Last Stand Guide

This guide aims to inform players on Last Stand objectives and scoring. 

Normalization

Normalization is applied to Last Stand and will adjust the statistics of all player's gear and weapons to a predetermined level. This adjustment ensures that both new players and seasoned veterans have equipment that performs similarly in normalized environments.

This adjustment is particularly significant in Player vs. Player (PvP) encounters during Last Stand or Skirmish, as it helps maintain fairness and competitiveness.

Gear Stats Adjustment: The statistics of all gear are scaled to a standard baseline level.

Weapon Normalization: All weapons, whether gold, blue, or purple, are scaled up to item level 34, and all (weapons and gear) mods are maxed out and adjusted to meet the item level 34 talent requirements. This ensures uniform damage output across all players.

Benefits of Normalization: Normalization offers several key benefits that enhance the gameplay experience in The Division:

• Fair Competition: By leveling the playing field, all players can compete based on their skill and strategy rather than their gear score.

• Inclusive PvP Modes: Normalization enables players of all levels to enjoy PvP modes without feeling overpowered or underpowered, regardless of whether they are new or experienced players.

• Focus on Strategy: Strategies become crucial to success; winning in PvP requires effective teamwork, including PvE farmers, PvP-ers, and communication for obtaining boosts, informing other players about what is happening in specific sections of the maps, etc.

All players will be set to 35% armor mitigation value. This armor mitigation is affected by Talents and Skill buffs. Player talents, Gear Set bonuses and Weapon Set bonuses function as normal.

A Main Stat & Normalization Calculator can be found here.

Last Stand

Last Stand is the third expansion in The Division 1, it is a 16-player mode (8v8) and is easily comparable to Domination, a mode found commonly in most First Person Shooters like Call of Duty.

To begin Last Stand, the player must first speak with Kekich in The Terminal. He can be found in the back right corner from the entrance of The Terminal (from the Base of Operations). After speaking with Kekich the player will need to watch a nearby informational video on Last Stand, this video must be watched before matchmaking can begin. If the player is unable to successfully matchmake for a game, the video will need to be watched again later or anytime after relogging into the game.

All 16 players are required for the match to begin. Matchmaking goes by region, but may eventually pull players in from other regions after 30-60 minutes have passed. The teams are labeled as "Rogues" and "SHD," the other team always showing as Rogues and the player's team showing as SHD.

Objectives & Scoring

Similar to Domination, the map will have three objectives to control (A, B, and C) and three points to capture within each objective (A1, A2, A3, etc). Objectives must be captured in order to begin accruing points for your team.

All three points must be captured by one team for the objective to be considered "controlled". If all three points are not controlled by one team, the point is considered "neutral" and will not award any points.

Each captured point awards 10 points per second to the team's overall score, the first team to reach 15,000 points wins. If neither team has 15,000 points by the time 20 minutes elapses, the team with the most points wins.

Shade Points

Shade Points are the currency used inside Last Stand and are required to purchase defense Fortifications and Team Boosts. They are most commonly dropped from eliminated NPCs and drop from caches found around the map.

Home Base & Fortifications

Objectives A & C are considered the Home Base and spawn points for both teams. The player's home base offers defense Fortifications that can be activated using Shade Points. 

There are three Turret Fortifications and one Pulse Fortification

The Pulse Fortification will mark hostiles (including NPCs) within a wide range of the Objective location, and offer a Critical Hit Chance & Damage bonus.

Turret Fortifications will attack enemy targets (including NPCs) and have a large amount of health, so it will take some time to take one down. Having higher DPS will decrease the time taken to disable one.

Fortifications can be disrupted using an EMP grenade or sticky bomb.

The announcer will say something along the lines of, "An enemy is attacking a friendly Fortification!" when a Fortification is taking fire from a Rogue agent.

Spawn Relay & Buddy Spawn

When a team's Home Base is captured by the enemy team, their Spawn Relay will deactivate. A Spawn Relay adds additional respawn points near Objective B. By taking over the enemy Home Base, their Spawn Relay will also deactivate and remove the ability to respawn at those nearby locations to site B, forcing the team to re-spawn at their Home Base upon death.

It's important for both teams to activate all defenses at the start of the match and regain control quickly if their home base is lost to keep momentum for the match.

Landmarks

Landmarks  inside Last Stand act similar to those from The Dark Zone. While the locations may differ from the actual Dark Zone map, the functionalities are the same.

Each Landmark  will have two waves of enemies and bosses to defeat.

NPCs defeated inside Landmarks  will drop higher amounts of Shade Points  that can be used on Team Boosts and Fortifications.

Landmarks  are by far the best activity to engage with when farming for some Last Stand commendations like "Blood Money" or "The Terminator".

Team Boosts

Team Boosts will be available for capture by either team after ~10 minutes into the match and can be purchased for 2,000 Shade Points .

Point Multiplier: This bonus increases the points earned per second from 10 to 16. 

Points for Kills: This bonus increases the points from eliminating enemies (including NPCs).

It's a good practice to not begin capturing a Team Boost unless it's confirmed that the team has enough points to capture it. If a Rogue eliminates another player that's capturing an Objective, they can take over and claim the Objective for themselves, and all points that were dispensed by the losing team will have been lost.

For assistance with Last Stand Commendations, click here for the Reddit breakdown.

The Last Stand Wiki summary can be found here.

Last Stand Cosmetics Summary can be found here.