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Tom Clancy's The Division

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Seriously, how good does this game look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiaRSuyQ7zA

Story trailer. Looks like it's based on the real 'Directive 51' law in the US about what the government will do in case of a major catastrophe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tat6BZqlyDo

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Canis Lupus

That incursion is a ****ing joke. It's more annoying than challenging.

TheDoc

Have to say it might be just pure ignorance, nievity or pot luck with how things have gone for me, but I just truely enjoy this game, thinks it's brilliant, have had minimal issues in terms of bugs, and having a tremendous time playing with friends.

I do read all the issues people are flagging about, the hacking one was something that did impact me for a few days, but things like the Div Tech grind and other stuff, really didn't even register as a negative for me.

My only disappointment was how the DZ wasn't like the alpha and beta. And thats fair enough, people didnt care about their characters and it was all low level anyway. But I think the last two patches quickly addressed that, making rogues are more frequent thing, and turning the DZ into an area of constant stress and tension. And as much as I've got backstabbed by players, I've also had random groups form, showing there is a genuine social element within the game.

The ingame VOIP is class. People still obviously arn't fully aware of how it works, and there is nothing funnier then a group scheming to kill you, while you are in earshot

mossym

DZ harversting it is tonight so:)

still have 1 mission and a few side missions to close out anyway.

_CreeD_

They killed the daily challenge after the server reboot around midnight for the hotfix (since they put such value on bugs that increase loot it had to be done within hours of the main patch....).
Then did another restart a few hours later since the first hotfix reboot had glitched non-daily challenge missions (gates and doors were closed etc.). Christ they really need to work on their QA process, and their priorities on what to patch.

mossym

yup, i did a daily last night as well, lincoln tunnel, but seeing on another message board that they're not there today. darc kn1ght managed to do them though.

TheDoc

mossym wrote: »

maybe just the challenge mode so?

https://twitter.com/TheDivisionGame/status/720151755535872000

Oh maybe its down today?

I did my two hard modes and CM yesterday without issue. Was Russian Consulate. (I'm PC btw)

TheDoc

Andrew76 wrote: »

Nice one thanks. Presume the update has also fixed the problem with dailies not spawning?

Yup

mossym

maybe just the challenge mode so?

https://twitter.com/TheDivisionGame/status/720151755535872000

DarC_Kn1ght

mossym wrote: »

no daily missons today either, confirmed by the makers. they say they will be back tomorrow

I'v just done them

mossym

no daily missons today either, confirmed by the makers. they say they will be back tomorrow

Andrew76

TheDoc wrote: »

HE no longer cost PCredits.

Assignments are a nice addition. They needed more ways to provide PCredits considering the amount of patterns that moved into your HQ, and the increased cost of patterns etc. I guess it was a smart move making alts. I havn't really being bothered, but the lads have two alts(three characters) as Pcredits are account wide, so you can farm more and get patterns faster.

I don't think you would be going out of your way on the weekly assignments, its just adding a counter and reward for stuff you will passively do through the week anyway.

Nice one thanks. Presume the update has also fixed the problem with dailies not spawning?

mossym

funny-sh moment in the dz last night, first supply drop, run up, hold blue button(xbox) to take it. says i have the gear so i start running away, next thing i get the voiceover and another timer saying defend the drop crate. cursing myself as i thought i hadn't done everything to get the gear and had left it behind. then realized it must have been the other crate as i still had the gear it said.

mcgovern

KilOit wrote: »

Whats the GS of the items dropping off DZ05-DZ06 named bosses?

I got about 20 HE items yesterday in DZ, didn't pay much attention to what they were until I got out, but I got them from named bosses in DZ01-DZ06, DZ chests and from a rogue.
2 were level 31, rest were level 30. More than two would have been from named bosses in DZ05-DZ06, so at least some of the time it's level 30 stuff.

Also got two supply drops. First one was two purples, second was a purple and a level 30 HE LMG.

mossym

one of the assignments if i am thinking of the right things was to kill 3 elites. doing the lincoln tunnel daily first guy down the tunnel when you are protecting the bomb defuser was an elite so killed him, died, repeat twice more and done. the weekly ones are likely a bit harder but the daily ones are nada

TheDoc

Andrew76 wrote: »

Good thing this update was free so, not sure I'd have been happy to pay for a one room horde mode. Was surprised to see that's what the incursion was like.

About the rerolling, it already let you reroll gear for credits though, or do you mean HE rerolls no longer cost phoenix credits? That's nice if the case. Pain in the neck not being able to play the game at the minute.

What do folk make of the assignments? What sort of things do you have to do, any decent rewards?

HE no longer cost PCredits.

Assignments are a nice addition. They needed more ways to provide PCredits considering the amount of patterns that moved into your HQ, and the increased cost of patterns etc. I guess it was a smart move making alts. I havn't really being bothered, but the lads have two alts(three characters) as Pcredits are account wide, so you can farm more and get patterns faster.

I don't think you would be going out of your way on the weekly assignments, its just adding a counter and reward for stuff you will passively do through the week anyway.

TheDoc

To be honest my expectations weren't massive when it came to the Incursion. As a free update, and most likely something that was developed during the games main development, I really have no major issue. sure it wasn't what I thought, but I'm not exactly turning my nose up at it either. Although does go to show they could have showed more footage in the run up, so people could know what they were getting.Very few people have completed it on challenge mode, and plenty seem to be struggling on Hard. So its something new and fresh to do for a while. And considering its something new, combined with a pretty significant range of updates and balances, a month on from release, I'm happy enough.

Massive seem like they are taking onboard positive constructive feedback, so I'll assume they will do the same with this. Although again it will hopefully be based on accurate feedback. I'd have no problem seeing more of these Incursions as time goes on, they are challenging and intense and fun. However I do expect to start seeing some scenario/dungeon style content that is somewhat story driven that contains a couple of bosses as you move through a location. Essentially what the missions on CM are, but tougher, more tactical and maybe a bit more epic(or fresh stories)

ZiabR

KilOit wrote: »

Whats the GS of the items dropping off DZ05-DZ06 named bosses?
GS of 180 at the minute and trying to gear for incursions, is 165kdps 83khp enough?

More than enough mate. The Incursion is rated for a gear score of 140 with a recommended score of 160. You have a very nice HP pool there and decent DPS.

KilOit

Whats the GS of the items dropping off DZ05-DZ06 named bosses?
GS of 180 at the minute and trying to gear for incursions, is 165kdps 83khp enough?

Dcully

If this effort ie incursion is a sign of whats to come then sadly its going to fail hard, what an absolute snoozefest that must have taken an hour or two to put together at best.

I love the game but we need so much more good quality pve [this effort is nowhere near good enough]

We also need a TDM type pvp mode but would have to take the ultimate skills out.

Force sums up this effort well here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEZAAlHQs14

Dcully

double post

mossym

TheDoc wrote: »

So again, take note of the GS of the items dropping. The drops are lower GS then crafted ones(where say someone like me made before this patch) and there are also higher GS that drop from certain places.

So for someone like you where you say your at 70kdps, I can only imagine your gear is middle of the road, so this is a ncie change for you. It will bring you up to a nice stat level relatively quickly, but then if you really want to kick on, its about putting the time into it.

agreed. what it will do is make it easier to do the grind to get the credits to get the actual decent gear. from where i was it took too long to do the daily mission on hard given my firepower. could only get the one in last night. few golds, even low end and hopefully i can burn through them faster to start getting the credits a bit quicker

Andrew76

TheDoc wrote: »

So turns out the lads were on the wind up.

Still it worked, got me to leave work early and play

The Incursion is not what I expected at all. Totally not what I expected. I thought it would be some story driven like, scenario. It's just a 15 wave horde style instance

In saying that, its massively intense and extremely fun. I went in with two friends and a pug, and while we wiped early because I didn't realise you should jump down straight away, we then went through the second attempt until the end. Got myself a nice two set bonus for Tacticians Authority from it also I didn't find Hard that difficult, three of us were at like 180 GS and the pug was 170. I'd say Challenge will be the really tricky one, as the waves could then start overlapping.

The last two patches have really improved the Dark Zone also, the improved high end drops while obviously a bid to get people into incursions quicker, is somewhat welcomed and again ramped up the willingness of people to go Rogue, which is always intense and fun. The change this patch to allow you reroll gear for credits is also excellent. I had literally nothing to spend my credits on, and didn't value the cost of stat rerolling that high, but now its a no brainer.

Good thing this update was free so, not sure I'd have been happy to pay for a one room horde mode. Was surprised to see that's what the incursion was like.

About the rerolling, it already let you reroll gear for credits though, or do you mean HE rerolls no longer cost phoenix credits? That's nice if the case. Pain in the neck not being able to play the game at the minute.

What do folk make of the assignments? What sort of things do you have to do, any decent rewards?

TheDoc

mossym wrote: »

i actually thought there was less rogue activity last night. much more working together. only once did i get shot by rogues and it was another band jsut cruising around killing in the name of, not actually stealing any gear. managed to get all my better gear out hassle free, to the point there was usually 3 or 4 around the extract zone getting stuff out and helping each other. got caught with low health at one stage and got downed with a gold in my pack, was cursing and then a guy revived me, 30 seconds later another lad went down and i got him back up so felt like i had kept the karma going

While going through the DZ last night there was a supply drop. We managed to get 2 out of 3, and while the first one was fine and we were the only group there, the second crate we got, had two others groups jockeying for it.

We made the call to go Rogue, slotted the two groups, and the reward was a set item for one of the lads. Although we have been confident of going Rogue, as we all have pretty high gear and a well balanced team. Our fear was hackers but that has died away. Plus depending on the instance server we had, it wasnt uncommon for us to be like the best geared in the instance. The change of Dark Zone brackets to go further into GearScore brackets is a nice addition too. It definitly made us more weary of who to engage, as they might have been same level as us.

But it does remove the annoyance of a fresh 30, or low geared 30 strolling into the DZ being blown away by massively geared players.

TheDoc

mossym wrote: »

got a couple of hours in last night, thanks all for the advice yesterday.

agreed on the comment that golds are a joke now, from not even having anything really decent in purples(and definitely no gold), doing one daily on hard and 30 to 40 minutes in the DZ and i had 4, ironically two are backpacks so can only use one. even though i'm glad to get them as i have none, it's too easy, everyone will have loads of them soon at that rate. can really imagine how it pis$es off the players who have put a lot of time in.

It's worth noting that the GS introduction is somewhat relevant. While yes I'm getting golds drop all over the place, they are actually not useful for me, and they are just being destroyed.

The ramp up in golds is to let people get their GS up so they can start to enter the Incursion, which is fine by me. It would just be a massive whinge if people couldnt get in. Gauging reddit, a large part of the community seems to be just casual players wanting things handed to them. Coming from an MMO background, I've found this game to contain a good balance between easy reward, and reward from working hard. Everything shouldnt be handed to everyone, otherwise there is no point in putting time into the game, and then they might aswell not even have gear, since all will be the same.

So again, take note of the GS of the items dropping. The drops are lower GS then crafted ones(where say someone like me made before this patch) and there are also higher GS that drop from certain places.

So for someone like you where you say your at 70kdps, I can only imagine your gear is middle of the road, so this is a ncie change for you. It will bring you up to a nice stat level relatively quickly, but then if you really want to kick on, its about putting the time into it.

Again I've no real issue with the increase in Yellows. Again, maybe coming from a WoW background. It was once upon a time, Epics were epic. But now, purples are just par for the course. But now in Division, while Yellows are all over the shop, it's the Aqua Gearsets that are going to get you shaking when you see them drop

mossym

i actually thought there was less rogue activity last night. much more working together. only once did i get shot by rogues and it was another band jsut cruising around killing in the name of, not actually stealing any gear. managed to get all my better gear out hassle free, to the point there was usually 3 or 4 around the extract zone getting stuff out and helping each other. got caught with low health at one stage and got downed with a gold in my pack, was cursing and then a guy revived me, 30 seconds later another lad went down and i got him back up so felt like i had kept the karma going

TheDoc

Noxin wrote: »

Well that sounds like a load of $hite. It took them a couple of hours to get almost fully geared? Patch done. Next content please?

So turns out the lads were on the wind up.

Still it worked, got me to leave work early and play

The Incursion is not what I expected at all. Totally not what I expected. I thought it would be some story driven like, scenario. It's just a 15 wave horde style instance

In saying that, its massively intense and extremely fun. I went in with two friends and a pug, and while we wiped early because I didn't realise you should jump down straight away, we then went through the second attempt until the end. Got myself a nice two set bonus for Tacticians Authority from it also

I didn't find Hard that difficult, three of us were at like 180 GS and the pug was 170. I'd say Challenge will be the really tricky one, as the waves could then start overlapping.

The last two patches have really improved the Dark Zone also, the improved high end drops while obviously a bid to get people into incursions quicker, is somewhat welcomed and again ramped up the willingness of people to go Rogue, which is always intense and fun. The change this patch to allow you reroll gear for credits is also excellent. I had literally nothing to spend my credits on, and didn't value the cost of stat rerolling that high, but now its a no brainer.

mossym

got a couple of hours in last night, thanks all for the advice yesterday.

agreed on the comment that golds are a joke now, from not even having anything really decent in purples(and definitely no gold), doing one daily on hard and 30 to 40 minutes in the DZ and i had 4, ironically two are backpacks so can only use one. even though i'm glad to get them as i have none, it's too easy, everyone will have loads of them soon at that rate. can really imagine how it pis$es off the players who have put a lot of time in.

dz was horrible, buggy, laggy, would suddenly die from a baseball wielding goon smacking me three times before he even appeared on my screen. reloading was taking forever, looked on screen like it was reloading twice, but i assume the fixes last night addresses that.

managed to get my DPS up to 70k, so improving. my biggest issue now is i like to have lmg and an assault rifle. in converting everything to gold parts a couple of nights ago i dismantled everything except my aubar and a scar which i thought was an AR, but turns out to be a single shot and takes forever to put people down. since then all i've gotten is lmg's , inclding a nice purple vector last night, but i can't equip two lmgs as my ammo goes down too quick so now have an lmg and a heavy machine gun. haven't seen an AR in 3 days now.

on the plus side, i managed to retrieve from the very first supply drop i saw in the DZ. about 6 of us fighting the group of rioters around it, when they all went down the other players stood around looking at it while i raced up and got it, i don't know if they realized it was a single use only, but i managed to loot the lot. probably the only one i will get

biggest plus was i'm on xbox and my character was still there.

ZiabR

My thoughts on the patch.

1) The Incursion is insanely hard even in a party where all four players are 175+, only got to wave 11.
2) The Incursion as a mission is just lazy, it could have been thrown together in a couple of hours, is this the level of addons we are to expect?
3) Gold drops are a joke now, you can essentially enter the DZ and within 30-40 minutes have 30 Gold items in your stash, how did the devs think this was a good idea?
4) I had 2 hard crashes back to desktop mid Incursion
5) I know it was patch day but the DZ servers were not great, very shaky at best
6) The biggest and most worrying bug is the character deletion that is happening mainly on Xbox where some players have had their character deleted after installing the patch. Some players had over 150+ hours played. And what is worse is the devs don't actually know what is causing it so they cannot fix it for the moment... The character deletion could happen to anyone as no one knows what exactly triggers the error. Shameful...

So all in all, not a great patch. One plus is the party trading.

dreamers75

Got to wave 5 last night with all under powered lads, did get some cracking drops from the dailies.

FYI you cant drop an item you crafted

ECO_Mental

Bloody server shutdown a couple of hours after the patch

Got on well tonight tough brought my gear score from 156 to 169 happy with that. Still not rocking any great dps (100k on a gold vector) and health about 45k. But holding my own on dog fights. skills high I think at around 23k but I don't know what that does in reality