In The Division 2, the developer Massive has hidden a joke in the statistics about gloves that only Division veterans will understand. The gloves count how many car doors have been closed, a reference to the reveal trailer for The Division 1 from 2013.
This is the joke: In The Division 2, players can view statistics about equipped items in the character selection menu of the ongoing private beta:
- Weapons show how many bosses you’ve killed or the number of multi-kills
- Chest armor reveals how many repair kits the agent has used
- The mask indicates how many minutes have already been spent in the Dark Zone
- The knee pads provide information on how many minutes the player has spent crouching behind cover
All relatively normal and reasonable statistics.
However, the gloves count how many car doors have been closed.
What’s with the car doors? This is a joke that only veterans understand.
In the first reveal trailer for The Division from E3 2013, a player was seen taking cover behind a police car and elegantly closing the car door as he slid along the vehicle to take up another position.
The closing of the car door in the 2013 trailer was so elegant and smooth that players raved about the graphics of The Division for weeks, claiming that a new era of gaming was dawning – all because the car door was closed so spectacularly.
Later, there were discussions about a downgrade in graphics from 2013 to 2016. Some felt that the animation in the final game was no longer as elegant.
The “downgrade” discussions regarding the trailers for The Division 1 did not happen for part 2. Players even questioned whether the graphics were set to “low”.
Even in The Division 1, there were many references to car doors:
- One statistic claimed that 7 billion car doors were closed in The Division
- and one commendation was only given if enough car doors were slammed shut
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