Gear Up, Operative: A Guide to The Division 2’s Year 7, Battle for Brooklyn & Crossroads Season

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Seven years in, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 continues to evolve, layering on patches and updates. The latest major release launched on May 27th and ushers in Year 7 with the Battle for Brooklyn DLC and the brand new Crossroads Season. This update is a significant moment for the game; it aims to significantly advance the narrative, explore new locales, introduce a new Manhunt, and revamp the Seasonal Journey! This launch is a key event for the game’s server.

What’s New in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Year 7

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The Division 2 has been updated for seven years. This recent addition is considered the largest content infusion since the Warlords of New York expansion in 2020, setting a new record for content releases. It combines features from both the paid DLC ($15 USD), part of the premium season content, and the free seasonal content, accessible to all players. This content push revitalizes the narrative and takes operatives to previously unexplored map locations in Brooklyn, all set against an Autumn backdrop. Prepare for things to get a little chilly and a lot more dangerous!

Feature / Content Area Battle for Brooklyn DLC (Paid) Crossroads Season (Free)
New Map Zone Yes (Brooklyn) No
New Gear Set Yes (Measured Assembly blueprint via Season) Yes (Measured Assembly blueprint via Season)
Manhunt No (Part of Free Season) Yes
Stash Space Increase Yes (+50) No

If you’re returning or a new player, the game’s visuals are often the first thing that impresses. The level of detail in the environments and lighting creates an eerily beautiful, dilapidated urban landscape. What’s remarkable is the seamless recreation of massive, fictionalized city streets with minimal loading screens in a fully open world, a technical feat relying on robust server infrastructure. The scale contributes significantly to an authentic experience and a strong sense of presence.

Players Use Skills And Cover In Gameplay

Beyond visuals, The Division 2 is fundamentally a loot-driven game. From the start through the end, you’re constantly hunting for gear, including powerful sets and specialized weapons like high-impact sniper rifles. These sets offer bonuses (like headshot damage or crit chance) when multiple pieces are equipped. Sets like Striker or the new Measured Assembly (available via the Seasonal Journey) are often highlighted for their effectiveness. You’ll also acquire e credits and various resources as you play, with your progression saved to the server.

The core gameplay blends third-person shooting with tactical abilities. Gadgets allow you to control the battlefield, flank enemies, or defend yourself across diverse game modes. This mix of open-world exploration, satisfying gunplay, abilities, and the constant loot chase feels like an open-world MMO-lite. A Level 40 character boost is included with the expansion, letting returning players jump directly into new content without replaying the base game campaign. Player onboarding has also seen improvements for new operatives, providing basic build pieces early to help newcomers understand the gear system and gain access to effective builds faster. This onboarding provides valuable assistance for new players.

The open world is packed with activities. Clearing POIs and world activities like Zone Control, rescuing civilians, or stopping propaganda broadcasts are common. The bounty hunt system, accessible in settlements, lets you chase specific targets with timed limits. Tackling elite targets and territory control is a constant source of action.

How Game Modes Evolve in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: Crossroads Season

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The Crossroads Season provides structured content progression through specific gameplay types like its Manhunt and Seasonal Journey, offering distinct paths for advancement and rewards. The open world itself hosts dynamic activities.

The Manhunt: This is the primary way to delve into the seasonal narrative and gain intel from Schaefer. Structured weekly, a new scout target becomes available each Tuesday. Finishing linked activities for each scout unlocks progress and provides Schaefer briefings via comms, revealing Black Tusk information bit by bit.

Finishing 11 scouts unlocks the final climax mission. And that one awards the special seasonal reward: the Tinkerer Mask. Activities vary, including target practice, eliminating specific factions (potentially military units), liberating control points, interacting with vendors, and donating resources. Manhunt progression is tracked on the server.

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The Seasonal Journey: This has seen significant changes, aiming to be less of a solo grind and more beneficial for collaborative play. Players start directly on Journey Mission 3 (with 1 & 2 available later). Finishing Mission 3 unlocks Missions 4, 5, and 6 simultaneously, allowing multi-task progress. Mission 7 unlocks later.

Crucially, many tasks are now tracked in a squad, making it no longer a solo-only activity – a major quality-of-life improvement for playing with friends and your team. The Journey offers ongoing tasks organized into missions (1-7). Finishing tasks earns Seasonal XP and various rewards like crafting materials, caches (Field Proficiency, Exotic), and ‘journey build caches’ providing items and blueprints for gear sets (like Measured Assembly). Finishing specific tasks also unlocks Passive Modifiers, providing ongoing bonuses to your operative’s capabilities.

Tasks are varied, testing main missions, strongholds, world activities, base game systems (crafting, recalibration), combat feats (headshots, criticals, skills), and interaction with seasonal modifiers. The ability to acquire these rewards is tied directly to finishing the tasks, with progress saved to the server.

Reward Type How Acquired / Benefit
Seasonal XP Completing Tasks; Progresses Season Track
Crafting Materials Completing Tasks; Used for Crafting/Optimization
Caches (Field Proficiency, Exotic) Completing Tasks; Random Loot
‘Journey Build Caches’ Completing Tasks; Gear & Blueprints (e.g., Measured Assembly)
Passive Modifiers Finishing Specific Tasks; Ongoing Operative Bonuses
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Returning Skill & New Type: Mobile Cover, a fan-favorite tactical skill from Division 1, is back, expanding operative gameplay variety. The update also adds an additional late-game challenge, expanding the endgame activities.

Brooklyn Control Points: Control Points in the new Brooklyn zones are tougher than those elsewhere, featuring new defenses like automated turrets and shock panels that scale with difficulty, presenting a specific type of challenging gameplay. A surprising mechanic: finishing linked world activities doesn’t make a Control Point easier; it significantly increases its level and difficulty – a potential recipe for disaster if unprepared!

Challenging the Limits: Endgame Content in Battle for Brooklyn

Players Explore The Tom Clancy'S Division 2 World

For those finding the base game’s open-world combat a little too easy, The Division 2 offers multiple ways to significantly increase the challenge, specifically for its endgame. Beyond the world scaling to your level, there are explicit global difficulty settings ranging from Normal, Hard, Challenge, and Heroic.

Additionally, operatives can enable directives, which are hostile modifiers that add specific challenges to gameplay (like reduced ammo, skills cooling each other down, or enemies gaining rage). Enabling these directives alongside global difficulty can make a huge difference in combat, requiring more tactical play as enemies take longer to go down and pose a greater threat in late-game challenges. Enemies can also spawn with hostile modifiers in the form of colored marks, granting them various buffs, and tackling these marked enemies offers special beneficial acquisitions suitable for high-level play.

New Features & Quality of Life (Free Season & DLC)

Unlock New Gear And Weapon Talents

The Crossroads Season and Battle for Brooklyn update bring significant new and returning features alongside quality-of-life improvements benefiting all operatives, facilitated by server updates.

  • Game Pass Availability: A major announcement: The Division 2 joins Game Pass (Xbox, PC, cloud) on May 27th, the same date as the update launch. This could significantly grow the player base, bringing in many new players, particularly those on Steam who might try it via Game Pass, potentially impacting server load, but also potentially leading to increased resources and official developer assistance. Note that while Game Pass grants access to the base game (and potentially Warlords of New York), the new Battle for Brooklyn DLC is a separate paid add-on.
  • Scavenging Point Rework: Tied to the SHD Watch, Scavenging resources are now unified into a global pool on the server. Spending on one character affects all. To facilitate this change, unspent resources were wiped at launch and replaced with an amount equal to the player’s total SHD level. This change involved significant data migration and system exchange. To compensate for the change, the developers tripled the material rewards gained per resource redeemed. Future rebalances and Expertise cost reductions are also planned. Players were advised to spend any unused resources before May 27th to avoid losing them during the transition. This system change provides valuable assistance for players by streamlining resource management.
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  • Single Strap Backpacks: A popular cosmetic return from Division 1. Due to technical constraints, these new backpacks only display when a cosmetic shirt or jacket is worn that hides the chest piece.
  • Shared Journey Progress: A highly requested fix! Seasonal Journey progress now properly tracks in co-op, meaning teammates’ contributions count towards most tasks. This makes tackling the Season with your team much more appealing and provides vital assistance for group play.
  • More Stash Space: A quality-of-life win in the DLC! Purchasing Battle for Brooklyn grants another 50 stash slots, bringing the maximum for players owning all expansions/passes to 450, allowing you to stash more items or e-credits. This increased capacity is managed by the server and provides valuable assistance for loot hoarders.

Battle for Brooklyn DLC: Exploring the New Frontier

A Rewarding Drop Of Exclusive Seasonal Gear

The paid Battle for Brooklyn DLC is a major component, bringing exclusive features and expanding the available gameplay types:

  • The Brooklyn Map: The first new explorable open-world zone since Warlords of New York (2020). It revisits iconic locations from the Division 1 tutorial area (about 30-35% of the space) while adding two new zones: Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights (the remaining 65-70%). It also sets the game in Autumn for the first time, complete with new visuals and weather effects matching the Fall season. The new open-world zone features 4 control points, 12 dynamic activities, 10 bounty targets, and 8 hidden Hunter riddles, adding more structured challenges to the Brooklyn open world.
  • 8 New Hunter Puzzles: Seek out and battle eight new Hunters in Brooklyn by solving open-world puzzles to gain access. Defeating them awards unique masks. Community teamwork is often key to figuring out the puzzles. A new trophy wall in the Brooklyn settlement is likely, and Hunters might yield keys to acquire a reward chest, providing a beneficial challenge.

Crossroads Narrative: A New Stage & Black Tusk Secrets

Agent Uses Skill Against Enemy Armor In Combat

Year 7 begins a new chapter for The Division 2. The Crossroads Season is a turning point, with stories reaching conclusions and long-standing questions being answered.

A key driver is Barton Schaefer’s awakening from coma. He’s a source of significant secrets and crucial information about the Black Tusk. Early communications confirm a character named Doc Summers was a Black Tusk asset keeping Schaefer sedated, manipulating crucial data. Schaefer’s briefings provide intel on Black Tusk infrastructure, including the existence of their bunkers, and the difficulty the Division faces competing with them. This ties into previous hints that Schaefer holds the key to gaining access to and disrupting these strongholds from the inside, setting the stage for future developments expected to further the narrative.

Beyond Schaefer’s intel, the narrative also brings back familiar faces. Legacy characters like Dr. Jessica Kandel and Theo Parnell return, while a new Division operative, Agent Kelvin Hoskins, is introduced, adding personal arcs to the Brooklyn story.

The season features a mystery prime target. While developers hint at a reveal through gameplay, patch notes indicate the target is an undercover asset embedded within the Sakalav Concern logistics group, needing extraction after the Coney Island events. The theory suggests players will learn more from Schaefer weekly, discover the target’s location, and execute an extraction plan in the climax mission.

Legacy of Tom Clancy’s Tactical World: What Year 7 Brings Forward

Battle For Brooklyn Story Mission Progress

Crossroads leans heavily into nostalgia for the original Division through mechanics and gear, adding unique flavor to the gameplay and drawing from the broader Tom Clancy’s universe.

  • Division 1 Abilities (Global & Active Modifiers): Year 7 Season 1’s Global Modifier, “Hardcore,” draws inspiration from Division 1’s attribute system (Firearms, Stamina, Electronics) that build passively based on gear cores. These tiers unlock new passive abilities (e.g., Firearms adding crit chance beyond the cap). The five Active Modifiers resemble Division 1 Signature Skills (Security Link for Stamina bonuses, Tech Link for Electronics bonuses, etc.). This adds build complexity and relies on underlying game data stored and processed by the server.
  • Division 1 Items (Season Pass Rewards): New items are inspired by or directly reprised from the original game. The exotic weapon is the Bighorn LMG, offering stacking magazine size bonuses per kill on reload. Exotic gear includes the Nimble Holster, which brings back Division 1’s classic cover-to-cover healing talent, and the Tinkerer mask (awarded from the Manhunt), reprising the AlphaBridge gear set idea of sharing weapon talents between two equipped weapons of the same class – potentially game-changing for weapon types like sniper rifles. The new Measured Assembly gear set has a subtle nod to D1’s Final Measure. These items are highly beneficial to acquire.

Difficulty Tuning: Crank Up the Challenge!

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For players who find the base game open world combat a little too easy, The Division 2 offers multiple ways to significantly increase the challenge. Beyond the world scaling to your level, there are explicit global difficulty settings ranging from Normal, Hard, Challenge, and Heroic. Additionally, operatives can enable directives, which are hostile modifiers that add specific challenges to gameplay (like reduced ammo, skills cooling each other down, or enemies gaining rage). Enabling these directives alongside global difficulty can make a huge difference in combat, requiring more tactical play as enemies take longer to go down and pose a greater threat. Enemies can also spawn with hostile modifiers in the form of colored marks, granting them various buffs, and tackling these marked enemies offers special beneficial rewards. This improves the gameplay features and increases the challenge across diverse gameplay types.

Overall Crossroads Experience

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Returning to The Division 2 for the Battle for Brooklyn expansion and the Crossroads Season offers a compelling and action-packed experience. The scale and detail of the New York setting remain impressive, creating a strong sense of presence and contributing to the immersive warfare and authentic experience within Tom Clancy’s universe.

While the base game open-world difficulty might feel too easy initially, the robust difficulty scaling options (global difficulty and directives) transform combat into a much more demanding and challenging experience, offering tough battles in late-game activities. Enemies take longer to go down and require more tactical thinking, especially when facing yellow bars or bosses.

The surprising consequence of empowering Control Points by finishing linked activities adds a layer of strategic depth and risk (“Stronger, not weaker!”).

For new players returning after a long absence, there can be a lot to parse due to seven years of updates and the various system layers, but the character boost and improved onboarding features aim to ease this transition and provide access and helpful assistance.

The Crossroads Season itself provides a blend of core open-world activities, the weekly progression of the Manhunt (tying into the seasonal narrative and intel from Schaefer), and the task-based grind of the revamped Seasonal Journey (offering XP, rewards, and passive modifiers).

Exploring The New Brooklyn Zone In The Division 2

The narrative is finally hitting its stride, promising answers and a new stage of progression, particularly regarding the mystery prime target and the tantalizing prospect of delving into Black Tusk bunkers.

The streamlined Seasonal Journey structure, allowing squad progression and simultaneous task work, is a welcome change that makes finishing tasks feel less like a chore compared to previous seasons, enhancing the social multiplayer experience for your team.

The Battle for Brooklyn DLC and Crossroads Season lay the foundation for what’s next for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, promising more revelations and challenges to come. Whether you’re a seasoned operative seeking endgame content or a new recruit trying the game’s diverse gameplay types, there’s plenty to do. This update marks a significant moment, setting a new content release record, bringing back large-scale paid content while also improving free seasonal systems. More content is expected in the future; many seasonal events and a Siege mode are coming on June 26th, 2025. Continued developer assistance is key to the game’s longevity.

So, Operative, New York is calling. Gear up, explore Brooklyn, finish those Manhunt tasks, tackle the Seasonal Journey (ideally with your allies!), and get ready for tough battles in the Crossroads Season! Build your team and conquer the Autumn streets!

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When did The Division 2 Year 7 launch?

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, now seven years into its lifespan, received its latest significant update, ushering in Year 7, on May 27th. This major release simultaneously launched the Battle for Brooklyn DLC and kicked off the brand new Crossroads Season. This date marked a pivotal moment for the game, as this update is designed to significantly advance the narrative, introduce substantial new content, and revamp key systems.

What is included in The Division 2 Year 7 update?

The Year 7 update is highlighted as the largest content infusion for The Division 2 since the Warlords of New York expansion was released in 2020, setting a new record for content releases. It’s a comprehensive update that blends features from both the paid Battle for Brooklyn DLC ($15 USD), which is part of the premium season content, and the free seasonal content accessible to all players. This massive content push revitalizes the game’s narrative, takes operatives to previously unexplored map locations in Brooklyn set against an Autumn backdrop, introduces a new Manhunt storyline, and significantly revamps the Seasonal Journey system. Beyond these headline features, the update also includes new gear, the return of fan-favorite skills, and various quality-of-life improvements benefiting all players.

Is the Battle for Brooklyn DLC free?

No, the Battle for Brooklyn DLC is explicitly stated as a separate paid add-on. It is priced at $15 USD and is considered part of the premium season content offering. While the Year 7 update itself encompasses both free and paid elements, accessing the new Brooklyn map zone and its exclusive activities like the increased stash space requires the purchase of this specific DLC.

What is the Crossroads Season?

The Crossroads Season represents the free seasonal content component of The Division 2’s Year 7 update. This means it is fully accessible to all players who own the base game, without needing to purchase the Battle for Brooklyn DLC. The season provides a structured path for content progression through specific gameplay types such as its seasonal Manhunt narrative and the revamped Seasonal Journey system, offering players distinct objectives, advancement paths, and rewards as they play.

Do I need the Battle for Brooklyn DLC to access the Crossroads Season content?

No, it is clearly stated that the free seasonal content, which includes the Crossroads Season’s Manhunt and the revamped Seasonal Journey and its associated tasks and rewards, is accessible to all players. Ownership of the paid Battle for Brooklyn DLC is not required to participate in or benefit from the core seasonal progression systems.

Is Brooklyn a new map in The Division 2?

Yes, Brooklyn is introduced as a brand new explorable open-world zone in The Division 2 with the Battle for Brooklyn DLC. It is the first new map addition of this scale since the Warlords of New York expansion was released in 2020. The new Brooklyn map is comprised of both revisiting iconic locations from the Division 1 tutorial area (making up about 30-35% of the space) and adding two entirely new zones, Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights, which constitute the remaining 65-70% of the area. It also uniquely features an Autumn setting for the first time, complete with new visuals and weather effects.

How does the Manhunt work in the Crossroads Season?

The Manhunt in the Crossroads Season is the primary mechanism for players to delve into the seasonal narrative and uncover crucial intel, primarily from Barton Schaefer after his awakening. It’s structured on a weekly basis, with a new scout target becoming available for players to pursue each Tuesday. Progressing through the Manhunt involves finishing linked activities related to each scout, which in turn unlocks progression and provides Schaefer briefings via comms. These briefings reveal Black Tusk information bit by bit. Finishing a certain number of scouts, reportedly 11, unlocks the final climax mission of the Manhunt.

What is the main reward for completing the Crossroads Season Manhunt?

Upon successfully finishing the final climax mission of the Crossroads Season Manhunt, players are awarded a special seasonal reward. This reward is the Tinkerer Mask, an exotic gear piece. This mask is notable because it reportedly reprises the AlphaBridge gear set idea from the original Division game, allowing for the sharing of weapon talents between two equipped weapons of the same class, which could be particularly impactful for certain weapon types like sniper rifles.

How has the Seasonal Journey changed in Year 7?

The Seasonal Journey system has undergone significant changes in Year 7 with the goal of making it less of a solitary endeavor and more rewarding for collaborative play. The revamp includes structural changes like players starting directly on Journey Mission 3 (with Missions 1 & 2 available later) and finishing Mission 3 simultaneously unlocking Missions 4, 5, and 6. This allows players to tackle multiple tasks concurrently. Crucially, many tasks now track progress even when playing in a squad, a major quality-of-life improvement that means teammates’ contributions count, making it far less of a solo-only activity compared to previous seasons. The Journey offers ongoing tasks organized into 7 missions.

Can I complete Seasonal Journey tasks with my squad or team?

Yes, absolutely. One of the most highly requested fixes implemented in Year 7 is that Seasonal Journey progress now properly tracks when playing in co-op. This means that the contributions your teammates make towards completing most of the tasks within the Seasonal Journey missions will count towards your own progress. This change is highlighted as a major quality-of-life improvement that significantly enhances the social multiplayer experience and provides valuable assistance for group play, making it much more appealing to tackle the Season with your allies.

What kind of rewards can I get from the Seasonal Journey?

The Seasonal Journey provides a consistent stream of rewards as players complete its various tasks. These rewards include Seasonal XP, which progresses your overall season track, and various valuable crafting materials used for optimization and crafting. Players also receive different types of caches, such as standard Field Proficiency caches and Exotic caches, offering random loot. Additionally, finishing certain tasks grants ‘journey build caches’ which provide specific items and blueprints, including those for gear sets like the new Measured Assembly. Completing specific tasks also reportedly unlocks Passive Modifiers, which grant ongoing bonuses to your operative’s capabilities.

Is the Mobile Cover skill returning in Year 7?

Yes, the Year 7 update sees the return of Mobile Cover, a tactical skill that was a fan-favorite in the original Tom Clancy’s The Division. Its inclusion expands the range of tactical options available to operatives, providing a portable cover option that can add significant strategic flexibility to gameplay encounters. The return of this skill is presented as expanding operative gameplay variety.

Are the new Control Points in Brooklyn harder?

Yes, the Control Points located within the new Brooklyn zones introduced by the Battle for Brooklyn DLC are reportedly more challenging than those found in other areas of the game. They are designed with new defenses, such as automated turrets and shock panels, and their difficulty scales with the chosen world difficulty. Furthermore, there is a notable and surprising mechanic tied to them: finishing linked world activities in the area doesn’t make the Control Point attack easier as it does elsewhere; instead, it significantly increases the Control Point’s level and overall difficulty, presenting a specific type of challenging gameplay that can be a potential recipe for disaster if an operative is unprepared.

How can I increase the difficulty in The Division 2’s endgame?

For players who feel the base game open world combat might be too easy, The Division 2 offers robust ways to significantly increase the challenge, particularly geared towards the endgame. Beyond the open world scaling to your character level, you can explicitly set the global difficulty, with options ranging from Normal, Hard, Challenge, and Heroic – the latter being the most difficult standard setting. Additionally, operatives can enable directives, which are hostile modifiers that layer on specific challenges to gameplay, such as reducing your available ammo, causing skills to affect each other’s cooldowns, or granting enemies the ability to gain rage buffs. Enabling these directives in conjunction with higher global difficulties can drastically change combat encounters, requiring much more tactical play as enemies become significantly tougher and pose a greater threat.

What are Directives in The Division 2?

Directives are optional, hostile modifiers that players can choose to enable to add specific and challenging handicaps or changes to gameplay. When active, they make combat significantly more difficult alongside global difficulty settings. Examples mentioned include effects like reduced ammo capacity or drops, skills having their cooldowns influenced negatively by using other skills, or enemies gaining special rage buffs that make them more dangerous. Enabling directives forces agents to be more tactical and thoughtful in their approach to combat, as enemies take longer to defeat and overall threats are increased, particularly in late-game challenges.

Is The Division 2 available on Game Pass?

Yes, a major positive development for The Division 2 was the announcement that it is now available on Game Pass. It officially joined Game Pass for Xbox, PC, and cloud on May 27th, coinciding with the launch date of the Year 7 update, Battle for Brooklyn, and Crossroads Season. This move is expected to significantly grow the player base, potentially bringing in many new players, including those on Steam who might try it via Game Pass. It’s important to note, however, that while Game Pass grants access to the base game (and possibly the Warlords of New York expansion depending on the specific Game Pass offering), the new Battle for Brooklyn DLC is a separate paid add-on and is not typically included with the base game access provided by Game Pass.

What happened to Scavenging points and SHD resources?

The system for Scavenging resources, which are tied to the SHD Watch progression, underwent a notable rework. These resources are now unified into a single, global pool that is shared across all of a player’s characters associated with their account on the game server. This means spending resources on one character will deplete the pool available to all others. To facilitate this system change, unspent resources that players had saved up were wiped at the launch of the update. As compensation for this change and the wiping of old resources, players received a new amount of resources equal to their total SHD level, and the developers also tripled the material rewards gained per resource redeemed in the new system. Players were explicitly advised to spend any unused resources before the May 27th update to avoid losing them entirely during the transition process, as this system change involved significant data migration.

Did they increase the Stash Space?

Yes, an increase in stash space was implemented as a valuable quality-of-life improvement. This increase is specifically tied to the purchase of the Battle for Brooklyn DLC. By acquiring the Battle for Brooklyn DLC, players are granted an additional 50 stash slots. This brings the maximum number of stash slots available for players who own all expansions and passes to a total of 450, providing much-needed extra space for storing items, gear, and e credits. This increased capacity is managed by the game’s server system and is presented as providing valuable assistance for players who tend to hoard loot.

Are there new Hunter puzzles to find in Brooklyn?

Yes, the Battle for Brooklyn DLC specifically introduces eight new Hunter puzzles located within the new open-world zones of Brooklyn. These are structured challenges where players must seek out and solve environmental or interaction-based puzzles in the open world to trigger the appearance of one of the eight new Hunters. Engaging and defeating these Hunters is a challenging activity that is rewarded with unique masks. The guide notes that community teamwork is often key to figuring out the solutions to these puzzles, and defeating the Hunters might also yield keys to acquire a reward chest. A new trophy wall in the Brooklyn settlement is suggested as a likely place to display these collected masks.

What are some of the new or returning items inspired by Division 1?

Year 7 and the Crossroads Season draw heavily on the legacy of the original Division game, bringing back or creating new items inspired by it, adding a unique flavor. Several specific items are highlighted: the Bighorn LMG, a new exotic weapon that provides stacking magazine size bonuses per kill upon reloading; the Nimble Holster, an exotic gear piece which revives the classic cover-to-cover healing talent that was popular in Division 1; and the Tinkerer Mask, the exotic awarded from completing the Manhunt, which is described as reprising the idea of the Division 1 AlphaBridge gear set by allowing players to share weapon talents between two equipped weapons of the same class. Additionally, the new Measured Assembly gear set is mentioned as having a subtle nod to Division 1’s Final Measure set. These items are noted as being potentially very powerful and beneficial acquisitions for players.

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