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The Division Beta Thread: Make Manhattan Great Again
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I will laugh so hard if second major DLC for the Division is some low effort horde mode survival thingy and nothing else
I will laugh so hard if second major DLC for the Division is some low effort horde mode survival thingy and nothing else
I bet it's gonna be set in some football/soccer/baseball stadium converted into an arena, complete with a crazy psycho announcer.
So Division version of Prison of Elders? It's what DLC 2 sounds like and God I hope it isn't that, or there is actually more to it.
Mines must be dismantled! Or death!
I would much prefer an interesting twist on Horde mode and not the usual "Trapped in a zone, fight to survive!"
Something where you have to go from point A to point B, akin to Left 4 Dead would be interesting. Mix up the defence modes in small sections with running for your life and scavenging supplies.
Se_7_eN
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There is no confirmed 'Survival Mode' the way most would think of it .... The second DLC is titled "Survival" and it is about going into a very hostile environment, I doubt it will be a wave based survival mode though..
Ahh I see.
I was able to preload using an external flash drive.
For anyone who cares / needs to know how, you just download the beta preload to an external / flash drive, it'll be in the depotcache folder when complete. I transferred those files to my desktops SSD in the empty depotcache folder (im assuming empty because i didn't have any other games in progress downloading), and loaded the beta from steam, it recognized the already downloaded files and finished with a 100mb download.
Can't wait for Friday!
For anyone who cares / needs to know how, you just download the beta preload to an external / flash drive, it'll be in the depotcache folder when complete. I transferred those files to my desktops SSD in the empty depotcache folder (im assuming empty because i didn't have any other games in progress downloading), and loaded the beta from steam, it recognized the already downloaded files and finished with a 100mb download.
Can't wait for Friday!
KINGofCRA5H
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For what ever reason I thought the season pass was $50, but it's actually $40.
I'm very tempted. If for nothing else than the exclusive outfits that come with it at launch.
I'm very tempted. If for nothing else than the exclusive outfits that come with it at launch.
Don't wanna nitpick too much but aren't professionals supposed to keep both eyes open while aiming
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From game.co.uk, the season pass information:
As you can see the survival mode sounds much more than a horde mode!
edit: Here's the link to the game.co.uk site: http://www.game.co.uk/en/tom-clancys-the-division-season-pass-968527
As you can see the survival mode sounds much more than a horde mode!
edit: Here's the link to the game.co.uk site: http://www.game.co.uk/en/tom-clancys-the-division-season-pass-968527
The whole thing is a DZ? Haha that's going to be terrifying!!! I hope they massively (pun intended!) ramp up the NPC count also.
Not through a scope not that I'm an expert but your vision would be jacked if your zoomed in one eye and seeing regular out the other, there are zoom scopes for two eyes I believe
Oh yeah! I heard that in American Sniper, I believe.
Holy shit, really? because the official site says just this:
http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.co....aspx?c=tcm:154-236580-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32
to be fair, that does sound like it could be some Battle Royale Dark Zone thing
If that is legit info on DLC 2 I can't say I'm that excited for it. I like idea of DZ because forced PvEvP is isolated into specific zone of the world, and you have choice to take part in that activity if you want to. Forcing it upon everyone across whole world of the game for whatever is duration of DLC 2 isn't cool.
KINGofCRA5H
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Honestly if the whole game was nothing but the Dark Zone I probably would be OK with that.
Same. The Dark Zone is one of my favorite things in gaming in recent memory.
It'll be an opt in thing.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
And it's there whenever you want it. That's what's nice about it. And if I'm not really in the mood to deal with dickshits, I don't have to.
That's something I really like about the game.
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finalflame
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+1. I absolutely love the Dark Zone and having that throughout the entire map would be amazing. Too bad it won't happen because casuls.
Klyka is most likely right. If Survival is an entire map DZ mode it'll be a matchmade mode separate from the main PvE gameplay.
I still have nightmares....
I love the overall idea of the DZ but for those lone wolves that just want to jump in and out, it is going to be really hard if you go against groups. I guess its a "Join or Die!" situation.
I always want the choice when it comes to DZ, so I always hope they have that but if I want to jump into the DZ with a group and wreck stuff, that option should be there also.
I always want the choice when it comes to DZ, so I always hope they have that but if I want to jump into the DZ with a group and wreck stuff, that option should be there also.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Tbh, if survival is all DZ, I expect it'd work as the vanilla DZ. Which is not opt-in other than you can opt to enter, at your own risk. I think the expansion would be the same.
And I'd be fine with that. I'm not anti-DZ. Vanilla would still be there if I wanted solo pve.
I would be disappointed at lack of horde though, as I was looking forward to that.
I love the overall idea of the DZ but for those lone wolves that just want to jump in and out, it is going to be really hard if you go against groups. I guess its a "Join or Die!" situation.
I always want the choice when it comes to DZ, so I always hope they have that but if I want to jump into the DZ with a group and wreck stuff, that option should be there also.
The best part of the beta for me was being lone wolf and creating temporary alliances with others.
I panic too much.
The fragile alliance feeling is really damn good in the Division. Cannot think of many other games that manage it so well.
Yes, but it can help if your hand and eye dominance are swapped. I shoot right handed but am left eye dominant so I have to either wear an eyepatch or squint
Se_7_eN
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I think that is the entire point of the expansion... Looking at this map, the Dark Zone ends with sector DZ-06. I think Survival will open up something like DZ-07, and all the DLC content will be inside of it.
What I was mentioning was that it would be exactly like the current DZ, but cover the entire map. The way they'd separate it from people just looking to do PvE though is that you would matchmake and join a lobby for that DLC.
MyNameIsRye
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Still waiting patiently for end game PvE content info............
I am thinking Raids and potential level-cap increases, alongside more challenge.
They'll show the game at the MS event in 9 days, hopefully after that they'll start to give some more infos.
I would be seriously shocked if by 2017 we weren't operating on the whole island.
please don't shock me that way Ubi
Depends on the sight system
Where did you see the footage of what looked like central park? I haven't seen any, ive seen Bryant park footage and it looks like the map includes union square and Madison square too.
As far as the map size I thing it's more that enough for a game without vehicles. And remeber these aren't open fields, midtown Manhattan is one of the most densly packed areas on earth. Depending on what they do with the underground and with verticality the map could even be too big.
For QB?
Calcium
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I have a question for those who have played the Beta. I have this preordered, but I'm honestly a little apprehensive when it comes to the Dark Zone and open PvP. When you are killed in the Dark Zone do enemy players get to loot your corpse taking all your gear or do they just take stuff you've accumulated inside the Dark Zone? The former would be incredibly stressful and I'm not sure I'd like it.
Se_7_eN
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Only stuff you have accumulated inside of the Dark Zone if it has not been extracted yet... Anything you have equipped or have extracted is yours for good.
EL CUCO
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You drop loot that you have collected in the DZ. You don't drop your own equipped items but unless you extract DZ items, you could loose them.
Calcium
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Okay, thanks. I think I can handle that. I don't think I'd get too stressed out over losing loot that I didn't really own.
Tatsumi Oga
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So for the alpha users, do we need to re-download it or can we just use the beta version from a few weeks ago?
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