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[Pajama Knight]

Tom Clancy's the Division is an open world third person shooter with some basic leveling mechanics, crafting, weapon modding, and shooting dudes. Lots of shooting dudes. I'd call it a mix between Diablo and APB: Reloaded. It has a pretty heavy multiplayer focus.

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The game's made by Ubisoft so I'm not expecting something earth shattering. I'm mostly concerned about the variety of enemies and gameplay, as it looks like they just took a few different factions, gave them certain weapons and tactics, and left it at that. Being a Tom Clancy game I'm not expecting zombies, mutants or anything to shake things up either.

Decent gameplay video here, where a few Youtubers were allowed to play with a developer earlier this month.

The Beta's coming out this weekend (Friday to Sunday). I think you can still apply for the beta here. Preorder and you get guaranteed Beta, if you're not against preordering. Get it on Steam you can pre-load it now.

It looks like the game will be more fun with teammates, so I'm on Steam as Pajama Zach if anyone wants to do the Beta or play it when it gets released. Add me and we'll figure out details. I'll be playing the medic/support class. I'm also planning on recording my sessions and uploading highlights and impressions on Youtube if you're into that.

[YaW]

If it really is a Destiny in third person, I'm in for whatever they do.

[Anvilfolk]

I'm Anvilfolk in-game in case anybody wants to find me!

[jocan2003]

This game has been on my watch-list since watchdog... yet... i still didnt save money for its inevitable release... now i feel dumb and broke XD.

[Man of Paper]

This and X-Com 2 are the only purchases I plan on making anytime soon.

[Folly]

Played the beta for a couple of hours. It was pretty much what I expected. Boring urban environments, typical mundane guns. There was only one story mission in the beta, which simply had me run through a building shooting waves of grunts, culminating with one slightly stronger boss at the end who still failed to do anything interesting or unexpected. After that I tried to join multiplayer, but was told I was 3 levels too low, and I just didn't feel like grinding out levels for a very short beta so I uninstalled.

[ThtblovesDF]

This is like watchdogs all over agains, amazing trailers and purly diapointing game.

Also that beta took longer to download then to finish.

[Anvilfolk]

I dunno, I played it for a bit and I feel there might be something here. I enjoyed getting to know the weapons systems a bit, and there was so much incredible tension in the Dark Zone. It's small, people are calling extractions, and you never know whether they will start shooting you or not. And if you die, you lose loot!

And, you can hear voice chat from other players, so you know they're around. I could hear some folks coming in to our extraction site talking in portuguese, which I can understand, and they thought we couldn't understand. But if I voice chatter, then they would hear me too. I think that's a system that's prone to abuse (by using external comms), but if people were to use just use in-game voice comms, works amazingly.

I don't feel like I want to play with people who aren't using voice comms though, or even random pubs. I'd like to team up with friends and have a good time.

[Salmeuk]

Only fun with teammates, and the it's a blast. I won't be purchasing it because its Ubisoft and it kind of sucks in a lot of aspects, but like any mediocre multiplayer game you can carve a niche for your own style of entertainment. Me and a buddy like to ambush players, set off fake extractions and kill anyone who shows up, and stalk people until yhey shoot at us first.

The rogue system encourages vigilante-style justice on pkers, though its pretty broken in that becoming a wanted man is impossible to survive (5minutes of survival on a 32player server where everyonr can see your location and wants to kill you for a bounty. . . Did I mention killing defensively resets the timer? Literally impossible without absurd coordination.)

The guns are unexcitingly realistic and the mod system boils down to some lackluster percentages tacked on.

The game has amazong visual design, a few intriguing systems (having to extract loot adds tension and drama to the darkzone), but lacks an oomph that really locks you in. I also suspect day one DLC and a general lack of maintenence. We also ran into hackers on the first night, which is dishearteningly quick.

[Knave]

So this is out now!

I spent 30 minutes queuing in a virtual line to activate a virtual laptop :/

Anyone else playing?

[Akura]

Overheard a coworker mention this earlier today. However, I have a low opinion of him, so that's not a strong note for this game. In the same conversation, he stated that "only burn victims play Playstation".

[Beggars` Sect]

I don`t really have an axe to grind with this game per se - seems to be doing its thing at least competently.

However, when you look at the bigger picture...I mean, is this really one of the biggest games of 2016? 2016 as in, you know, "the future"? Some rather uninspired 3rd person/32 players/RPG lite/cover-based shooter?

Wow. And then people go on and bitch about No Mans Sky. It`s a strange world we live in.

[Zangi]

I think the main feature here is supposed to be the open pvp loot section. 
Doesn't make much sense to me that you can't just walk out with the loot, but I suppose that would be way too easy... 
Some of the pick-up points are even practically a hop skip and a jump to an exit...  Raiders knowing the way can probably spawn and return 2-4 times before the chopper manages to get to the drop-point and leave.
Only played some beta for a day or so and that was the lowbie section.

[Strife26]

So this is out now!

I spent 30 minutes queuing in a virtual line to activate a virtual laptop :/

Anyone else playing?

My download should have completed right about now.

I gotta say that waiting in a line for a virtual laptop seems pretty cool. A good chunk of the beginning of any deployment is waiting in line, after all.

[Knave]

So this is out now!

I spent 30 minutes queuing in a virtual line to activate a virtual laptop :/

Anyone else playing?

My download should have completed right about now.

I gotta say that waiting in a line for a virtual laptop seems pretty cool. A good chunk of the beginning of any deployment is waiting in line, after all.

Would've been okay if there weren't a bunch of asshats trying to jump the line.

Since the line incident I've been having a lot of fun. Highly recommend you team up w/ other players when undertaking the story missions. Makes the whole cover/tactics shooter portion a lot more fun.

Had a really good time last night. We were pinned down by a group of snipers. Rest of team laid down bounding cover fire as I snaked my way forward. Managed to sneak around the side and shotgun them in the back