Tom Clancy's The Division 2

EoinMcLovin

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Anyone able to equip the clan patch yet?

I think you can buy vanity items that have the clan emblem on them, not sure what clan level you need to be and haven’t seen anybody on reddit say anything about it

ECO_Mental

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

I set up an Xbox clan, Irish Agents.

Anyone on Xbox feel free to send a join request or PM your gamertag and I'll add you

Hi just sent a request to join the clan, my GT is ToxicStarknova.


Cheers

Zero-Cool

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

I think you can buy vanity items that have the clan emblem on them, not sure what clan level you need to be and haven’t seen anybody on reddit say anything about it

Ah balls, thought it would be added to your patch options

FAILSAFE 00

AidoEirE wrote: »

This 100%, if you go cover to cover while enemies reload and wait for the right window, the enemy npcs will fire and flank the last location they spotted you

Yes, cover to cover reduces your visibility to the NPCs. People that use can take good strategic positions before an engagement.

gimli2112

Up earlier doing some normal invasion missions. They're quite easy. Joined a random whose PSN intimated he was a worshipper of Satan and was suspicious as to why a 443 character was doing such low level missions but it worked out. He dropped a 300 ACR E at the end which takes the 5.56 extended mag. It's these little things that are making me happy.

The specialists' skill trees are great, everything on it seems awesome. Went with the demolition one. I regret nothing.
The sharpshooter has some very good stability and reload perks but you can't have everything.

Rob2D

gimli2112 wrote: »

Up earlier doing some normal invasion missions. They're quite easy.

Agreed. Hoping to get to WT3 this evening and so far the Black Tusk are the easiest faction to fight IMO.

A lot of info about the new raid got data mined too. Incoming in May apparently.

degrassinoel

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

I think you can buy vanity items that have the clan emblem on them, not sure what clan level you need to be and haven’t seen anybody on reddit say anything about it

you've probably unlocked a load of commendation vanity patches, you have to id them first though, check your menu where the voicelogs and all that crap is, found a few in there myself last night

Dcully

No min maxing in the game it seems which is a big disappointment.
Just equip your highest gear score per slot and off you go no need to work on builds or anything.
Im almost at tier 4 ie the final tier for a while and its been too easy to get here, mostly solo play.

Other than that great game just hope we have plenty to do months down the road.

bigphil2

goon_magee wrote: »

You'll be in for a 92gb update as far as I'm aware.

It wasn't too bad in the end.42gb download took about 45mins,and the data transfer from the disk took about 35 but ran at the same time so it wasn't too long a wait..

Realy enjoying it so far,so much to do,its tough enough aswell,not frustrating,nicely balanced id say,played for about 8 hours yesterday,up to level 6,now on the hunt for blueprints and upgraded weapons..

EoinMcLovin

degrassinoel wrote: »

you've probably unlocked a load of commendation vanity patches, you have to id them first though, check your menu where the voicelogs and all that crap is, found a few in there myself last night

Yeah unlocked a few patches there already

gimli2112

Dcully wrote: »

No min maxing in the game it seems which is a big disappointment.
Just equip your highest gear score per slot and off you go no need to work on builds or anything.
Im almost at tier 4 ie the final tier for a while and its been too easy to get here, mostly solo play.

Other than that great game just hope we have plenty to do months down the road.

I haven't really looked at this. It seems a waste of time to consider character builds when World Tier 5 will just make everything obsolete. Totally agree that you just pick the highest gear score for now but at first glance there seems to be huge build diversity available. You can choose to equip sets which have specific bonuses or gear with mod slots or attributes.

Some of the gear and gun perks look insane. I'd be surprised if some aren't horribly broken in some shape or form. I think someone told me one item had 25% damage to elites.

It hasn't been challenging so far to get to WT1. I read it takes roughly 9 hours to get to WT4 from WT1 but I guess it depends how you go about it.

Stone Deaf 4evr

played the lincoln memorial misson last night, kind of a boring one, but right at the end, the 'head to the exit' marker glitched and made us run all the way through the empty level again, but we got stuck at a locked door that couldnt be opened.

really annoying, a good 35 minutes down the drain, and no rewards got either.

KilOit

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

played the lincoln memorial misson last night, kind of a boring one, but right at the end, the 'head to the exit' marker glitched and made us run all the way through the empty level again, but we got stuck at a locked door that couldnt be opened.

really annoying, a good 35 minutes down the drain, and no rewards got either.

Any instance bugs I got was resolved by the squad killing themselves with grenades to reset the section

FAILSAFE 00

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

played the lincoln memorial misson last night, kind of a boring one, but right at the end, the 'head to the exit' marker glitched and made us run all the way through the empty level again, but we got stuck at a locked door that couldnt be opened.

really annoying, a good 35 minutes down the drain, and no rewards got either.

Did you try knocking :pac:

EoinHef

Have to admit i underestimated the shotguns a bit. Not a fan of the double barrels but the pump one i got this morning was shredding. Dead handy for melee rushers and purple bars if they get to close.

Next mission up for me is jefferson plaza and im about to hit lvl 15. Got my first purples and the blueprints are all stacking up nicely. Ive used the crafting a good bit more than i did in division 1. Up to this point anyway.

Have found the levelling to reasonably balanced so far,havent been like lvl 8 and the next missiin is lvl 14 or anything. I always seem to be about one level below,which of fine by me.

gimli2112

yeah you can progress through the story pretty handy. In the first one you could get stalled by stry missions been too high a level.
WT2 now, you can feel it getting a bit harder tell you get the GS up

Rob2D

Should be in WT4 tonight hopefully. Although I'm also quite annoyed at the emphasis on gear score. It is historically the worst way to measure someone's ability and Massive surely know this. I can't understand why they're pushing it so hard so early.

It really sends out the wrong message to new players.

Zero-Cool

All the fancy lads on about works tier and there's me just after hitting level 10. Absolutely loving the game. Took my first trip to dark zone last night, tutorial level was handy but hopefully not a real taste of the DZ. Got a lovely M60 that is tearing through people. I never touched LMG's in the last game but my 2 best weapons so far have been those monsters.

dreamers75

Finding the M1A1 (2.2k)/ M870(6.6k) Combo pretty much unstoppable with massive DPS, would like to get some with perks. Level 15 I think I am.

Using the Drone and Turret to keep big lads busy whilst we deal with Ads, other 2 lads have repair and support options to compliment the team.

I find the support things fairly useless ie the ones that cover an area because you cant stay still, You have to keep moving. I was a bit bored having to redo control points to catch everyone up but I find the game is fighting with itself regarding Coop Vs Solo. Solo is much easier unless you are positioned poorly and get over run but Coop can be insanely hard with "Coop Augmentation" which I believe translates into "You Are Fcuked and so is your team"

Zero-Cool

Oh, thanks to whoever recommended revive hive. Auto revive on death is so handy. I've wasted 2 skill points so far on pulse and chem launcher fire starter. The drone striker is alright but any recommendations what to replace it with?

DeadlyByDesign

dreamers75 wrote: »

Finding the M1A1 (2.2k)/ M870(6.6k) Coop can be insanely hard with "Coop Augmentation" which I believe translates into "You Are Fcuked and so is your team"

1000x this!

Just about to hit 15 and was hit with a hard stop last night on the Bank mission with "Roach" as the last boss. We kept getting to the boss wave, but our bullets just bounced off him. I am running an AR/LMG combo, which seemed to be effective a from level 5-11 now it does not seem to be cutting it for whatever reason. Maybe because the LMG I have now does not hold the 100 rounds only 30.

Thinking of trialling an AR/Sniper build or SMG/Sniper build.

Stone Deaf 4evr

managed to solo my first bounty boss last night (one of the ones awarded as part of a project), I'm level 20, and it was a pretty tough fight, had to keep backing off to kite the lower level enemies towards me and deal with them first, had a few skin of my teeth moments when a patrol arrived from behind and nearly wiped me out.

The scaling is a little strange, in that I dont feel like I'm getting any more powerful and wiping out the red bar enemies like they're inconsequential, they're still every bit as dangerous as they were at the start, its just that i have a better selection of skills to work with, but they can still kill you in short order if you're not paying attention.

DeadlyByDesign

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I dont feel like I'm getting any more powerful and wiping out the red bar enemies like they're inconsequential, they're still every bit as dangerous as they were at the start, its just that i have a better selection of skills to work with, but they can still kill you in short order if you're not paying attention.

It's mad isn't it. Like I will still approach them strategically like a boss fight as I know if the get out of hand they will wipe me out. You still have to respect them

ShadowHearth

I am almost 27 with 30h in so far. Loving this game. I really hope open world roaming is still viable. As in games like this usually it's all about grinding some mission etc as it's most efficient.

So far my choice of weapons were AR and semi auto rifle like m14. I did got M60 now and I just love it. The sound it makes just makes me have a stiffy.

mossym

ShadowHearth wrote: »

the sound it makes just makes me have a stiffy.

and with one statement hopes of ever being invited to group up again died immediately......

goon_magee

I've read that grinding conflict is the most efficient way to get you past soft cap in WT4. The weeklies and dailies supposedly don't drop gear past 450 which seems odd, surely you're pinnacle weeklies should be an avenue to the best gear

DaveNoCheese

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

The scaling is a little strange, in that I dont feel like I'm getting any more powerful and wiping out the red bar enemies like they're inconsequential, they're still every bit as dangerous as they were at the start, its just that i have a better selection of skills to work with, but they can still kill you in short order if you're not paying attention.

Yup, too many times I have foolishy died to red bars due to my own fault.

Blackgator

Good tips from Marco. Had to use the one about cover for a few bosses. Feels a bit cheatie but needs must.

Dcully

World tier 4 and 450 gearscore and finally i have found something challenging in the game as its been too easy so far.
Clearing activities connecting to hostile control points increases the threat level of the control point up to threat level 4 which is a great challenge and a the best way to farm blueprints.
This is probably the best activity to do at world tier 4 endgame both in terms of gear,xp and blueprints, no other activity in the game gives all of these ie you are guaranteed a blueprint.

This threat level feature is only for world tier4, nice to know that within world tier 4 we also have activities that also have more tier levels on top.

shootermacg

i'm stuck at 398, because of my ****ty pistol being 250, all my drops are 390 to 400. Is there something I can do to increase the levels of the drops.