E3: The Division: Underground Trailer

[quinch1199]

My initial thoughts ... more proximity mine options to face but more importantly RANDOMLY GENERATED MISSIONS! 

 

[ChowYunFats]

I like the random idea and the mission areas look's cool as well from the trailer 

 

[DeadSockPuppet]

This looks promising, might be worth picking up the season pass when this comes around for the PS4.  

 

[supercat]

Okay. "Randomly Generated Mission". But exactly like how?

 

[Big Grumper]

I'm so excited a little bit of wee just came out.

Is this only available if you buy the season pass?

 

[supercat]

I'm so excited a little bit of wee just came out.

Is this only available if you buy the season pass?

You can also buy it individually 

 

[quinch1199]

Okay. "Randomly Generated Mission". But exactly like how?

My theory is that its going to be a natural extension of the S&D / HVT missions. Firstly you have to remember that a lot of the open world PvE is randomly generated already each time you exit a safe house. Every time you go through that door the environment is regenerated, sort of, randomly already. We’ve already seen S&D missions generate with some minor randomisation (location, number and type of enemies and drops are all random).

Whilst the HVT missions seem to be on a set rotation, again the drops, type of normal mobs seem to be randomly generated.

So, in this instance you’d maybe just have another layer of missions added to the daily & weekly quest givers in your main base I’m guessing.

 

[Addihul]

Like instanced / random geno'd dungeons.. I imagine they will have a map and 10 or so variations or combinations that can be melded together to form the instance. Different NPC spawn locations, tunnels connecting to basements, etc. We may seem repeatable RNG missions that ultimately have the same objectives from a small pool. Not sure

 

[Big Grumper]

I've just bought the season pass. ?

 

[Oh. daesu]

@TheDivisionBlog: There is a ranking system in Underground similar to the Dark Zone. As you rank up you will unlock new Directives and Objectives.

 

[DuroNL]

Does anyone know if the Underground is going to be Solo/PvE friendly?

Cause i'm having a hard time lately finding good groups for any group content in the Division, Some groups even dont allow me to join cause my stats are not high enough.
I know i'm slacking behind a bit cause i took a pause from the game for a few weeks, but how is one suposed to get back on track?
I am at around 210GS with 170k DPS and 160k Toughness, hope there is something to do for me in the underground without having to group up all the time.

 

[quinch1199]

Does anyone know if the Underground is going to be Solo/PvE friendly?

Cause i'm having a hard time lately finding good groups for any group content in the Division, Some groups even dont allow me to join cause my stats are not high enough.
I know i'm slacking behind a bit cause i took a pause from the game for a few weeks, but how is one suposed to get back on track?
I am at around 210GS with 170k DPS and 160k Toughness, hope there is something to do for me in the underground without having to group up all the time.

Pure guesswork but as the game updates so far have been approx 70/30 split between multiplayer/single player friendly then you will be likely to see some parts which will be solo'able. Perhaps the random generated missions for example will be like the HVT's so you can do half of them solo ok but the rest you'd struggle. 

This is an MMO in the end and as someone who is a single player often due to my time schedule I understand the issues but I think the game will always favour group play. 

 

[DuroNL]

Pure guesswork but as the game updates so far have been approx 70/30 split between multiplayer/single player friendly then you will be likely to see some parts which will be solo'able. Perhaps the random generated missions for example will be like the HVT's so you can do half of them solo ok but the rest you'd struggle. 

This is an MMO in the end and as someone who is a single player often due to my time schedule I understand the issues but I think the game will always favour group play. 

Yeah thats what i'm thinking as well, and i don't really blame them, nor would i usually mind, but with the game having such a rough past i feel some people are being left behind because they did not partake in all the glitching and cheating or did not want to play a game that was riddled with bugs. now that it seems to return to a good state again, i do feel heavily under geared, just hoping they offer players like me the opportunity to get back on track easily without being locked out just because i did not want to play a buggy game.

 

[quinch1199]

Yeah thats what i'm thinking as well, and i don't really blame them, nor would i usually mind, but with the game having such a rough past i feel some people are being left behind because they did not partake in all the glitching and cheating or did not want to play a game that was riddled with bugs. now that it seems to return to a good state again, i do feel heavily under geared, just hoping they offer players like me the opportunity to get back on track easily without being locked out just because i did not want to play a buggy game.

Honestly if you look at the actual metrics that Massive made available a while back (and I can't remember where I saw them) the % of the player base who benefited from the cheating/glitching and who are still playing is tiny. Of course its been highlighted and focused on so much that the psychological result on the rest of the player base is exactly as you've described. At the moment the majority of the imbalance is from players who haven't focused on their builds but still trying to run at the top end. As you're talking about mainly PvE content this isn't such an issue for you or I but still means we miss out on top PvE Incursions and higher level missions if we can't run with a group.

Its very difficult to get into the habit of grouping up when you're not used to it....I know that only to well unfortunately but I'm trying, easing myself into it by using the random match maker for more simple things like the normal story missions for Hard/Challenge levels for example.   

 

[Blazzen67]

did anyone notice at the 21 second mark in the video that it looked like  an RPG round being shot? and it doesnt look like division agents its being shot at....hmmmm do we get RPG's now?? lol would be cool

 

[g1nt3r]

randomly generated missions... awesome. They've been implementing "diablo" like mechanics. ie trading system, which can use some work btw. I love the idea.

 

[ShootFirstPodcast]

Does anyone know if the Underground is going to be Solo/PvE friendly?

Cause i'm having a hard time lately finding good groups for any group content in the Division, Some groups even dont allow me to join cause my stats are not high enough.
I know i'm slacking behind a bit cause i took a pause from the game for a few weeks, but how is one suposed to get back on track?
I am at around 210GS with 170k DPS and 160k Toughness, hope there is something to do for me in the underground without having to group up all the time.

It did get confirmed that this would be an activity that was Solo-friendly.  Each mission is scale-able to the amount of players that are involved, but obviously you will be able to control how hard you make it for yourself by choosing the level of difficulty and the "directives" (ie, Fog of War, Mad Skills, etc.).  Each time you start it, the mission randomly generates with all the variables that you've chosen as well as the variable of how many players are taking on the content.  Should definitely help with all of the people that have issues with PVP (Dark Zone), 4-man content (Incursions), and want something more than HVT.

 

[quinch1199]

It did get confirmed that this would be an activity that was Solo-friendly.  Each mission is scale-able to the amount of players that are involved, but obviously you will be able to control how hard you make it for yourself by choosing the level of difficulty and the "directives" (ie, Fog of War, Mad Skills, etc.).  Each time you start it, the mission randomly generates with all the variables that you've chosen as well as the variable of how many players are taking on the content.  Should definitely help with all of the people that have issues with PVP (Dark Zone), 4-man content (Incursions), and want something more than HVT.

Bloody hell that's great news!! 

Can you imagine doing this alone??? It'll be similar to playing Alien: Resurrection. 

 

[supercat]

Is the Directive optional? I feel like it's a chore thing to have.

 

[quinch1199]

Is the Directive optional? I feel like it's a chore thing to have.

No Agent, do your job and get out there and save Manhattan ... again ... this time underground. 

LOL! No idea ...