The Division

[NaomiLynn]

I already have it from the preorder and closed/open beta when i played. I will deff be playing alot this weekend, all day friday after work, after i get home from paintball on saturday, and after my DnD game on sunday before The Walking Dead comes on. I will be playing most of this week also leading up to this weekend. Last night steam said it was being released at 10pm my time (MST) tonight. so i will deff be on at 10 if it actually launches at that time. won't be staying up too late tho.

 

[Kenadian]

Well not the strongest start Ubi:

 

[Shilka]

BTW, if you're thinking of updating your nvidia videocard drivers to the 364.47 gameready drivers for the division; DON'T DO IT!

The nividia forums are ablaze with complaints about this driver version, that can cause severe problems, especially for windows 10 users, and for people using multiple screens (but not solely those). Problems range from blue/black screens upto failure to boot up with no safe mode startup option available. Nvidia is working on the problems.

Source: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/921332/geforce-drivers/official-364-47-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-3-7-16-/1/

 

[Kenadian]

Thanks for the heads up Shilka.

Fortunately I rarely update my drivers unless I experience problems ingame. So far the game actually runs quite smoothly so there's no reason to do anything at this time.

 

[Jerad]

Thanks for the heads up Shilka.

Fortunately I rarely update my drivers unless I experience problems ingame. So far the game actually runs quite smoothly so there's no reason to do anything at this time.

Here I am at work waiting to go home for some division.

 

[Kenadian]

I created my Character last night and played to Level 3.

We good to hook up tonight ID? I want to make Tuesday night The Division night on Twitch.

 

[Jerad]

Yea I am down. I'll probably play the first bit of the game from before where we start in the beta before hopping on TS though.

 

[Kenadian]

kk.

I'll be on my normal time, 8 PM EST.

 

[Daunt]

http://www.dorkly.com/post/77516/isnt-preordering-games-fun

LOL

Queue Simulator 2016

 

[little P]

I wonder why there are no reviews for this game, even though it's been released? Oh, wait....

Well done Ubisoft... *slow claps*

 

[Kenadian]

I wonder why there are no reviews for this game, even though it's been released? Oh, wait....

Well done Ubisoft... *slow claps*

From what I understand there was no way to allow reviewers pre-release code simply because the game is always online and as such only works when Division Servers are online.

So ID after a night of Coop what do you think of the game so far?

Personally I'm liking it so far but having said that, it hasn't changed at all from the Beta. The map is certainly bigger which of course is nice and there's a lot more to do but whether or not that has any real staying power still remains to be seen.

The one biggest disappointment I can level against the game is Hard Difficulty because it's just plain idiotic. All they did for Hard Difficulty is made the enemies far more bullet spongy but their just as overaggressive and stupid as they are in Normal Difficulty.

I just can't think of a reason why an idiot would run toward an armed player with a baseball bat all the while being peppered with bullets.

This is my biggest gripe with the game although I really wish the lights in the game weren't self healing as well. If you shoot a light they should stay out IMHO but I guess that's a design decision due to lack of any night vision (at least at earlier levels).

They could easily account for the lack of night vision by giving us flares but my guess is it isn't a player issue it's more of an AI subroutine issue. I'm extremely sure the AI would act exactly the same regardless if they were in full daylight or complete darkness.

 

[Jerad]

I'm really liking the game so far. I've hit lvl 17 now and while the AI improves some they're still dumb as a sticks and pretty easy to juke. You will find some that work together and try to flush you out with nades or flanking. I am thinking... HOPING that the Last Man Battalion are better because they're supposed to be spec ops military types.

I think my biggest gripe right now they seem to broke after the beta is the random npc chatter. The JTF guys just seem broken where they'll blurt out random things while standing around.

The game seems to lack a lot of polish we see all the time in these open world games. One I've noticed quite a bit are doors on one side of a wall and no door on the other side. A lot of things seem to be copy and pasted and called good enough.

Looks like the first 3 DLC packs are planned to release this year so that will add a lot of content by the looks of it.

 

[Jok3R]

I'm downloading it now. hoping to be able to have free time this weekend to be able to play some.

 

[Jerad]

So I've hit 30 and one thing you guys have to look forward to are the challenge mode missions thats a step above hard. A massive step up from hard that is. Going to need some awesome gear and teamwork to beat some of these missions.

 

[Jok3R]

im looking forward to it for sure. I'm only level 13 slowing moving my way up. I did some grouping up the one thing that annoys me is the people ive been in groups with don't like to do it tactically and just run and gun it and ended up getting killed almost right away.

 

[Tex Arcana]

Just fyi on reviews: Angry Joe did a pre-release "look see", [video=youtube;PpPLATt94n0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpPLATt94n0[/video]
and now has a full review out (Mar. 19th released).
[video=youtube;MTBcuZTPIEk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTBcuZTPIEk[/video]
He is not fully complimentary....I always get worried whenever anything is compared to Destiny...

 

[JamesGoblin]

Lots of useful stuff here (IGN Wiki on Division), especially sidebar on the left - http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-division