The Division 2: Battle For Brooklyn DLC – The Cleaners have crossed the river, armed with their deadly Purple Flame, threatening the fragile peace of Brooklyn. With new missions, skills, and exotic gear, agents must fight to reclaim the borough before it’s too late!

The Division 2: Battle For Brooklyn Review Pros

• Awesome graphics.
• Download size.
• You have a booster to get your level up to 40.
• Ubisoft Connect integration.
• At startup up you can choose any created character/choose a new one, and then choose the DLC.
• New Ubisoft Connect rewards.
• The DLC has its own set of progression entries with an overall completion percentage.
•  To start the DLC, go and visit the pilot at the White House, and then choose the DLC as the destination.
• Awesome Fmv cutscenes and in-game character interactions.
• There is an all-new hub area with new people to befriend and work for, new shops and vendors, and it has its own list of projects for upgrading it.
• New collectables that again give more depth and lore elements.
• The story gets straight into it, which I appreciate. I initially couldn’t find the prompt to start, but once I did, it just kept going and going. It is well implemented into the previous stories and references the events frequently.
• Strong voice work continues.
• The map uncovers as you explore and adds in points of interest as you find them.
• Echos are back and give more story. If you don’t know, then they are VR-like recreations of events, and you can move around and see it all in 3D whilst getting the story and interactions. They are very impactful.
• I really like how many new areas and locations there are to explore and play in, but also how they slot into the already existing world.
• Controls are the same as before and familiar in the shooter control layout family.
• Fast travel between settlements and safe houses.
• The map can set waypoints, fast travel and set the GPS line. The map shows what each icon means.
• Earn EXP and level up to increase base stats, but also earn SHD perks and skills.
• SHD perks- earned from levelling up but also found in the game and given as Mission rewards. You use perks to increase things like storage space, mod skill, etc.
• Skills-scanner, turret, hive, chem launcher, Firefly, seeker, drone and shield.
• Living, breathing world. Rival factions will fight each other, and allies will patrol and defend places.
• Play how you want.
• Collectables a plenty from recordings to data tapes.
• Missions-you have story ones, side missions, bounties, and opportunity missions.
• Day/night cycle with different weather conditions, including heavy rain that reduces sight.
• Clans-create/join. You all work together to overcome the many challenges, and doing so rewards everyone.
• Projects-every settlement has a list of projects that involve actions and materials. Finishing these upgrades in the settlement also rewards you with loot/exp/cash/upgrades.
• Strong cover-based shooter game.
• Conflict mode- 4v4 online mode.
• Dark zone-pvp mixed with PvE. You can do everything as you do in the normal game, like find loot and monuments. The only thing is that you need to extract all loot via a helicopter before you can use it. Death means you drop everything. You can become a rogue agent as well.
• Dark zone areas are split across the map.
• The dark zone has its own separate rank and exp/perks.
• Everything has more depth and meaning to it.
• Crafting-you can loot materials, then craft a gear set to your current level.
• Loot lust is strong and has rarity levels.
• Loot uses a green and red colored number system for quick comparisons.
• Nodes-special places full of a certain material.
• Better Ai-they flank, take cover, and even go prone!
• Normalisation-this is where the game attempts to balance everyone’s level in conflict and dark zone areas.
• Matchmaking laptop-random activity/random main mission/open world/darkzome/help.
• Help set up an alert for people to jump in and help you.
• Missions have Co-op support, and you can matchmake/invite from laptops or the mission screen.
• Hud is fully adjustable; you can move all aspects around.
• More set pieces and spectacular explosions.
• Side missions and open world enemies level with you.
• Accessibility options aplenty, including voiced menu interactions.
• Recalibration can combine weapons to increase their stats and abilities.
• Mod-you can add mods to gear/weapons and even skills.
• Activities drop, public executions, supply points, hostages, and so much more.
• When taking a supply point, you send a flare-up and call in AI reinforcements. Once you take it over, you get a room of loot and can fast travel to that place.
• Loot everywhere!
• Proficiency cache-reward for levelling u,p and is like a low-level loot box.
• It all feels familiar but new, which is a really weird thing to say, but it’s true.

The Division 2: Battle For Brooklyn Review Cons

• Doesn’t support the DualSense controller. (PlayStation 5)
• The achievements cannot be sorted by DLC and the main game, and it’s hard to know what’s what.
• It is never straightforward when coming back as to how to start the DLC and get back into the flow.
• Matchmaking is slow.
• Clunky UI, especially when it comes to modding and assigning new gear.
• Bullet sponge bosses.
• Not the fastest loading times.
• You cannot pause the game even in single player.
• The controller will constantly mess up, autofiring, glitching in and out of Zoom, button icons changing and more. Fixed it eventually with an Xbox 360 controller emulator.
• Long initial load times even in an SSD.

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The Division 2: Battle For Brooklyn DLC

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Developer: Ubisoft, Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Bucharest

Publisher: Ubisoft

Store Link: Steam