The Division 2 - How to set guidelines

Guidelines can be applied through the All tab on the map under the Overall Difficulty option after beating the New York Campaign.

Directives are difficulty edits that can be activated to increase experience gains from missions or the open world in The Division 2: Warlords of New York, and they are fully acceptable. They come in five flavors: Ammo Hoarders, Cool Skills, Fog of War Revisited, No Regen and Special Munitions.

The guidelines make the game harder in one way or another, which means it's not about shooting and forgetting settings. Each increases experience gained by 25%, adding up to 125% to experience when all five are activated. The modifiers are:

• Ammo Hoarders: Allows you to start with less reserve ammo, and ammo in the magazine will be lost when reloading. Enemies will not drop ammo and no ammo will be displayed on the minimap.
• Cool Skills: Places one skill on cooldown when the other is activated.
• Fog of War Revisited: Removes minimap and directional threat indicators.
• No Regeneration: Stops armor regeneration between encounters, but it can still be manually replenished.
• Special Ammo: Grants all your enemies the afflicting ammo status determined by the enemy faction.

Keep in mind that guidelines don't increase the quality of loot dropped during an encounter - difficulty does. So if you want better gear rolls, you need to increase the difficulty either by mission or through the overall difficulty toggle. The guidelines are there to increase experience gains for SHD levels and season levels. You can stack them with overall difficulty if you want to increase your rewards and experience simultaneously, or for an additional challenge.

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