The Division (Xbone/PS4/PC)

[N51_rob]

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Seeing how the DZ is the only way to make DZ credits and I have no friends playing not much for me to do. Would love to grind the DZ credits for the first wave vector but I'm at 20,000 right now so I doubt I get there especially with me going to Vegas for three days this week for sales kick off.


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[thegut]

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I've completely stopped playing. Even with 1.2 coming out there is just no content. Basically, the game boils down to grinding for hours upon hours in the DZ, Falcon Lost, and the same 4 Challenge missions to get slightly better gear.....in order to grind hours upon hours in the DZ, Falcon Lost, and the same 4 challenge missions. I'm not interested in PvP so the endgame for me is basically acquiring (minusculely) better gear to make the only endgame activities slightly easier. Not exactly compelling gameplay.

[Kearnzo]

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Pretty much. I think I was the first of my friends to quit this cold turkey once I realized what the endgame was, and they were surprised. But sure enough, over the next week or so, they all stopped playing, and we've returned to Destiny. I hope that the Division winds up in a place similar to Destiny, but we also have to remember that the Division has only been out for a couple of months, while Bungie has had almost two years to perfect the formula (which still is admittedly not perfect, but far better than it was).

It really sucks too, as I always see this on my PS4 home screen, and when I scroll down on it, the music that starts playing reminds me of the absolute BLAST I had leveling from 1-30. It was only once I hit level 30 that I realized how little there is to do. The PvE from level 1-30 was so incredibly fun and unique, and I hate the fact that the incredible PvE map they built is completely abandoned for the Dark Zone at level 30. There is literally no reason to hit up 99% of the PvE map once you are level 30.

I really hope this game figures things out. My biggest concern is with Massive, who appears to be in WAY over their heads. They have so many game breaking bugs, exploits, and mechanics that it will take a LOT of work to iron things out properly.

[kingkilla56]

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I don't blame massive. This is their first go round with a game this ambitious. I blame Ubisoft for not recognizing that the studio needs help in a big way right now. If this franchise is suppose to be one of the publishers new flagship properties, it sure doesn't feel like it thus far.

I've never seen a game hit such a high then fall off a cliff THIS quickly.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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They still planning on unlocking the rest of Manhattan and the other boroughs or are we going to be waiting a year before that happens?

[Smooth Pancakes]

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I was still playing nearly daily up until a week before my weeklong trip to South Dakota. Still had multiple friends on every day. Got back Tuesday from my trip that next week, took until the weekend to get caught up at work, got on, and no one. I got on a couple times, ran the hard dailies by myself, and pretty much called it a day.

I'll see friend or two on now and then when I'm on my Xbox home screen, but it's a pretty lonely feeling being in game and seemingly literally zero friend markers online, when I used to have my map full of 15-20+ markers.

I did the dailies a couple days ago, but with no one on, I didn't feel like tangling with the DZ solo, so I just got off and moved to a different game.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Pretty much. I think I was the first of my friends to quit this cold turkey once I realized what the endgame was, and they were surprised. But sure enough, over the next week or so, they all stopped playing, and we've returned to Destiny. I hope that the Division winds up in a place similar to Destiny, but we also have to remember that the Division has only been out for a couple of months, while Bungie has had almost two years to perfect the formula (which still is admittedly not perfect, but far better than it was).

It really sucks too, as I always see this on my PS4 home screen, and when I scroll down on it, the music that starts playing reminds me of the absolute BLAST I had leveling from 1-30. It was only once I hit level 30 that I realized how little there is to do. The PvE from level 1-30 was so incredibly fun and unique, and I hate the fact that the incredible PvE map they built is completely abandoned for the Dark Zone at level 30. There is literally no reason to hit up 99% of the PvE map once you are level 30.

I really hope this game figures things out. My biggest concern is with Massive, who appears to be in WAY over their heads. They have so many game breaking bugs, exploits, and mechanics that it will take a LOT of work to iron things out properly.

You make some very good points. The thing is with Destiny, it had more 'end game' content very early on, and some out of the box. So with that people stuck around, so the when the content started arriving, people kept playing. It's PvP mode was/is better designed as well.

It never had a drop off so fast like this game. The fantastic gunplay and decent formula to get you to grind modes very quickly was the catch. I also think the weapon variety felt more gratifying, versus The Division where not many if any guns feel all that different.

[de5m0n]

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I've completely stopped playing. Even with 1.2 coming out there is just no content. Basically, the game boils down to grinding for hours upon hours in the DZ, Falcon Lost, and the same 4 Challenge missions to get slightly better gear.....in order to grind hours upon hours in the DZ, Falcon Lost, and the same 4 challenge missions. I'm not interested in PvP so the endgame for me is basically acquiring (minusculely) better gear to make the only endgame activities slightly easier. Not exactly compelling gameplay.

I just want some game modes at this point. Simple domination/death match could spice things up. Maybe carry the division tech thta could work similiar to carry the flag. Logging in once a week to check the restock and its crap every week. I'm only at gear level 181 but there is no incentive to grind for better gear when they is nothing to use it on.

[kingkilla56]

The Division (Xbone/PS4/PC)

They should add an arena in the darkzone where you and your group queue into traditional 4v4 or even 8v8 4v4v4v4 etc etc game modes like team death match, King of the hill, capture the flag etc. These modes would have to modify gear to level out like Destiny does for its crucible.

A couple months ago I felt Massive should stick to the DZ as the only PvP. But it's increasingly obvious that that's souring many on the game entirely. Griefing players for the lolz in dz is a byproduct of boredom. Add traditional PvP to the game. Please.

[Smooth Pancakes]

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Hell, when I was still running with a group every night, we literally would do nothing but run around in a circle at DZ 3 extraction.

Kill the boss at the extraction, kill the boss around the corner at the refueling station, and then go down into the subway and kill the boss down there, wash, rinse, recycle and repeat for hours, because that was the tightest circle of bosses to run a cycle on and because that was literally all there was to do beside go rogue or hunt down rogues.

DZ gets boring as hell after long enough in there.

[de5m0n]

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Hell, when I was still running with a group every night, we literally would do nothing but run around in a circle at DZ 3 extraction.

Kill the boss at the extraction, kill the boss around the corner at the refueling station, and then go down into the subway and kill the boss down there, wash, rinse, recycle and repeat for hours, because that was the tightest circle of bosses to run a cycle on and because that was literally all there was to do beside go rogue or hunt down rogues.

DZ gets boring as hell after long enough in there.

Yep, that's the routine that I did only in DZ6. Got boring real quick.

[redsox4evur]

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Smooth you could always help me run missions and get higher. I'm only like level 7 or 8. Gt is H1LL1G4N 9 (space between n and 9).


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[DaPope13]

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Smooth you could always help me run missions and get higher. I'm only like level 7 or 8. Gt is H1LL1G4N 9 (space between n and 9).


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If you'd like/need another I'd be happy to tag along. I just got to level 7 yesterday lol.

[Stormyhog]

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[kingkilla56]

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Hahaha hijacking extractions is bringing the trolling to ultimate levels. I guess greifing is just what their focusing on now.