In The Division you will soon be able to show all agents in New York how much you have already achieved. Update 1.7 introduces a new score.
Ubisoft and Massive published an article detailing the Commendations. The Commendations are a new feature of Update 1.7 and represent a type of achievement system: You will receive new objectives. When you master them, there are rewards.
As part of these Commendations, a new statistic will be introduced that reflects your progress: the Commendation score.
Each completed Commendation increases – depending on its difficulty – this Commendation score. In other words: The more you achieve in the game, the higher this score is. It applies account-wide – all your characters contribute to the same score.
You can view this statistic in your UI – however, it is also visible externally to every agent.
What are Commendations?
Massive aims to achieve three goals with the Commendations:
- Provide new challenges that reward players based on their skills and endurance
- Encourage players to try out new things in The Division – you should “experiment”
- Players should be rewarded with something special and new to show off their success in the game
Over 500 different Commendations are to be implemented, covering all modes and aspects of The Division (PvE and PvP). They aim to address different play styles and vary in duration: Some can be completed quickly, while others take longer.
For some Commendations, you need to
- master a challenge (complete an activity under certain conditions)
- achieve statistical milestones (for example, collect a certain number of credits)
- or complete a checklist of activities.
As a reward, there are “Patches.” These are various patches for your agent’s right upper arm that replace the SHD logo.
The Commendations are divided into 8 areas: General, Combat, Missions, Exploration, PvP, DLC, Global Events, and Achievements. A few examples of Commendations were shown in the last “State of the Game” stream.
You earn Commendations by, for example:
- reaching level 30
- completing missions
- reviving allies in co-op
- recovering contaminated items
- killing named bosses in the DZ
But there will also be unique Commendations such as:
- completing the raid Dragon’s Lair without being hit by an exploding toy car
- viewing pictures in a gallery for three minutes in Survival mode
- closing a certain number of car doors
Will you raise your Commendation score?
