00:00The Red Moon Rising event is live on The Division 2.
00:03We've got three weeks of this event and there's some new rewards
00:07that you can get a hold of while it's on.
00:09A lot of people in the live stream are asking exactly how this works.
00:11This video is going to show you the rewards
00:13and exactly how you can obtain them during these three weeks.
00:18Now, the Red Moon Rising event, if you come to your map
00:20and you head down to DZ South right now,
00:23this might rotate as the three weeks go to the other DZs,
00:26but you'll know which one it is because of the icon there.
00:29If you hover over it, it'll say Red Moon Stacks
00:32and it'll explain how all the stacks work.
00:34So this is how the event works.
00:36It's kind of like how the normal PvE DZ does work with the Toxicity.
00:40It's going to charge up and there's going to be buffs and debuffs on this one.
00:45So between 0 to 99 stacks, you're below threshold and no effects are active.
00:49100 to 199, you lose 20% damage, but you gain 80% headshot damage.
00:56200 to 299 stacks, enemies gain status effect immunity
01:00when shot from more than 20 meters away.
01:03Enemies lose status effect immunity when they're shot from 10 meters or less.
01:07300 to 399, 40% extra damage taken from enemies closer than 30 meters
01:13and plus 80% damage to weak points.
01:16400 to 500 stacks, you get 30% rate of fire when you're in cover,
01:2030% accuracy when you're in cover, 70% damage taken when you're out of cover.
01:26Plus two Red Moon Stacks every six seconds while you're in the DZ, PvE, DZ.
01:32You can exit or extract to remove the stacks.
01:35So that's pretty cool.
01:36Just keep on going around the DZ, killing enemies on your grind.
01:38If you extract, it resets the stacks.
01:40So if you go to one of the safe houses or one of the exits, it'll reset the stacks.
01:45That's how it works.
01:46We'll show you a little bit of gameplay in a moment.
01:48First, I want to show you the rewards though.
01:50This is what you're aiming to get.
01:52There's loads of rewards.
01:53You can get loads of different exotics, named items and things like that.
01:57But there's three brand new rewards.
01:59We'll start with the backpack.
02:01We've got the Saru backpack, which comes with all three cards.
02:05You've got weapon damage, armor and skill tier.
02:07And you've got the Decoy King talent.
02:10So while you're in combat, the moon will cycle through its phases every five seconds.
02:15If you throw it on here, I'd have to remove it.
02:17But you can see that the moon's on the backpack.
02:19You'll see it.
02:20So every five seconds, there are eight moon phases.
02:23Starting from a new moon, all damage you deal will be amplified by 5%.
02:26The value of the amplifier will increase by 5% each phase until reaching 25% during a full moon.
02:33Then it will decrease as the moon returns to being a new moon, restarting the cycle.
02:38During a full moon, deploying a Decoy will grant it overcharge.
02:41And the cycle will pause for 10 seconds.
02:44That's a brand new exotic backpack that you've got to get during this event right now.
02:48Not sure how it's going to work after the event.
02:50Whether this goes into the open loophole or not.
02:52I guess we'll find out.
02:54The other item though, if we go over to our weapons, we can also get the Vertigo.
02:58A lot of people are excited by this one.
03:00This is a GR9 exotic.
03:03I got one with Crit Chance here, what Lady Rock gave me.
03:06And the talent on this is Startling.
03:08Whenever this weapon makes an enemy suppressed, the enemy is applied Disorient.
03:13And you and allies receive 30% damage to targets out of cover for 15 seconds.
03:18You cannot reproct this or refresh this.
03:20So once you've applied Disorient and you've got the damage target out of cover proct,
03:25you have to wait for the 15 seconds before you can do it again.
03:28And then you can get it back on.
03:29Real good weapon.
03:30So they're the two exotics that you get.
03:32But then there is one more item.
03:33You'll see this mask that I'm wearing.
03:35This mask will come off a new hunter in the PVDZ that you can get on the extraction.
03:40And it is called the Crimson Moon Recruiter.
03:43So the first time that you kill the Crimson Moon Recruiter hunter, you'll get this mask.
03:48It'll also drop prototype items as well.
03:51And there's also a big marauder in the PVDZ that you've got to fight called Phoebe.
03:56This is what's going to drop the other two exotics as well as the chance of a more prototype gear
04:01and more items.
04:02Let me show you how the gameplay loop works.
04:05So first, the mask during any of the extractions that you do.
04:10Just like normal, you've got to get one of the items to call in.
04:14An extraction, a stabilization agent.
04:16There's just a chance that the Red Moon Recruiter will spawn.
04:19It's not guaranteed.
04:20So you're going to have to do multiple extractions potentially until you get one to spawn.
04:25He will hit you very, very hard.
04:27But as you can see, once you kill him there, he dropped me a proto and he also drops the
04:32mask.
04:32So just keep on doing extractions in the PVDZ during this event.
04:37Eventually, you'll get that hunter to spawn and you'll be able to get your mask.
04:40As for Phoebe the Marauder, this is like an open world event while you're in the dark zone.
04:46I don't know how often it comes around because we felt like once it took 30 minutes, once it took
04:5215 minutes, once it took 45 minutes.
04:55Seems a little bit random.
04:56So I don't know the exact time that it spawns.
04:59But it doesn't seem that you need to do anything to make it spawn.
05:02There's been suggestions that maybe just keep on doing landmarks, do supply drops at spawn.
05:07I'd definitely do the supply drops if they spawn because once when we got the Marauder to spawn was when
05:12the supply drops disappeared.
05:14So if it is an open world event, it could be that the DZ supply drops will be stopping it
05:18from spawning until they're finished.
05:20So I suggest doing that.
05:22That's not official though.
05:23It's just something we notice while we're playing.
05:24Once it does spawn, you're going to see this icon on the map.
05:28It's the XP35 Phoebe Marauder.
05:30It's an open world activity where everybody in the DZ server can go and take it on.
05:35Now, first, it might seem like it's very, very difficult and it's immune.
05:39I'm going to explain how you take this on now.
05:42There are going to be some Warhounds at ground level.
05:44You need to be careful of them.
05:46One's a sniper, one's a minigun potentially, one's a flame turret.
05:50They are a little bit annoying.
05:52But if they don't bother you, you can just focus the Marauder.
05:55And notice how it's got like balls over all of its like wings.
06:00Basically, one will be free to shoot the one that doesn't have the ball on.
06:04And you want to break its weak points.
06:05So look at like the bubbles.
06:07If one doesn't have a bubble on, you can shoot that weak point to destroy it.
06:11Once you've destroyed one weak point, you can do damage to the Marauder.
06:15Once you do two weak points, you can do more damage.
06:18Three weak points, four weak points.
06:20The more weak points destroyed, the more damage you're going to do.
06:23So aim to take those weak points out when you can.
06:25But you can't take them out when the bubble's there.
06:28One needs to be taken out to start damage.
06:30Then just keep on shooting the Marauder.
06:32Aim for the belly weak point as well.
06:34And proc that to EMP it and do even more damage.
06:38And eventually, once you took all the armor off, you'll be able to take all of the health off.
06:41And that's when you get a lot of loot drops.
06:44You can see now on screen, we're just about to take the Marauder out.
06:48And I got an exotic or two as well.
06:51Now, this is where the exotics are going to drop.
06:53If you want the new backpack or if you want the new weapon,
06:56it's going to be on this drop that you can get them.
06:58It's the only way to get them.
07:00You'll get a ton of drops.
07:01If you don't get them, then you've got to wait for the next Marauder.
07:04And just keep on grinding this until you do.
07:06The good thing about the Phoebe Marauder drops is that they go straight in your inventory.
07:11It's not like you need to extract it.
07:13One thing I noticed with the recruiter mask though,
07:15I think we did need to extract that.
07:18I forget now, but it went into our mailbox when we got it.
07:21So, whether I actually extracted that out for it to go in there or not, I'm not sure.
07:25So, just bear that in mind when getting the hunter mask.
07:27You might need to attach your lutes onto the rope.
07:30It's something that was mentioned at the time.
07:32I wasn't able to check it.
07:33But with the exotics from the Marauder, they go straight in your inventory.
07:37And that's how this event works.
07:39We're going to be helping with people through this throughout the week in streams.
07:42So, if you want to jump in with us, look out for the posts in the Discord.
07:45We'll pull people in.
07:46We'll help you get your brand new exotics.
07:48And also, we'll be looking at builds for the PVDZ during the event and things like that.
07:52So, make sure you keep an eye on the channel to check out any content we do around that.
07:55But I hope that video has been helpful.
07:57Make sure you're liking comments as always.
07:58If it has been, thank you so much for watching.
08:01Until next time, enjoy the event and take care.
