so being a sort of collector type and try to spend time exploring the incredible world of DC and NY, i have 4 characters i play, however, the first one is likely 80% of the almost 3000 hours spent since the game launched.
Character 1 has found 3 gold necklaces, 7 insulin and 6 toy car
Character 2 has found 6 gold necklaces, 3 insulin and 1 toy car
Character 3 has found 5 gold necklaces, 3 insulin and 1 toy car
Character 4 has found 1 gold necklaces, 2 insulin and 2 toy car
I am certain these are the three rarest trinkets in the game, most everything else i have 80 - 100 of most other items
Anybody else fair any better? I am just curious.

One thing that I personally feel it needs to come back is the talent core requirement to be activated. Why? Because everyone builds with a role in mind, but I feel like it needs to happen to balance PvP. Probably a lot of PvPers here are gonna flip tables that their broken builds are gonna be destroyed, but they are very well aware its broken.

Honestly, this is my opinion and everyone is welcomed to have their professional opinion as well below, but here is what I think needs to happen with the "PvP Outlier Talents".

1. Lady Death needs to be reworked where the amped dmg is valued by your red cores... meaning, if you want 75% amped dmg... gotta have 6 red cores. Each red core is 12.5% amped dmg.

2. Adrenaline Rush and Intimidate need to be locked needing 6 "Armor Core".

3. In Synch is a skill build support offensive talent so it needs to locked for 6 skill tiered SP builds.

With this method, it will also avoid exploiting using the Memento bag to try and activate all talents, meaning with this adjustments YOU have to choose a role.

Vile mask needs to be deactivated for DZ, and Conflict. Its OP even when the "spell caster" is dead, and theres no "swap plates" to mitigate the talent. This also needs to apply to Pestilence talent when it comes to mitigating the talent from "On Person".

Is it possible to begin a level at the most recently reached checkpoint? So far the game is making me start at the beginning of a level every time I log in again.

Also, it doesn't save my video settings. Every time I log in I have to reset it to windowed mode.

I'm not seeing anything in settings, or on the internet, that answers these frustrating issues. Any help? Thanks!

Is the burst pistol still in the game i cant fine it any where!

I have nearly 300 hours logged now and only a few exotic gear items. Most were obtained from exotic crates from season rewards… and most of those were duplicates. In 200hrs playing end-game, I’ve only had 2 exotic items drop.

I think this is ridiculously stingy… to the detriment of the game.

I think many players will play this game without ever getting an exotic or some of the best. I still don’t have many of the better exotics after 300 hours.

I think exotics are a great way to breathe new life into the game. They make me want to try different builds. For example, I got a Mantis in the last season reward cache and it’s been awesome configuring a build around it. Something I never would have bothered with a half-arsed rolled SRS.

At the end of every evening I dismantle a hundred sh!tty items. It’s just horrible. At least drop something worth keeping once a week?! FFS!

so, everything has mitigation right? status builds have haz pro, skill builds have jammer, but what about weapon builds? well the only thing I can think of is skill builds. skill builds are the mitigation for weapon builds and that's the real reason most PVPers complain about them. Look at the Shrapnel trap for example, it directly combats the way weapon build players rush in at you, and they absolutely hate it because of that. skill builds force a more tactical and cover-based play-style. The meta weapon builds are the exact opposite, all they do is put up their shield and shoot. Then they complain when skill builds put them down and claim skill builds are OP. when in reality, it's weapon builds that are OP. Weapon builds can have tons of armor plus a shield and still melt people no prob, skill builds at the max can have 913k armor, excluding things like the kard and the memento. technically you could put more armor on a skill build but since skill tiers are more than just damage you basically need skill tier 6. skill builds can be mitigated with jammer or by destroying their skills. weapon builds can only be mitigated with distance and maybe riot foam or a blinder. but if someone with more than 1 mil armor goes rogue and pulls out a shield right by you and you're a skill build there's basically nothing you can do.

I've been grinding out some commendations in Div 1, and it's noticeable how much shorter most of the missions are compared to Div 2. While they look fantastic, and were cool the first time around, I do think a few take a bit too long - e.g. Manning National Zoo and Tidal Basin.

What do people think an idea mission length should be in future? For simplicity, assume your gear quality is appropriate for the difficulty - i.e. low item power for normal or high item power for heroic, and that the completion time is the same in both cases.


[edit] that second option should read "10 - 15 minutes", but it seems to have shortened to "10" 😲

It’s hard to explain why, but NY has a more interesting feel than Washington.

Maybe it’s because there are more narrow streets and tall buildings in NY that make it feel more claustrophobic with limited sight lines. But the older architecture in places and the water front areas are more interesting as well. There’s more cool roof top locations in NY as well. It just seems more intense and ominous.

DC is full of giant government buildings and landmarks which is interesting to see in a run down post-apocalypse type of setting, but it lacks the tone that NY offers and much of it looks the same. It’s also very wide open.

I’d love to see TD3 go to San Fran. Sone elevation variation would be interesting and lots of old architecture there. Both NY and DC are mostly flat.

So I was trying out the Chameleon and got into a battle for a Level 4 CP. It was stupid. I went down several times. Glass Cannon and SMGs (or the Chameleon) don’t mix.

Anyway, at one point, after reviving me for the third time, the Control Point officer says something like “You should be helping us”… I LOL’d… but she wasn’t wrong.

Later after we won, she said something like “you should leave soon”. Sheesh… I know I sucked but really?! 🙂

I’ve never heard this before…it’s usually something like, “we’re so glad you were here” and some other polite to thankful comment.

Anyway, it struck me as awesome that the NPCs can tell when you’re not pulling most of the weight and they call you out for it.

Ps. Note to self: don’t try a new build on a Level 4 CP.

Hello. Sorry if I ask too many questions.
I suppose that warning is related to one's clan cache. As I am a member of an inactive clan, chest tier might be rank zero. So a player gets this notification even if clan's chest is empty?

One just dropped for me. It seems odd that it’s got the range of an SMG but the stats for an AR. How to make good use of this? Is there a good use for it? I’d love to try it with my Mantis build, but no way that will happen.

Now, I know that Striker's Battlegear (SB) is not very popular in TD2 in general and stands in great contrast with what it was in TD1.
But, I have a bunch of god-rolled pieces and I wanted to give it a go.
The build is pretty basic (see below). It's made for automatic weapons, but can be used with Rifles or Shotguns (not sure is very good for MMRs).
This configuration is best for ARs and SMGs. Goes well with Carbine 7 modded for CHC, or any other AR with reasonable accuracy. SMGs for CQB... Dark Winter is a beast.
I would keep only 3 SB pieces for LMGs (accuracy is not great and you lose lots of SB stacks) and add Contractor's Gloves for that scenario. Imagine Bullet King with +15% handling and ROF, it's fun!
Speaking of which, this is not meant to be "the best" of anything, just a fun build.
Let me know what you think.

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So the other day I found out you can put skins on your Specialization Weapon (Yeah late to the party I know lol) , so far I have the Shuttle skin for my Missile Launcher. Does anyone know how or where to get skins for your other Specialization Weapons? I try Google and nothing really comes up under Specialization Weapon Skins just regular weapons skins, and I have no idea how I even got Shuttle skin for the missile launcher (I'm guessing I did something with the Air and Space Museum? IDK)

I recall having this discussion, which at some point turned to argument, about whether or not certain items are "weighted" to drop more often. Obviously the weighting factor is built-in to the game to account for targeted loot, so the mechanism is already in place, but some folks argued that (outside of TL) it's pure RNG and there is no such weighting involved.

So about a year later, exotic drops in the LZ are still running 92% toward the Chameleon. Yes, in the (almost) two years since I first noticed this I've had more than 9 out of 10 "random" drops in the LZ were a Chameleon.

Well, now that I've been farming the DZ a lot for optimization mats, I notice the same thing for Pestilence there. Since I went "back in" I've had 32 exotics drop, and 31 were a Pestilence. That's more like 97%.

So almost nothing but Chameleon in the LZ, and almost nothing but Pestilence in the DZ. Does anyone still believe this is pure RNG, and that the devs don't weight any particular item?

I just recently had a rogue agent encounter within a group one of of them wentwas killed and the rogues disappeared has this always been the case

I don't know where the problem is. It simply started showing on my map. And there is no explanation when I attempt to enter its entrance.
I hoped that buying the Warlords DLC would unlock it. But it did not change anything.

The Division 2 has one expansion to date: Warlords of New York. Starting it might fast forward your character progression and lock you out of specific content/gameplay.
The game itself warns about some non-replayable side missions and trophies which might turn unreachable.
Some players talked about some blueprints which might get unavailable retrospectively... True?
Is there a list of unreachable or non-replayable achievments/content/gameplay which I might miss by prematurely starting to play the expansion? (To possibly check it off one by one.)
I currently believe that nothing will be missed, if you exhaust all story main and side missions until reaching “World Tier 1”. But is that true? (Or is there an earlier/later safe point in the game?)
Can someone confirm that all further “invaded” World Tier X missions can be (re-)launched at a later point?

I normally play solo on my PC, but my friends have PS4 so I use that for coop. One thing I noticed is that playing on PS4, apparel items will occasionally drop from random luggage whereas on PC, only trinkets will drop. I've never got an apparel item loot drop on PC. Am I alone in this?

I guess, as expected, there's a lot more settings available on PC than PS4. I can't change my cross-hairs on PS4.

What other differences are there?