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"Are you friendly?" - Best line ever
IceAge
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in The Division
So , i looked up on twitch and saw this streamer "Lirik" streaming The Division with 38k viewers. Told myself I should watch it since I know nothing about the game.
Next think , the streamer and some friend, where running in-game to an "arrival point" mission. At some point, the friend said "hey, there is a subway station here, let's go" .
So they get in, in a dark atmosphere with low light. At some point, a player ( first I thought that he's an NPC ) came by right next to them, when the streamer stops and asks "Are you friendly?" ( all this with real voice , as it seems there is a system with in-game voice where players can talk and hear each-other ). The unknown player then said "Yes ... I am friendly!" and then goes "There is nothing here guys, I just checked everything" . Streamer goes like "Ok , thanks" and they moved on.
Man! That was so real because of the real voice and the game's dark atmosphere and this was the best short thing I saw in an MMO.
I really need to play this game.
Btw, how big is the game? I saw that everything happens in NYC and it's an open world, but is it big enough to support hundreds of players? Or there are people who will create custom servers?
Yes, I didn't read about the game yet, so any answers will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Next think , the streamer and some friend, where running in-game to an "arrival point" mission. At some point, the friend said "hey, there is a subway station here, let's go" .
So they get in, in a dark atmosphere with low light. At some point, a player ( first I thought that he's an NPC ) came by right next to them, when the streamer stops and asks "Are you friendly?" ( all this with real voice , as it seems there is a system with in-game voice where players can talk and hear each-other ). The unknown player then said "Yes ... I am friendly!" and then goes "There is nothing here guys, I just checked everything" . Streamer goes like "Ok , thanks" and they moved on.
Man! That was so real because of the real voice and the game's dark atmosphere and this was the best short thing I saw in an MMO.
I really need to play this game.
Btw, how big is the game? I saw that everything happens in NYC and it's an open world, but is it big enough to support hundreds of players? Or there are people who will create custom servers?
Yes, I didn't read about the game yet, so any answers will be appreciated.
Thanks!
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In all seriousness. The entire game is instanced to YOURSELF. Its locked to YOURSELF ONLY unless you form a party. Then, its locked to YOUR PARTY ONLY. Your base.. all interaction with the game is done in 1 player instance only. There is no market. There is no trading. There is no economy. THERE ARE NO PLAYERS. The world is not open. The 2% of buildings that you can go into are basically like WOW caves. They are there and you know they are enter-able. Everything else is facade and empty. The quests are linear and must be repeated over and over. There is NOTHING else to do in this game except grind single player quests in your single player world. When you invite three friends, the quests stay the same difficulty. No scaling.. NOTHING.
There is ONE multiplayer aspect and thats the DARKZONE. HoLY FUCK i cannot explain how terrible it is. Its a the tiniest piece of shit. It takes about 1 minute to run across it. It supports a max of 16 players per instance. There are hardly any NPCs to find and kill. There are even less players. Its 90% running around listening to awesome ubisoft battle noises in the background. Literally NOTHING to do. occasionally youll fight something.. maybe a shit piece of green gear will drop. Then youll call in an extraction and if you are LUCKY, a group of 4 will come murder you at the point. I say LUCKY, because thats the only player interaction youll get in this game.
Fuck.. I stood at the darkzone calling for extracts every 90 secs for 1 hour. Just to see other players and say hi to them. There is NOTHING to do in this game and it is 10000000% not an open world MMO. Do yourself a favor. Go to gamestop.. drop 5 bucks and see for yourself.
very small map aswell..
I like the visuals tho of the game.. but preff gameplay above visuals any time
Reading alot of players opinions like above poster that the game is shit lol
ill wait a bit with buying
Already did. Got the gold edition in fact. Had more fun in the beta the than I've had in any full-realeased mmorpg in a long time.
It took me about six hours to complete all of the single player content in the beta. Pretty much the only thing left to do is look for collectibles and go into the dark zone. I know there's a ton of cool stuff that will be unlocked in the full version, that we don't have access to now, and that's great to know. However, It's my opinion that they need to add some other things to the game that don't completely revolve around combat. There are achievements, there are collectibles, but there needs to be more to do. Daily events. Random encounters even after you've completed all of the area missions. Perhaps some sort of agent housing in the future, ala Grand Theft Auto. Where you can outfit it similarly to the agent bases. I'd like to see more skills available in the future. I'm still holding onto my pre-order. We'll see what happens.
I'm excited to get my hands on the full version in March. There's a lot of cool little things, like the ECHOs. I saw one yesterday that had a CERA worker in it that was described as "Missing" and "Last sighted in the Garden District." I didn't get the chance to run to the Garden District to try and find him, but it got me wondering if they took the time to add little things like this in for the explorers in us. I might go back and try to find him today. If there is some mini-mission or collectible for finding him.. That'll be pretty awesome.
I hate to say it, but I suspect that Destiny will outlast Division quite comfortably. The sci-fi setting of Destiny gives those devs the ability to add a wide-ranging selection of settings and equipment and plot lines to the game. The Division, on the other hand, seems to have a very narrow focus which doesn't have much wiggle-room. Unless Ubisoft pull some really bizarre plot twists...
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It's, as succinctly as I can put it, a 3rd person shared world shooter RPG. There are 3 skill lines with 4 skills in each line that also contain 4 different mods to choose from (as far as I know, as most are locked for the beta). In all, that's 48 different combinations of skills. Additionally, though not available in the beta, there's a talent and perk system that will further augment your agent's abilities. Along with that, there's an assortment of real-world emulated weapons including LMGs, shotguns, pistols, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and SMGs, all with different stats ala RPG equipment. It also includes body armor equipment slots for different parts of the body (and, my personal favorite, lots of clothes to further personalize your Agent
There are main and side missions that give insight into the overall story, as well as encounters that are sort of one-off firefights scattered along the way.
Collectibles make up a lot of Intel that give back story and add flavor to the game through recordings of phone calls and such.
Dark Zone is a PvP-enabled area where great loot can be found but has to be extracted and can be stolen by other players if they kill your Agent while he still holds the contaminated items. That zone is best done with friends.
All in all, I find I've enjoyed it more than I did Destiny. Certainly, with the talent and perk system plus the skill combinations, it looks to have greater character depth than Destiny (depending upon how those systems work). The storyline is barely touched in the beta, so I'm not sure how good it will be. The first DLC will expand the playable area by adding a network of underground areas that I assume will primarily be based in and around the subway system.
Also, the playable world is (save for loading into small "safe rooms" with vendors in them scattered throughout the city) totally seamless. No loading screens after every mission and zone!
You better enjoy dark zoning over and over, buy the season pass and hope they deliver new content because what they're about to release is very short and repetitive.
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Devs said beta is only 10% of the game.
Pretty sure you don't know shit from a limited beta.
On another note, chack my stream too, it's not you're own instance LOL. We saw plenty of people we were not grouped with lol. I was even shooting at a dude on accident, which I call out in my live stream: http://www.twitch.tv/gamemasters101/v/38881028 yes, in the city too.
We also grouped with several groups and love the in game chat too, makes it very friendly and open.
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50% of the above comments are completely out of context. I spent 10hours in this beta and while it certainly has flaws that they are working on, the rest is top notch.
Combat and movement is superb.
Music/ambience/atmosphere are all 10/10.
PVP needs a lot of work still but they plan on finetuning it.
It has tons of RPG planning/min maxing/tons of loot and customizability.
The phasing technology is really on a next level, it just works really well.
And while it might not be your standard MMO, the open world is truly open world, not a single loading screen and you feel like you are actually in a ruin of New York. The friends system works in such a good way that you don't even need to join a friend in party, they know someone is in your friendslist and they are always in this same world. (I know that the world has several instances but they don't tell you that)
As for features, only 6% of the game is unlocked right now, on top of that, they dropped you in the middle of the story at level 4 so you don't get spoiled when you start the game the first time.
The beta gives you access to 1 mission (there will be 10+ hours confirmed campaign on release), 2 skills, no specialty, levels 4 to 8, 1/5th of the map, 1/5th of the pvp map, reduced NPC spawns, no world events, a couple of side missions, no factions, etc etc.. The beta is basically nothing at all.
If there is 1 thing to worry about instead of blindly hating on something you have no knowledge of, it is the blatant cheating on pc platform right now. They did say they are working on it and I truly hope they are because if that is still the case on release, the game will be dead on arrival.
I'm not going to watch your whole stream, because I know you're wrong. You must have been in the dark zone.
Game is fun. I'm sorry that some people don't enjoy it. But for me it was worth the wait for beta, and worth the wait for March.
OP it's worth checking out imho.
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So, I can't say what its like on other versions, I'm playing on the XBOX One.
There are hubs, when you load in, you start at a hub, and there are other players there. Moving outside of that zone, there will be areas you can run into PCs but it wouldn't make sense to run into populations of players outside of main hubs in a post apocalyptic game.
The dark zone does have a ton of player characters, thats the point of it. It has a pretty great feel.
I love the bounty system.. pretty much an oldschool PK system with some minor changes.
The limitations to the beta are prevalent everywhere, but the area is pretty large considering. Its the most fun I've had in a game in a long while, but I'm also a fan of GoW so the cover system coupled with some MMO mechanics is really geared towards me.
Overall, its been a great experience with a relatively low amount of bugs that get in our way. Some bugs I've encountered have been, characters disappearing, or one of my group members got a red hugh upon respawn if he died that lasted about 30 minutes. One other issue was he couldn't fast travel.
I know the PC version has a lot of hacking going on right now, but hopefully thats only temporary.
Great game though.