The Division 2's Operation Dark Hours Has Exclusive Rewards, But Not Matchmaking - GS News Update

The Division 2's Operation Dark Hours has exclusive rewards for the first squad who completes the raid.

By Lily Zaldivar on June 25, 2019 at 11:18AM PDT

The Division 2's first raid titled Operation Dark Hours will go live May 16 at 9 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET/ 5:00PM BST.Operation Dark Hours will be available for players who have reached World Tier 5 and defeated Tidal Basin. The eight-player raid will take place in Washington National Airport and will task you with retaking the location. The first team to complete Operation Dark Hours will be forever immortalized in-game by having their team photo and names displayed in The Division 2's White House for all to see.

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akikisaragi

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Ubisoft is getting scorched all over social media for this.

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@akikisaragi: I don't get why. Having a bunch of random people with no cohesion doesn't seem like the best way to take on raids. I think people are upset if they can't get access without having to join a group. I get that as well because I play solo, but like in World of Tanks, it's hard getting a random group on the same page. People tend to go off on tangents.

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@gunnyninja: It's because people will use Division2LFG to do the same thing Ubisoft doesn't want to offer despite promising to do so. People used DestinyLFG to pug raids and did just fine. People don't care if it's hard or extremely hard they simple want the opportunity without having to go to a 3rd party site to find people especially since many clans that were once stacked with members have maybe 2-3 online anymore at any given time.

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@akikisaragi: That doesn't describe everyone. There are people who take their tactics more seriously than "people that don't care". Secondly, since the first team to complete it will be "immortalized" in the WH, I'm sure they didn't want a picture of a bunch of people who don't know each other, if that would even be possible for a random group to be that good at the start. Personally, I am not into this kind of gaming because I have always had bad experiences grouping up with strangers. If I was to do this, I'd want people I know, and if they are serious about it, they would make time.

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@gunnyninja: I can speak from doing it for years across Destinys where we went to DestinyLFG to get people to fill the raid groups and people actually taught people the raid step by step via voice even let them take point to get the experience and it would benefit later pugs as it did us. We were cool with wiping because it was all part of others learning and at least for us never had anybody being elitist about it. It's a safe assumption they sold out to the top clans because it would be rather embarrassing to have a pug immortalized. One should never discount the ability of random players to work together. Impossible to bear Dark Hours as a pug no, unlikely maybe.

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@akikisaragi: "It's a safe assumption they sold out to the top clans because it would be rather embarrassing to have a pug immortalized." If that is true then they will change it, right? The raid has been beat. Nothing is impossible. From what I have seen, I'd say it's more than maybe for it being unlikely. But as time goes on and people figure it out, it may get easier for PUGs. Either way, I see matchmaking for raids as a bad idea. I think groups need to train in working together for that. I would if it was MY group.

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