The Division. Are we interested?

[MissChief]

Would buy the game if Uplay wasn't involved, shame really but I am not installing that crap on my pc.

I have it but rarely use it or log in. I've had no real issued when I have though. Typical 'ahhhhhhhhh it's not Steam!' response when Steam does very little different to Uplay or Origin.

 

[Howling]

uPlay is a horrible experience though. It's been known to cause crashes and had(has?) a memory leak. Horrid forced DRM that makes no sense when used WITH steam. Then again PC gamers are 110% pirates according to Ubisoft - so doubling up the DRM makes sense.

 

[Zethor]

uPlay is a horrible experience though. It's been known to cause crashes and had(has?) a memory leak. Horrid forced DRM that makes no sense when used WITH steam. Then again PC gamers are 110% pirates according to Ubisoft - so doubling up the DRM makes sense.

It's been known? Never happened to me in 3 years and if Steam makes sense so does Uplay.

 

[Howling]

if Steam makes sense so does Uplay.

You misunderstand. One or the other - not both. Buy a Ubisoft game on steam, you have to go through steam to load uPlay to load the game -- sense?

 

[Thesnipergecko]

Blimey! Not buying a game because someone said something negative about something. Imagine if UBI took that approach they wouldn't make any more games...

It's been known? Never happened to me in 3 years and if Steam makes sense so does Uplay.

I've had more issues with Steam over the past 12 months than I have with UPLAY and Origin combined. Come to think of it I've not had any issues with UPLAY/Origin in the last 12 months.

 

[5960xNvidiaGamer]

Tbh I have 800 games on steam and have never had a problem, I had 2 games on Uplay and it was shockingly bad. Even origin is better than Uplay

 

[Twirlywoos]

Just saw the Ultra Screen shots and it looks meh.

 

[MissChief]

I don't believe that's on PC at all. Until a reputable person comes along and says it's the PC version I won't believe it.

 

[Thesnipergecko]

I don't believe that's on PC at all. Until a reputable person comes along and says it's the PC version I won't believe it.

I agree! It's blurry as hell on "ultra" some crap form of TXAA?

 

[Twirlywoos]

I don't believe that's on PC at all. Until a reputable person comes along and says it's the PC version I won't believe it.

I hope you're right because that is some downgrade otherwise, worse than WD.

 

[Malevolence]

And it begins.

It looks like the map is going to be tiny compared to the huge city that Ubisoft have been lauding. The vast majority of areas, including the ones highlighted at E3 and all the promo videos, look to be locked off and will no doubt be released as paid DLC.

https://division.zone/2016/01/16/to...nx-and-staten-island-final-map-size-revealed/

 

[Nexus18]

Yeah if true, that is a huge downgrade, I wouldn't say it was worse than WD but on par with it, again if true this, I definitely won't be buying the game regardless of how good it is.

Here's hoping that they have left all the hidden options in the config file for modders to enable like WD.... Maybe they will have left them under the same line/code too i.e. E3_raineffects

 

[CerberusReborn]

But isnt the game supposed to be nearly a 1:1 scale?

So that would make that area roughly 9km2 right? which is the same as the Fallout 4 Area.

Still vast if you ask me.

 

[mrk]

Ah well, it was nice looking forward to this. At least the disappointment this time is released before a pre order... Money saved

 

[Nexus18]

But isnt the game supposed to be nearly a 1:1 scale?

So that would make that area roughly 9km2 right? which is the same as the Fallout 4 Area.

Still vast if you ask me.

It will still be big but that doesn't change the fact that they lied, again....

I could have sworn that ubisoft said they had learned from their mistakes with watch dogs???

 

[neoglow]

Correct, a fact i've never hidden when commenting on Ubisoft titles. I get paid to code, not PR. I just dont have a lot of time for the gamer-victim syndrome sufferers that act like they're being forced to pre-order games based on promo videos.

Did/do you work on The Division mid_gen?

 

[mid_gen]

Nope.

 

[Mynight]

Clearly everything Ubi does wrong is mids fault so get him lads .

 

[Howling]

Clearly everything Ubi does wrong is mids fault so get him lads .

Probably the exact opposite -- you likely have more say in Ubisoft dealings than Mid does. Friend of mine used to work for them, wasn't the world's greatest experience.

 

[Steampunk]

Correct, a fact i've never hidden when commenting on Ubisoft titles. I get paid to code, not PR. I just dont have a lot of time for the gamer-victim syndrome sufferers that act like they're being forced to pre-order games based on promo videos.

How do you feel about "gamer-victims" buying based on false advertising and promotional videos that don't reflect the product?

I'll leave this here:

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The description itself covers a range of factors, including:

• quantity and size
• composition
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• fitness for stated purpose
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• untruthful advertising
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• deceptive after-sales information

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