Battle for Brooklyn is a paid content expansion for Tom Clancy's The Division 2 that was released on May 27, 2025.
Summary[]
Battle for Brooklyn takes the players to where it all began, Brooklyn. In the months since the Green Poison outbreak, Brooklyn had some relative peace as civilians huddled up there to avoid the chaos happening in Manhattan, and built up a settlement to sustain and defend themselves.
However, that peace has been interrupted by the arrival of Cleaners, where they attacked Brooklyn with enhanced flamethrowers that burn purple flames. Their goal, is to cleanse Brooklyn with fire, regardless of the collateral damage and lives lost. And to make things worse, Rikers have arrived as well, which makes life for the civilians all the more harder.
And it is up to Division agents to stop the hostiles and save Brooklyn.
Characters[]
- Theo Parnell - A core member of Aaron Keener's team of Rogue Agents and a key figure in integrating ANNA to their plans.
- Jessica Kandel - A virologist who was on the front-lines during the Green Poison outbreak and a key-figure to developing the first prototypes for the BSAV. A lot of time had passed, and not only her ID badge had seen better days.
- Melanie Hoskins - First featured in the audio drama, Hearts on Fire. First Wave Agent who was in New York during the early months of the crisis, then later joined Aaron Keener and had since become a key figure in his operation
Activities and Features[]
- 3 Main Missions.
- They all take place off-site for greater freedom in mission design
- New Season: Fall / Autumn
- Players can experience navigating post-pandemic Brooklyn in the Fall season, to show the passage of time and emphasize how much has changed since the first time they were there.
- Two named Zones: Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo.
- New Settlement: The Bridge
- 4 World Missions.
- These are basically side-missions where players can replay them at their own leisure.
- 4 Control Points.
- Those control points change behavior depending on the faction. Cleaners use Purple Flame to defend them, while Rikers have their own tools.
- The Control Points have additional challenges for players to overcome
- 12 Open World Activities
- 10 Bounty Locations
- 8 Hunter Riddles
- New Collectible Bounties Set
- Story Collectibles (Comms, Found Footage, and ECHOs).
- New Skill: Smart Cover
- This skill from The Division 1 returns as re-imagined for both PvE and PvP. Using it reinforces cover for the player or their allies and grant offensive and defensive buffs.
- It comes with both variants: Precision Smart Cover and Fortified Smart Cover.
- Level 40 boost.
New Exotic: The Catalyst[]
Battle for Brooklyn adds a new Exotic mask called The Catalyst, where it's designed to work around dealing and receiving status effects (Burning, Confuse, Shocked, etc..)
Year 7 Overview[]
Battle for Brooklyn marks the start for Year 7, where it solidifies Seasons as cornerstones of the Division 2 experience in addition to adding more regular updates and fresh experiences.
Updated Onboarding[]
With the influx of new players, streamlining and improving the onboarding process is more important than ever to help those new players familiarize themselves even better with The Division 2 and its various systems.
More depth to Endgame[]
To ensure there's always something to do, Year 7 will add new features or improve existing features. For example, adding a new wrapper to open world activities that reacts to player's actions while going around to earn their loot. Not only that, they're focusing on the Economy with a package of revamps for more depth to the endgame's progression, giving players more control of tinkering and item customization.
Holistic Season Experience[]
For Year 7's Seasons, their aim is to make them more holistic by realigning the modifiers, gear, and gameplay with the narrative elements which are the Manhunts and their Climax Missions. In addition to seasonal events, players can look forward to new features like "Weapon Stats" or "Resource Boosts", though further details on those are yet to be given.
Plot[]
NOTICE: Spoilers ahead. Read at your own discretion
At the White House, D.C Division agents would receive a distress call from Agent Melanie Hoskins, asked for help in Brooklyn. As they travel via helicopter with Casey Bell as their pilot. They reach Brooklyn to the One Police Plaza, where they find it under attack by the Cleaners. The hostiles killed Kandel's security detail, but the agents eliminated them alongside their commander Healy and managed to rescue Kandel. With the Cleaners dealt with, they reached The Bridge Settlement.
However, things aren't as easy as it seems. The Cleaners are using a new accelerant where it burns purple flames, capable of causing corrosion towards foot-mobile's armor or even turret defenses.
CERA Clinic[]
Not soon after the agents arrived, they're informed by Hoskins that the CERA Clinic was under attack by the Cleaners. With the Clinic having equipment for intense medical procedures, the agents immediately head there to secure it. Sadly, the Cleaners have killed all the personnel in the clinic. To avenge the dead, the agents eliminated the Cleaners responsible, including Stewart, a high-ranking Cleaner member.
Despite the loss of the Clinic, the Bridge managed to secure the supplies and equipment to care for the sick.
In addition, the Division learn of Richard Danvers, who seems to be leading the Cleaners. With that in mind, Hoskins coordinates with the agents to find and eliminate Danvers.
Dumbo Skate Park[]
Thanks to intel gathered from Cleaner's radios during the CERA Clinic attack, the Division learned of their base settled in Dumbo Skate Park. Fighting through the park, the agents gathered intel from a laptop on the rooftop, then pushed through where they fought against Hollings, another high-ranking Cleaner member.
With the Park secured, they recovered a footage where it showed Matthew Grant, a former SFX Artist turned into one of the Cleaner higher-ups are using tech from the Descent simulation program to create a deepfake of Aaron Keener killing a civilian and acting like a megalomaniac.
The fact that the Cleaners have an SFX artist to create deepfakes of the Rogues to make them sound and look like lunatics didn't sit well with Agent Hoskins. Additionally, Hoskins called in a few favors to find a good lead against the Cleaners.
H5 Refinery[]
Agent Hoskins found a lead on where the Cleaners are producing the purple flame, in the H5 Refinery, off of Brooklyn. JTF Pilot Casey Bell takes the agents to the refinery, where they fight against many Cleaners and their defenses
Half-way through the attack, however, Hoskins shouted her frustrations against the Cleaners (due to past trauma over her dead sister and the faction's atrocities), so she was forced to take a break and let Jessica Kandel take over as mission control.
As the agents disrupted Danvers's operation in the refinery, they face against an experimental Warhound dubbed Violet that was deployed by a Cleaner Commander, Jasinski, to stop them. The Warhound was no match for the agents, as they destroyed it. By then, Jasinski activates the Refinery's self-destruct sequence. Worse, Hoskins informs the agents that The Bridge is under attack by Rikers. Under Kandel's encouragement, the agents tried to stabilize the refinery through pressure valves, and eliminating Jasinski in the process.
Their efforts to save the refinery were in vain, as they were forced to abandon it, and head to Brooklyn immediately to support The Bridge. The Refinery itself was destroyed.
Riker attack on The Bridge[]
Under Danvers' orders, The Rat Queen and her Rikers attacked The Bridge. With the settlement's defenses compromised, the Rikers were gaining the upper hand. But the D.C agents pushed, eliminating any Riker in their way. Despite efforts to stall the agents, Danvers ordered Rat Queen and her forces to fall back.
With the Rikers pushed back, The Bridge was saved, albeit with some casualties.
Immediately after, Theo Parnell arrived to The Bridge to help the agents and the settlement. Hoskins wasn't happy for his late arrival, even when Parnell explained that he had to convince Manny Ortega to let him go to Brooklyn.
With Theo's help, he activates a friendly Marauder dubbed "Viper", synced to the Rogue Network, to help the agents in disrupting the Rikers operation in Brooklyn Heights. Their first two leads: Clarke Street and Bridge Park Pier.
Clarke Street and Bridge Park Pier[]
Starting with Clarke Street Hotel and with Theo Parnell's coordination, Division agents fought through the Rikers where they managed to rescue the civilians who were taken hostage. When that was done, they went underground for their real objective; The subway depot. After much fighting, the agents secured the depot as well as the supplies
Later on, Parnell coordinated with the agents for their mission to secure Bridge Park Pier from the Rikers. Parnell has his Marauder Drone help out the agents in taking out at least one of the SAM launchers. Unfortunately, the Marauder sustained some damage and was forced to leave for some repairs.
Eventually, the agents disabled all the launchers after much fighting. With both Clarke Street and the Pier secured, they secured a foothold on Brooklyn Heights. And a good lead on the Rat Queen.
The Art Museum[]
With the lead on Rat Queen connecting her to The Art Museum, Parnell coordinated with the Division agents to go there and eliminate her. They fight through Riker personnel and defenses, as well as a few lieutenants. However, before confronting the Queen, the agents discover an ECHO which reveals Rat Queen's true identity: Sarah Moretti.
After her husband and daughter were killed by the Rikers, Sarah wanted revenge on the Rikers responsible. However, the Bridge's members tried to help her with her grief through healthy m. That made Moretti snap, which led her to kill the Riker responsible, take leadership, and collaborate with Danvers and Grant, where they helped her in faking her death.
This shook Parnell completely, then implored the agents to instead apprehend Sarah instead. The Division then confronted Rat Queen, though she'd disappear and were forced to deal with her two bodyguards
The agents then catch up to Sarah on the rooftops, where she was using an electronic shield protecting her from incoming projectiles, as well as being supported by other Rikers. During the fight, the agents powered up the generators while dealing with Riker forces, then managed to temporarily disable Sarah's shield. By the second time, her shield was permanently disabled, and the agents managed to wound her enough to be apprehended.
With Sarah Moretti dealt with, a few Bridge members came in to stabilize her due to wounds she sustained, then sent to the settlement for interogation. Division agents would follow after and return to The Bridge for debrief.
While Theo is still frustrated with Sarah going turncoat, Hoskins' interrogation did produce results as she revealed Danvers' location at the Army Terminal. Despite no guarantee he's there, Parnell and Hoskins coordinates the agents to assault the compound and make Danvers pay.
Army Terminal[]
Division agents assault the Army Terminal compound, where they took down Cleaner forces and their defenses from the entrance. As Danvers was heard on enemy comms, the Division was one step closer to taking him down. However, as the agents move deeper into the lab, they'd find a secret Black Tusk site as well as dealing with their soldiers defending it.
It turns out that Black Tusk was the mastermind behind the recent events in Brooklyn, as thesSite is used for R&D of experimental tech using the Purple Flame, which included Flamer Warhounds equipped with the accelerant.
Nevertheless, the agents sweeped deeper into the complex, eliminating the hostiles securing a small modular reactor that was powering up the site. During their sweep, Danvers taunted the agents, trying to convince them that Keener's Rogues and their allies aren't worth risking their lives for, as well as taunting them that they've been with good people for a long time that they don't know what a 'Snake" looks like.
As the Division reached the rooftop, they'd discover Black Tusk has a massive armored Zeppelin, and it lifted off when Danvers and some of his crew boarded it. Moreover, the Zeppelin was equipped with Purple Flame bombs and Razorback drone launchers, ready to unleash hell on The Bridge settlement.
Not wasting time, the agents got to work by hacking the SAM launchers with ANNA's help. In a desperate attempt, Danvers launched the LM-21 Marauder, equipped with a laser and missile launchers and sent more Black Tusk soldiers to stop them. But even the Marauder and the hostiles were no match, as the drone was destroyed and the Black Tusk soldiers were eliminated. With the SAM launchers under their control, the agents launch the missiles, severely damaging the Zeppelin enough to crash into the ground. With the Zeppelin destroyed, Richard Danvers was killed, which satisfied both Theo and Hoskins, knowing the man that caused all the misery in Brooklyn was brought to justice.
Revelations[]
However, there was more to uncover as Division agents uncovered a third found footage video after Richard Danvers was eliminated. In that footage, it showed Sarah Moretti and Danvers giving him a Rogue SHD Tech crate to use for the Cleaners operation on Meret Estate. When asked if she managed to get Gordon Amherst's 3D printer, Sarah admitted she couldn't as it was held in a vault and they had to be patient and wait for Theo to be out of Brooklyn and get the key from Dr. Kandel.
When the agents return to The Bridge for debrief on the underground compound, Agent Hoskins confront Theo Parnell over the fact that Keener and his Rogues kept Amherst's 3D printer with them in the vault, as well as the fact that Parnell gave the vault key to Hoskins without telling her why.
Parnell explains that the printer is a leverage, but Hoskins believes that printer is too much of a risk and puts a target on The Bridge, though Parnell argues they always have a target on their backs, so might as well make use of the Printer to make vaccines. From there, Kandel made her position clear; If the printer is used for anything besides making vaccines or medical research, she's leaving.
Regardless, Hoskins is angry over the printer being kept, telling him that he put her family in danger again, and that he should, then she storms out . Before Kandel leaves, she tells Parnell that Hoskins is making a good point. Even then, he tells the agents that Hoskins will come around and that the Printer is their salvaiton.
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Given all that has transpired, it becomes clear that Black Tusk's mission on Brooklyn was to take Amherst's printer. Given that printer itself was once used by Gordon Amherst to create the Green Poison and Keener used it to create the Eclipse, Black Tusk would've been able to create a bioweapon with that printer. And with the Perfusion Bioreactor in their hands (after they stole it from the White House during their assault during the events in Reign of Fire), they would've been able to have a huge leverage against settlements and communities across America who aren't aligned with them. Furthermore, Black Tusk was researching the Purple Flame in their Army Terminal stronghold, and shipped most of it outside New York, which means the Purple Flame threat is far from finished.
Still, the Cleaners and Rikers were dealt a major blow, as their footholds in Brooklyn were decimated and the means producing more Purple Flame was disrupted. There was more to be done, however, with Division agents scouring Brooklyn to hunt down and eliminate high-ranking Cleaner and Riker personnel acting as assets for Danver's Network, as well as the uncertain future ahead for The Bridge. Not to mention, what's to be done with Sarah Moretti, given the horrible actions she's done against The Bridge as the "Rat Queen".
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