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I ask Garrity if The Division 2 will feature an endless mode similar to Resistance from the first game, or a version of the Underground expansion from the original. It seems like a pretty robust plan for keeping people playing. Oh, and the previously-revealed trio of Dark Zones, and eight-player raids, the first of which arrives shortly after launch. On top of that, there's the aforementioned three new specialisations.

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New areas of the map will open up, new game modes be deployed, plus there'll be new bounties, projects and gear updates. As well as the daily and weekly rewards for replaying missions, the first year will bring three new episodes that build on the story of the game.

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I'm pretty convinced that Ubisoft knows how to please The Division 2's most hardcore players after three years of trying, and my feeling is they'll set out a roadmap pretty quickly of that first year. In the map screen, though, I can see that previously visited locations now offer an 'invaded' variant. What effect the Black Tusks have on exploring the world is more of a mystery to me-we're not allowed to wander outside of the mission area in this build.

I don't quite get a sense of what Black Tusk's beloved robot dogs are supposed to do other than run in and get shot at-perhaps their AI is still being tweaked-but they offer some variety (shoot the legs!), and underline that these guys have the best arsenal among your opponents in The Division 2. You definitely sense that Ubisoft wants the Black Tusks to be the game's true threat, though, and I like the novelty of having brand new enemies to fight after beating the main campaign. I'm loathe to comment on the game's difficulty, then, without having the context of the player's journey in getting there. I imagine getting gear that's this effective at release will take some time and effort, based on my experience with the first game. Even Elites don't take too much to bring down in a group of four with our loadouts. As Chris notes in his preview of the campaign content (opens in new tab), enemies seem less bullet sponge-y than the first game, and I don't find the Black Tusks particularly difficult to deal with during these missions-indeed, my sharpshooter's High-End sniper rifle does over 200,000 damage when landing a headshot, which kills all normal enemies instantly, and most veterans with two or three.

It's hard to get a sense of how difficult the endgame content actually is during this event. We played two 'invaded' missions featuring the Black Tusks, including one memorably set inside Washington DC's air and space museum (which, shamefully, I only recognise from Fallout 3). Three new specialisations will also follow in the game's first year, presumably with their own custom upgrades for your skills and signature weapons.

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I've also got an exclusive skill mod for the drone that allows me to pick out targets with it, and I have a mod that turns my turret into a sniper turret. As a Sharpshooter, I've got a particularly good sniper rifle called the TAC-50, which can penetrate armour and do damage to surrounding enemies after I land a hit. To sum up endgame as 'we've kept a new faction for that moment and they're going to invade main missions and strongholds', yeah, that's a huge part, but it's only one of the parts.'Įach has a signature weapon, which 'upgrades with you', according to Garrity. I'm gonna be a little bit negative, but I don't think the presentation that was shown does justice to all of the range of activities in endgame. These are the elements of the endgame that Ubisoft's presentation dials in on, but given just how many possibilities the first game eventually offered after hitting level 30, I ask creative director Julian Garrity how much else there is. The Black Tusk bring high-power equipment like drones and robot dogs into battle, and generally look rather threatening. Activities and missions from the main game will be 'invaded' by this new enemy, remixing the kind of challenge they offer. The headline addition is an entirely new faction, called the Black Tusk, who arrive in the world when you've finished the main campaign by completing each of the existing factions' stronghold missions.

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