The Division 2 – Open Beta Impressions

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The Division 2 – Open Beta Impressions

As a final prelude to the inevitable launch next week, Ubisoft led this past weekends’ Open Beta as an unexpected love letter to Division players. Despite maintaining a fairly limited scope that falls in line with what we saw in the Private Beta, Ubisoft proved that they are all ears when it comes to making concessions on their original design to make their players happy. The long journey from New York to Washington D.C. has almost finished, but is the Open Beta enough to curtail fears of a problematic launch?

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FelixMajor

The beta was super smooth. No problems on my end either. I feel like there was more than enough content to experience the game and make a decision on purchasing as well.

Blotie

Seemed exactly the same as the original. The building interiors even seemed to be the same. Its okay but $60 for a retread... nope.

Pher0cious

If you can't 1 shot head shot with a sniper rifle in a modern setting with modern guns, it's a no go.

Pher0cious

Blotie said:

Seemed exactly the same as the original. The building interiors even seemed to be the same. Its okay but $60 for a retread... nope.

Yeah, they reused plenty of old assets from the first game. Exactly what you do when you are making an expansion. Plus all the dlc and season pass, $100 for The Division Expansion: Washington D.C.

Aeander

I'm interested in The Division 1.2, but I think I'll wait on it to build up. Mostly due to not having the budget for it right now.

Mr_And3rsson

People who say the game runs smooth haven't been playing for more then 5 min; it's so incredibly poorly optimized it's ridiculous. Just go read through the pages and pages of forum posts over at their site about all the people having issues.

Sephrus

My main gripe was the female characters. It's like they went out of their way to make every female into some asexual androgynous blob so as not to offend anyone. I get that it's a post disaster setting, but not every woman needed to be a flat butt, flat chest, dog ugly render. And btw UBI, keep gender politics out of video games please. Body type vs gender. What is this world coming to.

Pher0cious

Sephrus said:

My main gripe was the female characters. It's like they went out of their way to make every female into some asexual androgynous blob so as not to offend anyone. I get that it's a post disaster setting, but not every woman needed to be a flat butt, flat chest, dog ugly render. And btw UBI, keep gender politics out of video games please. Body type vs gender. What is this world coming to.

This isn't that type of game. Not every game has to be like black desert online or vindictus. Developers with horny thoughts pretty much always make crap games.

sgel

I enjoyed the beta immensely.
Didn't have any issues other than the client freezing when I quit or some sound issues here and there.
Nothing gamebreaking.

PvP was awesome and there were so many things to do in PvE... I loved that you could roam around exploring, collecting loot and random things to do would pop up.

NPCs are smarter than the first and which made the game challenging.
Making mistakes are almost always punished.

The detail of the in-game world was astonishing... very immersive.
I thought I'd miss the snowy setting of the first but I loved the weather effects in the beta.
Fighting in rainstorms felt really great

I didn't really like any of the three endgame specifications though...guess I'll wait for the ones released on the year 1 pass.

tankrd

Too much of the same. Played it for half hour and it felt like original game without the snow.

Avanah

Mr_And3rsson said:

People who say the game runs smooth haven't been playing for more then 5 min; it's so incredibly poorly optimized it's ridiculous. Just go read through the pages and pages of forum posts over at their site about all the people having issues.

I have 12 Hrs played and had no issues on PC. The only thing that was kinda funny is the Cover bug Words being backwards, LOL.
Maybe those "People" need to upgrade their Commodore 64's or switch from Console to PC.

3dom

Blotie said:

Seemed exactly the same as the original. The building interiors even seemed to be the same. Its okay but $60 for a retread... nope.

Original has better setting, better animations, less ugly female toons and cost 3-10 times less depending on sale.

maskedweasel

Pher0cious said:

If you can't 1 shot head shot with a sniper rifle in a modern setting with modern guns, it's a no go.

You can, for some enemies, but a lot of enemies wear helmets, so the first shot is usually taking off the helmet, the second is the kill shot.  Top of the top enemies take more than 1 shot to remove their helmet, unless you're a sharpshooter.

Kajidourden

Pher0cious said:

If you can't 1 shot head shot with a sniper rifle in a modern setting with modern guns, it's a no go.

Pretty much this.  If the setting is supposed to be modern/realistic nothing should ever be a bullet-sponge unless it's running around covered in kevlar gear...even then after a few rounds you'll punch through that stuff too. 

Edit: That, plus all the gameplay i watched ran at like 15 fps.

saurus123

tankrd said:

Too much of the same. Played it for half hour and it felt like original game without the snow.

its not the same

first is the change to the healing cant spam medkits and skills like in div 1

then its more skill based when in div 1 it was whoever had better gear won

Pher0cious

saurus123 said:

tankrd said:

Too much of the same. Played it for half hour and it felt like original game without the snow.

i

then its more skill based when in div 1 it was whoever had better gear won

Skill based? So 1 shot to the head equals kill? Didn't think so... Whoever has better gun (better gear) kills with less shots. Same old division 1.

TheDarkrayne

I was enjoying it until I couldn't progress past one certain story mission. It kept disconnecting on said mission every time I tried to do it and I had to restart from the beginning to try again. Everything else in the game was fine but that one mission was a game breaking problem for me so I won't be buying it at launch. I'll wait to see it's completely fixed.

sgel

Pher0cious said:

saurus123 said:

tankrd said:

Too much of the same. Played it for half hour and it felt like original game without the snow.

i

then its more skill based when in div 1 it was whoever had better gear won

Skill based? So 1 shot to the head equals kill? Didn't think so... Whoever has better gun (better gear) kills with less shots. Same old division 1.

Not sure how you define a game needing skill just by getting kills with one shot to the head.. Anyway, headshots do more damage.. and yes you can kill enemies with one shot with the sniper spec. TTK is way lower than Div1 as players had requested.

sgel

Kajidourden said:

Edit: That, plus all the gameplay i watched ran at like 15 fps.

I got 80+ FPS in the open and 30-50 in firefights and my CPU is 7 years old.

Pher0cious

Why does this need to be a bullet sponge game? It's already a cover shooter. If you're behind cover and the enemy is shooting at you, that's called suppressive fire. If you poke you head out then you get shot and die. Common sense 101.

You're not wearing futuristic vibranium metal armor. You don't have space alien technology energy shields. Why are you taking 20 shots to the face and still alive and kicking?

This game is 1000% turn off.

sgel

Pher0cious said:

Why does this need to be a bullet sponge game? It's already a cover shooter. If you're behind cover and the enemy is shooting at you, that's called suppressive fire. If you poke you head out then you get shot and die. Common sense 101.

You're not wearing futuristic vibranium metal armor. You don't have space alien technology energy shields. Why are you taking 20 shots to the face and still alive and kicking?

This game is 1000% turn off.

Because it's not meant to be 100% realistic.
It never was.
It balances realism with scifi to create interesting gameplay.
Not sure why that's such a hard concept to understand.

Pher0cious

sgel said:

Pher0cious said:

Why does this need to be a bullet sponge game? It's already a cover shooter. If you're behind cover and the enemy is shooting at you, that's called suppressive fire. If you poke you head out then you get shot and die. Common sense 101.



You're not wearing futuristic vibranium metal armor. You don't have space alien technology energy shields. Why are you taking 20 shots to the face and still alive and kicking?



This game is 1000% turn off.

Because it's not meant to be 100% realistic.
It never was.
It balances realism with scifi to create interesting gameplay.
Not sure why that's such a hard concept to understand.

And that doesn't work for modern guns with modern settings. Not sure why that's such a hard concept to understand.

sgel

Pher0cious said:

sgel said:

Pher0cious said:

Why does this need to be a bullet sponge game? It's already a cover shooter. If you're behind cover and the enemy is shooting at you, that's called suppressive fire. If you poke you head out then you get shot and die. Common sense 101.



You're not wearing futuristic vibranium metal armor. You don't have space alien technology energy shields. Why are you taking 20 shots to the face and still alive and kicking?



This game is 1000% turn off.

Because it's not meant to be 100% realistic.
It never was.
It balances realism with scifi to create interesting gameplay.
Not sure why that's such a hard concept to understand.

And that doesn't work for modern guns with modern settings. Not sure why that's such a hard concept to understand.

Sure it does.
It works for The Div, Apex Legends, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Titanfall, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc etc etc

jitter77

If you are able to 1 shot all enemies then the game would be ridiculously easy. You can't really make a realistic looter shooter. R6 siege is probably the closest you would get

Kajidourden

sgel said:

Kajidourden said:

Edit: That, plus all the gameplay i watched ran at like 15 fps.

I got 80+ FPS in the open and 30-50 in firefights and my CPU is 7 years old.

Even the guy doing the preview notices it towards the beginning. It's very clunky/jarring