Tom Clancy's The Division 2

No, not really. The opening sequence of TD2 gives you a pretty decent overview of what's happening in the world, even if it's not really complete. There would be breadcrumbs and such that you might not pick up on right away, but it's not so story focused that you'll miss out on much.

Depending if you are in an urgent rush to play TD2, I'd suggest it wouldn't hurt to play TD1 (just the campaign and side missions to level up) before hand as its a good game and you'd go in with a fair of background you may otherwise miss. It  will also help with getting a feel for the combat and how tactical situations play out etc.

I can't remember how long it took me to solo the campaign in TD1 themikefest how long did it take you to complete the TD1 campaign recently?

TD1 is one of the only games I didn't mind dying as it was nearly always because I made a poor tactical approach/choice or was impatient. 

Though I have early access I won't have time to play Div 2 extensively till this weekend. Only 3-4 hours in and I'm glad there are even more details in the same starting missions of full game than those in beta. I'm most impressed by how meticulously the world is crafted and presented. Div 1 was great at environmental story telling, Div 2 just took it to the next level. Side missions and activities feel more diverse than their repetitive Div 1 counterparts and they are rewarding in a way that you can truly see the impact you made to post apocalypse D.C. by completing these quests. Tried a few skills like Assault drones, chemical launcher with firestarter mod, crusader shield. Since I'm still low level it's hard to gauge how effective these skills will be in endgame but they are all fun to use. Can't wait to do some silly/crazy skill combinations in teamplay like using 4 assault drones chasing a boss or 4 firestarter setting the whole map on fire. Stinger bees of Hive seems promising too. Overall I can see myself enjoying both solo exploration and co-op with others, for campaign at least. People are happy now for the relatively smooth launch, but as a looter-shooter the final verdict can't be reached until most players progress into endgame, probably in a month or so.

Only level 5 but I'm already overwhelmed by what to do




Found him near the entrance of Jefferson Trade Center




Know what this is?




A few examples of how immersive the open world is

The Immersion is Incredible

Don’t make the same mistake I did.

Did you notice: the parking spot signals in Jefferson International Trade structure?

See you in D.C. agents. Have fun saving the country.

Played 2-3hrs of TD2 today and have just been free roaming and loving it already.





So many deer

Well did some more free roaming, took over a control point and did the first main mission at the Theatre. Tired to get a PUG group together at the starting point but nothing seemed to happen so did it solo which turned out fine.

Rescued this kid



With this agent (Kelso NPC) hope we get to do more with her.



For this woman



Recruited my first White House base of Operations helper, looks a bit like Naomi Ngata from The Expanse

Hey 3y3vr3 are you on PC? I am now level 3 but still in the first area and just completed the Theatre mission. Struggled to get people to coop the main mission, as in none at all, would you be interested in doing main missions in particular if I invited you to join? If so my Uplay name is: DazKRaptorSquad.

Cheers

Thanks for replying, yeah I enjoy the soloing of just about everything for the reasons you stated but there was one control point "The Demolition" that I couldn't get through after three attempts solo and tried calling for back-up but no one came.

After letting the matchmaking queue at the Theatre mission I just decided to go it solo and it never got hard enough to worry about calling for back up. I have read that later on like after L20 it becomes really difficult to solo the main story missions like the Theatre so my main reason for doing it at the theatre was to try and find some like minded people to team up with later on.

Will send you a friend request on Uplay feel free to ignore any invites, 

I guess that means it would be wise to have your character a level or two higher before starting any of those missions.

Personally think the difficulty has more or less been the same throughout with tbh a couple of the easiest missions i've done been after lvl 20 an all i've been doing is putting on highest weapon/armour that drops, plus i've not grouped up once. I have died numerous times but it always been my own eagerness/stupidity thats caused it IE out of cover running an gunning

Definitely going to be interesting once i actually start building my characters gear instead of just slapping it together.

Anyhow as i thought would happen im bloody addicted 😂😂