Ubisoft has revealed The Division 2 Year 5 Season 2 PTS patch notes today! While the patch has been delayed to now release sometime in October, Massive Entertainment has revealed just what changes and new gear are incoming for The Division 2’s upcoming season.

The Division 2 Year 5 Season 2 PTS Patch Notes:

PATCH SIZE:

Size without PTS build on Connect: ~ 75.26 GB

Size if PTS build already is on Connect ~ 7.8 GB

START DATE:

Friday, September 8th, at 11:00 AM CEST, 5:00 AM EDT, 2:00 AM PDT

END DATE:

Monday, September 11th, at 2:00 PM CEST, 8:00 AM EDT, 5:00 AM PDT

DESCENT

• Buffed the Descent rewards across all loops for level 40 players.
• Increased the chance to receive reconstructed and exotic cache from defeating Nemesis from 12% to 50%.
• Added new Talents to the mode:

NEW GEAR

Lengmo – Brand Set

• 1 Piece equipped gives +20% Explosive Resistance
• 2 Pieces equipped give +10% Skill Health
• 3 Pieces equipped give +15% LMG Damage
• Named Chest and Backpack:
• Named Chest “Carpenter” – Talent “Perfectly Mad Bomber”
  • Grenade Radius is increased by 75.
  • Grenades that kill an enemy are refunded.
  • Grenades can now be “cooked” by holding the fire button, making them explode earlier. Allows to gain +15% bonus Armor while aiming when throwing out a grenade.
• Named Backpack “Backbone” – Talent “Perfectly Unstoppable Force”
  • Killing an enemy increases total weapon damage by 5% for 15s.
  • Stacks up to 7.
  • Grenade kills add 2 stacks.

Ortiz: Exuro – Gear Set:

• 2 Pieces equipped give +20% Burn Duration & +15% Skill Health
• 3 Pieces equipped give +40% Burn Damage
• 4 Pieces equipped unlock a new unique Turret talent
  • Ortiz Incinerator Turret Prototype
    • The Incinerator Turret spins 360°
    • You are immune to your own Incinerator Turret’s fire.
    • The Incinerator Turret explodes when disabled.
• Chest and Backpack Talents:
  • Chest Bonus – Talent “Chain Combustion”
    • Enemies set ablaze by the Ortiz Incinerator Turret Prototype ignite other enemies within 2m.
  • Backpack Bonus – Talent “Heatstroke”
    • +25% Weapon Damage to enemies set on fire by the Ortiz Incinerator Turret Prototype
    • +25% Ortiz Incinerator Turret Prototype Range

Collector – Exotic Chest Piece:

• Talent: “Hoarder”
  • +3 Grenade Capacity
  • +50% Grenade Radius
  • +35% Grenade Damage
  • +25% Grenade for each extra enemy caught in the blast
  • Automatically regenerate grenades every 60s, up to 2 grenades.

NEW WEAPONS & TALENTS

Exotic Weapons

Iron Lung – Exotic LMG

• Talent “Ardent”
  • Shooting heats the weapon up filling the “heat meter”. The meter is equivalent to 50% of the weapon’s standard Magazine Size.
  • When the meter is full, rounds shot by the weapon will ignite enemies.
  • When not shooting, the meter constantly depletes. Reloading or swapping to another weapon fully depletes the meter.

Ouroboros – Exotic SMG*

• Talent “Rule them all”
  • When the agent has a Status Effect applied to them, 50% of the ammo in their next magazine will apply the same Status Effect to their targets.
  • This effect will only occur during combat.

*Please note that this Exotic is exclusive to a new Incursion and not a part of the Seasonal Rewards Track

Named Weapons & Talents

Stabilize – Weapon Talent

• +1% Weapon Accuracy and +1% Weapon Stability per bullet shot, up to +60%.
• Stopping shooting will start a timer of 2 seconds, after which the bonuses reset

Grown Great – Named Tommy Gun SMG

• Talent “Perfect Stabilize”
  • +1% Weapon Accuracy and +1% Weapon Stability per bullet shot, up to +75%.
  • Stopping shooting will start a timer of 4 seconds, after which the bonuses reset

Born Great – Named Military G36 AR

• Talent “Perfect Stabilize”
  • +1% Weapon Accuracy and +1% Weapon Stability per bullet shot, up to +75%.
  • Stopping shooting will start a timer of 4 seconds, after which the bonuses reset

BALANCING AND REWORK

Tip of the Spear – Gear Set

• 2 Pieces equipped give +20% Signature Weapon Damage
• 3 Pieces equipped give +10% Weapon Damage
• 4 Pieces equipped unlock Aggressive Recon Talent
  • Talent “Aggressive Recon”
    • Getting a Signature Weapon kill gives +15% Signature Weapon Damage for 5s and +25% Reload Speed for the next reload of the weapon (the bonuses do not stack). Automatically regenerate Signature Weapon Ammo every 60s.
    • Previously: Dealing damage with a signature weapon increases total weapon damage by 20% for 60s.
      Automatically generate specialization ammo every 60s.
• Chest and Backpack Bonuses:
  • Chest Bonus – Talent “Specialized Destruction”
    • +50% Weapon Damage for 15s after fully depleting the Signature Weapon of ammo. Doubles the amount of ammo generated by Aggressive Recon.
    • Previously: Increases Aggressive Recon weapon damage from 20% to 40%.
  • Backpack Bonus – Talent “Signature Moves”
    • Increase Aggressive Recon Signature Weapon Damage bonus from 15% to 30%. Every 3rd Signature Weapon kill generates Signature Weapon ammo.
    • Previously: Increases Specialization Weapon damage by 20%. Doubles the amount of the Specialization Weapon ammo generated by Aggressive Recon.

QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES

• Exotic Caches are now available for purchase at the DZ vendors in any of the three locations.
• Reduced Stinger Hive’s range by 30% in PVP

KNOWN ISSUES

• Iron Lung – Exotic LMG
  • The Reconfiguration Blueprint appears twice at the Crafting Vendor
• Ouroboros – Exotic SMG
  • The Reconfiguration Blueprint is not available at the Crating Vendor
• Ortiz: Exuro – Gear Set
  • The Ortiz Incinerator Turret Prototype will sometimes reapply the Burn Status Effect without the current Burn Status Effect depleting
• Tip of the Spear – Gear Set
  • The Signature Moves talent has a placeholder indicator icon
• PTS Cache
  • The cache does not contain Umbra Initiative and Heartbreaker Wires