Ubisoft held its “Division Day” reside broadcast occasion, the place new tasks and additions to Tom Clancy’s The Division franchise have been introduced. New to the steady is The Division Heartland, a brand new, free-to-play spin-off with a unique construction.

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (and the unique sport) have been shooter RPGs with a deal with leveling up and incomes and refining loot on a big map based mostly on an iconic city heart (comparable to Washington D.C. and New York Metropolis). Heartland is a smaller-scale, standalone title with a extra compact setting: the American small city of Silver Creek. Gamers will play members of the titular Division – a secret group of armed sleeper brokers activated to guard American society within the wake of the worldwide “Inexperienced Poison” pandemic – who’re assigned to guard the city of Silver Creek. Heartland‘s story takes place in the identical setting as the opposite video games within the collection, and can introduce new characters and wrinkles to the narrative material of the franchise. It will present how cities like Silver Creek, away from American metropolises, acquired support from the Division when the Inexperienced Poison hit.

Try a cinematic trailer for the sport beneath.

The sport is a free-to-play “PVEVP” shooter, the place gamers combat in opposition to each computer-controlled enemies and different gamers. It is impressed partly by the “Survival” mode from a DLC enlargement to the unique Division. Just like the missions in that mode, gamers will likely be occurring runs into and round Silver Creek, engaging in missions whereas managing their survival provides. Within the day, gamers will discover the city and accumulate provides to take care of and restore their base of operations, working with their workforce to stave off threats like contamination and dehydration. At night time, the threats improve, as much as and together with rogue brokers managed by different gamers.

Members of the workforce at Crimson Storm Leisure detailed extra concerning the sport’s construction in a Deep Dive video.

Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland is in improvement for the PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X|S. Signal-ups for closed testing on PC are open on the official web site.