Will Division 2 ever see a "Underground" mode like in Division 1?
It's been said there won't be a survival, but if I'm brutally honest with you, Survival sucked.
Put your pitchforks away and let me finish first.
Survival as the mode it was given to us sucked royally. Had there been an addition to the main menu to load the entire game world in "survival" would have been killer, absolutely mind blowing immersion inducingly killer.
It made no sense that we would put up all of our gear, taking only a pistol and an obscenely bright hazmat uniform, and get on a helicopter in the middle of blizzard, anti-virals or not. The infection you gave us, sepsis, was ridiculous. Sepsis is a blood infection that takes 72 hours roughly to kill, not 30 minutes. You made survival a bum rush to get through, versus making it the additive game world the entire game deserved to REALLY drive home the post apocalypse atmosphere you were striving for.
I completed it once, and when I realized all of my progress and struggle were for naught and it made no bearing on my subsequent playthrough, I never played it again.
Now, the Underground? I played that on 3 other characters and maxed my UG rank and my wife would play just the UG for hours. Yeah the layouts eventually got stale and very rarely did the layout change enough to make me go "huh", but it was almost always a crap shoot as to how a firefight would go because it seemed a little more "random" on enemy AI. And especially when the Hunters came out to play, man it really drove home the fight like youre the 3rd monkey on the ramp to Noahs ark, and brother its starting to rain.
Now I don't see DC having the same underground network on subway tunnels, but there is an extensive network of sewage tunnels, maintenance shafts, conduit feeds, and basement access/security access tunnels to really make a fully functional Underground mode for D2. You could even throw in other parts of building basements, and such to make it crazy.
Seeing as the Cleaners are making a return, it's only plausible to think they'd start with burning out the tunnels, just like they did in NY.