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The Division Open Beta Thread: Is it out yet?
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GenericBadGuy
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Where is the info about only 25 players in the Dark Zone at a time? As in the ENTIRE Dark Zone? Im still really on the fence about the game but that would push it to a no for me. I've been enjoying the high density of players in an area.
By the way - if you're solo how does one change DZ instances?
GTR R35_Supra RZ
Banned
Same here, really hope for a meaty SP story to beef up your character with tech, maybe exclusive loot for playing the campaign and finally hitting the..snitches, sell outs, trolls....= DARK ZONE lol.
..and the right price for this GOTY of the century is $59.99 sir.
Tainted
Member
The Paul Rhodes mission wasn't in closed beta
WonkyPanda
Member
DZ30 is its own unique DZ. They haven't elaborated beyond that. I assume new, tougher enemies, events, etc.
WonkyPanda
Member
Where you died. It's important in the DZ because some loot you drop can be private and only you can loot.
feels a bit like Dark Souls in that respect where you need to go back to your bloodstain to retrieve your 'souls'
Oh... Is that what they meant? I thought it was a mission specific to the open beta. Like made for it.
If it's just that mission... I guess I interperted what they meant by "exclusive" wrong.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Still dont understand how this works. I mean, it all goes in the bag, anything you loot from NPC or PC, I assumed it all hit the ground when you're killed.
Maybe if NPC's kill you, it's still private?
you only get to pick up a small portion of the loot you were carrying when you died...they want to make the Dark Zone a high risk/high reward area
M.W.
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Well the dark zone will be even more scarce come other players when the final game releases. 24 players to a DZ. The DZ will be huge.
He used some ugly motion compensation filter that attempts to remove camera judder.
24 players each zone meaning each leveled area (for example Level 4-6 etc)?...why do you say there will be even less players?...I don't understand
yeah that is annoying...they have restock stations within the DZ so they should have a Stash location in there as well...I also don't like that there's no option to fast travel to any of the Dark Zone entrances...also why are there so many entrances where you can enter but then you are blocked off from exiting from that same location?
OdysseusVA
Banned
I'm, like, bugged. I have this red highlight on my character and I can travel outside the beta area without a timer lol Entering the DZ vendor in the red zone kicks me back out to the safe house.
Edit: Hmm if I go out too far Im kicked back the safe house. So there is a timer and it's slightly longer, but there isn't a warning. Weird.
Edit: Hmm if I go out too far Im kicked back the safe house. So there is a timer and it's slightly longer, but there isn't a warning. Weird.
rockman zx
Member
24 player for the whole DZ, the bigger the map the less chances to meet people.
nephilimdj
Member
I had lots of fun over about 6 hours, missions and side missions were a blast, a few times I had the COD issue of pushing to far forward then being killed at the end of two of the missions.
I couldnt get others to do a mission with myself, just random events which was fine.
Dark Zone is didn't really like, would melt some people and others were walking tanks... Just wasn't fun for myself, I hope they have a few other options for multiplayer fun which arnt dumb tdm. I got to rank 5, I dunno like 30 kills? I think I only died like 6 times and 3 were from my team.
From other people performances, I think this game hates my AMD CPU, because 960 shouldn't be chugging this hard on medium.
I couldnt get others to do a mission with myself, just random events which was fine.
Dark Zone is didn't really like, would melt some people and others were walking tanks... Just wasn't fun for myself, I hope they have a few other options for multiplayer fun which arnt dumb tdm. I got to rank 5, I dunno like 30 kills? I think I only died like 6 times and 3 were from my team.
From other people performances, I think this game hates my AMD CPU, because 960 shouldn't be chugging this hard on medium.
M_A_C
Member
I just went to the high preset on my 780ti and it looks awesome with stable 60.
I've played around 6 and a half hours according to the Uplay timer.
So far right now I don't think I'll be buying it. The DZ was pretty interesting but the rest of it was eh. It also doesn't help that performance was all over the place on PC (30-60 fps).
I'll wait for reviews of the full game.
So far right now I don't think I'll be buying it. The DZ was pretty interesting but the rest of it was eh. It also doesn't help that performance was all over the place on PC (30-60 fps).
I'll wait for reviews of the full game.
I'm torn over wether to pickup the full game or not. I've not been to the DZ so can comment on that aspect...the game world is fabulous! So much detail, looks stunning, runs super well...don't mind the shooting mechanics but I'm not sure about how varied the SP missions could be.....I've only played this Beta for an hour or so and the closed beta for maybe 2 hours...Unlike the Destiny beta it's hard to get a feel for how it's going to turn out. Plus, with DS3 and U4 just around the corner, and then R&C this may have to wait.....
I don't have the same set up but first thing I tweaked were the shadow quality settings and went from 50 to a solid 60.
Maybe try those first.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Who was the mall ninja on the dev team that went and decided to make the FN-FAL fire in burst?
jim2point0
Banned
Man... how rare are keys? I'm rank 8 and I haven't had a single key drop. I lost the ones I started with thanks to my group going rogue and getting me killed 
I feel like I'll never open one of these damn chests.
I feel like I'll never open one of these damn chests.
OdysseusVA
Banned
I was able to get inside the DZ vendor that's in the red zone if I time it just right but he didn't have anything I wanted
If only we could transfer. I have, like, 20 of them.
but he didn't have anything I wanted Man... how rare are keys? I'm rank 8 and I haven't had a single key drop. I lost the ones I started with thanks to my group going rogue and getting me killed
I feel like I'll never open one of these damn chests.
If only we could transfer. I have, like, 20 of them.
manfestival
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The game is good so far but uplay is far worse than steam or origin. Not sure if I can stomach dealing with that shenanigans for this game.
When the beta is over 3 more weeks of waiting...
2 weeks
OdysseusVA
Banned
Don't see why these are exclusive. The HUD options is something DICE did right with BF4 on consoles.
Heh heh heh don't trust GAF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DC4YFMDSQ
Beta impresions:
This is basically Destiny with a different skin. I mean that as a complement and an insult. The core mechanics are fantastic and the shooting feels great. There's the loot grind to grab hold of you and a fun PvP experience when playing with others. Crafting, bounties, resource hunting, side quests, etc. But a lot of things have me worried, keeping in mind it is just a beta.
If the entire aesthetic of the game is going to be streets with cars piled up, ruined multi-story apartments, and tunnels with broken down subways it's going to get tiresome. It already was in the beta after 10 hours. I can only run past so many ruined buildings and cars before they all become the same.
The enemies were just meat bags and had no interesting characteristics. The flamethrowers were fun to fight and that's about it. By the end I was pumping 2 clips of a submachine gun into one enemy before taking him down. Ugh. The story was forgettable the instant they started to tell it. The PvP while fun, is horribly imbalanced towards people playing in groups. Playing solo was often infuriating. But the whole thing was redeemed by a late night group of 4 goofing around in the Dark Zone. Sounds a lot like Destiny right?
All that being said I would pay $60 for what I played this weekend and 10+ more hours of content. It was a blast to play but if, as was the case with Destiny, the Beta is an indication of the entire experience it'll be disappointing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DC4YFMDSQ
Beta impresions:
This is basically Destiny with a different skin. I mean that as a complement and an insult. The core mechanics are fantastic and the shooting feels great. There's the loot grind to grab hold of you and a fun PvP experience when playing with others. Crafting, bounties, resource hunting, side quests, etc. But a lot of things have me worried, keeping in mind it is just a beta.
If the entire aesthetic of the game is going to be streets with cars piled up, ruined multi-story apartments, and tunnels with broken down subways it's going to get tiresome. It already was in the beta after 10 hours. I can only run past so many ruined buildings and cars before they all become the same.
The enemies were just meat bags and had no interesting characteristics. The flamethrowers were fun to fight and that's about it. By the end I was pumping 2 clips of a submachine gun into one enemy before taking him down. Ugh. The story was forgettable the instant they started to tell it. The PvP while fun, is horribly imbalanced towards people playing in groups. Playing solo was often infuriating. But the whole thing was redeemed by a late night group of 4 goofing around in the Dark Zone. Sounds a lot like Destiny right?
All that being said I would pay $60 for what I played this weekend and 10+ more hours of content. It was a blast to play but if, as was the case with Destiny, the Beta is an indication of the entire experience it'll be disappointing.
My first game I took up a shooting position on the scaffold next to the Ops centre and slowly sank through the platform, and got stuck behind the support beams. Had to create a whole new character.
Have finished all the missions and am now about to enter the DZ...should I buddy up?
StylesClash
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After finally getting to play this for about an hour. I'm sold. Game looks and plays great. March is going to be a good month for me.
Sounds like you need better loot tbh. Only bosses take me more than a clip (of my assault rifle) to down, and regular enemies go down with a few shots of my marksman rifle. It'd definitely get a lot less fun for me if I needed to spend two clips per enemy. How do you even survive the dark zone if you need to spend that much ammo on regular mobs?
I'm a PC gamer but making Parkour Mode exclusive to PC seems kind of silly...it an important setting and not really a 'feature' that needs to be limited to PC
Pre-context post Edit: I had all three weapons level 8 blue with a blue mod each and three level 8 armor pieces blue and all the rest green level 8. It wasn't a loot problem...
Not sure, that's the problem. I bought blue level 8 items from dark zone vendors and that was the result. Even the blue level 8 DZ M1A marksman rifle takes 3-4 rounds to finish off a level 8 purple (or blue can't tell). Forget a yellow elite enemy that'll take a clip of 10 head shots to the face. I guess my phrasing may have been wrong, standard mobs, as with Destiny, were never the problem, it was the elites and majors that just sucked down bullets.
The fact that the hard mode PvE mission had every enemy as purple and that same SMG that could take a standard enemy out no problem, took an entire clip+ to finish. Ugh. This is what was available to me. To be fair I made a tank build, most my stats went into Stamina. But by I was at 2700dps by the end. For a game that wants so badly to be about tactics, it's really just about brute force. Same problem as Destiny. You make a loot based game, difficulty becomes based on how good your loot is (or how much you've grinded, etc).
And for the record I'm one of the DGAF members that spent well over 500+ hours in the last year on Destiny. I'll still play the hell out of The Division, just sucks it'll have the same problems.
Ah yeah, I decided to focus more on dps, I have about 5000dps. That probably helps with the frustration
Hard to say, depends a lot on the amount of content at launch. I would generally say no though, because the game only really shines in co-op imo.
Hard to say, depends a lot on the amount of content at launch. I would generally say no though, because the game only really shines in co-op imo.
RedAssedApe
Banned
So many objective markers in this game lol
ryanofcall
Member
I assumed that is so you get ported to a different server/get to play with different people (probably in case you're an annoying fuck, I guess -or people on your server are)
mcz117chief
Member
Hey, guys. I just found out there is going to be a midnight launch of The Division in my humble little town! Are you guys having a midnight launch somewhere else too? I am really excited, this will be my first midnight launch XD
Hype going through the roof!
Hype going through the roof!
Tainted
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Well you could be right as the mission/s to unlock the tech wing may change in the final game. So if it does, then that particular mission was indeed exclusive to the betas. Same goes for the Madison Hospital mission
Here's the tank I built btw. I could take A LOT of damage. So I could have certainly tweaked my gear to be more offensive, BUT I built it on playing DZ alone and needing that extra health to survive. This is all from DZ 1-7 and PvE 1-8 gear. I have a bunch of DZ 8-8 gear that I haven't even picked up yet (stupid system). Mostly just armor upgrades, no new good weapons.
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