Cabbagehead
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Most likely not. An even if it is you can buy it separate.
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The Division Beta Thread: Make Manhattan Great Again
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Most likely not. An even if it is you can buy it separate.
I think this game would be better served by having "heist" like missions with multiple steps and different roles a la GTA:O than raids like Destiny. The less similar to Destiny end game the better, in my opinion (from someone who has played all the Destiny end game that has been available to date).
Cabbagehead
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They have a lot of options given the area they built their game in. Underground or way up.
Would be great to get new environments to do battle in, like a skyscraper or another land mark. One of the big malls as well.
How would that work in this setting?
This is what I wanted as well, but going by the season pass descriptions, that doesn't seems to be the case.
They're actually wasting an expansion slot on horde mode.
Private extraction point? Seems against the entire DZ ethos.
Cabbagehead
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Those descriptions are pretty vague and we have no idea what they may in tell in context to the game.
Survival "mode" is not described as horde mode when i read it. Just that staying alive through survival methods will be push towards the forefront then before.
We'll see though.
Missions that require set up steps and coordination between different teams performing simultaneous but different tasks. Not (necessarily) about stealing or driving/piloting a vehicle, obviously, but a more elaborate and combat oriented version of everything else.
If you enjoy the gameplay the game seems it will have lots to do offline, so yeah
So The Raid/Dredd the raid I'll take it
The game is always online, but yeah, there should be plenty to do for PVE only players.
Cabbagehead
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uh there is no offline...you have to have uplay to play regardless of where you buy it from you have to access ubisofts servers.
FullMetaltech
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Good Raid type spots would be the Manhattan mall and Javitz Center if they added them in. Im hoping me get some missions in thos areas as well.
SJRB
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Absolutely. The Dark Zones aren't mandatory.
Yep
EL CUCO
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I wanna Raid Rikers Island!
I want to raid a giant building going from floor to floor.
Once the final floor is reached, one man awaits on his throne...
You mean something like Die Hard with the Nakatomi building?
I want to raid a giant building going from floor to floor.
Once the final floor is reached, one man awaits on his throne...
So the Chrysler building from Parasite Eve (another Christmas time in New York setting)?
You mean something like Die Hard with the Nakatomi building?
Yes and yes. Just imagine going through every floor, each with its own unique enemy layout and boss.
Damn, this needs to happen IMO.
It would definitely be a blast, but they would really need to put some real thought into how the tower operates as to keep it from becoming stale.
One floor could have you and your teammates pinned near an elevator that opens periodically with an explosive charge detonation going off. To avoid the blast you'd need to clear out enemies that come in and take over the safe area of the room. If your group lacks the DPS needed to kill the enemies, then one of two things will happen:
1) You eat the blast from the elevator and are annihilated.
or
2) You move to the safe area of the room but the enemies are still up so you're out of cover and quickly wiped out by them out in the open.
How about modifiers such as an EMP that prevents you from using your abilities or you can only charge them by killing enemies.
Yep, there are definitely ways they could make it interesting for players.
Whether or not they do any of that though remains to be seen. I think we may see modifiers in the Challenge Mode at least.
It should be able to be cleared out multiple ways too. I start at the bottom floor, you at the top, another player through the back or elevator. We meet up at a certain floor and continue on.
Damn i want this now.
Has a challenge mode been confirmed? I've kind of been in the dark about the game except the for the beta.
Sweet, thank you.
The_Hitcher89
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Is every level of every weapon locked to certain stats, or can they change around a bit? Like, will an unmodded level 5 SCAR have the exact same stats as everyone else's? If so, it'll be interesting to see how they avoid a certain weapon becoming a factual best in class. Semi-random effect perks locked to high level weapons maybe.
Rolls are completely random. We could both get the same pistol type but my roll could be hundreds of more damage or different affixes than what you get.
The_Hitcher89
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Cool, was hoping it'd be like that. Ideally with small enough ranges on the stats so you can reliably predict how much damage a player's weapon will do by sight alone, and knowing what level they are.
IMACOMPUTA
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Getting closer to the Diablo with guns I always wanted!
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This game is starting to look interesting. If I can solo most of the game that's awesome.
SJRB
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I played the entire beta solo and I never felt like I was at a disadvantage. The balance was really good.
That game already came out 9 years ago.
Goody goody i already had that diablo vibe seeing guns and gear drop with that beam in the sky.
You know like this but in third person. Also the talent tree's do have some similarities to diablo you have a skill and do a bunch of different uses to it with different modifications just like the runes in diablo 3.
http://mashable.com/2016/02/04/division-endgame-pve-dark-zone/#Pf7QodQBAuqh
Slight sliver of hope for PVE raids?
I think it's almost a certainty we're getting something.
They continually say "its not something we can talk about" like they are holding something back, rather than "no" or "thats not our goal for late game content".
It'll be a couple weeks after main release.
tioslash
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elitewillie1
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Do it. I'm in with ya. February is going to be a long month.
I went gold because I'm confident I'll be playing this for months. Didn't regret the Destiny season pass either.
If you don't think you'll be playing for long or you're just someone who hops from game to game then don't bother.
I actually dreamt of the division last night..... which is odd
I think I want to go Gold even though the last time I kinda got burned, with destiny I bought the expansion pass but I also have GCU so it was a total of 72 + the 10 GC and then I ended up selling the pass.
The other issue is that I pre-ordered when the GC was 15 dollars so I don't want to lose that..... but I think I could finangle it through bb customer care
I think I want to go Gold even though the last time I kinda got burned, with destiny I bought the expansion pass but I also have GCU so it was a total of 72 + the 10 GC and then I ended up selling the pass.
The other issue is that I pre-ordered when the GC was 15 dollars so I don't want to lose that..... but I think I could finangle it through bb customer care
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