The Division - The Bear and Badger

MoesTavern

You can plough through anything if you build your character right.

This does seem to be getting more recognition of late, some big streamers are playing it and there's been a spike in player numbers with the new update.

Hodge360

That was part of the problem though, building your character right. Sometimes the RPG elements outweighed the shooting.

g.man

It becomes a game of baffling numberwang when you hit the endgame, but until then, it's straightforward enough to get through the main campaign, and it is a brilliant experience.

Hodge360

What's the current install size on Bone? The 500gb in my machine is becoming a pain in the arse.

g.man

40gig for the up to date build.

Hodge360

Cheers G. That's actually not too bad.

Facewon

Hodge360 wrote:

What's the current install size on Bone? The 500gb in my machine is becoming a pain in the arse.

I've been impressed with how much of a non issue an external hdd has been. Defo worth a purchase.

MattyJ

g.man wrote:

It becomes a game of baffling numberwang when you hit the endgame, but until then, it's straightforward enough to get through the main campaign, and it is a brilliant experience.

I can already see that even at my level. Some weapons have less DPS so look worse but it's actually a higher damage output with less in the clip... So when I'm using a marksman rifle the DPS becomes less important...

And then when armour is either better for skills or weapons or toughness.... It's a lot of numbers.

Meanwhile I'm just playing missions and having a good time shooting folks. Also the story is actually pretty engaging.

Verecocha

Absolutely love this game, was really disappointed at the weekend when I couldn’t get a game on survival, PVE or PVP.

Paul the sparky

MattyJ wrote:

g.man wrote:

It becomes a game of baffling numberwang when you hit the endgame, but until then, it's straightforward enough to get through the main campaign, and it is a brilliant experience.

I can already see that even at my level. Some weapons have less DPS so look worse but it's actually a higher damage output with less in the clip... So when I'm using a marksman rifle the DPS becomes less important...

And then when armour is either better for skills or weapons or toughness.... It's a lot of numbers.

Meanwhile I'm just playing missions and having a good time shooting folks. Also the story is actually pretty engaging.

The story itself was standard bobbins, but the world, atmosphere and those hologram things fleshing out the chaos which had occurred in the local area were great.

Boolitt

Teaming up with randoms and doing the daily mission challenges can be good fun still. The underground missions are a bit samey. Some of the new stuff, team deathmatch i think should be levelled out. Got a feeling if you haven't got your numberwang sorted out you will die often.

Speedhaak

SonicBoomBoy wrote:

Game is full of bullet sponge enemies. Pity they don't release a battle royale version.

I bet they've thought about it. The functionality is there, as are the assets.

Curtis

First time in the Dark Zone since 1.6 and i managed to extract my first Barrett's Chest Piece with 3 Rogues right up my arse and 0 seconds on the rope. Can't beat that for stressful gaming!

Back to free-roaming Manhattan. Which i believe is unparalleled in its locale and atmosphere, especially around this time of year.

g.man

It's probably the single most atmospheric gameworld I've ever played in. Just brilliant.

MoesTavern

WHAT I WANNA KNOW.... IS THIS. THE GREEN POISON, WHERE'D IT COME FROM?

ShabbyMcCrabby

SonicBoomBoy wrote:

Game is full of bullet sponge enemies. Pity they don't release a battle royale version.

Damn that would be good!

ShabbyMcCrabby

g.man wrote:

It's probably the single most atmospheric gameworld I've ever played in. Just brilliant.

A large part because of that fancy lighting engine I reckon. When a flashing car light is making the snow light up and the fog glow as you slowly make your way down the street it's hard not to get sucked in.

Facewon

Survival mode is great for atmosphere too. Love it as a counter point to regular roaming.

Verecocha

Facewon wrote:

Survival mode is great for atmosphere too. Love it as a counter point to regular roaming.

Was I just unlucky in not being able to get a game started the other week? Tried on 3 occasions for 5-10 mins and nothing.

Wookienopants

I still need to play this. I now have a copy sitting untouched and I’m still 6 days away from my Xbox.
Seems like the perfect game to escape in at Christmas

Facewon

Verecocha wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Survival mode is great for atmosphere too. Love it as a counter point to regular roaming.

Was I just unlucky in not being able to get a game started the other week? Tried on 3 occasions for 5-10 mins and nothing.

Dunno. Been a long time. I was playing it when it was the latest dlc. Still, doesn't need many other players to be fun.

Were you trying pve or pvp version?

Curtis

Speedhaak wrote:

SonicBoomBoy wrote:

Game is full of bullet sponge enemies. Pity they don't release a battle royale version.

I bet they've thought about it. The functionality is there, as are the assets.

PvP Survival is basically Battle Royale, only instead of the ever shrinking circle you have the "tick-tock" of the virus forcing everyone in the same direction.

Verecocha

Facewon wrote:

Verecocha wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Survival mode is great for atmosphere too. Love it as a counter point to regular roaming.

Was I just unlucky in not being able to get a game started the other week? Tried on 3 occasions for 5-10 mins and nothing.

Dunno. Been a long time. I was playing it when it was the latest dlc. Still, doesn't need many other players to be fun.

Were you trying pve or pvp version?

Tried both, that’s what confused me, I imagined at worst the PVE would load with minimal numbers.

stonechalice

The curse of the Isle...

Verecocha

stonechalice wrote:

The curse of the Isle...

ITS REEEEEEL!

Birdorf

https://www.twitch.tv/thedivisiongame
Division 2 coming up in 10 mins.

EDIT:

Highlights from the press release:

"We are very pleased to announce that we are currently working on Tom Clancy's The Division 2 . The development is led by Massive Entertainment and driven by close collaboration with Ubisoft Annecy, Redstorm, Reflections, Ubisoft Bucharest and Ubisoft Shanghai. The Division 2 will be based on an updated version of the Snowdrop Enginethat will help us realize our ambitions for this title. More importantly, we can also invest all the experience we've accumulated over the past two years in this sequel to make sure everything is going well.

But that is not all. The division continues. After the celebrations of our 2 year anniversary, we will support the game with 2 more title updates. These will be 2 brand new Global Events; Include more Legendary difficulty missions and an Xbox One X update that will rediscover the beautiful and emblematic New York City with all its stunning details in both 4K and 1080p.

In addition, as of June 2018, players will also be able to play 'Crests', which are specific achievements that will allow them to unlock The Division 2 rewards.

The teams are extremely grateful for all the support over the past two years and we can not wait to show you what we have planned for The Division 2 during the E3 2018 in June."

g.man

Cool. I loved The Division, but fuck me do they need to do away with the ridiculous numbers game in the endgame.

FranticPea

Aye thoroughly enjoyed my time with The Division, great co-op game. I'm in for a sequel.

I'm up for a revisit for the X patch. Bet its bewildering now though.

g.man

Yeah, I dropped in after the last patch and didn't have a fucking clue what anything meant any more.

stonechalice

Why not build on what they've got?? Is this gonna be another fucking sequel built from the ground up with all the inherent teething problems that entails?

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