Everyone has a fighting chance
A new blog post has been published to provide The Division 2 players with an overview of the new Clan System. This is a new feature for the series and allows up to 50 accounts with four characters each to be part of the clan. Several features are in place that are familiar to longtime gamers including ranks, a clan social space, projects, progression, XP, messaging and customization options.
Ubisoft has a great deal for those who choose to preorder The Division 2: A free game! Players can choose from Ghost Recon Wildlands, Watch Dogs 2 or Far Cry Primal. Games can be downloaded now, but will not be playable until March 15th when The Division 2 is released. Free games will need to be claimed by March 31st or the deal disappears forever!
Ubisoft has announced that The Division 2 is being primed for an open beta event that will take place from March 1st to March 4th. The open beta will be available for PC, XBox One and PlayStation 4. The event is coming just two weeks ahead of the March 15th launch.
Preloading for tomorrow’s The Division 2 Private Beta has started via UPlay and the client weighs in at a hefty 41.89Gb for PC. The demo event will run from Thursday, February 7th through Monday, February 11th and provides guaranteed access for those who have preordered the game. A limited number of keys have also been given out to those who registered on the game’s official site.
From February 7th to February 10th, players who have preordered Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, or who have been randomly selected if they have signed up on the official site, will be able to take part in the private beta. To get people stoked for the event, Ubisoft pushed out a trailer showcasing some of what players can expect during the event.
Those who have already, or will soon, pre-order The Division 2 will be able to have guaranteed access to the just-announced private beta event now dated for February 7-10. In addition, anyone can register for limited spots by heading to The Division 2 site. To showcase what The Division 2 is about, Ubisoft released a brand new story trailer.
The PC version of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will be bypassing a Steam launch. Instead, PC players will be able to purchase digital copies of the game either through Uplay, Ubisoft’s own game launcher, or via the Epic Games Store. According to Ubisoft representatives, “We have no plans currently on releasing Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on Steam.” Oddly enough, a Steam product page was available up to recently on Steam, though it is now removed.
Lucky players who’ve been selected to take part in the first technical alpha for The Division 2 will need to be prepped and ready to go for the December 15th event. Download of the client is already available. The event is slated to “run on a certain scale and host a limited number of players so” the dev team can “gather up the feedback and the data” they require. This is an NDA-bound event that begins at 5:00 am Pacific / 8:00 am Eastern on Saturday.
The Division is going to be getting some expanded lore to tie both The Division and The Division 2 together. Fans can look forward to a new Dark Horse comic series called “Tom Clancy’s The Division: Extremis Malis and it is considered “the perfect introduction to the post-pandemic world of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2”. The first issue will be available on January 9th and is already up for preorder.
The Division 2 blog has been updated with a new developer blog that lays out the first details about five different skill categories. The skill categories are: Chem Launcher, Drone, Hive, Seeker Mine and Turret with each providing players with “several variants with very different gameplay and effects”. Each can be tailored to be fully offensive in nature, fully packed with party utility or a hybrid of the two.