Tom Clancy's The Division 2

No I've got for PC. the kids decided that they haven't the time for it so just send me your uplay tag.

I sent the friends req on uplay. I guess I can't send the invite until you ok it. At least your not showing up in the phone app for beta invites yet.

Invite sent! Now, hopefully it doesn't get stuck in cyberspace. 

Warning. An agent in your vicinity have gone rogue...  No probs!

Played a little yesterday. The Delta-3s were really annoying (had about 5 within 2.5 hours but I heard they fixed them in the update). Otherwise I really like what I see so far.

I'd say in the basics, it plays almost exactly the same as Division 1 does (at least these days, I only know TD since a week ago, heard it was way worse early on) but there are a lot of improvements in the details.

Washington definitely lloks nice. I don't know the city as well as NYC (only been there a couple of times) but from what I've seen so far again, it looks like a very faithful recreation. I was again a bit surprised how much they seem to keep to a fairly small portion of the city (looking at the entire map) but ok, it worked in TD1, so why not here.
The streets look a little more interesting. Where NY was mostly purely urban street blocks, now that we are 5 months into the end of the world, everything looks more borken up by parts of nature asserting itself over the ciry, which looks really cool.
There also esems to be more going on with the nPCs, I see more civilians out and now they can also fight the gangsters. I also really like that there are female gangsters now. It bothered me in TD1 that all oponents seemed to be male, that made no sense to me (kinda the antithesis to Battlefield V ).
The symbols for items in the inventory also look better now, though the UI istself still seems a little messy.

I also like what they did with story/Base of Operations progression, how it is intertwined now. Fortunately, they got rid of the horrible side mission givers from TD1 (which were an almost canonical Ubisoft screw-up). Now you help out civilian settlements, get side missions from different NPCs and if you help out enough, you get to recruit people that staff (and thus upgrade) your main base at the White House. Very nice.

The missions themselves seem to follow the same basic principle as in the first game, which is to say, they are pretty linear levels with a bunch of wave shootouts and the occasional "hit a button". Definitely nothing special but hey, it works.
One thing about the fight they thankfully improved is the time-to-kill/be-killed balance. Enemies seem to go down a little quicker than they did in TD1. In return, most of your life (which is now armor) does not regenerate in fights. I also got the feeling that weapons have a little more recoil and instability, so just rapid fire pumping an entire magazine into an enemies head is no longer as easy as in TD1. This is good because it feels a little closer to reality than TD1 did with it's massive bullet sponges.

Also, boss enemies have armor that you can destroy, creating weak points. Hit those and even bosses can go down pretty quickly (at least that was the case for the one in the first mission for me). A nice mechanic that rewards precision over simple firepower.

Didn't have time to check out the coop aspects or the dark zone yet, but in solo, I think it's a nice balance of bringing in improvements but keeping the overall feel of the first game. Not bad Ubi, you definitely raised my interest, that's for sure.

Nice.

And yes, even though the snowy streets of NYC are sort of iconic I'm already loving  the lush greens of mother nature taking DC back.   You can get a Surplus SVD at the Demolition site I think. I don't recall what objective gave me the blueprint for long scope. 

I didnt have  any Deltas at all yesterday. I did see some on Twitch though but way less than on first day. Yay maintenance and feedback.

Today I will have  to work some more  with photomode.

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Did anyone else get caught in a thunderstorm? The weather was fantastic... I also fell through some geometry and died, but that's okay. Happened in TD1 as well, I ended up stuck inside of a building - not the kind you're supposed to enter - it was kind of neat at first, then I realized I couldn't fast-travel out, because the game thought I was still engaged with some baddies. I ended up tossing a grenade at my feet in order to respawn back at a safehouse.

I never played TD1 for any of the end-game content, I just enjoyed wandering around the wasteland-like NYC, and judging by what I've seen in this TD2 demo, I'll be up for more of the same.

Is there anywhere you can enter the Metro system? I didn't find an entry, but I wasn't scouring around, looking.

Saw the storm while roaming dark zone. The mist, thunder and limited visibility fit the ambience there pretty well.

We did find a Metro entrance near the first story mission location. But the underground area was out of beta boarder so we were teleported back once we went too far. I’m sure they’ll be open to exploration in official launch.

Can’t believe there’ll be an open beta too from March 1st to March 4th. One week after Anthem’s official launch...This almost feels like intentional...

I didn’t get the email but I already pre-ordered The Division 2 before private beta. I guess the survey is only for potential customers who might become interested in buying the game after trying out the beta?

It’s been very interesting following the news/development of both Anthem and The Division 2 since last year. The Division 2 alpha test was exactly one week after the alpha test of Anthem. Then they have private beta one week after Anthem’s open demo. Now open beta one week after Anthem’s official release again...That’s extra pressure for Bioware on top of what they’ve already been under to have a smooth launch day.

They definitely impacted my decision at least. But it’s the other way around. I’m still skeptical about Anthem after playing its alpha test and both vip/open demo. On contrast I was pretty much sold on The Division 2 right after its alpha last December. If their launch dates were not so close to each other, I could see myself playing both. But with the Division 2 coming 3 weeks later, I would rather hold off buying Anthem and wait for reviews. Maybe I’ll buy it later when it’s on sale, maybe I’ll just pass. I hope Anthem will turn out to be a pleasant surprise in both reception and sales though, for the sake of Dragon Age 4

Yea, I got that one, too.
Won't join in that one though I'm afraid since I already uninstalled the beta. Sorry Ubi, gonna have to test without me.