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The Division 2 beta has ended. Are you buying at release, waiting, or passing completely?
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This one is really for those who really like the first game.
Me and many of my friends who beat the first and dropped it completely have no desire to go for the sequel.
Me and many of my friends who beat the first and dropped it completely have no desire to go for the sequel.
I'll be waiting both this and Anthem. Not too see how the community reacts but how the full scale of the game is (as in, if its just going to be grinding missions over and over again).
If anything I may pick up at a later date when the price drops but it seem has a solid community at the point.
If anything I may pick up at a later date when the price drops but it seem has a solid community at the point.
Nope. I think I'm just getting over the loot treadmill games. Playing content over and over hoping for a good loot drop so you can run the exact same content again more efficiently is getting really stale. Something about have to shoot a human 20 times in a realistic setting just makes it even worse in The Division.
Hey! I'll be getting for PC. I loved it on Xbox but after I got it on PC, I can't go back.
Off topic but you planning to play next league of PoE? Only another week and we'll see what it's about!
I'm thinking PC as well it's night and day for me compared to consoles 30fps cap.
Yeah I play every league. Haven't played in about a month due to all the new releases. Hopefully I have time with all the games coming out in March. Although in all honesty everything gets put to the back burner when PoE leagues launch.
Haha, I'll agree with that last part for sure. First few weeks are usually pretty much only PoE for me. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out, timing wise, with the launch of Division 2.
They did. The next step would be to add more Destiny like mechanics that create small windows to do dps. That said, this will always be an issue with human enemies.
The enemies felt much less spongy to me than in the first installment, even in the end game mission.
1 to 1.5 months is plenty of time for people to chew through what Anthem has to offer, then jump on to the new mouse wheel that is Division 2. While this is going on you have Destiny 2 on the side with it's content cycles.
This is good time for looter shooter fans.
That said, this will always be an issue with enemies in a looter shooter that leans far more heavily into stats and RPG mechanics than e.g. Destiny does that is shooter first.
FTFY as there is nothing different or particularly more interesting when enemy taking 10 000 rounds to kill looks like sentient frog on two legs.
Agreed but The Division being a military game falls in this weird spot where people expect COD/BF/SOCOM instead of Diablo. So dumping two clips to kill a purple bar enemy rubs some people the wrong way.
We played it for an hour or two and got bored from it.
It felt like the same game all over again.
UI was atrocious, graphics lacked any depth or lightning and gunplay didn't feel quite as satisfying (maybe because I am playing too much Apex these days).
My whole clan was huge fan of Division and especially it's snowy New York setting, it felt unique and fun.
Sunny Washington, not so much.
We'll probably play it when there is nothing else to play but for now it's a pass.
It felt like the same game all over again.
UI was atrocious, graphics lacked any depth or lightning and gunplay didn't feel quite as satisfying (maybe because I am playing too much Apex these days).
My whole clan was huge fan of Division and especially it's snowy New York setting, it felt unique and fun.
Sunny Washington, not so much.
We'll probably play it when there is nothing else to play but for now it's a pass.
*Copy pasta from the Beta thread:
Those that are fans of the Division series, I'm as pumped as you all are. While it's likely already been stated, some points:
Good-
Bad-
Random musings-
Edit: I kinda understand that some people feel that "it's more of the same." Well, Massive isn't going to drastically alter what the Division is- just as Gears of War sequels kept its core gameplay intact.
Apart from some unknown story beats, D2 improves upon the original.
Those that are fans of the Division series, I'm as pumped as you all are. While it's likely already been stated, some points:
Good-
- Graphics are still fantastic, making the crisis believable
- Sound design is equally as terrific
- New QOL improvements to player urgency & overall gameplay
- Awesome weather effects
- Perhaps there's more Autosave respawn points during missions now? I hope so
Bad-
- Did we play the intro? D1 was better, here we emerged from some overgrowth
- I prefer the Asian mentor agent & the overall cast in D1 but Odyssa (sp) is such a badass
- I feel that the OST in D1 sounds more fierce, listen to this magnificent track Beginning @ the 3 minute mark:
- I really hope the player creation options has more faces
- Some areas of the Main Base & Settlements are too vast in size for their own good. Also in D1, each section per Safe Area had a large holographic sign telling the player what this area does (ie, Crafting) [this will likely be in the release build]
- Either the cursor is more accurate or it's less visually apparent IF my turret is going to prop on top of a surface (ie, ledge). This was easier to do in D1
- A player activating Rogue status should be locked in for 1x minute before switching back & forth
Random musings-
- Evil antagonist operative has recordings in the beta; let us face him!
- Probably beta limited, though NPCs should be roaming around that streets trying to survive like in D1. The narrative here really has to emphasize the heat & how this affects their survival. I expect to hear desperate voice messages of people running out of water, suffering from the heat, etc
- Too few dogs & all they do is run from you. Where are the cats?
- Can there please be a codex explaining where the Potus is & wth is going on in relation to D1? Echos reveals that gangs have started to form into a larger community of sorts... this would likely happen quickly when people see that JTF can't support entire city hubs. Yet there's massive plant overgrowth on very tall buildings. I don't think the timing fits
- I don't mind the player character being silent; I'm here to go in & get it done!
- Wth is agent Kelso harping about? Goddam Odyssa has 1x leg! She's in house & should be inactive like the Asian agent in D1... with 1x functioning eye, you can't put them in combat
- I still experience weird button bugs when activating the rolling ball explosive skill
Edit: I kinda understand that some people feel that "it's more of the same." Well, Massive isn't going to drastically alter what the Division is- just as Gears of War sequels kept its core gameplay intact.
Apart from some unknown story beats, D2 improves upon the original.
Depends on Anthem, to be honest. I'm going to dive into one or the other. If Anthem keeps me hooked, I might skip this one.
I couldn't even be bothered playing the beta so I'll probably just wait until it's really cheap
Well they add new guns and legends at march. So that game will last for a long time.
IDK, I don't really like what they chose to do with this sequel. I was expecting moving further into the future and not staying so close to the first game, but it actually felt less futuristic than the first game while also feeling like an expansion/side story rather than a sequel.
Gameplay definitely felt better than the first, especially melee enemies were far less annoying, but I'm not sure it's enough to keep me interested.
Gameplay definitely felt better than the first, especially melee enemies were far less annoying, but I'm not sure it's enough to keep me interested.
Even with all its faults, I find myself missing playing the beta. I will probably jump in day dot.
Not what I asked.
Edit: Better reply. I meant that even with new guns and skills via new heroes do you genuinely feel that game will hog all your gaming time even 1.5 months from now?
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I went from zero interested to very interested because of the beta, I dabbled in 1 and thought it was okay but the beta really felt solid to me. The performance on pc is was a huge plus.
Bot a day one but will deffonatly get it somewhere down the line. If it wasn't for apex I would probably get it day one, my main squeeze is ffxiv and apex is filling my shooter twich for now. Maybe in a months time that will fizzle.
Bot a day one but will deffonatly get it somewhere down the line. If it wasn't for apex I would probably get it day one, my main squeeze is ffxiv and apex is filling my shooter twich for now. Maybe in a months time that will fizzle.
As someone who already didnt like the first one, this Beta felt like more of the same. Just a soulless game where you run around in a boring dead map shooting dumb AI. Nothing in terms of story, lore or characters is remotely presented in an engaging way.
Gunplay is barely okay.
Also, the UI comes straight from hell.
Gunplay is barely okay.
Also, the UI comes straight from hell.
I thought there was some facts and reveals about Division 2 monetisation, but in proper Skill Up fashion he just speculates and stokes flames of fear based on... nothing. He doesn't know anything about how game will do MTX outside of what we also know, Season Pass that is very similar in fashion to R6: Siege year passes.
So uh... what was bit you hadn't heard ever before about Division 2 monetisation?
Also kek at him taking credit for Ubi telling what special editions stash deal is.
Same here.
The changes mentioned by Skill Up don't seem apparent to me. I'm sure they have a big effect on PvP, but I've no interest in that. Weapons and enemies feel the same, and the removal of many abilities (because instaheals and invulnerability hurt PvP) make the PvE even more repetitive and boring. Making healing harder and damage resistance lower means that you play extremely conservatively. Enemies felt just as bullet-spongy as before.
Playing the end game mission in the beta really killed it for me, as I had some fun in the first few low-level missions. End game felt the same as the early game, but with bigger numbers and an enemy faction with cheap abilities (drone strikes). The class abilities were really pathetic (again, because if they had spectacular effects, they'd break PvP).
The journey to end game looks better though, with better side missions and more things to unlock. But it's not enough for me.
I didn't play the first game, you think it's like Destiny where PVP balancing is affecting PVE ?
bought a $20 AMD key a few weeks ago that gave me DMC5 and Division 2 on PC, will be playing at launch but not sure how long i'll stick it out. Probably the entire campaign and then not touch it again, like Div1 on PS4.
That's cool but I hope it's not the same content or at least we can keep progress from the first beta.
