News The Division Heartland, a free-to-play game, is in development

Sadly I agree, i love The Division games, but, Div2 has had constant crashes now for months and they are either unwilling or unable to fix it, so, i'm not going to hold my breath for ANY Ubisoft projects in future.

 

By making it free to play they are at least being upfront about wanting it to be a miserable mobile skinner box, unlike the various pieces of software that charge £50 minimum upfront and then go full mobile skinner box regardless.

 

I still play Div 2 almost exclusively since launch (SHD 6100+ now) but that has been for only three reasons;

1) to build all the different (and god rolled) builds for the different scenarios and situations (bit geeky but I love discovering the complex interaction between weapon/gear talents, gear set attributes, skills and mods - you can discover some strange and surprising results when you experiment). Trying out these different build combinations is fun if you are into experimenting.

2) ...and this is the primary reason... the people I play with on a regular basis. The co-op element, especially when complex coordination is required (e.g. Raids & Ledgendary) is in my mind under-valued. Yes a lot of "randoms" just play selfishly and ignore teamwork but once in a while you come across great team players who, once added to your game friends list, you can join or invite for some great coordinated "shootin' stuff" sessions. I find it satisfying when a good team, whose weapons, gear and skills all compliment the team, smoothly complete an action that is very hard when in a group of selfish individuals. I don't play solo, too dull.

3) to help those at lower levels with their levelling up, dropping them much better gear (I don't need anything any more so share all good gear and all exotics), helping them with their builds, missions and projects. Myself and a few friends even have a running joke when we get a "newbie" into the group - let's see who can be the first to fill up their inventory. We regularly shepherd/carry people through Raids & Ledgendary for example. We even "farm" rogues agents (easy if you know the trick) for fun.

Yes the regular freezes/crashes that occur are annoying, doubly so in a game that is 2 years old, and the lack of new content since WONY is disappointing, I keep coming back to play with a regular bunch of people and pleasingly find new people to play with. I am not in a clan (nor do I want to be) but I still manage to find great people to play with.

This is all PVE though, I don't play DZ or Conflict (PVP) as the cheaters are rampant with no desire from Ubisoft to stop them. Every time they changed things to try, it broke unintended things, so I think they just gave up. Now they won't spend the money fixing a 2 year old game.

Whilst I will reserve judgement until I see it, I am not holding out much hope for anything decent with Heartland and think it is likely to simply be a way of extracting money from a two year old game whilst they figure out if they want to do a Division 3.

(If anyone here still plays and wants to team up, hit me up in game with a friend connection, Ubi name is Fingers_66)

 

Not played Division 2 since they introduced that Tower thing.

I still cannot get use to the movement etc.

Tried Division 1 a few months back, but struggled to find other players.

The one thing I miss from Division 1 in Division 2 is the Skill Builds but to be fair they may be in there, but just not bothered to look in to it.

 

I may take you up on that fingers. I loved TDV but stuggled to find good peeps to play tdv2 which seems to be really key for endgame.

Let's let tbc classic drop and see how much time I have.