a separate chapter)
Medical Wing
Here we have the ability to take care of the wounded and the sick. In terms of Skills, medical-skills are perfectly suited to players who wish to evolve as support and take care for their teammates during combat. To activate the Medical Wing you have to find Dr. Jessica Kandel. She is a virologist that is needed to find the origin of the virus and to create a vaccine.
Responsible:
Jessica Kandel (46) - BioMedical Engineer
Personnel Notes:
Kandel’s intellectual curiosity is prodigious. After graduating at the top of her class at both MIT and Hopkins, Kandel spent five years in a CDC fellowship before acceding to the recruitment efforts of a gen-tech start-up in New York. Widely known by her peers as a puzzle-solver, she’s never backed down from a new challenge thrown her way. Her drive, confidence, and intellect, though excellent, can be intimidating to others; and although she remains humble about her abilities, she doesn’t have time for your pride —she has breakthroughs to discover. After her mother died of pancreatic cancer when she was nine, her father raised her on the Upper West Side. Her pursuit of conquests outside of her personal life isolated Kandel from those closest to her and, later in life, led to the dissolution of her marriage. It is with a twinge of irony, then, that she finally began to come to terms with her divorce only when the Green Poison struck New York.
You can read her full character sheet here
Main-Tasks:
- Investigate the source of the virus that was unleashed on Black Friday
- Build staff
- Find live virus samples
- Gather Supplies
- Search intel to track down people that are responsible for the outbreak
- Investigate origins of the virus
Technology Wing
The development of the technological infrastructure of New York will play a decisive role in its reconstruction.
Responsible:
Paul Rhodes (45) - Tech Entrepreneur
Personnel Notes:
For as twitchy and cynical as he may be, Rhodes is, by all accounts, incredibly smart. Part technical genius, expert weapons engineer, and recently-failed entrepreneur, Rhodes prides himself on sticking to his guns, even when the going gets tough. Born and raised in central Jersey, Rhodes has always lived a mobile life. Having attended Rutgers and bounced between various tech shops, Rhodes never had a good reason to stay anywhere. In 2003, his wayfaring eventually brought him to Iraq, where he served as a contractor with a PMC. During his time there, he was the sole survivor of an ambush. After escaping, he found himself grappling from the enormous burden of survivor’s guilt.
You can read his full character sheet here.
Main Task:
- Solve the disappearance of the first wave agents that were deployed to manage the crisis.
Information Stations:
- Surveillance Data
Security Wing
Each mission will allow the city to benefit from better defenses against multiple threats and civil protection forces are increased. Safety skills will give you important defense abilities and will make you a perfect tank in a team.
Responsible:
Captain Ray Benitez (48) - NYPD Officer
Personnel Notes:
A narcotics officer for 8 years, Benitez’s entrance into the force only seemed natural, having been raised by a policeman father. Benitez is largely an idealist cop; he isn’t afraid to do the right thing, even if it means making a few enemies—a courage now rarely seen. For him, there is only ever a right way to do things, and a wrong way. Past performance reviews have rightly described him as stubborn. Relentless in cracking cases and a grand master at grudge holding, Benitez is a force to reckon with. But for as much he strives to go above and beyond the call of duty, he finds himself at a crossroads with finding the confidence to do so at times.
You can read his full character sheet here.
Main-Task:
- Find out about the factions that overtook the different districts of New York.
Information stations:
- Incident Reports
SOURCE