Agents, 

We have some updates for you regarding the current state of the game. 
We'd also like to give you a sneak peek into what is coming next for The Division 2. 

Read more in our dedicated article > ubi.li/7FwEw

Agents!

Here are the patch notes for the upcoming Title Update 15.1.

GEAR & WEAPONS

New exotics “Dread Edict”, “Bluescreen” and “Catharsis” mask cannot be obtained from the Exotic Cache and are not available in the general loot pool anymore.  [Updated - May 25th, 2022, 5:30PM CEST]The “Bluescreen” and “Dread Edict” exotic weapons are now being displayed on the wall in the shooting range.Fixed an issue with the "Chill Out" mask missing Gila Guard branding.Fixed an issue with the “Dread Edict” Exotic SVD not stacking with the “Perfect Focus” armor talent.Players can no longer gain the "Disruptor Rounds" stacks by shooting wildlife and dead NPCs with the "Bluescreen" Exotic LMG.Fixed the pulse immunity: it is now protecting against headshots [Updated - May 30th, 2022, 5:30PM CEST]Fixed the issue with the headshots made with Heartbreaker set equipped giving the bonus armor even if the other player has 100% pulse resistance [Updated - May 30th, 2022, 5:30PM CEST]Fixed the issue with the named "Chill Out" mask not dropping from the Named Item Cache [Updated - May 30th, 2022, 5:30PM CEST]

COUNTDOWN

Fixed an issue with players getting stuck on 100% loading screen after exiting Countdown Mode.Fixed an issue with the enemy NPC spawning in reactor after encounter was completed.Fixed an issue with the Hunters being shown as Black Tusk on the "Inspect" frame of the death screen.

EXPERTISE

“Donate All Junk” button functionality is now fixed and should be giving the same number of materials regardless of the menu category.Upgrade grades are now displayed on SKILL and SIGNATURE WEAPONS in the inventory similar to Gear and Weapon items.The grade is also displayed in the Expertise Menu.Fixed an issue with the Upgrade animation not being displayed when upgrading a SKILL or SIGNATURE WEAPON in the Expertise Menu.Corrected the Expertise progression so that Proficiency ranks gained with kill XP will no longer count double towards expertise levels. [Updated - May 30th, 2022, 5:30PM CEST]

SEASON 9

Rewards:

Placeholder names are no longer present for some cosmetic premium rewards on the rewards track screen for languages other than English.

Manhunt:

Fixed an issue where only the session owner received the encryption key after completing Manhunt in a group.Players should no longer be missing the decryption key when resuming their personal progression after doing the decryption mission while in a group.The issue with the EMP drones in the “Hidden Alliance” Manhunt target missions having placeholder icons is now fixed.Fixed the issues when the investigation update does not appear on the HUD within the Manhunt investigation objectives after the Control Point completion.Fixed an issue with the server crashing when the player is entering a shared space while the VO from audio file is playing.Fixed an issue when the players do not receive a notification that the group leader cannot start a Takeover Bounty while the party members are in the mission area and the party leader is at least 100 meters away.Fixed an issue with the Prime Target mission objective not being updated if the players happen to stand close to the area leading to the mission's next beat when all hostiles are eliminated.Fixed an issue where the Team leader would see "Activate Bounty" as an option when their teammate was in the mission area of the Takeover Bounty.

UI:

Fixed an issue with the Assault Rifle "TKB-408" icon not being centered in the Inventory tab.

Other:

Fixed an issue with the layer becoming invisible if they detonate the EMP sticky bomb while interacting with a ladder.

Known Issues

Season 9:

Images from all the Season 9 leagues represent the wrong enemy factionsFairview Crew Apparel Event is not available in the game

Weapons:

Multiple weapon mods are clipping with the TKB-408 Assault Rifle

/ The Division 2 Development Team

Agents!

Title Update 15 is here, and we wanted to give you some information on the improvements and features that you can expect with it. 

Season 9 “Hidden Alliance”

Title Update 15 marks the beginning of Season 9 “Hidden Alliance”. Hidden Alliance starts by showing the immediate consequences that followed the confrontation with Faye Lau at Camp White Oak.

Check out our dedicated article containing everything you need to know about what’s coming in “Hidden Alliance”.

Manhunt

Season 9 continues The Division narrative and Agents will be faced with a new target in Captain Lewis.

With Captain Lewis’ manhunt, you’ll have to take down 4 new targets: Major Castillo, Lieutenant Chang, Sergeant Daniels and Major Xander.

Expertise

We are introducing a brand-new progression feature, Expertise. This is a new way for agents to further improve the maximum performance of select weapons, gear sets, skill variants and more.

This feature is composed of two types of progression systems: the Expertise Level and the Proficiency Rank.Each eligible item type has a Proficiency Rank, which can be increased either through Donations or Kill XP. Only when an item type reaches the highest Proficiency Rank possible, will the agent become Proficient with it and be able to increase the Grade of the individual items of that type. Every item type has the same amount of Proficiency Ranks.Additionally, each agent has a unique Expertise Level, which increases as the Proficiency Ranks are gained in more item typesExpertise and Proficiency is account-wide

Changes based on the PTS feedback

Lowered costs for Field Recon Data, SHD Calibration and Exotics Materials by half from level 11 up to level 20. Levels 1-10 and 21+ remain unchanged.Reduced the materials requirements for all ranks of Gear pieces by another half. Now, Gear pieces will require two times less materials for upgrades to make it more consistent with the number of materials needed for Weapons and Skills upgrades.Added "Donate All Junk” button into the main Expertise menu.

Types

Expertise Level: Agent levelProficiency Rank: Item type levelProficient: Reaching Max Proficiency Rank in an item typeGrade: Individual item level

Research Categories

WeaponsGear brandsGear setsNamed ItemsExoticsSkill VariantsSpecialization Weapons

Check out our dedicated article containing everything you need to know about Expertise.

Countdown

Countdown is a new 8-player endgame mode for The Division 2. Two groups of four SHD agents are deployed into a power plant to prevent a lockdown. Racing against the clock, the agents must work together to secure the site and stabilize the power plant. Believing their mission is complete the agents prepare for extraction and are pursued by heavily armed and technologically advanced hostiles.

8 players PvETimed missionVarious objectivesRandomized encounters and flow on a new unique mapNew gear and weapon dropsAvailable through matchmaking

New Gear

With TU15 comes a booster shot of powerful new items to add to your collection or arsenal. All told, TU15 will be adding 3 new Exotics, 1 new Gear Set, 1 new gear brand, 2 new weapons for a total of 4 new named items.

Named Gear:

Closer — ChestTalent Perfect Spotter: Amplifies total weapon and skill damage by 20% to pulsed enemies.

The Setup — BackpackTalent Perfectly Opportunistic: Enemies you hit with shotguns and marksman rifles amplifies the damage they take by 15% from all sources for 5s.

Heartbreaker — Gear Set:2 set: +15% Assault Rifle DMG & +15% LMG DMG3 set: +15% Weapon Handling4 set: HeartstopperHeadshots apply pulse 5s.Weapon hits on pulsed enemies add and refreshes a stack of +1% bonus armour for and +1% damage to pulsed enemies for 5s. Max stack is 50.4+ Chest: Max stack is now 100.4+ Backpack: Stacks now supply +2% bonus armour

Uzina Getica — Gear Brand Set5.0% Armor10% Armor on Kill10% Hazard Protection

NEW WEAPONS

Exotic Weapons

Dread Edict — exotic variation of the SVD Marksman RifleTalent Full Stop: Shooting enemies builds stacks to a cap of 20. Headshots grant 2 stacks. Each stack grants 2% Weapon Damage and 5% Headshot Damage. On reload, clear all stacks, and gain 5% of your max Armor as temp armour for 10 seconds for each stack removed. Headshot kills with Dread Edict restore all bullets in the magazine. This does not count as a reload.Catharsis — exotic maskTalent Vicious Cycle: Taking damage builds stacks to a cap of 30. Each stack grants 1% Weapon Damage. Taking damage at max stacks triggers a purge, removing all stacks and Status Effects and then dropping a healing cloud which restores 5% of Max Armor for 10s to all allies in the cloud.Bluescreen — exotic variation of the Stoner LMGTalent Disruptor Rounds: Shooting an enemy marks them and adds a stack to the agent up to a count of 50. Shooting a marked enemy refreshes the mark and adds stacks to the agent. When you deploy a non-shield skill, remove all stacks on agent and all marked targets trigger an effect.1 -10 Stacks - Pulse marked targets for 5 seconds11 - 25 Stacks - Pulse and Disrupt marked targets for 5 seconds.26 - 49 Stacks - Pulse, Disrupt, and Disorient marked targets for 5 seconds.50 Stacks - Pulse, Disrupt, and Disorient marked targets and all hostiles within 10 meters of the marked targets for 5 seconds. This effect will trigger immediately if any marked enemy is killed. 

Named Weapons:

Dare —LMG HK GR9Talent Perfect Flatline: Amplifies weapon damage by 20% to pulsed enemies. After 2 kills, applies pulse to the next enemy you hit.

Kingbreaker — TKB-408 Assault RifleTalent Perfect Flatline: Amplifies weapon damage by 20% to pulsed enemies. After 2 kills, applies pulse to the next enemy you hit.

Balance Adjustments

Adjustments have been made to the functioning of various talents in order to curtail undesirable behaviours and imbalance.

Overview
Modifications to shield skill behaviours

Shields now take significantly more damage in PvP.Shields now irresistibly disorient their user when broken.

Excluded shields from the In-Sync Talent

In-Sync and Perfectly In-Sync no longer trigger from shield skills.The text of these talents has been updated.

Updated Intimidate and Perfect Intimidate Talents

New Behaviour: While you have bonus armour, gain 1 stack each second up to a max of 7. Each stack increases total weapon damage by 5% to enemies within 10m.All stacks are lost when you have no bonus armour.Perfect Version: Increase max stacks to 8PvP: 4% weapon damage per stack instead of 5

Design Notes
Shield skills have been unbalanced for quite some time and have grown to be a dominant build tactic in both PvE and PvP. Combined with In-Sync, shields provide an unparalleled, no-downsides DPS boost.

In addition, Intimidate when combined with various methods of gaining short-term bonus armour. This made it deeply unfair in ambush situations in PvP and led to an undesirable PvE meta as well. As such, Intimidate now requires a slow build-up before reaching maximum effectiveness.

Gameplay Adjustments

Added a disorienting effect to players when their shield breaks Updated Intimidate and Perfect Intimidate so that there is a ramp-up to their effectivenessOmit shields from the effects of the In-Sync talentIncreased the PvP damage to shieldRepair Traps now heal allies for the proper amount

Season Pass

The optional Season Pass is available for 1000 Premium Credits ($10 or your regional equivalent) in the in-game store, granting additional cosmetics and opportunities for season gear as you progress.

Apparel Events

Fairview Apparel Event
The Fairview Apparel Event will feature 27 new apparel items to gather, collect, and use to deck out your agent, starting on May 24th. This event is open to all Warlords of New York owners who have completed the New York campaign. Rewards and progress are automatically enabled at the start of the event.

Street Activation Event
The Street Activation Apparel Event will feature 27 new apparel items to gather, collect, and use to deck out your agent, starting on July 5th.