[QUOTE=Ph3onix;51608786]The special riflemen throw White Phosphorus at you.
Shotgunners throw shocks and yes you can, they throw them a bit quickly but slightly inaccurately when they're close, but you can get out the way easily if you react quick enough.
It feels more like they're trying to make you panic roll out of your cover into their guns rather than actually shock you.
Occassionally they also run into their own shock nades.
Which is both hilarious and gives you time to flee the fuck away in terror once you stop laughing and remember that their shotgun is a literal Nukestick, and that the shock doesn't last very long.
[I]And they are [B]very[/B] close to you.[/I][/QUOTE]
They throw them when they're running at you, they don't stop moving and it's pretty quick.
Then, they fucking ram their shotgun right in your face and assblast you.
Oh man, I had the most intense round of pvp survival in just now. It lasted an hour and I was the first to board the escape chopper, in the sense that I was the last surviving agent. Everybody was slowboating it to the darkzone (first person in the dz was 30 minutes in), I have a little route I like to take which is probably inefficient but it worked well enough and I was moderately well geared when I got in the DZ. I caught a lucky break when I entered the DZ2 and one guy got knocked-out by NPCs. Got his gear and wouldn't you know it he had a high-end ACR.
To note is the fact that I had accumulated and used a ridiculous amount of medicine so far so I could easily out-wait all other players and force my hunter upon them if they ever extracted near me. Then, on my way to my anti-virals I encountered two other players that were distracted by a group of Elite enemies and I was able to ambush them. They were able to revive but after a short firefight I was able to come out on top. I had juuust the time to loot the unconcious players before the NPCs swarmed me and I got downed but thankfully I had a medkit handy and was able to revive myself.
I beelined for my antivirals and another player tried to ambush me but I turned the table on him and ambushed him with a grenade. At this point I had truly a ridiculous amount of loot me and I went back to a safehouse to craft myself an entire set of gold gear with stamina mods. Just as I left the safehouse, the only remaining player called a extraction nearby (top of the parking lot in DZ2) and I made a beeline for THAT.
As I pulsed the place, the guy was taken out by my hunter as he probably wasn't expecting it to arrive. I raced to the top and had a bit of a sniper duel. With only 30 seconds remaining to extract I took out one hunter with three well-placed headshot with the golden sniper I scavenged and the next was taken out by a combination of a smoke grenade and an entire ACR mag to the chest.
Then I extracted and got my first PVP win on top of my first Master ranking in survival.
THIS is what I bought the game for when the gold edition got on sale.
Anyone feelin' like doing some survival with me haha, I'm StrawberryGlock on Uplay.
Anyone still play this game and want to join up for activities? uPlay account should be protocolsev.
It's just not very enjoyable alone :(
Woo! Second survival PvP win. Pretty much rushed a path I scouted out yesterday and got a good amount of gear. Went into the dark zone and got a bit more loot. Just enough to craft myself a gold assault rifle and I spent the next half hour listening to gunfire noise and ambushing unsuspecting players in the DZ and progressively crafting myself all gold gear, stamina gear mod and weapons. When I had ten minutes left on the clock I called my extraction at the northern helipad. Then ten seconds later the only other player left called his at the southern pad so I got a 1st place.
I remember my first Survival "win". A group of four called in an extraction and had to fight off about 6 hunters (there was another guy hiding somewhere). When the helicopter came, I got out of my hiding place and made a run for it, getting in first. The last thing I saw was the thing taking off and one of their groupmates running around wondering why he couldn't get on anymore.
In my defense, I was going to extract there anyway. They just happened to use their flare while I was in a nearby safehouse. :v:
I had all gold gear in survival yesterday and I still got obliterated because you should never engage hunters at close range.
Or at least if you do, make sure you have a light machine gun.
I got complacent, I even had a gold sniper rifle but I thought an assault rifle and smg would do the job. Big mistake.
I enjoyed the Times Square mission. Maybe because it felt more open than a lot of the previous ones that were relegated to corridors in buildings.
Okay, decided to try out to playing like less of a bitch in Survival this time around. So no camping the DZ for a long as possible to gank other players.
Goal is to use the northern extraction point early enough that most other players won't expect it and won't be able to reach the helipad it time. Usually everybody hangs around the southern extract because the garage is usually a good place to cheese the hunters. See, the longer the game goes on the less of an incentive you have to extract because if anybody else comes in the extract zone you'll have to fight the player AND their hunter so you're at a big disadvantage. On top of that the more you wait the more other players have a chance to procure better equipment.
All of this usually results in kind of a retarded mini arms race where you try to outlast your opponents so that they're forced to extract first but if you participate in that the match can last for like an hour and a half.
So I get some mats and guns, craft my filters, make my way to the DZ. I came into contact with another player but I tailed and killed him. His mats were not used in vain. Once I got in the DZ, there was actually a player camping the entrance there. For some reason he didn't notice me or maybe he tried to let me walk by to ambush me from behind. Either way, I got the jump on him and got his stuff too. Then it was a matter of navigating around NPCs, get a few extra mats, craft myself a gold sniper, stealthily retrieve my antivirals (pulse is essential to not have to fight gold NPCs) and immediately fire my flare. I think it was about 30 minutes into the match.
Now, you have to treat your hunter with respect. He's fairly squishy but he doesn't have cooldown on his abilities. As soon as he's under about 65% health he'll try to heal. A good trick is when he's moving to another cover is to shoot him some then throw a grenade at where he's moving and then BEFORE the grenade explode you need an angle on him to finish him off before he can heal. I was able to kill my hunter in about 30 seconds with some luck with my and his positioning. An alternative is to try to get a series of cheeky headshots with a bolt-action sniper but that requires good aiming. Anyway, I'm still trying to change up the skills I use to see what's effective with the hunters but so far they haven't contributed that much to the hunter's death.
In any case, there was still 2 minutes left to the extraction and it was pretty tense. I was gambling on the fact that nobody was close enough to challenge my extract (there were about 10 players left) and luckily it paid off. I think that juuuust as I boarded a player made it in range to trigger a hunter but it was already too late. To date, I'd say that was by far the most satisfying round I've had of survival.
[QUOTE=ForgotPassword;51666670]Have never tried survival. Do you lose everything if you die in that game mode? Like once you die you're done and thrown back into the singleplayer map?[/QUOTE]
Yeah. You're just sent back to the Terminal and that's that. Your score will give you a certain amount of caches depending on how well you did, even if you died and didn't extract.
You don't have to be max level right? I've tried queueing up at level 14 but I'd wait 5 to 10 minutes before giving up.
Yeah, you can play survival whatever your progress is. Depending on your timezone and time of day there may be more or less people queuing up for Survival so wait times vary wildly.
At least you can do open-world activities while you wait so go do a couple of side mission or something in the meantime.
Tried out Survival (PvE). Wow that got pretty intense and it really makes you think about which conflicts you want to enter or avoid.
I'm not home right now but when I do get back I'll point out my scavenging routes in survival for the sake of saving you guys a TON of trouble. Hopefully one of these days they'll make it more unpredictable but at the moment all the same type of loot spawns in the same place. Also, they made playing with friends such a chore since you can't share mats. They should make it so that if you're in the same safehouse mats are pooled. Easy fix.
[QUOTE=markfu;51678462]Tried out Survival (PvE). Wow that got pretty intense and it really makes you think about which conflicts you want to enter or avoid.[/QUOTE]
I wish they'd move some of the features of it into the main game. Temperature and basic survival stuff would make roaming the city a lot more interesting, since you'd actually be scavenging for supplies.
[QUOTE=Ghost101;51681027]I wish they'd move some of the features of it into the main game. Temperature and basic survival stuff would make roaming the city a lot more interesting, since you'd actually be scavenging for supplies.[/QUOTE]
Not really.
If you want those feature why not just... play survival.
Helped some random guy who got downed by the helicopter crash site (another guy next to him didn't bother to pick him up) in survival. He in turn helped me clear multiple boss sites and fill my loot bag full of caches in the dark zone, then helped me extract.
That turret at the end makes me think some kind of horde mode or tower defense thing
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;51690130]That turret at the end makes me think some kind of horde mode or tower defense thing[/QUOTE]
it does look like that, so maybe theres both team pvp and a horde mode packaged in the same dlc
Its going to be horde mode and probably a split of pvp, in their year one release trailer they mentioned Last Stand would pit you against other foes. Building up defenses and such
Video for reference 1:09
[video=youtube;c_qUtFkdPEk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_qUtFkdPEk[/video]
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/5oxsg0/the_divisions_expansion_iii_last_stand_overview/[/url]
Finally they're adding more segments to the Darkzone
[URL="http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-AU/news/detail.aspx?c=tcm:185-282273-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32"]Update 1.6[/URL]
[editline]20th January 2017[/editline]
Includes Microtransactions for cosmetic stuff.
[QUOTE=Chains!;51698212][URL="http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-AU/news/detail.aspx?c=tcm:185-282273-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32"]Update 1.6[/URL]
[editline]20th January 2017[/editline]
Includes Microtransactions for cosmetic stuff.[/QUOTE]
They give a TL;DR for each topic.
[QUOTE][B]Summary of the new Dark Zone areas[/B]
-The Dark Zone has been expanded with three new areas, Dark Zone 7-9, north of Dark Zone 6 and Midtown East.
-New Landmarks feature waves of enemies.
-Landmarks award you with additional loot placed directly into your inventory.
-Fast travel between Dark Zone checkpoints has become available.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of Contamination events[/B]
-New Contamination Events have been added to the Dark Zone.
-Roughly every hour, elite Cleaners will spawn in the Dark Zone underground. Contamination in those areas will reach lethal levels, so your virus filter will not be able to resist it.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of Dark Zone leaderboards[/B]
-Leaderboards have been added to the Dark Zone, tracking a wide range of different activities both in PvP and PvE. All tracked activities will be turned into a total score.
-Leaderboard rankings are divided into three tiers and will give out rewards when they reset on a weekly and a monthly basis.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of Legendary difficulty[/B]
-Legendary difficulty mode has been added to Times Square, WarrenGate Power Plant and Napalm Production Site and features new, powerful and smart enemies.
-Legendary difficulty is the most challenging content in the game and is intended for organized groups.
-Legendary difficulty rewards you with unique vanity items not available elsewhere in the game, on top of the regular rewards.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of Exotic weapons and new Gear Set[/B]
-Named gear pieces and weapons are now called Exotics and have been given their own color in your inventory.
-Exotic weapons all have their own unique talent. This change is retroactive.
-Exotic weapon sets have been introduced.
-Exotic Caches are available as a weekly reward from Legendary difficulty missions.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of Gear Set Changes[/B]
-Alphabridge 4-piece bonus now shares the free talent from your weapons instead of all three.
-Frontline’s 4-piece no longer removes the critical hit chance, instead it removes the effect of any mods you have applied to the shield.
-The Reclaimer set focuses on the Support Station. Its 4-piece bonus activates all Support Station mods simultaneously. It no longer has an effect on consumables.
-Tactician’s Authority’s buff only disappears after you use a skill.
-A new Gear Set, SEEKR, has been added to the game.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of Armor and Resistances[/B]
-Armor has been removed as a major bonus and replaced with Health. Gear still comes with base armor and some talents will still give bonus armor.
-Health and stamina are your primary means of toughness.
-Current Health rolls have been turned into the new stat Resist All.
-Resistances have become analogue instead of binary.
-Diminishing returns have been added to status effects.
-Other parts of the game have been rebalanced as a result, to make sure Time to Kill and Time to be Killed stay balanced.
-All changes are retroactive.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of changes to Skill Power and skills[/B]
-Skill Power has been moved to a system similar to armor, where each new World Tier you reach will demand more Skill Power to reach the same effectiveness of your skills.
-There’s a bigger difference in skill efficiency between low and high Skill Power builds.
-Changes have been made to Sticky Bomb, First Aid and Shock Turret.
-We’ve rebalanced Signature Skills and made it impossible to trigger a Signature Skill when you’re already suffering from its immunity debuff. Tactical link’s damage bonus has been lowered in PvP.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of PvP balancing[/B]
-Hip fire stability while moving has been decreased and a new hip fire camera has been added.
-The damage gap between body damage and headshots has been lowered.
-When combat rolling, there’s now a one second delay before you can roll again.
-You can no longer reload your weapon while sprinting.
-Medkits can now be used at full health and remove certain status effects.
-The Rejuvenated talent has been changed to give additional resistance to status effects.
-Adrenaline no longer gives an overheal from medkits, instead it will give a heal over time.
-Your enemy’s health bar will flash whenever they use a medkit.
-Survivability talents like On the Move, Battle Buddy and Critical Save have seen some balancing changes.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of economy changes[/B]
-Unlimited recalibration has been introduced. The price increases each time, capping out at five recalibrations.
-Helping civilians reward Intel.
-High End pistols in Survival no longer costs Division Tech.
-Scavenger Box now scales with World Tier.
-Some item prices have been tweaked.
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[QUOTE][B]Summary of other changes[/B]
-All activities now reward their own separate experience points and award their own caches.
-In Survival, solo players can no longer end up in games with players queuing as a group.
-Grouping up while in a PvP Survival game has been disabled.
-Reviving a downed player in Survival always costs a medkit.
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interesting patch to say the least, more PvP oriented which is gonna make the subreddit shit itself in anger and start flinging shit everywhere
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;51700652]interesting patch to say the least, more PvP oriented [B]which is gonna make the subreddit shit itself in anger and start flinging shit everywhere[/B][/QUOTE]
You say that like it's not the default state of affairs over there 24/7.
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;51700988]You say that like it's not the default state of affairs over there 24/7.[/QUOTE]
it's gonna be even more stanky after this
usually it's 40% massive circlejerks, 40% "DZ IS GAY NOBODY PLAYS IT GIVE US PVE DZ" and 20% actually good posts
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;51701130]it's gonna be even more stanky after this
usually it's 40% massive circlejerks, 40% "DZ IS GAY NOBODY PLAYS IT GIVE US PVE DZ" and 20% actually good posts[/QUOTE]
Don't forget about those exaggerated story posts
Some guy dropped me an item I was looking for better make a novel on it
dude, reclaimer is now pretty much the greatest thing ever with this update. all three station mods at one time? AKA unlimited ammo and health regen faster than you can lose health even in pvp. this shit is going to be insane
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