The Division 2

I liked the snow in Division 1 too, but not at the expense of losing varied locations. It was just part of NYC. Remember when they said they would add more of the surroundings to the game? Good times... never happened.

I wish Warframe was approachable now. They have added so much to it. It's so confusing with seemingly dozens of systems, with only a few of them being current and useful, but with requirements from the old, not so useful systems.

PS4. I think the dark zone was changed for Div2, because it sucked for Div1 unless you have a crew. Now that I'm almost 40 and spend most of my time working or coaching kids sports I no longer have a gaming crew.

Myself +3 will be playing it on PC. Because it'll be cheaper, and aiming is 10x better with mouse, though the aim-assist is pretty strong with a controller.

Long story short, it's basically Division 1 in its current state, with all the extra end game shit they added over the last couple years, an extra special ability slot, on top of the original two with slightly modified enhancements (e.g. turret can be a sniper), and I believe there's an extra gear slot.... Enemies and abilities were poorly balanced in the last beta, but that's not a concern given things were pretty well balanced in the first one (for an RPG, bullet sponge type shooter).

I stopped playing Div 1 after I'd cleared out all of the given content in the first couple months -- that means finding every little person, side story, collectible, etc, and defeated the first added "raid" (the one with the APC at the end). Clocked 200+ hours. Once I ran out of content, stopped playing. Same kinna thing happened with Anthem, only I finished what that game had to offer in like 3 days. Shouldn't be that easy, or that fast. I at least got 50-60 hours out of each Borderlands before I stopped playing those.

Assuming Div 2 carries a story as good or better than the first, I'll at least play through that because the gameplay flavor suits me. But only if there are actual objectives. Banging my dick over and over, defeating the same content over and over at the same difficulty, just hoping for a god roll is not my cup of tea.

Gator said:

I'll be playing this on PS4. Wasn't Div1 on PC riddled with hackers?

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Aimbot, shoot through walls, see through walls, and one shot kill hacks. They fixed the shooting and seeing through walls, and one shot kill hacks (permabanned folks using insta kill hack), but as far as I remember they couldn't prevent aimbot since a lot of the game's decisioning happens client side. And it honestly wasn't as rampant as folks made it out to be. It was usually a lone gunman who my group would spawn camp the fuck out of until they left the DZ. Nothing ever stopped my team from rolling the DZ. I loved the extract mechanic so much because you could fuck other groups in a honest, fair fight - they've got the defensive position. Need to see what the new DZ mechanics are like with the gear naturalization and changed loot drop mechanics (everything that drops isn't necessarily infected or whatever).

If you're referring to glitch hacking, that was present on all formats. No gear was ever taken away and no one was ever banned for using these exploits, but they did fix most glitches within a couple weeks of discovery. Reddit being a thing tho, those exploits were readily shared with the community and were abused the fuck out of (I know I did, but only because certain encounters took too fucking long or they were overtuned).

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