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Grimbli

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Is it good at all though? I've heard it's not too great and mobs are bullet sponges.
 
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Soven Taliesyn

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Is it good at all though? I've heard it's not too great and mobs are bullet sponges.
They can be. It's an RPG that plays like a shooter so it's about leveling.

So far I think the game has received mostly positive reviews. We'll have to wait for full release to see full content but, I for one am glad I pre-ordered.
 

zeddie

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Jan 22, 2014
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Is it good at all though? I've heard it's not too great and mobs are bullet sponges.
I got into the closed beta on PS4 at the very last day, so didn't have much time to play around at all, and did that one mission. Only played about 1.5 hours total, didn't even try Dark Zone.

Open Beta, on PC, I've really played around, but not to the point of some players min/maxing stats and loot.

I got almost all blue stuff in the end, at 8/12, and tried to farm to get one of those yellow weapons with random groups, but going "accidentally rogue" because of a team mate is extremely punishing, especially when you're not properly geared for it. My stuff was more or less all over the place, stats pretty much balanced throughout, but from some videos of guys going 1v3 or even this one 1v6, they've been going DPS/Tank for their solo run, with optimized gear.

This is a very VERY RPG 3rd person shooter, where stats actually matter, and your loot/strategy determine your outcome more than your gun skill. Although, if you can't land a shot, it won't do you any good neither, but gear/level/stats is a lot more heavily weighed.

I can see myself playing this more, than pure FPS gunskill game like Counter-Strike or Call of Duty, where I'm horrible at.
 

Soven Taliesyn

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This is a very VERY RPG 3rd person shooter, where stats actually matter, and your loot/strategy determine your outcome more than your gun skill. Although, if you can't land a shot, it won't do you any good neither, but gear/level/stats is a lot more heavily weighed.

I can see myself playing this more, than pure FPS gunskill game like Counter-Strike or Call of Duty, where I'm horrible at.
THIS!

After completing all the mission and side mission stuff I spent quite a bit of time solo'ing the DZ. Not really a smart thing to do with lower level stuff. But it wasn't so bad if you were on a server that most didn't pvp and you could join up with the take down of NPC's. By that point I didn't loot anything unless it was worth it. Extracting solo is stressful.
 

ErnoCor

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Jan 1, 2016
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I got The Division, beta felt like a nice taste, was fun roaming the pvp area with my friends. Looking forward to see what kind of missions they come up with. Getting a key for another copy bundled with my new gpu. Could give it away to someone who needs it.
Guessing the code works in other countries too, if not, I'll just give it to the girl next door and hope she adds me on steam :cool:
 
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Blind Owl

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Ooooooo, free is nice. I like free. Lol. That's better than 60 bucks for sure. But I'm sure there are others who are more in need than I am. But if you don't get any bites, lemme know. I'd love to have this.
 
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JC Pax

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Feb 13, 2016
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the game is amazing. ive played it on 3 occasions now. and it was all the same content yet i played the hell out of it all three times.. really cant wait for the full game to come out.
 
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Blind Owl

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Save money and don't preorder! ;)
I do have a huge dose of steam library to work through. Games I haven't even started:
Witcher 3, Farcry 4, Pillars of Eternity to name a few (out of hundreds)
And a bunch more to finish yet:
Witcher 2, Inquisition, SWTOR, Divinity, Borderlands the Pre-Sequal, Fallout 4, Mad Max.
Not to mention my PS4.

Dammit. I'm more addicted to buying than playing it seems. You'd think it was digital ships FFS. Haha
 

aLumberingOx

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I played both the closed and open beta on the PS4 and just absolutely loved it. It is a game that is enhanced greatly with friends in either the story mission and the DZ (especially the DZ). It seems to have a much better story line development compared to Destiny and I enjoy the strategy/skills over runny gunny spaz moving that most other FPS games have. Yes, a few enemies are bullet sponges, but they are the "boss" NPC's, which works into the concept that this game is more like an RPG than just a 3rd person shooter. So most of the cannon fodder go down pretty quickly.

The DZ is where you can really have fun with your friends, especially if your friends work well together. You can either hunt down players that have gone rogue or go rogue yourself and fend off all the players out to murder you.

I'm excited for the game and can not wait for the release date.
 
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Rainshine

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I wasn't a big fan. I enjoy third person shooter and shooters with RPG elements, but this felt like an RPG with shooter elements. Overall, I felt like it was kinda a tactical-shooter version of Defiance, rather than the hack-and-slash style. Stats are pretty heavy in terms of effectiveness, a big downer for me.

I can see lots of people enjoying it, it just wasn't for me.
 

Takran

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I wasn't a big fan. I enjoy third person shooter and shooters with RPG elements, but this felt like an RPG with shooter elements. Overall, I felt like it was kinda a tactical-shooter version of Defiance, rather than the hack-and-slash style. Stats are pretty heavy in terms of effectiveness, a big downer for me.

I can see lots of people enjoying it, it just wasn't for me.
This is an excellent assessment, which I agree with.
 
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