Anundir

So you are going the Call of Duty route where every 3 months you pinch your community for optional "Premium" content? Quit playing COD when that happened and am seriously inclined to not participate in this either. I don't mind paying a season pass for content that I can access at any time at my pace. What I do mind is this constant slot machine every 3 months of "just put in $5.00 more and look what you can earn!"

All seasonal gear can be acquired by just playing the game while the season is active. You don't have to pay anything if you don't want to. There are additional apparel items and you get more random gear with the Premium Track.

DrollRemarks

Whoa. So I get home from work, preorder WoNY on Xbox, and my alt characters will be auto-boosted to 30?

No, it's a manual process. We don't automatically boost you.

RisingDeadMan0

ah, good to know. this must be part of the whole when u return to DC things will be different

Yes, during Seasons there will be new activities in Washington.

Jlinz_20

Chris,

If you do have the expansion but are doing mission/activities in DC, will you still gain Season XP?

Yes, any XP you earn is going towards your SHD Level and Season XP. Some Season activities, like Global Events, require you to do specific things to gain progress within them. But SHD Level and Season always benefit from you playing.

thexvoid

Wait…what? This expansion, year two, and presumably seasons comes out in three weeks. Edit: I see seasons launch a week later. My point stands though

How are you guys only “hoping” to have details about seasons a week before launch? This is the type of shit that should have been done months ago so players could be informed better.

Well I'm hoping because it's not on me to make these decisions. In the end it would be "ok" to have the final layout when Season 1 starts, as you won't be able to buy the Premium Track as a bundle with Warlords of New York.

That being said we obviously want to have the info out there asap, which is why the Premium Track is already mentioned in all our communication.

schizolingvo

Wait, then what is a premium track and how do you get that?

We're not 100% set yet on how this will work. The Premium track will contain exclusive Apparel items and more seasonal gear which is randomized.

You likely will be able to purchase the track with a one time fee but we're still working on the details on it. We have a State of the Game in two weeks about Seasons and hopefully will have the full picture by then.

We also have a lengthy article about Seasons here.

Boyoftrick_90

Weird it says loot is activated.

Different drops!

theLegACy99

It's on this one: https://www.ubisoft.com/sv-se/game/the-division/the-division-2/news-updates/76GpEgcNsk2iNg0YWybgw6/what-are-seasons-in-the-division-2-warlords-of-new-york

Thanks, we'll update the messaging once I get the clarification.

RisingDeadMan0

which doesnt answer his question at all, he is asking how it scales up, how well will a GS515 player be able to do when he scales up to level 40 when he plays with you in DC. Once the WYN come back to DC they will no longer have GS

It's a very similar experience to what you can play right now if you're level 30 and your friend is below level 30.

In regards of raid I'll get a clarification but my current understanding is that you cannot access the level 30 raid if you're 40.

Boyoftrick_90

Will this also have a chance to drop the helmet and weapon skin?

Nope, that was unique to yesterday's stream.

Dasrufken

Seasons are not a year 2 pass thing, you will only pay for cosmetic things. Fucken sweet.

Just to make sure: You will need the Warlords of New York expansion to access Seasons. Seasons will always have a free track for expansion owners.

theLegACy99

you cannot access the level 30 raid if you're 40

According to a blog post on Div 2 website, they said you can, but you will be scaled down.

Do you have a link to that? This one we published yesterday doesn't mention the raid.

Moggon

You’re absolutely right.

You'll be fine. We're all here to support you!

TheToOTaLL89

That’s called marketing. 😁 If people don’t watch the stream they will think they need to preorder to get that bonus.

To clarify, whenever you buy Warlords of New York you are getting the Level 30 Character Boost. The pre-order bonus is that you will be able to use the boost immediately after today's maintenance.

Redmanabirds

What intrigues me the most about that, is what does it mean for your main story progress when you come “back” to DC as one of those boosted characters. Is the story content still available to you? Did you just skip the story and now the map is the end game map?

While you can re-play the missions of course, you will have "finished" the story if you boost your character. This needs to be done to allow you to have access to all the Skills immediately when you got to New York.

Sorry, that wasn't well explained yesterday. The Level 30 Character Boost is going live today, with Episode 3.

We have a fix going in for this in Episode 3, this month.

CerealLama

That's not the Honey Badger. This is the Honey Badger.

I'm 100% positive that's a HK417 (MR308) utilising the G28 handguard in black. Here's a better picture of it from the video showing the rail, flash hider and receiver.

Here's a H&K HK417 and an MR308 for reference.

There's several parts that are the same. The flash hider. The front rails/handguard design (including the notch right at the front on the top rail). The receiver design.

So could this be a new rifle, or is it just a background weapon for cinematics that accidentally made its way into the hands of a Division agent? Can /u/ChrisGansler clarify this if possible?

I can only confirm that there are weapons in Episode 3 we haven't mentioned yet. :)

bullhalsey1

Thanks for the response chris. But im sure many others like myself do NOT use twitter. If you guys have no new news on content, could you also address reddit in a post telling us xyz will happen instead of abc? I think a lot of us were caught off guard.

Look man. I know y'all cant show your hand too soon, but we need some real substance here.

Joker posts a State of the Game thread a couple of hours before the show and uses the information we post on Twitter / in the last show. You can definitely find that on here.

JokerJuice

You all are never comment on here to this extent. Tells me yall knew this was a bad idea from the start too.

I mean, check all of the other State of the Game threads. I'm always posting right afterwards and while it's happening. Totally fair to criticize us but please choose something that we can actually address.