Ubisoft,
You have created a decent game, but come lv30 there's nothing to do solo for 204 gear except the Dark Zone, so I have only the Dark Zone to play or matchmake. This is extremely important to understand why this is awful since the Dark Zone is the only solo place to hunt high end gear like Striker's Gloves or 204 weapons (etc) since challenges are definitely for 4-man groups.
However, there MUST be an option to enter the Dark Zone without enabling PvP combat. Please, please, please enable a simple option at the door to any Dark Zone checkpoint to utterly enable or disable PvP. The DZ is nothing short of discouraging and intensely aggravating. The rogue parties are so numerous that I average only 1 in 10 extractions to be successful. This is unbearable. All the nice people are leaving your game.
1) PvP is poorly implemented in this. Gear Scores matter over skill. I can get 8+ headshots in a row on moving targets but it doesn't matter. i die in one bullet at virtually any range from players. Doesn't matter that I can solo DZ06 without a sweat without dying because I know I'll die about every 30 minutes from rogues. Even when in teams people aren't safe as a single sticky bomb from a griefer can kill my entire group as they often do as high as 200k damage
2) Rogues don't fight fair at all. This is a massive issue as these people are cruel, vicious, and cowardly but more than that this is supposed to be a game, not some real life gang murder simulator. People of all calibers wish to enjoy your good game but cannot since they are forced to team up when they want to play alone or solo the DZ just to be owned for no good reason.
They camp safe houses, extraction zones and ruin any fun you're having. Because the Division is split among PvP lovers and PvE lovers, there is a massive issue with being forced into PvP combat. One, you need to be geared for it to even stand a chance. Two, even when hackers and exploiters aren't killing you, you are still often just beaten because you don't like PvP and never practice it or you're flat out-geared and so on.
3) Rogues almost always charge in from your back and gun you down while you are busy with tough AI enemies. AND THEY ARE REWARDED HEAVILY FOR IT. You cannot expect us to be able to fight the insanely hard enemies and watch our backs.Every time I even intentionally shoot someone I die lol because so many of us just suck at PvP. So it's not realistic to expect us to also be OK with the DZ when we are getting back stabbed.
4) These people only want to hunt us. Even when I hollar into my mic that I have no gear or money they still laugh, call me names, and then kill me. It's pathetic and degrading. These people are actually evil. They must be to be so denigrating. Most of the time that's all they even do because the rewards are so epic just from experience or pride. I work hard to find gear and they take my hard work away from me in a single bullet without even having the decency to show their grimy faces.
5) As others have said, the rogue status wears off far too quickly and even when you know someone was rogue and will happily kill you again you're not able to simply fire at them when you see them as it will cause you to go rogue.
This creates a MASSIVE safety issue for nice people as those who are hunted easily like me MUST get the drop on these cowards because they use the ended rogue timer for their own safety blanket knowing we nice people don't want to become rogues, but all the nice people are not safe because they know the rogues will come back at them in an unfair way. We don't get any safety. We don't have a safety time before or after we're killed. We have no comfort at all. We are killed like sheep!!!
6) We stay hunted because when we see past-rogues we cannot simply fire first while they are running around busy too. It would be just deserts to follow them around and see how they like being shot in the back while they are working hard on killing a pack of elites. So in many instances I see rogues whose timers ran down. They look at me, I cannot fire first since they aren't rogue. One bullet and I die. They become rogue and go hide again. It's not fair and it's BRUTAL.
So when I saw a rogue who once killed me before, I just plucked a good one in his face, he died instantly and then for my self-defense (common sense knowing he;d have just killed me asap if he saw me again) I became rogue. In my own effort to pre-emptively protect myself I was killed by others wanting the reward for my unfair bounty. I then lost double money and double experience.
I LEARNED ONE LESSON-- DEFENDING MYSELF COSTS ME DOUBLE TO THAT OF JUST LETTING A ROGUE KILL ME. For my effort to preserve myself I lost double exp and double money. Not only was I not rewarded for protecting myself, I was punished because I lack the know-how (and desire) to gun someone down and hide like a child in some sewer to wait out a ridiculous timer.
4) You are rewarding rogues far too much. They don't die as much as you think because they are cowards and know where to run and hide and who to gang with. They are cowards. It's not actual PvP. This is nothing but gangsters robbing and killing helpless store clerks, to choose a useful analogy.
JUST GIVE US THE OPTION TO ENTER THE DARK ZONE WITH/WITHOUT PvP! DOUBLE THE ENEMIES IF YOU MUST! IT'D STILL BE 10x MORE FAIR AND MORE ENJOYABLE.
I am not alone and shut up to anyone who says I'm some poor loser player. I have excellent stats, I run full Sentry's and almost have two of Striker's. I'm despising the game though for its force of the DZ.
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