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The Division Beta Thread: Make Manhattan Great Again
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names2hard4you
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b...but I hate competition
SmoothRunningGun
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Title will always be Non Downgrade Agreement to me.
Seems like everyone getting the same stats
names2hard4you
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GAF's a hivemind, confirmed.
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No, it isn't horrendous in everything. Looks really great in The Order and a few other games. And let's not act like lens flare, grain, filters, etc. have not long been essential elements for styling any on-screen medium, even if they originate from their popular source in cameras. Using those elements is fine when used with restraint.
Jest Chillin
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The diagram on the left is the personal results. The percentages on the right are tracking the results for everyone that has taken the test.
Samurai G0SU
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So many.
cripterion
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Why? We've seen Brooklyn in video footage before and there appear to be files related to Brooklyn in the game directory. It will come sooner or later.
Brooklyn is the lvl 1-4 prologue/tutorial.
You meet Agent Lau there and get on a helicopter to Camp Hudson together.
Then the actual game starts.
http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-US/agent-intel/index.aspx#
Also if GEDOSATO/ENB/Whatever mods start showing up, please PM them to me so I can add them to the OP.
GustyGardens
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http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-us/home/
It's in the Agent Intel section. It's the first mission.
cripterion
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So you're confirming Brooklyn is in? Why are so many people adamant it's not? Especially Youtubers who claim to know everything about the game.
And before Destiny there was Warframe. If this is anywhere as good as that I'll be happy.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
I did that test a while ago but here are my results:
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The open Brooklyn is gone. It's just a tutorial zone left, not the full scale. They removed the open map of Brooklyn.
Nah,not confirming anything. Just a hunch, especially seeing the folder and files literally titled "Brooklyn" on my PC XD
All agents we have ever seen start at lvl 4 in camp hudson, coming out of the helicopter with Agent Lau.
it just makes sense for the tutorial to be in Brooklyn.
Is that so? I guess it makes sense, kinda.
Is there a way to re-take the test? Im curious to see which answers affect which stat.
Have you unlocked any of the others?
All locked for me.
cripterion
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I see...well hopefully it's more like The Witcher 3 and the White Orchard tutorial than anything else.
MegamanXZero
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Same for me, I can't unlock 2/3/4.
Alias03
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I believe this will actually be the case. DLC I could see expanding the map, but I doubt Brooklyn is in the cards for DLC in the near future. I could see it being a much bigger almost expansion pack next year sorta like Destiny did with The Taken King.
For me if I can spot CA by looking at the screen it's overdone, and so it's overdone in 99% of the games that feature CA. We most likely.. want? different things from visual experiences with our games, but for me effects like CA, lens flare, movie grain, post-processing color filters [e.g. blue tint of BF3, orange of BF4] are useless waste of GPU resources that distort and obscure image quality. Good looking graphics and image quality can be achieved without throwing in effects that many professional consider byproducts of sloppy production, possibly with low quality gear.
Yeah, I'm that guy who laughs at JJ Abrams movie effects because they are usually full of strong lens flare effects for no obvious reason other than that JJ apparently loves that stuff.
I do appreciate well done [bokeh] depth of field and effects like that, just not that.. other stuff
Jest Chillin
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As far as I know, there isn't another way unless you have an additional Uplay account.
And the additional missions are locked for everyone. I double checked through the Division's subreddit and they've reported the same thing. So I guess they'll be unlocked at specific dates.
GustyGardens
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Nope. They're all locked.
I believe it ties more into the game, sort of like the Grimoire in Destiny. You gain these achievements by doing stuff in the game. That's my assumption given what information is available.
there are no classes, only skills
GustyGardens
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Good thing is that you can mix and match between skill trees. You build your character to match your play style without being forced to a specific skill line.
This is my supposition, as well. Not in the alpha and beta, but the logical conclusion from:
- we've Brooklyn in game
- alpha/beta start you as level 4 flying in from somewhere (apparently nearby)
... is that Brooklyn will be (at least) the tutorial (level 0/1 through 4ish) in the final game.
Again, not confirming it'll definitely be playable in any respect, just connecting dots.
GustyGardens
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgaf0g_-8qI
He does a nice rundown of the skills and their respective mods.
Collateral22
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Gotcha, so RDS or something would just zoom the screen forward a bit or something.
There is no news.
I attempted to go out of the way to say "Again, not confirming it'll definitely be playable in any respect, just connecting dots." to explicitly state there was no news, as well as using words like "supposition" and "conclusion" to further convey it's a theory.
A few people, myself included, are positing that Brooklyn COULD still be in the FINAL released game as a tutorial/prologue given the points you quoted of mine that others have also mentioned.
Again: no inside info about Brooklyn! no news about Brooklyn! Just hypothesizing!
MADNESS, MADNESS I TELL YOU!
Opening scene of the beta that can be seen in some youtuber videos from that event in Malmö. It has heavy implications that prologue to the game takes place somewhere else than in Manhattan area.
Then there is these folders;
The Last Wizard
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Wow I thought at least Brooklyn would be in:/
Dlc better add Brooklyn, Bronx and some queens.
Dlc better add Brooklyn, Bronx and some queens.
Opening scene of the beta that can be seen in some youtuber videos from that event in Malmö. It has heavy implications that prologue to the game takes place somewhere else than in Manhattan area.
Then there is these folders;
It does take place in a different area. Whether its brooklyn who knows......also the whole file analysis thing....hasn't been working in a long time lol.....devs are getting really clever with naming files to throw people off.
Did you try and check your Ubisoft account page? You might find it in there somewhere
These skills are really thought-out, and seem fun to use. I'm impressed.
Depends on devs. Some games can be heavily and accurately datamined pre-launch and from patches. Destiny, Diablo 3 and Witcher 3 has been games like that, in recent times, that come into mind. I'm not saying Massive isn't going for most epic troll of all times by constantly mentioning Brooklyn, showing bits of Brooklyn located gameplay in trailers and now throwing it into installation files only for Brooklyn not to be thing in final game.
I have a feeling the first footage we saw was from the tutorial, you shoot the flare in the end of the mission, get picked up by the chopper that in the Alpha/Beta lands you at the first "base" we see in the intro.
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