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Shoren posted:I do find it a bit weird, when you stop to think about things, how story-wise the player character is written with essentially an unerring moral compass. That's the only way something like The Division could possibly work and why it could never work in real life. Everything and everyone else are various shades of gray with most leaning toward black. Even Keener, for all his mustache-twirling, didn't exactly go rogue simply because it was more fun or profitable. There's even an audio recording where he talks about living in a studio apartment in SoHo prior to being activated and manipulating the super rich to spend their money investing in things that help the little guy. The Division definitely did a lot of good, but as we see with the rogue agents it could have just went straight to complete tyranny, too. I mean, welcome to Tom Clancey- branded poo poo. Go read any of the Jack Ryan books he wrote. His whole thing is "hard men doing tough things working in the gray areas that those drat libs don't trust them to work in but for the RIGHT reasons"
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lagidnam posted:If you are in need for some better stat roles for your library, just change the global difficulty to Heroic. Then go and do some "Target Practice" events. The reward will be an item that matches the targeted loot for the zone with heroic difficulty stats. Not necessarily. You still need to capture control points to start spawning friendly events. But a further tip regarding Target Practice events: the last time I checked failing them once still gives you the reward as if you beat it, then you can do it again right away and actually complete it to get another reward. You get three tries before it despawns but failing it twice doesn’t get you anything. However I’m not sure when the last time I checked was, they may have fixed that part.
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I think it might be failing after getting to round 2 or 3, and yeah like a month ago it was still working. I just hit 40 and am about to go after Keener. Any gearing suggestions? I bought the god-rolled items from the vendors. I was kinda shocked to see the damage rolls going away when I was messing around with crafting. Should I just make myself a police M4 and hope it's got a good talent? Is it worth messing around with skill or gear mods at 40? They all seem extremely underwhelming. Also, I just wanted to shout out Armor Regen for being an actual thing worth having now. It's a bit annoying but with skill times up and armor kits down it's viable to wait a minute and get healthier. That never felt like an option before (well, with patience I suppose to some extent.) Someone mentioned the Hard Wired set bonus letting you spam cluster mines by picking up and putting down a hive, but someone else mentioned the set bonuses not working. Can anyone confirm that works? Might be a nice skill build. Also, I still can't figure out how to rate technician's +1 skill level. On the one hand it absolutely seems weaker than the Skill Point boost. On the other, a level of a core attribute is kind of a big deal now. That could be close to 100k armor on a well rolled defensive attribute, for example... but also I hear people say you need more armor than you'd expect for the endgame so maybe 100k doesn't mean poo poo. Anyone have any strong opinions on Technician these days?
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Cyrano4747 posted:I mean, welcome to Tom Clancey- branded poo poo. Go read any of the Jack Ryan books he wrote. His whole thing is "hard men doing tough things working in the gray areas that those drat libs don't trust them to work in but for the RIGHT reasons" Like a lot of open world games now, the main story is garbage while some of the side stories and incidentals are really good. The idea behind the Dollar Flu and the resulting chaos is really good, they just had to shove the typical Clancy crap in with an extra judicial military operation that answers to no one but the President. Your character just being part of the JTF with a background in combat would've been just as fine with some tweaks to the story.
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Miss me with that "could have been JTF" bullshit. The JFT are Jabronies, and my division agent is an activated mailman that finally gets to go POSTAL.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Miss me with that "could have been JTF" bullshit. The JFT are Jabronies, and my division agent is an activated mailman that finally gets to go POSTAL. As the child of a retired letter carrier, I continue to be disappointed that there is no USPS outfit in the game.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Your character just being part of the JTF with a background in combat would've been just as fine with some tweaks to the story. Now I can’t stop imagining The Division is just the Green Lanterns and every time one of them dies the watch grows tiny legs and runs off to attach to the wrist of whoever ISAC thinks is worthy.
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There’s a cool audio log of a couple of tech going over Vivian’s psych evaluation and wether she’d be a good Division candidate. Goes a little into “why the gently caress are we picking these obviously hosed up people”. Turns out, people are idiots.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:As the child of a retired letter carrier, I continue to be disappointed that there is no USPS outfit in the game. If we didn’t have DZ East there could have been a mission in the Postal Museum Not having access to all of Capitol Hill is the great crime of the game
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Kibayasu posted:Now I can’t stop imagining The Division is just the Green Lanterns and every time one of them dies the watch grows tiny legs and runs off to attach to the wrist of whoever ISAC thinks is worthy. Replace Manny with Ryan Reynolds. I like that they cheaped out on bounties in NY by having Manny tell you you did a good job finishing one instead of Rhodes/Benitez/Kelso. He's still back in DC!
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Last night I was slightly drunk and up late and started using google maps to run around and see stuff. The NYC map is legit 1:1 when it comes to buildings on streets and what they look like. I only found a few cool places so far, there’s so many! The FBI headquarters up by the circuit courts was next but the servers shut down. The NYC police department headquarters got turbofucked: The US NYC Supreme Courts: Stated Island ferry: also thought this was a cool thing I’ve only ever seen in post apocalyptic short films: https://i.imgur.com/veCaLx5.gifv
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Replace Manny with Ryan Reynolds. I just finished the story missions and haven't gotten around do doing any of the events, do you get to reset propaganda speakers to blare Rick Velassi at people?
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FAUXTON posted:I just finished the story missions and haven't gotten around do doing any of the events, do you get to reset propaganda speakers to blare Rick Velassi at people? Yes to the missions, but no to Rick Velassi, at least not yet. So far it's just the Haven guy telling people not to start poo poo in his area.
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The Locator posted:Yes to the missions, but no to Rick Velassi, at least not yet. So far it's just the Haven guy telling people not to start poo poo in his area. laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame Rick's show is the only stable thing in NYC, years later and he's still at the mic breaking brains, they should have him running a settlement at this point
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I'd be totally on board with The Division 3 being about a regular dude fighting against armies of rogue division agents, capturing and hacking their tech to use against them. In general though I just turn my brain off to the story. The idea of the Division is totally a fascist power fantasy and it's hilarious that the game tries to ever present it as a good thing. Every character that is skeptical or hostile to the Division is 100% correct to be so, especially with all the rogue agents running around. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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FAUXTON posted:laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame Is it already years? I thought we were in the summer after? Like July/August ish.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Is it already years? I thought we were in the summer after? Like July/August ish. Rotten Red Rod posted:I'd be totally on board with The Division 3 being about a regular dude fighting against armies of rogue division agents, capturing and hacking their tech to use against them. It does at least typically present the Division as ineffective at best and a terrible idea at worst, until the player character comes in and shoots things until it’s less hosed up. There’s like three division agents that try to do their jobs in the games, it’s mostly just a faction of boss enemies.
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Why are there so many ninja guys in NYC? there were some in DC, but they are everywhere in New York, getting their asses kicked by cleaners, rikers and peace keepers.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Last night I was slightly drunk and up late and started using google maps to run around and see stuff. The NYC map is legit 1:1 when it comes to buildings on streets and what they look like. I only found a few cool places so far, there’s so many! The FBI headquarters up by the circuit courts was next but the servers shut down. As a new player and DC resident, I'm super impressed by the accuracy in this game. On one of the very first missions I was like hey, I was there for dinner last weekend. Yup I drove down this street when I went home. The "Viewpoint Museum" is indeed what the Newseum looks like on the inside, right down to the posters/signs emphasizing how important the news is to democracy. Game is great for just running around recognizing poo poo.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Is it already years? I thought we were in the summer after? Like July/August ish. I meant real time, sort of as a joke because otherwise it wouldn't be as funny. I also haven't heard much of ol' Rick due to focusing on the story missions but does he say anything about the fact that it isn't winter anymore? I remember hearing him say something like "winter shouldn't last this long, something is hosed" in D1
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Cyrano4747 posted:Incidentally, this is something to consider when complaining that you can't do challenging content right now. It's only been out a few days, I've only been playing sporadically, and I already have this is a good point I hadn't thought about 10% is noticable when I equip Fenris and my AR suddenly starts doing better, now having that globally? On top of Fenris? Yeah, that's the good stuff.
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Kesper North posted:I live smack dab in the middle of a Seattle neighborhood the New York Times recently called "the center of an epidemic of illness and fear", so naturally this game drops now and I am playing it. Do you have a gun? DOES YOUR NEIGHBOR?
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bamhand posted:As a new player and DC resident, I'm super impressed by the accuracy in this game. On one of the very first missions I was like hey, I was there for dinner last weekend. Yup I drove down this street when I went home. The "Viewpoint Museum" is indeed what the Newseum looks like on the inside, right down to the posters/signs emphasizing how important the news is to democracy. Game is great for just running around recognizing poo poo. I think I remember that they took a handful of shortcuts in Div 1 to make things fit, and DC/Warlords is a 1:1 replica. My NY internet buddy was showing off his old apartment, his wife's work building, and a ton of good falaffel places.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I think I remember that they took a handful of shortcuts in Div 1 to make things fit, and DC/Warlords is a 1:1 replica. My NY internet buddy was showing off his old apartment, his wife's work building, and a ton of good falaffel places. Somebody earlier posted about a possible hunter encounter in a coffee shop by rector at and I was like “oh, that’s the Dunkin’ Donuts I used to go to” and I fast travelled to trinity church and navigated there from memory. It was insane, I don’t think I’ve ever had a game trip that automatic knowledge of how to get somewhere before.
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Division story is awful for a lot of reasons, but a big one for me is how they try to have their cake and eat it too They present you as a supertech supersoldier who is all super do-gooder and can beat down all the Very Bad Men And Women to save the poor suffering masses And then in the various side content, they also try to present the idea of the Division as a loving terrible idea, and tapdance around the realities of a post-lethal-pandemic-pseudo-apocalypse world So you get this incredible tonal dissonance where all the main story missions are 'GREAT JOB AGENT, YOU KILLED THE BAD <MAN/WOMAN> AND HELPED <SAVE/REBUILD> THE <PLACE/THING>' And then a ton of the side story audio logs and some side missions and other various ambiance are telling a very different story, that the Division is another flavor of True Sons or Black Tusk or Last Man Battalion, with individuals utilizing the super tech and connections to do awful things alongside other awful people Also see all the hemming and hawing about 'It's not political' prior to release. Please. It's a loving Tom Clancy flavored technothriller set in Washington loving D.C., in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on New York City, America, and the rest of the world. I try not to think about it too much and just enjoy the staggeringly good world building their art and design teams created I played Div1 for the first time around Div2 launch and still thought it was amazing, they loving nailed the atmosphere, and if you've been to NY or DC, exploring the games is a real treat. Plus, you know, the shoots is fun. (also going back to New York was the cowardly story choice, but I don't get any sense that they really have a unified direction for the big story beats, Div 2 'ending' was a wet fart, and Warlords ending... eh, let's give people some more time to get through it before spoilers etc)
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victrix posted:Also see all the hemming and hawing about 'It's not political' prior to release. Please. It's a loving Tom Clancy flavored technothriller set in Washington loving D.C., in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on New York City, America, and the rest of the world.
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if I remember right it was a Red Storm employee tasked with saying that line and since then has Red Storm done anything with Division? It seems like it's been all Massive. sacrificial PR lamb, that's cold anyway the first game did a better job of establishing the "hm maybe this isn't a perfect good" while still placing the player in the "good guy" faction and it's no surprise WONY handles it better than basegame Division 2 because instead of Manny just saying "go get em sheriff" and "gently caress!" all the time, you have actual dialogue between characters with different viewpoints (i.e. the NYC crew and Kelso) what I'm really getting at is that Manny was a complete waste of a character. The drone operator (Cindy McAllister!) is significantly better than he is. in fact why can't we bring her to WONY? She already did more for us on Coney Island than Manny ever did in DC!
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Somebody earlier posted about a possible hunter encounter in a coffee shop by rector at and I was like “oh, that’s the Dunkin’ Donuts I used to go to” and I fast travelled to trinity church and navigated there from memory. It was insane, I don’t think I’ve ever had a game trip that automatic knowledge of how to get somewhere before. DC had moments like that for me, like going past a place I stumbled into one morning to buy bagels. We're likely not getting it now but I'd love a map expansion north into Dupont Circle or east into Noma. The mall is cool and all, full of iconic places, but the Division's really strongest in places where people live; this is something both NYC maps have practically by default and I think it's important.
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Roman posted:that was just the company line. their promo stuff included a press release from the Mexican government talking about how they had to close the border off to dangerous American refugees until they could figure out what's going on Also the recording about "president waller" blaming russia and dying of a heart attack
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victrix posted:Division story is awful for a lot of reasons, but a big one for me is how they try to have their cake and eat it too Yeah that's pretty much all Ubisoft games that have an element of politics in the story - they water it down with so much "both sides" poo poo, make the bad guys do absurdly awful poo poo and the good guys obviously in the right, and then pepper with with a ton of meaningless "gray area" stuff like the logs showing how the big bad isn't actually SO bad a guy, for real!!!! and how the division is simultaneously the savior and responsible for the worst parts of the tragedy. It feels like someone wrote an initial story with clear political overtones, and then someone else came in and added things until it was muddled enough you couldn't tell what it was trying to say anymore, and then shoehorned in a throughline for a politically-blank protagonist to wipe the slate clean. Still, you're left with moments they can't erase, like the fact you're running around shooting gang members on sight before you've seen them do anything wrong. Sure, they're murderous spree killers openly wielding weapons, and sure, they're all a mix of genders and races, but you're still shooting people on sight in the middle of an American city only based on the fact they have a red arrow over their had and not a green one.
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https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/2196379-Maintenance-March-6th-2020UBISOFT posted:
RIP best gun in the game. LOL, you look at twitch right now like 99% of them are using this gun. RPM of a Police M4, DMG of a fast firing DMR, and as much rounds available as an m60 and more with attachments, lol.
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As an ordained saint my weapons and actions cannot hurt the innocent. Explosive barrels next to the innocent, however...
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victrix posted:Division story is awful for a lot of reasons, but a big one for me is how they try to have their cake and eat it too What if i told you there was no difference between good and bad?
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TheTrend posted:What if i told you there was no difference between good and bad? but couldn't you say there's something that divides them like, a division
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Sure, they're murderous spree killers openly wielding weapons, and sure, they're all a mix of genders and races, but you're still shooting people on sight in the middle of an American city only based on the fact they have a red arrow over their had and not a green one. There's like, one and a half lines about this per game but I'd love them to lean into the whole "wait, aren't we just doing what ISAC tells us to do?" thing. At some point in WONY the radio was like "get rid of this thing!" and then ISAC immediately chirped in "fuel line found" and marked the shiny on my map, and then when I turned it and destroyed the thing Kelso was like "Quick thinking, Agent!" That wasn't me, Kelso. There is no me. There is only an avatar of ISAC.
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We live in a society, you know
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Digital Osmosis posted:There's like, one and a half lines about this per game but I'd love them to lean into the whole "wait, aren't we just doing what ISAC tells us to do?" thing. At some point in WONY the radio was like "get rid of this thing!" and then ISAC immediately chirped in "fuel line found" and marked the shiny on my map, and then when I turned it and destroyed the thing Kelso was like "Quick thinking, Agent!" It reminds me of the show Person of Interest when people get access to the Machine in their ear and it’s telling them where people coming after them are and where they need to go next but with more insane gadgets.
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Digital Osmosis posted:There's like, one and a half lines about this per game but I'd love them to lean into the whole "wait, aren't we just doing what ISAC tells us to do?" thing. At some point in WONY the radio was like "get rid of this thing!" and then ISAC immediately chirped in "fuel line found" and marked the shiny on my map, and then when I turned it and destroyed the thing Kelso was like "Quick thinking, Agent!" wasn't there a movie about this in like the mid 2000s, it had some youngster actor of the time, James Franco or Shia Lebouf, there was like an AI orchestrating some terrorist attack etc
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FAUXTON posted:wasn't there a movie about this in like the mid 2000s, it had some youngster actor of the time, James Franco or Shia Lebouf, there was like an AI orchestrating some terrorist attack etc Shia and it’s Eagle Eye.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Shia and it’s Eagle Eye. Thanks, it was a generic technothriller and I'd all but forgotten about it lol
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