The Division aka Destiny's Child

Anyone play the beta of this/going to get it? I should know better, I guess, since:

a) Ubisoft techno-dystopia always sucks
b) the P2P part sounds like a griefer's paradise
c) the whole concept of an RPG with a "realistic" shooter skin is frustrating (I can accept having to shoot a giant monster 100+ times in the head to kill it, but doing the same to some guy in a hoodie annoys me just thinking about it) and
d) the best-case scenario means bringing another endless timesuck into my life

but nevertheless I preloaded it and am kind of psyched. Anyone else?

all of the above, but the beta still made me want to play more. will wait until its £20 in CEX a month after release though. i expect any initial exploits/server issues/etc will be sorted by then too.

well i just watched four of five minutes of gameplay and this sucks

yeah get back to me when we get a fancy big budget version of stalker online: weird-ass shitpile eastern euro mmo

http://imgur.com/gallery/R1mHi60

i would love to see a picture of all those dudes irl lined up like that

"geave mi mani" - ubisoft

forgot that i drunkenly pre-ordered this to play w a coworker until the amazon notice hit my inbox this morning. hope it doesn't totally suck

So far, so-so. A few things that worry me:

a) It seems to me that for an action RPG/lootgrind to work the game mechanic needs to be really really pleasurable by itself. Destiny and D3 for example are just super fun to play; you feel that right away. This game so far isn't giving me that basic pleasurable feedback that takes the sting out of having to do the same things over and over again. It's great-looking, but it has that "lightness" problem I notice a lot of Ubisoft games have. The animations are so smooth you don't quite feel like you're playing.

b) Is there no aim assist in this game? Maybe it's just because I'm old or because the cover/vaulting gameplay makes you think it's going to be like Gears of War or GTAV, but it seems like there should be a little bit more snap-to-target aiming in a third-person shooter than there appears to be. Also, there are aim stats baked into the DPS--it seems kind of cheap that you can take two shots and the first misses because you physically aimed it wrong or because of reticle judder and the second misses from the RNG.

c) It's a "realistic" lootgrind, which is a pretty fucking depressing situation. Far as I can tell, what that adds up to is you spend hours and hours grinding crafting materials or bosses with the promise of legendary gear, and then when you get it it's not a three-foot blue flaming sword that does 10x ice damage or a poison plasma chaingun with infinite ammo--it's an assault rifle that looks exactly like the assault rifle you already had but gives you +12% crit chance. :|

reserving judgment tho

realistic loot-grind sounds bleak and yet it also sounds like something a 'weird-ass shitpile eastern euro mmo' would have. and doesn't a dead revive mechanic undercut any realism these games try to attain? day-z permadeath or gtfo

also cool no-face, ubisoft:

http://gearnuke.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/the-division-face-glitch.jpg

"geave mi mani" - ubisoft

― am0n, Tuesday, March 8, 2016 9:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all time

graphics on this game are really impressive to me.

hate multiplayer tho (aside from Rocket League) so no thanx