re: **The Division** All Platforms Extravaganza

So I really appreciate the two guys who tried to follow my friend and I around the Dark Zone tonight trolling us. It earned me about 2 Dark Zone levels, 10 Dark Zone keys, and a shite ton of Dark Zone funds.

I also really like the people who make it really obvious that they are going to attack people who are trying to extract. Standing around it with no loot bag and following people around.

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DZ and twink out

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I hit DZ rank 10 last night at lvl 13, got a blue FAL and a Blue SMG lvl 13. Keeping that Rank 10 and slowly climbing to rank 30 to keep me with current Blue / Purp (at 30) weapons is going to really help the grind.

Did it all solo in 45 min and extracted about 20 blues.

Should I continue just to do side missions up to a certain level? Is it better to go at it alone than join on with some random people? Is there anyway to speak with the randoms I work with? So new to this haha. The only online game I've played on Xbox in the past five years has been FIFA.

I have been doing the missions solo. I decided to go into the dark zone for the first time last night solo and got wrecked pretty quickly. I ended up joining up with some other guys and it was much more fun. I leveled up to 11 with all blue gear very quickly. DZ is now my go to, but you need a group of people or extractions can get very frustrating.

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switch to SMG

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I was using an AUG for awhile and gun shredded while it was still good for my level. Almost no recoil at all.

I ran assault rifle and SMG up until level 14, now I finally got a decent sniper and I'm using some police assault rifle and a sniper. One Issue I ran into constantly was running out of ammo, but I got the perk on my support station that doesn't take ammo from your reserves when you reload when you're standing inside and it's been a game changer.

The devs did their state of the game discussion recently


Two things of note:

1) Rogue penalties in DZ will probably be reduced

2) shotgun rushers ( lightning symbol) will NOT be nerfed. The devs feel there are adequate ways to deal with them

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1) Rogue penalties in DZ will probably be reduced

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hopefully they're creative with how they reduce it. like this guys idea

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There have been many complaints that PvP is very rare in high level Dark Zone areas because the penalties are too great. There have also been worries that changes will result in PvP becoming too common and the Dark Zone becoming just another deathmatch. This kind of situation is very common in engineering and the answer is control theory. The most obvious example of this is the simple thermostat. When your house is too cold it turns the heating on. When your house is too hot it turns the heating off. This keeps your house (and you) at a comfortable temperature. The same idea could be applied to the Dark Zone. The rogue penalty on a server could begin low to encourage PvP. However when PvP activity becomes too high the Zone could go into an alert state which greatly increases the rogue penalties. This will cause rogues to either stop player killing or move to another server. In either case PvP activity will fall until it becomes too low at which point the alert would clear and penalties could be set low again. Of course this idea isn't fully fleshed out. For example there could be multiple alerts states with gradually increasing penalties instead of a single on-off switch. However I think this could be the way to create a Dark Zone that is neither too hot or too cold but is just right.

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If all they do is blanket reduce penalties, it will increase pvp and you won't be able to do anything without a 4 man group in the DZ. Do not like that as I play solo the majority of the time or with 1-2 others. And from what I understand, you need DZ gear to be able to do

The thermostat you copied from Reddit is a good idea.