Tom Clancy's The Division 2

murphyebass · 02-03-2019 1:14pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

there is and will be dedicated pvp. it wasn't popular in Div 1. I played very little. you were either getting smashed or doing the smashing. there are mixed pve/pvp zones called dark zones for looty escapades

Not sure I’d like to pvp part. I didn’t in gears of war but I played horde mode to death in Gears2 so that might be up my alley.

Played the missions through. It’s good alright. Only at level 5, can get to level 10 according to the internet.

KilOit · 03-03-2019 10:54pm

Just played 1 hour of the beta and it seems good, very much like the first one, forgotten how much i played the first 1 till i seen my stats again.
Confusing editions of the game with year passes thrown in, seems very steep

Zero-Cool · 03-03-2019 11:06pm

Just played about 20 minutes of the open beta. Really enjoyed the private one and happy waiting for the full release in 2 weeks so will leave it off till then. Roll on Paddy's weekend.

DeadlyByDesign · 04-03-2019 10:39am

Said I wasn't gonna play and seen all I had to see in private beta and was happy. Broke hard and spent about 3 hours with it over the weekend!

Good changes, grenade spam seem to have gotten better. Did it get a difficulty bump though? I remember I tore through the MLK Library side mission in the private. I got wrecked by the last boss "Pebbles" so many times last night wasnt even funny. I was level 3 going in, was this a level 4 mission? Also I sued to be able to checkpoints with relative ease, but it was damn tough taking them during the weekend. Not complaining just wondering if there was a difficulty bump.

gimli2112 · 04-03-2019 10:56am

the division 1 was pretty tough at stages when you were levelling up. much like any game of it's ilk if you take a wrong tun and run into the wrong enemy you can be in trouble. I remember doing one of the missions and it took about 1/2 an hour, all my bullets and much of my sanity and that was just the boss.

DeadlyByDesign · 04-03-2019 11:02am

I've noticed that Gimili. It's not afraid of the hard punish if you walk in unprepared or dont respond to a flank and just think "ill get away with it..", spoiler- you wont

Zero-Cool · 04-03-2019 12:22pm

Open beta extended until Tuesday morning 9am Irish time.

DeadlyByDesign · 04-03-2019 12:46pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Open beta extended until Tuesday morning 9am Irish time.

Just when I thought I was out......

TitianGerm · 04-03-2019 2:42pm

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

Find it very, very difficult to see anything.

What do you mean? To dark?

TitianGerm · 04-03-2019 4:08pm

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

It's hard to explain... it's simultaneously washed out looking and blurry while still being quite detailed and it's really hurting my eyes. Ironically, when it's night time it's much better. I've played around with the visual settings but it's still hard on my eyes.

Can't say I've had that now. What platform are you on?

FAILSAFE 00 · 04-03-2019 4:12pm

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

It's hard to explain... it's simultaneously washed out looking and blurry while still being quite detailed and it's really hurting my eyes. Ironically, when it's night time it's much better. I've played around with the visual settings but it's still hard on my eyes.

Do you have a HDR display?
What platform are you playing the game on?

EoinMcLovin · 05-03-2019 9:37pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiGg0P0Kyg

EoinMcLovin · 06-03-2019 7:46pm

Updates from latest state of the game stream

- There will be multiple Strongholds throughout the story to level 30.
- Once you hit level 30, the final Stronghold will become unlocked and will be the final encounter of the story campaign.
- There will be a Stronghold for each faction.
- District Union Arena, Capitol Building, Roosevelt Island are the three Strongholds for each of the factions.
- There are mission requirements to doing each Stronghold and require you to complete certain main missions before they can be played.
- Once you complete the final Stronghold, the map gets invaded and the Black Tusk take over all missions and strongholds.
- During this, settlements can also be blockaded which no longer allows fast traveled to them until they're liberated.
- Once a Stronghold is taken back, the areas around it become less invaded and are available to be occupied by friendly factions.

- World Tier 1 unlocks as soon as you hit level 30 and also allows you to unlock Specializations.
- After level 30, control points become dynamic and will constantly be fought over by friendly and enemy factions.
- The factions become more and more aggressive as you continue to fight them and will want to reclaim more territory.
- Bounties become unlocked once you meet a character named "The Snitch" during the story campaign and he will provide you with the bounties.
- Cassie, the Gun Runner is a vendor that becomes available after level 30 and also requires you to have recruited The Snitch.
- Cassie provides an exotic weapon, other high-end weapons and accessories and she will appear every few days.
- Deck of 52 is a list of 52 named bosses that are in bounties that the Snitch provides.
- There are four factions of bounties in the Deck of 52 and each faction will have 13 named bosses.
- The bosses that correspond to the royal face cards are very dangerous.
- Completing a suit of bounties also gives you special rewards and commendations.
- After World Tier 4, new chain faction bounties become available where you must complete two hard bounties for a faction to unlock the final challenging bounty that is in a nearby zone.
- Target Intel drops from enemies and missions once you recruit Otis.
- Challenging difficulty for story missions becomes available in World Tier 4.
- Daily and Weekly Projects appear after reaching WT1, similar to the daily and weekly challenges from Division 1
- Tidal Basin will become available at a later date which will unlock World Tier 5.

Zero-Cool · 06-03-2019 7:54pm

They are really packing out end game early.

Dcully · 06-03-2019 8:18pm

Well they claim they are focusing on endgame,. looks nice on paper so time will tell but fingers crossed.

DeadlyByDesign · 07-03-2019 12:10pm

Jesus...did any one see the recent state of the game? The content post 30 is nuts!

ShadowHearth · 07-03-2019 12:37pm

Well, I think it's sealed. I know what misses is giving me for my birthday day... Over a week early. :pac:

TitianGerm · 07-03-2019 12:43pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Well, I think it's sealed. I know what misses is giving me for my birthday day... Over a week early. :pac:

Peace and quiet so you can enjoy the new game your treating yourself to

DeadlyByDesign · 07-03-2019 12:57pm

And of course i am in London working the 12th...ffs

Sephiroth_dude · 07-03-2019 1:59pm

Finger hovering over the buy button >_>

FAILSAFE 00 · 07-03-2019 2:04pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Finger hovering over the buy button >_>

SolvableKnave · 07-03-2019 3:01pm

^^^^^

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Finger hovering over the buy button >_>

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gimli2112 · 07-03-2019 5:00pm

I think I have the 3 day early access. Presumably I can play it Tuesday? I probably will wait till Friday anyway tbh cos if I start midweek I may not go into work.
Pre-load should be up this weekend for early access .
All of us foaming at the mouth for a ubisoft day one release. What could possibly go wrong?

Zero-Cool · 07-03-2019 7:00pm

Posted before but for anyone who hasn't seen it and is chugging along the hype train, this is actually really well done, Ubi definitely nailed the different vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPddMb_8CgQ

Zero-Cool · 07-03-2019 7:04pm

Bounties and projects systems explained.

https://tomclancy-thedivision.ubisoft.com/game/en-gb/news-updates/345221/intelligence-annex-bounties-projects

KilOit · 07-03-2019 9:56pm

Still undecided on Gold or normal game, someone make the call for me

gimli2112 · 07-03-2019 10:03pm

KilOit wrote: »

Still undecided on Gold or normal game, someone make the call for me

I always find with these decisions whichever we you go you'll always have some regret so may as well get the more expensive one. You may as well be unhappy with more stuff.

Zero-Cool · 07-03-2019 10:23pm

3 page preview of the new Lore division book coming out on 19th march. Art, lore and timelines linking the 2 games. Sounds good.

https://tomclancy-thedivision.ubisoft.com/game/en-gb/news-updates/345188/tom-clancys-the-division-lore-book-preview

ECO_Mental · 07-03-2019 10:48pm

KilOit wrote: »

Still undecided on Gold or normal game, someone make the call for me

I have that dilemma as well now...

if I got even half the number of hours I got out D1 then I think it will be worth it. But I think I would get the same amount of hours if a didn't get the gold. I think it might eat me up seeing guys getting a jump on gear and missions etc a week early though.

I think I'm temped to get the gold alright

ECO_Mental · 08-03-2019 12:14am

Will power of a small child....pulled the trigger on the ultimate edition....see us out there agents

Sephiroth_dude · 08-03-2019 2:16am

So basically with the year 1 pass you just get the content 7 days early ?

ECO_Mental · 08-03-2019 7:55am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

So basically with the year 1 pass you just get the content 7 days early ?

Yeah I think there are some other additional missions/events in game you can do and obviously you get a bunch of skins clothes and an exotic gun. Also you get a lot more stash space as well and in a looting game that's kinda useful.....

gimli2112 · 08-03-2019 9:02am

I got it for the stash space but this piece subsequently got very vague and now I'm not so sure.
Some of the premium editions on games now are woeful, BFV for example seems to be weekly dlc skins and they're nothing spectacular. You'd be pretty annoyed having bought it for that particularly as the game went 50% off in a matter of weeks.

EoinMcLovin · 08-03-2019 10:17am

ECO_Mental wrote: »

Yeah I think there are some other additional missions/events in game you can do and obviously you get a bunch of skins clothes and an exotic gun. Also you get a lot more stash space as well and in a looting game that's kinda useful.....

gimli2112 wrote: »

I got it for the stash space but this piece subsequently got very vague and now I'm not so sure.
Some of the premium editions on games now are woeful, BFV for example seems to be weekly dlc skins and they're nothing spectacular. You'd be pretty annoyed having bought it for that particularly as the game went 50% off in a matter of weeks.

The extra stash space is only with the ultimate edition. Copied this from reddit

In general, players will start with 50 slots in the game. This stash space can be increased through 3 upgrade steps as perks by spending SHD Tech which they can accumulate from playing the game. These upgrade steps unlock 20, 30 and 50 slots respectively. This means that all players can get a total of 150 slots. The last upgrade step of 50 slots can only be unlocked when the player is level 30.

Players who own the Ultimate Edition are awarded this final upgrade step from the beginning of the game, which means they will have a strong and convenient head start with 100 stash space slots at level 1, without having to spend any SHD Tech. Furthermore, it costs more SHD Tech to purchase this TIER 3 upgrade step of 50 slots than most perks which gives Ultimate Edition players the benefit to spend their valuable SHD Tech elsewhere.

Year one Pass Details

Year 1 Pass

For our most dedicated players, we will also release the Year 1 Pass, allowing you to get more of The Division 2, sooner. Year 1 Pass holders will receive several exclusive content detailed below.

The Year 1 Pass includes the following additional content:
7-Day Early Access to Episode Narrative Content
Owners of the Pass will have 7-day early access to the narrative content only, included in all Year 1 Episodes.

Instant unlock of the Year 1 Specialization
At launch, The Division 2 will include three Specializations, instantly available to everyone when reaching max level (Level 30).

Throughout Year 1, we will release three additional Specializations for your agent. Year 1 Pass holders will unlock these new specializations as soon as they're released.

For those who do not have the Year 1 Pass, specializations will be released at the same time but must be unlocked over time through gameplay.

Year 1 Pass holders will also be able to earn exclusive cosmetic items with each Specialization's release.

Exclusive Access to Classified Assignments
Over the course of Year 1, Pass holders will have exclusive access to 8 Classified Assignments, which will provide more story behind the events leading to your arrival in D.C.

Completing each assignment will award you with a unique and exclusive backpack trophy to customize your Agent's look.

Additional Bounties and Projects
Bounties in The Division 2 are special tasks to eliminate specific enemy targets, while Projects are assignments to complete various tasks around D.C.

As a Year 1 Pass holder, you will get access to one additional Bounty per week and one extra Project per day for a Challenging mission.

This perk ends on March 1st, 2020.

Exclusive Cosmetic Items
Year 1 Pass holders will get access to these exclusive rewards: the Agent Ward Outfit and the Scout emote.

Dcully · 08-03-2019 10:37am

Bring it on , this looter addict is so ready

Arekkz latest endgame summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRTBkhSuW4

gimli2112 · 08-03-2019 11:15am

I got the ultimate edition, so I didn't actually get additional stash space just early access to it.
Just want to play it now.

bigphil2 · 08-03-2019 12:16pm

I went for the Gold edition from Simply Games,not sure about their delivery times for day one,but hoping I get it by wednsday at least

TitianGerm · 08-03-2019 12:26pm

bigphil2 wrote: »

I went for the Gold edition from Simply Games,not sure about their delivery times for day one,but hoping I get it by wednsday at least

Simply Games send with Royal mail standard post and it takes between 3 and 5 working days to arrive.

Zero-Cool · 08-03-2019 12:50pm

I only ever played through The Division 1 with 1 character. Spun up a new character last night and forgot how cool Brooklyn was, eerily quiet. Nice to be low level again as I had forgotten a lot of the early parts of the game. Just 1 more week (for non ultimate edition owning peasants).

gimli2112 · 08-03-2019 1:01pm

I made 5 characters, actually deleted one fully levelled one so I could go back and get some staring white gear.
It's always funny starting anew and realising how hard everything is without all your upgrades. Although I don't really want to make multiple characters again I'll do it if it has the same farming and stash benefits this time round. They better cap the number available or I could go ridiculous.

bigphil2 · 08-03-2019 1:09pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

Simply Games send with Royal mail standard post and it takes between 3 and 5 working days to arrive.

Think is it 1st Class post,but yeah probably going to be slow alright

bigphil2 · 08-03-2019 1:10pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

Simply Games send with Royal mail standard post and it takes between 3 and 5 working days to arrive.

Do they ship on release day or early do you know? don't think ive preordered with them before..

TitianGerm · 08-03-2019 1:18pm

bigphil2 wrote: »

Do they ship on release day or early do you know? don't think ive preordered with them before..

Usually the day before. One of the lads ordered Anthem and got it the Tuesday after launch.

Spear · 08-03-2019 3:48pm

Pre-load is up on UPlay, but it doesn't re-use the beta files.

Coyler · 08-03-2019 5:42pm

Mind me asking, where does a filthy lurker like myself group with some players more in my time zone? I've been using the official discord channel since I came back for the 1.8 patch and while it's fine it's very US centric which means poor latency.

Zero-Cool · 08-03-2019 6:48pm

Coyler wrote: »

Mind me asking, where does a filthy lurker like myself group with some players more in my time zone? I've been using the official discord channel since I came back for the 1.8 patch and while it's fine it's very US centric which means poor latency.

Well this will have a clan system with up to 50 members so hopefully we'll have boards clans for pc, PS4 and Xbox. Should have people online the same time as you then.

Speaking of, if anyone is on this early next week and creates a boards clan, can you post the details on here so we can join.

Spear · 08-03-2019 6:50pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Well this will have a clan system with up to 50 members so hopefully we'll have boards clans for pc, PS4 and Xbox. Should have people online the same time as you then.

Speaking of, if anyone is on this early next week and creates a boards clan, can you post the details on here so we can join.

I have early access so I can do so on the PC.

Has anyone a source as to whether they're cross platform or not? I wouldn't expect them to be, but the articles I've checked don't give any info.

Zero-Cool · 08-03-2019 7:18pm

Spear wrote: »

I have early access so I can do so on the PC.

Has anyone a source as to whether they're cross platform or not? I wouldn't expect them to be, but the articles I've checked don't give any info.

I doubt they are cross platform. Daddy Sony doesn't like us mixing with the bold baba's on pc and Xbox.

Should have plenty of space with 50 people on each platform to invite people on here and buddies too.

Zero-Cool · 08-03-2019 8:03pm

https://tomclancy-thedivision.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/news-updates/345468/the-division-2-launch-everything-you-need-to-know

Day 1 patch is 50gb. On PS4, the game and patch will be 100gb. Also a 1.5 patch of 2gb to download. Hope ye have good internet lads :pac:

gimli2112 · 08-03-2019 9:00pm

and on that bombshell I started the pre-load

Tom Clancy's The Division 2

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