The Division - The Bear and Badger

Campy_Jon

@pantyfire.
If you got an invite via a friend on the Uplay. Then you have to go into your own account and search for beta invites.
Their is a link at the bottom of the page that says uplaydownloader.exe. I think the file is 56mb
Once you download the link, check the beta invites.
I did this with a previous beta.

digi

Campy_Jon wrote:

Server maintenance today at 9.30am for three hours. Hope they fixing the sodding delta problem.

Agreed, everytime I was starting to enjoy it I got delta'd.
It's downloading a patch now so hopefully it plays better today.

And thanks for code.

Boolitt

Had a wee pootle around on this last night.
Very much of the same but i enjoyed the 1st one so will probably get this.
Lots on new variants on the skills and weapons and it looks glorious.

pantyfire

Thanks campy....

Erm kerno was this invite for PS4?
Because if it was I've cocked up by selecting bone when I entered the code.

Kernowgaz

pantyfire wrote:

Thanks campy....

Erm kerno was this invite for PS4?
Because if it was I've cocked up by selecting bone when I entered the code.

It’s for whatever console you chose

pantyfire

Ok this is a bit perplexing then.
I entered where you suggested using my ubi account login.
I picked Xbox and got an email saying congratulations you are in.
That's it. Nothing else.
I've looked where campy suggested and looked where ubi said it should be and they say I am not invited to any betas.

I'll try support.

pantyfire

I have been supported and I am downloading now. Thanks again Kerno.

Campy_Jon

No problems Digi. You have 3 extra invites if you have an Ubisoft account.
A friend got chased by a Jason lookalike wielding a working chainsaw in the sewers and another 4 man team were obliterated in the DZ by an armoured enemy armed with a sledgehammer.
Personally I came across two suicide bombers in the sewers.

digi

Campy_Jon wrote:

No problems Digi. You have 3 extra invites if you have an Ubisoft account.
A friend got chased by a Jason lookalike wielding a working chainsaw in the sewers and another 4 man team were obliterated in the DZ by an armoured enemy armed with a sledgehammer.
Personally I came across two suicide bombers in the sewers.

That all sounds great but I got to walk a few feet loot a couple boxes.
Shoot two enemy's then got delta'd.
Repeat x3 till I gave up.

Hopefully today's patch sorts that.

pantyfire

It's super tough in solo.
Pretty good though, more of an incremental improvement over a sea change.

Not liking the new gadget behaviours at all.
I went for the perks that looked new and I hate that you have to set, say, a start and an end point for your drone bombardment strafe. It makes is use as a clutch weapon a serious pain, same for the turret sniper mode. They are basically only really useful as an ambush weapon.

Grafix are great, Street clutter is similar levels to new York which keeps things visually interesting and the signature use of lighting is excellent. I'm finding enemies far too hard to see at most times, though I would suspect there's a perk or something to outline not outline movie.

acemuzzy

What's the SP vs. MP balance on these? Actual single player campaign, or all about co-op / PVP??

pantyfire

Last didn't have a dedicated PvP mode. It had a voluntary PvP mode via the dark zone map. You could kill other players in there if you wanted.
This one does seem to and is called conflict, though id not bother with it.

The last one you could do solo if you wanted but then the bigger end game content would be nigh on impossible.
Destiny basically.

Campy_Jon

So after another go tonight I've decided to pass on the game as I can't see me spunking another 900 hours into this like I did with the first one.
I really enjoyed my 6 piece classified nomad build for solo play as I melted anything in my path whilst mooching around in Manhattan.
@pantyfire. The annoying delayed moment when throwing a turret. The seeker is pretty OP

pantyfire

Omg yes. The sniper turret is complete miff.
The deploy takes a few seconds, then it takes a while to acquire a target then the target had to stay in the open when you tell it to shoot. In the best of a firefight that just doesn't work should've gone with the auto turret or incinerator from div 1 but I thought I'd try the new stuff instead.

Curtis

I am seriously underwhelmed by what i just played. It feels like another developer made a facsimile of The Division - its kinda familiar, but looks and feels all wrong. It's almost like they've tried to commercialise it. Make it accessible to everyone. Now it feels like every other Ubisoft product.

The Division OG was a flawed gem that took forever to reach its maximum potential, and by then almost all the players had left. I stuck with it, because the 3rd person gunplay feels great, and anyone that has visited Manhattan during the winter for real, will always feel at home wandering those beautifully recreated streets. Hell! I play it every now and again just to reminisce.

I'm not writing it off completely. I already said i think Anthem's end-game (my next distraction) will last about 3 weeks, just in time for this to come out. But now i am sceptical about Massive and where they're going with this.

You can never replace the atmosphere of original. Especially when you turn on Neutral Lighting (try it, its unbelievable). That shit becomes a horror game almost immediately. Go find that 'Long Kiss Goodnight' Coca-Cola truck with all the surrounding Christmas lights, and everything else is pitch black or blizzard. Its like an interactive Shane Black movie.

I see nothing of that here. Just another Ghost Recon. FUCK! I am pissed off.

pantyfire

I'd agree. I was reserving final judgement until I've completed all the side missions later today, one I died on about 7 times last night glitched on the very final section and I couldn't complete it.
But so far it looks exactly like it looks in the trailers, more division 1.5, when maybe they should've been aiming for division 2.

Campy_Jon

I think a lot of players only see the TD1 and the progression to TD2 beta.
They tend to miss the middle ground... R6 siege, Wildlands, Steep, For Honor, Origins, and Odyssey!
Big games with massively populated world's and constantly changing ecosystems.

Their were some highlights of the beta which I smiled at. Doesn't Washington bear a faint resemblance to the world of the last of us. I'm half expecting to come across Ellie.
Or when you see deer in the streets and I think of I am legend.
The craft materials you find and use reminded me of dead island and dying light.
The way your gloves count how many car doors you've closed and your weapon counts the bosses killed.

I will get round to this game eventually but it won't be a release day purchase only because of the fury I felt at finding & searching all underwater locations on odyssey and the trophy failed to pop. It took Ubisoft 4-5 weeks to admit it was glitched and patch it.

EDIT. The beta world is actually a PTS so it's probably a year old already and full of bugs designed to hinder your progress.

pantyfire

I think that's all the beta content done. Quite generous beta actually.
But nah, I don't think I'll get it when it's cheap either.

g.man

Just looks like more of the same in a different city to me.

I loved the first one, and we put in a lot of hours with it, but this just looks like a really lazy sequel to my eyes.

doubt I'll bother

g.man

pantyfire

Strip away the new location and it feels like a patch that has introduced a couple of new gadget abilities and a second social hub area to the first Div.

g.man

Yeah, that gets a big "meh" from me sadly.

regmcfly

At least they aren't hanging on the "shoot black guys" massively awful politics from th first eh.

FranticPea

Yeh I'm a bit gutted it looks so meh.

Speedhaak

regmcfly wrote:

At least they aren't hanging on the "shoot black guys" massively awful politics from th first eh.

Can't remember shooting any black guys. Not that I'd be looking out for them in particular. Just shot anything that moved

regmcfly

Speedhaak wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

At least they aren't hanging on the "shoot black guys" massively awful politics from th first eh.

Can't remember shooting any black guys. Not that I'd be looking out for them in particular. Just shot anything that moved

My dude the subtext good lord. The "looters"? Come on. This is far more eloquent than I could ever be -

https://killscreen.com/articles/the-perverse-ideology-of-the-division/

Game is as gross as Soldier of Fortune or that Medal of Honour remake

Speedhaak

To be fair I didn't pay any attention to the story, narrative or subtext of The Division. I was just interested in it's RPG mechanics, getting loot an co-oping. That's not to say developers can't be held accountable for what they are broadcasting under the hood though. It's just that I paid it no attention. In fact I rarely pay any attention to the story of an online game, be it an MMO or shooter looter.

regmcfly

Fair enough, but then be careful about being complicit in such shit

MoesTavern

It's a right wing Republican gunwank fantasy, like most Tom Clancy stuff. I can't say I remember any implicit racism in there though, unless you mean how the hooded rioters could be taken for urban blacks, I suppose.

Speedhaak

What a launch. So much content in this game, makes Anthem look like a Rise of the Robots reboot. Really liking it

isanbard

Good to hear. I've picked up the boggo pc version so should be jumping in on the 15th. Any other uplay folks about thesesaparts?

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