How Badly Were the Other Boroughs Affected?
While we did get a very brief introduction to Brooklyn at the start of the game, how the other boroughs were affected was largely left unknown throughout The Division.
Considering The Division was initially going to feature more than just Manhattan, knowing exactly what’s going on in these boroughs and if similar factions formed in them, are both issues that come under this larger general question of just how badly were these other boroughs affected by the virus. Although, with the virus being spread through the currency on Black Friday, and the influx of people moving between New York’s boroughs, it’s difficult to imagine that these weren’t similarly as affected as Manhattan.
If these other boroughs were indeed affected by the virus, then is there a need for Division agents in these areas too? If they weren’t affected as badly, could this be what Keener had planned when we see him leaving Amherst’s old lab in that final ECHO? If they were left in a similar state as Manhattan then this may be a future location in a piece of DLC in year two, or maybe the setting for the sequel.
