With Episode 3 and Title Update 7 (TU7), The Division 2 receives a new weapon exotic – the Chameleon. Now we also finally know what the weapon can do in detail. We take a closer look at the new exotic assault rifle.
This is the weapon: The new exotic weapon is called Chameleon and will expand the previous exotic arsenal somewhat in February with Episode 3. Despite its similarity to the SMG from Kriss Vector (also in the game), it is not a submachine gun, but an assault rifle.
The Vector platform served as a template, but it is a derived assault rifle with a larger caliber and a lower fire rate.
By the way, the name Chameleon is well chosen, as the weapon can dynamically adapt its color to the immediate environment.
What we know about the new assault rifle Chameleon
This info is new: Although the weapon was teased some time ago, only a few details were known so far. However, in the recent SotG stream from the developers on January 29, there was a first look at all talents of this new exotic, so we now know exactly what the Chameleon is all about.
The talents of the Chameleon
The two talents of the Chameleon are called Adaptive Instincts and Overlap. They have the following effects:
Overlap: This talent is still quite unspectacular. Overlap ensures that you receive a +5% bonus to weapon handling when the Chameleon is holstered.
Adaptive Instincts: This talent is what really makes the Chameleon shine and sounds very powerful and promising.
The talent includes three buffs with different bonuses. Depending on which body parts of the enemies you “work on”, different effects are triggered:
- If you land 30 headshots, you will receive +20% critical hit chance and +50% critical hit damage for 45 seconds.
- If 60 shots hit the body, it grants a +100% weapon damage bonus for 45 seconds.
- If you place 30 shots on the legs, it adds +150% to reload speed for 45 seconds.
What we still know about the new exo-weapon
Is the new exotic assault rifle overpowered with its talent? The Chameleon sounds very strong purely in terms of talents. However, how it actually plays out in PvE and PvP remains to be seen.
Based on the gameplay shown so far and the builds used during it, experts like NothingButSkillz cannot yet draw any final conclusions. Particularly because the weapon had a relatively low damage (for assault rifles) of just under 14,000 – even for 900 RPM.
Nevertheless, or precisely because of that, many are very curious to see how the weapon performs in practice and can hardly wait to try out the new exotic themselves.
These bonuses are provided by the attachments:
- +15% precision (optic)
- +20 rounds, for a total of 50 (magazine)
- +5% critical hit chance (muzzle)
- +10% critical hit chance (under-barrel rail)
How to get the Chameleon?
So far only speculation: There is currently no official information about this; the developers did not want to disclose anything in the stream. All we know is that the weapon will come into the game with Episode 3 and TU7 sometime in February.
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However, some fans speculate that you might receive a little hint in the weapon description about where you could find these weapons. It states that the special coating of the weapon was developed by a team of DARPA researchers.
In the game, there is a mission that leads agents to the DARPA research lab. Some consider it possible, and even quite likely, that one could obtain the weapon there. However, this is currently pure speculation.
Further info and gameplay of the weapon can be found in this video by NothingButSkillz:
