Ubisoft has announced some big plans for The Division 2, with the biggest one being the introduction of crossplay. While the company hasn’t given a solid release date for the feature, cross-platform multiplayer is slated to come to the cover-based looter shooter in November. In its statement, the company said that the development of this feature required quite a bit of work that involved a partial rebuild of its multiplayer infrastructure.
“Bringing Agents together across platforms has required significant work behind the scenes, including partially rebuilding the game’s online architecture. With crossplay, your platform will no longer stand between you and other Agents, opening up matchmaking and allowing more of the community to play together.”
When the update hits, all The Division 2 players will be migrated to the new crossplay environment, and the feature will be enabled by default. Players will, however, have the option to disable crossplay in the character selection screen. When it’s enabled, players will be able to run into Agents from all supported platforms, as long as they haven’t disabled it.
Clans will also be migrated to crossplay, and players from across various platforms will be able to join the same clan. Along with this, capacity for clans has been raised from 50 to 100 members. When the migration happens, leaderboards will be completely reset, and new leaderboards will be shown with the player’s crossplay status also being reflected.
Another major announcement is the next expansion for The Division 2. Dubbed Echoes of Central Park, the expansion will once more take players to New York City. In the days immediately following the outbreak, Central Park started being used as a mass burial ground. Since then, however, few have dared to go back to the park, and its current status remains unknown.
The story will kick off with players getting a distress call from somewhere inside the park. Along the way, players will also hear rumors from across the Upper West Side about the dangers inside the park.
The developers have said that Echoes of Central Park will lean into a darker atmosphere than The Division 2 typically has, and the new zone will be a place “where fear can be just as dangerous as any enemy.”
More details about Echoes of Central Park will be revealed at a special showcase slated for September 24th. The developers will also showcase some of the gameplay from the expansion, and will likely provide an in-depth look at the new zones being added to the game.
The most recent update for The Division 2 was dubbed Into the Dark, and as its name implies, content largely revolved around the game’s PvPvE areas, dubbed Dark Zones. The update introduced quite a few changes to these areas, like an invulnerability window for Agents who just enter, and better rewards in Landmarks.
Along with this, a new Toxic Dark Zone area was added to the game, allowing for up to 12 players to team up together. This new zone has no PvP or Rogue Agents, and revolves around co-operating to survive increasing amounts of toxicity in the hunt for better loot.
