Division 2 Retaliation Week: Materials x2 Until Sept 15

The Division 2 is running a one-week Retaliation push: Faction Materials earned from Retaliations are doubled, and a new Project Chain hands out an Outfit Token on completion. Both were announced by the official Division 2 account, and both are tied to hard dates. This piece breaks down exactly what was said, what it’s worth doing before the window shuts, and what can wait.

On September 8, the official Division 2 account posted that Retaliations are worth revisiting for two reasons this week. The first is a project chain: Starting September 8, complete the special Retaliation Project Chain to earn an Outfit Token and unlock an eligible outfit of your choice. The second is a materials bonus running on a shorter clock: from September 8 to 15, Retaliation Faction Materials are doubled.

Ubisoft’s own Red Horizon news page repeats the same beats and adds one useful clarification on scope: the Surge applies broadly, doubling the Retaliation Faction Materials you earn from all sources during that window, not just from completed Retaliations specifically. This is happening inside Year 8 Season 3: Red Horizon, the season currently live in the game — if you want the full rundown of what that season changed beyond this week’s event, that’s covered in Division 2 Red Horizon: Everything the Season Brought.

Retaliation Surge (Faction Materials x2)

This is a straight multiplier, not a new activity. You still run Retaliations the same way you have all season — same factions, same Control Point retakes — the only change is that whatever Retaliation Faction Materials drop during that run are doubled while Surge is active. The post gives no per-run number, so there’s no confirmed rate to quote here; the multiplier applies to whatever you’d normally earn.

The Retaliation Project Chain (Outfit Token)

Each completed Project comes with useful materials and caches, with an Outfit Token waiting at the end as the main reward, usable to unlock one eligible outfit of your choice from the store. The chain sends you back into Retaliations against different factions to progress it. Ubisoft’s Red Horizon page gives the chain its own window — September 8 to September 22 — and ties it to Retaliation’s first anniversary. Neither the post nor that page names how many Projects are in the chain, or which outfits count as “eligible,” — that phrase is exactly what’s confirmed, nothing more specific than that.

Retaliation Faction Materials aren’t a cosmetic currency — they’re a direct input into exotic crafting and into Retaliation-specific Projects, which is why a flat doubling matters more here than it would on a currency you’re not already grinding. If you’re mid-farm on an exotic and haven’t seen the full breakdown of which materials feed which blueprint, that’s laid out in the exotic farming guide rather than repeated here. The practical math is simple: any Retaliation session you were already planning to run this week is worth roughly double in materials than the same session run after the 15th. That’s the entire lever — there’s no new activity to learn, just a narrower window to run the activity you already know.

The honest cost here is the calendar, not the grind itself: you have from September 8 through September 15 — a seven-day window — to bank the doubled materials, full stop. Miss it and the Faction Materials return to their normal drop rate; the Project Chain runs a week longer, to September 22, so the outfit unlock is not capped at the 15th — only the doubled materials are.

Prioritize Retaliations over other Faction Materials sources this week if you’re actively working toward an exotic — the multiplier only applies while Surge is live. The Outfit Token chain is lower pressure: it runs to September 22, a week past the Surge, so there’s no reason to rush it purely for the cosmetic reward, though running it alongside your materials farm costs nothing extra since both use the same Retaliation runs. If you’ve been away from the game and are trying to figure out where Retaliation Week fits into everything else Red Horizon changed, the returning player guide covers what to check first on login.

In our reading, the move here is: run Retaliations you’d be doing anyway before the 15th, don’t go out of your way to invent new farming routes just for this week, and treat the Outfit Token as a bonus you pick up along the way rather than a separate goal.

Sources and Confidence

This table separates what the studio has confirmed from what comes out of press previews, and what is still just circulating. Every link below was fetched before publishing.