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The Division Beta Thread: Make Manhattan Great Again
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Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I hope for beta that vendors don't sell the best shit. Just as an experiment I'd like to observe community behavior when your (good) gear actually requires extract and see how folks behave.
I suspect people will eat each other.
I think it might be even worse than the cb in that regard. I'd like to know if my suspicions are correct. Even if true, I believe retail won't be quite as grim, with players spread thinner across all brackets. But in ob it's basically the entire community crammed in the same end of the kiddie pool. There will be blood. Either way, vendor route or not.
But I just have the feeling forcing extract will cause a bloodbath of biblical proportions.
I suspect people will eat each other.
I think it might be even worse than the cb in that regard. I'd like to know if my suspicions are correct. Even if true, I believe retail won't be quite as grim, with players spread thinner across all brackets. But in ob it's basically the entire community crammed in the same end of the kiddie pool. There will be blood. Either way, vendor route or not.
But I just have the feeling forcing extract will cause a bloodbath of biblical proportions.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Updated.
Patch notes for the beta were better then the last 6 months bungie weekly updates.
It's should already have been updated, I saw an update log for the ps4 yesterday when I booted up the console
SaveFerris
Neo Member
Looks like you are able to pre-load the PC version, getting it right now!
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Honestly, if I see someone near extraction with loot on their back, I start to salivate. Doesn't matter the situation.
Quick Mustard
Member
So, I deleted the Beta after it ended last time.
I've re-downloaded it from my library,I take it im good to go with this one yea?
I've re-downloaded it from my library,I take it im good to go with this one yea?
Yes that is the client with updates.
Nyteshade517
Member
yeah...I already had the Closed Beta client on PC so the update is 1.23 GB
Free Roaming Chicken
Neo Member
Yep, my Steam shows it's currently downloading a 1.1 GB update to The Division beta.
Nyteshade517
Member
and now...the wait
Insane Metal
Member
Quick Mustard
Member
Ta!
Broadbandito
Member
On PS4 too
oooh oooh hopefully we get new patch notes again.
Tainted
Member
I still have the closed beta files on the hdd (also made a backup of them just in case something screws up in uplay)...but I have no icon for it anywhere. When the Closed beta finished the icon was still in my games list with the expired icon on it, but now it has totally disappeared. Hopefully once they allow preloading, the open beta installation picks up my closed beta installation directory and updates it.
-edit- Spoke to soon. I just went and re-launched uplay and I found it in the 'free games' section. Chose ot add it to my games and now it is downloading a 1.23GB update. Looks like I'm good then
bargeparty
Member
I didn't expect another beta so I deleted the game from my PC, I'm preloading through Uplay right now.
Cabbagehead
Member
Pretty sure those are just recordings from the first beta.
Nah the new Subway mission was on the map, the guy set a waypoint to it and a new voiceover played then he got disconnected on his way there.
nah, he really was in and he typed my name in game chat and spun 360° when I asked him to verify it wasn't a recording.
And the new mission was in too
WonkyPanda
Member
A post on Reddit got me thinking about "end-game"
Content and what people seek.
I think back to games like Diablo 2/3 and borderlands 1/2; games with definitive end-game except harder modes and, in case of Diablo, randomly generated areas to dungeon crawl.
And yet, we get to a game like Destiny which is, I think, the only non-MMO game to feature raids. And yet, even with hard more dungeons and raids, the game got lambasted for its content.
Is it that a game like destiny sets up a different expectation in its player base? Could Division be a game that gets by like Diablo or BL?
Content and what people seek.
I think back to games like Diablo 2/3 and borderlands 1/2; games with definitive end-game except harder modes and, in case of Diablo, randomly generated areas to dungeon crawl.
And yet, we get to a game like Destiny which is, I think, the only non-MMO game to feature raids. And yet, even with hard more dungeons and raids, the game got lambasted for its content.
Is it that a game like destiny sets up a different expectation in its player base? Could Division be a game that gets by like Diablo or BL?
Tainted
Member
It was the PC version he was streaming and I noticed there is an 'unlock test version' button in uplay if you have a password.
I assume he had a password and is breaking an NDA
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
It's Destiny's own fault for the way its perceived. They make everything a pain in the ass. They bar you from doing things on your own schedule. They put up arbitrary progression barriers at every turn. And then disable matchmaking on top of it. Destiny walls off its own content behind inconvenience and obnoxiousness to the point casual players are basically juggling the same half-dozen strikes over and over until the game feels tired, boring and worn. The loot system.... jesus christ I'd rather punch myself in the dick.
If most players actually played all the content on their own terms (at least reasonable terms) it might not get the complaints. But you can't really. Destiny feels like a f2p game the way they arbitrarily limit everything, except it's actually a premium game and we paid for the privilege to hurry up and wait.
The Division doesn't appear to be going that route, and massive isn't bungie, thank god. The Division lets you do whatever you want, when you want. People have easy access to all the content and loot is pretty straightforward once it's on the rope. You don't have to plan your week around some dickhead only showing up certain days of the week so you can spend your special currency that can only be earned on certain ways and only so much per week because reasons. The Division, they just let you play the game. So if people tear through it all and there are still complaints about content... they might be justified, and these devs might have to consider a way to address it. Without going the Bungie route and building walls around it all as an arbitrary buffer.
Nyteshade517
Member
Is it Friday yet?
endlessflood
Member
Can we get the dates for the Open Beta put into the OP?
Well there is thread for open beta, no one just uses it for some reason; http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1181832
Novum_Veritas
Member
Pre-load is up for PC, 1 GB will be added if you have kept the closed beta.
texhnolyze
Banned
This thread is way more cool.
Perhaps we can just send a PM to Smash88 to edit his OP.
Tainted
Member
This has been the default Division information dump thread for so long now and alot are probably subscribed to it...probably explains why the other one is quiet.
I expect it wlil stay that way until the full game comes out and an OT along with it.
endlessflood
Member
Didn't realise that Tovarisc, cheers.
This one is called "The Division Beta Thread" so I'm sure it seems like the most appropriate place to most people, as opposed to a news announcement thread...
Maybe if this one was renamed to "The Division Closed Beta Thread" then people would look for a "The Division Open Beta Thread", but until then I think getting the dates added to the OP would be for the best
[inhalation and exhalation intensifies]72hours....and a few more
I want to enter stasis for three days
New thread?
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