This game have been on store for 10 years. Originally I have no intention of purchasing it, but when a sale that goes only 12% of it's original price, its hard to pass up. Finally a decade later, I get to see what the fuss is about it being a "good techtical shooter".
I will mention, I am a usual solo player, not because I don't like playing with people, it's because where I live, the internet is bad and it can cause multiple problem during online play, the main reason I don't like multiplayer online game in the first place.
The fuss is not up to it. It basically the worst shooter I have ever played ever. granted I don't play most of the popular shooter, it doesnt excuse how bad it is coming from the so called "Triple A Developer".
- The gun stability and recoil is all over the place. While I understand why SMG's and rifles have plenty of recoil because of their RPM, you don't shoot the sky when just tapping while shooting it, on any kind of gun from this game. It's outrageous and obnoxious, while enemies with said weapons seems to have no recoil and can snipe you using an SMG or LMG with 100% accuracy that just deletes you 5 levels below even when you are like 500 meters away from them, even when I saw the bullet projectiles already went past my character. For some reason it's still registered as hit.
-Hold Interact button for the input to register, and get animation locked from it. Seriously? The only Interact button that you don't have to hold are the ECHOs and menus. Talking to someone, opening boxes, bags, cupboard, picking up gears, etc, all needed to be hold for it to register, and being locked in the animation while making yourself susceptable to attacks. I would asume Ubisoft being Ubisoft, wanting to put "realism" in every single game that they made, doesn't even bother to put QoL feature in Division.
-The environment is beautiful, snows, tree in the park, while also being the one of the worst thing about the game, being a "tactical shooter". At night, with snowfall, you can barely see anything without light, and when light is actually pointing at you, it's blinding you. Its messy, crowded with debris and abandoned vehicle, being a 3rd person shooter, will still obscure your view even when it's already behind your character. The enemies however, because of their aimbot, doesn't care about model obscurement view, which still gives them 100% hit rate even behind full cover.
-Game area levels are basically non-existant. You'll be in a level 15-19 area, enemies at higher levels still spawn for some reason, and it's not even yellow boss encounter or purple elites. What's the point of area levels now?
-On the same topic of levels, there is no balancing in leveling in this game or mechanic. While leveling from 1-10 seems like a breaze, the game throws a curveball at you starting around 12 and above. The same level gear stats that you get is basically not suited for the level of the enemies you are facing, especially when facing the "dungeon bosses" or roaming spawned ones. You have high armor? doesn't matter, they just LMG your HP away or throw a bomb that landed on your feet perfectly without limits, even behind full cover. Oh yeah, they have unlimited numbers of bombs, and they aren't afraid of spamming it.
-The NPC are useless, in facts they are more of a hindrance than helping. The amount of time I died or close to death because for some reason the NPC took over the cover I was suppose to go to, or block my view and stand where I was aiming for enemies, while the enemies bullet went past them for some reason and hit me past 60% of my health bar, it's enraging. They don't pull agroo, even when they are near me, every single one of the enemies went for you when the NPC is litterally kissing the enemies. Calling for backup and only arrives when the mission/event ends. "We had that under control", ..... that is the most backhanded dialogue I ever heard in a videogame.
Now I do have to give some credits to the game, main campaign is somewhat interesting, some ECHOs storyline peaqued my interest, the environment even how crowded and mechanically unhelpful, it is beautiful, for a post pandemic city. But that's all the credit I can give the dev.
If I know the gameplay is going to be this bad, I would have not purchase it even at the discounted price.
