How large is the open world of The Division 2? This question is surely on the minds of some agents. YouTuber MarcoStyle attempts to provide an answer.
The open world of The Division 2, which is the post-apocalyptic Washington D.C., will be very large again. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has seen New York from its predecessor. But how significant is the difference in the playable areas?
The well-known Division YouTuber MarcoStyle compared the map of New York with the already visible map material from The Division 2 – and comes to a surprising conclusion. The Division 2 is almost twice as large!
Open worlds are not always an exact replica of the original
Calculating the size of the areas – sometimes not so easy: Marco explains how difficult it was in The Division to convert the map of New York into real measurements. The walkable parts of Manhattan were not taken in a 1:1 scale from the real template but adjusted for gameplay reasons.
This has also been the case in games like Assassin’s Creed.
Will it be different in The Division 2? Washington D.C. will be a scaled replica of the real US capital. This makes it much easier to evaluate and compare the displayed map material. For this, he simply uses Google Maps.
The open world of The Division 2
The dimensions of the known map: The Division 2 world has
- an approximate length of 5.2 km and
- a width of 2.2 km.
- In total, this results in a size of 11.44 square kilometers.
Overall, the game world seems to be significantly larger than in The Division 1. Marco estimates it to be about 75%.
Developers speak of less – open world still significantly larger
Marco’s estimate does not come from nowhere; the map of The Division 2 looks significantly larger.
The 75% might not be accurate because during the post-show at E3 the developers commented on the size of the walkable game world. This will be about 20% larger, still huge, but not quite as gigantic as calculated in Marco’s video.
So we can definitely expect another huge open world. The game world along with its inhabitants, who will primarily consist of civilians and hostile factions, is said to be dynamic and provide a lot of variety.
There will be settlements where we, as Division agents, will need to assist civilians and thus influence the happenings.
All info about The Division 2 can be found here in our E3 HUB.
