14 DAY TRIAL // After more than a year of no new content, Ubisoft has suddenly announced Season 9 for The Division 2 will drop on May 12. Apparently, Warlords of New York was supposed to be the game’s last major expansion, but since The Division 2 still performs very well for Ubisoft, the studio decided to form another team to continue to support the game.
This is a smaller team than the original one that worked on all the previous additional content for The Division 2, but what they lack in numbers make up in determination. Anyway, Season 9: Hidden Alliance introduces a new enemy, a Division traitor named Captain Lewis, protected by four high-ranking members of the True Sons.
Additionally, the upcoming piece of content brings a new co-op mode, new weapons and gear, as well as a new feature that lets players improve equipment through use. The new co-op mode has eight players work together to restore stability to a power plant infested with enemies and other hazards. The players have just 15 minutes to prevent a lockdown and they will be deployed in teams of four at separate locations.
The new feature coming in Season 9 is called Expertise and players can build it up by using any item in the game. As players use items, they’ll become more proficient with them, just like in real life. Once they maxed out their Proficiency Rank with an item type, they will be able to upgrade its base stats. As they gain Proficiency with more items, they’ll raise their Expertise Level, which will allow them to raise their equipment to a higher Grade.
The Division 2 fans should also expect new weapons and gear to arrive with Season 9, including a Heartbreaker gear set, new Exotic and named items, and much more. To make things even more appealing, Ubisoft announced that The Division 2 will be free to play between May 13-15 on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, and on PC via Ubisoft Connect or the Epic Games Store.