Still in May of this year, The Division 2 launched with Season 9 and a good story. This fueled hope and the small flame in the hearts of many fans. But now developer Ubisoft is once again falling into the familiar behavior pattern. Season 11 and the new content for Year 5 are now all coming in Spring 2023.
Things just won’t go smoothly with Tom Clancy’s – The Division 2. It seemed so promising for new and especially regular content in the cover shooter mid-year. After a long period without anything happening, Season 9 finally brought an engaging story into the game.
Back then, the developer announced that The Division 2 would be regularly supplied with fresh content as a live-service game. A roadmap for 2022 supported the ambitious plans.
Season 10 was planned for August and Season 11 for December 2022. However, these dates could not be met.
- The launch of Season 10 “The Price of Power” was pushed back by a month – thus it only came into the game on September 13.
- Due to a problem with the voice system after one of the recent updates, both the hunt for “General Anderson” and the clothing event of the current Season 10 are now pushed to December. It was supposed to start next week.
- Thus, Season 11 will not start on time either. It will, if everything goes according to plan this time, go live in Spring 2023.
- This also includes the new PvE game mode “Descent” with rogue-lite elements. It was also supposed to start in December.
All of this was announced by Ubisoft on November 9 on the official Twitter account of Tom Clancy’s – The Division 2 and also showed the updated roadmap.
New roadmap generates frustration among players: The continuous flow of new content and updates continues to be sluggish in The Division 2. Player Bertram Hein on Twitter makes a direct comparison with the live service game Destiny 2.
Imagine you have a live-service game that is worse than the live service of Destiny 2. At least Bungie still does [weapon] reskins and recycles old content [from Destiny 1] to make “new” content… [Division 2] doesn’t even make “new” content. And yes, I know they added 2 new game modes. But I mean 2 game modes in 3 years, and Seasons 1 to 4 literally ran twice.
frustrated Division 2 player Bertram Hein via Twitter
Meanwhile, the developer also has to deal with many old and new problems of the cover shooter.
- The Dark Zone, the PvP area in Division 2, is plagued by an “invisible glitch”.
- The set “Activated Directive” does not always drop hollow point ammunition correctly for team members.
- Delta errors in activities or the open world still plague the game today.
- Additionally, a “language switch bug” grants infinite SHD levels and materials.
How long the response times at support for the game can be has been shown by a recent game bug. A weapon was available for free in the game for several days after the weekly reset. Players acquired it thousands of times and resold it for credits. Or, they dismantled it to push their expertise and know-how levels with the materials.
At least Ubisoft continues to commit to developing content for Year 5 and for The Division 2. Agents can therefore expect updates into next year, even though they, following this announcement, now have a nasty aftertaste.
The current story still promises some excitement. Soon the main goal of the hunt for “General Anderson” will begin. Players will have to find the leader of the True Sons. He is trying to negotiate peace with the Black Tusk in order to then unite forces against The Division.
What can players expect in 2023? Year 5 will then include a complete season reset, where players will start again from Season 1. However, this is not meant to be a restart of the already known old seasons. With Year 5, the new PvE game mode “Descent” with rogue-lite elements will also go live.
Once these contents are launched, players can expect a livestream event with the developer team of The Division 2 and presumably a more detailed outlook on upcoming content.
What do you think of the sudden delay of the current Season 10 contents? Are you surprised or did you already expect Ubisoft would not be able to keep the dates? Feel free to let us know in the comments how you feel about this.
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