While Ubisoft is working on getting Tom Clancy's The Division 3 kickstarted, it announced its plans to improve and continue supporting the current live game, The Division 2.
First os all, we hear about Project Resolve, an initiative to improve the quality of the current game over several of its aspects.
These aspects are summarized within three points, stability, health, and gameplay, as mentioned by creative director Yannick Banchereau and lead producer Radu Nedea in a video that you can watch at the bottom of this post.
More specifically, players will be able to enjoy improvements to performance, the PvP experience, PvE balancing, global events, and overall quality of life.
The first phase of these improvements will come to the public test server of the PC version on December 15, allowing players some time to test them until December 18. The build will be pre-downloadable from December 14, so you won't need to spend the limited test time downloading a big patch.
A second test phase will come in January 2024(between January 19 and January 22), and the whole content of Project Resolve is slated to be unleashed on the live game on February 6. That being said, the developers plan to continue improving and balancing the game throughout its year 6, which will now span the rest of 2024 and the beginning of 2025.
Yet, there is a catch, as all this work required Ubisoft to delay the upcoming story DLC for the game to 2025, which isn't a small bump. That being said, it's certainly interesting to see that the developer still plans to support the game for another two years, considering that it was released all the way back in 2019.
You can check out the announcement video below, and take a look at all the specific changes coming with Project Resolve in the official patch notes.
In the meanwhile, plans to expand the franchise continue beyond The Division 2 and its successor, including the mobile game The Division Resurgence and the free-to-play console and PC game The Division Heartland.
