'Division 2' Update 1.27 Adds Title Update 11, Backfire & More: Patch Notes

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The Division 2 Title Update 11 is going live as version 1.27 on PS4, and the sizable patch brings a lot to the game including new seasonal content, a host of fresh Exotics and a loot-drench Summit PvE game mode. Read the full patch notes below courtesy of a Ubisoft forum post.

Division 2 Update 1.27 (Title Update 11) Patch Notes

'The Division 2' Title Update 11 has just released as version 1.27 on PS4. Read the full patch notes below. 'The Division 2' is available now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

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New Season – Concealed Agenda

A new season is almost upon us! Starting on September 22nd, Concealed Agenda offers 12 weeks of in-game activities and unique rewards. Season 3 brings a new Seasonal Manhunt, new Leagues, a new Global event and new unique rewards, as well as an Apparel Event.

New Manhunt tasking you to take on 5 rogue agents over a 12-week period starting September 22nd. Bring down all five to unlock the new Shrapnel Trap skill variant.

Bardon Schaeffer, Leader of the BTSU Unit of the Black Tusk is this Season's prime target.

New Global Event SHD Exposed.

New Apparel Event Last Resort.

New Leagues Shade, Wraith, Dusk & Belfry.

New Rewards

2 new Exotics

1 new Gear Set

2 new Named Weapons

2 new Named Gear

1 new Brand Set

Participating in the activities above will earn players Season experience contributing to their Season level.

Playing Conflict will contribute XP by gaining Conflict Levels beyond 30.

Playing in the Dark Zone will contribute XP by gaining DZ Levels beyond 30.

New PvE Game Mode: The Summit

Title Update 11 introduces the new PvE game mode The Summit for free to all owners of the Warlords of New York expansion. The Summit brings agents to a skyscraper occupied by hostile factions, and as you progress towards the top the difficulty gradually will increase, and you will start seeing more ruthless enemies standing in your way. The Summit is designed to be highly replayable and also meant to offer a challenge to everybody, from our most dedicated agents to our newer agents. Floors will be different each time you fight your way through the building, as floors are randomly selected from a number of preset designs and gets populated by random AI spawns.

Progression throughout the floors is saved at specific rally points, and players can leave and jump back in where they left off without losing their progress. The total time to reach floor 100, and thus unlock all the difficulties, can vary greatly depending on the players skills and equipment as well as their team configuration

Highly replayable PvE game mode

100 floors to fight your way through

Checkpoint system

Unique rewards

Based on PTS feedback, we have made the below improvements for the release of Title Update 11, but work to bring the mode closer to our vision for the mode has already begun for the interim Title Update 11.1 and beyond.

Added greater variety and diversity in objective types as you progress through The Summit.

Changed the Hostage revive timer to be longer, giving more leeway to reach them before the objective fails.

Increased the radius of the hack zone for EMP objectives.

Increased the amount of loot caches scattered around the building, which contents scale with difficulty.

Reduced number of directives on Legendary Floors 91-100. Now has 3 random directives (previously had 4).

We saw the PTS feedback about this and those who prefer the tougher difficulties will not need to grind through the first 50 floors if they don't want to.

We are by default unlocking Rally Points up to 51 (this is the start of Heroic floors)

In addition to the new objectives added in PTS Phase 2, there are a couple more coming for TU11

Adjusted frequency of certain objective types based on PTS data/feedback

Tuned Drone Ambush objective

Rogue Agent Encounters will be able to occur on Legendary Summit floors (still disabled for DC Strongholds)

Added exotic fireteams for Legendary (so occasionally you will see some unusual and challenging combinations of certain enemy types)

Crew Ambush will no longer occur on Legendary floors

New Feature: Appearance Mods

Appearance Mods (aka Transmog) will become available to you in Title Update 11, allowing for much greater customization of your Agent's visual look. You will save the appearance of all obtained gear following the release of Title Update 11, allowing you to override your gear's look with the gear of your choosing.

All gear is supported by Appearance Mods.

Weapons and Exotics are excluded.

Note: When logging in to TU11, you will need to log in to each of your characters to unlock the looks of all owned gear.

This only needs to be done once and you do not need to save the gear to keep their looks available moving forward.

Operation Iron Horse Discovery Mode

Discovery mode of the Operation Iron Horse raid will be available to all players with Title Update 11.

New Exotics

MPX Submachine Gun: Backfire

The Backfire SMG is one of the new Exotics in the Concealed Agenda season.

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Dealing damage to enemies adds a stack of +1 percent critical hit damage, up to 200 stacks, lasting 10s.

On reload, apply a 10s bleed to yourself, which deals 0.5 percent armor damage per stack.

Backpack: Memento

Enemies you kill drop a trophy on death. Collecting trophies provides both a short- and long-term buff, the first of which scales with the number of core attributes equipped and lasts 10s.

+5 percent weapon damage per red core

+10 percent bonus armor per blue core

+5 percent skill efficiency per yellow core

For every trophy collected, gain an additional +1 percent weapon damage, +1 percent skill efficiency, and +0.1 percent armor regeneration for 300s. Maximum 30 stacks.

Chest: Ridgeway's Pride

Shooting enemies within 10m applies bleed to the target.

Repair 1-25 percent of your armor per second for every enemy that is bleeding within 10m.

1 enemy: 1 percent

2 enemies: 4 percent

3 enemies: 9 percent

4 enemies: 16 percent

5 enemies: 25 percent

New Gear Set

Hunter's Fury

An offensive gear set specializing in aggressive close combat.

Core: Weapon Damage (Red)

Set bonuses:

2+ Pieces

+15 percent SMG Damage

+15 percent Shotgun Damage

3+ Pieces

+20 percent Armor on Kill

+100 percent Health on Kill

4+ Pieces

Apex Predator: Enemies within 15m receive a debuff, increasing your weapon damage against them by +20 percent. Killing a debuffed enemy with your weapon disorients other enemies within 5m, and amplifies weapon damage by 5 percent for 10s, stacking up to 5 times.

Chest

Endless Hunger: Increases the duration of Apex Predator stacks from 10s to 30s.

Backpack

Overwhelming Force: Increases the radius of disorient on Apex Predator kills from 5m to 10m.

New Skill Variant

Shrapnel Trap

The Shrapnel Trap scatters a minefield of small explosive devices that can attach to any surface (including enemies) and then detonate based on enemy proximity.

Note: This skill will become unlockable in-game when the Prime Target of Season 3 becomes available but is available on the PTS for feedback and testing purposes.

New Named Items

This new weapon adds a +1 buff o your Skill Tier.

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SIX12 Shotgun: The Mop

+10 percent Armor on Kill

KARD-45 Pistol: TDI "Kard" Custom

+1 Skill Tier when used

Belstone Armory Chest: Everyday Carrier

Perfectly Efficient: Using an armor kit has a 75 percent chance to not consume the armor kit. Specialization armor kit bonuses are increased by 100 percent.

Belstone Armory Backpack: Liquid Engineer

Perfect Bloodsucker: Killing an enemy adds and refreshes a stack of +12 percent bonus armor for 10s. Max stack is 10

New Gear Brand

Belstone Armory

A defensive brand set primarily focused on self-sustain and efficient repairs.

Core: Armor (Blue)

Set bonuses:

+1 percent Armor Regen

+10 percent Armor on Kill

+20 percent Incoming Repairs

New Weapons

Shotgun: SIX12

A compact, 6-round, cylinder-fed shotgun, optimal for close-quarters urban combat.

Pistol: KARD-45

Prototype semi-automatic pistol, chambered in .45 ACP, utilizing the same technology as the Vector, but in a much smaller package.

New Attribute: Skill Efficiency

Similar to Weapon Handling, Skill Efficiency is a new attribute that modifies multiple skill-focused attribute bonuses at the same time.

+1 percent Skill Efficiency is equal to:

+1 percent Skill Damage

+1 percent Skill Haste

+1 percent Skill Duration

+1 percent Skill Health

+1 percent Repair Skills

+1 percent Status Effects

Developer comment: Skill Efficiency is currently only available on the new "Memento" exotic backpack.

New Directives

Fragile Armor – (Replaces "Hard to Earn"): Armor breaks apply a stack of "Broken" to the agent up to a maximum of 4. Each stack of broken reduces an agent's max armor by 20 percent. Using an armor kit removes one stack of Broken.

Scavenged Skills – (Replaces "Cool Skills"): Skill cooldowns do not progress on their own. Agents must collect Skill Parts as drops from enemies and broken weak points. Each part collected reduces cooldowns.

Gameplay Changes

Global Events

Developer Comment: After reviewing the Global Events as a whole, we decided that the Global Events introduced in Season 1 did not provide the power boost to agents that we desire. As such, the following global events have been re-worked to provide a significant boost to player power.

Guardians – The buff provided from killing a Guardian angel now grants the ability to penetrate guardian protection. In addition, the buff renews its duration with each kill, permitting agents to chain kills throughout an entire fireteam without necessarily defeating all guardians first. Additionally, defeating all guardians in a fireteam now prevents the surviving members from regaining protection for an amount of time based on their veterancy. (Standard enemies will not be able to receive protection for a long time, named enemies can regain protection quite quickly.) Finally, melee attacks against protected enemies will briefly rob those enemies of their protection.

Polarity Switch – The shock for shooting opposite-polarity enemies has been removed. Values for the strength of the stacking buff have been updated to provide a significant power boost to agents.

Reanimated – The green cloud produced by killing enemies with a headshot no longer harms agents. This cloud now heals agents and provides a significant boost to their firepower while standing within it. The green cloud continues to significantly harm enemies.

Mods

Mod slots on backpacks, chests, and masks are now generic, and no longer associated with a specific offensive, defensive, or utility mod type.

Mod slots on gear are no longer able to be recalibrated.

Note: Any existing gear that has had its mod slot recalibrated prior to TU11 will have that recalibration automatically refunded, allowing a new attribute or talent to be recalibrated instead.

Added generic mod slots to all "improvised" crafting high end gear.

Developer comment: Any type of mod (red/blue/yellow) can now be placed in any mod slot, regardless of previous brand/set or exotic gear color association. Ex: You can now place a defensive or utility gear mod into an Airaldi backpack, without needing to recalibrate the mod slot from red to blue/yellow.

Defensive gear mods can now drop with disorient and ensnare resistances.

Loot

Rainbow loot

Introduced weighing to gear attributes to reduce the amount of rainbow loot.

The first non-core attribute has a higher chance to be of the same color as the core attribute

Added all new Season 3 weapons and gear to the general loot pool.

Added the new Season 3 brand to targeted loot rotation.

Season 2 Content

Updated Legacy Season cache to include weapons, gear set and named items from Season 2

Added Season 2 blueprints to general blueprint loot pool

Removed Season 2 level requirements from season 2 Exotics from all sources

Mantis and Vile can now be acquired from general Exotic sources (e.g. targeted loot, Exotic Caches) without any conditions

Balance

Named Items

Deathgrips: Increased the armor on kill from +5 percent to +10 percent

Gear Sets

Eclipse Protocol

Lowered Indirect Transmission on kill status effect spread from 15m to 10m

Proliferation now increases the range of Indirect Transmission from 10m to 15m

Increased Symptom Aggravator damage amplification from 15 percent to 30 percent

Talents

Obliterate: Increased the number of maximum stacks of total weapon damage from 15 to 25

PvP

Reduced the global PvP damage modifier from 0.35 to 0.3

Reverted previous change to pistol PvP damage modifiers to pre-10.1 values (buff)

Small increase to all shotgun, rifle, and MMR PvP damage modifiers to match global damage reduction and retain pre-TU11 time-to-kill

Slight reduction to overall SMG PvP damage

Lady Death's Breathe Free weapon damage amplification effect lowered from 75 percent to 60 percent in PvP

Developer comment: The above changes should result in a small increase to TTK at medium/close range, while keeping rifles and MMRs deadly at long ranges.

Crusader, Reflector, and Striker shields now take 33 percent more damage in PvP

Riot Foam Chem Launcher base ensnare duration lowered from 3s to 2s in PvP

Firewall specialization talent Fiery Response no longer applies a 5m burn on armor break in PvP

Eclipse Protocol's Indirect Transmission on kill status effect spread lowered from 15m to 5m in PvP (7m with Proliferation chest talent)

Headhunter buff duration lowered from 30s to 5s in PvP

Headhunter damage bonus lowered from 40 percent to 20 percent in PvP (25 percent with Perfect Headhunter)

Audio Improvements

Title Update 11 brings significant memory optimizations for audio, which should resolve the audio loss issues reported by players since TU10.

Bug Fixes

Fixed covers in numerous sections of the Summit.

Fixed placement of laptop terminal interaction in various sections of the Summit.

Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented the kill boss objective from completing

Fixed an issue where the 100th floor enemies could end up underneath the room.

Fixed an issue which allowed players to finish the 100th floor in The Summit without actually killing the enemies.

Fixed an issue causing only one type of enemy to spawn in The Summit on Legendary difficulty.

Fixed an issue causing enemies to shoot through walls on the 100th floor in The Summit.

Fixed an issue that caused you to be matched with a The Summit group when matchmaking for main missions.

Fixed an issue causing the SHD crate disappear briefly after completing the "Hold SHD Crate" objective in The Summit.

Fixed missing Specialization Tutorial when boosting a new character to level 30.

Fixed an issue which caused all trap variants to become stuck in the ceiling.

Fixed an issue with the Recalibration Library where the Pistol Damage attribute lowered from 15 percent to 14 percent following a maintenance

Fixed an issue causing the Headhunter talents duration to refresh when swapping weapons

Fixed the White House Operation Iron Horse World's First portraits not displaying correctly on Xbox

Fixed an issue that would cause the bonus armor from the Galvanize talent to apply to rogue agents

Fixed a ladder that couldn't be interacted with near the Widow's Web control point

Fixed a ladder that couldn't be interacted with near The Gate

Fixed Deflector Shield not triggering some Skill Talents

Fixed issues with the Feedback Loop talent sometimes not applying when equipped and something remaining active when unequipped

Fixed In Sync talent activating when killing wildlife

Fixed the Polycarbonate cost for crafting SMG's being three times higher than intended

Fixed jammers blocking rogue agents from using skills

Fixed the game menu overlapping with the mega map when the player is in a downed state

Fixed Global Event and League menus becoming offset when in the menu and taking a melee attack from a NPC

Fixed UI inconsistencies with the flamethrower's indicated damage and actual damage

Fixed an issue causing the icon for Makeshift Repairs to not appear under the health bar

Fixed an issue causing league missions scale with global difficulty and not the selected difficulty

Fixed the Riot Foam Chem launcher not applying ensnare on the final boss of District Union Arena under certain conditions

Fixed the Guardians Global Event task "Eliminate hostiles with the Guardian buff" not counting for group members

Fixed the Guardians Global Event task "Eliminate veterans with the Guardian buff" to correctly show 50 enemies

Fixed an issue where agents would clip through the Base of Operations helicopter pilot NPC

Fixed an issue causing Rogue Agents to spawn during League time trials

Fixed an issue causing new characters created during the Double XP manhunt event only to gain the boost for the first 14 levels, instead of 15

Fixed an issue causing the character to equip a grenade when inspecting a specialization weapon and moving the left analog stick left to right

Fixed the Mantis scope incorrectly highlighting enemies

Fixed the Shock Trap affecting players when an enemy trigger it in their vicinity

Fixed the Mantis attributes being extractable at the recalibration station

Fixed agents not respawning in a safe area after changing Global Difficulty in coop

Fixed the molten metal puddles not being visible in Operation Iron horse after a player fast travels out of the raid and back

Fixed the PC chat not being visible or useable when in a downed or dead state

Fixed the Signal Flare emote not removing the flares after the player interrupts the emote

Fixed Conflict XP sometimes not being added to the overall PvP XP in the end of match screen

Fixed the name and health bar being placed too high above the decoy in PvP

Fixed the Hostile Negotiation's four-piece talent dealing less damage than indicated to other agents

Fixed an issue where being affected by the Full Flag debuff and your skills being destroyed would cause an explosion inflicting damage to nearby players

Fixed the Spotter talent incorrectly doubling damage when used in conjunction with skills

Fixed ISAC not alerting players when encountering hostile NPC's with shields

Fixed the Double XP levels available not decreasing when gaining a new Season level

Fixed a location in the Operation Iron Horse raid where players could go out of bounds

Fixed an issue in the Operation Iron Horse raid where the sewers objective could be started without all agents gathering up, causing an objective reset

Fixed an issue causing several dyes not being applied to the Striker Gear Set

Fixed the Skill Duration attribute not increasing the duration of the Burn Sticky Bomb

Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to fast travel to the Dark Zones from New York

Fixed Keener's remaining immune to bullets after his drone self-destructs

Fixed an issue causing the "Premium Access" and "Discover Pass" screens overlapping after switching between them

Fixed the Crossbow signature weapon incorrectly triggering ammo bonuses

Fixed the Liberty exotic to not trigger from ricochets

As with any seasonal update for The Division 2, Title Update 11 offers a wide array of improvements that should be enough to bring a handful of lapsed players back. Starting with the Summit mode in particular, it sounds like it could be an exciting time with friends and also a strong source of loot. While Agents remain split over The Division 2's Dark Zone PvP antics, this new activity sounds like something just about everyone will engage with. Especially given the allure of possible new Exotic drops that feature interesting buffs, there's plenty of incentive to take on the horde. For our money, we're most interested to see what that Backfire SMG is all about.

Elsewhere in Title Update 11, there are also broader changes that seem designed to improve the game's quality of life beyond Title Update 11. Increased flexibility with mod slots allows players to better spec their Agent with a wider selection of buffs, gear-based perks can now be transmogged and time to kill has been adjusted in PvP in a way that presumably helps newcomers. Especially now that we know The Division 2 is primed for a next-gen debut on PS5 and Xbox Series, community-focused changes like these make sense. In short, update 1.27 goes a long way toward making the Division 2 daily gear grind more exciting while also solidifying this game's vision for months to come.

The Division 2 is available now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

What do you think of The Division 2 Title Update 11? Does patch 1.27 do enough to keep you invested in the game? Tell us in the comments section!