Beta Impressions - TheHiveLeader - The Division

System · February 2016

Beta Impressions - TheHiveLeader - The Division

TheHiveLeader jumped into the beta for The Division. Did he survive the Dark Zone? No... The Division developed by Ubisoft Massive and published by Ubisoft takes place after a pandemic hits New York City in which one by one everything begins to fall. Society is collapsing and it's up to The Division, known as a unit of self-supported tactical agents to try and cure the virus. FEATURES Open World RPG | A full world waiting to be explored and ready for you to advance your character in. Coo

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Abcynth · February 2016

Your videos never fail to entertain, Hive! I always look forward to seeing a new one from you. Keep up the great work.

Po_gg · February 2016

Great video, New NY seems like an improvement indeed, much more cozy

Still not my kinda game though, cover-based console shooting... yecch.
For a massive pvp shootout there's PS2, and for story (with a huge world to roam around) there's Defiance. At least for me. And if Ubi, I'd rather go with GR (btw. GR video was hilarious too

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heerobya · February 2016

That gameplay... just looks so... boring... zzzzzz

Wighty · February 2016

As a NYer I approve of New New York!

maskedweasel · February 2016

Great video. Can't wait for launch, its so much fun.

MadFrenchie · February 2016

Aori said:

I'm not a fan of shooters but I enjoyed my time in The Division. Same concern though, longevity. Whenever I hear DLC before a game is even released I get cold feet. It is like they aren't confident the game has enough to offer people out of the box.

I feel like it's become a reality of AAA video game development. Ubisoft isn't going to avoid making that extra cash, and if they responded with "no planned DLC right now," I think they would probably be faulted for that, honestly.

Depending upon how great and long the story is, the single player campaign alone should justify the box price. I would submit that, if Diablo 3 was worth the box price for the single player experience... It shouldn't be too difficult for The Division to earn its keep.

maskedweasel · February 2016

MadFrenchie said:

Aori said:

I'm not a fan of shooters but I enjoyed my time in The Division. Same concern though, longevity. Whenever I hear DLC before a game is even released I get cold feet. It is like they aren't confident the game has enough to offer people out of the box.

I feel like it's become a reality of AAA video game development. Ubisoft isn't going to avoid making that extra cash, and if they responded with "no planned DLC right now," I think they would probably be faulted for that, honestly.

Depending upon how great and long the story is, the single player campaign alone should justify the box price. I would submit that, if Diablo 3 was worth the box price for the single player experience... It shouldn't be too difficult for The Division to earn its keep.

For the XB1 it was 99 dollars for the season pass plus whatever other items... and they mentioned those with the season pass will get other "perks" so they're really pushing for the extra cash with the content push.

But with 3 expansions for the "season" and the game only being about 60 dollars, each xpac is about 13 dollars... most of them are near double that during release.. so it makes sense to do it if you plan on playing for a bit.

Volgore · February 2016

It looks like a game i could only take in short sessions, otherwise i'd be fed up with it very soon.

I love gaming all night through if a game really catches me, but The Division seems to me like a title that gets very repetitive. Hopefully there is a ton of different mission-types and not just a handful of standard stuff like "return lost package", "escort important person", "defuse bomb", "clear location of mobs".
I'm also quite worried that -thanks to consoles- the locations are very restrictive and you run into invisible walls left and right.

maskedweasel · February 2016

Volgore said:

It looks like a game i could only take in short sessions, otherwise i'd be fed up with it very soon.

I love gaming all night through if a game really catches me, but The Division seems to me like a title that gets very repetitive. Hopefully there is a ton of different mission-types and not just a handful of standard stuff like "return lost package", "escort important person", "defuse bomb", "clear location of mobs".
I'm also quite worried that -thanks to consoles- the locations are very restrictive and you run into invisible walls left and right.

Theres no way to really know if there will be any invisible walls, the beta was pretty restricted. The area was pretty large though.

What other types of missions are there? What game are you playing that doesn't have those?

MadFrenchie · February 2016

maskedweasel said:

MadFrenchie said:

Aori said:

I'm not a fan of shooters but I enjoyed my time in The Division. Same concern though, longevity. Whenever I hear DLC before a game is even released I get cold feet. It is like they aren't confident the game has enough to offer people out of the box.

I feel like it's become a reality of AAA video game development. Ubisoft isn't going to avoid making that extra cash, and if they responded with "no planned DLC right now," I think they would probably be faulted for that, honestly.

Depending upon how great and long the story is, the single player campaign alone should justify the box price. I would submit that, if Diablo 3 was worth the box price for the single player experience... It shouldn't be too difficult for The Division to earn its keep.

For the XB1 it was 99 dollars for the season pass plus whatever other items... and they mentioned those with the season pass will get other "perks" so they're really pushing for the extra cash with the content push.

But with 3 expansions for the "season" and the game only being about 60 dollars, each xpac is about 13 dollars... most of them are near double that during release.. so it makes sense to do it if you plan on playing for a bit.

I agree; the season pass is certainly the best way to get all those DLCs. I'll personally more than likely only buy the DLC that adds the underground areas. I wasn't really interested in the new game modes described by the other two DLCs.

If it were me, I would have focused all 3 DLCs on expanding the playable area of NYC. But I can understand the interest for some in those game modes.