The Division Heartland is a spinoff that mixes extraction shooter with survival elements in small town America

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The Division Heartland(opens in new tab) was announced in 2021 as a free-to-play shooter that «will provide an all new perspective on the universe in a new setting.» Details beyond that were basically non-existent but I speculated at the time that it would be a battle royale of some sort. Today we got our first proper look at it in a «developer deep dive video,» and it seems that I was a little off the mark.

Unlike the first two Division games, which were set in New York City and Washington DC respectively, The Division Heartland takes place in Silver Creek, a small town in middle America. You're there because your old boss in Boston wiped out your team of Division agents and did a runner in that direction. Now he's putting together an army of «reapers» for reasons that remain unknown.

And despite its small size, Silver Creek faces a lot of the same problems as the big cities of the nation, including «a hostile environment filled with deadly contamination, roaming enemy hordes, and the looming threat of sickness and dehydration.» There are also no good restaurants. 

But Silver Creek has some substantial differences too, including the addition of a shared base of operations located at the town's abandoned roller skating rink. Here, players will come together to fabricate supplies, prep their «go-bags,» and shoot the breeze, before heading out to help re-establish law and order in Silver Creek by shooting anyone who isn't part of their squad.

Other potentially interesting ideas in Heartland include the addition of a day/night cycle during each play session: In the day you'll explore, scavenge for materials, complete various objectives, and of course shoot people; at night, the dangers and the violence will increase, as