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Navigating NYC in The Division was a bit like walking through a deserted amusement park in a horror movie. The refuse of a collapsed city was all around you, piled up in layers of environmental storytelling. Every once in a while, something scary would happen involving guns. But, all too often, my only companions were orange-colored holograms, in-fiction recreations of historical events captured by a network of surveillance cameras. But I went back to Ubisoft's vision of New York City over and over again, ferreting out every collectible and running down even the most obscure bits of its storyline. I spent a lot of time in there, and I'm here to tell you that The Division 2's Washington, D.C. feels completely different.

Despite the game releasing in certain countries much earlier than others, the servers for The Division 2 didn't go live until March 12 at 12 AM local time. If you have any issues pertaining to wherever and how to use The Division 2 Phoenix Credits for sale, you can get hold of us at our own web-page. So even though the game launches in certain countries on March 11 like the Gold and Ultimate Editions in the UK you weren't able to play it until midnight that night. If you want a specific time for your region, you can find all the listed times on The Division 2's website.

As we head towards our full review (the game is truly huge), I wanted to lay down some early impressions from the first 10 levels to give you a taste of what to expect. The key differences are relatively subtle, but they are also numerous, coalescing to build on the foundations its predecessor laid. Ubisoft has clearly responded to feedback from the original. There's a lot of other things that change at that point, but to get that far means playing through the story campaign and getting your character to level 30. If that's something you want to do sooner rather than later then here are some useful tips on taking the shortest route.

I know that in the endgame skill cooldowns will end up being dramatically reduced by perks and gear sets, but during this initial period woof they are long. Yes, I know the trick where if you have a deployable you can manually disable it to bring your cooldown from 2-3 minutes a skill to 1-2 minutes, but it's still just so damn long. For some skills this makes sense, like given how long the drone sticks around for instance. For others, it's absurd, like the Firefly skill that can blind 3-4 enemies for roughly five seconds before going on a two-minute cooldown.

The Division 2 is a pretty good game. Sure, I was able to immediately see that it was coming down feature-complete and without any massive technical delays, which seems like a minor miracle in this particular genre. But I spent my early hours going through a whole lot of frustrating encounters, tedious waves and just generally unexciting combat. It wasn't until I changed things up a little bit that I figured out why this was: I had been playing solo. I don't recommend you do that.