Update: Server downtime lasted a bit longer than expected, but they're now back online. And with that, Ubisoft has released the Tidal Basin update, the first major content patch since the game's debut. Ubisoft has also now shared the full patch notes for the update, and we've learned when the first raid will be released. The original story follows. Ubisoft is bringing down The Division 2's servers tomorrow for an extended period of maintenance. The downtime, which will run for about three hours, will begin Friday, April 5 at 12:30 AM PT. That works out to 3:30 AM ET, 9:30 AM CEST, and 5:30 PM AEDT. Ubisoft will use the downtime to roll out the new Invasion: Battle for D.C. update, in addition to the regular maintenance. Heads up, Agents! Maintenance to deploy Invasion: Battle for D.C. incoming tomorrow, April 5th at 09:30 AM CEST / 03:30 AM EDT / 12:30 AM PDT, approximately 3 hours. Details: >> https://t.co/8DbyfUr6In pic.twitter.com/lHZLTScQtl — The Division 2 (@TheDivisionGame) April 4, 2019 Invasion: Battle for D.C. is the first of The Division 2's free post-release updates. It introduces a new stronghold, Tidal Basin, which features the strongest enemies to date, along with a new Heroic difficulty setting. It also adds two new exotic weapons, Pestilence and Nemesis, along with multiple new gear sets. You can find out more about the update in GameSpot's coverage here. Here at GameSpot we scored The Division 2 a 9/10, and it's exciting to think about the new update and other opportunities to continue to explore and spend time in The Division 2's world.<doc-sep>The Division 2 update 1.05 is live on PS4, bringing World Tier 5 progression, gear sets, new Exotics and a series of important bug fixes to the game. the full patch notes arrive courtesy of a post on the game's official subreddit. The Division 2 1.05 World Tier 5 Patch Notes New Content Tidal Basin: A military base stronghold designed with high technology and intense difficulty in mind. After beating Tidal Basin, World Tier 5 progression is unlocked True Patriot, Ongoing Directive and Hardwired Gear Sets that drop from Black Tusk enemies or invaded missions. Weekly Invasions: Main missions with Black Tusk enemies that deliver high-tier loot. These can be replayed on multiple difficulties. Heroic difficulty for Main Missions and Strongholds. Fort McNair PvP map in the Conflict rotation. Exotics: Pestilence LMG and Nemesis Sniper. Apparel Event through May 2: Event caches contain unique cosmetics and are earned weekly. You can get more with a Year 1 Pass or by completing specific projects. Weapons Mods and Gear Overhauled the Weapon mod system, see the table at the end of the patch notes for detailed information. Fixed a wrong long-range damage value for M4 (super 90) and P416. Previously, they could sometimes increase damage over longer ranges instead of the other way around. Rifles : Damage on the MK17 rifle reduced by 14%, also corrected this weapon not having a damage falloff over distance. LW M4 damage increased by 5%, RPM increased from 240 to 360. LVOA-C RPM increased from 240 to 380. : Marksman Rifles Model 700 damage reduced by 13%. Shotguns AA12 damage increased by 16%. LMGs MG5 damage increased by 12% and fixed reversed falloff, causing the weapon to do more damage over a longer range. Updated initial accuracy on the Sig Sniper MCmillan T1. It should now be much more reliable to shoot as soon as it's shouldered and the transition to scoped view is over. Reduced the amount of Critical Damage and Headshot Damage that can roll on Gear, including the amount on existing Gear. The actual values will differ depending on the level and quality of the gear it occurs on. This is partially in preparation for another world tier, where we felt these values were already at the limit of what was healthy in WT4. Complete overhaul of skill mods to give more achievable requirements and more reasonable bonuses. A closer equivalence between required skill power and the bonuses granted. Changed the amount of skill power on gear to not increase exponentially with level, but instead more linearly. This results in most skill power values on gear being lower, but in accordance with the lowered requirements. Tweaked the ranges of bonuses to be within acceptable bounds where they had extreme values before due to scaling errors. Most notably radius and ammo/charges values. Players will see both the bonuses and the requirements of almost all skill mods change as a result of this overhaul. In end game, both Superior and High-End skill mods exist to cover the different needs of different builds. They can overlap in power, but High-End mods have a higher maximum roll potential. We are looking at ways to provide lower value/quality mods in end game world tiers in the future to provide a solution to the fact that on very low skill power builds, there would be room for those mods, and currently we are aware that means you have to save mods from your leveling experience. Player Skills ixed an issue which caused the Bombardier Drone to get destroyed while climbing up/down a ladder or rope. Improved feedback of Bombardier Drone crashing into obstacles during the bombing phase. Fixed an issue with Firefly payload sometimes failing to activate when reaching its target. Fixed an issue where Revive hive would not self-deploy if the agent was busy performing a different action such as using different skill when it triggered. Revamped the Sniper Turret version of the turret skill. It now will automatically target the hostile nearest to the players' center-of-screen (the same method it uses to pick other turret targets) and will fire at that target when the button is pressed, without a lock-on order needed. If a player aims at a hostile, the sniper turret will attempt to match their aim, allowing precision shots using the sniper turret. An issue where the sniper turret wasn't correctly getting bonus damage when hitting headshots has been fixed. Revamped the Chem launcher skill platform. Pressing the skill button will now equip the chem launcher similar to swapping to a weapon. The player can aim and shoot with normal weapon controls, as well as run with the skill and blindfire it. Quick deploy at the agents own position is still available for the repair version of the chem launcher, using the same controls as before. Unequipping the Chem launcher can be done using the skill button, the B (XBOX) / Circle (PS4) button or just using the weapon swap controls Loot and Rewards Control Point reward containers are giving the correct number of items for the corresponding Control Point's defense level. Defense level 4 now awards 5 items instead of 3. Reduced DZ XP gain from Landmarks in Dark Zones. Reduced the quality and power for items dropped in Propaganda Broadcast and one drop of Settlement Blockade activities to be more in line with other open world enemies and activities. Updated XP rewards for low-level player playing in World Tiers to scale with player level. Supply Drop activity loot container items now scale with every consecutive container you open. This includes lowering the reward of the first crate, but results in similar rewards for the activity as a whole. Added 5 Specialized Apparel Cache Keys, awarded with levels 2 – 4. As a thank you for playing, all players that played before April 4 get 5 Specialized Apparel Keys, regardless of their level. Apparel Keys will be coming for those players later next week. Faction Key loot drops from Bounties are now guaranteed and are displayed in the loot preview. Adjusted bounty credit rewards to use scaling values in World Tiers instead of flat values so if a lower level player is playing with a higher-level player, they will receive an amount of credits more appropriate for their level. Changed Skill Unlock rewards to be non-invaded only so that players who co-op with a higher-level friend to play invaded before playing on story won't receive the rewards. Added Apparel cache key fragments to the PvP reward caches. Adjusted the rewards for the street execution activity to give slightly lower quality/source level gear so the rewards are more in line with the difficulty of the activity. Reduced the quality and source level charts used for item drops from the living world activities settlement blockade and Propaganda broadcast to be more in line with other open world drops and the difficulty of the activities. Updated Collectibles set XP reward to scale with player level. Fixed an issue which caused the Drone Helicopter to not use the correct loot table. Crafting Increased Material cap for Standard and Specialized crafting materials to 400 (with all perks). Increased Material cap for High-End crafting materials to 50. Materials required for crafting weapon mods does not scale as aggressively and has much lower values in endgame. Removed a small increase on materials required for crafting weapon mods after upgrading the crafting bench quality. Changed the upgrade blueprints for exotic weapons Lullaby and Ruthless to not show up on the vendor until you are level 30. Increased the power for the wandering vendor so her inventory has a narrower Gear Score range closer to the top of the World Tier Gear Score Range. Set all exotic upgrade blueprints to award you the upgraded weapon on the max gear score of the current tier. Removed a tiny increase on materials required for crafting weapon mods after upgrading the crafting bench quality. Exotic weapons are now pre-equipped with lore text mods. These mods do not have stats and cannot be equipped elsewhere. Talents Blind Justice – Modified the Buff that increases damage to your next shot now expires at end of combat and when out of combat – Modified the Buff that increases damage to your next shot now expires at end of combat and when out of combat First Blood - Updated Normalized MMR Talent First Blood Text to correctly explain that the first shot after reloading from empty is the enhanced bullet. NPCs Decreased damage of all NPC Automatic Shotguns Decreased damage of all NPC SMGs Hey agent! Staff in the Base of Operation will now shout at the player less frequently than before. Main Mission Difficulty World Bank – Invaded – Server Room ​ Increased the time which the Black Tusks needs to complete the download in the Server Room from 200 seconds to 250 seconds. Reduced the difficulty in the Server Room by setting the Enemy group composition to light, light, medium - Instead of medium, heavy, medium. DCD Headquarters Mission level has been changed from 17 to 18. Roosevelt Island – Invaded – Quarantine Docks Reduced the difficulty of the first wave of enemies encountered in the last beat of the mission by lowering the amount of Elite and Veteran enemies. Enemies in this part of the mission can only use mounted weapons if there are 2 players or more. This should make it less punishing for solo-players attempting this mission. Open World: Removed death of civilian squad as a failure condition for Control Point takeover. The Officer will now remain in downed state until players complete the takeover or wipe. Black Tusk presence has been increased in invaded Open World zones. New Ambusher NPCs now roam the streets of DC. Social Added a "Friends & Clan" option for Call for Backup that only shows calls from friends and clan members. Added a "Do Not Disturb" group privacy option that blocks all incoming invites. PC Added a Field of View slider PS4 xed an issue that could cause players to be stuck in the Specialization tutorial Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where the Cluster Seeker Mine could split up more often than intended. Fixed an issue where the Defender Drone could have unlimited uptime. Fixed an issue which prevented players from finishing the Unite cypher riddle. We're confident this is not bugged anymore. Fixed an issue that would cause the Stronghold activation animation to always play when entering the Base of Operations. Fixed several instances of Audio logs not playing automatically when picked up. Fixed an issue that could cause players being unable to finish the Side Mission Worksite Community. Fixed an issue where players were unable to update their crafting bench after reaching a new World Tier. Fixed an issue with NPCs sometimes not reacting properly to cooked grenades Fixed an issue with Hunters not always appropriately despawning if a player flees a combat space Fixed rare issue where NPCs could get stuck when attempting to melee a player in cover Fixed issue with the Explosive Seeker Mine occasionally failing to path to its target Fixed bug where players could fast travel to non-friendly Control Points Fixed bug that made encounters with friendly NPCs requesting resources too rare Fixed bug where underground enemies would come to the surface during the day Fixed an issue where players were able to obtain gear with a higher gear score than intended Any owned High-End items will be lowered to Gear Score 500. Any owned Superior items will be lowered to Gear Score 490. Clan caches no longer award items higher than the maximum loot Gear Score. Recalibration still allows Gear Score to increase slightly past the maximum loot Gear Score. Fixed a bunch of weird stairs and invisible walls. In short, The Division 2 update 1.05 seems to have lived up to its hype. Not only is there a ton of content for high-level players to experience, but those still climbing the ladder have a lot to look forward to in the form of Exotic quests, Gear Sets and opportunities to unlock top-tier items before heading into the Tidal Basin. Most Division 2 players are just hitting the level cap now, so this expansion arrives at the perfect time.<doc-sep>
The Division 2 patch notes are revealed by Ubisoft UPDATE 2: The Division 2 server maintenance has ended and the game is back online. Ubisoft confirmed the news on Twitter, telling fans that Battle for D.C. is live and ready to play. UPDATE: The Division 2 maintenance has been extended by Ubisoft. "Agents! Maintenance has been extended for roughly 45 minutes," reads an Ubisoft post. "We are sorry for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as the servers are online!" ORIGINAL: The Division 2 patch notes have finally been revealed for the new Tidal Basin update. The latest Division 2 update is available on PS4, Xbox One and PC. It weighs in at approximately 7GB. As the name suggests, the big new feature is the new Tidal Basin stronghold. "Upon logging into D.C., you will be met with a brief radio call informing you of developments nearby that require your attention," Ubisoft explains. "Completing this new side mission unlocks the Tidal Basin Stronghold." Ubisoft reminds fans that the content will only be available with a 425 gear score at World Tier 4. Once you've completed the Tidal Basin stronghold, you'll be transferred to World Tier 5 and have access to new Gear Sets and weekly invasions. You can check out the full list of The Division 2 patch notes (via GearNuke) below... The Division 2 Update Version 1.05 Patch Notes For PS4, Xbox One, and PC Tidal Basin Stronghold W• ith this update, the Black Tusk Stronghold Tidal Basin is unlocked. It is the last of the four Strongholds that need to be conquered to progress to World Tier 5. World Tier 5 Unlocks • Once you have completed the Tidal Basin Stronghold on World Tier 4, you will be transferred automatically to World Tier 5. Gear Sets • Once you enter World Tier 5, in addition to the by now well known Brands, the Gear Sets will be added to the loot pool. Weekly Invasions • Upon reaching World Tier 5, you’ll be introduced to weekly invasions, which see the Black Tusk taking control of main missions and strongholds across the city. Heroic Difficulty is unlocked • Once you hit World Tier 5, Heroic Difficulty becomes available for the Main Missions and the Strongholds. Heroic Difficulty missions are very difficult but also very generous with rewards. New PVP Map • The Map “Fort McNair” will be added to the Conflict rotation Two new Exotics • With this update, we also get two new exotics: • Pestilence (Light Machine Gun) • Nemesis (Sniper) Tom Clancy's The Division 2 outlines new 'Tidal Basin' update Announced Bug Fixes • When your Crafting Station is stuck on a lower World Tier, that will be fixed with this update. Balancing Changes • The Sniper M700 and the Rifle MK17 will get a damage reduction. • Crit Damage and Headshot Damage will be lowered across all existing gear, so if you have equipment with these stats on it, they will be different when you log in. • “Safeguard Talent” (extra healing) will get an internal cooldown so that it can’t be up all the time • Demolitionist Talent “Crisis Response” (when armor breaks you replenish your ammo) will also get an internal cooldown. Skills Changes • Sniper Turret • Sniper Turret has been reworked • You will have a button above an enemy and the Turret will then shoot that NPC and it will automatically track it. • When you aim at the same NPC you can also specifically control where the shot will go (headshot or weakpoint etc) • That should make the Sniper Turret more accessible. • Chem Launcher • The handling of the Chem Launcher has been a bit awkward. • Now when you activate the Chem Launcher, it will activate and you can use it like a weapon until you put it away. • That should also give you more control about the skill • Firefly • Aiming mechanism has been reworked, so you can mark targets faster Heads up, Agents! Maintenance to deploy Invasion: Battle for D.C. incoming tomorrow, April 5th at 09:30 AM CEST / 03:30 AM EDT / 12:30 AM PDT, approximately 3 hours. Details: >> https://t.co/8DbyfUr6In pic.twitter.com/lHZLTScQtl — The Division 2 (@TheDivisionGame) April 4, 2019