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    Season reset after joining a friend with different global difficulty settings.

    I have played this game now over a year since it's release exclusively and loved it and whithered all of it's changes. I had 4 characters with different playstyles and I loved the challenge almost puzzle-like of creating those builds. The newest overhaul destroyed most of the cool synergy I had developed with those builds by limiting talents and attributes by going to a core attribute system, depowering most active talents, limiting where they can be used, taking out DTE and generally causing the overall difficulty to be raised fairly high compared to what it was.
    I am willing to experiment and try to master it but challenging difficulty is more like heroic and there doesn't seem to be much trade-off for the character's power to increase to a sufficient level. A pure 6 tier skill build nearly gets owned by challenging difficulty mode which seems really underpowered. Three friends and I tried to do tidal basin on challenging difficulty multiple times and it was overwhelmingly hard and undoable to complete. Because my friend's global difficulty was different and he signed out before I could, all my season progress up to level 48 was reset to 1. This has made me feel very dejected as I have been stressed by getting 3 characters through to level 40 and started a 4th with all your new content. I actually liked the less demanding, more casual feel of being easy to pick up and put down of your game as a working father but was excited to have your seasonal progress count across all characters and i really wanted to get it to level 100 and love the awards. But, losing my progress has severely deflated my enthusiasm now and though it is early i don't know if i want to start that over and also worry about leagues, events and raids on top of the
    huge issue with progress resetting and intractable difficulty adding to the stress of completing these things as well as the more mundane activities like projects and bounties. I consider myself to be an above average player, at least slightly and have thought of your game, for me, to be the best 3rd-person coverbased shooter ever.
    I just wanted to vent about this before possibly quitting which sadly to say probably makes me kind of pathetic as in a way your game has felt relaxing and therapeutic to me for over a year with the stress of working. I love RPGs and have a completist nature which is why I'm feeling overwhelmed by all your new content and leveling with the higher difficulty that is in the way of getting stuff done, especially with having levels get reset on me. I really loved the attribute and talent recalibration table storage though but wish I didn't have to regrind for all my exotics again (I only didn't have eagle bearer yet).
    Sorry I said a bit more in critique of the game but it had been a big part in my life since it came out and I guess I really don't expect anyone to care. Thanks for listening and for a wonderful job on the game for over a year, for me at least, until this point. This is the first day I am divorcing myself of it because the seasonal glitch which helped the grinding feel more over the edge pointless. I wish I had known not to join other players so that wouldn't have happened.
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    If it makes you feel any better, it wasn't because you joined someone. It was because of the introduction of leagues. I was in a mission by myself when the league was released and after being prompted to click through all the menu's I was back at level one. This is very discouraging for me as well because I have been very heavily grinding this game since the update and expect some serious compensation in game for this epic fail by the developers or I might leave the game too after over 200 hours spent in it. The developers really need to get things under control with the game breaking bugs or their game will be dead very soon.
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