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PSA: The Division Open Beta Comes to PS4 and PC Today

It's now available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

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The Division's open beta is now available on all three platforms. After launching on Thursday for Xbox One, the beta arrived today, February 19, for PlayStation 4 and PC.

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The Division's open beta, which includes a new story mission and improvements over the previous closed beta, ends on all platforms February 22. The full game arrives March 8.

In other news about The Division, we recently learned that the game's DLC will launch on Xbox One 30 days before other platforms.

GameSpot recently played The Division's open beta content; check out the video above to get a look.

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Disaster of a beta, made most of my friends not want this game. Server issues, PC crashes was never able to group with people I knew.

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Spent so much time in the dark zone causing chaos with the two new high end weapons, the liberator kills so quick and I'm having a blast. Can't wait for the full release

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This game is boring and bland I will pass the beta was fun the first 39 mins then it got repetitive and the graphics are busted. I will wait for uncharted 4. Going to cancel my bestbuy.com preorder now.

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I'm enjoying the game alot. My expectations were pretty high, and Ubisoft met them. This is a very pretty game, packed with detail. The shooting and cover mechanics feel just like The Last of Us, and I like how you can get experience points for helping sick citizens. The subway morgue mission is awesome.

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To be honest this game feels like a single player game. More fun with more friends but only as a pve game. The dark zone might be a tacked on bad thing. If anyone was able to enjoy the dark zone you might have just been destroying everything you see in there. If you did not like it you were the one stepping out of the safe zone and being destroyed even before you had time to go grab any kind of loot to make it worth it for pvp. I hope they have more than just guns and a big map they need something that brings the game to your door as a core value.

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@Darkangel2154: Some great situations can happen in the DZ had one situation where we had a group of guys extracting and a bunch of rogues came, was massive fire fight for gear, was pretty fun, though constantly getting shot in the back isnt so fun, just depends on what you run into

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Played it today, its pretty good. But I can't see myself playing this over longer periods of time. The magic of when you first encounter other players in the pvp zone wears off pretty fast. :/

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@Acillatem1993: I was just thinking the same thing, having a lot of fun with it but not too sure about the longevity for me.

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Remember, guys, this is an RPG. If something feels weak, chances are it's because you're low level.

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@Barighm: exactly, people expect too much from a beta.

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I avoided downloading the Xbox One version on purpose, going to try it on PS4 today. I'd download it on PC but I'm afraid I have too many games on my hard drive I haven't played as it is. Haha.

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@pharoe777: I did it just to spite Xbox and its "exclusivity". You mad?

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@pharoe777: And you clearly have no sense of humor. I meant "Xbox" as an affiliation, not my literal Xbox, by the way. Yes, I often troll and harass my Xbox One just for grins and giggles, you should see how mad it gets when I turn it on and then off again without playing it.

I like Microsoft but I don't care for their habit of getting first dibs on things that aren't just for them, hence my waiting.

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@Fartman7998: their habit, PS4 was the biggest wrought for this, this gen with destiny, this was the first xbox timed exclusive that actually matters and it doesnt even go to the depths destiny did to screw people

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@Fartman7998: I hope you realize that they all do it. SONY and Bungie bent xbox owners over a rail with destiny content. They held it exclusive for a year. Destiny had so little content to begin with. And Xbox owners were their bigger player base to boot. So yeah, you only trolling yourself by waiting

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Edited By spartanx169x

I played some last night. Not sure how I feel about this game. There is no melee what so ever, just FYI. You can be face to face 6 inches a part and still have to shoot each other. Also with the starting weapons you have , if you miss one shot, you won't get the kill before having to reload. You also have to reload after every enemy kill. Granted this is with starting weapons. So hopefully you get better weapons with more ammo capacity further into the game.

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@spartanx169x: There is melee, i was making people dance to chin music last night, the ammo thing is sort of accurate, the way you fire and run out of bullets is pretty true to real life clips dont last long firing like that, but you do get mods for your gun like longer mags etc

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@spartanx169x: Are there not options to improve melee? This is an RPG, after all.

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@spartanx169x:

There is melee, it is a bit poor but it has it. With a controller just click the right thumbstick.

Edit. Sorry I'm on my phone and couldn't see the other comments explaining this.

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@spartanx169x: Just letting you know, unless the enemy is almost dead then melee is totally worthless and you should still keep shooting.

The melee won't kill enemies or come close to doing so, plus it makes the characters go all wonky and you could lose sight of the enemy for a second.

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@spartanx169x: Melee Is R3, It's not listed In the button layout however.

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@Bray209: Thanks. that will help.

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@spartanx169x: I also have mixed feelings. I was hoping for more and I'm not getting it. I guess if the story bits were more interesting or something. At the moment I'll get bored of this game in no time.

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@wkadalie: I felt the same at first in the closed beta then it all clicked and I fell in love with it, been playing all day (ps4) and just can't wait till its released, you need to grind to get decent mods on your gun then things get lots better

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@rodoxthedark: I can appreciate that. I didn't like Bloodborne at first but then it just clicked and I fell in love. I will play all weekend and hope for improvement.

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@spartanx169x: I smacked some dude in the face with my rifle butt .. wouldn't recommend getting that close to someone whose shooting at you though .. last resort !!

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@ltjohnnyrico: i will have to learn how to do that. I must have missed something. there was at least two encounters where the AI enemy was within a foot or two(easily melee range) and i could not figure out how to melee. Thanks for the heads up.

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@spartanx169x: I believe you click the right thumb stick down by default on console .. PC not sure as wont be playing it until later !!

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I tried this for about 5 mins and decided I would rather keep playing the Black Desert beta.

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@dancegdance: Same here, I played The Division for about 2-3 hours yesterday and got bored, the previous BD Beta; I played for the whole weekend, and still did not have enough time to do everything I planned, can't wait to jump back Into It today :)

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@Bray209: Black Desert is boring, has barely any story in it, the only thing good about it is the character creator, that's it. Otherwise, it's just another generic bland Korean MMO.

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@Spartan363: You mean the whole character lvling up is the story and the darkness. The entire fighting "mechanics" that shape to your will and then many other aspects I still haven't had time to try are things different than any other MMO out there. Then after that yes it is an MMO.

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I just tried to run this twice and it has crashed both times after the unskippable tutorial. A tutorial that is simply NOT needed if you have ever played a game before in your life.

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@punksterdaddy: Yeah, I hate long forced tutorials. Definitely annoying.

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in all honesty i think i will enjoy this game when i get home, i dont have high expectations but i always like items finding/earning games. i have that completionist logic when it comes to getting the best items in games.

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Finally the lesser platforms can try this underwhelming game.

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@TashunkoSapa: My 4K resolution and 60 fps would like a word with you.

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@TashunkoSapa: Bizzaro World must be full of those precious moments.

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Timed exclusivity for a number of months or even a year is just an arsey pro-business anti-consumer move.

Timed exclusivity for a few weeks, or even days, is just idiotic all round.

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@billzihang: i must say its kinda annoying, people on the xb1 get to play that extra 24 hours for no real reason.

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@neowarrior793: It's incentive to buy x1 or ps4. If it wasn't for things like this and exclusives you'd have no reason.

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@wkadalie: You'd seriously choose to buy a console because they got a 1 day or even a 5 day early access to a game? Seems a bit ridiculous to me.

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@otterbee: One game, probably not. However multiple games? Probably. Second, the Division gets content first on Xbox One so if you have both consoles you are more than likely to get the Xbox version so that you get the early access. If you are about to buy a console and buying that game, then it is something that will lead you to Xbox.

It's business. It's stupid, but it works. (And lets not pretend like sony/ PlayStation hasn't started doing it too.)

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@otterbee: It's just one reason sure. But it can be a factor. A few good reasons are enough to buy a console. Not just that, that would be stupid.

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@billzihang: well to me they can be timed exclusive all they want. it just mean ill be indefinitely excluding it. trying out hte beta and i hope it lives up to the hype.

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@tj_l33t: But you don't have that same exact problem with Destiny holding out for 1 full year when XBOX owners paid the same price as PS owners?

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