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    Survival mode coming?

    One thing I miss from TD1 is survival mode. It would be nice to have this in TD2. Since TD1 was revealed from the trailers, short movies, and so on. None of the missions is nothing like the videos that meant survival. Main missions is take out this person, rescue this person, or destroy something. The Division you had looters good and bad. Search for supplies other than just weapons such as food.

    Survival mode was the closest thing to actually feel like you part of the game by dying or staying alive in TD. You got the disease, weather, hunger, thirst, NPC’s, and players fighting against you. I missed this. It’s also something I can jump right in. I don’t even play TD2 all the time . My SHD level 200 and I see players already at SHD 1000+. I played some PvP matches and always get matchmake against higher players. Same with the Darkzone.

    This something that push PvEvP players away, Survival mode was the best cause it definitely don’t go by your level and it was balance. It also gave me a chance like I’m trying to survive. Hearing players run by me in the same house I was looting. It increases the heart beat which was fun. The raid, missions, and so on seem repetitive. Survival mode will make a difference if implemented well. You have NY and DC. I hope this will be in a DLC update soon. My wife and I miss this.
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    The haters don't want it. Ubi and Massive don't want it. Not going to happen. There is just something about having people enjoying the game, they don't want to repeat in TD2. Go figure.
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    I don't have the numbers but the number of players who interacted with that content must have been low if they aren't considering a similar mode. The main things I hated about survival was the lack of random spawns and loot being in the same place. other than that, hands down it's been my fav pvp in either of this game's iterations.
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    Still think you could make a really good survival mode which uses the Hunters far more. Use them from the start, they are hunting you down, trying to stop whatever our goal is.

    Have something along the lines of collecting stuff that helps you detect any Hunters that are close by, similar to looting clothes, medicine like in D1, so the more you get the better chances of keeping Hunters at bay, don't collect things fast enough and then they will just ambush you whatever and its game over, similar to the cold killing you or disease.

    Just something that would use the Hunters more as they are the best in terms of a challenge and in their AI in the whole game, I doubt many on here or in the whole game would have collected all their masks on heroic mode as it could be tough going and even tougher to get them to re spawn I guess so in a way that's why you do it on normal mode.
    They are just really under used for how good they are in design and AI compared other NPC's.

    Rogues too, add them to the mix and it could be pretty good.
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    They said that they don't want to bring it back.

    Best you can do is recommend they redefine Hardcore mode into more of a Survival-esq mode, instead of just being the normal game, except with one life.
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    Originally Posted by scarp99anzz Go to original post
    Still think you could make a really good survival mode which uses the Hunters far more. Use them from the start, they are hunting you down, trying to stop whatever our goal is.

    Have something along the lines of collecting stuff that helps you detect any Hunters that are close by, similar to looting clothes, medicine like in D1, so the more you get the better chances of keeping Hunters at bay, don't collect things fast enough and then they will just ambush you whatever and its game over, similar to the cold killing you or disease.

    Just something that would use the Hunters more as they are the best in terms of a challenge and in their AI in the whole game, I doubt many on here or in the whole game would have collected all their masks on heroic mode as it could be tough going and even tougher to get them to re spawn I guess so in a way that's why you do it on normal mode.
    They are just really under used for how good they are in design and AI compared other NPC's.

    Rogues too, add them to the mix and it could be pretty good.
    That's actually I really dope idea and would def help restore my faith in this franchise. Sadly it seems they have moved on from taking this game seriously.
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    Was the most boring part of the game & I'm glad they listened and didn't add it to Div 2.
    Played it once solo and once co-op and both times I thought, "wow .. we just wasted almost 2 hours getting crap rewards which I could have got in 30 mins on a Boss run".

    I had almost 3K hours in Div 1 and loved every other part of the game, but NOT the time wasting survival.
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    Available in the first game if you want. Still pretty nice.
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    bet the devs play survival mode everyday with the forums.. and other social platforms.. lol.
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    This game has been in survival mode for months. It'll slowly get worse and we'll have to switch it to life support.
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