The Division - The Bear and Badger

pantyfire

Playing now.

Cover mechanic is pretty damn good. Graphics are extremely detailed with a HUGE amount of things onscreen at any one time. Lighting is a little uninspiring tho. I'll reserve judgement on that until a little later - give it a chance to change things up.

It's little buggy in the incidentals, like shooting a police cars siren and the section next to the one you shot breaks!

But that's meh.

Nexx

I have this downloaded and am looking forward to giving it a go later tonight. The dark zone stuff sounds like it could be a really interesting mechanic if they manage to implement it correctly.

Speedhaak

Billy wrote:

Winner gets roast dinner XP boost

I'll have a slice of that.

pantyfire

Ok, just done the first mission with a random.
Worked really well, walk up to mission press matchmake, it finds a guy/guys, you press ok. It the loads an instance together and off you go.
Mission was simple but good.
Shooting is solid, guns spray a hell of a lot if you hold the trigger down, burst fire is the best. I guess weapon mods will change all that up.

Apart from the matchmaking load I've had no others so far. The game uses transitions and corridors between areas as the load.

Indoor lighting is waaaaay better than outdoor but then I just left a mission area and it was snowing and it looked pretty good.

It's too early to say but after one mission team awesome will like this I think.

pantyfire

Oh ok. Nice.
You start the game with 3 skills - scan, sticky bomb and shield. You can select any of them to be active at any time.

Skondo

Should I get a beta code if I have pre-ordered from anywhere? In this case Games Collection.

TheDJR

Wish I'd got a code now.

digi

TheDJR wrote:

Wish I'd got a code now.

Pre-order fron store,
Download beta,
Cancel pre-order.

TheDJR

Downloading, cheers!

pantyfire

OoOoh. The Dark Zone is going to be very interesting.
You wander around killing AI but there are also other players (obviously).
When you have kit you need to send home, you go to an extraction point and call in the chopper. You then have over a minute to wait. EVERYONE else can see the choppers location so other players come to add their loot to the chopper or steal yours. There's a weird uneasy standoff as the the chopper arrives. No one knows who going to shoot or at all.

If you are in a team it will be less dodgy but solo is a bit nerve jangling.

TheDJR

Sounds great.

g.man

pantyfire wrote:

OoOoh. The Dark Zone is going to be very interesting. You wander around killing AI but there are also other players (obviously). When you have kit you need to send home, you go to an extraction point and call in the chopper. You then have over a minute to wait. EVERYONE else can see the choppers location so other players come to add their loot to the chopper or steal yours. There's a weird uneasy standoff as the the chopper arrives. No one knows who going to shoot or at all. If you are in a team it will be less dodgy but solo is a bit nerve jangling.

FranticPea

Are there different classes Panty? So someone could be a healer/medic etc?

Curtis

Been hearing great things about the Darkzone Mexican stand-off.

Kernowgaz

pantyfire wrote:

OoOoh. The Dark Zone is going to be very interesting.
You wander around killing AI but there are also other players (obviously).
When you have kit you need to send home, you go to an extraction point and call in the chopper. You then have over a minute to wait. EVERYONE else can see the choppers location so other players come to add their loot to the chopper or steal yours. There's a weird uneasy standoff as the the chopper arrives. No one knows who going to shoot or at all.

If you are in a team it will be less dodgy but solo is a bit nerve jangling.

When you betray team mates you get a wanted level, but fuck knows what that means

pantyfire

There are no classes as such. But you do start with one of each skill.
I.e. Medic, grenadier and tank.
You can switch to whatever skill you want or have when you want. So you can be a grenadier medic. Or an tank medic.
Choosing one tree to buy skills in doesn't stop you buying skills in the other tree.

Yes in the DZ when you open fire on agents you go 'rogue' EVERYONE can see you on the map and in the game. So far, everyone has wailed on the rogues.

g.man

"grenadier"

FranticPea

Tank you say? Don't 'spose there's any aggro mechanics like WoW?

Skondo

Skondo wrote:

Should I get a beta code if I have pre-ordered from anywhere? In this case Games Collection.

I'll answer my own question then. No is the answer. Kept order with Games Collection as it's currently the cheapest also ordered from Amazon, redeemed code and then cancelled order.

FranticPea

Glad I could help.

djchump

pantyfire wrote:

... Yes in the DZ when you open fire on agents you go 'rogue' EVERYONE can see you on the map and in the game. So far, everyone has wailed on the rogues.

Ahaha, that's a pretty cool idea!
I can imagine once there's some really high level players in this they'll end up as fairly legendary rogues. "Omar comin' yo!"

pantyfire

The DZ is kinda creepy.
You are wandering around and then from behind a car or something an agent appears (you don't show up unless seen or aimed at).
You stop and kinda size each other up... It's a bit nervous. Will someone open fire?
They wave at you and you sigh with relief and off you go.

When there's a group it's like a load of cats sizing each other up.

[Deleted User]

They got the idea from dayZ and made it into a regimented mechanic. Will see if it works.

pantyfire

FranticPea wrote:

Tank you say? Don't 'spose there's any aggro mechanics like WoW?

There might be.
There are permanent perks that aren't in the BETA and some weapon mods lower your AI threat level - like a suppressor.

The tank is the shield guy. Later skills look like a mobile shield and erect anywhere cover to hide behind.

The grenadier is well nifty, their tree (well column) has sentry guns and seeker grenades.

Quite a lot of stuff is walled off, both in the world and in your upgrades trees. But there is a sizeable chunk of New York to play in.

I love my shotgun btw. It's decent over range and stops lower level guys in one shot close up. It's lovely.

FranticPea

I dream of the day when there's a WoW mechanic in a console game. Tank taking the aggro, healer....healing, someone on crowd control etc. Would work in this I reckon.

Nexx

Is there proximity voice chat in the DZ?

pantyfire

I think, if you can get your loot onto the choppers rope before getting killed it still extracts and can't be stolen.

pantyfire

Nexx wrote:

Is there proximity voice chat in the DZ?

Yes.

I was waiting for a chopper and a few guys turned up. One said 'Pantyfire we are friendly' over his mic.

I've tried recording a couple of vids but they don't seem to be uploading externally. It does say on the loading screen that the DVR should work.

Paul the sparky

FranticPea wrote:

I dream of the day when there's a WoW mechanic in a console game. Tank taking the aggro, healer....healing, someone on crowd control etc. Would work in this I reckon.

That's a good way to think of it. I hope I can get over the fact that I can shoot a guy in the head three times and not kill him, as all this sounds very encouraging. Just got to accept that it's not a shooter first and foremost.

Kernowgaz

Yeah but it's shit

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