The Division 2 - March 2019

[Witcher1980]

You can solo no problems at all, I do then head to the DZ for some pvp fun. Even the missions on hard are ok solo.

 

[Semple]

Well apparently the money you get from selling trash (Greens and whites etc) is rubbish, so dismantle for materials is the best option - At least thats what i understand.

Maybe a division vet can confirm as I want to know this too!

Played a bit co-op last night with Imginy. Was a good laugh, we were both useless figuring things out as there is so much to learn coming to it as a new player. It can be quite overwhelming.

Also i have an annoying bug with my headset (G933) so if anyone else knows a fix that doesnt require me having to force close the Logitech gaming suite just to get headset audio, that would be great....

I've actually been selling mine, the number of credits you get is significantly smaller than what you used to get with Div1.

There's so much loot that you pick up exploring that you reach max capacity for materials pretty quickly, so i think it's inevitable that you'll have to sell some eventually.

 

[Semple]

I absolutely loved AC:O and been on the fence about getting this game the last few days. I played the first Division but on PS4 as no one I knew was buying it on PC. Didn't really get along with it and once I got to the max level i became bored.

Is this game better for the solo player?

I wouldn't say it's "better", but i wouldn't say it's "worse" either.

The difficulty scales with the number of players in your group, so it could be argued that it's actually harder in co-op.

I like the fact that it's completely upto you how you wish to play, you can matchmake with others if you want to do open world exploration, or random activities etc.

 

[StevieP]

How are people finding DX12 in this game?

My specs are in my sig and when I jumped into the game it defauled me to medium settings and DX12 to "no" - I ran the benchmark and on medium my average FPS was around 85 or so but then this dropped to 64 on "high" - truth be told it looked very similar to my untrained eye anyway so I've lazily just left it on medium but I'm wondering whether DX12 will make much of a difference!

 

[chroniclard]

Not tried DX12 yet, gonna go home at lunch to try it.

 

[Tupro]

DX12 improves performance for some however a lot of people are reporting crashes when using dx12

 

[ED209]

I have had no issues with the game, if I remember I'll put in dx12 tonight and see how I get on with it

 

[something daft already!!]

I'm pretty sure DX12 was enabled by default for me.

 

[chroniclard]

Benchmarked DX11 vs DX12, seems to be some gains to be had. Same settings both times.

Will play a bit, see if any issues.

Spoiler: DX11

Spoiler: DX12

 

[SS-89]

Dx12 fine for me (1080), definitely a noticeable improvement in smoothness and minimums compared to DX11.

 

[Witcher1980]

This is why I mainly game on my x1 now, I spent more time looking at fps then actually playing lol.

 

[chroniclard]

ah, first crash

 

[SixTwoSix]

Tried with DX12 on release, anytime there was smoke the screen would be so bright I couldn't see anything so went back to DX11.

 

[chroniclard]

2 Crashes in 40 minutes with dx12 so far. None last night on Dx11 in 3 hours. Shame.

 

[ED209]

Everyone got up to date gpu drivers? I know I'm not on the latest AMD drivers

 

[SS-89]

Everyone got up to date gpu drivers? I know I'm not on the latest AMD drivers

This is crucial, I was only one driver out on Nvidia (hadn't realised they'd released a new one on 6th March specifically for Div 2 and other recent releases), was crashing constantly. Since updating not had any issues.

 

[chroniclard]

Yeah, latest nvidia drivers.

 

[ED209]

I know with AMD their latest drivers had support for Div 2. I'm going to give dx12 a try with my current drivers and then if I have issues I'll update to the latest and try again.

 

[Kronos]

If you both have local chat enabled you can hit enter and type in whatever. Although some players may have local chat disabled.

The other option is to use emotes (the H key), you can use salute or something.

If you get a call for help, I think it's the M key to go and join that agent.

M key just brings up the map, what should I be looking for on it.

Another question and I am sure i had a similar problem finding my way around the inventory system in Division 1 but I have just been told that I have a mod available for one of my weapons and pressing F will show me what mod I have yet I can find nothing and I have looked in all my three weapons.
Where am I going wrong here?

 

[jpm]

I know with AMD their latest drivers had support for Div 2. I'm going to give dx12 a try with my current drivers and then if I have issues I'll update to the latest and try again.

I've got the latest driver and DX12 is fine for me so far (touch wood) average fps 88 at 1440p