In The Division 1.7 Massive overhauled the global event leaderboard. Now more players receive the coveted masks.
The updates of patch 1.7 include the masks: These are new cosmetic items that are as sought after as they are difficult to obtain. Because you can only get some if you make it to the top 50 of the global event leaderboard. Since an event only takes place once a month, your chances of getting the masks are severely limited.
This leaderboard causes frustration and confusion in the community. There are several reasons for this:
- It is buggy and shows the wrong score for some agents or resets high scores
- Solo players are heavily disadvantaged as they basically have no chance of achieving a higher score than agents playing in well-coordinated teams
- Hackers or cheaters gain unfair advantages on the list
- All players who play The Division “normally” without using elaborate farming methods also struggle to make it into the top 50.
In short: A lot of agents end up empty-handed after the global event and receive no masks. Many users urged Massive to integrate other ways to obtain masks in the game. For example, some masks should be tied to commendations.
Massive admitted last week that the current system has its weaknesses and that they are internally considering making some masks available through commendations. However, this would require a client patch and that could take time. For the currently ongoing global event, this patch will definitely come too late.
What is changing now?
A few hours ago, Massive announced that a change was made to the leaderboards so that more players receive masks during the current global event. Specifically: Not 50%, but 85% of all participants will receive at least one mask.
These are the rewards through the leaderboards:
- Top 85% – 31%: One global event container and one mask
- Top 30% – 11%: 2 global event containers and 2 masks
- Top 10%: 3 global event containers and 3 masks
Previously, the classification into the reward tiers was: Top 50, Top 15, Top 5.
This means more players will now receive at least one mask and more players two or three masks.
However, this is probably not a definitive solution to the “mask problem.” Whether and when Massive will bring a client patch for this will remain to be seen.
The global event ends today, on August 22, at 2 PM.
