The Division: Patch did not go as planned – Wild West in the Dark Zone [Update]

In The Division, the patch apparently did not bring the desired success, but complete chaos.

Update 13.50: Further maintenance work is expected today on 22.3 to fix the issues described here in the article. The servers will go down again. A server reset will take place. It is assumed that the renewed maintenance work will take 15 minutes. No rollback of character files is expected.

We will restart all game servers at 2 PM CET | 1 PM UTC | 9 AM EDT | 6 AM PDT. Downtime: 15 minutes. No rollback of character data.

— The Division (@TheDivisionGame) March 22, 2016

Update 14:36: The servers are back up. Patch 1.0.2 is now “fully on the servers,” tweets The Division.

Original Article:

At 12:00 PM, the servers at The Division went back online. A new patch had been deployed during the morning.

The first players quickly reported: The Bullet King is still active. The farming method that was supposed to be eliminated with the patch is reportedly still working according to many reports on reddit.

Worse still: Players report that in the Dark Zone, it is like the Wild West. Because there are currently no “penalties” for turning rogue and dying. Players are shooting each other down and getting incredibly high rewards – there are fears: Those who miss out on this are at a disadvantage later.

Some players are calling for an immediate “hotfix” or for the servers to be taken down or something. Other players say: Wait until I have reached DZ rank 50!

A developer has reportedly assured via stream that they know the patch is not running correctly and they are already working on it.

The reports on reddit, for example, sound quite agitated. There is already talk of a “purge”, a server rollback that would practically undo the last hour – but all this is still speculation from the fans. What are your experiences?

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