Tom Clancy's The Division

Droigan_sl said:

Been playing with a friend some (only level 7, saw your message UT, but was going to bed not long after)..

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No Prob I am level 6 almost 7 I believe. I did the 3 main missions to start on my perks with the med lab, tech lab, and Security lab. Everything worked for me last night for about 5 hours without a hiccup aside from the laptop activation thing. A work around I found is activating, then logging out, restarting the game, and sometimes that fixes it and continues you on. I got lucky I guess because when I respawned in, no one was by the laptop and I was able to activate and continue.

Tried some crafting. Right now I am dismantling everything and not selling, as I am out leveling the items in the early stages relatively quickly. The other main missions showed up and gave me their appropriate level - so I think the next one I can do is 12. So I'll be doing side missions, events, and the resource quests for the labs. One thing I did like after opening the security lab was .

As far as missions go, there was slight deviation in variety in one of the main missions in the start of the game when building up your labs, and one of your team has to carry an object box into a generator while fighting off looters and cleaners. But other than that so far it's the same. Hopefully that opens up later on. All in all, the servers remained stable and considering it is Ubisoft on launch day, that was pretty impressive. I had a queue the second time I logged in with 750 people remaining, which I thought was going to take forever, but somehow it went to 650 the next second, and the next second I was in the game.

Gun play seems to have been honed a bit as mine is more responsive now, however, movement with cover is still clunky. The only way around this is to transfer your mind set to be more strategic in positioning and less twitch since there are options while in cover of leaving cover, shifting cover, jumping over the cover, moving to the next cover spot.

The wording in the game is hard to read and the font is too small even on a large screen such as mine. When using quickmatch, the fonts are VERY small when it says you have 30 seconds to enter a group once it finds one and you need to click the right (or left I forget) thumbstick. I missed that once. That should just be automated. You make a choice to enter quickmatch, and it should load automatically. I do not understand the decision to confirm within 30 seconds with a thumbstick response of all choices.

UI takes some getting used too but once you play for an hour or so it gets easier. Just a lot different than what we are used too.

Weather effects and day/night is pretty good and the graphics on PS4 are fairly good.

Still on the fence about the longevity considering this is supposed to be a game like Diablo 3 and it continues on for loot. If they had some type of base raid for the cleaners with a boss in a 6-9 person squad, that would be something to chase for at the moment. With that said the weapon and gear systems are 5000000000% better than anything Destiny threw at us, the social aspects are MUCH more accessible and on the fly, and the story and world building is above and beyond better.

Worth the $30 I plunked down on it.

Just thought of this. There is a twink meta that can easily spawn from this since the DZ's are based on level ranges. Three level ranges although I forgot what they were. So one could min max a second character and wreak havoc in that DZ level range.

Selix_sl said:

Is this the type of game where you really need to play in a team to get the most out of it? I usually solo but this is looking interesting .

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You can do both. You do not need a perm group/premade. The matchmaking is pretty similar to WoW if you want to run story missions with a few other folks to make it easier or play with people. Join up, do the mission, leave and go about your business. The game is infinitely more fun with others though.