In The Division, the servers are down today, on May 26th. Bugs are being fixed and an event is starting.
The regular maintenance in The Division has been moved from Thursday to Friday this week. These are the first maintenance works after update 1.6.1 and they bring the first bug fixes.
- The servers will be shut down today, on May 26th at 9:30 AM. The estimated downtime is three hours, so you will be able to play again around 12:30 PM.
Many of you likely have a bridge day today. If you wanted to spend the whole day in snowy New York, you’ll need to find another occupation for the morning.
What is changing today? Changelog
However, Massive is not only working in the background on the servers today, but is also deploying important bug fixes:
- A bug/glitch with the Incendiary Ammo is being fixed. Players could increase the damage output of the secondary weapon by using incendiary ammo on the primary weapon.
- Additionally, a bug is being fixed that allowed the “NinjaBike Messenger” backpack to continue dropping.
The NinjaBike backpack was supposed to be removed from the loot pool with update 1.6.1. It is considered the worst exotic in the game, essentially only useful for dismantling. Massive plans to revise its currently useless talent. Until then, it should not drop anymore. Because when one receives the Ninja backpack after a legendary mission or from a weekly mission container, disappointment and frustration are high.
Event starts – “Double Weekend”
An event in The Division has already been running for a few hours: For the next three days, until May 29th, you will receive double rewards from HVT missions. These are the High-Value Targets for which you collect the target data.
Such small events with double rewards have occurred more frequently now. Apparently, Massive is sticking to it.
Update 1.6.1 was disappointing. Although two bugs are being fixed today, Massive still needs to improve many areas. Infos about all the issues after 1.6.1 can be found here.
