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2022/05/12 11:10:01 (permalink)
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/the-division/the-division-2/news-updates/21eVYKAAC5FS0WzeNSOpAE/title-update-15-patch-notes
 
Big patch/Updates  
BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS
Adjustments have been made to the functioning of various talents in order to curtail undesirable behaviours and imbalance.

Overview

Modifications to shield skill behaviours

Shields now take significantly more damage in PvP.
Shields now irresistibly disorient their user when broken.
Excluded shields from the In-Sync Talent

In-Sync and Perfectly In-Sync no longer trigger from shield skills.
The text of these talents has been updated.
Updated Intimidate and Perfect Intimidate Talents

New Behaviour: While you have bonus armour, gain 1 stack each second up to a max of 7. Each stack increases total weapon damage by 5% to enemies within 10m.
All stacks are lost when you have no bonus armour.
Perfect Version: Increase max stacks to 8
PvP: 4% weapon damage per stack instead of 5
Design Notes

Shield skills have been unbalanced for quite some time and have grown to be a dominant build tactic in both PvE and PvP. Combined with In-Sync, shields provide an unparalleled, no-downsides DPS boost.

In addition, Intimidate when combined with various methods of gaining short-term bonus armour. This made it deeply unfair in ambush situations in PvP and led to an undesirable PvE meta as well. As such, Intimidate now requires a slow build-up before reaching maximum effectiveness.

Gameplay Adjustments

Added a disorienting effect to players when their shield breaks
Updated Intimidate and Perfect Intimidate so that there is a ramp-up to their effectiveness
Omit shields from the effects of the In-Sync talent
Increased the PvP damage to shield
Repair Traps now heal allies for the proper amount

 
 

 
Named Gear:

Closer — Chest
Talent Perfect Spotter: Amplifies total weapon and skill damage by 20% to pulsed enemies.
The Setup — Backpack
Talent Perfectly Opportunistic: Enemies you hit with shotguns and marksman rifles amplifies the damage they take by 15% from all sources for 5s.
Heartbreaker — Gear Set:
2 set: +15% Assault Rifle DMG & +15% LMG DMG
3 set: +15% Weapon Handling
4 set: Heartstopper
Headshots apply pulse 5s.
Weapon hits on pulsed enemies add and refreshes a stack of +1% bonus armour for and +1% damage to pulsed enemies for 5s. Max stack is 50.
4+ Chest: Max stack is now 100.
4+ Backpack: Stacks now supply +2% bonus armour
Uzina Getica — Gear Brand Set
5.0% Armor
10% Armor on Kill
10% Hazard Protection

NEW WEAPONS
Exotic Weapons

Dread Edict — exotic variation of the SVD Marksman Rifle
Talent Full Stop: Shooting enemies builds stacks to a cap of 20. Headshots grant 2 stacks. Each stack grants 2% Weapon Damage and 5% Headshot Damage. On reload, clear all stacks, and gain 5% of your max Armor as temp armour for 10 seconds for each stack removed. Headshot kills with Dread Edict restore all bullets in the magazine. This does not count as a reload.
Catharsis — exotic mask
Talent Vicious Cycle: Taking damage builds stacks to a cap of 30. Each stack grants 1% Weapon Damage. Taking damage at max stacks triggers a purge, removing all stacks and Status Effects and then dropping a healing cloud which restores 5% of Max Armor for 10s to all allies in the cloud.
Bluescreen — exotic variation of the Stoner LMG
Talent Disruptor Rounds: Shooting an enemy marks them and adds a stack to the agent up to a count of 50. Shooting a marked enemy refreshes the mark and adds stacks to the agent. When you deploy a non-shield skill, remove all stacks on agent and all marked targets trigger an effect.
1 -10 Stacks - Pulse marked targets for 5 seconds
11 - 25 Stacks - Pulse and Disrupt marked targets for 5 seconds.
26 - 49 Stacks - Pulse, Disrupt, and Disorient marked targets for 5 seconds.
50 Stacks - Pulse, Disrupt, and Disorient marked targets and all hostiles within 10 meters of the marked targets for 5 seconds. This effect will trigger immediately if any marked enemy is killed.
Named Weapons:

Dare — LMG HK GR9

Talent Perfect Flatline: Amplifies weapon damage by 20% to pulsed enemies. After 2 kills, applies pulse to the next enemy you hit.
Kingbreaker — TKB-408 Assault Rifle

Talent Perfect Flatline: Amplifies weapon damage by 20% to pulsed enemies. After 2 kills, applies pulse to the next enemy you hit.


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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/13 05:20:53 (permalink)
    ...and a story of how they had shut down further content, moved on to other projects , then realized people wanted more  & had to get together a new team for more development.
     
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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/13 10:32:03 (permalink)
    We finally get this new content is about time ( btw I am new to D2 i'm only shd lvl 469 ). but they still need fix GR9 still does not show ammo magazine is not really important but i want to show. But glad they did work some the issues were at hand. btw I seen lot player login in so is pretty active. 

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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/13 11:22:33 (permalink)
    Ubisoft has done a good job of supporting the game especially with the pandemic. It's really good to see them not having just moved onto other games after the shutdowns happened.

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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/14 10:26:49 (permalink)
    I'm still checking out the new gear, feel free to add me:
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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/15 17:56:53 (permalink)
    Try the countdown to get gears max out dont expect exotics to drop in this mode.
    I like the update so far.

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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/16 05:10:33 (permalink)
    I played around trying a new build with some of the new gear. I was able to make a pretty decent  "pulse build" going. 
     
    SOLO'd  most of missions on Challenging setting, just below Heroic .....
     
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    Re: The Division 2 latest update - Season 9 2022/05/16 07:25:56 (permalink)
    Heroic or Legendary for me. The harder the setting the better. I have a few builds with DPS or Tank mode. This game is fun too bad the Devs havent fixed the wall shooting chest swap etc.

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