Jan 25, 2018

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ - UbiAmper

Agents, incoming State of the Game transmission:

During the last State of the Game,Community Developers Petter Mårtensson and Yannick Banchereau highlighted some community content and revealed the vanity masks for Global Event Ambush.

This week, Petter and Yannick are back with a quick update on Global Event Ambush and more community highlights.

If you missed the stream, you check out the VOD.

Today’s maintenance completed on schedule and resolved the following issues:

Completed Manhunts wouldn’t progress the “Manhunted” Commendation
Infinite enemies could be spawned while playing Resistance

We are monitoring the Classified gear-sets and how they perform throughout the game. Please keep in mind that Ambush’s Classified gear are still new, and we want more players to get hands-on to experiment with the meta.

STATS WITH YANNICK

With the Global Event live, we are re-introducing Stats With Yannick. Here is the amount of Global Event Tokens that have been earned in the first 48-hours of Ambush:

This translates to 4.3 million Superior Ambush Caches opened. We speculate that there are some players who are saving their Global Event Tokens or have not opened their caches just yet.

FAN FICTION

We received a Division-inspired fan fictionwritten by Agent Saint. It highlights a London Division Agent diagnosed with diabetes. Thank you for sharing this story with us!

FAN ART

Lpariah is a new player to The Division who has just reached WT5. In an effort to expose more players to Manhattan’s landscapes, she compiled a Photo Journalduring the leveling process. There are some beautiful shots in the album!

Cheshire Cat created something similar with her Polaroid Tour of Manhattan. The screenshots were edited into fantastic Polaroid stills for all your sightseeing needs.

We would also like to thank Agent Baundiesel for sending us a photo-book of his series of screenshots across The Division—#DivisionShots.

COSPLAY

SHD Umbra combines Ghost Recon and The Division with his LVOA-C cosplay. Who says Ghosts cannot be SHD Agents too?

Agent Mabeobja makes a return, showcasing her cosplay in the Dark Zone. Fun fact: this picture was taken all the way from Tokyo!

Ryoto also submitted a cosplay all the way from Tokyo. Enemy LMB have been spotted roaming the snowy streets.

Keeping with the theme of snow, Tri_San showcases another Division Agent cosplay while shoveling!

VIDEO CONTENT

Orbital Thunder produced a short-film based on The Division! The video features the Echo system in a captivating way. Well done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSkGZvaa8Y
TheRealCrazyJo tours the International School in-game while commentating on the atrocities that transpired there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2nA19rKII
Orenjiiro Sage composed a song titled “Lawless” inspired by the chaos and anarchy that came with New York City’s collapse. We enjoyed every second of it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5pO39kYLhM
As a reminder, we also feature community content monthly in our Agent Highlightsarticles! If you have content you would like to share, please tweet your creations with the hashtag #AgentHighlights. A huge thanks to everyone who submits!

Unfortunately, we do not have any more news to share on Xbox One X Patch. We appreciate everyone’s anticipation and will follow up with more information as soon as possible.

As always, be sure to join us over on the Official Forumsor on the community Reddit if you’re looking for a place to discuss all things related to The Division.

Until next time!

The Division Dev Team

Jan 25, 2018

STATE OF THE GAME: JANUARY 25TH, 2018

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ - UbiAmper

Today’s maintenance completed on schedule and resolved the following issues:

Completed Manhunts wouldn’t progress the “Manhunted” Commendation
Infinite enemies could be spawned while playing Resistance

STATS WITH YANNICK

With the Global Event live, we are re-introducing Stats With Yannick. Here is the amount of Global Event Tokens that have been earned in the first 48-hours of Ambush:

This translates to 4.3 million Superior Ambush Caches opened. We speculate that there are some players who are saving their Global Event Tokens or have not opened their caches just yet.

FAN FICTION

We received a Division-inspired fan fictionwritten by Agent Saint. It highlights a London Division Agent diagnosed with diabetes. Thank you for sharing this story with us!

FAN ART

COSPLAY

SHD Umbra combines Ghost Recon and The Division with his LVOA-C cosplay. Who says Ghosts cannot be SHD Agents too?

Agent Mabeobja makes a return, showcasing her cosplay in the Dark Zone. Fun fact: this picture was taken all the way from Tokyo!

Ryoto also submitted a cosplay all the way from Tokyo. Enemy LMB have been spotted roaming the snowy streets.

Keeping with the theme of snow, Tri_San showcases another Division Agent cosplay while shoveling!

VIDEO CONTENT

Jan 23, 2018

GLOBAL EVENT #4: PREPARE FOR AMBUSH

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Global Event #4 is live, and Agents will have to adapt to new modifiers during the event.

Start: January 23, 12:00 UTC
End: January 30, 12:00 UTC

The following modifiers are live during Ambush:

Ambush—Always active. Agents deal increased damage while stationary.
Covert Ambush—Ambush behavior, plus health diminishes while moving.
Strategic Ambush—Covert Ambush behavior, plus health diminishes when close to allies.

Agents now have an opportunity to earn the following Classified gear-sets:

Classified AlphaBridge
Classified FireCrest
Classified Hunter's Faith
Classified Tactician's Authority

As with every Global Event, new vanity items are available. Three new face masks make their way into The Division and can be earned by completing Ambush-specific Commendations.

In addition, three new weapon skins alongside a new vanity outfit will be rewarded based on player performance on the tiered-Global Event Leaderboards. We hope to see everyone in-game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssIPskWsAB8

Jan 23, 2018

GLOBAL EVENT #4: PREPARE FOR AMBUSH

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ - UbiAmper

Global Event #4 is live, and Agents will have to adapt to new modifiers during the event.

Start: January 23, 12:00 UTC
End: January 30, 12:00 UTC

The following modifiers are live during Ambush:

Ambush—Always active. Agents deal increased damage while stationary.
Covert Ambush—Ambush behavior, plus health diminishes while moving.
Strategic Ambush—Covert Ambush behavior, plus health diminishes when close to allies.

Agents now have an opportunity to earn the following Classified gear-sets:

Classified AlphaBridge
Classified FireCrest
Classified Hunter's Faith
Classified Tactician's Authority

As with every Global Event, new vanity items are available. Three new face masks make their way into The Division and can be earned by completing Ambush-specific Commendations.

Jan 11, 2018

STATE OF THE GAME: JANUARY 11TH, 2018

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ - UbiAmper

Agents, incoming State of the Game transmission:

During the last State of the Game,Community Developers Yannick Banchereau and Hamish Bode discussed Classified set balancing in relation to the next Global Event’s last four Classified sets.

This week, Community Developer Petter Mårtensson is joined by Yannick to confirm the date for Global Event Ambush and talk community content.

If you missed the stream, you check out the VOD.If you’re currently on the move, we have you covered with our Podcast Recap.

We are back with the first State of the Game for 2018! With the new year upon us, we want to incorporate new changes to the show. We have decided to keep State of the Game as a weekly live-stream, but we want to include more community aspects that surround The Division—cosplays, fan art, highlights, as well as news. We are planning to implement these changes starting next week.

Maintenance today was completed without any issues. The Expansion Stash bug that prevented players from accessing Skirmish without the Season Pass is now resolved. If anyone is still experiencing issues, please contact Ubisoft Support.

After the maintenance today, the Holiday Cache is no longer available. If you did not get a chance to get your hands on the Santa Suit, MrKebab has you covered with a holiday message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6EU0TLTBbg
Global Event 4: Ambush is releasing on Tuesday, January 23 and will run for one week. The Classified sets that will release with the event are as follows:

AlphaBridge
Hunter's Faith
FireCrest
Tactician's Authority

At this point, we have no plans to tone-down any gear sets. We are waiting for the final four Classified sets to release with Ambush to see how the meta evolves.

We are aware of a video circulating about an invincibility bug, but we have not been able to reproduce the issue at the moment. We suspect it is a one-time bug, but if anyone has more information on the glitch please send the details to stateofthegame@massive.se.

As a preview for next week’s State of the Game, we wanted to highlight some community content!

SHD-LegenBeary may have broken his leg, but he still feels he is in a better place than Faye Lau.

Ghost provided a 3D render of weapons and accessories in The Division. We have no doubts that he will be able to handle himself on the streets of New York.

Lastly, Wild Max created a montage to ensure that everyone gets a little holiday cheer, both inside and outside of The Division.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qouDJEffWKw
We feature content like this every single month in our Agent Highlights articles! If you’ve created something you would like to share, please tweet your content with the hashtag #AgentHighlights.

There is a future for The Division, but we are very much focused on Update 1.8 right now. Keep in mind that Update 1.8 is the largest free update to the game, and it is still new. We appreciate all the excitement and enthusiasm, but we ask that everyone be as patient as possible.

To recap, there will be a State of the Game next week but it will be more community focused instead of news-oriented. We hope that everyone appreciates the community creations surrounding The Division because we definitely do!

Do not forget that Ambush begins on January 23! Prepare yourselves, Agents.

As always, be sure to join us over on the Official Forumsor on the community Reddit if you’re looking for a place to discuss all things related to The Division.

Until next time!

The Division Dev Team

Jan 11, 2018

STATE OF THE GAME: JANUARY 11TH, 2018

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ - UbiAmper

AlphaBridge
Hunter's Faith
FireCrest
Tactician's Authority

Ghost provided a 3D render of weapons and accessories in The Division. We have no doubts that he will be able to handle himself on the streets of New York.

Jan 2, 2018

These are the top 100 Steam games of 2017

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Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games.> But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now something of a tradition, Valve have let slip a big ol’ breakdown of the most successful titles released on Steam over the past twelve months.

Below is the full, hundred-strong roster, complete with links to our coverage if you want to find out more about any of the games, or simply to marvel at how much seemed to happen in the space of 52 short weeks.

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