In Tom Clancy’s The Division, the Underground missions are introduced with the expansion 1.3, which brings a new rank system. The agents have something to do again.
If you roam around a bit in the Dark Zone, eagerly take down enemies, and don’t bite the dust every few minutes, you can watch your Dark Zone rank gradually increase. This is a progression system that works alongside the “normal” level system (max level 30) and only applies in the Dark Zone.
Something similar will apparently come for future Underground missions: The Underground rank.
The Underground Rank in The Division
In the Underground, agents basically start from scratch. You bravely venture into the world beneath the streets of New York and must first find out what dangers you will face down there. But how does one actually get into the Underground?
You access the “Tactical Operations Center” in the Underground through a new area, the Operations Base Terminal. From here, you start the missions. At the entrance of this new area, you will see the following display: This screenshot contains some exciting information:
- On the left side, you can see “Upgrades”: You need to expand this area first – similar to the wings of the Operations Base. There are 7 upgrade levels coming.
- The Friends who are online are displayed.
- Moreover, the “Directive Intel” is provided.
- And: Above all, the Underground Rank looms. Certain items are displayed here that you apparently receive as rewards when certain ranks are achieved. The agents thus have new goals and can see immediately what they can claim as a prize.
This Underground rank will also always be shown in your character data. Directly under your level and the DZ rank:
How to Rank Up in the Underground?
You increase this rank by playing in the Underground. By completing missions and eliminating enemies, you collect experience. The amount of experience depends on your preferences. You can change the goals, the difficulty, the phases, and the directives.
For the directive, you need a new currency, the “Directive Intel”. With this, you can modify the missions, make them more difficult, and thus gain more experience points. This currency is similar to the target data of high-ranking targets and will be displayed to you when you want to activate directives. These require a certain amount of intel:
There are several ways to obtain “Directive Intel”. Some enemies drop it, but you can also receive it as rewards. In addition, the data can occasionally be found in underground containers, similar to the “sealed containers” in the Dark Zone:
And another parallel to the Dark Zone: You also need certain ranks in the Underground to purchase items from vendors:
Interesting: The items from the new underground vendors cost Phoenix Credits. So you can slowly start saving this currency.
The agents will receive new tasks and goals with the progression system in the Underground. Some players in the Dark Zone have already reached the maximum of 99. Now they can start over with the Underground rank.
What do you think about that?
All info about the Underground of the expansion 1.3 in The Division can be read here.
