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Ubisoft and Massive Announce The Division 2

The snow-covered loot shooter gets the sequel treatment.

March 8, 2018 8:55 AM

After a press release was unintentionally leaked online, Ubisoft has made it official: The Division 2 is in development. The press release was a letter from Julian Gerighty, Creative Director at Massive Entertainment, and while it was short on details about the sequel, it confirms that the development team is committed to releasing more content for the original game in the coming months. It was mentioned that the shooter sequel will be a massive (no pun intended) undertaking, with development help coming from Ubisoft Annecy, Redstorm, Reflections, Ubisoft Bucharest and Ubisoft Shanghai.

The Division 2 needing a very large team to complete should be no surprise to players of the first game. The post-Christmas New York City featured in The Division was inarguably the most densely packed and finely detailed environment ever seen in a video game, in addition to being enormous. Those hoping for any details on The Division 2 will have to wait, though. On it’s official twitter account, Ubisoft asked gamers to wait until E3 2018 for a full reveal:

See you at E3 2018.
— Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) March 8, 2018

In the meantime, players of The Division can look forward to more global events and the addition of new legendary difficulty missions, along with an Xbox One X update that will bring 4K functionality.

Chris Jarrard

Contributing Tech Editor

Chris Jarrard likes playing games, crankin' tunes, and looking for fights on obscure online message boards. He understands that breakfast food is the only true food. Don't @ him.

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- ramshot
  
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  March 8, 2018 9:26 AM
  
  Yeah, ok, cool. First game is solid now.
  
  I just hope they don't go the way of Destiny 2 and expect people to be OK with them cutting all the features they've added to the first game just so they can sell them as DLC once again.
  - Rehevkor
    
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    March 8, 2018 10:36 AM
    
    I read their announcement on twitter, they specifically said they're taking all their lessons learned from the first game into the second one. I feel like that was a direct shot at Destiny 2 and I love it.
    - vitek r
      
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      March 8, 2018 10:15 PM
      
      If there is one thing we've all learned to trust, it's PR from reps on Twitter.
- Madwacker
  
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  March 8, 2018 9:50 AM
  
  I hope #2 looks at least as good as #1 when they first demo'd it at E3, and then crank it up a notch. Especially with the X1X's power now.
- briareos99
  
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  March 8, 2018 10:20 AM
  
  I really enjoyed the first one, and I didn't play the endgame at all. Playing it as a mostly single player game, it was great just to explore the environments of a near-future post apocalyptic New York City. I feel like I got my money's worth.
- shortbuscaptain
  
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  March 8, 2018 10:37 AM
  
  They learnt a lot from the first one and really turned it around.
  
  This will be good.
  - kagath
    
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    March 8, 2018 7:34 PM
    
    I really hope they learned to quell the cheating, duping, and exploiting that happened in the first game. "We don't see a problem with it."
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  March 8, 2018 3:37 PM
  
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- stuka
  
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  March 8, 2018 3:40 PM
  
  Hmm. I loved The Division, but I don't like the casual PvE wonderland they've turned it into now. I hope they do something great for Division 2.
- nwillard
  
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  March 8, 2018 4:21 PM
  
  The bullet-sponge looter genre really turns me off. Just seems repetitive to me. So, eh, I guess I'll back out of this thread now.
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    March 8, 2018 4:26 PM
    
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    - nwillard
      
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      March 8, 2018 4:27 PM
      
      now you've got me interested!
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    March 8, 2018 7:18 PM
    
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- daneloire
  
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  March 8, 2018 7:39 PM
  
  As long as they leave the Cleaners in the game with their explosive fuel tanks, I'll play it. Shooting those things and watching them panic and run around before exploding was one of the most satisfying things I've done in any game.
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  March 8, 2018 8:09 PM
  
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- Haxim
  
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  March 8, 2018 8:12 PM
  
  Wonder how this’ll go. Didn’t they basically can everyone who worked on the Division 1?
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  March 8, 2018 10:12 PM
  
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- Kub666
  
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  March 8, 2018 10:24 PM
  
  I'd like to play a game in the Division world where I'm not an agent of military government shooting poor people. I liked what I played in Division 1, but the story and setting rubbed me the wrong way sometimes. New York looked awesome though.