Christmas festivities in The Division start tomorrow, on December 22.
Basically, it’s always Christmas in The Division, as the setting is a few weeks after Black Friday – meaning it’s always holiday season. Nevertheless, there are a few new things awaiting you in the post-apocalypse in the coming days.
Just now, the State of the Game on December 21 aired, where the community developers Hamish Bode and Yannick Banchereau talked about the upcoming events. We summarize the key information.
What to expect around Christmas in The Division
Starting tomorrow, on December 22, there will be new encrypted containers at the premium vendor. These containers have a “Christmas” theme and contain festive outfits. Last year there were bobble hats, this year there are supposed to be new Christmas items (which are not known yet). To open the encrypted Christmas containers, you need cipher keys, as usual. You can buy these for real money or craft them with key fragments that you randomly find from named bosses.
These special containers will be in the game until January 11, 2018. Tomorrow you will receive 5 free keys to start collecting some of the items right away.
Additionally, a “special event” starts on December 26. It is a “double rewards” event, where you earn double performance containers. It ends on December 28 at 1 AM.
More information from the State of the Game:
- Tomorrow, on December 22, maintenance work will take place. From 9:30 AM to approximately 11:30 AM. A bug in the treasure map mission will be fixed.
- The 4th global event is planned for the end of January. A specific date is still pending.
- The Xbox One X upgrade is definitely still coming. However, there is no date for it yet.
- Currently, there are no immediate plans to adjust the secret gear sets and change the balance. They will wait a while and observe the data.
- There will be no more State of the Game next week. When the next one will be held will be announced later.
- Yannick Banchereau and Hamish Bode will still be around in 2018. So The Division is far from over.
A few stats about Global Event 3, which ended this week:
- The Lexington mission was completed 10,869,470 times during the event. That’s 10% of all Lexington completions in the last almost 2 years!
- During the event, a total of 15,799,810,754 GE Credits were earned.
- All GE commendations could be mastered by 1,385 players.
- 10,284,302 Superior Assault Containers were opened.
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