Yeah, I love the lighting and weather effects. Though one day it would be nice to get a game that is able to treat rain properly. They do a good job here in not having rain fall inside, at least, but you can be in a tunnel or what not and look down and see rain drops impacting on the ground, even though no rain is (naturally) falling inside under the roof. It’s as if the ground is one thing, and the structure on top is another, and while they can make the rain not fall inside the structure, they can’t selectively make one part of the ground rain-free or something.
rei
1725
Got all 12 DC hunter masks through a glitch.
Summoned the last 4 that appear together and 2 of them despawned. Had the other guy in my group host and I joined his game only to see the masks had dropped in his game at the same location…for no apparent reason.
Been missing the last 4 masks … since forever.
rei
1727
I’m not the world’s greatest player but I output decent DPS if you are on PC and would like to group up to try getting them.
That was a great piece of writing. Sobering, and makes you mad as hell, but great nonetheless.
rei
1730
So in a group with my 3 friends, we also accidentally glitched the remaining 4 hunters. We killed 1, the other 3 despawned. We had one person who wasn’t hosting leave, we rejoined their game and the remaining 3 masks were on the ground ready for looting. Easy-peasy and totally unearned.
rei
1731
"Playing the Division 2 provides a deep contrast to so much that is happening with this pandemic.
The least realistic thing in the game isn’t the nanotech healers or the minifactured replenshing explosives or even the roving masses of heavily armed mooks.
Its the fact that the US government was able to roll out this massive response to a pandemic at all."
Perhaps one of the most distressing comments I’ve heard, yet oh so true.
rei
1733
Another unsuccessful attempt at the Imperial Dynasty:
So much bullet sponge :\
What rig/setup/config you have for recording, live to YT or local then uploaded?
rei
1735
I just use the recording built into GeForce drivers. Challenging is my upper limit. Heroic is way too spongey.
Designers relying on bullet sponges as difficulty sliders seem to be taking the easy way out. I guess maybe there are limited ways a developer can increase difficulty for players, given their resources and the way players get around every subtle thing a designer can come up with, but man, bullet sponges are no fun at all.
Yea, which is one of the reasons I’ve played 20 seasons of Diablo 3, getting to higher and higher GR levels, whereas in Division 2 I hardly bother playing.
Sponge != fun/challenge/rewarding/anything
rei
1738
no nemesis either this week. only blueprint from invaded grand washington hotel but no invaded roosevelt island. ugh. five weeks to craft an exotic sniper rifle.
I’ve had pretty good luck with exotic drops from heroic matchmaking missions. About every 8-10 runs something drops. Heroic is defiantly the new sweet spot in difficulty for my nearing max skill damage mortar build.
Had a double drop (bullet king and pestilence) at the end of wallstreet mission which was cool.
So far I’ve given away 2x bullet king, 2x imp dynasty, 1x sweet dream, 1x tiagarde.
JeffL
1740
@rei what’s the rifle and scope you’re using in that video? We just completed that mission last night.
rei
1741
Just the CQBSS 8x (+30% headshot damage) one on a named Classic M1A the Baker’s Dozen. I have to use it with the chestpiece’s Perfect Focus so I get +60% damage. Beats taking additional 60% damage for doing +30% damage on Perfect Glass Cannon. I did that mission 15 times.
rei
1742
Heroic is too painful though.
JeffL
1743
Yeah, for me the sweet spot is challenging. I just haven’t seen an improvement in loot at Heroic worth the additional time and effort. Ironically my coop partner and I dropped the difficulty of the Wall Street mission (I HATE the final battle in that one) down to Hard because we just wanted to complete it before the time ran out on the Saturn manhunt; and on Hard I got the Bullet King drop. I haven’t had an exotic drop in forever, and I really wanted the Bullet King, and I get it on a mission at Hard.
Again, I just haven’t experienced any significant increase in the quality of loot between heroic and challenging. There’s usually a bit more just because of how many you have to kill at heroic, but the last couple of exotics I’ve found have been at challenging and hard. On the heroic missions I end up running around the last battlefield after the battle hitting loop drops going “junk. junk. junk. Oh, this may have a higher critical chance than I have on my gear - check inventory - nope, junk.”
And don’t get me started on Rogue Agents. Takes FOREVER to kill them, and they don’t drop anything beyond your standard yellow boss. Or even that much.
