The Division 2 Brought Back the Series' Original Creative Director for Its New Survivors Extraction Experience

Ubisoft is keeping Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 updates coming with the announcement of a caller endurance extraction acquisition called Survivors.

The squad down the long-running third-person shooter talked astir however it plans to support the sequel chugging on for astatine slightest different twelvemonth during a gamescom 2025 sheet livestream and successful a blog station published connected its website. It comes with a roadmap for the adjacent fewer months of content, including a committedness to support players successful the loop arsenic improvement continues.

The Division 2 roadmap. Image courtesy of Ubisoft.

The Division 2: Survivors is the existent header here, though. Ubisoft calls the caller contented “an updated instrumentality connected the endurance extraction experience” that is presently “in the aboriginal stages” of development. Aiding arsenic originative manager for Survivors is Magnus Jansén, who antecedently served arsenic originative manager connected the archetypal The Division. During today’s gamescom panel, helium confirmed that, aft a fewer years distant from the franchise, he’s “back” and “working connected thing very, precise exciting.”

“As immoderate of you had already figured out, the wintery, endurance extraction acquisition is coming to The Division 2,” Jansén said. “I cognize immoderate of you are, similar me, fans of the endurance mode that we had successful the archetypal Division, and obviously, we deliberation that those of you who similar that, volition beryllium very, precise happy, but it’s much than a remake. We are doing cool, caller things.”

He admits there’s small other to reveal, considering The Division 2: Survivors is truthful aboriginal successful development. However, Jansén does person 1 enactment to permission fans with: “But what I volition say, and this is similar a teaser, is that a hint to, maybe, the biggest caller happening we’re doing is close determination successful the name.”

“So, I’ll conscionable permission that there, and past I’ll beryllium backmost adjacent year,” helium added.

We’ll person to hold astatine slightest a fewer months to get a archetypal look astatine The Division 2: Survivors. It’s merchandise day connected the roadmap is presently listed arsenic “TBA,” truthful don’t expect its accomplishment until aboriginal successful 2026 astatine the earliest. However, Ubisoft did supply anxious fans with a archetypal look astatine conception creation (above), which whitethorn connection much hints astir immoderate of the scenarios players tin find themselves successful erstwhile Survivors yet launches.

"The Division 2: Survivors is arsenic overmuch your babe arsenic it is ours, and we strive for transparency during its development,” enforcement shaper Julian Gerighty said successful a statement. “Clear connection and assemblage engagement are a absorption arsenic we physique the caller experience, and we volition beryllium intimately involving you arsenic we determination guardant connected the improvement journey.”

The Division Resurgence

Also included successful today’s gamescom The Division announcements was an update connected Ubisoft’s upcoming free-to-play mobile RPG MMO, The Division Resurgence. Closed trial phases for iOS and Android users volition statesman this September, with Ubisoft pushing funny players to motion up here.

“The Division Resurgence takes players backmost to the streets of Manhattan, acceptable respective months aft the decision of the Division 1,” an authoritative statement for the mobile spinoff says. “With a acquainted representation updated to bespeak the transition of time, the Division Resurgence volition span the communicative spread betwixt the Division 1 and 2, adding to the existing lore with further communicative beats implicit time.”

To promote further feedback from fans, Ubisoft is pushing players to motion up for its Elite Task Force program. The publisher’s connection calls it “an accidental for our astir committed players to prosecute straight with our improvement squad and assistance successful guiding the aboriginal of the Division.”

The Division 2 volition motorboat its adjacent season, The Pact, September 9, 2025. While we hold to larn much astir it, Survivors, and Resurgence, you tin work our archetypal The Division 2 8.5/10 reappraisal from 2019.

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