How Does The Division Actually Play? - The Lobby

It sure seems like a fun concept. However, I know better than to think it will be pulled off well. My natural weariness kicks in with this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU-ylFd4Kfw skilled player.

Why is this even branded as a Tom Clancy game? There's nothing remotely related to that brand in this game.

The shooting looks horrible. How many times do you have to shoot someone in the head 3 meters away until they go down, 5? lol

This game will have SOOOOO many trolls.

The game was never advertised as a loot game. It was advertised as a tactical, realistic, squad-based game for the last 2 years. People were excited by the fact that a "car door could be closed by walking next to it". Realism.

This is not the same game. The fact that they went all loot based with bullet-sponge enemies killed the whole game. It looks so stupid when it's just guys in hoodies without "force fields" or anything to justify it.

"Fixable" and Ubisoft?

Fat chance.

Anyway, i got my game for free so i guess i'll be playing it.

Exelent episode!

@XAGMNINETY: The PC embargo was today. I can now tell you the HUD has a lot of customization on PC. You can scale everything down so it doesn't get in your way.

he wrong about envision of the game because the first game play we saw was in the dark zone. http://static9.cdn.ubi.com/resource/en-US/game/tomclancy-thedivision/game/7_old-AgentMap_195936.jpg. so they are spot on from what they showed us at e3. I'm not going to give too much information on the game because I plan killing everyone in the dark zone when the beta drops. So everything I have learn doing the alpha I'm not sharing but good luck, and watch your back.

He wrong about the guns a level one gun versus level 8 gun you will see an huge improvement.

It's an RPG, not a shooter, and that's just fine with me.

Recent video which answers player questions such as map size, matchmaking("if you want to play with someone, we're making it very easy to do so), endgame(lol - sounds unfinished based on the video), and dark zone philosophy(ruleless): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22628ymhE3Q

In my opinion, this game is as much like Destiny as it's like Borderlands(not very). Given the negative feelings many have in regards to Destiny, I feel using it as a benchmark for an rpg shooter is an unfair comparison. If you like non-fantasy RPGs that allow co-op and ruleless PvP(zoned) then you should enjoy The Division.

Gamespot really seems to dislike this game and I'm not sure why. I've seen a lot of positive coverage elsewhere. I get that people who wanted semi-realistic shooter mechanics are not happy but just because it has an RPG emphasis does not make it a bad game. Also, since we're comparing this to Destiny so much, why aren't we comparing it to Borderlands? Just curious because I honestly think the game is more akin to Borderlands than Destiny. Heck, I think it's closer to Diablo than Destiny (admittedly, all three are a bit of a reach but Destiny is the worst).

For me, the main things I care about are: Is it fun? Does it have more than a few hours of content? Can I play with friends? Getting hung up on the 2013 tech demo or the fact that it's more RPG than shooter just seems picky if the game is fun. I do get that if you hate RPGs and love shooters this sucks and to that I would say I'm sorry and maybe go play siege, squad, arma, cs, etc... I love the fact that it will have some matchmaking.

I'll be playing this when it comes out.

These guys are way off base on this game. I also find it funny that they are trying to complain that they can't play this game solo as it's meant to be a coop social game. If you want a single player game, go play one, but you can't hold solo against a game that wasn't meant to be completely solo.

My interest has deflated. I hated Destiny and this is similar so I'll skip it.

"...good but not great." Exactly what I was expecting from Ubisoft....

everyone has there own tastes, likes,dislikes and opinions I'll still be playing this and making up my own mind how I think the game is unless you play it yourself you will never know, It's like vegemite how do you know you don't like it unless you have tried it

sounds like this game is going to bomb. the more and more it looks like destiny, the less and less i want to play it, let alone buy it.

So what you are saying is both game play clips from the game shows from the last 2 years is completely cg and not actual people playing the game because it was a "vision" ubi had? The game looks like it hit a huge nose dive from what we will be getting. The shooting mechanics needs to be as good or better then all Tom Clancy games to date. Its normal game improvement. The RPG world seems to be scaled down a bit with the real RPG sense of the game. New York is Huge why cant they scale it to size? Assassins Creed did a good job right?

I give the over/under review for this 7.

Good stuff GS. I was looking for some proper, insightful discussion of how this game actually plays. You can't see under the hood by just watching gameplay videos.

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