Division 2 hides 35 blueprints for named weapons in the new mode, but a crash can ruin your run.
What kind of mode is this? Currently, in Ubisoft’s loot shooter The Division 2, the Season 1, “Broken Wings” of the fifth year, which started in June, is running.
With the season, a new roguelite mode called “Descent” has also been released, where players start without equipment – they have to loot it within the mode and then fight waves of enemies.
There is also a boss fight against the “Nemesis”. After the fight, you can additionally choose to fight against further waves of enemies and complete more loops.
Since Descent is a roguelite mode, there are no save points or checkpoints. If you do not finish a run, for whatever reason, your progress is lost and you have to start over.
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New mode has 35 blueprints for named weapons
What rewards are there? For completing the Descent mode, you will receive various rewards such as containers and collectibles. There are also a decent amount of experience points.
The highlight of the mode, however, is the possibility of obtaining one of 35 blueprints for named weapons that you cannot otherwise obtain. If you defeat the Nemesis, there is a 12% chance that such a blueprint drops.
Players also suspect that the chance of receiving a blueprint increases when you reach higher loops. At Loop 40, there would supposedly be a 100% chance of a drop (via Reddit).
Players suffer from crashes
What is the problem with the mode? Descent suffers from a combination of 2 factors: the roguelite game principle and technical failure.
Players repeatedly report that The Division 2 crashes (via Reddit). The problem is that because of the roguelite game principle, you lose the progress of the run played if you have a crash or a disconnect.
Even in coop, there is no possibility to rejoin your friends after a game crash. If someone gets disconnected, they are out – and they stay out. Some players have already questioned the point of the new mode if the game would crash anyway and they have to start over (via Reddit).
Even MeinMMO editor Benedikt Schlotmann is currently playing the new mode and is having a great time. But he also reports that at least one person from the team always has a problem in co-op – sometimes one gets kicked, sometimes the game crashes, and occasionally all players were in their own instance.
The attempt to farm the 35 blueprints is turned into a kind of lottery due to the crashes. It is a gamble whether you will reach Nemesis or even Loop 40 today, or if your game crashes in between and you have to restart.
Recently, the developers of The Division 2 reacted to an exploit that many players are using in the new Descent mode.
