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Topic: Tom Clancy's The Division (Read 149285 times)
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luckton
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I'll believe it when I see it. More importantly, I'll truly believe it if there's something rewarding for me to do 3 weeks after 1.2 drops, since I expect a week or two of loot Pinata's dropping like candy. If it's back to an unrewarding boring bullshit plateau like the one I'm currently sitting on, I'm done for good. Maybe that's for the best anyway - there's plenty of other games out there that need playing.
Fancy chart someone made based on the changes they outlined in the blog. Spoilered for size.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Encouraging... but with their stupid drop rates being so minuscule, I'm not going to get too optimistic.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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luckton
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Guaranteed means guaranteed. Now it's just a matter of playing the slot machines to get the stat combo you need. What is encouraging is that a lot of the feedback given for 1.1 is going into 1.2. The next drive/feedback is probably going to be the reduction of the ludicrous number of minor stats there are.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Azazel
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They need to do something about the minimums for weapon talents being so buttfuck insane. It stops most weapons from actually being fully usable when you get them (and even by the time you dispose of them) and pretty much completely borks the idea of sidegrades.
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luckton
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Weapon talents need to be respec-able, plain and simple.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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luckton
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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luckton
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Rise one last time for the "okay, seriously, if this doesn't work we're done" 1.4 kitchen sink patch! http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-GB/news/detail.aspx?c=tcm:154-271342-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32tl;dr - "We get it. You fuckers like D3, but in a third-person shooter. So we tried to get as close to it as possible. Plz come back and play again. We'll be good again, promise!" The subrredit does seem to be hyping this as the "thing" that will save the game. The devs delayed the season pass plans, created a PTR, and really, REALLY tried to make this thing work. Guess I'll give it a go during WoW downtime.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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schild
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All NPCs will now have chances to drop High-End and Gear Set items, tougher enemies (veteran, elites) have higher chances to drop.
I actually thought that was the case the entire time. Yes, I like D3.
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luckton
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Yeah, no, the devs were really stingy with loot at launch, as was the case with D3 and other loot-fest games. Glad to see that the wheel can still be reinvented, regardless of how many times it's already been done.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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schild
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I gotta be honest, this patch makes me want to play again. On it's face, I liked basically everything about the game. Also, it was utterly gorgeous to a degree that I was compelled to play.
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Yegolev
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Endorsement by schild makes me want to try it. I'm really enjoying a replay of Borderlands 2 as the conductor of the poop train.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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I said makes me want to play again. I still haven't decided if I'm going to give up the hard drive space. It's a behemoth.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Been waiting on this for awhile now. Every post was about how this was on the PTS and how they changed that on the PTS, got to the point I thought the PTS was going to be the only thing they were going forward with. I'll load it up when it drops for my PS4 and see just how good it is, but I am not having a whole lot of faith. Loot aside, there were a lot of other issues that keep punching people in the nuts. I can't wait till the stuff they pushed back from the season's pass they take out of this past year's pass and put on the next and claim this patch should more than make up for the change in content available.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Trippy
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If you are solo / puggimg do you still have to go into the PvP area to get the really good loot and recipes?
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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They didn't patch out the bullet sponges did they?
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Trippy
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Patch Notes say NPC time to kill has been reduced. Don't know yet if that means they are no longer sponges. Given that ammo capacity has also been increased and magazines are refilled from ammo crates I would assume that running out of ammo trying to kill stuff is still an issue.
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luckton
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They're still sponges, but because they rebalanced player damage output, they don't feel as spongy.
Also, the PvP area is no longer the only avenue to top gear. It's still "a" avenue, but on paper they've done a nice job of revamping the PvE open world and the Undergrounds/Dungeons to make things on par with each other.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Yegolev
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I said makes me want to play again. I still haven't decided if I'm going to give up the hard drive space. It's a behemoth.
I replaced my PS4 hard disk with a 2TB jobber. Try it.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ginaz
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Hmm, I might actually give this a go again. Really enjoyed getting to the end of the story and level 30 but hated the fact that I HAD to go into the Dark Zone to advance my gear any further. A fps D3 is all I really wanted out of this.
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schild
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I said makes me want to play again. I still haven't decided if I'm going to give up the hard drive space. It's a behemoth.
I replaced my PS4 hard disk with a 2TB jobber. Try it. That doesn't help with PC.
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Rendakor
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I kinda wanted to try this but didn't because it sounded a mess. Is it f2p yet, or do I have to buy a box to give it a shot?
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Well just played around with it... not seeing much of a change from the last patch 1.3. Dunno. Used to be fun before I learned the game. Now it just feels like the same messy shit.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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luckton
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I kinda wanted to try this but didn't because it sounded a mess. Is it f2p yet, or do I have to buy a box to give it a shot?
Buy a box. I've seen it as low as $15 in the last couple weeks. You don't need the season pass unless you really like it to the end.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Venkman
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Nice. May reinstall. But yea, it's a huge install.
Side note: the hell idiot decided Borda was the right font for white text on black background? I had to copy/paste those notes to Wordpad just to read the damned thing. Note to designers: thin fonts are only good in some cases, no matter the trend of the day.
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Yegolev
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I said makes me want to play again. I still haven't decided if I'm going to give up the hard drive space. It's a behemoth.
I replaced my PS4 hard disk with a 2TB jobber. Try it. That doesn't help with PC. Cats and dogs living together. Is that a Surface problem? But really, should I try Division? I mean, once the price drops. Because I can always just go back to Destiny.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Put in about 2 hours on this last night just running around the city collecting all the cell phones and drones I didn't get to when I did play. Drops are better; not raining from heaven, but all the drops I was getting were at least useful or side-grades to what I had. GS is by world-level that you can set. I have mine at tier 4 and was getting GS229 drops which is the standard for that tier. So that is a plus.
The mobs actually seem a bit more challenging. The bullet sponginess is still there, but less severe. What really ramps things up is mob behavior. Groups will split and flank you now. I was routinely getting 2 mobs camping me behind side down the street and 1-2 advancing on my position around cover and 1 charging headstrong at me. By the time I dropped the charger, the 2 flankers were roughly behind me and the two in front were pushing forward. I was pleasantly surprised by this and actually died a few times just running around because I got flanked. I might actually load this up more than once a month now. I haven't played any missions yet as I am waiting on my buddies to get talked back into playing. Maybe this weekend.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Venkman
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But really, should I try Division? I mean, once the price drops. Because I can always just go back to Destiny.
Once the price drops yes, it's definitely worth messing around with.
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Trippy
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It's on sale right now at 40% off through the Ubisoft Uplay store.
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luckton
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It's on sale right now at 40% off through the Ubisoft Uplay store.
40% off full retail. Steam's only $5 more, if you prefer to keep all your games under one roof.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Trippy
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Trippy
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It's on sale right now at 40% off through the Ubisoft Uplay store.
40% off full retail. Steam's only $5 more, if you prefer to keep all your games under one roof. You are still required to have a Uplay account (and link it to your Steam account) and there are benefits from playing through Uplay itself like currency you can spend on stuff.
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Wish I would have read about the update before I nuked my local install last week. Oh well. Good to know it is better now if I get the itch to go back.
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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1.4 is really, really good for gameplay.
Now, they need to move the story forward.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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luckton
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The postponed DLC Survival will do that. I'm think January release, maybe December if they didn't have to retool too much from what they may have already done before they had to do the 1.4 kitchen sink patch.
Playing in spurts at the moment leveling a new character. The 1-30 experience is still great. Hell, even the DZ is nice to jump into no and again for loots since I don't have to compete with high-end ballers anymore.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Fabricated
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I've been playing this a lot again since the patch. Everything just shits loot all over you now. I'd like to try the incursions but I hear they're just big stupid gauntlets and they're pointless as far as loot goes now.
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