Dollar flu was based off hanta virus btw

>>738390419
I swear this shit being a weird mmo does it’s actual setting a disservice

>>738390586
>have to grind and min max just so you can turn it into an actual tom clancy ttk thirdperson shooter

>>738390586
I don’t mind divisions gameplay but the stories for both 1/2 are just non existent the world building and set up is immensely interesting but the actual plot is disjointed

>>738390586
It was actually a really good idea just bad execution. Devs need to stop being so scared of player interactions. Let people trade gear without restrictions, let people instance together easier, make the world feel more alive, make it more interactive, make the abilities stronger flashier and combo together more. They just didn't try hard enough.

>>738390810
>>738390586
If it was an actual mmo with other agents in the city yeah that would be sick

>>738390586
Actually, with the recent two week 'Exposure' mutator thing, the TTK plummets if you're using it properly.

>>738391281
I think 1 had that but it had to much issues so for two they went instance based

>>738391281
The game wouldn't work if it was some kind of persistent world with other players around.
>pick up new bounty
>run over to it
>other player already engaged without realizing it was my bounty

>want to reclaim control point for a daily mission
>they're all Division controlled because there's only a dozen and players are flipping them back to Division control all the time to do their own daily missions

And so on. The game would need to be fundamentally redesigned.

>>738390586
That's true. The setting is lovely to explore on your own with a strong feeling of isolation, but then the fights are balanced for multiplayer groups.

>>738391419
Ehh just use strikers the devs kinda are build variety suck especially with how your always emp’d or how even some armor builds get melted

>>738392762
I play entirely solo and mostly just do Challenging difficulty at max, and the only things that ever melt my armor are the yellow/elite enemies because the damage scaling goes into the stratosphere with those fuckers.

Heroic diff. and above is just unfun and obnoxious because of it.

>just use strikers
I have a set. I tend to switch between Strikers/Heartbreaker/Tipping Scales/Concentrated Cores/Virtuoso for fun.

The game has been smashing my balls with a mallet and refusing to drop Pestilence though, which I really want to try making a build around.

>>738393195
Heroic is easy for the most part, strikers is a meme.

I use the new core strength gear set, use the core strength chest piece, holsters, kneepads with yellow cores with contractors gloves and memento backpack. Also use the pestilence lmg, the yellow cores on the gear set will give high status effect damage, like 800k per tick damage.

You also get good armor regen once you get memento stacks.

For skills use the revive hive with either crusader shield or turret.

>>738394202
>use the core strength chest piece, holsters, kneepads with yellow cores
Also mask

>>738394202
>use the Pestilence LMG
The game keeps mocking me and refusing to drop it. I've got LMG set to targeted loot, I've run through Summit with 5-6 modifiers on, I've done tons of Retaliations, and it still refuses to drop. I've gotten that shitty Bluescreen LMG like five times at this point.

>>738390419
The Division aren't sleeper agents. Their main job was/is to basically be paramilitary civilians whose job is to restore order in areas where federal/state control has become lost and to do this before the military/police regain control.

Unfortunately, nobody knew how bad the Dollar Flu would get in New York City and the fact that a private security company would be running wild.

>>738390419
Do you now know what FEMA is retard?

>>738394489
Any 5th column run by the government is essentially useless.

On the topic of the Division 1 does anyone know if people still play Last Stand ? i've been trying to get into a match just to get the damn quest to go away but I can't find any

>>738394573
This isn't Deus Ex. FEMA has a hand in continuity of government plans but wouldn't be in charge themselves in the event of a nationwide breakdown like what happens in Div1/2.

>>738394831
FEMA comes in and reshapes towns/cities during natural disasters retard it's the same thing they even shoot at right wingers

>>738390586
actually it does it a live service

>>738394915
FEMA can only get away with the low level shit you're describing when the disaster is an obvious local problem and the rest of the country still operates.

In a 'this is happening in all US states at once and the federal government may no longer function' national disaster, FEMA will quickly unravel and get overwhelmed the moment one retarded weekend warrior Nasty Girl shoots some local in a panic, and the other locals start shooting back.

>>738395063
>FEMA can only get away with the low level shit you're describing when the disaster is an obvious local problem and the rest of the country still operates.
Yes and if the US had a big enough crisis that impacted the entire country they would do the same at a country scale retard. The Division as a concept is such naive childish garbage actually thinking during a major crisis the government's goal is to help you and me and not restrict rights and enslave us. We literally went through this game during Covid

>>738395063
>>738395312
Schizoposting.

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>>738395312
Retardbro, FEMA doesn't have the resources to operate nationwide at the same time. Look how badly it fucked up during Katrina or the Palestine train derailment thing. The only place FEMA ever has the power to do this 'they took over' shit is in the Deus Ex setting where FEMA is just an arm of the UN (in disguise) and has all of this secret support. In real life, it's a bunch of underpaid, barely competent bureaucrats who would struggle to manage anything larger than a county-sized disaster event.

>The Division is there to help you
A large part of Div2's storyline is 'actually, maybe SHD aren't really the good guys and they're secretly serving a nefarious purpose and are just useful idiots.'

>>738395420
No?

>>738395528
>Retardbro, FEMA doesn't have the resources to operate nationwide at the same time
kek you really are a retard also the Division took place in a single city retard

>>738394831
>>738395312
>>738395420
The FEMA standin in division is CERA but the thing is they failed with the deployment of DC62 in both New York and Washington’s dark zones being deadly to humans

>>738395684
Who gives a fuck about what the game says I am talking about reality

>>738395748
Well you were right since the deployment of DC62 resulted in total shut down which is why the division were activated

>>738395591
Oh so you never played the games. Yes, Div1 takes place in NYC and Div2 takes place in DC/NYC, but the entire country (and world, I think) is wrecked from the Dollar Flu. You just don't go to or see the other cities, but you do run into lore bits about what's going on there. (It's about the same as DC/NYC)

>>738395684
Yeah, because FEMA/NYPD/whatever are actually copyrighted and you can't use them in your game. (Like in L4D, FEMA is called CEDA) Div2 goes even further with not using NASA, the CDC, and a bunch of other government entities.

>DC62 fucked up and is actually poisonous
The government rushing a cure that ends up killing more people is probably the most accurate thing in the entire game, lol

>>738395748
>bro let me /pol/ post fuck talking about a game plot

>>738395856
>I think
kek retard

>>738395884
The OP is a /pol/ post you retard equating a game to real life

>>738390586
I really do wish there was an offline mode, because the original is ruined by chink bots

>>738395684
>>738395856
So every city has dark zones? They were just ghettos of sick people they gassed?

>>738390419
It turned into some weird anime story about some corpo wanting to take over the country and also homeland security was actually compromised all along and the division was set up to die and the president was in on the conspiracy but now the division keeps on fighting autonomously against their wishes and basically are just super elite cowboys who take down entire private armies instead of trying to keep order in a collapsing society where the insane factions somehow never run out of footsoldiers to send to their deaths.

But it's fun.

>>738396018
The explanation over why agents can go rogue is so odd in 2 the AI used to be too strict where if walked into a store it’d label you rogue so they had to give leeway

>>738395920
Continue betraying how you've never played the game, you mook.

>>738396000
I would assume the further west you go (in the US) the less organized it got as organization broke down in DC while the virus spread outward. I'd assume that any city that's smaller than DC would be like during a zombie apocalypse where maybe some government buildings and hospitals are setup to handle it, but everything else quickly devolves as basic utilities start turning off. Water shutting off would probably kill 60% of people, and the absence of antibiotics would start killing the rest.

I can't remember what the fatality figures were, but I want to say something like a third of the entire population died in the first year.

>>738396225
>"you never played the game!!!"
>"I think"
kek

>>738396215
The story doesn't make much sense anymore, ISAC is basically a purposely defective AI and we're running a completely new AI altogether now, essentially the entire Division is now rogue and are doing their own thing.

>>738396264
I was talking about the infection reaching the rest of the world. There's scattered lore about it spreading across the US, but you don't get much insight about what happened in, say, Canada, or Europe, or Asia.

But since you haven't played the game and only talk like a retard about it, I don't expect you to understand this nuance, either.

>>738396423
When you are going to try to act like you know more about a game you might not want to awkwardly use "I think" while talking about said game lol

Where is Team Rainbow during all of this? Wouldn't they have prevented this worldwide terrorist attack altogether?

>>738396715
Ghost recon - DIED

Rainbow - DIED

HAWX - DIED


The division are the last line

>>738396264
nta but he's right, there's scattered lore in the games about the virus reaching every other place in the world and basically all of worldwide society breaking down and going FUBAR with cartels and gangs taking control if not straight anarchy instead, the US was better prepared to deal with things thanks to the Division and the would be new Black Tusk private military government.

>>738396578
Summer leaking in already, I guess. I'll try to dumb down my posts in the future so they won't confuse you, anon. I'd hate for you to have to do any kind of deductive reasoning.

>>738396715
IIRC shit like R6V/V2, Rainbow is pretty bad at preventing terrorist attacks because I think they fail to stop an entire basketball stadium getting gassed in one of the games, lol. But the real reason is 'The game had to have its inciting incident.'

>>738396787
nta but he's right

>>738396795
You already dumbed them down completely by saying "I think" lol

>>738396715
Too busy playing paintball matches in football stadiums against PMCs as celebrities

>>738396715
>>738396795
The attack wasn’t known people were infected for a month after Black Friday and didn’t know it was transferred via money

>>738396715
The virus was apparently an inside job to put Black Tusk in power.

>>738396916
Saying 'I think' means 'I believe this is the case, but I'm not 100% sure.' Dumbing it down would mean I would just use simpler language as if I was talking to a child/mentally retarded adult (you).

>>738397009
I could believe that. I replayed the entire base campaign and the DLCs a few months ago and the game does a really piss poor job of communicating any kind of story. It doesn't help that all of the characters are mystery meat diversity hires with terrible voice acting, either.

>>738396916
Anon stop embarassing yourself and go get your pills or whatever treatment they give autists.

>>738396764
>HAWX - DIED
no...

>>738397124
Saying you think means you weren't sure which is fine but you shouldn't say that when you are trying to act more knowledgeable. Just makes you look retarded.

>>738397129
NTA but this is getting embarrassing now and you should stop

>>738390419
Yes, not for a virus but when the iron dome falls

Is everyone just immune to the virus now and shit collapsed due to a third of the planet's population instantly dying or is this virus super ultra genetically engineered to turn itself off at just the right time for the game to be able to take place?

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>>738397268
You're talking to two different anons and we're both pointing out that you should stop embarrassing yourself.

Maybe you're just an ESL that can't understand subtleties in English around the usage of common phrases like 'I think' relative to context, or maybe you just didn't read the preceding sentence in that original post and got confused.

>>738397304
I want to say that both Dollar Flu and DC62 mutated or something because you go through UV style disinfection points going in and out of major hubs (and in/out of the DZs), and most people are still wearing full respirators when out in the world.

But the virus is a very fictionalized 'it's dangerous when it needs to be' type, like cordyceps in TLoU where nobody gives a fuck about walking through spore infested areas so long as you have your mask, despite you obviously carrying spores out on your person/clothes. It's just science being soft enough to not interfere with gameplay.

>>738397304
It isn't well explained but the virus can apparently still fuck people up but supposedly it stopped spreading, though new outbreaks could happen.
The virus was engineered by some stereotypical russian scientist who wanted to "cure cancer with viruses" to be as lethal as it could be as well.

I play Div2 because I like looter RPGs and the shooting is really nice. Skipped literally every story scene because I don't care one bit for spy vs spy spookwank.

Do wish melee was actually viable beyond Normal mode.

>>738397545
>You're talking to two different anons
I never said you were the same people anon. I think.....no I know you are a retard who can't read.

>>738397631
Melee can be really mean with this current Exposed mutator thing going on; you get the 1 hit kill on unshielded enemies if your Exposure bar is full.

>>738397545
Stop trying to correct the retard autist, you'll just go back and forth forever and derail the thread.

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What's going on in this thread?

>>738397927
Autism and schizoposting, the game's story is conspiracies on top of conspiracies and nobody knows who's working for who anymore just that shit's FUBAR and your murderhobo agent has a lot of people to shoot.

>>738397647
That anon is literally brown and is getting all his info about the game from ChatGPT and will just argue with you till the thread dies I bet. It isn't worth it.

I like The Division and The Crew. Peak Ubislop.

>>738398081
samefag

>>738398019
>your murderhobo has a lot of people to shoot
If you think about how many people your Agent kills on a daily basis, you have a body count larger than Arnold in Commando after two missions, lol.

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>>738397927
A Division.

>>738398139
We should honestly be wading knee-high through rivers of bullet casings in DC with how many fucking rounds have been fired

>>738390491
Ebola, actually.

>>738398132
I think you are a schizophrenic

>>738398305
Honestly, probably the biggest thing in the lore that doesn't make sense is where all the bullets are coming from. I know IRL I wouldn't be dumping a LMG into a guy in a tank top to overcome his armor, but it's still fun to think about.

>>738390747
It's worse in 1: Mobile.

>"Agent, we need you to grind to end-game gear."
>*Do so*
>"Now we need you to kill the Freemen in two "open world" events to a maximum of 30 enemies in those two enemies total
>*Do so*
>"So the Freemen have fucked off, but we haven't seen the last them. They'll be back (quickly) because you're going to be seeing them in two minutes when they respawn. We've gotta get ready for them!"
>MAIN STORY TO TC'S:TD1:MOBILE: COMPLETE!

>>738398309
wtf I don't feel any stronger

>>738390810
>>738391281
1: Mobile does that (bar trading) and honestly while I don't mind seeing others in the world, having them join in or quickly end something I fast travel to for objectives/bounties is stupid.

>>738398396
It would be interesting to see a game like this where bullets were an actual resource. I didn't try that "realism" mode they did a while back, did it do this?

>>738398610
Oh yeah, that Realism mode you can pick from the log in screen. No idea how that works, personally. I'm happy with the base game being this brainless tacticool shooting gallery, desu

>>738398610
>did it do this?
No, all it did was up damage and drop the RNG drops.

It was cool, but entirely a gimmick that was pasted on just for a seasonal event.

>>738398396
Storywise it hasn't been that long in the game's timescale, it's canonically been less than a year (we're currently in mid to late 2017) with Survivors coming soon moving the date to winter, I assume we don't actually kill that many people in lore and control points aren't constantly being replenished with new soldiers from seemingly unending factions.

>>738398442
>It's worse in 1: Mobile
... That released? I thought it got cancelled alongside the br spinoff, heartland or whatever it was called

>>738398842
Released just about a month ago, also rumors are the BR spinoff just turned into Division 3, I hope they don't fuck it up or rush it because a well balanced new game could be pretty fun to play.

>>738398798
>Survivors coming soon
What's this? The next Div2 season?

>>738398928
It's a DLC they plan to release this year that's basically a re release of the D1 Survivors mode along with crossplay. We're currently in the last week of a weaboo event where we kill /a/ furries for loot.

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Division 2 dark zone was a complete slug fest. People were just running around full rambo instead of sneaking, which completely defeats the purpose. Also why were sniper rifles limited to 100m? Fucking bullshit.

>>738399048
Yeah, I've been playing Div2 almost daily since March. The Kitsunebi are easy enough to farm for keys to get gear since I've got all the cosmetics.

>Survivors is a DLC
Neat. Haven't played D1 since it launched briefly, so new content for Div2 could be fun. (If I can do it solo, anyway.)

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>>738398798
>>738398396
Division kind of reminds me of PSO with the loot style and 4-player optional co-op

PSO did an interesting thing in the story regarding the constant grinding and killing the same bosses over and over for loot.
In the sequel, canonically the players killing the final boss over and over was actually just making it stronger every time

>>738398798
>it's canonically been less than a year
That's even more insane than the amount of people we kill
>dismantle 3 local factions
>fuck up Black Tusk operations in multiple locations
>Do the retarded dungeon roguelike thing
>Go back to NYC (twice) and fuck up the local factions there
>the 20 different seasons of collecting Intel and tracking down HVT and whatever the fuck happened there storywise (didn't play most of them and Ubi is very selective as to which boss fights can be rerun)
>Clean an entire skyscraper of enemies solo probably like 10 times
And probably more I forgot. That's fucking absurd, every seasonal manhunt would be us canonically waking up with zero Intel and going to sleep already killed the guy after locating him while casually killing some hunters for a break

>Tried to kitsunebi log-out trick
>after patch
>when I log back in and teleport to the spot, instead of the kitsunebi, I get 5 ninja dudes armed with nothing but little knives running at me harmlessly who go down in an instant
>this happens 3 more times when I log out and back in

>never heard anyone mention these guys in their games

Please tell me this happened to someone else too and I'm not crazy

What's the current best way to farm Pestilence? Summit with LMGs targeted with it being as difficult as I can handle to up the drop chance?

>>738400234
The best way to farm any exotic is priority missions. Exotic drops are so sparse and unreliable in regular content that it's not worth bothering going to anything but guaranteed boxes. So do priority missions or spam countdown to get credits for the exotic crates.

>>738400346
I do those all the time, but there's no way to target loot with them as far as I can tell. Most of the time, the Priority Objectives just give me exotic armors.

>>738400438
That's just your luck then. Getting exotics to drop from Summit at all is like pulling teeth, and it's only a slightly better chance to be your targeted loot afaik

>>738400612
>Getting exotics from Summit is like pulling teeth
Huh, because a lot of the farming guides I read recently said Summit was great for it, but still behind Countdown (that I think I can't really do solo anyway).

I'll only do Summit for the '15 floors' weekly goal thing and focus on Priority Objectives.

Kitsuniggers.
Sorry I really needed to say it.

>>738398842
Yeah, it released March 31st. "New Story Content!" in... December. LMAO.

>>738399445
>Ubi is very selective as to which boss fights can be rerun)
Not any more, you can run all Seasons bosses now.

>>738400346
>>738400234
I got it on a priority mission but dark zone with lmg drops is big too

>>738401056
I like them. I can dump entire LMGs into the chest of the melee tanks that basically kills the other Kitsunabi members because of their shared health pool.

>>738402649
I know killing named NPCs in DZ Control points is a way to farm it, but I fucking hate the DZs. Everything is Challenging or above so you get spammed by elite enemies, and there's always the risk of some dickhead waiting to kill you and steal your shit when doing the extraction. I have no idea how people find extraction PVP games to be fun.

>>738394261
>>738394202
Pestilence plague scales off weapon dmg, it's technically a debuff not a status effect

>>738403703
Dumb question, but does the Pestilence plague thing scale to shit like drones, mini tanks, or the walking tanks?

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why isnt there a division /v/ or /vg/ clan/general so we can shitpost our builds and organize raids/escalations?

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>>738400234
do outcasts retaliations and dunk on kill squads

>>738405745
Yeah, I try whenever I can because I know the Outcast kill squads drop the blueprints. The game trolled me the last time though, since I was doing an Outcast retaliation but only got the annoying BTSU9 one and the jobber 'guys with bows and arrows' one; not actual Outcasts themselves.

And maybe I'm a brainlet, but how the hell do I set difficulty for Retaliations? They always seem to default to Normal.

>>738405986
its based on your world difficulty, go to the map, hold Z and set your world diff to challenging/heroic
would recommend no directives too, if you're going for blueprints, you don't need the extra exp and broken gimmicks

>>738406274
Oh ok, I thought I set world diff to Hard at least, but I guess not.
>directives
I thought they slightly increased Targeted Loot drops?

>>738406524
if you're aiming for loot, then it increases the RNG by a bit so the numbers roll a bit higher for drops
but if you're looking for the pestilence blueprint, you just need to kill the kill squads for the thing to drop, then you craft the pestilence back at the crafting bench so loot quality is irrelevant

>>738404818
Yes. The play is to blast one tanky enemy and build stacks, then when they die let it spread. Repeat on another enemy who doesn't have it yet. You can take out control points without even touching half the dingos

>>738405461
We just haven't made one yet for some reason. I think we would fit /vm/ better since there isn't that much interest in the franchise yet.

>>738406770
Oh, I see your point. In my case, I think Pestilence (the LMG itself) can still drop from the loot table, so I'd be fine getting it or the blueprint. I'll give Challenging world diff a go tonight after work.

>>738406813
Nice. Really hope I get this gun, finally. I've got all the other exotic LMGs, and Big Alejandro is my favorite because it's basically a MG42, has a fun ability, and sounds great when I'm firing it.

I still hate how the tech level just kept going up. TD2 should've been much more gritty low-tech with fewer gadgets and fancy shit because it's no longer made and all that exists is rapidly breaking down in DC weather with no means to maintain it.

>>738406904
Pestilence and backfire are the two weapons I can't let go of. Nothing really compares to their output without going into situational gimmicks or seasonal modifier shit

>>738407145
Backfire I keep getting and dismantling because I don't like the SMGs and would just prefer to use a LMG/AR. I'll give it a try the next time the game drops it in my lap.

>>738406901
>not that much interest in the franchise yet
a shame really, there are so many ways to put together builds it's >fun even
I myself just saw an absolute giga chad running concentrated company in tier 6 escalation and beating 2 st elmos strikers in damage

>>738406813
the current kitsunebitch caches are dropping the Turmoil kneepad, splits 50% of your damage and hits a random enemy within 20m, peak hilarity when you shoot a chunga and everyone else drops dead

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>The Division is a literal right-wing death squad
>The games are about right-wing death squads all trying to kill each other off

>>738407145
my Ravenous would like a word
but desu Tinkerer with GR9 frenzy + another LMG with strained or fast hands is fun

>>738406901
>I think we would fit /vm/
/vm/ has 0 active users

>>738407567
>my Ravenous would like a word
Jealous. Been wanting to try that but I can't get enough dudes together for a raid

>>738407561
I don't think left-right applies well to it. It's more like an authoritan death squad gunning down a chimpout and a competing authoritarian death squad.

>>738407561
The Division literally kill rioters and niggers en masse, they're a pretty based group.

>>738407652
It has enough activity and threads can last a while if people post regularly. If we turn out to be too fast for the board we can always just go to /vg/.
Might make a thread later.

>>738407561
I mean real spooks don't do much more than sabotage each other's projects anyway

Is there a good list of all the exotics in Div 2 and their effects? I only ever used the ninjabike bag and then stuck with high end/gearset items and ran an M700 With determined and the chest armor perk that added overkill damage to your next shot

>>738407695
no need to do the raids, see here
>>738405745
now go dunk on some black turd retaliations

>>738407245
I put backfire on with a shield and Hunters set because smgs need to be up close

>>738408007
>shield
Yeah, I never use those. I play 100% solo and my kit is usually combat drone + revive hive. I got Oxpecker (lol) and thought you could use it with the small carryable shield, but nope, so I stopped using it

>>738408074
Huh? You can absolutely use oxpecker with a shield, that's its whole gimmick

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>>738407793
the amount of niggers and girl bosses the division kills on a daily basis is unfathomably based

>>738408183
The women are so fucking insufferable, it encourages me to kill them faster to cut off their cringelord ranting

>>738408074
the oxpecker's gimmick is that the drain and gain rate for the shield are percentage-based, so it works much better on an all-red cores build shield than with full blue/yellow cores
or maybe you can mix in a few blue/yellow if you're doing legendary or escalation

>>738408319
hey Wyvern from tidal basin was based
>Wyvern, talk to me, what are you doing?
>I'M GONNA BLOW UP THE MOTHERFUCKING WHITE HOUSE
>Stand down Wyvern
> I REFUSE

>high level content almost guaranteed to shut down shdtech for a portion if not all the mission
>entire third of possible builds completely invalidated after Challenging

>>738408515
You vill spec into 6 damage cores and you vill be happy.

>>738408515
>he doesn't know about hazpro or Technician specialization

>>738408158
With the portable shield you carry and move with? Pulling out that little shield auto equips my pistol.

>>738408513
Except her voice acting (and all of Div2's voice acting, honestly) was shit. And the writing is junior high level 'Stand down.' 'Negative. I refuse.' 'I'm going to remember killing you!' slop.

>>738408648
The crusader shield lets you equip non lmg/mmr weapons and the AI is retarded and never bothers shooting at your legs or head.

>>738408721
The whole gist of Black Tusk is that they're untrained retards with way too many gadgets and Schaeffer can't get them to actually follow orders, it's very satirical if somewhat dumb to be so.

>>738408648
There are 4 different shields. You must have the Bulwark equipped.

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>>738390419
I really liked the setting, the investigation missions and the dark zone.
People clamor about the "bullet-sponge" enemies but it's no different from getting hit by 20 arrows in an MMO or any one of the John Wick movies where people in a "realistic" setting just tank bullets with their suits without even flinching.

I liked the game and I would play it again if I could play on a private server.

>>738408648
>>738408158
Bulwark (big full body shield) and deflector (small shield that can deflect shots but yellow enemies can just headshot you on higher diff) shields can only be used with sidearms

the crusader and pyro spec shields are the ones you can use long guns with (except LMGs and marksman rifles)

>>738408762
On legendary they WILL headshot you. The deflector shield is kinda useless on that mode because of this

>>738408762
Huh, maybe I was using the wrong one? I'll give it a try after work.

>>738408831
Black Tusk are billed as the 'bad guy' faction because they have to be unlocked, come in last, and invade the other faction's territories, but their name is retarded and they're basically a bunch of jobbers, so they're not too scary.

>>738408857
Yeah, but one of the shields requires you to have a certain specialization active and I almost always run with Gunner. It sounds like the spec shields are what I should try, from what >>738408898 said.

>>738408928
Do they? I figured they only do on all difficulties if they have higher ground than you.

I hope 3 picks a better city. DC is so fucking bland as a setting, no flavor, no atmosphere.

>>738390419
the division was likely active during covid

>>738409171
I liked it. All the government buildings and bunkers and shit was great. I'd take DC over places like Chicago or Seattle (which are just boring versions of what DC looks like) and LA (which has been done to death). A Florida version could be cool, but GTA6 is going to run that setting dry when it comes out later in the year unless they delay it again.

>>738408831
>>738408931
now I remember in one of missions Schaeffer (BTSU commander or something) literally complains how they keep recruiting clowns that won't follow orders and command can't expect him to get shit done in this working condition

then the new update with black tusk retaliations dropped a few comms collectible which basically revealed the hiring process was picking psychos and retards on purpose, as a joke

>>738409171
They just need to go back to winter. Pick any city far enough north to get real snow. Between the darkness of long nights and the need to get heat to survive it just adds so much to the atmosphere of real struggle to survive.

>>738394489
They apparently didn't know how many of their prized agents would go rogue either.

>>738409259
GTA is doing Miami. Div3 could do Orlando and lean into all the huge theme parks

>>738409380
Apparently it wasn't even going to be that many. Keener just kept killing the ones who told him to go fuck himself so it seems like there's relatively many of them.

>>738409323
Yeah, the BTSU member comm collectibles you get are funny, because they're all a bunch of competent autists/chuds, like the competitive drone racer guy who is basically a sperg that doesn't bathe, or the SWAT sniper chick who's an edgelord sadist and wants people to suffer.

>>738409441
Florida is Florida to normalfags, anon. And Division in Miami would be kino, but it's not going to happen now. An overseas Div3 could be neat, as long as they put it somewhere fun.

>Western Europe
>new and old architecture
>side missions to castles and historic sites

or

>Asian Div3, but all over SEA
>China, Japan, SK, NK in DLC
>huge Chinese military installations
>SK doomsday bunkers under Seoul
>Japan (in general)

Seems like a natural progression for the series.

>>738409692
Shiiieeeet, Division in Best Korea would be kino

>>738409692
Overseas doesn't really make sense. The game keeps making it clear it's a US agency relying on a US-wide computer system.

Where was Heartland going to be set? It's likely they're repurposing that game into the next Division setting.

>>738409825
Based on the name, look to the midwest.

>>738409380
tbf it's more ambiguous what happened with Keener in 1, it's 2 where he becomes a moustache-twirler.
Every time Aaron Keener is part of the plot, the writing gets worse.

>>738410013
They'll have to add vehicles if they go out west, everything is much further spread out

>>738409797
Not to mention the dollar flu probably wasn't as bad outside of the US since the reason it specifically spread as much as it did was because of Black Friday which isn't really a thing elsewhere aside from Canada.

>>738408515
>>738408624
This is going to get worse because of Esc*l*tion and Pr*t*type. The devs are eventually going to balance future missions based on Pr*t*type gear and weapons. If you aren't no-life grinding that shit now, you're going to get fucked.

>>738410207
I'm sure 3 will be announced before that

>>738410207
Eh I feel it's more like Massive is just testing endgame systems to carry over to Div 3, I doubt they'll go too hardcore with it. It definitely feels like the harder difficulties are balanced around expertise 30 (or prototype) weapons though.

>>738410165
Unless they do Chicago, which is dense enough to justify a NYC-like setting again.

>>738410165
>game becomes decentralized because of the size of the world
>you get a personal vehicle that can be customized and used in limited combat segments
>motorcycle type or buggy type
>instead of running from point to point, you get in and drive there
>can shoot enemies out of vehicles and jack them

Could be kino, so I doubt Ubi will do it.

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>division thread
>no post ur OC donut steel agents
>no gameplay webums

>>738410349
I think the game was under the radar for years and the hard-core nolifers kept it afloat, so they are the ones who get priority now that the game is active again.

Sucks for me as a newfag but I can't disagree with it

Division 1 disappointed me for a very specific to me, petty reason: because I'm pretty sure I found in-game the exact place my apartment was back then, and all I can think was "oh come on, my place is bigger than that"

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>>738409171
>DC
>bland
>no flavor
>no atmosphere
Okay, dude

>>738409692
>SWAT sniper chick who's an edgelord sadist and wants people to suffer.
I can fix her

>>738410413
Sounds like Wildlands

>>738410634
Nta but NYC feels like a place people actually live in. It's dirty. it's grimy, but at the same time you go into individual apartments and and even without the audio logs it feels like it really is someone's place (probably because I'm guessing the devs modeled some of the aesthetics after their own apartments). DC feels artificial in a way NYC doesn't, mainly because it was built to be an administrative place first and a place to live second, which is the opposite of how cities are supposed to grow.

>>738410730
I did fix her. By giving her a hot Scorpio load to the face that 1-shot her retarded ass.

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I like the gameplay a lot, but don't care about the Tom Clancy shit. I wouldn't mind seeing a whole new idea with the same structure, like even in a retro setting like 70s New York or 20s Chicago.

>>738411020
The True Sons just felt like a lazy copy of the Last Man Battalion

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>>738410207
i only started a few months ago and can carry my own weight in tier 5 escalations, no prototyped stuff or even expertise upgraded
my build:
>ceska mask
>grupo holster
>4pcs tipping scales
>RPK with strained

>>738409825
All I remember is that it was supposed to be a small town instead of a city and I think I remember seeing some gameplay footage of people running around in the woods, I know they were aiming for a "rural" setting

>>738411108
>let's just take the single most valuable area of real estate in the country and turn it into an open-air prison
Kinda takes me out of it

>>738411183
A lot changed with WW3

>>738411183
NTA but I always imagined that the government in that movie would just say
>fuck it, we can't contain crime in this city, let's just cordon it all off and save face by calling it a deliberate choice that we made a prison city

>>738411183
You have to understand when that movie was made, New York was an unredeemable shit hole not far from being an actual open-air prison irl. Most people today only know the NYC that Giuliani came in and cleaned up with """"racist"""" policing.

>>738390419
Fuck this game. The Dark Zone set-up all the shit Extraction Shooters we have today.

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>>738411528
Basically, The Warriors was a nature documentary

>>738411132
And Outcast felt like shitty version of the Rikers and Hyenas were a meme tier faction
Doesn't help that in 1 Keener goes buddy-buddy with LMB to further push that they're the biggest threat, meanwhile in 2 the military angle is contested by BT that mog the shit out of them while also serving the endgame threat angle of lmb. It makes TS come off as larpers, which IIRC is mostly true to their lore but it doesn't make for an exciting faction to fight against
They really dropped the ball with factions in 2, maybe in 3 someone will manage to usurp Cleaners best faction spot

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>The masculine urge to shoot a red weakpoint

>>738411528
NYC cleaned up before him, it was already pretty clean by the time of the end of Dinkins' term after he stopped fighting the police unions and expanded the police force by like 10,000 officers. Also it came in waves, it was bad in the 60s and 70s but it wasn't that bad in the 40s under LaGuardia, but was REALLY bad in the 20s and early 30s.

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>>738390419
I played Division 2 a few months ago and fucking loved it. It seems most of the abilities are shit, with the only ones worth using are boring. But I haven't gotten all of them, I'm still on the right side of the map, with the left side now "available" to me. PvP is so fucking awful that I don't even bother anymore, but I do like the idea of Dark Zone. I wish I could turn Hard mode on now, instead of having to complete missions on Normal, though I understand why. Still sucks. And coop is confusing, because I call for help and then that player is now stuck in my world or something, when I just want them for that run. Haven't needed them, but I'm just looking forward to harder content that actually requires cooperation. Does the game get harder, will I ever have to communicate with players?
But the game is fun, love the world and how detailed it is. I'm thinking about buying the expansions, but I'm gonna hold off until I beat the main story or whatever the endgame is.

>>738411941
It takes a while for the more interesting abilities to be viable since they usually need a lot more stat support than your standard DPS feeder

It does get harder... but that does come with scaled up bullshit that's not always fair and will feel like you got cheated

>>738411639
>READ THE DELL BOOK
Or what? Will they hurt me if I don't?

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>>738411528
>Most people today only know the NYC that Giuliani came in and cleaned up with """"racist"""" policing.
Giuliani started it, Bloomberg was the one who turned NYC into the safest city in America under his term. They never should have instituted term limits, it all went to shit when de Blasio got in.

I feel like Sweet Dreams should work on Elite and Named assholes, the cooldown and melee range is enough of a balance to keep it from being OP since harder difficulties just swarm you anyway

>>738412290
Without term limits, things go to shit anyways. Politicians just need to go eventually.

>>738412290
de Blasio is a CIA asset, he was installed specifically to make the city less safe to justify puffing up the police budget again and bringing more Feds to assist

>>738411941
The only content that requires communication and co-op are raids which is why I never done them

>>738412290
Yeah but on the other hand he tried to put in place nanny state taxes on sugar to "control bad behavior"

>>738412459
The city didn't even get less safe. It's literally just fucking propaganda.

>>738412515
Man I really want to do the raids, but my group only has 4 at most and I ain't joining some shitcord that operates like an MMO where I have to be play on a schedule or get kicked

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>>738412545
He was just willing to bite the bullet and tell selfish fat fucks what they don't want to hear: that you can have public healthcare, or you can eat like a pig, but you can't have both, and this conversation needs to happen before anyone tries instituting a public option.
It was unironically pic related

god i want a /v/ clan or a general to discuss division stuff

>>738412664
Isn't Division 2 still ongoing?
I would have thought that it has a general on /vg/

>>738412924
It was apparently a dead game until last year, and the few times I tried to start threads about it I was told to fuck off

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>>738390491
>>738398309
it was smallpox

>>738412993
was it the mods or the circlejerk autists?

>>738412993
I think we could go to /vm/, /vg/ is too fast these days but it may work too.

>>738412164
It's not even that they aren't viable, they just aren't cool. I don't know, you're probaly right in that it takes a while before they take shape. It's like i could slow down an enemy,,, or I could just light 'em up. I'm also a god gaymer so maybe that has something to do with it
>feel like you got cheated
I'm looking forward to it :^)

>>738412515
that's good then
I dont have a way to communicate beyond typing, so if a mic is needed, i am boned

>>738413024
>smallpox
What? I'd understand if it was bigpox, but smallpox? Really? I just wouldn't get sick.

>>738414292
not if they simply tacked on all the tricks that were put on covid

>>738412515
>>738414138
i believe ga/v/mers are gud enough that we dont need mics for the raids

>>738414292
also, I don't know if you were joking but bigpox is a thing.
syphilis was known as the "bigpox" to contrast it to smallpox.
long long ago.

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>>738414903
>bigpox is a thing

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>>738415043
to be fair to you, it hasnt been called that for... 500 fucking years and then some.
but there was a book in the early 2000's about a bioterrorist plot

>>738415190
tom green

what are your loadouts for escalations?

>>738414085
it would have to be /vm/, but I'm not sure if it would get a lot of attraction. DIvision 2 is kinda old, most of everything has been figured out, and i don't think there's a lot of obscure info to be found out. But having a place to group up would be nice for coop. I'm sure there's a streamers discord we could join and as long as we don't say stupid shit in discord, we ought to be fine.
honestly, /v/ clans or groups, whatever you want to call them, is usually pretty fucking awful

>>738395312
you doomer schizos are hilarious.

>>738395684
Which was amazing since it predicted the vaxx failing. I remember all the division forums banning people for mentioning the similarity lol.

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>>738407561
Hyenas, Rikers and Outcasts are definitely left-coded.

>>738417295
Outcasts are 100% nihilist doomers who just want to make people suffer.

Hyenas/Rikers are definitely 'eat the rich' types, but the Hyenas would secretly rob/rape/steal from everyone else, too

>>738417409
Yes, as I said, left-coded.

sometimes I wish I could play it again but the whole thing of shooting some homeless faggot with a bat in the head with a shotgun and he doesn't drop dead is off putting

also what happened with 2? was it a big flop?

>>738417585
Div2 did fine. It's been getting steady content and expansions over the years, which Ubi wouldn't do if it was a flop. What happened in the background is that Ubisoft laid off shitloads of people at Massive and Red Storm, so the future of the Division franchise seems a bit murky.

>>738417585
in Div 2 you get to fight a high tech private army basically all day long if that's more up to your speed.

>>738390586
It's a bizarre safe-leftist fantasy where people of every race, creed and gender get to band together as a community and pwn the chuds.

>>738417874
No, it's basically just an egalitarian murder paradise where the person trying to attack and murder you can be a male or female of any race, and you're justified in shooting them dead.

>>738417295
Rikers are hard left-coded, hyenas are just assholes with no ideology, and Outcasts just want to kill everyone, that's kinda outside of normal politics.

>>738417874
>/v/ gamer literacy
The Division is a right-wing death squad. Rhodes calls the player out on this in the first game.

>>738418401
Rhodes is a pseudolibertarian asshole who is literally wrong about everything.

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>>738417585
it's an RPG looter-shooter, you gotta stack the right bonuses

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>>738396715
Team Rainbow got transported into the Arknights universe and are permanently stuck there.

Unironically.

>>738418492
>Heroic
>Elites with shitloads of armor
>getting 1-shot
How the hell are you doing that much damage?

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>YFW hearing this for the first time

>>738418492
How's Div2 over Div1? I loved 1 to pieces, but I beat it around launch and played only a little of some of the updates.

>>738418794
The atmosphere takes a big hit, but the gameplay is better. Fluid and smooth, not as clunky if you ask me.

>>738418794
NTA, but Div2 goes back to NYC if you buy the expansions. I don't know how much of Div1 is represented in those DLCs, but it definitely gave me a NYC feel.

>>738418794
Less interesting setting, IMO
The Division 1 really benefits from being a super comfy winter game taking placing in the heart of New York City during an actual pandemic. Going down into the tunnels and seeing the stacked coffins of US personnel is something I'll never forget experiencing for the first time
2 is basically just the Summer time in Washington DC, and while it's an alright setting, definitely the atmosphere isn't nearly as good

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>>738418590
headhunter or perfect headhunter to supercharge your next shot if the previous one was a headshot
determined on your rifle/sniper so the next shot after a headshot kill is always a headshot (not perfect determined, since determined won't deplete the charge on your next shot but perfect somehow does)
I also threw in tinkerer so i can get an extra talent from my 2nd rifle/sniper for extra cheese
stack headshot damage so it goes above 150% for the damage cap increase

>>738418794
snow good, summer bad
div1 was peak comfy because it was in the middle of the chaos of the outbreak, during snowy winter so peak comfy

div2's gameplay is MUCH better

if anyone's playing then they'll know div2 is much more bearable with targeted loot, which you can get gear sets and brands on demand

>>738419198
>but it definitely gave me a NYC feel.
This makes me very pleased to hear.

>>738419221
>The Division 1 really benefits from being a super comfy winter game taking placing in the heart of New York City during an actual pandemic.
That vibe hit so hard that I was completely swept up in it. I did not like the settup for 2, but I did play in some beta tests or demos and the like and it was FUN but I looked at hot sweaty land and went "sigh, things use to be comfy..."

>>738419050
Aces, glad to hear.

>>738419352
>div2's gameplay is MUCH better
>if anyone's playing then they'll know div2 is much more bearable with targeted loot, which you can get gear sets and brands on demand
Now that's interesting. Good to know. I might pick it up

Any hopes on announcement or plans for a third in the series? They gotta refresh the IP at some point. Maybe.

>>738419352
Thanks for the explanation. I haven't gone that far down the really fine tuned build rabbit hole and just stop at the surface level by trying to find synergies between gear's intrinsic stats/abilities.

>>738419405
I think it's Brooklyn DLC, but one of the main new NPCs that's talking in your ear while doing missions is the most NYC sounding guy that ever lived, so that also makes it feel like you're there, lol

>>738419512
>I think it's Brooklyn DLC, but one of the main new NPCs that's talking in your ear while doing missions is the most NYC sounding guy that ever lived, so that also makes it feel like you're there, lol
My Mother's from Long Island, so I know the kinda persona. Looking forward to it, if I ever get to see that dlc.

>>738419405
When it's raining and stormy in 2 it's really nice, but the summer time is kinda boring. Especially considering I live somewhere where it's literally sunny 24/7 and I get sick to death of it, so getting immersed in a snowy game is nice

>>738419560
You can skip ahead to the DLCs I think, but there's no reason to rush. The base game has at least 40 hours of content if you're going through it normally (on the way to level 40), and the DLCs come later.

>>738419648
>Especially considering I live somewhere where it's literally sunny 24/7 and I get sick to death of it,
preach

>>738390419
The conspiracy angle is good but goes nowhere.
These are the current conspiracies that so far have no explanation or follow up:
>Rick Valassi never existed.
>The Hunters
>Keener might have been right
>The assassination of the previous POTUS

We don't know is Rick was AI or an actor.
The whole deal with the studio making deep fakes.
Keener is stating there is more going on, even beyond BTSU maybe setting up an actual invasion by a foreign party or a deeper conspiracy.
The Hunters are allegedly controlled by the head of Homeland Security because Directive 51 was a bust.
The previous president was assassinated and covered up as a suicide, the green flu was the trigger for the deep state.
The current status of The Division is of as this moment disavowed, everyone is a Rogue Agent by order of the current POTUS.

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elaborating more on the targeted loot system:
zones and missions will have their likely dropped loot rotated daily
on some activities and missions, like retaliations, the summit and countdown, you can directly choose which type of weapon, which brand or which gear set will be mainly dropped during it

division 1 doesnt have this

My sole complaint of The Division is that stealth really isn't a factor. Once you engage, everyone knows your position in a second, even if you're using a suppressor.

>>738419951
Were suppressors ever fixed? I think it was supposed to be an aggro system where the tank could draw more aggro than the rest of the party but I heard it was bugged

>>738419951
yeah true, I know what you mean
no real disengaging or cloak and dagger shit.

>>738419873
Elaborating on anon's elaboration, you can set your own targeted loot for select activities like The Summit and Countdown and Retaliations, where that will remain in effect until you change it.

>>738411132
True Sons are a mix of shitty JTF operatives with Cleaner type motivation.
>>738411785
The Outcast are fucking bizarre, it makes me wish the game has a detain function or non-lethal options.
Killing people who were honestly left to die and are the only faction to somewhat sympathetic feels bad, they went nuts but they were not precisely super evil.

The outcast work as a temporal faction.
TS at least has the motivation to join BTSU.
I have no idea if the game was hinting that the Cleaners were ultimately right.
In fact what the hell happens in WOTY? The base of operations in the original was the post office, and as far as I know we did not have access to lower Manhattan but in WOTY everything seems to have gone sideays.

>>738420016
I would love a game like The Division where you could do stealth takedowns, and enemies gradually start to lose their cool once they realize that none of their buddies are alive anymore. Picking dudes off one by one Splinter Cell style. I guess Deus Ex Human Revolution can kinda be like that, to an extent.

>>738412271
This game has a lot of "technology" moments.
The dynamic weather is amazing.
I like when there is a heavy storm, and enemies can't see a feet in front of them.
Reminds me of MGSV in that aspect.

>>738412271
I remember the E3 demo having a lot of conveniently placed paint cans in front of enemies

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>>738417174
I stopped giving a damn after completion, I did get the Red Oni stuff.
The issue is that Expertise kills the game on its tracts.
>Hey so you want to play PVP?
>Cool
>Just farm equipment for the next 3000 hours.
The original also has this same problem with the fucking Classified equipment.

What the game needs is a traditional PVP with preset characters, and then a mode for turbo autists that farmed the game 10,000 years.
DZ and Conflict are not fun because because the difference in Gear is absurd.
PVP should exist to grind gear for the super hard missions, not the other way around.

this game could be GOATED with Deus Ex type writing and a better PVP experience.

>>738419951
I have no idea if it is the same in the sequel because I mostly played solo but in the first game there is a Threat level, so the idea is that when you play co-op, snipers use suppressors and flash hiders while the rest of the team use mods to make themselves louder because snipers would put everything into Firearms, making them glass canons, and one player would use something like the Ballistic shield to draw all fire to him.
This only comes up in Legendary and Incursions and nowhere else.

>>738420090
>I have no idea if the game was hinting that the Cleaners were ultimately right.
Never AFAIK, at best it acknowledges they had good motivations but I think (wonder if Schizo is still here) it's mentioned in 1 that their methods of burning the entire city aren't really doing anything useful, especially now that everything already went to shit
>In fact what the hell happens in WOTY? The base of operations in the original was the post office, and as far as I know we did not have access to lower Manhattan but in WOTY everything seems to have gone sideays
Correct, it's a different part of the map. As to what happens, Rhodes, the tech guy from 1, resets his entire character arc back to "I don't like guvermemt and division, simple as" and fucks off to the WONY part of Manhattan so he can redo his chatacter arc from 1 of learning to trust and obey the guvermemt and division. Don't remember why Faye and the police guy are also there, probably something to do with Keener and his band of retards squatting there.

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>>738420453
>Try to play PvP in the first game by going to the zone or whatever it was called
>Get immediately killed by chink hackers that all have invincibility cheats on

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>>738419512
fine tuning is only necessary if you're doing turbo hard shit like legendary missions, raids and high tier escalations
just remember these basics:

>DPS man
get as many red core gear as you can, stack critical hit chance (CHC) and critical hit damage (CHD) if you're using anything besides snipers

CHC caps at 60%, CHD go nuts. Get backpack and chest talents that buffs your damage

>Tank man
most considers tanks as deadweight, because the aggro system makes enemies shoot the DPS guys
Stack blue core gear, get talents that helps out your team like Vanguard, which gives 50% of your armor as bonus armor to everyone when you pull out your shield

>Tech man
Stack yellow core, your gadgets should be at tier 6
Depending on the brands and gear sets, you can be healer man, freeze enemies in place man, burn everything man or drones and turrets man and more
get chest and backpack talents that buffs your gadgets

>>738420727
PvP was wild even if no one was cheating, if you show up with PvE gear you'd always get just deleted, and optimizing for the normalized PvP was again another thing entirely

>>738420149
>I would love a game like The Division where you could do stealth takedowns,
which is funny because they could do that, they have experience with it, but ultimately they don't have it in this game.

>>738421152
I mean, I guess it would probably fuck up the balance by a ton just by making something like that, but you could just have it be a solo thing

>>738420453
prototypes help you skip the expertise grind somewhat, I basically only farm prototype guns because the +30% damage expertise damage is very noticeable even with shittier attributes.

>>738420149
What about Ghost Recon Wildlands or Breakpoint? They have the option to be stealthy, plenty of gadgets you can employ, and though it is kind of a headache to get mods set up for Breakpoint, there's a really popular one every loves that really helps.

>>738421473
Wildland just sucks as a solo game

>>738420727
Going into PVP without expertise level 30 and now prototype gear is impossible. To someone who just started the game, there is no difference between a chinese hacker and some turbo autist who grinded for years but I have never seen Chinese players if any, except maybe twice in Conflict. The Dark Zone uses server locations. I once played with a guy from Korea to get the achievements and even they don't play with Chinese players.

Also I did not know until recently that there was a Tencent owned version of TDV2 that is F2P but it is super fucking shit because it is even grindier (They get a cooler drone). The new mobile version was made for Asia because the game is popular in Asia more than in the west.
There are rumors of a PVP update, but what the game needs is a DZ area or a conflict mode with preset characters so you don't have to wait 10,000 years to play multiplayer.

>>738421539
I thought it was great. What was your problem with it?

>>738421714
Basically everything you do is designed around having a party. That is, a human party.

>>738420149
MGSV

>>738421261
Much like classified gear, you need to already be kinda broken to play Escalation / Legendary. Sure the game snowballs from there but getting to the point you have good enough gear based on the scraps you get from other activities, it just kills the pacing of the game.

I got all the achievements, beat most missions with only Manhunts left and I barely got to Expertise 8.
Both games have a huge problem with the pacing of the games, there are times it just stops dead in its tracks and it takes a lot of grinding to get the ball rolling again.
Also I think the Roguelite and the Tower mode are fun, but literally nobody plays those modes because Countdown / Retal awards MOAR shit, and you need MOAR shit.
Oh and Global events also ignore them.
I like these games an awful lot but they are a series of "Why?" decisions.
It is crazy how close these games are to being great.

>>738422078
I played Escalation Tier 5 with some guys from my pug clan with base strikers+coyote+elmo easily, and then I got a bunch of prototype guns and easily caught up on DPS. I think prototype farming is just meant as a way to skip expertise grinding, it just sucks in the case of exotics that can't get the 30% damage increase without the grind.

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>>738422202
This is my current build, I think this is the best I can do. It is what I think is balanced for retaliation grinds.

>>738422636
if you run red/blue core strength, you're getting skill efficiency which is worse than actual tech tiers

find some spare core strength pieces with yellow cores or recalibrate them yourself and enjoy tier 6 tech, decent damage and 2mil armor

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So what are your guys thoughts on Division: Resurgence? (Aka, The division 1.5 that is free for some reason).
I'm quite liking it so far, but I'm avoiding PvP other than Dark Zone like the plague, Bulwarks and Medic Tanks are the only viable meta there, and attempting to play with anyone else feels like an humiliation ritual.

>>738424052
>Division: Resurgence
I wasn't even aware this thing existed

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>>738424052
>mobile game
You actually got me going for a split second.
I'm sure this is better for them after some market research or whatever, mobile is the future appearently, I'm just sad that I dislike this trend.

>>738424052
I have literally never heard of this before
> mobile
And I shall now proceed to forget about it again

>>738423808
I have no idea how this set works.
Isn't Yellow the worst core? It says here Yellow only adds 15% to the other ones.
I thought this was the "balanced" set.
It was a tech set all along?

>>738425385
>>738425469
They officially released it on PC last week. Other than mouse sensitivity problems, it's fine. The game continues the same old shitty inventory management we all know and love

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>>738424052
we have
>division 1: best atmosphere
>division 2: best gameplay
>division resurgence: mobile and free
by default i'm gonna ignore mobileslop

also, ubisoft are cowards for not adding the chinese division 2 skins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fla_fgBSAPI

>>738426007
it's a more jack of all trades tech set
>For each Core on your Gear Pieces, recieve 40% of the other two Cores' bonuses. Skill Tiers count at 15% Skill Efficiency when these bonuses are applied.
>Chest Talent: Inner Core
>Increase Core Exercise percentage of the bonuses you recieve from the other Cores from 40% to 75%.

so running red/blue means you only get skill efficiency, not skill tiers
running yellow you get the skill tier AND 75% of 15% weapon damage and 170k armor if you run the chest piece

>>738424052
this game came out on the same day as NTE so I haven't played far yet
liking the gunplay so far but the enemy AI is a bit too dumb compared to Division 2

>>738426209
>>738426007
This sperg autist gives a pretty good summary of how you should run core strength:
https://youtu.be/vUQ33DO_SEY?si=6mOTCISR0Am2I296

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>>738426209
I thought it worked differently.
>Just run memento, stupid
Ah, I did not know that I only needed to run the 4 pieces including the chest piece and the rest could be whatever.
I am doing the GE, so that is why the armor is under 2.2M.
Thanks anon.

>>738412271
The garbage bag tech in Div 1 has also never been seen ever again. Truly lost.

What are the chances of a Division 3 except without the threat of Ubisoft shutting down servers and rendering the game unplayable?

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>>738427026
>Your agent clothes start collecting more and more snow the more you stay outside during a snowing.

>>738427268
It's literally already confirmed in development, if they play their card rights it might even save Ubi, it has a lot of potential now that games like Destiny 2 sudoku'd themselves.
Just in time for the new pandemic bullrun.

>>738427268
That depends, is Stop Killing Games going to succeed and will Ubisoft survive long enough?

>>738427268
>What are the chances of a Division 3 except without the threat of Ubisoft shutting down servers and rendering the game unplayable?
At this point it is likely Massive shuts down as well as a good chunk of Ubisoft for several reasons.
First of all, Ubisoft executives are goddamn fucking retards and they are planning a golden chute escape.
Ubisoft has a really bad reputation and Massive hasn't recovered from Outlaws which was shit largely in part by Disney themselves which prevented Massive from making the game they wanted to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3JGizsyz8k

I doubt SKG passes in time and if it does it was redacted very poorly, there is a perfect argument as to why games like The division should remain online since these games still make money from MTX, so while stating a game should be online for more than 10 years despite player numbers is kinda dumb, if that game is still sold and still generates revenue it is unfair for people who get these games a year prior to their shut down to have no form or way to access the game.

...and Ross for some fucking reason did not want to use this argument because he just wants to push this shit out the door as soon as possible.
and both Massive and Ross are unreachable.
Massive because all communication is done through Ubisoft, and they suck dick to the point I was thinking the other day of writing them via mail, like paper mail with stamps, to reach them.
Ross is also unreachable because of the orgy of redditors constantly jerking him off.

What do you listen to while playing Division?
The game is a vibe when played with background DnB (Jungle, Atmospheric, etc) imo or breakcore but that's sometimes excessive.

>>738427692
Isn't Ubi subsidized by the canadian government? To the dismay of the cucked canadian taxpayers they might tank the cost of the coming crash for Ubi lmao.

>>738427771
>Isn't Ubi subsidized by the canadian government?
Ubi is a french studio though, and they are constantly at odds with the French government (though not as much as Atari used to be)

>>738427438
Ubisoft closed Red Storm this year.
Shadows, Outlaws and SKG soiled their reputation. The next Ubisoft game that comes around will be boycotted.
There is a "new" division game but it is a mobile version of TDV1, gutted but with a new original story but still that is not promising.

Ubisoft executives are dead set on killing the company, the fact they aren't using SKG as a vehicle to improve their image is just stupid. So it looks grim.