Umwildcard

@ChrisGansler Can you guys find a way to not make us give up a character to do this?

With the RNG of loot, new changes with unique talents, I’m having to hold on to too much loot that is “almost or maybe what I need” because I’m still waiting for that last piece and the rolls on it could change the rest. I can’t give up a fourth character for this. Especially with so many bugs that might kill me.

For now it's not going to change soon. But we hear your feedback. Generally we would rather fix having to hoard all that stuff, instead of adding more character slots you ask for to then not use in Hardcore Mode either and play more of the Hardhoarde Mode. ;)

Meatsword_McGravy

Do you plan on having incentives for hardcore mode and though other than just funsies?

I don't mean to come across as completely negative, but I have spent over 600 hours getting to where I am. Risking a total loss of playtime due to just one trivial death regarding circumstances beyond my control (like ridiculously high explosives damage or enemies spawning from really odd places) just doesn't seem like a worthy investment unless I have a real chance at obtaining anything worthwhile.

Spending resources to work on that while so much remains to be balanced and optimized just seems odd. I mean you guys can obviously do whatever you want, but I would assume the majority of your player base consists of working adults just based on clan mates and friends who have a limited amount of playtime and just can't pour all that down the drain for just a sense of accomplishment.

Regardless of whether or not I choose to play that mode, I hope you can appreciate the appropriate high risk/ high reward scenario involved to keep your players engaged if the beta yields favorable results. Apart from a very small selection of DZ or raid only gear vs. total available items, there are currently no real incentives to engage in higher difficulty activities as it is, other than to just get a handful of more statistically inferior rolls. That too should change and evolve for regular content, but it REALLY needs to shine if players will be faced with permadeath.

Just to be clear, you can't convert existing characters to a Hardcore character. You start over with a brand new agent.

For the balance on the mode in general: We really enjoyed playing it internally and wanted to use this opportunity to try something new. We think this mode could be something we can develop more with the community than behind the curtain, so we're happy to hear what you think and how we could improve it.

mooseeve

How does the stash work? Separate stash for hardcore and softcore or shared stash between the two?

You do not have access to the Stash in the current Beta. I read a couple of comments of how Hardcore only Stash would be cool, so let us know what you think.

FunChocolate7

so is the hardcore mode with hardcore difficulty or just "if you are dead, you are dead" ?

It's as if you were creating a new level 1 character, just that if it dies it's not respawning. You can access all difficulties when you enter WT5, as usual.

eckoman2k

Can someone explain this hardcore mode thing, i came into the stream late so i missed what they said about this "hardcore" thing.

A new beta mode that comes out next week! You create a new agent and they only have one life, when you die you can't respawn.

Jusupov

I asked about heroic for every faction or legendary difficulty and a dev answered: It's something we're discussing but not an easy feat.

So there is hope but not a lot. Maybe if more people ask for it they'll have an incentive to work on it

It's not that we need more incentives to work on it. But it also needs to make sense. If we just make it harder it will cater towards the crowd that just want more difficult content. But if we don't also have rewards it only feels great to beat those harder difficulties a couple of times.

It has to be part of a bigger package that makes it good. Doesn't mean we can't start off with higher difficulties first, of course. We are definitely interested in doing harder content.

Meatsword_McGravy

Considering how shittily cheap/broken this game can be sometimes despite how good you and your build are (whether it be due to bugs, mechanics, crappy design, etc. in general), that's a hard fucking pass from me.

Totally fine. We will continue to improve the game and have a bunch of fixes coming in TU6.1 next week. If you don't have 4 character slots used already, there's also no harm in just trying out Hardcore Mode.

I understand the concern though, dying because of bugs or game glitches is not great fun.

LarsTheDevil

Thanks!

In NYC I didn't get my Santa Hat in the first year and all my friends had the hat and they said 'let's run Falcon Lost and scare those LMB and we all wear our Santa Hats..... oh sorry Lars how insensitive of us because you don't have the hat'

Those are some rude friends! :D You'll get the Holiday hat just for logging in, make sure to tell your friends (or don't and mock them later!).

LarsTheDevil

just give me my Santa Hat for the upcoming event

Will do!

agent_sparrow

Thought Kenly College was due to back online 3rd December?

Still unavailable atm.

There was an issue with the schedule. We're doing another maintenance tomorrow to fix it. Sorry for the confusion!

Thanks for bringing this up. While we believe the fixes have done what was intended, it seems like other areas are still causing this issue. We'll work on it, sorry for the inconvenience.

We have a fix lined up for this. If all goes well we can confirm the patch timing today.

There are no plans for a holiday event in The Division 1. As some pointed out, we'll be talking about what's happening for the second game today on State of the Game at 5 PM CET.

LocksofModric

Cool. Would also be fantastic if you guys would get on rolling out that grenade launcher fix since we're on the topic, as well as the ND fix. These two fixes alone would drastically improve the quality of the PvP.

We should have more info on an upcoming patch, that will include the Negotiator's Dilemma adjustment we previously talked about, this week. We're currently evaluating which fixes are making it in and which need a little more work. Once we have that set we can confirm the date with the community.

Thanks for your patience.

We're investigating this and likely found the culprit already. We will provide an update once we have a fix ready to go.

Hey! Sorry for the inconvenience. We're currently working on a fix for this. Could you please reach out to Customer Support (linked in this forum thread) as we're still tracking players being unable to install from disc.

Hey. It's correct that the Vendor is currently resetting at times he shouldn't. This is due to the change of ODZ/DZ, as is mentioned here. While we very much agree that this is annoying, it's not something we can fix immediately.

Hey! This definitely sucks and we're working on a fix for this. We're planning to implement this with the next patch and the loot will then drop in a lootable location.

We haven't fully ironed out when the patch will be ready but the plan is to have a bunch of fixes for several different issues in it. We'll update you once we have a date.

butler2524

The East servers are lagging more than ever. I can play in EU servers better than home smh

Sorry to hear that. We like to look into it but need a little more info to start investigating.

If you're experiencing latency issues on US servers, can you please DM me your account names (Uplay, Xbox, PS4) so we can have a look at what's happening? Thanks!

AceAaronAce

Bullet registration still not fixed esp if you are using shotguns.

Not necessarily what I asked for but if you have more details on this feel free to DM them to me. Videos are especially helpful. Thanks!