Well let me tell you after finishing Div1 and now starting on Div2 on Ubisoft connect, I can tell you the benefits of Ubisoft outweigh PS by far.
Why? Well because you can play online on Ubisoft Connect without any further investment unlike having to pay for play on PS PLUS to play DIV1 online.
Once you pay for the game you’re “ready set go” to playing with friends. Ubisoft Connect is like Steam with benefits.
Now Div2 WILL start of completely gay homotextual with musical introductions. There are more friendly narratives to ease in most players who aren’t use to this type of feeling. It takes on that Horizon Zero Dawn type of “you’re the one” type of feeling.
The game is set some 7 months after the Dollarflu and there really isn’t much in terms of storyline to get you heavily involved with the mass death problem. It already happened, the population is 20% of what it used to be and nobody in terms of government research facilities want to help other than the shit is over and there is some prominent immunity happening already. There consistently is no “NO HELP” from The World Help Organisation which probably would make this whole game end before it actually happened IRL.
The AGRO in this game are mainly due to new factions trying to take over Washington ward by ward, much like the LMB had. There will be new types of Rikers and Cleaners called The True Sons/Hyenas/etc and its a VERY VERY slow grind to uncovering them. They are more like gangs/hobos/homeless really at this point and I don’t find them all that interesting or have that much lore or intelligence (which for me doesn’t make a great plot line).
I’m at level 10 and haven’t even begun to see any of these factions be a real problem other than just being punks.
The game tends to be a post pandemic, cultural re-instatement (kind of like Horizon Zero Dawn was) trying to rebuild society.
The Division 1 was all about the chaos and dark storyline that had transpired as signified by all the phone recordings of civilians. I think that is what gave it a strong story and narrative.
The Division 2 plays on recordings as well but they are twice or three times as long coming from political entities in the game’s storyline. Lots of political types involved too.This can be a turn off. but the evolution of this narrative expands and starts to get interesting lvl 10 + .
My gripe with The Division in general both are similar to both games, as it takes a long time to get through “Something” and what that is is either a visual overload and a lvl grind that you’re not used to.
That said, I guess the game devs did something some aren’t used to which is PULL out parts from the initial grind and move it down the center point so that you don’t really know what you’re getting into once you’ve started.
That said, it surely is a worthwhile feat although grinding effort to get into this game.
It is more of a power trip and isn’t that much of a sweat-induced FPS. The environments are engrossing, littered with things to pick up if you like to noodle with mods and upgrades/ its still there.
UI is always something to get use to as you can always gripe about why they did this or why they did that. But Ubisoft is a million dollar arthouse game studio with lots of bullshit attached to their bottom line. Who knows how long they can keep making beautiful games at the expense of billions of borrowed money?
