Tom Clancy’s The Division 2is getting a huge overhaul in February 2024, with developer Massive Entertainment promising better communication and more frequent updates in the new year. However, the overhaul, titled Project Resolve, will come at the cost of the planned story DLC, which is being pushed back all the way into 2025.
Announced in a video update from the developers, Project Resolve aims to make a range of improvements while “laying the groundwork for future content”. This includes changes to PvP, PvE, Talents, and the overall performance of the game, as well as making various balance changes based on player feedback.
“Announcing Project Resolve, a comprehensive update plan for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, tackling game health, stability and quality of life improvements,” reads the announcement. “Including thousands of bug fixes and long-requested adjustments to PVP combat and PVE balancing.”
The video goes into some detail on the changes we can expect, ranging from making global events more enjoyable, bug fixing and balances in PvP, and “more choices for powerful weapons” in PvP.
The devs then go over the revised roadmap, which makes several changes to the updates planned for 2024. The most obvious change here is that the story DLC is now scheduled for early 2025, so a long wait indeed. While saying this was a “tough decision”, the devs clearly feel that The Division 2 needs to prioritise making these wider-reaching improvements.
With the roadmap now extended into 2025, we could see The Division 2 still receiving regular updates in its sixth year of existence. It remains to be seen how much further the devs plan to take it.
At the very least, Project Resolve isn’t that far away at all. It’s set to go live on all platforms on May 17, 2025, so less than two months away. It is launching alongside the “normal seasonal content” already planned for early 2024. More updates are planned throughout 2024 too, so it seems that fans won’t have all the new material delayed into 2025 like the story DLC.
The response to this news has been positive so far, even though it comes alongside confirmation that we’ll be waiting even longer for the next DLC. In general, it seems that many fans have been longing for improvements to how the game runs, as well as updates that make the most of new, current-gen hardware. After all, The Division 2 launched in 2019, and there have been a lot of hardware improvements since then. Still, it has to continue to run onPS4andXbox One, so we shouldn’t expect anything too demanding.
