by Lewis Burnell on Mar 27, 2020
The Division 2's Polarity Event is live, and players are struggling to deal with it. I'll admit, it's challenging, and incredibly difficult when playing at Challenging Global Difficulty. However, there's a few neat tricks you can do to quickly complete each days Challenges.
Completion Time: 60 minutes
Simply play through the mission, utilising your burning abilities, while killing enemies. Don't be too worried about which of the Challenges at this stage you complete. Ideally, if you can and when only one enemy is alive in each area, hit them multiple times with your melee ability.
Typically, a single enemy (red) even on normal difficulty can survive around 6 hits with your melee attack. It doesn't take long to quickly wrack up 50.
As for your head-shots, you can either pop enemies in the head after meleeing them, or utilise your rifle before enemies have sight of you to take them out. It's also a good idea to roam Control Points on the world map to snipe enemies who're out of vision range, who you can identify as negatively charged.
Lastly, for the final objective (Complete a main mission on Hard), just pair up with another player or Clan mate and again, choose another Outcast Mission (Federal Emergency Bunker is great). Play safe and cautiously, and it'll be a smooth quick run. Just be sure to always keep an eye on your Polarity and that of your enemies.
Completion Time: 45 minutes
Similar to day 1, with a few easier variables. Head again to the Federal Emergency Bunker or the Potomatic Event Center. The latter allows you to quickly head-shot at least 10 enemies within the first few seconds, and you can reset the mission by simply walking back out the gate. This is also a good spot for completing Day 1's Sniper Shots if you haven't already.
For the damage multiplier, again this simply requires you to kill at least five enemies to reach the stack. The only reliable way to complete this quickly is to either reset missions, or to work through quick missions (such as Federal Emergency Bunker) to stack it repeatedly.
The trickiest part is to eliminate enemies of the opposite polarity. To achieve this, you need to cause AoE damage either with grenades, burning, or Specialisation weapons (such as the Grenade Launcher).
Finally, just grab a photo on any of your first missions.
Completion Time: 180 minutes
Honestly, this is a really tough day. Without doubt, the hardest so far.
Firstly, Challenge one is really time consuming, and there's little else you can do but equip the Sniper Specialization, and blast through normal enemies who have weak spots. The fact they have to be negatively charged is what slows progress here.
For the shocking enemies, read our guide here. Super easy.
Where the Control Point is concerned, try to choose one that's in a flat, wide-open space. With your rifle equipped and on normal difficulty, it's incredibly easy to finish.
Lastly, the Challenging mission is best in a pair, and the eliminations with your Specialization weapon simply takes time, based on the limited ammo. Oh, and as for the melee attack, it's ideal if you the Sweet Dreams Exotic Shotgun. The Talent on it allows you to instantly kill any enemy when you melee them, allowing you to quickly kill opposing polarity enemies in a single sweep.
As noted, the time it takes in today's Challenge is the first, and the fifth. The others aren't too bad.
Completion Time: 60 minutes
Thankfully an easy day. The only real challenges are the first, and third.
For the first Challenge, you cannot be shocked or enemies you've eliminated will be removed. Fundamentally: don't get shocked! If you can, just go to a open air Control Point, with a rifle, and just steadily kill hostiles. You'll complete it easy if you don't miss. For the third Challenge, I did it at Potomatic Event Center. The only catch, is you'll often need to melee enemies to have them switch polarities, so you can accomplish the 5 positive, 5 negative kills. It took me two attempts.
As for the remaining challenges, it's a good idea to run Roosevelt Island, and then Tidal Basin. Run the former on hard, and the latter on Normal. If you run out of Grenades for Challenge 5, simply return to The Shop safe house, and then teleport back to Tidal Basin. Rinse repeat.