The Division 2 Story So Far/Recap
Intro The Division 2’s story takes place seven
months after the events in the original game which was released 3 years before the sequel.
If you skipped the original or if has just been awhile since you played the campaign,
let’s take a quick look at the story so far.
The Division The date was November 27th, 2015.
New York City is hit with a terrible new smallpox virus that sweeps through the area.
Apparently it was planted intentionally on the United States currency which caused it
to be coined “The Dollar Flu.”
As you can imagine on Black Friday, the spread of the disease was lightning quick.
The populace went crazy, and Manhattan was placed under quarantine.
Gangs and rioters saw this as an opportunity, and due to the intensifying chaos the government
had no choice - they had to activate Directive 51, or basically mobilize sleeper agents known
as The Division.
A wall was built to keep the most contaminated area cut off from the rest of the world.
The real problems began once the power went out and all hell broke loose.
The government tried to pull its people back but very few survived.
Eventually the area came to be known as The Dark Zone, which in-game was also the dedicated
PVP area with the best equipment and supplies.
Wrangling these agents into a Joint Task Force (or JTF) isn’t easy, and the temptation
of corruption is high.
A helicopter was going to be sent in but exploded, killing a bunch of operatives, the commander,
and wounding agent Faye Lau.
As missions are played where there is an effort to gather more people into a post office turned
into a JTF base, you find out with Faye Lau’s help that an agent named Aaron Keener had
gone rogue.
Recordings show him killing other agents and joining one of the surviving factions called
The Last Man Battalion.
The LMB was hired initially by executives on Wall Street to protect expensive assets
but was abandoned in the chaos.
Sick of their requests for extraction being ignored, they decide they want to go against
everyone and start by killing a JTF agent.
Charles Bliss, their leader, believes in establishing a New World Order.
Instincts naturally kick in and it’s survival of the fittest.
Other factions like the Rikers filled with escaped convicts from New York’s most notorious
prison are running amok.
Revenge on the city seems to be the name of the game, so everyone in a uniform is targeted.
LaRae Barret runs the Rikers to prevent any fighting amongst themselves over potential
power grabs.
The Cleaners are a group of misguided survivors and sanitation workers pushed to the brink
of despair.
Often armed with flamethrowers, they believe the only solution is to burn the city and
everyone in it to the ground.
Joe Ferro leads this group of monsters.
Their hope for a thorough cleansing by destruction makes them a deadly enemy to anyone or anything
they deem contaminated by the virus.
During the player’s tenure in the JTF, missions are set to learn more about what happened
before their arrival.
You are led to find out more about the virus itself.
A Russian virologist that goes by the name Vitaly Tchernenko claims to have more info,
but he gets kidnapped by Aaron Keener and his group.
His goal is to tinker with The Dollar Flu and make it even better.
The Division 2 Shifting over to the Division 2, the player
controls an agent that’s been at it during the last 7 months.
There is a call for help in Washington D.C. that you have to answer.
Most of the major cities have already been infected, throwing much of the United States
into a nightmare.
Even though your character is war-torn and exhausted, if the capital goes, the nation
might be brought to the brink of collapse.
Pushing on, you find new groups have been created from the remnants and survivors.
New factions include the Hyenas, True Sons, the Outcasts, the Underground, the Black Tusk
and more.
They range from simple raiders taking advantage of the situation to ex-JTF agents who are
a bit battle-crazed, to people who want revenge after escaping from a quarantine.
The player needs to chase down and rescue contacts to recruit them back into the fold
at the White House once you take it back.
The AI is more savage and the game is more difficult than the first right from the get-go.
Naturally the hotter environment compared to The Division 1 plays a part in the immersion,
with NPCs and enemies wearing appropriate clothing for the climate.
Civilians have set up settlements and control points.
As you take them over, you can donate resources to help them put out more patrols and maintain
control.
Insidious plans will be revealed by those grasping for power during the campaign, and
with society teetering on the edge of oblivion, your deeds could bring some much-needed hope.
Close That is the story so far in the world of The
Division.
The Division 2 brings more of this crazy world, and we’ll be there in the thick of things
in this third-person action rpg.
Let me know what you want to see happen in the comments below.
This has been Jason for Curse; thanks for watching, I’ll see you on the battlefield.