So for people that have completed all of the story missions, what are your thoughts on them?
I finished it all this morning finally and thought that the way they left it open-ended was pretty clever.
Obviously Ubi was going to make a sequel, but it's kind of cool they are switching villains (sort of) to keep things fresh. Keener can bring a lot of things to the table if/when he gets time to get things organized.
Only big issue I had with the story missions, cutscenes, and all of that is that there is a distinct lack of other agents in the game. Every single Wave One agent died, turned sides, or is still missing? Really? If we are to believe that we find every "Missing Agent" in the game, then that means there were, what, 20 Division Agents that went missing, plus the five from Noble squad, plus Keener and the 3-4 guys he converted to his side...meaning that wave one was made up of about 30 people. Which for a city the size of New York is insane. And if we didn't find every "Missing Agent" and there are tons more somewhere else, then what the hell happened to them? Where are these potentially dozen other agents?
Kind of diverting for a second, but it was really disappointing, to me, that every "Missing Agent" side mission thing ended up with you finding their watch and that was it. It would have been really cool to find a few agents holed up for whatever reason. I think it could be cool to find some of them wounded and in need of help - then they show up in the Medical wing back at the base. Or they're fine but had no communications and they help JTF patrol the base. Anything that showed that they weren't just gone.
And the fact that Wave Two is only made up of player characters seems a bit silly. Keener had a phone call message thing that explicitly states Wave Two was significantly smaller than Wave One. Even if you're playing with friends, it makes it that there are only five second wave agents in the game, including Lau, yourself, and three friends. That's ridiculous. As the game went on, JTF played a bigger and bigger part and there were several JTF NPCs rolling around in the missions. But there were no NPC Division agents to supplement their efforts at all.
It doesn't make sense that the US Government, after seeing significant losses in the Dark Zone and NYC as a whole, sent in a cavalry unit to bolster forces that amounted to a grand total of a handful of people.
Hell, anything that makes the Division seem like more than this tiny little group that is only a few people strong.
So many things were handled so well (atmosphere, LMB, Cleaners, backstory of Green Poison was pretty good), but so many others just seemed so darn silly.
