The Division 2 – Y8S1 Rise Up - Overview

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#The Division 2 – Y8S1 Rise Up - Overview

##Introduction

Black Tusk aren’t holding back this time. They’re moving fast, launching operations across the city in response to Division activity. Agents are left dealing with the fallout, putting out fires wherever they can, and facing some of their most dangerous units yet.

=> Rise Up Season – Dev Diary

##Maintenance

We’ll be performing maintenance to deploy Rise Up Season.

Thursday, April 2 - 9:00 AM CEST, 3:00 AM EDT, 12:00 AM PDT

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Estimated downtime: 5 hours 30 minutes

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The story so far

What happened in the last Manhunt:

=> Summary

The Division Resurgence – Launch

=> Launch Trailer

The Division Resurgence has been launched on iOS and Android on March 31st!

Cross-Game Rewards

=> Cross-Game Rewards

If you are a long-time Division fan, you’ll be pleased to hear we have some Division 2 in game rewards for you lined up if you play in The Division Resurgence! Simply log into your usual Ubisoft Connect account at launch in Resurgence on mobile to unlock your rewards in The Division 2.

Twitch Drops

=> Twitch Drops

If you enjoy watching your favourite games being played on Twitch, we have some rewards for you there also!

Simply enjoy your content live and unlock some cool reward every half-hour!

=> Resurgence Launch Summary & FAQ

Year 8 – Season 1 – Rise Up

Release Date: April 02, 2026

Content

Escalation
Prototype Gear
1 Manhunt
- Rise Up
1 Gear Brand Set
- Royal Works – Brand Set
1 Gear Set
- Core Strength – Gear Set
3 Exotics
- Investor – Exotic Mask
- Whiplash – Exotic Pistol
- Agitator – Exotic Assault Rifle
1 New Talent
- Back and Forth
Retaliation Update
2 Classified Assignments
Reducing Expertise Costs
Prototype Core Cache
Quality of Life
Bug Reporter

##Twitch Drops

Rise Up also starts with Twitch Drops – from April 2nd – April 9th you can earn Twitch Drops by watching your favorite streamer.

=> Twitch Drops

##Escalation With Y8S1 Escalation is introduced into the game as a new permanent addition.

Escalation is a new way to replay main missions with increasing difficulty and rewards. It is designed as an endgame challenge for those who have completed the main campaign. Escalation missions follow a rotating schedule.

At launch, Escalation focuses on main missions and strongholds, but it’s designed to expand over time to cover more activities across the game. The rotation refreshes weekly on Tuesdays, bringing a new set of five each time.

=> Escalation Summary

##Prototype Gear Prototype Gear is a new item quality that sits above existing High-End, Named, and Gear Set items. These items have stronger attribute values and will also feature Augments, which provide an additional way to improve your build.

Wait as Skill Build user

If you are a skill build user, wait before you upgrade your build to Prototype Gear. They are currently still working on the final balancing passes for Skill Tiers. You can prepare by upgrading your gear to Expertise 30, but wait with the conversion until the Skill Tiers are properly balanced.

=> Prototype Gear Summary

##Rise Up => Rise up Title Image

Rise Up is about dealing with a new Black Tusk threat - they are launching multiple assaults on the streets of Washington D.C. and you need to figure out why and what is going on. So, it is up to all agents to rise up and stop their attacks.

=> Rise Up Overview

###Season Pass

=> Rise up Bundle

=> Rise Up Supply Drop

The optional Season Pass is available for all The Division® 2 players starting at Level 1, priced at 1000 Premium Credits ($9.99 or your regional equivalent) in the in-game store and it’s available to everyone. While the Season Pass is accessible from Level 1, some of the rewards will be usable only when you reach Level 40.

Additionally, players can opt for the Premium+ option, available for $29.99 or your regional equivalent, which bundles the Premium Season Pass with multiple rewards, offering even greater value.

The Rise Up Supply Drop is a complete bundle that also includes 5000 Premium Credits for $50.00 or your regional equivalent.

Players with the Season Pass can unlock premium track rewards such as:

2 Prestige Arm Patches
The Black Tusk Drone Skill VFX
The Black Tusk Kill Squad – Clean Hands Outfit
The Black Tusk Kill Squad – Stitch Outfit
1 Extra Copy of the Agitator Exotic Weapon
The Constellation Exotic Weapon Skin
10 Gear Dyes
10 Universal Weapon Skins

The free track also includes rewards like:

3 Arm Patches
The Black Tusk Seeker Mine Skill VFX
The Black Tusk Kill Squad - Car Bomb Outfit
The Agitator Exotic Weapon
The Investor Exotic Mask
The Star Sign Universal Weapon Skin
2 Named Weapons
2 Named Gear
1 Brand Set

Both tracks also feature multiple caches to unlock along the way.

Two Classified Assignments are also included in the bundles.

One Time Offer

=> Offer

Don’t miss out on this exclusive One Time Offer, available for $19.99 or your regional equivalent. It includes 2000 Premium Credits and 600 bonus Credits, plus The Bug Mask Headgear to give your agent a standout look, even if it bugs your enemies.

##New Gear & Weapons

###Gear Brand Set - Royal Works

=> Brand Set

###Gear Set - Core Strength => Image

=> Gear Set

###Exotic Gear - Investor – Exotic Mask => Image

=> Investor

###Whiplash – Exotic Pistol

Successfully completing the Climax mission on any difficulty for the first time will guarantee the Whiplash Exotic Pistol as a special reward.

After that, Whiplash can still drop from the mission, but it’s no longer guaranteed. The higher the difficulty, the better your chances of getting it again.

=> Whiplash

###Agitator – Exotic Assault Rifle => Agitator

###Named Weapons and Talents

Interchange – Enhanced AUG A3P
Trader – ACR SS

Back and Forth – Weapon Talent

Retaliation Update

Retaliation was introduced as game mode with The Pact and revolved around territory control. With Rise Up it gets a long-awaited upgrade:

Black Tusk joins Retaliation with their dedicated Agitation Meter.
Completing a full Black Tusk Retaliation also gives you a chance to earn blueprints for certain Raid and Dark Zone exclusive Exotics.
With Agitation Overclock, the meter now has multiple levels that allow you to trigger Retaliation up to three times back-to-back.
Previously, Retaliation events expired after a set amount of real-world time. The timer now progresses based on in-game playtime instead.
The timer will also pause when you are participating in another Retaliation.
The time available to collect loot after completing a Retaliation has been increased from 30 seconds to 90 seconds.
You can now use matchmaking to find other agents participating in Retaliation events.

=> Retaliation Summary

Classified Assignments

Two new Classified Assignments will be available this season. Library of Congress Retrieval launches with the season, followed by The Capitol Globe Anomaly later in the season.

They offer a more contained experience, with a stronger focus on exploration and storytelling. If you like digging into locations and uncovering what happened there, these are worth checking out. It’s a chance to look around and pick up on the details you might normally miss, with collectibles, including echoes and audio logs, and a few extras like themed backpack trophies and named item drops.

Classified Assignments will appear on the map once they become available, with access unlocking at Level 30. They can then be purchased and played from there.

The overall narrative arc is that you are tracking anomalies in the SHD Network to located missing agents.

Both Classified Assignments have 5 Audio Logs and an ECHO that needs to be unlocked

To increase the replayability of the Classified Assignments, there is no weekly lockout anymore and an updated checkpoint system has been introduced.

=> Backpack Trophy

As rewards you can unlock backpack trophies that have a conspiracy theory theme and a named weapon that will later join the general loot pool.

Reducing Expertise costs

To upgrade a regular item to Prototype quality, you need to upgrade it to Expertise 30. Because of that, they lowered the overall cost to do that.

Reduced the cost for Expertise upgrades.
- 50% reduction for Exotic Components.
- 20% reduction for other materials.

Prototype Cores Cache

Prototype Cores Cache are being added as rewards to Raids and Incursion:

This cache will be a guaranteed reward for completing Operation Iron Horse, Operation Dark Hours, and Paradise Lost, dropping two Prototype Cores. We hope that this can bring more reasons to play those experiences while we don’t add new exclusive rewards.

Prototype Cores can be used for both upgrading from normal gear to Prototype and to level-up or re-roll Augments, so we hope it can grant more resources to veterans looking to craft their Prototype Gear build.

Quality of Life

Show all function

=> Show All

The Inventory now has a new “show all” function that all will display all items of a specific type you have. For example, all Striker Masks, be it in your Stash or your inventory. This also works directly from the loot pile. With this function you can directly compare, equip or mark items for deletion, without the need to dig out the them in the stash or other locations.

The Division 2 Bug Reporter

To increase the transparency and that the community knows what the developers are working on, they introduce a new tool called Bug Reporter. It is something that is already being used by other franchises and now it is also active for The Division.

A platform that allows the community to report issues and help us understand the needs of the community. Please make sure to search our database and familiarize yourself with the existing issues before starting to make your own reports. You can always upvote existing issue to confirm that you encountered this issue as well!

On the platform you can