Support for The Division 2 has continued on far longer than Ubisoft had expected it would, much to the company’s surprise (and that of the community), and it seems there’s plenty more to come in the near future as well.
Ubisoft has announced Project Resolve, an upcoming “comprehensive seasonal update” that will be focused on making “significant” improvements to the game’s health, stability, and quality-of-life features, and prepare it better for content to come in the future.
In a recent announcement, Yannick Banchereau, creative director at Massive Entertainment, explained that Project Resolve will focus on three key areas where its improvements are concerned- stability, health, and gameplay improvements. “From thousands of bug fixes to PvP improvements, we’re digging into everything,” Banchereau said.
Radu Nedea, lead producer at Ubisoft Bucharest, briefly pointed to a few of the improvements the update will bring, including in-game performance and reduced crashing on all platforms, improvements to PvP combat (including a reworked status effects system, buffs for rewards, and more), a “major balancing overhaul” entailing more choices for powerful weapons in PvE, and changes to Projects and Global Events to “make them more fun and worthwhile”. You can also expect other quality-of-life improvements like open world loot crates being scaled with world difficulty, and being able to recalibrate straight from your inventory.
A public test server for Project Resolve will be live for PC players from December 15 to 18, before returning again in January 19-22. The full update will go live alongside Year 5 Season 3: Vanguard on February 6.
The good news comes with the bad though, because the work being done on Project Resolve has meant that The Division 2’s next expansion has been delayed to 2025.
The Division 2 is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and playable on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S via backward compatibility. Massive Entertainment said earlier this year that native current-gen versions were unlikely to release, but we’ll see if plans will have changed after Project Resolve is deployed, since the developer clearly intends to keep supporting the looter shooter for some time to come.
In September, it was announced that The Division 3 has also entered development.