Hi all,
My apologies if this is covered elsewhere but a search only brought up one post. Now in all likelihood this may be my lack of understanding of how the game works but I want to check in case it's a design flaw.
A couple of friends and I decided on Friday night to hit the dark zone for the first time as a group. One friend and I were level 7 and our other friend was level 8. No matter what we did, when the 3 of us entered the DZ entrance and walked out the door into DZ, only the 2 lvl 7's would go through, our friend who was lvl8, was on his own. I've read somewhere about the different DZ levels but how do we get around this?
The last thing anyone wants is not being able to play with your mates just because they've had more time on the game and are a higher level, that would kind of defeat the point of this beautiful co-op opportunity.
Any help or guidance is much appreciated, thanks.
The DZ if devided into player levels.
For example:
4 - 7
8 - 11
12 - 15
(These are simply examples, and may not be the EXACT numbers in-game)
As Arsenic_Touch said, it's simply for balancing the game. If you looked at the items during the beta, you would see that items from lvl 7 to 8 increases significantly, therefore making it unbalanced as f***. Ofc it sucks not being able to play with your friends in the Darkzone. But having people ranging from level 1 - 30 wouldn't be fun in even the slightest way
Originally Posted by Neutreus6 Go to original postThis is very easy to sort out, and does not upset the balancing of the dark zone levels, as a lower level player, you CAN enter a higher level DZ and join your friends, but you CANNOT enter a lower level dark zone.Originally Posted by Arsenic_Touch Go to original post
When this happens, all three of you should enter the dark zone as normal, then the lower level players need to access the group management page and highlight the highest level player, and from there is an option to join their dark zone.
Problem solved, all playing together and the dark zone is not unbalanced.
This is what I am hoping is the case and what I'd read elsewhere. It would be ridiculous that you can't enter the dark zone with your pals just because you are different levels. Yes, it makes it more difficult if one or two of your team are lower than the level you are in, but that's better than not playing with them at all.Originally Posted by savill81 Go to original post
Here is a quick fix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwmfo2VPAo
Where you go in the DZ depends on your PvE rank. In the beta rank 1-7 players went into one DZ instance and level 8 players went into another....there is no way around this, the NPC damage numbers are based on your PvE rank.
I do not know how the rank divisions will be for release....maybe 1-10, 10-20, 20-30.....who knows.
Bottom line, you can only go into the DZ instances that your PvE rank determines. That is why the PvE portion of this game is so important. Your DZ level has nothing to do with it.