Although developer Massive Entertainment officially concluded its plans for The Division 2 already, the game studio remains adamant to deliver one last hoorah for the 2018 title this year. In that, the development team announced that the gratitude for its community will bring another major update for the game later on. However, a date was not provided then aside from the vague release window.
It was not until later on that Massive Entertainment pressed the new update is aimed for a fall 2021 release. Atop of that, the project is also said to be the most ambitious and fresh for The Division IP yet. “In the next major update, we are looking to bring a game mode that is entirely new to the franchise. Along with the game mode, we are investigating new ways to progress your agent with an emphasis on increasing build variety and viability.”
Recently, Massive Entertainment announced that its plans for the update might have been a little overambitious to launch this year. Instead, the new release window is said to be landing its crosshairs on February next year.
While plans were still being actively discussed at that point, it was critical for us to give you some early insights about what would come next for the game. Since then, we made various iterations on the plans and actively challenged ourselves not to compromise on quality and ambitions for this new content. This title Update will be one of our most ambitious to date.
We remain confident that this content will bring an exciting experience to our players and pave the way for the future of The Division 2 with future title updates coming in 2022. That being said, and to make sure we deliver this content on par with our vision, we have made the decision to move our new season, game mode and associated content release to February 2022.
This additional time will allow our passionate development team to deliver the best quality for this new content. Of course, we will in the meantime continue to support the game and work on most pressing live issues.
“The reveal of the new Season and its associated content, including the new game mode, will happen in January 2022,” the team adds. “We can’t wait to tell you more about the whole content of this update! To make sure we are building the best experience, we will also organise a dedicated PTS period on PC to collect your feedback and help us put the finishing touches before the release.”
Elsewhere recently, Massive Entertainment has sent out emails for The Division Heartland closed testing. At the moment, the live playtest is still underway for users that were accepted into the program. You can read the full report by heading here.
Are you anticipating the next update for The Division 2?
The Division 2 is out now for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Stadia, and Luna.
Source: Massive Entertainment
