Echoes of Central Park is coming to The Division 2 as the game’s latest major expansion. Eight years in, we have been promised yet another bit of new content: Echoes of Central Park.
I had a chat with Yannick Banchereau, The Division 2‘s creative director, to learn more about what we can expect from the expansion.
We are in an era when games are abandoned quickly by dev teams. In contrast, The Division 2 is getting one of its biggest expansions of all time eight years since its launch. What was the reason to mobilize so many resources for its development?
I think for as long as there will be players hungry for content on The Division, we will be happy to do it. And Battle for Brooklyn proved to us that there is this hunger for those bigger pieces. Like we maintain the division two, we make new seasons, we bring new things, new features.
We do a bunch of events, but there’s nothing that comes close to that feeling of like that one big piece of content that comes out and you get to dive into a new story and explore a new space. It also really resonates with the players. It allows us to be creative and really come up with new ideas, and players seem to always ask for more of this. So, as long as they will want it, we’ll be happy to do it.
To play the Brooklyn DLC, we didn’t have to wait once we were past level 40. Will Echoes of Central Park be equally accessible to new players, or will we need to clear a fair bit of in-game content?
We are following the same formula as Battle for Brooklyn. So that means when purchasing Echoes of Central Park, you get a 40-level boost: you can immediately create a character and jump straight into the new content. We actually have a character creation screen especially for that. The first mission will teach you all the basics you need to know.
The story is just like Battle for Brooklyn, disconnected enough that you don’t need to have a full understanding of the main story and the eight years of story we’ve been telling. Therefore, it is made with new players in mind as well, and we’ve made sure to make it accessible for them.
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