Since today, the Global Event Onslaught is live on the PTS for The Division, while “Attack” has launched on the live servers. In addition to the Ansel support, the new State of the Game discussed bug fixes. We also now know how many hardcore players The Division has. It’s quite a few.
Today, the State of the Game was aired on March 15. After the big announcements from March 8, Massive took a more relaxed approach. The main topic was the current test servers running on PC, where the new Global Event “Onslaught” has started. The new event Blackout was tested beforehand.
Information about the new Global Events
The modifiers for Blackout:
- Blackout (Always active): Players receive shock ammunition, which can stun your enemies. By running or shooting, you fill a charge indicator. You deal more damage the higher the charge is.
- Extreme Blackout (In addition to Blackout): Enemies can be killed in melee by overload. If you miss the target, or your charge exceeds 100%, players and allies get stunned.
- Total Blackout (In addition to Blackout and Extreme Blackout): Your charge indicator empties faster when near team members.
The modifiers for Onslaught:
- Onslaught (Always active): In addition to your damage, you inflict “On Fire”, “Bleeding Wound”, and “Gassed” effects, which you can change by reloading.
- Wild Onslaught (In addition to Onslaught): Certain effect types deal more damage to your enemies, while they are resistant to others. Resistant enemies deal more damage.
- Brutal Onslaught (In addition to Onslaught and Wild Onslaught): By reloading, you can gain a damage bonus to a magazine if your team members kill a vulnerable enemy within two seconds.
Note: Rewards and gear sets for both events are still unknown.
Additionally, a few annoying bugs have been fixed:
- Grand Central Station: Some players were unable to complete the mission on the new legendary difficulty. This should no longer occur.
- Exotic Containers: Players complained that they were still able to pull exotic weapons from containers that should otherwise be found in the special equipment vendor’s offerings. This was unintentional and has been changed.
Additionally, commendations that were associated with the leaderboards have been removed. These could only be unlocked at certain placements on the rankings, but they will not make it into the game.
Ansel support in June
Alongside the upcoming patch, Nvidia’s screenshot tool, Ansel, was also tested. This was supposed to be part of patch 1.8.1, but is now expected to arrive in June. Ansel offers an in-game camera that allows you to take various shots.
118,000 players with more than 1000 play hours in The Division
Lastly, there was another edition of Stats with Yannick. After celebrating 20 million players and about 500,000 who spent over 400 hours in The Division, Yannick has more data for us:
- 118,000 players have already spent over 1000 hours on “vacation” in Manhattan
- 421 players have even been on agent tours for more than 5000 hours
Are you on the PTS? What do you think of the changes?
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