Agents, The servers will shut down for maintenance and implementing TU8.5 on Tuesday, April 7th at 09:30 AM CEST / 03:30 AM EDT / 12:30 AM PDT. Estimated downtime is approximately 3 hours. Maintenance highlights: Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the stack acquisition of “Striker’s Gamble” to be inconsistent.
• Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to revive other agents.
• Fixed an issue causing “Aggressive Recon” and “Crossbow Expert” talents of the “Tip of the Spear” Gear Set to trigger in the DZ Safe House or DZ Control Points.
• Fixed an issue causing the “Short Circuit” buff to not restart after the cooldown has expired for the Hard Wired Gear Set.
• Fixed an issue causing players to be able to gain more than intended Operation Dark Hour keys.

Gameplay changes

• Control Points can now be reset by changing Global Difficulty.
  
  • Changing Directives will not reset Control Points.

Balance changes

• Improving auto-targeting of Assault Turret to better prioritize NPCs it can shoot, and which are close to it.
• Poison Status Effect: Reducing tick interval, damage and duration.
• EMP Skills and Shock effects will now do damage to several NPC Skills like the Jammer from Support units and the Nail Bomb from Thrower archetypes.

Full patch notes for TU8.5 can be found here. Please follow this thread for any updates as the maintenance progresses. Thank you for your patience, /The Division Team