LMN8R
1602
I haven’t played it since 2016, but The Division’s matchmaking and networking tech was always the most impressive thing about it to me. The way I could even see my Xbox Live friends on the map at any time even if we weren’t playing together or in the same game, making it seamless to join each others’ games, and the social spaces, and everything else was just really cool.
you should try Destiny 2, it has pretty good matchmaking. First you load up the game on your PS4, then you boot up your PC and login to reddit or a discord channel and post messages every few minutes with “LFG” and what you are trying to do, after a few minutes you write down their names, then open the ‘add friend’ interface on your PS4 where you send them friend requests, after a few minutes they will accept them, and after a few minutes more they will appear in the in-game friends list interface (might have to reload it a few times and flick back and forth on the pages, depending on how many ‘friends’ you have), then you can click their name and invite them. If you also want to add voice chat, you will have to open the PS4 party interface and make a new party, then type their nick on the add list to add them to it, then you can toggle back to the game and hope they entered voicechat or you’ll have to exit your party, to go back to game-voice chat (abysmal quality), to tell them to join your party, then start a new party and reinvite them again. Its pretty awesome.
Yup, Division has a good matchmaking system.
Oh, I’ve played Destiny 2, as well as the first one. It was right at the front of my mind as I was writing that.
I thought I’d also mention how amusing it’s been trying out missions with randoms, given how easy it’s been to match up, like I mentioned. Mainly the contrast in play style between me and, I guess, everyone else. I play methodically, I go fairly slow and I’m careful to use cover. I guess you could say I approach the game a little as if my onscreen avatar were me, trying to not get my head blown off. I usually carry assault and marksman rifles, so I prefer to engage from a distance.
Apparently nobody else plays this way. Most folks I match up with are carrying shotguns and prefer to get right up in their enemies’ faces before they unload in them. So sometimes I’m finding myself catching up to these other folks, just finding corpses left in their wake. In their defense, I’m usually going through these levels for the first time and who knows how many runs the others have done. Still, it’s kind of funny.
Yea, I like to explore and look into every nook and cranny(?) but feel like I need to run to catch up with the rest of the party, so it is kinda annoying, but if the alternative is to not do the content at all, or worse, spend hours outside game LFGing, I’ll take matchmaking any time.
Would’ve been nice if every area in games like this had a “solo” mode (like DDO did with 3 difficulty levels, where the first one could be soloed easily) just so I could ‘check everywhere’ - and I guess in Division you can pretty much solo everytrhihgn on lower difficulty. Currently playing TESO and people rushing so much sometimes I do not even have time to complete the dungeon quest before the party is done and you’re automatically kicked from the dungeon (!).
habibi
1606
I think the reasons is because you are probably playing the mission on Hard. In times like these, the only players playing at that low difficulty are experienced players who are leveling up their friends using their alternate character. That’s the reason they are speed running it through. The real challenge where people played carefully are Challenging difficult - even then, I think Challenging is easy to some folks now. Legendary difficulty is what most people are playing now.
But I feel like The Division really forces you to watch your surroundings, and it feels like it really punishes you for getting in a situation where you’re surrounded. As opposed to something like, I don’t know, Destiny 2 where you can probably shoot your way out without too much difficulty, I find The Division will have your health just whittled completely down before you know it’s even happened. So I find myself playing much more carefully than in most shooters.
habibi
1608
It’s one of the reasons I like Division, because it forces you to assess your surrounding and then take appropriate actions. Unfortunately, when doing mission with other players who are buffed up (or they have probably done the missions thousands of times), they just rushed headlong into it. I find it amusing to see some careless players got shot down and they crawled back to you for help :)
This is exactly the same way as I play :)
Wow, and now I’m getting set items, like five already! Not all of the same set of course. But I’d really like to get my hands on more Way of the Nomad pieces since they carry health regen bonuses. Is there any way to get set parts any way but random drops?
habibi
1611
If you have enough Phoenix Credits (orange credits), then you can buy Gear Chest ($200 bird bucks each) from the Special Equipment Vendor in The Terminal, which is the train station behind Base of Operations. Opening this chest will get you random gear drops.
And if you have intel - look at your pouches screen, you can talk to High Value Target officer, also in The Terminal, to get HVT missions. This weekend, any HVT missions will net your double the reward - thus higher chances of gear sets.
What do the flashing red sectors on the minimap signify?
Those are infected zones I think.
That makes sense, thanks! I thought it was directions I was taking fire from, or incoming enemies.
Razgon
1616
If they are flashing, they are enemy directions. Red zones are infected areas.
Oh yeah, if you’re talking about your little compass, then red sections indicate what direction bad guys are located.
habibi
1618
The red zone in the main map is called Dark Zone. As rightly pointed out, it’s tbe most infected zone. Dark Zone is the PVP area. Lots of good stuff in there provided you survived any PVP encounter. Fortunately, there’s not too many players these days but it can still be unnerving.
Heh, then I guess I’m pretty bad at the game - it was flashing from 8 and 4, but I couldn’t find the bad guys for the life of me.
Razgon
1620
Does anyone know how a level 99 dark zone guy can operate in the 1-14 DZ bracket? Thats slightly annoying.
I’ve been steering clear of the dark zone so far, partly because I’m not really a PvP guy, but I know I’m going to dip a toe in at some point. And then promptly get that toe shot off no doubt.
I also am kind of blown away how quickly you rise through world tiers - I started at 1 late last week and I’m already at 5, as of last night! Kind of thought it would be more like difficulty levels in Diablo 3, you’d hang around chasing loot in one tier for a while before bumping up, which you do, but the loot Chase is so constant I just keep rising up!
habibi
1622
I bumped from Tier 1 to 5 instantly. I have not bumped up to Tier 2-4. Sometimes I wonder if I missed anything…
