Tom Clancy's The Division 2

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Really hope I get picked for the beta. I just can't see myself loving Washington as much as I did snowy NY but I'm looking forward to seeing what they have planned.

You could pre-order to guarantee beta access and then cancel afterwards. I am not sure if that works on PS4? I do it on the Xbox for all the pre-order beta stuff.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Lately any pre-orders have to be paid in full and can only be refunded before you download the game. Wouldn't be so bad (very likely I'll be going digital anyway unless the beta is awful) except you. Only get beta access with the good and ultimate editions (100 & 110 euro). Feck that. It says they come with the year 1 pass but I thought they said dlc would be free in division 2?

Perhaps an Amazon pre-order, get the code, redeem and cancel.

Pre-ordering the standard edition on Amazon comes with a beta code according to the description.

Just saw this, some positive responses about the Alpha. Also, big preview coming out on 15th January in a 'magazine', whatever that is.

https://m.ie.ign.com/articles/2018/12/20/fans-react-positively-to-the-division-2-alpha

Prequel comic releases tomorrow, definitely gonna keep an eye out for this.

https://twitter.com/TheDivisionGame/status/1082689522264170496?s=19

You can read/download the comic from this link. Never heard of this site before, must check what else they have.

https://getcomics.info/other-comics/tom-clancys-the-division-extremis-malis-1-2019/

Cant say I use Uplay all that much but I have never really had any issues with it when I have used it.

Story trailer releasing tomorrow, hopefully with a beta date at the end.

https://twitter.com/TheDivisionGame/status/1085220129342930944?s=19

Really really looking forward to it. The graphics look worse than the first game but maybe the YouTube compression doesn't do it justice? Miss Snowy New York but will be nice to see some change in the environment.

Private Beta 7-10 of Feb

I suppose I can break my silence a little bit on the Alpha now.

The above video is pretty much the reason why I'm just not feeling this one

The setting is really bad. It's just so boring and plain. Overgrown vegetation and some flooding is about as exciting as it got. They replaced a nice comfy New York at Christmas time with essentially a swampy bog.
They sort of try at times to make it interesting by pointing out DC landmarks as you go by, but it's like, I really don't care about your American history monuments you know? So you end up just walking down a generic city street in summer time and it looks just like every other game. A real shame.
Now I know it's super hard to top New York. Everyone loves NY because it just has so much character and flavour built in. But D.C.? Really? The place has about as much character as a rice cracker.

The good news is that it still plays 100% like Division. With a pinch of Wildlands thrown in too. Everything responds just as you expect, so they seem to have hit the ground running there gameplay wise.

So I'm somewhat disappointed that I probably won't be putting the same hours into 2 because the world just doesn't feel good to be in. Especially when they could have taken it anywhere. Imagine if every country had a Division program?! And we could have gone to Tokyo or somewhere neat like that. Oh well.

There's more fun activity stuff and returning characters I want to tell ye about but I probably shouldn't :pac:

Oh yeah that's another stupid thing that really annoyed me. All the DZ's are separate now. WTF??? That means if I want to do a DZ run I'll have to do one, leave travel across the city, do that, leave and travel again. Stupid.

Also, they didn't show it in the trailer but now before you can enter the DZ you have to like "activate" it for lack of a better word. You go in, scout it and then switch on the power/turrets before it can be populated with people. I guess it's designed to give noobs a chance to explore and familiarise themselves before jumping in.