The Division 2 - Catch All

Concur with setrio. I have zero interest in getting specific gear and entirely ignore the sets. When I play, I pop in, walk around, shoot bad guys, and get loot. I marvel at the environments, at the weapon sounds, think about strategy, and relax.

I'm in the casual camp too. I know there are builds I could work on but I'd need to grind certain weapons with certain powers, and I don't want to bother with that. I get stuff, I fit it in if it works, and I go get more stuff.

This is also a good game to just drop in and out of; you can log in, clear a couple of spots on the map for half an hour, and log out again.

This game is $15 at Wal-Mart right now. Worth picking up (are people still playing, or single-player decent enough at the price)?

6.1 is finally deployed, don't know the state of the game after the update because it was rough update for the team. Either way, here is a summary of the changes
The Division 2 - Title Update 6.1 - Summary

New apparel event, new NPC's dressed as santa which drop a special gun, several changes on the UI, changes on dealer Cassie Mendoza and HARDCODE MODE

Glad you posted this because I haven't played in the last few weeks. I'll have to remember to log on for the next few nights for the outfits.

The new gun that shoots snowballs is pretty funny. Headshots with it confuse the enemy.

I double dipped and picked this up on PC and PS4, so hit me up if you're playing on the cajjj. Motley, masher, and I have been playing on PC. If they're not around, I'm usually on console. For either one, just hop in and have fun, talent is in no way required! You're most likely better than us anyway (well, masher and I).

Finally got to Level 30 yesterday, now it looks like everything has changed, World Tiers and all that. If there's a GWJ clan on PC, please add me, Tuber8.

So, a bunch of big news came out today. First off, the base game is only $3 right now so if you've been on the fence about trying out Div2, might as well grab it at that price.

Tomorrow TU7 will release for season pass holders, for non-season pass holders it'll be available on 2/19. TU7's story will be a prelude to the expansion, Warlords of New York, which is already available for pre-purchase ($29.99 US) and will release on March 3rd. The gear revamp will occur during that launch, the level cap will be raised to 40, and I believe the power cap will be raised to 600.

I grabbed it for Xbox, do many play there or is it mostly PC?

I'm on PC, but I'm in a clan with people I work with (just 4 of us) so I don't know about other GWJers.

I hope they don’t nerf my overpowered Hive-Seeker mine build. That’s been so fun walking up to challenging missions, dropping 100M damage, and breezing through without even dropping armour.

I think most of GWJ has moved on, there’s a few of us on PS4, though I expect we’ll see more folks rejoin with the $3 price point.

Yeah unless they fix the clan vendor issues I have no desire to come back. Changes sound amazing though.

I've got it on Xbox. I'll be dusting it off to play the new content.

We have an Xbox clan, Agents With Jobs is the name

Division fans,

Anyone willing to share a few thoughts on why, for $3, D2 is a good game for someone who just wants to play for a couple weekends and avoid a grinding game? My buddies won’t have the game so I assume I’d play with randos. Thank you!
Chad

If you played Div 1 and enjoyed running around doing the Main Story and shooting things without grinding then $3 is a steal. Grinding doesn't really start until max level. The game story play through would be a good deal at that price imo. Just stop at the end of the story if grinding gear and dungeons is not interesting.

chooka1 wrote:

Division fans,

Anyone willing to share a few thoughts on why, for $3, D2 is a good game for someone who just wants to play for a couple weekends and avoid a grinding game? My buddies won’t have the game so I assume I’d play with randos. Thank you!
Chad

The campaign has enjoyable combat, a neat city to explore, and requires zero grinding. At $3 it's not a question of the cost of the game, it's a question of the opportunity cost of your time.

Ok. Sold. Thank you. Playing until the end of the story without grinding sounds more than reasonable.

Thank you. Chad

The funny thing is, the grind at the end game is a little different than most games. If I were playing Destiny2, and were grinding for something, I'd be playing random stuff just hoping for a drop. Or if it were a specific exotic, either I'd have like 50 hours of doing one thing to get it, or I'd be running stuff over and over until it dropped randomly.

In Div2, you have a little bit of that with the exotics, but targeted loot areas have actually made that a lot easier. For instance, Pestilence used to drop primarily in the Dark Zone (PVP area), and my clan mate and I were able to get two the other night within 5 minutes running random stuff and control points in one area. I'm looking for a named assault rifle, but I don't feel it's super grindy to go do stuff to get it.

I would say the biggest downfall of the grind is the loot system, which is getting an overhaul when the expansion drops on the 3rd. You play for a few hours, and then you get to play Loot Warehouse Simulator by sorting through the tons of junk, and you need a math PhD and several spreadsheets to figure out if something is .86723% better than the item you're already holding (slight exaggeration...).

Once you get through the story and get up to level 30, you then get the invaded missions story. Each mission bumps you up a world tier, and once you hit WT5 you're basically max level and can get maxed out drops. At that point you can refine your gear, unlock some neat specializations (not too grindy but a few missions can be a bit of a pain), boost up control points and clear them out, or re-run missions/events for targeted loot or exotics. If you have a decent group, level 4 control points (each level gets significantly harder, level 4 being heroic with mostly elite enemies) can be amazing fun.

I will say that I completely bounced off this game when I played it solo, I didn't really get into it until my coworkers were talking about it one day. They boosted me up to 30 fast, and I knocked out the world tier missions by myself. And if it weren't for the group, I probably wouldn't be as excited about the changes.

chooka1 wrote:

Division fans,

Anyone willing to share a few thoughts on why, for $3, D2 is a good game for someone who just wants to play for a couple weekends and avoid a grinding game? My buddies won’t have the game so I assume I’d play with randos. Thank you!
Chad

It's $3. The amount of entertainment value is insane.

Balthezor wrote:

It's $3. The amount of entertainment value is insane.

Thats what I am hoping for. I picked it up for both the PC and Xbox. At 3 bucks each, why not?

Can I get an invite to the PC clan?

Reckun on Uplay

I'm honestly surprise this isn't getting any more action. $3 for a game with at least 50 hours of gameplay for solo, and many more, especially since the first DLCs are free. It's crazy. It's a fun game too. Really cool to explore DC at this detail.

$3 guys. That's like 1 cent or 2 cents per hour of fun. You can't find that anywhere.

Balthezor wrote:

I'm honestly surprise this isn't getting any more action. $3 for a game with at least 50 hours of gameplay for solo, and many more, especially since the first DLCs are free. It's crazy. It's a fun game too. Really cool to explore DC at this detail.

$3 guys. That's like 1 cent or 2 cents per hour of fun. You can't find that anywhere.

The type of people who would be interested in games like this tend to care more about endgame content/grind. Most of those people either already bought the game a long time ago, or have been turned off by a consensus that Division 2's endgame is bad, and so won't buy it for any amount of money.

Personally I'm coming to the conclusion more and more that "endgame" and grind mechanics in online games are a Skinner box I'm just not interested in. I think it's more than worth it for $3 just to play through the "campaign", but I don't think there are too many people who share my mindset.

I would also consider buying the NY expansion just for the new map if it's big enough and there's enough single-player content, any new raid-type content or modes (no survival, ho-hum) aside, but probably not for $30.

Personally I'm coming to the conclusion more and more that "endgame" and grind mechanics in online games are a Skinner box I'm just not interested in. I think it's more than worth it for $3 just to play through the "campaign", but I don't think there are too many people who share my mindset.

I feel pretty much the same way, but in the case of Division 2, the campaign is big and meaty, and the environment design is outstanding.

Personally for me I liked the end game, but it isn’t neutral friendly for the lack of a better term. It requires the people that participate to be at specific performance levels. GWJ just doesn’t play that way. We make a point to be inclusive so not everyone was able to reach the build levels required. We helped those that asked for it but we lost folks due to natural attrition with new shinies. For me it was the clan vendor fiasco that made clan hopping one of the ways to get the best gear.

ranalin wrote:

Personally for me I liked the end game, but it isn’t neutral friendly for the lack of a better term. It requires the people that participate to be at specific performance levels. GWJ just doesn’t play that way. We make a point to be inclusive so not everyone was able to reach the build levels required. We helped those that asked for it but we lost folks due to natural attrition with new shinies. For me it was the clan vendor fiasco that made clan hopping one of the ways to get the best gear.

How dare you! Well, you are right so...yeah

On PC, I bought it for just short of $20 Canadian, for the gold edition. I paid more for Division1, and played the sh*t out of that.

So far I’ve only put a couple hours into Div2, but Warframe keeps drawing me back. I also have some hesitation, because my PC is just managing to run Div2... not too far in yet, and I have some worry about what will happen if it starts getting hectic on the screen.

So any beginner tips as I launch into this tonight?