In my opinion since the mask was added in Haven and NOT DC I am thinking the Hunter puzzle is in NY.

That picture in NY of the taxi cab and the yellow newspaper box that they flash is on the corner of williams st and john st outside haven when going to battery park.

The problem with the hunters is that the puzzles and so stupidly complicated and also finicky that it's virtually impossible to figure them out. The community needs clues and a lot of people trying different things to get them to work and it takes hundreds of hours. A lot of them need to be done after 9pm in-game, so if it's not the right time, you may have to wait a long time IRL. Also, if nothing happens, is that because you did something wrong, and if so what, or was it because the game just decided not to spawn them (lots of players have trouble getting hunters to spawn). Do you now need to wait in-game until it's 9pm again, or do you need to log out and back in? I wouldn't be surprised if most hunter mask puzzles are "solved" by the devs just telling someone exactly what to do. Case in point - the street in NY shown in the video when they talk about the missing mask. Is that a clue? I went and took a look at it and tried to see if there was anything unusual about it. Look at the 3 lamp posts in that street (between where the screenshot is taken and back up the street towards Haven). All 3 lamp posts have two silver diamonds on them. I walked around Haven and didn't see those diamond shapes on any other lamp posts. I did see a post (not a lamp post, just a short post in the ground) with the same two diamond shapes on it, but they had signs on them, like they were yellow with red direction arrows or whatever - the ones on the lamp posts are plain silver as far as I can tell. Maybe I just needed to check lamp post in a wider area, but if not and they are unique... so what? What does that mean? Do you shoot the silver diamonds? If so, in what order? At what time? Does it matter if you have directives enabled? What if you use an AR and accidentally hit one of them with two bullets instead of one? Can you go back at try again? Do you need to wait 24 hours? Etc... See what I mean? Trying to solve hunter mask puzzles is definitely fun, especially working with others and bouncing ideas off each other, but it's also the path to madness.

What this video has reminded me is that I don't have all the New York masks yet and this something to work on as I am waiting for the next season to start. 👍

2:04 Even i have told that players many time, those hooks are not Hunter mask what u find from missions, good examble is that coney island Schaefer manhunt hunter mask

From what I've looked up in game and have many photos of maps throughout DC, the maps in the recruiters hideout are in other areas of the game and not exclusive. There is a green slip of paper in a safe house on a bounty board that has coordinates (irl gps) but the one set I could read lead outside the playable area, it's similar to the coords that are in the extremis malis comic book 3. I haven't looked into NY as much but, there's still the issue with the 2 fuse boxes that dont seem to open anything. There's also the empty bar by the DC's mayors office that hasn't been used for anything. These anomalies could be part of something? There was also a rumour that the community solved one puzzle incorrectly but you are still ae to spawn the hunter and get the mask (which is a weird bug but it's happened before in games.) Perhaps we have to solve that puzzle correctly for the mechanic for this last puzzle to work, like maybe an additional hunter was supposed to spawn somewhere if we did all the puzzles correctly?

I have been saying for years that there is a puzzle in Wall Street! You have Keaner supplies that you do nothing with. Keaner worked in Wall Street, the times on the clocks and representing lights have me thinking there is something there

i have a feeling it could be the ducks wearing hunter masks during the recruiter mission...

This mask was added when the recruiter manhunt was added idk why players keep thinking it's a paid mask or a hunter in a mission the dev already told a player someone found a clue by accident but never solved the clue and those screen shot the dev was showing on the video are hunter location where u get the mask the last one photo is in NYC idk where but could be a location of a clue the recruiter room I also look on the map I thought the axe was a location but was not I believe those X are the location for the audio u have to find that lead u to the room but I believe the video the dev show could be a clue until this day im in nyc looking for clues no joke I have clan member join my world n ask me what I'm doing and I reply looking for clues and exploring NYC I had some thought of clues like the NYC red light Bowie it would light up red at night and you can shoot the light there's a few of them in NYC by the water n Brooklyn Bridge I shot all of them thinking something would happen nope n next to Haven it's a red door in a alleyway but can't open

I think that during all this time, people who were interested in this, if they had not found it in the game, they would simply provide information through a datamine. For example, spoilers for a couple or several seasons ahead were published on Reddit, including the current one. Perhaps the developers hid it very well, but for now it looks like a trick on their part.

The location from the video in New York is around Haven, Corner of John and William Streets.

Very interesting, maybe I'll do a little investigation into this mask. Thanks Rogue for always keeping the community updated!

When you play the mission where Kajika is in, there are screens you can turn on and use, but nothing really else happens. Also when playing the space administration, there are some “thermostats” you can interact with that also lead to nothing. Maybe those two are tied to puzzles?

So, the one thing that has really stood out to me in NY recently are the buoys found along the eastern coastline and there are also some within the city. I’ve ran WONY many times along with leagues and seasonal stuff. The buoys at night seem to really stand out as of late. Tried shooting them all, but nothing happens. Considering that most NY hunters consist of crazy puzzles, thought this mystery one might be the same

If the last hunter mask, i got a good feeling it's in the location of the Brooklyn dlc. The location is somewhere in the division 1 Brooklyn area. That's my guess/hunch it's tied to the Brooklyn dlc.

4:16 It's Williams/John street. Looking straight at Haven.

Not far from that site, at coords 1170 - 1395, tucked in an alley off of Gold Street is a piece of graffiti that reads PLUTONC!TA, with 'I hate the blue boys', '1984', 'They are watching you' and 'Pluti' written over and over again. Pluti translates from Romanian as 'to float' and comes from pluta (Raft). Someone mentioned blue buoys off shore, and they've hidden clues in graffiti before..

Has anyone else had that creepy experience of that hunter standing just outside the doorway of a safehouse staring at you. That legit felt spooky because it was so outside of the normal dynamics of the game.

Hunter puzzles does leave it pretty vague, I have to say. Given that the hook is in NYC I suspect that it's more tied to there, else why not have it in DC? Could definitely be related to finding ducks in the recruiter mission, but I have a feeling it may be content that isn't even available yet. Maybe S1 next year where we are doing more to figure out what it is that Kelso and Co are doing now. The issue is that NYC is only so big, but I guess we'll see.

I found a place on the NYC map and I really think it’s the spot but I can’t figure it out. I’m not the best at that but I really believe it’s the place to start or it would be where it ends. Very convincing to me. Open world and some sort of sequence to it and maybe even something to activate during the day and finish at night.

In NY there is a location on the west/northwest side of the map (Battery Park Loc -503.63 if you are in your build menu screen) where there are two yellow boxes on the wall. when you shoot theses boxes you hear what appears to be garage doors opening BUT nothing in the area opens. I have spent hours searching the area and have not figured it out. Has anyone else found these...curious if that has something to do with this mystery. I do recall months ago, a dev coming out saying that all the secrets in NY still have not been found. Happy hunting all!

@RogueGold can you add a link to that promotional video to the description? I'm having a hard time finding it on youtube

I know the mystery Hunter that would pop up every so often in Washington DC is back because he popped out on me the other yesterday when I was doing the weekly project so there's definitely a hunter floating around somewhere..

Hope it gets figured out soon. I want another mask to add to the collection

Some of the NY hunters were known to spawn in DC open world. Given that the known 25 masks all came from open world Hunters - I thought the new one was also of this category. Occasionally I discover faction lockboxes in areas where the minimal does that glitching effect that accompanies a hunter spawn. However having solo fought most known hunters I was confused to experience it again. Then I saw the the extra Hunter hook in the Haven basement area. The recruiter hideout seems to indicate something with wall maps. Also there have been in game time conditions tie to prompting hunter spawns. Some of the tunnels in WONY Manhattan also require turning valves and shooting yellow panels to access underground rooms. There was also that area under the Bridge pillars where I found a stack of board games - they are probably Easter eggs to Massive games or Ubisoft games.

I've recently encountered a hunter that ran off when I was doing a bounty, to my knowledge once you've defeated a hunter, they don't spawn randomly anymore, and I have all the masks except this mystery one. That being said the hunter I encountered was in DC inside a Library where bounty targets usually spawn in Constitution Hall.

I believe there are about 4 or 5 more secrets not revealed yet.

In the recruiter hideout, the map with the ax sticking out of it, did anyone inspect the area on the map where the red strings tied to the 'X's cross? The strings cross to form another 'X'. Just a thought.

The location on the div2 video, stating that some haven't been found is the intersection between Williams St and John St, looking towards Haven. ...don't k ow if this helps or has been stated, but me n my mates have been looking all night to find it, and finally did.

Near the intersection in that NYC shot from the promo video, there are large ornaments stacked in a pile next to a little tunnel with stores and 3 large, spherical lights. One is blinking, one is out, one is on. The stores around the lights are all Meret. I’ve shot them in different sequences and looked all over that space for clues. Seems like nothing, but the blinking light just *feels* like a Hunter clue. Going crazy…

Please share with us your pistol build your wore in the early part of the vid. Simply awesome.

Maybe the puzzle will be added in the next season/year, and it's part of the content they have planned

If I was trying to hide a hunter puzzle in plain view where no one was likely to look, I’d do it in kenly college. That said, the meret estate (incursion) would be another sensible location

It’s called Taxi Alley as you leave Haven go battery park exit there you’ll come across the picture taken

The place in NY is william st south of the Heaven

Where is the location of the promo video? Can't find that anywhere and I wanna go look around.

On the Haven building itself at night you can shoot out the lighted snowflakes. Some are blue,orange, and white I believe. They are around all sides not sure if that’s anything. 🤷‍♂️

Is it possible the coloured boxes on the side of the blue cabinet in that location mean anything?

What if that empty hook in haven belongs to the hunter who randomly spawns across the map? Who looks at you from above?Maybe we have to find the location of the base of operations or something like that to get his mask?

Is it attainable currently or do we have to wait till the dlc drops ? Is it an achievement for completing all the manhunts or maybe you get a secret door in the white house after you get all the collectibles around DC that belong in the white house?

I never got to finish the recruiter manhunt due to working away, and i also failed miserably at trying to kill the hunter in the kelso stranded tanker mission. So doubt i have the fredom mask. But i went to the hunters room u showed and i dont have access

I scoured the recruiter hideout and took screenshots of everything in the rooms. Didnt you have to follow all the blue light clues to get access. Id be a little annoyed if they just opened it to everyone now lol I'll reinvestigate the spots on the map but they turned up nothing the first time. I thought maybe the spot where the blade is stuck in the one map was important but we can't access that part of DC I recently ran into a "watcher" hunter near DUA, and that was the first time that has ever happened to me in my almost 2k hours in the game. Friend said they've run into another watcher several times recently near Lincoln memorial.🤔

I went to that area and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. There's a yellow star where the Axe is I posted on Twitter.

Perhaps the hunter puzzle will be in Brooklyn? Yet to be discovered could be due to lack of access. Brooklyn is still NY, so the hook would be in the right place.

I'd like to know where all the new exotic weapons are displayed .. Ive looked in DC and NY and do not see the iron lung or the mosquito etc.. thoughts?

You saw how complicated some of those mask were to get. How people figured some of those out are beyond me. Some were so complicated it's hard to believe someone figured some of that out on their own. No telling how complicated they made this new one.

I think you can probably discount anything in DC. The hook is in NY.

Watch the marketing video and I have questions 1) showing 2 masks crimson and phantom but only talking about crimson. Maybe phantom is a clue that you need to be at a certain spot around 21:00 hours. 2) if the spot is the second picture are we looking for a lever to pull or a phone to answer like the crimson mask or is it in haven?

I wonder if it has to do with the hunter that appears in DC at night ,that when you see him or shoot at him he disappears

bummer, but thanks for the update Gold.

I’ve been running into a random hunter in DC with a fishnet look over his mask. Shot him a few times but he just runs, pops smoke and disappears. I know he’s around whenever the displays on the screen get all staticky.

There are two yellow electrical boxes in Battery Park, right at a Riker’s propaganda broadcast, only a few blocks from Widows web. I’ve always wondered about these, as you shoot either box, and you can hear like a garage door opening, but you can never find that door. I’m convinced there has to be something more to this, but can’t figure out what.

$5 the NY Hunter is the Tunnels

Idk if this is important for solving the hunter mask but I got a friend that said they or their friend had/has a hunter stalking them in the open world. I can't remember if they said NY, DC, or in general open world. I've never seen a hunter stalking me but I really don't do open world.

i got the standard freedom mask after finishing the manhunt, i was very sad lmao.. that hunter took 3 guys with 400k to 600k damage to kill him :)

Could the new NY huntermask be related to TMNT? Since it's close to a sewer, on the light pole there is a sticker with "Mind is might" & the color of the objects seem familiar. This is a theory however, but wanted to see if it may help find any further clues towards the 26th huntr mask.

Alright so I went back to all 5 locations marked with yellow Xs on the DC map. Two are in DZ East, didn't find anything at either (and yes I visited all locations after 2100 hours). The lower one is near a tunnel and the upper one is near a landmark (Dead Park) and a triangular street island with a statue on it. The 3 in regular DC are all very close to a main story mission, those being: Viewpoint museum, Jefferson Trade Center, and Grand Washington hotel. Nothing of note at any except the one near the museum is right by an echo (of some named hyenas robbing eachother). Jefferson Trade Center is of note of course because the Recruiter appears prominently several times there in the Cap. Lewis Manhunt mission. I took screenshots of the general areas of each, I could post them to imgur or something if anyone wants.

Has datamining ever showed hunter mask clues?

Remember sound u hear when hidden hunter is close and blurry vision on issac

@roguegold what's that pistol build in the video

Relating to the missing hunter mask, has anyone actually found anything that could be a part of the puzzle? The only thing I’ve ever found/heard of is an “intractable” door upstairs in the federal reserve building, but I have been told that that door can be opened if you get a random key drop from a named boss (dunno how true that is though!?) It’s crazy how the previous hunter puzzles have been solved as some of them are so involved- a switch in one area then a panel in another (but at different times of day), then shoot a yellow box on a clock tower after 9pm! I mean wtf!! I did try and see if there are any recurring patterns across the mask puzzles, but even if you do find one how do you know how many sequences there are and where/when they need to be done etc🤷‍♂️ If this hunter is in the live game right now (has this been confirmed???), then how insane must the puzzle be to trigger it?? Could this be one of those puzzles that goes unsolved because people loose interest and stop looking!?!

My Lucky mask bugged and never dropped, and now I can't re kill the hunter since they were all killed already. Reached out to Support and they told me tough shit find a group lol

Just a theory I think the hunter mask hook is for the new season after this one

OK best thing to do is go back to the beginning. Firstly we found out about the hunters by finding this hunter script now where were the hunter scripts located in New York to lead us to the Hunter locations?

Wonder if there will be a hunter in the Brooklyn DLC and they just loaded the hook now.

Does anyone know if the recruiter outfit is coming back at all? And also is there a discord i can join so i can do countdown with somone i never done it before

When are the devs gonna unlock the Stinger LMG?

Hi. What pistol is that 😮 with the green explosion?

He needs to just definitively tell us if it's actually available to obtain in-game now or if it is just a placeholder. I know the promo said some puzzles haven't been solved yet, but with how sleuthful this community is, I figured by now we'd have found it if it was there.

What if the location is marked by the hunter axe in the map?

What build were you using?

Hi, nice video, but please, I'm more interested in your headshot build. Can you share the details?

Anyone try going to the location at the tip of the knife in the map in the hideout.

I’m sure there’s a lot more that hasn’t been found

what if its the cards being held on the rack next to the taxi!?!

I’ve got a feeling it’s got to deal with the Hunter who sits on the churches because I checked at the churches and there’s writing on them

Perhaps the new hunter mask will be discovered in the Brooklyn DLC???

Elevator won't open for me 😅

Excuse me guys, I know it may be a silly question, but how did you figure out the recruiter’s hideout? Or how you knew that this was his place?

I have not done the recruiter and the door is indeed open for me. However the elevator does not open.

The scene in the video (dev video) looks familiar...gonna go scout around there, kick at the leaves as it were. As for the maps at the Recruiter's place...been to all the (accessible) places marked on both maps and, yeah. Unless I'm that blind - nothing. We'll find it though. This community *loves* a good mystery!

Try pathaway park

What if you need to be wearing the mask they mentioned in the video to set off something

I once took on two hunters at once in warlords on ps4 and got destroyed

I played through the season But the elevator won’t open?

Is it possible that it's tied to the Brooklyn DLC?

I just thought it was for the meret estate hunter mask

I have 3000 hours in this game and never got any of the masks as far as I know. Is it any fun getting them? I don’t really like puzzles lol

I think both theories are wrong. The hook got added end of last year. And as we all know the new dlc (Brooklyn ny) was supposed to come out end of last year as well. So this leads me to my theory that this hook is for a new secret hunter that will be added with the new dlc.

Division 2 still new

Elevator doesn't open for me

I’ve only just now found out about this hideout and that I don’t have access to it even though I completed that man hunt wtf can anyone help me out of my stupidity here….

What pistol is that?

Hi interesting of a hunter in New York got all masks so fare i wonder in New York beside christmas market / batery pl ther is a construktion site ther you coma a cross a symbole in severel collors yellow/green and red if i recall right reds in undergorund and at top of scafolt you fide a pannel you can hold x on a button but nothing happens? mabye the symboles and that button can be a clue fore the hunter??? just a mabe parden my english the symbole is like a nedeel with a serpen a large x on topp and the numbers 3 left 212 topp and a x on the right ??? an the black has 1 on left still 212 topp anda V on the right difrent nubers and letters on difrent collors mabe a clue who knows.

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I guess if you never visited the recruiter hideout you don’t get access. The elevator doors wouldn’t open for me. 🤷‍♂️

Nope no elevator for me 😢

The mask puzzles are like the zodiac killer writings. It takes a true genius or nut job to solve this stuff 😂 Personally, they should hang the Catharsis mask on the hook and be done with it

Any one know how to get the pyromaniac gun ?

That mask is coming the new DLC in New York