State of the Game
Housekeeping
Maintenance
The servers will shut down for maintenance on Thursday, June 27th at 03:00 PM CEST / 09:00 AM EDT / 06:00 AM PDT.
Estimated downtime is approximately 3 hours.
There is a case where you could recalibrate the Dodge City Holster Talent to another item. If you have done that, the item that got the talent will be reset to its original state. The deconstructed holster will not be restored.
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Twitch Apparel Bundle
The first Twitch Apparel bundle is now live and can be claimed for free. They will all be sport themed.
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Loot in The Division
They are aware of the big loot discussion and that players are not satisfied with the progression. They agree the current gear system needs some changes. They are currently working on finding satisfying improvements. But this is not the topic of today.
Title Update 5 / Episode 1 PTS
- Will be open on Monday
- The new content will be open in stages, so that specific content can be tested one at a time.
- The exact schedule will be posted later.
Highlighted Changes:
Blueprints
- The entire blueprint pool of Inaya, Projects and Control Points are now shared, so if you missed a project you can grind them out at Control Points.
Exotics
- Heroic Bosses drop Exotics
- There will no longer be any stat downgrade when you update an Exotic to GS 500. Upgraded Exotics roll at max level – so if you have a GS 500 Nemesis, you have the same GS 500 Nemesis as everyone else.
Gun Runner Buff
- Cassie Mendoza will now sell GS500 items.
- She will also sell Named Items and Exotics
Crafting Station Upgrade
- The Crafting Station can be upgraded to GS 500
- The upgrade requires a GS 490 Gun, GS 490 Gear Piece and Materials
Recalibration
- Crafted items can be used for recalibration. To and from.
Flashlight
- There will be a flashlight attachment for pistols.
- It can be found somewhere.
Two new weapons
- Two new weapons will be added with Title Update 5.
- Carbine 7 Assault Rifle
- Stoner LMG
- Both with new Talents
- Diamondback lever action rifle
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Carbine 7 / Stoner LMG
New Gloves
- New Exotic BTSU (Black Tusk Special Unit) Gloves.
- This is specialized on hybrid Skill Builds (Offensive / Crowd Control combos) when you switch between those skills you will unlock very good buffs. *, For example, the Remote Pulse will have a detonate effect)
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Gloves
Skills Overhaul
They have done an overhaul of all Skills and in particular how they interact with Skill mods – how they get buffed and get more effective. The most viable skill-builds revolved around explosive skills – now they are even stronger, while the other like the Turret or the Shields are on par with that.
Intend
It basically started with looking at the DPS meta and how much damage you can do with weapons. At the moment you can do up to 3 Million DPS with an assault rifle build. They then basically used that as a benchmark and started working on the Skill Builds so that they can keep up with that. The goal was not to nerf the weapons – but to buff, a 100% Skill focused to build up to that level.
What has changed
Skill Mods
The Skill Mods got a big buff in how much impact they have on the Skills:
For example:
- TU4: A 3k Skill Power Turret Mod will buff the damage for 25-30%
- TU5: A 3k Skill Power Turret Mod will buff the damage for 150%
Cooldown Reduction becomes Skill Haste
They also looked at cooldowns and how effective the current cooldown system is. It was very easy to get 90% Skill Cooldown Reduction and get it down to 10 seconds. This is a problematic situation.
What they basically did is, that they changed Cooldown Reduction into Skill Haste. Skill Haste goes way above 100% and is a healthier system for the long term health of the game.
- So as of Title Update 5 Cooldown Reduction has been renamed into Skill Haste on all your items.
- The current values will also be buffed by 33%
- There are also very powerful Skill Haste Mods – so when you have 3k Skill Power you can have up to 200% Skill Haste on those mods.
Damage Buffs to Skills
The damage Skills were also buffed to do a lot more damage to the NPCs - even before the buffs from the Specialization are added on top of that. So when you have 3k Skill Power you can do a lot of damage even on challenging difficulty. But on heroic difficulty, it will still take some effort.
Weapons are still very much viable
While the Skills got a big buff – the king of continuous damage are still the weapons. This rework is not about “replacing weapon builds with skill builds” but to make them a viable option on the battlefield.
Shields were also buffed
The Shield-Skills also got a big buff to become more usable on the battlefield
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