In The Division, we look at the exotic talents of weapons available on the PTS for Last Stand and update 1.6.

Today, on January 24th, the test phase for “Last Stand” and update 1.6 begins. The PTS will be launched. The patch notes were published yesterday. The talents of the weapon exotics can be found there.

The exotics are the revised named items that now come with unique talents. What do the exotic weapon talents do?

The bonuses of the exotic talents – PTS

The exotic talents are always active on the weapons; they do not need to be unlocked first. The other two weapon talents are rolled randomly.

• FAMAS: This assault rifle will be an exotic weapon with the already known “Simple” talent as its exotic talent.
• Medved – Center Mass: The shotgun now fires heavy slugs instead of pellets.
• Hungry Hog – Glutton: When you kill an enemy, damage is increased by 20%. The buff ends when you stop shooting. The bonus is stackable!
• Tenebrae – Lights out: By destroying enemy weak points, the skill cooldowns of you and nearby allies are reset.
• Pakhan – Pakhan: With each kill, you receive 20% more bullets in the magazine with the next reload compared to the base value.
• Liberator and Centurion (weapon set) – Free Republic: Each shot with the Liberator grants +5% damage for the next headshot with the Centurion. The maximum is +200%. Kills with the Centurion grant +10% rate of fire for all weapons for 10 seconds.
• Valkyria becomes Hildr and Eir (weapon set): Each hit with Hildr increases critical hit damage by 1% up to a maximum of 100%. This bonus decreases by 1% every second. The problem is: Hildr has no critical hit chance. This means you need to build the buff with Hildr, then switch to Eir and deal the increased damage.

• Cassidy – Boomstick: If you press the shoot button quickly in succession, the gun fires both shots quickly one after the other.
• Urban-MDR – Distracted: This bonus is already known. Damage to targets with a status effect is increased by 10%.
• Warlord – Play rough: You take 20% less damage while shooting. The damage taken is received back when you stop shooting.
• Damascus – Quickdraw: When you draw the weapon, weapon damage increases by 20% for two seconds. After two seconds, the damage is 20% lower.
• Golden Rhino – Golden Rhino: Stagger is increased by 200%.
• Historian – History repeats: Each bullet ignites itself in the target and detonates after 2 seconds for 20% skill power.
• Caduceus: Each critical hit heals you and your group by 1%.

Note that the bonuses and especially the numerical values may change before the launch of update 1.6.

Important notes:

• These exotic talents cannot be transferred with AlphaBridge.
• Exotic talents cannot be recalibrated. They are fixed.
• The talents of the exotic weapon sets only activate when both weapons are equipped.

What do you think of these talents?

You can read all the information about the PTS of 1.6 here. The locations of all named weapons in 1.5 can be found here.

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In The Division, the public test servers for Last Stand and Update 1.6 go live today, January 24.

For The Division, information about “Last Stand” and Update 1.6 is flooding in: On Thursday, the new PvP mode was introduced, and on Friday, a comprehensive post about Update 1.6 was released. Yesterday, January 23, the patch notes for the PTS of 1.6 were published. We also know when this will start.

• Today, January 24, you can access the test servers on PC. Launch time is stated as 12 PM, but this schedule may still change.

According to Ubisoft’s Yannick Banchereau, updates 1.4 and 1.5 brought significant changes regarding progression and character building. Many aspects were overhauled and made “more fun.” The aim of 1.6 is to elevate the remaining areas to a higher fun level.

All information about the test servers

We have already reported on the global PTS patch notes for 1.6. In them, you will find which content is available to you on the PTS. Please note that this information may still change. During the PTS phase, a lot of data and feedback will be collected and analyzed.

• Only PC players can participate: You must own a copy of The Division (Uplay, Steam). That is sufficient as a participation requirement.
• Why isn’t this possible on PS4 and Xbox One? The developers roll out new updates to the PTS at short intervals. This is only possible on PC since updates for consoles must first go through a certification process. Massive is more flexible on PC and can react faster. Nevertheless, they are still exploring options to bring the PTS to consoles in the future.

  

• Will all PTS content also make it to the live game? No, the PTS are used to test things. Only then will it be decided whether the content will also be included in the live game.
• To participate in the PTS, you need to download a new game client. You can find it under your Uplay games or in the Steam library.
• You do not need to create new characters. The data will be transferred from the live game to the PTS. For testing purposes, you may be asked to create a new agent.
• Your progress on the PTS will not be transferred to the live game.
• When does the PTS phase end? As soon as Massive has enough data.

Information about the microtransactions that come with 1.6 can be found here.

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In The Division, Update 1.6 and Last Stand have a release date. Additionally, the PTS patch notes have been published.

The community developer Yannick Banchereau recently published the global PTS patch notes for 1.6 and Last Stand in the Ubi forum. The public test servers will start on January 24, so tomorrow. Moreover, Last Stand has a release date!

• The release is on 28.2. on all platforms: PS4, Xbox One, and PC. That is a Tuesday.

Update: Just minutes after the post went online, the release date was removed. We have a screenshot showing the release date. What the removal of the date signifies remains to be seen.

New Incursion “Lost Signal”

The new incursion will be playable on the PTS in advance. Here are the first details:

• It is called “Lost Signal” and takes place in a TV broadcast center.
• The enemy faction: Rikers.
• You need to clear three different building wings from the Rikers, each offering a different combat scenario. Tactics are said to be important.
• Each wing holds rewards for you. Once you have mastered all three challenges, the final boss will appear, which is supposed to be the greatest challenge.

We can expect more information in the future.

Patch Notes for Update 1.6

As soon as the PTS opens, the PvP mode “Last Stand” will not be available yet. It will be activated during the testing phase.

However, you can test the new features of Update 1.6. Note that the provided patch notes are not final and may change before the release.

We already know most of the new features: The Dark Zone updates, the legendary difficulty, changes to armor, the new gear set SEEKR, and the exotics. Furthermore, numerous bug fixes and balance adjustments are coming.

You can find the complete PTS patch notes for 1.6 and Last Stand at the provided link.

In the coming days, we will examine individual aspects of the patch notes in detail and in English in separate articles.

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In The Division, the attribute “Armor” loses significance with Update 1.6. Other attributes are also changing.

Currently, armor is the best attribute you can have on your gear. High armor values are essential for every build, as they allow your agent to withstand more damage before going down. If “Armor” can be rolled on a piece of armor, it will be done.

If an attribute is the only logical choice for the gear bonuses, diversity is suppressed. Prior to 1.5, there were plans to find a solution to this problem, but the ideas were discarded. The developers and players on the PTS were dissatisfied with this.

With 1.6, Massive has now provided a fix that aims to address the core armor issue.

Armor is no longer a higher attribute – Update 1.6

Even in 1.6, armor pieces will have a base armor value, but the armor bonus will be removed as a higher attribute. Instead, health points will take its place. This means that health points and stamina will primarily be responsible for toughness – and no longer armor.

This is a change with significant consequences: The overall meta will be affected, damage, healing, and skill power must be rebalanced. However, there is an advantage that health points scale more linearly than armor, which will be better for balance in the long run.

Status Effects and Resistances

The armor bonuses on your current gear will therefore become health point bonuses. But what about the health point bonuses that are currently on your armors? These will convert to a new stat called “Resist All”, increasing resistance against status effects.

Currently, resistances give you a certain %-chance to completely resist the effect.

With 1.6, resistances will diminish the effect. For instance, if you have 40% resistance against burns, you will now take 40% less damage from it when on fire. The duration of the burn will also be shorter. If you achieve 100% resistance, you will be immune to this status effect at all times.

Additionally: Whenever you suffer from a status effect, you will temporarily receive a certain %-amount of resistance against it.

All changes will be tested on the PTS to refine them. After all, “Time to Kill” and “Time to be killed” still need to fit.

Changes to Skill Power

The changes to armor are meant to lead to greater build variety – as are the changes to skill power. In 1.6, the effectiveness of skill power scales depending on the world rank: At each higher rank, you will need to invest more skill power to reach the relative skill effectiveness.

Moreover, there will be greater differences between builds with a lot of skill power and builds with little skill power. This means that if you currently have a build in which you hardly increase skill power, your skills will be significantly weaker in 1.6. Conversely, if you fully focus on skill power, your build will perform even more powerful skills after 1.6.

To achieve these high skill power values, however, you will have to make choices: Other values will suffer as a result, and you will have to make sacrifices. This is aimed at achieving greater build diversity by Massive.

Not only the bonuses on the armor pieces are changing: New armor pieces are also being added. Here you can find info about the SEEKR set and upcoming gear set changes.

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