Inför The Division

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Handling
The Division är inspirerad av Operation Dark Winter och Directive 51, med verkliga händelser som "visade hur sårbara vi har blivit".

Spelets berättelse skildrar en sjukdom som sprider sig på Black Friday och som orsakar att USA störtas samman under loppet av fem dagar. Spelaren är med i en grupp som kallas "Strategic Homeland Division (SHD)", med förkortningen "The Division". Gruppen bildades för att bekämpa hotet och göra vad som krävs för att "rädda det som finns kvar".

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A smallpox pandemic spreads on Black Friday (transmitted by a virus planted onto banknotes), and sweeps through cities across the U.S. The United States Government collapses in five days; basic services fail and without access to food or water, the country quickly descends into chaos.

The player is part of the Strategic Homeland Division (SHD), or "The Division" for short—a classified stay-behind force of self-supported tactical agents. Leading seemingly ordinary lives, SHD agents are trained to operate independently of command when all else fails. This group is established to combat the threat brought about by the outbreak and are given direct authority by the President of the United States to do whatever it takes to prevent the fall of society and piece the city back together. Throughout the game, the agents will find themselves caught in a worldwide conspiracy and will be forced to combat both the threats of the virus as well as those who unleashed it.

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In 2001, an operation known as "Dark Winter" was launched which was a real-world exercise that tested the emergency response to a bioterror attack on the United States. The simulation spiraled out of control within a few days, and predicted that a "breakdown in essential institutions," civil disorder, and massive civilian casualties.

In 2007, a new Presidential directive was secretly signed that was put into law. This executive order, known as Directive 51, was created to respond to a national crisis such as "Dark Winter." Rumors such as sleeper cells, shadow agencies, and covert operations relating to the directive was spread.

Three weeks before the events of The Division on November 23rd, the day known as "Black Friday," a virus began spreading through banknotes that started to spread through human skin, food and toys, causing millions of people to become infected. Within five days, the virus causes the United States to breakdown and fall apart.

During the events of Tom Clancy's The Division, in New York City, a classified unit of highly trained, self-supported tactical agents known as "The Division" is set out to prevent the falling of society from the virus.
http://thedivision.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_The_Division
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_The_Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_The_Division

Features
Customization

Loot
There is a rarity based loot system within the game. Loot can be found when enemies are killed or in many locations all over New York City. However not all enemies will drop loot when killed. Tougher characters will usually drop better loot. Loot ranking is as follows (with 5 being the highest):

White - Worn
Green - Standard
Blue - Specialized
Purple - Superior
Orange - High-End

Crafting
The player will have the ability to craft items in The Division; crafting various weapons and equipment for themselves or other fellow agents, like attachments for their weapon systems.

Social Hubs
Tom Clancy's The Division will have certain areas in New York City where players can interact with each other. These are safe zones where no weapons or skills can be used.

Clans and Guilds
Clans/guilds will be available in the game. There will be a dedicated website for clan management. It has also been announced that there will be no maximum limit to how many players can be in one clan.

Dynamic Choices
New York City will be at the player's disposal to restore in Tom Clancy's The Division as such the player will see the impact of their choices in-game. Agents will have the task of restoring areas of the city where communication, law enforcement, power and water are failling, saving and making them fully operational again.

Base of Operations
Players can have their own space within the city. The base of operations will include things like a medical facility, armory, and a trade station.

ECHO
The ECHO is the player's menu access and investigation tool.

Go-Bag
The Go-Bag is the player's inventory which will be able to be upgraded and customized to fit the player's play style. Players start out with a Go-Bag filled with 72 hours worth of supplies. Different bags can be found as loot. Each bag has unique characteristics. Such characteristics are:
Bag Space
Mod Slots
Skill Modifiers
Armor Rating
Value
http://thedivision.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_The_Division

DarkZone
Det som verkar väldigt roligt med TD (min otroligt påhittiga förkortning) är Dark Zone. Här kan man vara ensam, eller i en grupp med max 4 medlemmar. Nedan beskrivs först vad The Dark Zone är för något. Och sedan mer ingående.

The Dark Zone is the player-versus-player competitive multiplayer mode featured in The Division, where a lot of high-end weapons are left behind when the military retreats in the game. It is separated from the main campaign and has its own progression system. Players discover valuable items inside a Dark Zone. However, these items, known as "infected loot", can be taken by other players in the zone, and will not be permanently attached to the player's character unless they are extracted from the zone through a helicopter. Players can be accompanied by several co-operative partners and other neutral, player-controlled agents. These people, however, can turn against the player at any moment, going rogue. Players' level and ranking may drop if they die too often in the zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_The_Division

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Bra läsning!
http://blog.ubi.com/the-division-dark-zone-pvp/

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The Dark Zone is a walled-off quarantine zone in the middle of Manhattan, with the goal to stop the contagion of the once as flu suspected virus. Linked seamlessly with the rest of the game it is the place for PvP-fights and at the same time contains the most powerful and rarest loot in The Division.

You can enter the Dark Zone by overcoming certain and well-marked wall sections or decontamination chambers, whereas the exit is only possible via the latter variant. Once inside the zone you immediately lose the connection to the outside world, the agent’s com device starts to reboot and wearing a gas mask is highly advised.

Dark Zone Story

When the pandemic hit, the authorities gathered the sick in this area. They brought in the best scientists and the most cutting-edge medical equipment to try to contain the virus and look for a cure. But soon the government recognized that their measures were no longer enough.

More and more people suffered from the virus and medical auxiliary equipment as well as personnel came increasingly to their limits.

The cordon quickly became a fully equipped quarantine zone and the martial law came into effect. National Guard and specially for this scenario trained units tried to master that situation, but it was already too late.

All of them weren’t able to stand the increasing pressure and rioting, looting and chaos were now on the agenda. And that’s when the power went out.

Within a few hours the military had to pull out all troops of this with contamination saturated zone and left their best equipment behind. They left behind not only the supplies, medicine and weapons, but also thousands of infected, dying and already dead people.

Few dare to go over the wall into the restricted area to pick up the remaining equipment, but fewer still come out . This is the Dark Zone.
https://division.zone/zones/dark-zone/

Vad är då så speciellt med Dark Zone?
Missions
Also (secondary-)missions of the main story lead in/through this highly contaminated zone. In the first playable demo a SHD container had to be secured, which was guarded by a group of Rikers.

The chance, to find better items through these missions in the Dark Zone than in the PvE Zone is much higher because of the military’s left-behind weapons and equipment.

Dark Zone Rank

The Dark Zone’s rank system is completely separated from the character’s level based progression outside the zone. By killing enemy agents, whether they are rogue or not, you gain different experience points which ensure, that your rank will increase, or decrease. The higher the rank, the more choice you have in terms of better equipment and crafting recipes at specific vendors, which is also a requirement to access high value crates.

On the one hand, your rank can increase, but on the other hand it can decrease rapidly as well if you die as Rogue Agent. In case somebody is able to receive your bounty, you will lose a lot of your Dark Zone XP based on your current Rogue Status.

PvP-Mode
The PvP-Mode is not a classic multiplayer mode, as you might know it from other games. There is neither a scoreboard, nor a team that leaves the zone as winner. But a persistent Dark Zone rank ensures how other players perceive you and what stuff can be bought with so-called Dark Zone Currency from merchants in the zone.
More “Urge Than Compulsion”

If you are fully devoted to the single player and co-op mode experience and want to avoid PvP fights, you can safely avoid this zone. But always keep the valuable items inside the zone in mind. Maybe some day also you will dare to go over the wall!

Rogue Protocol
In the Dark Zone you won’t only fight against AI controlled opponents, but possibly also against other agents of the SHD, in the worst case even against the allies of your own team. If a player or team decides to go that way, the so-called Rogue Protocol is activated.

When you attack or kill an enemy player (except for enemy Rogue Agents), you and all members in your group will become a Rogue Agent. This means that all enemy agents in the Dark Zone will from now on know your current position because you will be marked with a skull symbol which you can see in the screenshot below. Furthermore, the color of the previously orange glowing circle on your com-device will now be red.

Within a group, friendly fire is disabled, which means that you have to leave the group first to shoot your allies. But be aware of the fact, that they will be notified before you actually leave the group so that they can prepare themselves for such situation.

Rogue Status
The more enemy players you kill, the higher is your Rogue Status, which can reach maximum level 5 and is visible through a dashed yellow circle. In addition, a bounty is put on you, which also increases with each additional kill.

To get rid of this Rogue Status in the Dark Zone, no other players may be killed for a certain period of time (5 minutes maximum). If you die as Rogue Agent before the end of this timer, the player who killed you gets the bounty and a lot of your Dark Zone XP. However, if you are able to stay alive within this time, you will receive your own bounty.

Looting
Generally and in contrast to the PvE Zone (Items: Loot Sharing), the loot in the Dark Zone is shared amongst players in your group, following the principle of “First come, first served”.

Moreover it is possible to loot contaminated items from other players, under taking the following two rules into account.

Lootable are items that a killed player has found in the Dark Zone and has not yet extracted them. Since these items are contaminated, they must be also secured by Extraction.

Not lootable are items that have been already secured and extracted by the killed player, or have been found outside the Dark Zone. These cannot be picked up and the dead player won’t lose them.

Extraction
To be finally able to use the in the Dark Zone contaminated items, they must be carried out by Extraction at from the game selected places.

By firing a flare gun, a helicopter of the nearest base of operations is requested, which then waits for less than 90 seconds at the extraction point so that you can handover the loot, before he brings it back to the base.

Upon arrival of the helicopter special caution is required because other teams/players will be informed about this process and maybe don’t want to leave you that easy.

Notice that once an Extraction has been started, it cannot be taken over or canceled by enemy players. But as an attacker you can still try to prevent them from succeeding to get their contaminated loot and try it yourself.

Vart utspelar det sig?
There will be multiple locations around New York City to explore. In the Division, areas are separated into districts. There are 16 districts with 6 Dark Zone districts.

När är det Beta-test?
Xbox One Januari 28 Klockan 10:00
PS4 Januari 29 Klockan 13:00
PC Januari 29 Klockan 13:00
Slut Januari 31 Klockan 12:00
Förladda The Division-betan 48 timmar innan starten!

När är det spelsläpp?
March 8, 2016

Systemkrav
Grundläggande systemkrav
Operativsystem
Windows 7 eller senare, 64-bitars
Processor
Intel Core i5-2400
AMD FX-6100
Primärminne
6 GB RAM
Grafikkort
Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 ( 2GB VRAM)
AMD Radeon HD 7770 (2 GB VRAM)
Lagringsutrymme
40 GB

Rekommenderade systemkrav
Operativsystem
Windows 7 eller senare (64-bitars)
Processor
Intel Core i7-3770
AMD FX-8350
Primärminne
8 GB RAM
Grafikkort
Nvidia Geforce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 290
Lagringsutrymme
40 GB

Har du testat denna?

https://contests.nvidia.com/en-us/the-division-beta-key-givea...

Testa köra någon typ av VPN i webbläsaren.
Den gnällde på det för mig också. Men sedan fungerade det.

Jag tar den annars till polarn som dregglar!

Jag vill snabbt dra en parallell till Guild Wars, det första, där jag hade fruktansvärt roligt med mina vänner.
Men det tänker jag inte göra. Tanken med Dark Zones är att du ska gå in, ensam eller i grupp, och leta gear.
Den gear du hittar är inte din, förns du knyter fast den på helikoptern och den lyckas flyga iväg. När du står vid din extractions point, kan det snabbt slå om, då någon bestämmer sig för att han/hon vill ha din loot också.
Så du dör och du förlorar din gear, samt pengar och dark zone xp.

Under tiden du gör detta, kan en eller fler, en grupp, go rouge. Då aktiveras Rouge Protocol. Se nedan.

Jag gillar tanken, men i praktiken, det jag testat i betan så känns det sådär. Det lirar på en fin tråd. Jag tror att om ett par patchar så kan det vara riktigt skoj. Förutsatt att det inte blir för mycket folk i Dark Zones. Då förlorar man den lilla DayZ-känslan som faktiskt finns där. Jag har känt den 3-4 gånger i allafall.