Retrozocker
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The Division - 15 minutes of new gameplay
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Get_craycray
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From Hamish Bode, Community Developer for The Division.To be clear, @TheDivisionGame Beta will not be under NDA. Bring on the streaming madness!
https://twitter.com/hamishbode/status/689006825858031616
Edit: is this thread worthy? Like some kind of "PSA".
At least Ubi didn't tout it's story to be this huge epic which could fit alongside Star Wars, LotR and GoT....
Doubt it. Has been posted a couple of times already.
And there is going to be a beta thread. Still good to hear tho.
rockman zx
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Available to download 48 hours before the beta starts.
With Destiny we were hoping there was more to Earth than just Russia. With The Division I don't think anyone expects the full game will unlock a new city like San Francisco or something.
I'd expect events to be the new thing rather than new cities. Halloween maybe or summertime for a change.
Get_craycray
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Doubt it. Has been posted a couple of times already.
And there is going to be a beta thread. Still good to hear tho.
All right, my bad, I thought it was news. I thought I read somewhere that people were thinking the beta would be under NDA.
From Arekkz. So abit of grain of salt.
The Division Open World - Map Size, Fast Travel, Safe Houses & More!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTO2PN8hDAs
The Division Open World - Map Size, Fast Travel, Safe Houses & More!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTO2PN8hDAs
I'm at work so I can't really watch the video proper but just at the very start it says his waypoint is like 90m away and even him fully running it takes quite a bit to actually move towards it.
I feel the city is gonna be easily big enough, especially with all the rooftops I have seen and the houses you can go into.
Talking about rooftops,have you guys seen that cool "rappel elevator" in AngryJoe's video?
There are ropes hanging on the outsides of buildings that you put a "hand elevator" unto and rappel up/down!
Did you preorder a physical copy? That's how I got mine on pc from Amazon.
ManUnkindH
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Is it just me or is this game ridiculously downgraded in terms of graphics compared to the first E3 video?
Of course it is, but remember this is XB1 footage mostly.
The PC should show a big graphical upgrade if some of the whispers floating round can be believed.
Sanpei
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yes. But for xbox one
Kadayi
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Take it up with wikipedia then.
You're mistaking modules for mechanics.These are distinct. The paucity of much of what TSR produced with regard to in house scenarios with endless dungeon crawlers to turn a fast buck doesn't invalidate the reality that not how all P&P RPGs operated. If all you were ever served was ready made modules I feel rather sorry for you tbh. Not every game scenario was go there, kill that, get profit.
The whole point is the presumption that certain mechanical systems (levels and loot) qualify a game as a role playing game, even though there isn't actually any degree of role play within what is presented, and those abstract systems are merely holdovers from another media.
You'd think you might have a few scenarios where you could talk people down and maybe recruit them to your cause tbh, rather than put half a clip into their face. Or at the very least capture them.
It's apparently slightly smaller than the Fallout 4 map. So a decent size in my opinion.
That is quite a lot of content to tackle and explore. And the map size is really decent for all the distractions offered at every corner.
March 8th cannot come soon enough.
Yeah worked for me on amazon uk ps4.
Jest Chillin
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Wikipedia is a publicly edited source. If I wanted to take it up with Wikipedia, I could literally change what's on the page.
No.. I'm not mistaking modules for mechanics. The Roleplaying in a PnP RPG is not a mechanic. It's, at best, an input. Either the DM judges the result based on their opinion or a roll of the dice determines how the Roleplay resolves the conflict. Essetially, the Roleplay was Flavor. Not a determining factor.
Even in a more sandbox world or campaign, character choices are player choices. Those aren't mechanic based. You just decide to go a direction or place and it happens. There's no Roleplay involved.
See.. without the mechanics, there is no Game aspect. Roleplay without mechanics is simply playing pretend. Which is fine except it doesn't fulfill the "Game" part in "RPG." So I suppose, by your logic, we're at an impass.
Except we're not because the vast majority of people understand what RPG means when applied to a video game and nobody confuses it whatsoever with the Role Playing that happens in a PnP RPG.
Seriously.. your personal definition of.. well anything, takes a backseat if it's not the same as commonly expressed nomenclature.
In Service
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I'm keeping an eye out for that information and I haven't seen it yet.
Someone suggested that XBO Alpha Testers would have their Alpha Client updated nearer the time. No confirmation of that but I kept my client just in case.
Noisepurge
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Amazon UK sent out the code immediately on pre-order. PS4 copy.
Single Player campaign
I reserve my judgement until I see footage of the PC version but it doesn't bode well that the XBOX One version looks so dull in comparison to that early reveal material. Honestly I don't expect the PC version to have much more than higher texture resolutions and the usual stuff instead of increased amount of clutter and debris on the streets.
SJRB
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Much better than what?
Should be in the inbox for whatever email address is attached to your Amazon account
Noisepurge
Member
But the campaign IS like Destiny that it's 10 missions that can be played solo or in a Fireteam. There is no offline "single player mode"
No of course not,but it has a proper campaign with one mission after another like any open world game.
Yeah. I've noticed that Klyka has answered a few questions as if they know the answer but they've been wrong.
I'm sure they're just trying to be helpful but it just confuses things.
On topic though I'm really looking forward to this game. Have a group of atleast 5 other people to play with so I should be able to roll with a group of 4 most of the time
Noisepurge
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Hehe, it's good to clear somethings that people don't expect this to deliver a 20 hour Resident Evil 4 -campaign.
I'm waiting for the Beta to get to see how the shooting feels like, if it's adequate this will satisfy my Destiny RNG lootfest needs for the next 6 months until we get more content
Have Massive said anything about players potentially friends farming each other in dark zones? It seems something that can happen when the game comes out. All you need is to find 3 people who aren't interested in PvP, go into the dark zone as a group, kill them and repeat the process.
Noisepurge
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I'm also afraid of ganking squads at the spawn gates to the Darkzone. Even in the press demos it seemed like as soon as they entered the Darkzone, there were other fireteams instantly firing upon them
Kadayi
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Good luck with that then.
Yes you quite clearly are. If all you've ever known is grey I don't doubt it's hard to conceive of red or blue existing but they do.
There is no impasse because you haven't presented a cohesive counter point. All you've expressed is denial by trying hand wave away the 'role play' aspect of the RPG experience as somehow being tangential or unimportant to the whole. Also freeform role play is actually a thing and has been for many years so that kind the boots into your 'let's pretend' assertions.
I'm also afraid of ganking squads at the spawn gates to the Darkzone. Even in the press demos it seemed like as soon as they entered the Darkzone, there were other fireteams instantly firing upon them
It did happen in the alpha but it's really hard to succeed
The moment you fire on a guy or squad
Anyone else going in can fire at you, you can only last for so long
Plus people respawn right back there, it's tough
The more you kill the bigger your rogue radius gets ,so people that are already inside will see you, come from behind you and attack
Plus dying loses rank and DZ monies i think
Yeah. I've noticed that Klyka has answered a few questions as if they know the answer but they've been wrong.
I'm sure they're just trying to be helpful but it just confuses things.
On topic though I'm really looking forward to this game. Have a group of atleast 5 other people to play with so I should be able to roll with a group of 4 most of the time
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Acutally, PC versions tend to have a lot more clutter (MGS V, TW3, GTA V, etc.). But since this clutter was large models that affect gameplay to a certain extent, it may not be the case!
What is a 'rogue radius'?
Like, the higher your rogue level gets, the bigger a radius around you where people inside that radis will see where you are. in some of the videos you can see that.
CyberPunked
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this is the full map at release
So I'm guessing the rest of the map is being sectioned off for DLC.
Insane Metal
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Where's the Jack Frags video?
I'd wager we'll get full blown expansions adding new parts of New York, yep.
Also,I totally forgot the map doesn't just have rooftops and building interiors, but also the subway. So, there is more real estate to explore there.
building interiors were more or less just two story buildings that you could blow through in 20-30 seconds unless it was a mutli floor apartment. Which those usually have side missions anyways. The interiors mostly serve as links/easy paths to another street. But there is also crafting and other stuff that was not in the alpha. You could go pick up materials at a garage, electronics store or clothing store.....but they didn't do anything in the alpha. I hope the crafting system is deep and not just consumables.
Now the sewers/subways.....those were pretty fucking big and cool. But you couldn't go in half of them in the alpha. Some had sewer covers that couldn't be removed and you could see on the map just how far down and big they were.
Nice, that's cool to hear.
I take it most of the bigger building interiors are for missions/dungeons?
The stadium was the actual doctor mission.....I think that was in the latest news outing by players on youtube. The place had a whole hospital on the stadium floor, with a bar upstairs and eventually you worked your way to the roof by using the rafters.
But it definitely seems the really big ones will be saved for that "damn, it looks amazing" or "That's cool" moments.
Yeah, makes sense, you are not gonna blow your big,super detailed "setpieces" on the open world with random people running around.
But can't you just see people normally in the game world without being in this radius? Or are we talking about a map position rather than in the actual game world?