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The Division Open Beta Thread: Is it out yet?
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1h45m more from now untill we can play.
Noisepurge
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Silencers affect the amount of bullets.
Sniffynose
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Damn that's true. Hrm I don't know it's a tough choice between a few shots to trigger rogue or maybe it should be a kill that triggers but then people could troll others and get them killed by npcs, pretty tricky situation for the devs to allow on demand pvp and hope it doesn't get abused
Maybe they'll up it to thirty or so? But I do believe it's a good number.
That's 6 full squads of people in a dark zone split into 6 parts. With NPCs everywhere.
Yup, I really love it. Really adds strategy to the fight
that....shouldn't be true? right?
silencers just add the effect they have on them which so far is only "reduces threat"
blacklotus
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And i was going to play now... 
j0hnny_385
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Had a great amount of fun yesterday.
Slow, methodical play with my buddy. Exploring everything. Enjoying the scenery.
This game really has me hooked.
Also, PC's 60fps vs. PS4's 30fps is night and day in this game. Game changer for me.
Ran really well with high-ish to ultra settings on my i5-4670K & GTX 970.
Overall really satisfied and I'm looking forward to the full game.
Any plans for an active DiGAF PC community?
Slow, methodical play with my buddy. Exploring everything. Enjoying the scenery.
This game really has me hooked.
Also, PC's 60fps vs. PS4's 30fps is night and day in this game. Game changer for me.
Ran really well with high-ish to ultra settings on my i5-4670K & GTX 970.
Overall really satisfied and I'm looking forward to the full game.
Any plans for an active DiGAF PC community?
I still don't get one thing:
Why does the cover-to-cover run feel so damn satisfying to do?
It's not like I am really DOING anything,I am literally just holding down the Spacebar.
Yet everytime I run from cover to cover quickly aiming at the next one and my guy then crouch runs and slides in there,it just feels so damn good.
Why does the cover-to-cover run feel so damn satisfying to do?
It's not like I am really DOING anything,I am literally just holding down the Spacebar.
Yet everytime I run from cover to cover quickly aiming at the next one and my guy then crouch runs and slides in there,it just feels so damn good.
j0hnny_385
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Nothing beats Gears of War movement and "cover feel", IMHO, but this game is pretty good at it.
Buz still - the DZ will be 3 x the size of our current DZ. Not to say there will be x layers of underground and roofs. It will be very hard to find players I think.
Extraction zones son. They'll show up when people use them.
I feel the actual idea of the DZ "loop" is:
You go in. You fight NPCs. You loot chests. You get loot/rank/currency. You MIGHT meet another player during this,leading to co-op/PvP. then you go extract. this DRAMATICALLY increases the chance of meeting other players,leading to socializing/co-op/PvP.
Right now it's: There ar epeople around every corner and everyone shoots everyone forever.
Well they said they will be providing events for the DZ post release. Of course what those events actually contain is anyone's guess.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Thanks, this is a lot better than the marksman footage. Game feels a lot more intense, I guess going assault is best. Just sad that snipers don't feel good in the game, I love hanging back and sniping the heads of baddies and proving support fire.
Ubisoft's animators are really fucking good, that's probably another reason why as well. Like as much as I might dislike certain ubiquitous (pun maybe intended) aspects of Ubisoft games man I am a whore for their animation work so they pull me right back in with that. Doesn't hurt they've basically been refining a lot of those systems on previous games for the last console generation or two now.
Guess none of those animators were ever working on Assassin's Creed
Part of that is also down to it being a beta - there are no real consequences to going rogue. Your progress doesn't carry over, so you might as well go all out now and test the limit/be a jerk.
Ok, guys. I've got a confession to make. Please tell me what's wrong with me
Played the first beta, now this one and... The Division bores me to tears.
I mean, it's all there for it to be a great game - and I'm not trying to say it's a bad one - but, man, is it spectacularly generic or what?
The graphics and art direction are great, the shooting is decent. But I feel like by playing the beta I've seen it all. There are really no surprises in store: you'll just get same mundane looking weapons with higher numbers and shoot standard-fare bad guys with longer health bars.
And I know what you're going to say: it's the same with all games of this type. But it isn't. Let's take Destiny for example. Even though it's starved for content, it still has a lot more variety even in its opening hours: you got flying enemies, teleporting enemies, invisible enemies, shielding enemies and so on, lots of . The visuals really sell the differences too. Now, getting back to The Division, I feel like we'll be fighting the same-old shooting dudes and charging dudes ad nauseum.
And I'm not against near-future military shooters! I can play CoD campaigns just fine, I like Battlefield multiplayer. But I feel that a game needs something more substantial and more variety to sustain a quasi-MMO framework.
The realistic New York is rendered beautifully and faithfully, but as modern cities are, it's a bit samey.
And don't get me started on the weak virus plot (still better than Destiny though!).
What do you think, GAF? Does The Division have legs to support a stable player base over an extended period? Or maybe there's an AC-styled twist somewhere and we're playing in a post-Cloverfield disaster or something along those lines? (unfortunately I doubt that, as it's a Tom Clancy-branded title...) What's wrong with me?
Played the first beta, now this one and... The Division bores me to tears.
I mean, it's all there for it to be a great game - and I'm not trying to say it's a bad one - but, man, is it spectacularly generic or what?
The graphics and art direction are great, the shooting is decent. But I feel like by playing the beta I've seen it all. There are really no surprises in store: you'll just get same mundane looking weapons with higher numbers and shoot standard-fare bad guys with longer health bars.
And I know what you're going to say: it's the same with all games of this type. But it isn't. Let's take Destiny for example. Even though it's starved for content, it still has a lot more variety even in its opening hours: you got flying enemies, teleporting enemies, invisible enemies, shielding enemies and so on, lots of . The visuals really sell the differences too. Now, getting back to The Division, I feel like we'll be fighting the same-old shooting dudes and charging dudes ad nauseum.
And I'm not against near-future military shooters! I can play CoD campaigns just fine, I like Battlefield multiplayer. But I feel that a game needs something more substantial and more variety to sustain a quasi-MMO framework.
The realistic New York is rendered beautifully and faithfully, but as modern cities are, it's a bit samey.
And don't get me started on the weak virus plot (still better than Destiny though!).
What do you think, GAF? Does The Division have legs to support a stable player base over an extended period? Or maybe there's an AC-styled twist somewhere and we're playing in a post-Cloverfield disaster or something along those lines? (unfortunately I doubt that, as it's a Tom Clancy-branded title...) What's wrong with me?
Yeah but our DZ now already has 3 extraction zones, if you apply this to the rest we would have 9 zones. 9 zones for 6 full squads means everyone has his own b;/
Ok, guys. I've got a confession to make. Please tell me what's wrong with me
Played the first beta, now this one and... The Division bores me to tears.
I mean, it's all there for it to be a great game - and I'm not trying to say it's a bad one - but, man, is it spectacularly generic or what?
The graphics and art direction are great, the shooting is decent. But I feel like by playing the beta I've seen it all. There are really no surprises in store: you'll just get same mundane looking weapons with higher numbers and shoot standard-fare bad guys with longer health bars.
And I know what you're going to say: it's the same with all games of this type. But it isn't. Let's take Destiny for example. Even though it's starved for content, it still has a lot more variety even in its opening hours: you got flying enemies, teleporting enemies, invisible enemies, shielding enemies and so on, lots of . The visuals really sell the differences too. Now, getting back to The Division, I feel like we'll be fighting the same-old shooting dudes and charging dudes ad nauseum.
And I'm not against near-future military shooters! I can play CoD campaigns just fine, I like Battlefield multiplayer. But I feel that a game needs something more substantial and more variety to sustain a quasi-MMO framework.
The realistic New York is rendered beautifully and faithfully, but as modern cities are, it's a bit samey.
And don't get me started on the weak virus plot (still better than Destiny though!).
What do you think, GAF? Does The Division have legs to support a stable player base over an extended period? Or maybe there's an AC-styled twist somewhere and we're playing in a post-Cloverfield disaster or something along those lines? (unfortunately I doubt that, as it's a Tom Clancy-branded title...) What's wrong with me?
Alot of people agree. Its tedious and boring.
Kwansu Dudes
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What do you think, GAF? Does The Division have legs to support a stable player base over an extended period? Or maybe there's an AC-styled twist somewhere and we're playing in a post-Cloverfield disaster or something along those lines? (unfortunately I doubt that, as it's a Tom Clancy-branded title...) What's wrong with me?
There will be monsters and infected humans like 28 days later
I hope
I don't doubt it'll have a decent player base as people love these kinds of games and Destiny is a fucking fuck and is still going.
There's nothing wrong with you. This game is incredibly generic but well made like most Ubisoft games minus the bugs.
yes, but are you gonna run all the way from DZ04 in the north to DZ01 in the south to extract?
and if you do, during that trip you will again have chances to encounter players who have the same idea.
Man, would love it if the virus turned people into "I Am Legend" kinda zombies.. Would certainly make for some enemy variety
;( But there's so much that could've been done with this. A Cloverfield cleanup in a kaijiu world. A cthulhu mythos conspiracy or an X-files one. A parallel-world a'la Fringe. A new future setting with drones and mechs (WWIII/alternate history were Europe/Russia/China/Japan went bad and started conquering everything). An alien invasion story (yeah I *know*, but still... maybe alien terraformation project?). A superhero/super villain crisis, like Escape Megalopolis (an event caused superheroes to go insane and now the cut off city is their playground).
Each of these gives you so much more to work with in terms of distinct visuals, interesting story and, most important of all, varied gameplay. And I thought of those on the fly, just writing this post.
Just please, no zombies.
I really hope you're right. Monsters would invigorate the gameplay. I was watching the 'enemy factions trailer' and thought. Those are just guys with guns: untrained, trained and special forces, but still just same guys with same guns.
Oh, this is interesing. I hope the virus does what it says on the box...
Although...
http://legacy.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue3/features/bourzac.html
I don't think so
Ok, guys. I've got a confession to make. Please tell me what's wrong with me
Played the first beta, now this one and... The Division bores me to tears.
I mean, it's all there for it to be a great game - and I'm not trying to say it's a bad one - but, man, is it spectacularly generic or what?
The graphics and art direction are great, the shooting is decent. But I feel like by playing the beta I've seen it all. There are really no surprises in store: you'll just get same mundane looking weapons with higher numbers and shoot standard-fare bad guys with longer health bars.
And I know what you're going to say: it's the same with all games of this type. But it isn't. Let's take Destiny for example. Even though it's starved for content, it still has a lot more variety even in its opening hours: you got flying enemies, teleporting enemies, invisible enemies, shielding enemies and so on, lots of . The visuals really sell the differences too. Now, getting back to The Division, I feel like we'll be fighting the same-old shooting dudes and charging dudes ad nauseum.
And I'm not against near-future military shooters! I can play CoD campaigns just fine, I like Battlefield multiplayer. But I feel that a game needs something more substantial and more variety to sustain a quasi-MMO framework.
The realistic New York is rendered beautifully and faithfully, but as modern cities are, it's a bit samey.
And don't get me started on the weak virus plot (still better than Destiny though!).
What do you think, GAF? Does The Division have legs to support a stable player base over an extended period? Or maybe there's an AC-styled twist somewhere and we're playing in a post-Cloverfield disaster or something along those lines? (unfortunately I doubt that, as it's a Tom Clancy-branded title...) What's wrong with me?
I don't think there's anything wrong with it, people like or don't like games.
I for example think Hearthstone is the dumbest shit ever, but that's just my opinion
a little reddit thread that makes some sense
https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivisio...uch_complaints_about_its_boringbare_so_heres/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivisio...uch_complaints_about_its_boringbare_so_heres/
Oh, this is interesing. I hope the virus does what it says on the box...
Although...
http://legacy.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue3/features/bourzac.html
I don't think so
All we do know is that its a severe and most common form of Smallpox which have mutated to a degree in which the Smallpox vaccine we have today wont cure it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(virus)
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Yeah i really like how well human and grounded the game feels it has some future technology in it but not what you see in the likes of call of duty for example. To me it feels fresh and different.
I can't see 'em adding any sci-fi to the story myself, not with the 'Tom Clancy' name attached
Edit - beaten
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/overview/disease-facts.asp
Where Smallpox Comes From
Smallpox is caused by the variola virus that emerged in human populations thousands of years ago. Except for laboratory stockpiles, the variola virus has been eliminated.
However, in the aftermath of the events of September and October, 2001, there is heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of bioterrorism. For this reason, the U.S. government is taking precautions for dealing with a smallpox outbreak.
Currently, the smallpox vaccine is not available to the general public. However, there is enough smallpox vaccine stockpiled to vaccinate every person in the United States in the event of a smallpox emergency.
Its grounded alright.
Same here, i´m glad to get something a bit more grounded in reality, and for me they seem to have a good story going, just doing some of the side missions and realising how they somewhat tie into the overall plot, by helping you understand what went down, collecting evidence and following clues was fun for me atleast.
It´s not for everyone but damn did they strike a cord with me.
But don't you think that at the same time it's not realistic at all? I mean, who are those unnamed legions of looters, prisoners and freaky contamination squad guys? Where do they come from? Where do they get their guns from? How can they survive in NC? Why hasn't the US army just squashed them as the insignificant bugs they are?
For me this is an interesting dissonance dichotomy. On one hand you've got a game like The Division with its grounded setting and story that just flat-out fails to justify its contrived circumstances. It's realistic in everything but the situation (which is the heart of the game). On the other you get something like Destiny: a made up space fairy tale about aliens and demonic forces which is unrealistic with its setting and story, but which is perfectly logical in the circumstances the player is put into (aliens have their homeworlds/infrastructure to support a prolonged war effort and so on). The world is fantastical, but in its context the situation is realistic.
This is fascinating stuff.
Could there not be room for Tigers, or Ligers or even an occasional angry house cat.
All the enemies in games are mostly humanoid, either zombies or men with guns. I mean most RPG developers understand the repetitive nature of the gameplay and try to mix it up with creative enemies. I cant see how this would engage people for very long with just humans for enemies.
Could you give me the cliff notes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUWNBPVRjTw&list=PLyo1KLLn8E0-z8LrUBODYZ1nV5-5D4tqa
Give it 10 minutes of your life. It shows how factions came to be. (some of them)
Apart from attack dogs, pass on fighting animals really. The thing is, I don't want creative enemies, I want plausible enemies, because to me the whole setting is a huge part of why I enjoy this game so much.
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