Hi Ubi, Hi forumers!
Quick context: I'm not a regular D1 player, I have been playing a few hours during free weekends. I was more than happy to be part of the BETA testers of D2!
As I feel like "the chosen one" by being allowed to access the BETA, I think it's my duty to write this report. Please do not take these remarks as negative critics, it is just a way to enhance the final game!
Here are the major things I've seen so far after maybe 5-6 hours of game and completing the two main missions:
1- each time I leave the game, I have a windows based dialog box saying the memory could not be read. I tried to launch the game in admin mode, did not change. this comes every time, whether I actually play or just launch the game and close, even when restarting after patches were applied.
2- I've done a mission in coop, like "save the daughter of Odessa" or something, answering an "incoming backup request". Mission was a success (that poor little girl was saved by the heroes of the Division, though left in shock!). I then left the agent and the group (I think!). After that mission, my next main task was "Talk to Odessa". I had no GPS coordinates, no directions once in the safe area of the theatre, just an exclamation point over the Theatre safe area. The door of Odessa's office was closed and I was not offered the possibility to open it. I had to restart the game to be able to open the door. it looks like I had directions to next mission but not allowed to start it.
3- Most annoying thing in play: being stuck by the environement! It happened once, when joining two other agents on a control point side activity. I used "X" button to be telported, climbed up a delivery truck to join the group. I fell from the roof of that truck and was trapped in the driver's seat! location: inside the ellipse road, coordinates 1561/2854. If I remember well, we were two to three agents on the top of that delivery truck and I was somehow pushed aside by another agent.
4- Photo mode : I managed ONCE to get it... no idea how I did it, and I could not go to photo mode again! must be me not knowing how to enter the mode... as a (very experienced) Assassin's Creed player, using a game pad, it's *so* easy in AC to get to photomode: press left+right sticks at the same time... piece of cakeI found NO info on that in the settings -> keymapping. in key mapping, even if it's read only, a gamepad keymapping info would really help.
Minor things most probably consequences of a BETA version, forgivable in a BETA version (well, everything is forgivable in a BETA anyway)
a- mix of languages ... must be due to the BETA version and because all audio and texts have not been translated; playing in French, I still have English dialogs.
b- servers are busy: I had to queue and wait before playing. I hope it's only because few servers and connections are available during the BETA. That would not be acceptable in a final version.
I'm available to talk about it and send as many details as needed by Ubi teams if necessary.
bye!
ZJ.