In The Division, the PTS Phase 3 is coming soon to PS4 and Xbox One. This brings an additional change.
For a few days now, the public test servers for the Update 1.7 PTS Version 3 have been running on PC. Next week, the consoles will follow.
Presumably on Tuesday, July 25th, the agents on PS4 and Xbox One will receive the changes and bug fixes from PTS3. Community manager Yannick Banchereau mentioned in today’s State of the Game that it is challenging to get an update on the consoles through the certification process in such a short time, but it currently looks good for them to make it by Tuesday.
What does PTS Phase 3 bring?
PTS Phase 3 introduces three important new features along with various bug fixes:
- The Improvement Station is activated, and every recalibration is completely free for testing purposes.
- The Superior Caches in the Global Events have about a 30% chance of containing a classified gear piece. They now cost 1500 tokens.
- The gear sets will be further adjusted, such as the Striker Set. The healing effect from the 6-piece bonus now depends more on stamina.
According to Banchereau, the PTS-3 version for consoles is a “special version”. The reason: There is an important change that does not exist on PC:
The SASG shotguns are currently too strong in combination with the Striker Set. Therefore, they significantly increase the initial spread of the SASG – meaning, it becomes harder to land all projectiles on the enemy. PTS Phase 3 also introduces a hard cap for the fire rates of all weapons that cannot be exceeded. This should resolve this issue, according to Massive.
When the new PTS version goes live on Tuesday, you should test SASGs with the Striker Set.
This change is not on the PC PTS – but when Update 1.7 appears in the main game, this change will be available on all platforms.
Massive will be more generous with Classified Gear
The drop chances for Classified Gear will be further adjusted in the future (after PTS 3). Then, two items are guaranteed to drop from a Superior Cache and, with a bit of luck, even a third. The chance of receiving a Classified item from such a box is expected to be around 50%. Otherwise, Exotics or standard gear sets may be included.
With this, Massive aims to make it fun and satisfying to collect tokens to open these boxes.
The maximum amount of “Global Event” tokens is 10,000. A Superior box costs 1500. These tokens can be carried over from one event to the next; they do not expire in the main game.
You can also obtain Classified Gear through the leaderboards in the Global Events.
Further information from the State of the Game on July 20th:
- PTS Phase 3 is likely to be the last PTS phase. After that, the final adjustments will be made, and they will try to bring Update 1.7 live soon.
- Massive admits that the invitation process for the console PTS was a disaster. They forgot to specify that you must be at least 18 years old to receive an email. Additionally, you had to have enabled receiving emails from Ubisoft. If you still didn’t receive an email, you should contact support. They will check it individually and possibly send you a code.
The patch notes for PTS Phase 3 of Update 1.7 are presented here.
