Talk:Hunters/@comment-35231799-20200306120430/@comment-37009211-20200308005647

Ok thing is that they could have just added hunters in legendary missinos for the difficulty of it, like they appear in Resistence and the Underground with no lore attached to why they are there. Be ready for a long read.

Its only a theory that they could be working for Black Tusk, yet my problem with that theory, which also derives from points made by NGHs video on who are the hunters is that they don't directly go after you like they do in New York. Washington you go chasing after them, when it was normally them chasing you. They also use alot of SHD tech, stuff the Division uses. Look at Black Tusk, they got stuff that tops the Division at times so why equip them with SHD tech when they have tech that can top that tech at times. (Warhounds, Drones that revive fallen teamates, drones that explode after targeting enemies, etc.) So behavior wise and tech wise they operate more like a different theory proposed. (That they are a third wave of the Division sent to silence the agents.)

Black Tusk was already going after the Division beforehand anyway. Several coms and echos show this. Shows them capturing, interrogating and executing Division agents as well as damage SHD nodes and bringing it off line. They were also told in a coms to back off the Division (again another coms) "calling off the hunt" to let the Division do their job. Well if the hunters were mercs or part of the Black Tusk why weren't they told to back off from the Division. Yes you can say "look at your comment about how they behave in D.C" but again they could have just left or not engaged with you at all. No where in any comms is it said theres a specific group other then BTSU that goes against the Division itself inside the Black Tusk.

We don't know exactly who or what drives the Hunters. We just know they have it out for the Division agents and go after them taking their watches as trophies as their namesake. Theres no conrete evidence they support LMB, they just appear in gameplay Legendary missions and Resistence and those can't be considered "true" encounters like survival but more for difficulty on the players. (After all you can play other missions that don't normally have the LMB like Napalm Production Site even though the LMB don't control it nor do they ever, just added for difficulty sake.)

As your points: (Spoilers as well)

Being in both places doesn't mean they are part of the same faction. Black Tusk just arrived in New York in force in Warlords of New York. They were indirectly helping the LMB but weren't "there" in force till much later.

The Black Tusk have a reason to eliminate the Division as they are considered a rogue agency that must be brought to heel. They acitvely went against the Division and sabatoged their them till being told to halt their attacks. Hunters are a enigma, we don't know anything about them other then they have it out for them, and take their watches as trophies. The why has no answer to it.

As for supporting the LMB, well yes the Black Tusk was supplying them, keeping them a thorn in the Division side as well as the JTF even after the losses suffered. But remember they were also supplying the Hyenas for the same reason. Keep the Division busy and make it harder for them to regain control of the city, then when the time was right they could swoop in and bring a force of battle tired agents down. (Something that didn't happen according to their plans.) And as I mentioned the hunters were kinda added for difficulty wise. Resistence and Legendary missions do that, taking the lore and store out and replacing the units with more tougher LMB enemies and maybe throwing Hunters into the fray to make it just as difficult.

Not that its not a good theory, mind you, its just that theres some holes in it that don't hold up to criticism and other information we have. Maybe Hunters will be a mystery that won't ever be solved, or maybe in time they will be.