UPDATE:
Ubisoft has officially revealed The Division 2. The development is led by Massive Entertainment and driven by close collaboration with Ubisoft Annecy, Redstorm, Reflections, Ubisoft Bucharest and Ubisoft Shanghai. The Division 2 will be based on an updated version of the Snowdrop Engine that will help its development team realize its ambitions for this title.
Ubisoft has also confirmed that The Division 2 will be present at E3 2018. However, and contrary to what we were told, the game will not come out in 2018.
The game’s press release got leaked earlier than planned (thanks 4-traders), and you can find it below:
“Today, we have an important announcement from the development team of Tom Clancy’s The Division for you.
The past few years have been incredible for the team here at Massive ! When we started working on The Division, it was immediately clear to us that we had something very special here and something we really wanted to do right from the start. But we also knew that we would not be able to achieve this ambitious goal without your help.
Since the release of The Division 2 years ago, we have remained true to this philosophy. We have repeatedly used opportunities to interact with you. Be it via livestreams, polls or just social media. Also, the introduction of the Public Test Server was a way to immediately get feedback from you before we implement new extensive features or make changes to the game. We’ve never stopped striving to make The Division even better, and our recent update 1.8 is testimony to how we can see your overwhelming feedback and support.
All these new opportunities and experiences have also improved the team’s internal processes. We have become quicker and can thus respond better to your feedback. But our vision of what matters to us and what makes The Division so memorable for so many people has never been clearer.
However, when we released our game in 2016, it was clear to us that it was just the opening chapter of a much bigger saga, so we’re excited to share more with you today about what awaits you in The Division Universe next.
We are very pleased to announce that we are currently working on Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. The development is led by Massive Entertainment and driven by close collaboration with Ubisoft Annecy, Redstorm, Reflections, Ubisoft Bucharest and Ubisoft Shanghai. The Division 2 will be based on an updated version of the Snowdrop Engine that will help us realize our ambitions for this title. More importantly, we can also invest all the experience we’ve accumulated over the past two years in this sequel to make sure everything is going well.
But that is not all. The division continues. After the celebrations of our 2 year anniversary, we will support the game with 2 more title updates. These will be 2 brand new Global Events; Include more Legendary difficulty missions and an Xbox One X update that will rediscover the beautiful and emblematic New York City with all its stunning details in both 4K and 1080p.
In addition, as of June 2018, players will also be able to play ‘Crests’, which are specific achievements that will allow them to unlock The Division 2 rewards.
The teams are extremely grateful for all the support over the past two years and we can not wait to show you what we have planned for The Division 2 during the E3 2018 in June.”
Ubisoft has announced that it will reveal a new major title later today. This new title will be released in 2018, and the French company will reveal it in approximately one and a half hours (5:10 PM CET).
Now I don’t want to get your hopes up as this ‘major’ title may turn out to be an ‘indie’ title. Ubisoft has not revealed any additional details and the fanboy inside screams for a Splinter Cell announcement. However, I want to be realistic here and say that a new Splinter Cell game seems unlikely (especially considering that Ubisoft wants to release this game in 2018).
But anyway, we’ll be sure to update this story once we have more details about it in the next couple of hours, so stay tuned for more!
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A new Splinter Cell would be awesome considering Blacklist was a great comeback to the series.
But I wish it was Might and Magic XI, a new Heroes of Might and Magic game or The Settlers 8.
Been thinking about a new SCell game too! Blacklist really was fun
Prince of Persia
Driver
Child of light
I hope it will be new driver game
Child of Light 2…. would be dope.
Watch Dogs 3?
Oh lord no .
What ever its gona be . It will milk players like EA whit fifa .
Splinter Cell MGS edition maybe. they already have the groundwork or w/e with Wildlands or so i heard.
It’s probably some online BS.
What gives you that idea? /s
I posted that comment before the update.
So I guess I called it.
Not really impressive, you had a 98% chance of guessing right.
nothing from ubisoft as of late give me an eye opener.
I assume it will have terrible storytelling, virtue signaling, cut’n’pasted game mechanics and… towers… Can’t release a game without those…
Lol the towers call!
Source please?
No, probably Anvil or Snowdrop… >:)
Watch Dogs 3?
AVATAR?
ubisuck never made a single good game after 2013
and i don’t expect them to magically change
whatever they’ll come up with it will be $hit guaranteed.
R6 Siege is surprisingly good.
Heard that alot, it might be true but there is no single player, so it goes to trash next to other ubesoft titles.
Game like siege does not fit with single player campaign, R6 Vegas is what comes close
Singleplayer fits into all kinds of games.
too bad it’s full of microtransactions and runs on servers from 1995
seriously though, if it wasn’t on Uplay, wasn’t full of microtransactions and had solid networking i’ed give it a try but pay 100$ for the “full edition” seems like the biggest deterrent for me to buy this online only “competative shooter”
Pay-Full-Price-To-Then-Pay-Ubisoft-More-For-Time-In-Game-With-Copied-Assets 2
Boring, I didnt play the first one cause it looked to me all you do is shoot repeat
E3 Division what they showed still looks better than every game today, just shows how BS it was, seems they have learned from the E3 bullsh*t. Got the say the Snowdrop engine in the finished game was pretty impressive though, all the tech was there is just didn’t look nowhere near as nice as the E3 one.
I knew the Global Illumination was BS the minute I saw it ( and that it would be the first thing to go with the final/real release ). Game still is gorgeous… but so booooring…
Single player would have been ten times more interesting…
Kinda expected considering how the first games updates slowed down to a crawl. Good to see though, i liked the first game, or at least i did more then the average person seemed to like it at the time.
lol
I can’t wait for another round of downgrades. The one thing Ubisoft never fails to deliver.
Remember watchdogs
*wash_dogs
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Still a better protagonist than both titles…
Tell me about it. Especially the second. I believe there were references to dawgs in there as well. I felt very oppressed as a white supremacist. lol
Well there is 2 games that Ubi didn’t downgrade and they were pretty major releases, these games being Assassin’S Creed Unity and Origins.
The mere fact that Origins came out last year and was not downgraded should gives us some hope.
I really hope you’re talking about the cinematic trailer, because i’ve played unity these past few days at almost max settings (all max except for AA) and it really did look like the sneak peek reveal video at the proper time and weather , download cheatengine and settup the proper camera angles and you will be able to recreate it 100%.
Unity was NOT downgraded , not in graphics and gameplay at least, i dont really like Ubisoft but im not about to lie about something they didn’t do.
Did they downgrade The Division? I tried it over a free weekend and the gfx are amazingly nice.
The game is good looking, yes, but its the visuals aren’t as good as the reveal.
Yea we’ll see
Will you take another Vertical Slice of that delicious fake gameplay footage cake Sir?
Why yes thank you! And can you bring me a small serving of microtransactions on the side as well? Feel like spoiling myself today.
Oh my… I’m dealing with a connoisseur…
With an extra layer of bullet sponge crumbs? It’s on the house !
( it won’t… )
Lol hmmm… on second thought… what is your lootbox of the day?
All their games have misleading advertising with huge downgrades. Like showing insanely impressive movie trailers, preordering tickets, only to see it on Day 1 in the theater in hand drawn stick figures made by 4 year olds – though Die Hard in stick figures would be rad.
Oh yeah, marketing calls those doctored E3 “reveals” their anticipated “targeted graphics” or “visions” while making consumers think they are accurate representations of the real products – aaaaand the preorders roll in.
It also doesn’t help that unethical game bloggers (“journalists”) drop 10,000 articles touting how impressive this or that game looked just to get clicks and comment traffic.
Just like CD Projekt Red with The Witcher III then.
Yes! Only a few months to witness another “gameplay” walkthrough with player controlled “drones” awesome “graphics” and Ubibullshit. Amazing. 🙂 /sarcasm 😉
So many hates in the comments…lol i was hating on it before release but the beta made me buy it and i dont regret the 100+ hours i invested in the game even today the playerbase is solid enough and i made some good friends in it unlike other online community i met almost no toxic players while playing It
Games with next to no community tend to be less toxic. See Guild Wars 2 for instance.
ehrm guild wars 2 is a healty game and the community is more active than most mmo
Healthy by that you mean there still aren’t even freaking Guild Battles, the mode Guild Wars was named after?
All of the GW vets are gone. Only kids and people who don’t know better remain.
The name guild wars is from the lore lol it has nothing to do with the mode
Go check the subreddit and see how active it is a new map just came out 3 days ago you
The guilds in game come from the lore. Same as Fractions you can take part as a player.
Active yes. Compared to other games. It shrank so much since the release it’s laughable. And as I said, all of the good GW vets are gone already, this game should be just burried and covered with soil.
the game is doing fine you seem just a random hater
As a Guild Wars vet, I hate this abomination with a passion. No, wait. I am pretty much indifferent by now. We all moved away from this crap.
I don’t want to sound typical, but the kind of anti “hater” comments end up coming off as buyer remorse ones. people don’t like groups of others downing their purchasing decision, so in turn they have tor rebel against the so called haters to validate their purchase.
If there was never any validation needed, then there wouldn’t be anyone going against the crowd with a differing opinion.
I dont have any buyer remorse towards the division if i had i would not have gave more than 100 hours in game.
And calling it a crap game…people forgot what crap games are today a game can be an 7 or 8 out of 10 it will be considered crap gamers today are cancerous another example is fallout 4 its a very good game but because its less rpg and more action than fallout 3 and fallout nv its considered crap…
There is also the “hating ubisoft” bandwagon
Micro-transaction Bull$#!T Lover… Ubisoft hear you. So hurry and pre-order.
Oh joy, another GaaS game, with more bullet sponge humans that can seemingly eat a whole clip of ammo and more, all with shiny coloured loot as well.
How about single player the division,Ubisoft???
OK… Fifty bucks just to play with the assets in the Snowdrop Engine Ubisoft… Couldn’t care less about a sequel to that gorgeously boring meh game…
but, still multiplayer online mode only?? no, thank you….. ^^
so many filthy pirate losers raving in the comment section
No thanks, the first one was an insane snooze fest that didn’t look anywhere close to what they showed before release.