@wreck3rr It's a little gem you picked up there. Expensiv to optimise, but at the end it will shine... totally worth it.
I use it with insync on my drone/turret build, with flatline on my spotter build, with perpetuation on my eclipse/status build and with strained on my countdown crit/-damage from elites build. This is my trusty go to weapon and it never ever dissapointed me. There are weapons that hit harder, but my (our) Carbine 7 lands headshots at 60m+ and not by accident... so ranger is another good talent.

So congratuilation for this drop. With this baby in your hand you will feel prepared for every situation

Made some runs in Countdown and it was a horrible experience.
Things that ruined it for me:

1.) Raid leader not knowing he/she is raidlead and Countdown will not start. Or even better, raidlead is afk after starting matchmaking.
-Could we start the thing after 30 seconds automaticly if team is full?

2.) Loadingscreen frozen at 100% after sussessfull extracting Countdown
-I guess patch is coming soon

3.) Delta-error after using counter measures terminal
-well, without Delta it's not Division 2

4.) mission "protect the engineer" was impossible. The entrance to the room was "permanently" on fire from cleaner spamming burn grenades. Two mates died from fire, on mate made it through and died on heavy fire from five enemys right after. The last one tried to revive while recieving the message that the engineer died.
-Its a ballancing issue. Just a bit fine tunig to engineers health/armor. We will take the deaths like sportsmen.

5.) Countdown mission Timer. I really like the timer and dont want it to be removed, but man... give us some time to adapt in bad scenarios. We already have to waste important minutes in this "running simulater map design on purpose" with... well, running.

6.) Splitting groups. I know this can go very well, but most of the time we are losing Agents "somewhere" fighting outnumbered vs Hunters. This is clearly an issue made by players, but i guess we can relate it to the mission timer.

The update isn't even live for a week and we all know there will be problems, you have to work on. Everything's fine here. We will wait untill the job is done. No hate.
But the one single thing that makes me REALLY angry has nothing to do with the Countdown.

7.) WHO THE F... had the GLORY idea to put the expertise experience bar for gear RIGHT BETWEEN the stats on your equip? I know you are proud of your new expertise system and you want to flex with this bar, but it rises slowly and im NOT INTERESTED in watching this USELESS information every time i check my gear. You now have to constantly scroll up and down to check the stats. Funny thing, if you open the detail window for weapon/gear you cant even scroll.
I swear, this mess will cost me (on the long shot) more time than the expertise system itself.
CHANGE IT! And change it yesterday... dont let us handle this B....... for month because of low priority.

8.) The new LMG (dont remenber the name, G9 something?) looks amazing. The perfect weapon if you want to join the Stormtroopers in Star Wars. Its a shame that you refused to make a model with every mod attachment. Why it has to use the stoner suppressor (only option) and has a fixed (very ugly, always yellow) scope? Because you were lazy here! Ruined the whole (even without issues just medicore) weapon.

Let me know in the comments if i was to harsh here

P.S
German player, gave my best to not mess up this english text too bad.

"Fixed an issue with players getting stuck on 100% loading screen after exiting Countdown Mode!"

Can we please have back the old bug (freezing at 100% loadingscreen after extraction from coutdown)? You could work around by pressing [ESC].
Now, after the new update and the fix, the game just crashes instead... every single time.

The Snowdrop logo (every restart) starts to trigger me... would be nice if we could just skip it.

@wreck3rr It's a little gem you picked up there. Expensiv to optimise, but at the end it will shine... totally worth it.
I use it with insync on my drone/turret build, with flatline on my spotter build, with perpetuation on my eclipse/status build and with strained on my countdown crit/-damage from elites build. This is my trusty go to weapon and it never ever dissapointed me. There are weapons that hit harder, but my (our) Carbine 7 lands headshots at 60m+ and not by accident... so ranger is another good talent.

So congratuilation for this drop. With this baby in your hand you will feel prepared for every situation

@oatiecrumble Its a fixed part of multiplayer, you will get mixed with people who have other goals, focus on other things, don't have the time to research/improve, cause daily quetsts are waiting in 6 other games ...or just dont care.

2004 in WoW people asked: "Why nobody use consumables? Its just one button. They are there to make things easier." So the whole story isn't a new one.

If you want things done correctly, do it yourself... thats sadly the truth
If you are into a game, and you like it, and you care about... you will have to carry people that aren't/don't.

"Fixed an issue with players getting stuck on 100% loading screen after exiting Countdown Mode!"

Can we please have back the old bug (freezing at 100% loadingscreen after extraction from coutdown)? You could work around by pressing [ESC].
Now, after the new update and the fix, the game just crashes instead... every single time.

The Snowdrop logo (every restart) starts to trigger me... would be nice if we could just skip it.

@kaptain_krypto

Maybe a bit out of topic but the frustration would be a bit less, if exotic caches would bring some top tier crafting matierals too (like in Division 1). Only "the wrong exotic" always felt unrewarding for me.
But okay, if you farm a specific one and dont get it, crafting matarials wont save your day... i feel with you

@im_pine I never said "bawww ubi hates us, bawww ubi bad". But i'm so tired, that every developer will always play the cheap (in every way) "grind is *engaging* content" card... and it works for most people.
Yeah,i know, new maps/missions are expensive, legendary worldmap is expensive, ballancing is expensive, doing something usefull with Kenley College is expensive. And why should devs do something expensive if cheap grind always is "engaging" enough?

So be engaged, its okay

@im_pine The expertise system was never made to be done after a week. It was made to slave your soul... unfortunately it works.

Every weapon you interested in, every build you want to try... grind, cheese it, struggle, grind more.
I brought my Carbine 7 to level 10 and thought: "Oh boy, thats hefty... why should i ever want more?"
I really hoped, people whould play arround with expertise system a bit and than ignore it at all, because of the [censored] it is... but here we are. You can do anything to the player, they will rant, they will discuss, they will beg for nerfs... but they WILL GRIND IT OUT.

So Ubi/Massive/Everyotherstudio... go on and [censored] us, we are unable not refuse!!!

@ohmaybeatriple I really belive that this explosive spam thing did more damage to the playerbase than the Delta errors. If you enter a room and 4 bomber drones and 2 grenades are already on the way to you... well rip. And most of the time i get hit by grenades even if i saw them comming, rolling away is not fast enough to escape. Sure, you should prioritize your targets. But 3 thrower and 2 Snipers... thats a lot of damage (or surpressing) you have to do.
Jammer helps vs drones, but compare your cooldowns with the cooldowns sniper has on drones.
Yeah, cool veterans will laugh at this because its a part of the difficulty you choosed, but a very very cheap and unfun part.

I really like your whole mindset about this and your ideas are great

Made some runs in Countdown and it was a horrible experience.
Things that ruined it for me:

1.) Raid leader not knowing he/she is raidlead and Countdown will not start. Or even better, raidlead is afk after starting matchmaking.
-Could we start the thing after 30 seconds automaticly if team is full?

2.) Loadingscreen frozen at 100% after sussessfull extracting Countdown
-I guess patch is coming soon

3.) Delta-error after using counter measures terminal
-well, without Delta it's not Division 2

4.) mission "protect the engineer" was impossible. The entrance to the room was "permanently" on fire from cleaner spamming burn grenades. Two mates died from fire, on mate made it through and died on heavy fire from five enemys right after. The last one tried to revive while recieving the message that the engineer died.
-Its a ballancing issue. Just a bit fine tunig to engineers health/armor. We will take the deaths like sportsmen.

5.) Countdown mission Timer. I really like the timer and dont want it to be removed, but man... give us some time to adapt in bad scenarios. We already have to waste important minutes in this "running simulater map design on purpose" with... well, running.

6.) Splitting groups. I know this can go very well, but most of the time we are losing Agents "somewhere" fighting outnumbered vs Hunters. This is clearly an issue made by players, but i guess we can relate it to the mission timer.

The update isn't even live for a week and we all know there will be problems, you have to work on. Everything's fine here. We will wait untill the job is done. No hate.
But the one single thing that makes me REALLY angry has nothing to do with the Countdown.

7.) WHO THE F... had the GLORY idea to put the expertise experience bar for gear RIGHT BETWEEN the stats on your equip? I know you are proud of your new expertise system and you want to flex with this bar, but it rises slowly and im NOT INTERESTED in watching this USELESS information every time i check my gear. You now have to constantly scroll up and down to check the stats. Funny thing, if you open the detail window for weapon/gear you cant even scroll.
I swear, this mess will cost me (on the long shot) more time than the expertise system itself.
CHANGE IT! And change it yesterday... dont let us handle this B....... for month because of low priority.

8.) The new LMG (dont remenber the name, G9 something?) looks amazing. The perfect weapon if you want to join the Stormtroopers in Star Wars. Its a shame that you refused to make a model with every mod attachment. Why it has to use the stoner suppressor (only option) and has a fixed (very ugly, always yellow) scope? Because you were lazy here! Ruined the whole (even without issues just medicore) weapon.

Let me know in the comments if i was to harsh here

P.S
German player, gave my best to not mess up this english text too bad.