Thanks for the private beta. It was nice to check out the game without that headache-inducing alpha watermark.
The good:
grouping worked fine. Duo-ed all content and had a blast. (after day 1 with frequent delta-03 errors)
Was nice seeing an option to turn off chromatic aberration, although I'm not sure I noticed a difference.
The bad:
UI still looks like it's made for console. Lots of weird double clicking or space bar or both or specifically one or the other was annoying.
Way too many clicks to invite someone. Inventory management was a pain having to click back and forth between inventory/stash. Would like multiple levels of 'favorite' marking an item =D
Turned down water detail and lost the floor in the first zone crafting area spawn point parking lot. Turned it back up and the floor returned. whew.
Had repeated incidents of group member frozen in crouched or standing position and gliding across the floor, although on their screen they were running normally. If they went for cover and then came out of it, graphics synced up again. This happened throughout the entire weekend.
First time accessing the crafting station after opening it up, had an NPC t-pose repeatedly into my camera view. Very distracting.
Some lag spikes here and there, but nothing major.
Scarcity of signature ammo in endgame mission was annoying, but presumably there are other sources in the full game...
Requests for backup enabled/disabled kept resetting with every single login. This needs to be much more visible. And sticky.
Way too many skills require manual control. (two out of the three available in beta -- turret and drone. the airburst roller almost gets to that annoyance level.)
Would have been nice to have some description on what different attributes actually do. Stability? Accuracy? 'Hive Skill' ?
Summary - Ran well. Can definitely see improvements from Division1.
-Same overall experience on my side (PC) the group finder was nearly flawless. Did you know that it also works in the background?
-I’m starting to notice complaints about the UI not being up to par. For me it was just fine.
-Vanishing floors are scary stuff. I ran with default settings.
-Never saw members frozen or gliding but I did see one constantly sprinting as if he had it on auto mode or something. He even sprinted into walls… he literally never stopped sprinting.
-I went to access the crafting station once and an NPC was standing in the way. She actually apologized for standing in the way and moved. I was amazed.
-Never had lag, ever.
-I’ve been hearing about the special ammo scarcity.
-”Downed agent requesting backup”. Constantly…
-Division tech does need work, mostly due to cluttered map causing placement issues (I.e., furniture getting in the way).
-I’m waiting for some genius to figure it all out.
Thanks for sharing.