Honestly I haven’t had the same experience as you have and I get hit… a lot! Snipers will usually half health me but there’s quite a lot of “tell” as they will telegraph themselves with their scopes - you just need to prioritise them and duck under cover. They will still take their shot anyway and miss. I usually deal with flankers with a turret, and I minimise flanking as well by staying at long range.
My go to weapon is a sniping or battle rifle which allows me more breathing room (as I mentioned, I am terribad at these games). Headshots will quickly put down most tangos.
I can’t imagine anyone being worse at these games than I am at my age so it could be you are in an overlevelled area or not optimising your gear. I’m sure if you give it more time it’ll click for you soon (I know how this sounds very MOO3), but I had great fun solo, hated it multi/dark zone.
This is really helpful, but I need something like this covering all changes since vanilla:
It mentioned changes to the dark zone- looking for further detail I saw this which fixes one of my biggest gripes with the Dark Zone:
To go Rogue, the agent needs to toggle their Rogue status before being able to do any damage to friendly agents. Any member of their group can choose to also go Rogue or to leave the group.
When I last played, the most common cheese in the dark zone was a group of three shielding their rogue mate, i.e. if you try to shoot the rogue agent you would end up shooting his mates and going rogue yourself at which point the non-rogue mates kill you.
Dark Zone is a bit more civilised now… maybe because not many players. I think once 1.8 dropped, the players will come back in droves and it might not be as safe as before :(
I don’t know if it’s obvious, but I’m in the very early game and don’t have access to things like turrets. And snipers definitely have a tell but when there’s six or eight dudes, if I focus on the snipers, I get flanked, and if I try and thin the herd I am liable to get sniped. This is why I think coop would be better - more friendlies equals more targets for the AI and thus less to deal with individually. When there’s just a few dudes it’s pretty easy to clear the place out for the most part.
My experience differs so greatly from yours that I can’t quite understand it. I can certainly empathise with your frustration though, I think I would be annoyed if I get killed every other encounter. Perhaps it’s your style of play? I tend to stay at maximum range, so it gives me plenty of time to pick them off one at a time with careful headshots, switching to a fully automatic weapon if someone gets close. If that doesn’t work, I’m fresh out of ideas! Maybe if you can get up to the turret and other skills things will go better for you. That said, do make sure you level up your gear; this game is pretty gear dependent as you progress.
Yeah I jumped back in last night, but bounced right off. After being bored by the new resistance mode, I hopped into Survival, but there were less than 5 players in both my runs.
Man I forgot how much I hate the NPC chatter in this game, especially the radio talk show host. While I’m griping, I’d also like to say how annoyed I get every time I try and find this game in my steam library under “D”, only to finally remember that it’s “Tom Clancy’s D”
Want to share that Ubisoft is going to host a Free Weekend this coming weekend. For those on the fence and have not tried it (@Rock8man ), this is a good chance. And after the free weekend if you decide to buy, you don’t need to redownload the whole game. I think it’s around 30GB.
Weird there are sales everywhere (steam, ubi shop etc) to go with the free weekend except on the playstation store. Would have probably picked it up to continue playing after the weekend, but not at full price.
The map bug about the level of missions is really annoying. It turns out the medical wing unlock mission was actually only level 4 (and I must have attempted but given up on it back then because it seemed very familiar but obviously I didn’t have the medical wing unlocked so I can’t have completed it) so at level 7 it was pretty straightforward. Not that I’m complaining really - I’d rather that than faceplant a dozen times - but it would have been nice to have the medkit capacity upgrades and First Aid ability sooner. Still, got ‘em now. And did the Tech Wing unlock as well. Bought a nice blue LMG that worked wonders on the Cleaners’ tendency to move around out of cover, especially the horrible boss at the end of that mission. Plus it gives health when I kill folks, which is nice.
Reading a few forums it looks like there’s a resurgence of interest for The Division, especially after this last patch that adds more endgame content.
In fact it looks like a number of Destiny 2 players are moving over to this game. They actually say the difficulty of The Division is a major bonus, as it encourages more complex tactics compared to Destiny 2 where the game is way too easy until the endgame/group content where the difficulty suddenly ramps up. But then you also need to buy the new DLC… That wasn’t so well received.
So, it’s quite funny. The Division got massively panned at release, had a bunch of problems and exploits. Destiny 2 was somewhat lukewarm, but still quite well received overall. Now we are almost two years after TD release, shortly after Destiny 2… and people go back to TD because it’s better.
And me, not caring for TD all this time, I can now play the game in its best shape, and for $15 or less.
The Division was never panned at launch as far as I remember though. It was very well received. And the way Ubisoft has kept at it is really impressive!
“Worth” is arguable. Since this last patch added decent endgame progression no DLC is needed at all.
The Survival DLC adds a survival mode completely separate that people find really fun. But it’s still superfluous since it’s detached. It might also be depopulated on PC.
Then there’s the “random dungeons” DLC that was improved with the last patch. It can be played solo, it’s the “rift” mode. And it can be repetitive for obvious reasons.
As I said the last patch should add ways to progress at the endgame. The random dungeons DLC would offer another option and it should be decent. And the survival adds a fun mode. The third DLC is just PvP arenas with turret defense components, I think.
