Before the main announcements onUbisoft’s livestream event, some of the development team forDivision 2spoke to the audience about their work on the game. During this time, the origin behind the game’s Easter egg of rubber ducks scattered around the game was revealed.
ManyDivision 2players have posted online about the ducks. The rubber bath toys have made their rounds in gameplay videos and social media forums, with many fans questioning their placement in the game. However, theUbisoft Forwardevent has cleared up the confusion as to their introduction into the shooter RPG.
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Karen Stanley, a level artist for theTom Clancygame, took plays through the rubber ducks' origin story. Stanley told viewers that many programs in the industry talk to rubber ducks that sit at their work stations, as hashing out the problem out loud helps the programmer figure out how to solve the issue in the software. One programmer forDivision 2took this a step further and added a huge rubber duck into one of the game’s levels to remind himself that he needed to do a specific task in that level. Whatever the task was, the duck remained in the level for quite some time.
During that time, Stanley said that many of the other artists grew attached the the ginormous rubber duck, and as a result, they all began adding subtly adding them to the game in hard to reach places. As time went on, theDivision 2programmers got more into adding these Easter eggs, and they started setting the ducks up in such a way that these rubber bath toys were conveying different stories to those who found them. Many players on platforms likeYouTubefound these ducks intriguing and posted videos displaying them.
The secret behind the rubber duck Easter eggs was not the only information that Ubisoft revealed to fans. The game company also showed off new gameplay forWatch Dogs Legions,Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, andFar Cry 6. With all these new games coming out, fans will have a lot of new ground to cover to find the new Easter eggs will be hiding.
The Division 2is out now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
