Div 2 is alright, certainly a better end game. But Div 1's atmosphere is unparalleled. Post-Apoc NY in winter is just such a great setting. Extremis Malis, Extrema Remedia
Except the divsion 1 looks nothing like the E3 trailers and how good and atmospheric that looked, lots of effects are just flat out removed some mods bring part of it back but its not the same as that E3 trailers
@@Exhalted1 I never actually saw the e3 trailers until after the fact so ehn, didn’t really matter to me. I try to avoid hype trains and pre-launch stuff altogether as a rule
@@TheTurtleinariver Maybe its a good thing you didn't if you do, you can never unsee the downgrade and its not just the graphics...the way the ui uesd to be in trailer, the map welp just don't look at it I guess to save yourself the pain
I still yearn for the time where i was grinding Destiny And The Division before they both followed the same path of having a technically more successful sequel but not quite feeling the same. Both of those games still had the exhilarating feeling of exploring a brand new world with new experiences and memories, Feats/Achievements in both games of completing the Incursions and Raids, The PVP in both games back then were super hardcore but still fun and Meta Heavy so constantly build and Weapon grinding had me absolutely nerding out for 4-5 years each all while playing some sports games on the side. Absolutely loved playing video games in highschool and can’t touch those successful sequels i talked abt besides Destiny 2 when it dropped I played to completion and didn’t scratch my same itch. I got back into the Division 2 but it’s even more build dependent than D1. Been Playing Arma Reforger, Sorry for my rant💀
That moment when you fire the flare thinking you're safe and then you hear ISAC callout: "Heavily armed hostile inbound" **Smoke bomb** "High threat hostile detected" That will forever be the most "oh shit" moment for me in any game.
That shit gave me the chills, i want it in the division 1 era that we could have a mode where we can play as a hunter, like a 2nd character but yeah dreams be still be dreams
I still remember my first fight against the hunter with my friend, we were getting wrecked and a random came up and revived me and helped us kill him and we all stood there and looked at him wondering what faction he was thinking it was special forces of LMB, little did we know
I always liked division for the idea behind it, it reminded me of universes like fallout but rather than being 200 years in the future you are at the edge of protecting humanity from becoming a new rapture event to set back the world and your division operator is what stands at the flood gates to protect it all.
that was my only reasoning to playing this game. I hate shooters, more a story based gal lol but I loved the idea of that dystopian future. Dying light, the Last of Us and fallout are some of my favourite games and I so wish Division had more of that survival type game and not a looter shooter
@@miaboaler2968I love shooters, it’s all I play. But sometimes I need lore, a background, a purpose, drama. This game was perfect… except for the whole it being a level “RPG” type gameplay
@@SanLeMans I love FPS games, but I can't enjoy one unless it has good lore or immersion. Which is sad because nowadays popular FPS are just mixing in anything remotely trendy. Appealing to as many people, yet devoid of personality.
@@Soliye. right, there isn’t a single AAA game that goes from dark reality of war to “ANIME GUNS AND UWU” either that or it’s an indie game that doesn’t good but 1 choice isn’t enough. I need more than sandstorms, I need more than 2003 weaponry. Why not be fictional enough like the division but realistic enough in our weapons and biology.
@@Captain_Flint_lock facts man i had so much fun with the classified predators mark i was running a black market ak47 and had my bleed dps at 30k dps with the shrapnel talent for a chance to spread the bleed to near by targets and would wipe whole squads if everything popped and i could catch them off guard 1v1 it was fair fire crest was a hard build to beat that burn dot was for real 🤣
No game has ever matched the cozy atmosphere of Div1, nor the incredible high of successfully extracting that godroll Vector from the Dark Zone while my friends sacrificed themselves to protect the chopper for me.
Man those vibes. I’m actually running a vector build in TD2 rn, I got the perks n stuff that makes it run like 61 rounds, yet the mag fires so fast it feels more like 20-30 bullets 😂
@@flashyjackyoutube Heck yeah. I run a Striker/St. Elmo's/Dark Winter build (I know, somewhat cliche) and am pretty happy with its performance on Heroic. Wish there was a difficulty level between Heroic and Legendary because I don't like having to rely on saturating my gameplay with directives to make things more challenging.
Im gonna hate when it goes offline forever. It's a ubisoft online only game. Once the servers go, the games gone too. The Crew's already been struck down.
Ever since people started dubbing these games as "extraction shooters", I always thought back to this game and hoped that others who got to experience it were as fond of it as I was. The Division Survival was truly one of the best experiences that multiplayer gaming has ever had to offer.
adding to the music section, I want to believe they wisely ignored that "silence = tense" idea. the soundtrack Survival has almost imitates a heartbeat depending on the situation. It makes us follow that rhythm and our pressure rises and lowers as the situation requires it to be. In your clip being used for Vandra where the Player enters and shoots from the second floor, the percussion and the light synth is, I think, represents the heartbeat in tension and the hum in your ears under stress. It's fucking awesome.
I actually really like when silence is done right, but Ubisoft was always good at making you feel those tense moments. For reference, just the scores that used to play at the start of a game in Rainbow Six Siege. Each map had a unique score and a unique one would play upon wining or losing. It was like a ticking clock, you felt you were on a timer. That "heartbeat" was also involved in that game. It's so subtle, but it sells that tension so well. Really miss that immersion... Unnoticed to most players, but it gave the game a personality. Even the winning scores had you wonder "what did we really win". Contrasts so hard with all the cheering you usually get in competitive games.
@@Soliye. I agree on this, it adds to the atmosphere you're getting yourself into. Ubisoft isn't good at everything but their way of immersion just by sound design alone is exemplary.
@@basic2528 They really do a lot of good things. Their level design and accuracy with real-world locations are great too. It's just sad that with every step forward they make for each new release, they also take 2 steps back.
I feel like sometimes I’m the only person who remembers these games existed. The Division was peak for me back in middle school, hopefully Ubisoft doesn’t plan on ruining the franchise anytime soon.
They're supposed to release like one more dlc and then a 3rd game a few years down the line. I really hope we get either winter or spring. A raining Portland or Seattle would be awesome.
@@jeckek9936 I would like to say that you sound like one UA-camr I watch that is always loud and super negative with his opinions that are usually wrong, but if other comments are to be believed, Heartland just got cancelled. Already not a good sign of things to come.
Playing the dark zone in division was one of my favorite memories from that era of gaming, I actually was obsessed by it. Where it failed was the lack of endgame, you got to the highest dark zone tier pretty quick and the loot was just pointless after that. But damn that original playtime was legendary
Fr that’s what I hate about div 2 the most. Forgettable factions, although Evelin Shaw is a fantastic boss, but I don’t even think about anyone else. The cleaners and rikers are iconic
Have you ever listened to the Audiobook through Audible 'Hearts on Fire'? Its an amazing story, immersive (popped in my shirt pocket listening to it as I deliver that mail! Division at work? Hell yeah(!!) its my favorite 'newer IP' this last decade!)... That said- if you dig the Cleaners its an amazing story- lots in there bringing that faction, as well as their relationship early-outbreak to the LMB to a new level of life/lore, that I almost put it in the mist-experience territory of the IP. Even more so if you want inside history of The Cleaners, their formation and goals, and how they operated early- as well as how they and the SHD initially clashed, why, and even more amazing: who- and the dynamic between them! I hope Div 2 eventually gets Survival mode. Hopefully with the new DLC coming, it will!
Division's Dark Zone atmosphere and sense of dread was incredible. The setting was unparalled. The survival mode felt DESPERATE as you said. But it just made me want something else. "I wish this was in first-person. I wish this wasn't an RPG, so tactics and positioning would matter. I wish the survival elements weren't just in a game mode no one plays." Eventually I realized I was describing Escape from Tarkov. For better or for worse, I now have over 2000 hours in THAT game.
During the lockdowns of the COVID pandemic me and my friend have bought Div1 and played like never before. The feeling of living in a pandemic ridden world irl and ingame at once added this eerie atmospheric vibe to it. I will never forget. I've never had as much fun as back then, trying to save what's left after the Dollar Flu. The details in most parts of maps were awesome. The peak of this was survival, where the isolation and randomness of the game added a hint of feeling lost to this concotion. The second one is all right, haven't hit as hard as the first. That year or a half was the best fun I've ever had in any looter shooter ever.
I love division one, it was a simpler time. So many hours spent fighting for my life and fighting in the dark zone. There will never be another game like it
i'll always love the division, used to play with my dad all the time and was the one thing we bonded over most before he passed. sappy shit aside it genuinely was a great game and the atmosphere was great.
Survival was the biggest bag fumbled by massive. A few tweeks and removing the paywall could've made it amazing. No idea why they never launched it for division 2 when the community was begging for it since day one.
OG dark zone had so much potential they could’ve expanded on - I’ll never forget completing the game for the first time and taking my first steps into the DZ - you really never knew who was gonna stab you in the back or help exfil your items with you
I remember being definitely disappointed by his game, and yet I found myself role playing more in that game than almost any other. You described it very well, that vibe Division 1 had was unmatched, especially as a lifelong New Yorker. I remember being lucky enough to visit one of the places I lived on the very limited map. It was really cool cus it was outside my level at the time but I was determined to do it anyways, enemies were scarce but I never knew when they’d show, so it was very tense as I followed my route avoiding enemies where I could. I finally had a very peaceful moment when I turned around and saw my old apartment building. Good times. I think what I wanted out of division was mainly just a few more survival mechanics even outside of quarantine zones, almost all buildings being fully explorable. These are important for encouraging exploration and making it feel more rewarding even if you’re not getting much loot from most buildings because you can stock up on supplies other than ammo and medkits. That plus the improvements division 2 made to abilities, endgame, and weapon/build variety would have kept me playing for hours on end day after day for years Survival seems like it should have been how the entire game worked, with you losing any loot you gained since your last safe house visit if you die. Had the division 1 released with the all of Survival mechanics, and a bit more freedom in the exploration, I think the rest would have come very quickly and naturally with couple years of live service support. That’s would have been a sight to see
My best memory from The Division was turning off hud and playing underdog, sneaking my way to the safehouses in high level regions, avoiding fights, just trying to survive. And then survival came out, which upgraded my self made game mode.
The Division survival mode is still my favorite "battle-royale"-esq game ever. Having to lock in for an hour straight and when seeing another player having to think if you can afford to get shot at all, sprinting between fire barrels, running away from purple enemies, and just praying that you can see someone before they see you. Ugh, great times. So so so immersive and atmospheric
A buddy and I grew up in and around NYC so Division 1 hit differently, but Survival absolutely changed our brains. Used to hop in a run a match quickly all the time and even got to the point where we memorized equipment spawns. Any time it snows heavily and we are downtown IRL, Survival immediately comes to mind.
I'm so glad someone is talking about this. Division: survival, (not division) is in my top ten games of all time. I play tarkov along with other looter shooters a lot now and survival is what started it all. Truly a masterpiece in gaming. I would die to see a modern rendition of it made, Don't change anything, maybe some new maps and items, and updated graphics. That's it, that's what I want, nothing more nothing less.
There is nothing that I like more than people talking about stuff they find fun and interesting just because they want to share it with somebody. You've made my day friend
One of my fondest memories in gaming comes from Div 1, the atmosphere, Survival, the Dark zone, playing the game at 10am since classes got cancelled that day. Sitting in that trench in the LMB excursion with 3 other agents battling hordes of LMB goons and once in a while hopping out to plant C4 on the APC, etc etc. I never had that with Div 2 honestly. It has left such an impression on me i've made an entire Hunter cosplay over the span of 2 years, which currently stands proudly in my room on a mannequin as i type this! Too bad my friend who was the entire reason i got Div 1 back in 2016 never really played much of it, but happy because of him i got so invested in the game. It always has a place in my heart ♥
Having played both game for Years one thing D1 got right was the dark one the size the being able to scale buildings at different sizes going through buildings/malls chasing someone from bottom zone to top zone or being rogue and getting chased to lure someone to a area you know better then them… it was just so good!! And felt like a dark zone!!
I can't believe this video is real. I love the survival game mode so much. It's one of my all time favorite game modes, across any game. Thank you for reminding me to hop on this game again. Its the only time i can actually enjoy something ubisoft has made.
@MadmanEpic Thanks for taking the time to produce this look back at Survival! Sadly, no mention of the lesser known "Sun up run". The ambiance of experiencing the Sun rise in a Survival run is pretty unique (fog decrease, false dawn, fog increase, actual sunrise). Any Survival veterans out there that haven't done this: it's a must.
I spent all of middle school and high school playing this game and playing div 2. Literally one of the best late night gaming seshs were spent on this game. Can’t even recall the countless hours I’ve spent running from dz1 all the way to dz 6 before they added dz 9 tryna run from the server while on manhunt
One of my favorite memories was having the whole server after us after like an hour on manhunt. I remember I turned around running to hold off the server so our teammate could get the manhunt. I swear to this day I saw like 30 names. It had to literally be the whole server. We got the manhunt done and two teams went rogue in rage and we died, but it was fantastic experience.
Another cool detail about survival is the temperature is also affected by the wind speed as well. The slower the wind blows, the warmer it gets, but it still only goes up to like -20°C in the early game.
You've convinced me to give Survival a try, looks breathtaking. The option of PvP & PvE is EXACTLY what I want in such a game - sweat mode and semi turn brain off mode. I think the rarity of players playing would even make a PvP encounter so much more tense. This is a mode that deserves a player comeback with new players joining too. Die hard fans should really push players to join in on the fun, even all these years later.
This video made me buy the game and the extension. Just for that experience and that atmosphere. Thank you. I didn't thought I could find something interesting enough about this game.
I normally can’t stand battle royales or pvp for that matter, but Survival was something else. I would just play the PVE one but it was so good, loved getting up to the end with the last few people against the hunters.
holy shit I thought that this video was like a year or two old by a 10-100k sub channel and this utterly suprised me, goodluck man keep up the good work and never lose your style
While the story isn’t at the forefront of both games, it is there. As someone who is deeply invested in the lore of the games, I can say that the story/lore is really interesting and the games have a healthy connection between gameplay and lore. If you don’t care for the story then you don’t need to worry about it but if you are someone who wants to know more, then finding the lore based comms which are usually in mission areas and well traversed areas is easy to do. Huge fan of the series and glad to see that it’s still getting traction to this day.
oh man i was thinking about this mode during a conversation about extraction shooters with a friend the other day, what a coincidence. i had never played it and didnt buy the division so i had just assumed it was pure ass but it seems like i was mistaken, this looks really cool!
It's a real solid game, especially once it was patched to shit, because it had a real rocky start with glitches/crashes/etc. One of the first Xbox One games I played! Enjoy it before Ubisoft decides to shut down the servers.
@@burakiblitz2040 underground if u want farming and survival for the experience, dz is just preds and nomads with reverse lag but you can still have a good time there
After a week of grinding for a gear piece in the dark zone, finally finding it and then having to extract it gave me the feeling that I got when I first started playing online games. Incredible
"not that hard to kill" I was in a group of 3, we found a fourth outside the dz, with a fifth tagging along in the dz. Once you have 3 players in a group, hunters get armor. They become way harder to kill, require coordination to kill, and just one armored hunter can still wreck the entire team. It took us 15 minutes to kill them all. We fought 6 of them. A 6th person came by, but got merced by the hunters and left before we could revive him. The heli only has 4 seats and I was left. I had to go find more materials for a flare gun, fight through enemies, scavenge more shots to keep my timer up by minutes (the more you use, the less effective they are), find a safehouse and craft the flaregun, before fighting my way back to extract. I died 100 feet from extract by a sniper. An awesome and tragic adventure. The hunter's toughness ruined my time. at 100 feet from extract, I had 6 minutes on my timer and the heli takes 5 to fly in. I was cutting it close when i died.
I never enjoyed this game, and really wanted to when I had played them. Yet, you have made me take a second and see just how pretty the division one looks. The setting, to me, is massively intriguing and the environments were pleasant to walk around in.
Something I've always loved about Div 1 was it felt cold, especially in Survival. I could be playing the game while it is in the middle of summer time irl, and still be be able to picture it. Always loved the atmosphere of Div 1 and ngl, always felt Div 2 was more... cartoony in comparison (even if it wasn't really). Said atmosphere both carried the game and honestly also carried the story (or lack there of) in itself. To me, it felt like everyone in the world around you was trying to survive the winter more then even the disease that had ravaged the city not long before. The bits of in game lore and side stories really carried this idea to me and even to today I think back to the game every once and awhile. Also the lighting engine did amazing for what it needed too. Though, like mentioned many times in this video. Div 1's enemies are... really tanky, sometimes to an extreme. In some of the other content of the game, basically the equivalent of dungeons of other MMOs. You can run into other versions of the hunters, of the survival mode that are mentioned. Whose AI can be extremely lacking at times and healthpools immense, with the ability to basically fully heal themselves multiple times unless. Still dangerous in their own ways, since they don't lack damage or the ability to remove a downed player from the fight entirely. But, they are the perfect example of enemies in Div 1 having too much health. Addition: Part of the reason I feel like Div 1/Survival did so well in my opinion. Was they made an atmosphere that felt bleak and even the world itself seemed to be fighting against you, and the game played into it heavily in survival. You can't always see your enemy perfectly, they can't always see you perfectly. Hell, its a good part of the reason I've personally come to enjoy Helldivers 2 in this sense. Some of those planets have horrible visibility just naturally and I love it.
The division 1 still holds the cake for my best gaming experience’s. And half of it was the bugs, watching you’re teammate turn into a ball shooting lead was something else😢
I wish I had known Survival had a PvE mode earlier, I would've played it then. Never was a big fan of getting ganged up on in thy Dark Zone and that alone kept me from getting the DLC. Now that Ubisoft has stolen our copies of The Crew, I'm not sure I want to even pay for it to begin with. But making a Survival style game, hm... Never a bad time to start learning game dev.
Oh wow! I never noticed the snow falling off of cars you lean on @18:18 ... THAT is dope... And you put this video out at the PERFECT time with the turmoil between EFT and other extraction games coming out. Great timing. The view counts speak volume here.
God the Survival mode of this game was always peak in my memory. Nothing has topped it yet. I will occasionally hop back in just to re-experience the mode and how great it felt. I mostly have moved on from the series, but I will NEVER forget the survival mode. Part of the wonder of the mode for me is just how well it *re-contextualizes* areas of the game that you might be familiar with from the main game. Like, the dark zone is even more hostile, and areas you might be familiar with are completely turned on their heads with the atmosphere change. It’s wonderful. By the way, loved the video.
Holy shit I miss this mode so much! Can't say I miss playing Division 1 (all the grind eventually drained the fun out of the experience), but watching this video reminded me how well put together this game mode was and even made me miss New York having lived there briefly when I was in the US. Survival was a refuge where my gear score didn't matter and I could just soak in the vibes. It's honestly kind of relaxing in PvE mode and I had some wholesome interactions with other players, which rarely happens elsewhere in Division.
As weird as it is, there was a Roblox game that I had played a fair bit a few years ago, and it involved running out into a snow storm to collect gear and equipment before returning to a base to defend from waves of enemies. Was quite good for being a Roblox game and the atmosphere was always great, especially the oddly high quality music and the properly voiced companion notifying you of different things... never expected to hear that music again after the game closed down. Until, when your video suddenly pops into my recommended and the track Vandra started playing. Always thought that music was just a bit too high quality to be made for some Roblox game. So thank you for this video, as it made me look into getting the game and it just so happened to be on sale on Steam as I write this, so I got the base game and the game mode for a whole 7.50, not bad at all.
I just picked it up for $ 6.41. I do play D2 as well. I do like the fact that one was gear score based in stead of D2 using SHD levels (1000 is basically max stats) would be nice if they brought it back imo.
I honestly prefer division 1 almost entirely because of it's vibes (plus the story, although flawed, is still better). Maybe it's just the New Yorker in me, but nothing beats apocalyptic NYC in winter.
I honestly think ubisoft should remaster division 1 as their next entry into the series i think a remaster knowing what they know now after almost 10 years and development and continuous support of division 2 would make the remaster pretty damn good.
This video genuinely made me, and I’m assuming so many other people go back to play survival becasue I forgot about how much fun this dlc was, I’m planning to make a video on it hopefully this upcoming week, and tonight I just met a guy who said he came to play straight from this video just like me, tonight I wrapped up the recording and will hopefully be able to post it soon, awesome video and thanks for the memories!!!
I never really touched the games, played 2 a little bit though. UA-cam recommended this video and I try to watch some they recommended to find new youtubers to watch. This is a very well made video, with a very good script. You are clearly super solid when it comes to making content. New sub 100%
Survival's gotta be one of my all time favorite experiences of gaming in general. Can't imagine how many hours I've put into the gamemode alone. Hell, it's one of the reasons I ended up pre-ordering the sequel's special edition, even though I rarely play TD2 nowadays! (still, can't believe you didn't mention Dock Wrecks in the soundtrack section smh my head) One thing I felt worth mentioning, there's a setting that (I believe) is called Neutral Lighting. Setting it to On removes a lot of the artificial lights that are invisible for gameplay purposes. It is pretty much night and day for the lighting, it can be genuinely difficult to make out enemies, especially if you're in a brightly lit room IRL. That said, when you're just wandering the Light Zone with it enabled, scavenging for parts and dodging patrols... it is unmatched. Of course, it does make the game harder, but it's assistance to the vibe offers a risk-reward scenario, imo. Anyways, hard agree on a lot of the stuff here. I just wish there was something like it. Nothing has ever really matched the feel of my first Sunrise Run. Seeing the daylight peek through the storm clouds into the Dark Zone, with minutes on the clock, and the Hunter fight waiting... It is a thing of beauty. Modded STALKER is good, but it's just not a 100% match. And, if Ubisoft proceeds unimpeded, I may never get to experience something quite like it again. I do hope Ross Scott makes some progress, can't believe I'm now waiting on _two_ ongoing projects from him. (FM and SKG)
The thing I love about Survival in TD1 is just how it takes battle Royale mechanics while giving a reason for these to exist. You're not forced closer to the center of the map by an ever-closing ring, but by the fact you'll end up looting areas and needing to move on, and supplies and better gear can be found closer to the center of the map. The tension doesn't feel artificial, and that's an extremely difficult thing to pull off. There's nothing on the market like it in terms of atmosphere and game feel. It's also not mandatory to PvP (to the point where there is a PvE only mode) which I appreciate as a filthy casual and because PvP in the Division kind of sucks.
God damn looking at the footage, the vibe really IS that good, makes me just wanna experience the older titles that have been forgotten as we move on to the new stuff
I have been pleading and begging for survival 2.0 for 4+ years. If it’s not in Division 3, then the devs have no clue what they are doing. I used to reply it every night for about 8-10 months. Me and a friend. We loved it. It was amazing. The presence of danger. Others trying to steal your supplies. Then once you get to the dark zone it gets just crazy. Omg it was so good. The need for meds. The need for warmth. The thirst for a good gun early. I remember so many Amazing memories playing this game mode. And yet… they didn’t add it to div 2. I will never understand why. I figured it was because they had “heart land” coming. Until they cancelled it. Now all I can hope is they just added heart land as a game mode in division 3
Survival was one of the best goddamn expansions to any game of all time: the gameplay, the mechanics, the environment, the enemy design, the soundtrack - all an absolute masterpiece. I will never forget and try to play every now and again.
Division 1 atmosphere is timeless, the snow and white/grey mood looks like it could’ve been released yesterday. The environment design is probably the most detailed rendition of NYC in any game ever made.
I haven't been crazy about division since it was announced in 2013 or extraction shooters in general but after finding out about this game mode (thanks to you) and both the division and the survival dlc being on cheap sale for 8 dollars. I'm going to buy the game and play it, it honestly looks fun and something i probably play for 100 something hours. The gamemode is very balanced, no pay to win content and has a great atmosphere. Thank you.
Time didn't forget this game. Ubisoft gave up on it before it could get anywhere. You can't make a good extract shooter if you're trying to make everyone happy all the time.
10 years of support my arse lol. Just as the game got to a good place with Piers update, Survival etc, they moved on to 2. Ouch! The atmosphere in Division 1 is still one of my favorites of any game. It's unmatched imo. I played a lot of Survival. It sucks most people slept on that mode. It could have been HUGE and Ubisoft didn't carry it on. I would play an entire game structured around that game mode. SO much fun. I covered it when it came out, thanks for keeping that torch burning!
Survival being the absolute best part of the first Division and then being completely abandoned immediately after is such a textbook Ubisoft move and its agonizing to me that they're the publisher who got to make this series.
God ive missed this game mode so much, it was one of my fav things to play after i got bored of farming god rolls, I stopped playing it a few years back because queue times just took so long i thought it was dead, despite all its flaws, I miss the days I played Division with my friends
Like your vibe that is throughout the whole video, remember's me the old days with Marcostyle (the one who did the most videos about div1) I played over 4000 hours in div 1 and 2. Left it now because it went a path that is way of the original. I wait for 3 now end of this year and hope survival will return. To be honest I never noticed the great music because I lowered the volume to chat with others. For sure I going to listen to the album now. Division was for me the best game ever, despite of how much the dev's fu... It up. Thanks for this great video. It reflects a lot of what I experienced in my Division days.
I enjoyed The Division and the Dark Zone was so cool to experience back in the day, but Survival was definitely my favourite part of it. The atmosphere is top notch and there's some great ideas in it, it needed a little bit more polish and it could have easily been it's own game. As always though a game mode being DLC is always going to have a low player base which is a shame. If it was one of the default modes in the 2nd game, it probably would have gotten more traction with how extraction shooter and battle royale titles were gaining popularity around the time. Great video on this awesome mode!
This just in, Ubisoft has apparently cancelled Heartland as of today. That aged in a hurry, didn't it?
Sad.
I literally watched this video the day before heartland was cancelled, I came back to tell you but you seem to know already…
so fast.
damn it
😂😢 yeah immidiately though of this video when i heard the news.
Div 2 is alright, certainly a better end game. But Div 1's atmosphere is unparalleled. Post-Apoc NY in winter is just such a great setting. Extremis Malis, Extrema Remedia
Agree
Except the divsion 1 looks nothing like the E3 trailers and how good and atmospheric that looked, lots of effects are just flat out removed some mods bring part of it back but its not the same as that E3 trailers
@@Exhalted1 I never actually saw the e3 trailers until after the fact so ehn, didn’t really matter to me. I try to avoid hype trains and pre-launch stuff altogether as a rule
@@TheTurtleinariver Maybe its a good thing you didn't if you do, you can never unsee the downgrade and its not just the graphics...the way the ui uesd to be in trailer, the map welp just don't look at it I guess to save yourself the pain
Type shit bruh
No one that fully played Div 1 has forgot a thing! Unmatched
DIV 1 atmosphere carried it alone. I much rater play Div 1 than 2, even if 2 is allegedly 'better'. I just love Div 1 lmao.
exactly what i thought when i saw the title lmao
You I can’t lie, probably one of my most enjoyable eras in gaming for me
I still play it lmao
I still yearn for the time where i was grinding Destiny And The Division before they both followed the same path of having a technically more successful sequel but not quite feeling the same. Both of those games still had the exhilarating feeling of exploring a brand new world with new experiences and memories, Feats/Achievements in both games of completing the Incursions and Raids, The PVP in both games back then were super hardcore but still fun and Meta Heavy so constantly build and Weapon grinding had me absolutely nerding out for 4-5 years each all while playing some sports games on the side. Absolutely loved playing video games in highschool and can’t touch those successful sequels i talked abt besides Destiny 2 when it dropped I played to completion and didn’t scratch my same itch. I got back into the Division 2 but it’s even more build dependent than D1. Been Playing Arma Reforger, Sorry for my rant💀
As a Division addict having this randomly popping up into my recommended made me extremely happy
You still play? I’m curious
@@zephsmokes here and there sometimes on Xbox
real shit, just wish i had friends to play with back then. but even alone it was fun
Same
im still waiting for a Ghost Recon Phantoms essay 😅
That moment when you fire the flare thinking you're safe and then you hear ISAC callout:
"Heavily armed hostile inbound"
**Smoke bomb**
"High threat hostile detected"
That will forever be the most "oh shit" moment for me in any game.
That shit gave me the chills, i want it in the division 1 era that we could have a mode where we can play as a hunter, like a 2nd character but yeah dreams be still be dreams
I still remember my first fight against the hunter with my friend, we were getting wrecked and a random came up and revived me and helped us kill him and we all stood there and looked at him wondering what faction he was thinking it was special forces of LMB, little did we know
Bruh, can you say.. *bad build*
Certainly.
Especially if you hadn't met the Hunters in Resistance or the Underground!
@@TheElite1102 pretty sure they first came out in survival it was there introduction
I always liked division for the idea behind it, it reminded me of universes like fallout but rather than being 200 years in the future you are at the edge of protecting humanity from becoming a new rapture event to set back the world and your division operator is what stands at the flood gates to protect it all.
that was my only reasoning to playing this game. I hate shooters, more a story based gal lol but I loved the idea of that dystopian future. Dying light, the Last of Us and fallout are some of my favourite games and I so wish Division had more of that survival type game and not a looter shooter
Maybe someone can redo the idea again but better.
@@miaboaler2968I love shooters, it’s all I play. But sometimes I need lore, a background, a purpose, drama.
This game was perfect… except for the whole it being a level “RPG” type gameplay
@@SanLeMans I love FPS games, but I can't enjoy one unless it has good lore or immersion.
Which is sad because nowadays popular FPS are just mixing in anything remotely trendy. Appealing to as many people, yet devoid of personality.
@@Soliye. right, there isn’t a single AAA game that goes from dark reality of war to “ANIME GUNS AND UWU” either that or it’s an indie game that doesn’t good but 1 choice isn’t enough.
I need more than sandstorms, I need more than 2003 weaponry.
Why not be fictional enough like the division but realistic enough in our weapons and biology.
The original dark zone was soooo much fun.
og dark zone was dope so many good memories
The best time I had in the dark zone was when nobody knew what they were doing, absolute chaos.
I remember the times before 1.4 having to sneak around enemies to get loot because enemies were complete bullet sponges who could one-shot you
The builds for Dark Zone were the best, I grinded so hard to get a full gearset of firecrest
@@Captain_Flint_lock facts man i had so much fun with the classified predators mark i was running a black market ak47 and had my bleed dps at 30k dps with the shrapnel talent for a chance to spread the bleed to near by targets and would wipe whole squads if everything popped and i could catch them off guard 1v1 it was fair fire crest was a hard build to beat that burn dot was for real 🤣
No game has ever matched the cozy atmosphere of Div1, nor the incredible high of successfully extracting that godroll Vector from the Dark Zone while my friends sacrificed themselves to protect the chopper for me.
Man those vibes. I’m actually running a vector build in TD2 rn, I got the perks n stuff that makes it run like 61 rounds, yet the mag fires so fast it feels more like 20-30 bullets 😂
@@flashyjackyoutube Heck yeah. I run a Striker/St. Elmo's/Dark Winter build (I know, somewhat cliche) and am pretty happy with its performance on Heroic. Wish there was a difficulty level between Heroic and Legendary because I don't like having to rely on saturating my gameplay with directives to make things more challenging.
Im gonna hate when it goes offline forever. It's a ubisoft online only game. Once the servers go, the games gone too. The Crew's already been struck down.
Ever since people started dubbing these games as "extraction shooters", I always thought back to this game and hoped that others who got to experience it were as fond of it as I was. The Division Survival was truly one of the best experiences that multiplayer gaming has ever had to offer.
adding to the music section, I want to believe they wisely ignored that "silence = tense" idea.
the soundtrack Survival has almost imitates a heartbeat depending on the situation.
It makes us follow that rhythm and our pressure rises and lowers as the situation requires it to be.
In your clip being used for Vandra where the Player enters and shoots from the second floor, the percussion and the light synth is, I think, represents the heartbeat in tension and the hum in your ears under stress.
It's fucking awesome.
I actually really like when silence is done right, but Ubisoft was always good at making you feel those tense moments.
For reference, just the scores that used to play at the start of a game in Rainbow Six Siege. Each map had a unique score and a unique one would play upon wining or losing.
It was like a ticking clock, you felt you were on a timer. That "heartbeat" was also involved in that game. It's so subtle, but it sells that tension so well. Really miss that immersion... Unnoticed to most players, but it gave the game a personality. Even the winning scores had you wonder "what did we really win". Contrasts so hard with all the cheering you usually get in competitive games.
Escape from tarkov certainly gets the silence = tense right
@@Soliye.
I agree on this, it adds to the atmosphere you're getting yourself into.
Ubisoft isn't good at everything but their way of immersion just by sound design alone is exemplary.
@@basic2528 They really do a lot of good things. Their level design and accuracy with real-world locations are great too. It's just sad that with every step forward they make for each new release, they also take 2 steps back.
I feel like sometimes I’m the only person who remembers these games existed. The Division was peak for me back in middle school, hopefully Ubisoft doesn’t plan on ruining the franchise anytime soon.
Division 3 is supposed to be released in 2025 so we probably have until then for Ubisoft to screw it up
@@Monson3 we just have to hope they learn theyre lesson before then
They're supposed to release like one more dlc and then a 3rd game a few years down the line. I really hope we get either winter or spring. A raining Portland or Seattle would be awesome.
AHAHAHAHAHA.
Ubisoft will not only actively set out to destroy what you enjoyed, but also label you a bad person for enjoying it in the first place.
@@jeckek9936 I would like to say that you sound like one UA-camr I watch that is always loud and super negative with his opinions that are usually wrong, but if other comments are to be believed, Heartland just got cancelled. Already not a good sign of things to come.
Playing the dark zone in division was one of my favorite memories from that era of gaming, I actually was obsessed by it. Where it failed was the lack of endgame, you got to the highest dark zone tier pretty quick and the loot was just pointless after that. But damn that original playtime was legendary
same thoughts. end game for Darkzone makes it hard not to lean towards meta loadouts reigning the contaminated streets.
The Cleaners are probably one of my favorite factions from ANY piece of media! I love them so much, they’re just amazing for lore, design, etc.
Heck yeah. They're such a psychopathic, creepy faction.
Yeah because even though they are insane they do have a point. How else you going stop the infection lol
Fr that’s what I hate about div 2 the most. Forgettable factions, although Evelin Shaw is a fantastic boss, but I don’t even think about anyone else. The cleaners and rikers are iconic
@@LoFoShouh dude they are memorable!
Theres thr coyotes and they eat people.
I dont remember the rest. (I was wrong what have i done)
Have you ever listened to the Audiobook through Audible 'Hearts on Fire'? Its an amazing story, immersive (popped in my shirt pocket listening to it as I deliver that mail! Division at work? Hell yeah(!!) its my favorite 'newer IP' this last decade!)...
That said- if you dig the Cleaners its an amazing story- lots in there bringing that faction, as well as their relationship early-outbreak to the LMB to a new level of life/lore, that I almost put it in the mist-experience territory of the IP. Even more so if you want inside history of The Cleaners, their formation and goals, and how they operated early- as well as how they and the SHD initially clashed, why, and even more amazing: who- and the dynamic between them!
I hope Div 2 eventually gets Survival mode. Hopefully with the new DLC coming, it will!
No one mentioning how this guy stopped making videos for half a decade only to drop this banger of a video out the blue
survival gave me such severe brain worms that I was left with no choice
Division's Dark Zone atmosphere and sense of dread was incredible. The setting was unparalled. The survival mode felt DESPERATE as you said. But it just made me want something else.
"I wish this was in first-person. I wish this wasn't an RPG, so tactics and positioning would matter. I wish the survival elements weren't just in a game mode no one plays."
Eventually I realized I was describing Escape from Tarkov. For better or for worse, I now have over 2000 hours in THAT game.
During the lockdowns of the COVID pandemic me and my friend have bought Div1 and played like never before. The feeling of living in a pandemic ridden world irl and ingame at once added this eerie atmospheric vibe to it. I will never forget. I've never had as much fun as back then, trying to save what's left after the Dollar Flu. The details in most parts of maps were awesome. The peak of this was survival, where the isolation and randomness of the game added a hint of feeling lost to this concotion. The second one is all right, haven't hit as hard as the first. That year or a half was the best fun I've ever had in any looter shooter ever.
Fr I also played the division 1 during the pandemic, it hit different Fr, speacially playing the dark zone with bro back then
I love division one, it was a simpler time. So many hours spent fighting for my life and fighting in the dark zone. There will never be another game like it
true d1 is king
i'll always love the division, used to play with my dad all the time and was the one thing we bonded over most before he passed. sappy shit aside it genuinely was a great game and the atmosphere was great.
also this video is incredibly well made and you should DEFINETLY have way more subs, thank you
sorry for your loss bud, feel ya
also killer Duster pfp, exact vinyl hanging over my head right now
@@TheTrueJNR thanks man, and i also have two duster records hanging in my room currently too, looking to get 1975 next
Nice pfp ;3
My dad also put me on div1 just had a conversation with him abt it before heading to work cause of this vid
Survival was the biggest bag fumbled by massive. A few tweeks and removing the paywall could've made it amazing. No idea why they never launched it for division 2 when the community was begging for it since day one.
OG dark zone had so much potential they could’ve expanded on - I’ll never forget completing the game for the first time and taking my first steps into the DZ - you really never knew who was gonna stab you in the back or help exfil your items with you
The division 1 survival mode is incredibly underrated.
I remember being definitely disappointed by his game, and yet I found myself role playing more in that game than almost any other. You described it very well, that vibe Division 1 had was unmatched, especially as a lifelong New Yorker. I remember being lucky enough to visit one of the places I lived on the very limited map. It was really cool cus it was outside my level at the time but I was determined to do it anyways, enemies were scarce but I never knew when they’d show, so it was very tense as I followed my route avoiding enemies where I could. I finally had a very peaceful moment when I turned around and saw my old apartment building. Good times.
I think what I wanted out of division was mainly just a few more survival mechanics even outside of quarantine zones, almost all buildings being fully explorable. These are important for encouraging exploration and making it feel more rewarding even if you’re not getting much loot from most buildings because you can stock up on supplies other than ammo and medkits. That plus the improvements division 2 made to abilities, endgame, and weapon/build variety would have kept me playing for hours on end day after day for years
Survival seems like it should have been how the entire game worked, with you losing any loot you gained since your last safe house visit if you die. Had the division 1 released with the all of Survival mechanics, and a bit more freedom in the exploration, I think the rest would have come very quickly and naturally with couple years of live service support. That’s would have been a sight to see
My best memory from The Division was turning off hud and playing underdog, sneaking my way to the safehouses in high level regions, avoiding fights, just trying to survive. And then survival came out, which upgraded my self made game mode.
Survival is the BEST GAME MODE in the entire Tom Clancy catalog! Especially Survival PVP 🤘🏼🍿🍿🤘🏼
The Division survival mode is still my favorite "battle-royale"-esq game ever. Having to lock in for an hour straight and when seeing another player having to think if you can afford to get shot at all, sprinting between fire barrels, running away from purple enemies, and just praying that you can see someone before they see you. Ugh, great times. So so so immersive and atmospheric
A buddy and I grew up in and around NYC so Division 1 hit differently, but Survival absolutely changed our brains. Used to hop in a run a match quickly all the time and even got to the point where we memorized equipment spawns. Any time it snows heavily and we are downtown IRL, Survival immediately comes to mind.
I'm so glad someone is talking about this. Division: survival, (not division) is in my top ten games of all time. I play tarkov along with other looter shooters a lot now and survival is what started it all. Truly a masterpiece in gaming. I would die to see a modern rendition of it made, Don't change anything, maybe some new maps and items, and updated graphics. That's it, that's what I want, nothing more nothing less.
There is nothing that I like more than people talking about stuff they find fun and interesting just because they want to share it with somebody. You've made my day friend
One of my fondest memories in gaming comes from Div 1, the atmosphere, Survival, the Dark zone, playing the game at 10am since classes got cancelled that day. Sitting in that trench in the LMB excursion with 3 other agents battling hordes of LMB goons and once in a while hopping out to plant C4 on the APC, etc etc. I never had that with Div 2 honestly. It has left such an impression on me i've made an entire Hunter cosplay over the span of 2 years, which currently stands proudly in my room on a mannequin as i type this!
Too bad my friend who was the entire reason i got Div 1 back in 2016 never really played much of it, but happy because of him i got so invested in the game. It always has a place in my heart ♥
I love how you knock the snow off the side of the vehicles as you get up against them for cover
Having played both game for
Years one thing D1 got right was the dark one the size the being able to scale buildings at different sizes going through buildings/malls chasing someone from bottom zone to top zone or being rogue and getting chased to lure someone to a area you know better then them… it was just so good!! And felt like a dark zone!!
The "Oh!?" at 0:01
😂
lmfao
I can't believe this video is real. I love the survival game mode so much. It's one of my all time favorite game modes, across any game. Thank you for reminding me to hop on this game again. Its the only time i can actually enjoy something ubisoft has made.
there are dozens of us!
i wish i can buy div1 so i can only play survival
@MadmanEpic Thanks for taking the time to produce this look back at Survival! Sadly, no mention of the lesser known "Sun up run". The ambiance of experiencing the Sun rise in a Survival run is pretty unique (fog decrease, false dawn, fog increase, actual sunrise). Any Survival veterans out there that haven't done this: it's a must.
I still hop into Division 1 every now and again just to play survival. Unparalleled.
I spent all of middle school and high school playing this game and playing div 2. Literally one of the best late night gaming seshs were spent on this game. Can’t even recall the countless hours I’ve spent running from dz1 all the way to dz 6 before they added dz 9 tryna run from the server while on manhunt
One of my favorite memories was having the whole server after us after like an hour on manhunt. I remember I turned around running to hold off the server so our teammate could get the manhunt. I swear to this day I saw like 30 names. It had to literally be the whole server. We got the manhunt done and two teams went rogue in rage and we died, but it was fantastic experience.
Another cool detail about survival is the temperature is also affected by the wind speed as well. The slower the wind blows, the warmer it gets, but it still only goes up to like -20°C in the early game.
You've convinced me to give Survival a try, looks breathtaking. The option of PvP & PvE is EXACTLY what I want in such a game - sweat mode and semi turn brain off mode. I think the rarity of players playing would even make a PvP encounter so much more tense.
This is a mode that deserves a player comeback with new players joining too. Die hard fans should really push players to join in on the fun, even all these years later.
This video made me buy the game and the extension. Just for that experience and that atmosphere.
Thank you. I didn't thought I could find something interesting enough about this game.
I’m so happy this video is shedding light on the survival mode. God I miss playing it
I normally can’t stand battle royales or pvp for that matter, but Survival was something else. I would just play the PVE one but it was so good, loved getting up to the end with the last few people against the hunters.
Incredible OST across the board but Survival was the best of them all. Peak audio as well as setting.
holy shit I thought that this video was like a year or two old by a 10-100k sub channel and this utterly suprised me, goodluck man keep up the good work and never lose your style
While the story isn’t at the forefront of both games, it is there. As someone who is deeply invested in the lore of the games, I can say that the story/lore is really interesting and the games have a healthy connection between gameplay and lore. If you don’t care for the story then you don’t need to worry about it but if you are someone who wants to know more, then finding the lore based comms which are usually in mission areas and well traversed areas is easy to do. Huge fan of the series and glad to see that it’s still getting traction to this day.
oh man i was thinking about this mode during a conversation about extraction shooters with a friend the other day, what a coincidence. i had never played it and didnt buy the division so i had just assumed it was pure ass but it seems like i was mistaken, this looks really cool!
It's a real solid game, especially once it was patched to shit, because it had a real rocky start with glitches/crashes/etc. One of the first Xbox One games I played! Enjoy it before Ubisoft decides to shut down the servers.
Pretty fun game, the downside is that survival mode is a DLC, btw you can buy the gold edition for a fairly decent price
@@yonagunivevo835 Yea, I consider the Underground and especially survival worth it because of the PVE.
@@burakiblitz2040 underground if u want farming and survival for the experience, dz is just preds and nomads with reverse lag but you can still have a good time there
After a week of grinding for a gear piece in the dark zone, finally finding it and then having to extract it gave me the feeling that I got when I first started playing online games. Incredible
"not that hard to kill"
I was in a group of 3, we found a fourth outside the dz, with a fifth tagging along in the dz. Once you have 3 players in a group, hunters get armor. They become way harder to kill, require coordination to kill, and just one armored hunter can still wreck the entire team. It took us 15 minutes to kill them all. We fought 6 of them. A 6th person came by, but got merced by the hunters and left before we could revive him. The heli only has 4 seats and I was left. I had to go find more materials for a flare gun, fight through enemies, scavenge more shots to keep my timer up by minutes (the more you use, the less effective they are), find a safehouse and craft the flaregun, before fighting my way back to extract. I died 100 feet from extract by a sniper. An awesome and tragic adventure. The hunter's toughness ruined my time. at 100 feet from extract, I had 6 minutes on my timer and the heli takes 5 to fly in. I was cutting it close when i died.
I never enjoyed this game, and really wanted to when I had played them.
Yet, you have made me take a second and see just how pretty the division one looks.
The setting, to me, is massively intriguing and the environments were pleasant to walk around in.
Something I've always loved about Div 1 was it felt cold, especially in Survival. I could be playing the game while it is in the middle of summer time irl, and still be be able to picture it.
Always loved the atmosphere of Div 1 and ngl, always felt Div 2 was more... cartoony in comparison (even if it wasn't really).
Said atmosphere both carried the game and honestly also carried the story (or lack there of) in itself. To me, it felt like everyone in the world around you was trying to survive the winter more then even the disease that had ravaged the city not long before. The bits of in game lore and side stories really carried this idea to me and even to today I think back to the game every once and awhile. Also the lighting engine did amazing for what it needed too.
Though, like mentioned many times in this video. Div 1's enemies are... really tanky, sometimes to an extreme. In some of the other content of the game, basically the equivalent of dungeons of other MMOs. You can run into other versions of the hunters, of the survival mode that are mentioned. Whose AI can be extremely lacking at times and healthpools immense, with the ability to basically fully heal themselves multiple times unless.
Still dangerous in their own ways, since they don't lack damage or the ability to remove a downed player from the fight entirely. But, they are the perfect example of enemies in Div 1 having too much health.
Addition: Part of the reason I feel like Div 1/Survival did so well in my opinion. Was they made an atmosphere that felt bleak and even the world itself seemed to be fighting against you, and the game played into it heavily in survival. You can't always see your enemy perfectly, they can't always see you perfectly. Hell, its a good part of the reason I've personally come to enjoy Helldivers 2 in this sense. Some of those planets have horrible visibility just naturally and I love it.
My fav thing about Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is that it has the additional fov slider setting. You can set it up to 25.
Lowest I think is 10 not sure.
I was planning on making a video like this, but you took the words right out of my mouth! Awesome video!
The division 1 still holds the cake for my best gaming experience’s. And half of it was the bugs, watching you’re teammate turn into a ball shooting lead was something else😢
I wish I had known Survival had a PvE mode earlier, I would've played it then. Never was a big fan of getting ganged up on in thy Dark Zone and that alone kept me from getting the DLC. Now that Ubisoft has stolen our copies of The Crew, I'm not sure I want to even pay for it to begin with. But making a Survival style game, hm... Never a bad time to start learning game dev.
Oh wow! I never noticed the snow falling off of cars you lean on @18:18 ... THAT is dope...
And you put this video out at the PERFECT time with the turmoil between EFT and other extraction games coming out.
Great timing. The view counts speak volume here.
Div 1 Survival couldve been a game in its own right and Im glad its getting the recognition it deserved
God the Survival mode of this game was always peak in my memory. Nothing has topped it yet.
I will occasionally hop back in just to re-experience the mode and how great it felt.
I mostly have moved on from the series, but I will NEVER forget the survival mode.
Part of the wonder of the mode for me is just how well it *re-contextualizes* areas of the game that you might be familiar with from the main game. Like, the dark zone is even more hostile, and areas you might be familiar with are completely turned on their heads with the atmosphere change. It’s wonderful.
By the way, loved the video.
Just bought the division 2. This makes me wanna go back to the og
have fun dude/girl!
You on pc?
This just popped up in my feed and I'm glade it did. Awesome video, thanks for making it!
Holy shit I miss this mode so much! Can't say I miss playing Division 1 (all the grind eventually drained the fun out of the experience), but watching this video reminded me how well put together this game mode was and even made me miss New York having lived there briefly when I was in the US. Survival was a refuge where my gear score didn't matter and I could just soak in the vibes. It's honestly kind of relaxing in PvE mode and I had some wholesome interactions with other players, which rarely happens elsewhere in Division.
As weird as it is, there was a Roblox game that I had played a fair bit a few years ago, and it involved running out into a snow storm to collect gear and equipment before returning to a base to defend from waves of enemies. Was quite good for being a Roblox game and the atmosphere was always great, especially the oddly high quality music and the properly voiced companion notifying you of different things... never expected to hear that music again after the game closed down. Until, when your video suddenly pops into my recommended and the track Vandra started playing. Always thought that music was just a bit too high quality to be made for some Roblox game. So thank you for this video, as it made me look into getting the game and it just so happened to be on sale on Steam as I write this, so I got the base game and the game mode for a whole 7.50, not bad at all.
I just picked it up for $ 6.41. I do play D2 as well. I do like the fact that one was gear score based in stead of D2 using SHD levels (1000 is basically max stats) would be nice if they brought it back imo.
Great revival review of an absolutely epic game mode, countless hours and v.late nights lost to it. Will always have a soft spot for it
Why wasnt this basically the whole game
Bro you left for 4 years and came back with a abdoulute great video that’s impressing tbh you still didn’t quit props to you bruv
People need to come back to The Division (2)
Nah, I'd rather stay on The Division 1 lol
God no, they've been keeping that corpse barely alive for years.
D2 is trash D1 was way better
d1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> d2
I honestly prefer division 1 almost entirely because of it's vibes (plus the story, although flawed, is still better).
Maybe it's just the New Yorker in me, but nothing beats apocalyptic NYC in winter.
My one gripe is the bullet sponges.
It’s an RPG
@@g4bone IK THAT...
i was 1 shotting mf with a shotgun in div 1 endgame 🤣 was to fun
The division 2 has generally good gameplay but getting basically one shot but taking multiple mags to kill tanks was pretty annoying.
@@Samsonfs I'm pretty sure there's a mod or smt that MIGHT fix it.
What a fantastic summary of what made survival excellent. Thank you for putting out such a great video!
I honestly think ubisoft should remaster division 1 as their next entry into the series i think a remaster knowing what they know now after almost 10 years and development and continuous support of division 2 would make the remaster pretty damn good.
Division 1 visuals were so good honestly. Looks better than most games today.
Doing solo manhunt in dark zone is probably one of my most fun memories playing multiplayer alone. It was so much fun.
This video genuinely made me, and I’m assuming so many other people go back to play survival becasue I forgot about how much fun this dlc was, I’m planning to make a video on it hopefully this upcoming week, and tonight I just met a guy who said he came to play straight from this video just like me, tonight I wrapped up the recording and will hopefully be able to post it soon, awesome video and thanks for the memories!!!
I never really touched the games, played 2 a little bit though.
UA-cam recommended this video and I try to watch some they recommended to find new youtubers to watch.
This is a very well made video, with a very good script. You are clearly super solid when it comes to making content. New sub 100%
I miss Div 1 Survival so much, thank you for this!
Survival's gotta be one of my all time favorite experiences of gaming in general. Can't imagine how many hours I've put into the gamemode alone. Hell, it's one of the reasons I ended up pre-ordering the sequel's special edition, even though I rarely play TD2 nowadays! (still, can't believe you didn't mention Dock Wrecks in the soundtrack section smh my head)
One thing I felt worth mentioning, there's a setting that (I believe) is called Neutral Lighting. Setting it to On removes a lot of the artificial lights that are invisible for gameplay purposes. It is pretty much night and day for the lighting, it can be genuinely difficult to make out enemies, especially if you're in a brightly lit room IRL. That said, when you're just wandering the Light Zone with it enabled, scavenging for parts and dodging patrols... it is unmatched. Of course, it does make the game harder, but it's assistance to the vibe offers a risk-reward scenario, imo.
Anyways, hard agree on a lot of the stuff here. I just wish there was something like it. Nothing has ever really matched the feel of my first Sunrise Run. Seeing the daylight peek through the storm clouds into the Dark Zone, with minutes on the clock, and the Hunter fight waiting... It is a thing of beauty. Modded STALKER is good, but it's just not a 100% match. And, if Ubisoft proceeds unimpeded, I may never get to experience something quite like it again. I do hope Ross Scott makes some progress, can't believe I'm now waiting on _two_ ongoing projects from him. (FM and SKG)
The thing I love about Survival in TD1 is just how it takes battle Royale mechanics while giving a reason for these to exist. You're not forced closer to the center of the map by an ever-closing ring, but by the fact you'll end up looting areas and needing to move on, and supplies and better gear can be found closer to the center of the map. The tension doesn't feel artificial, and that's an extremely difficult thing to pull off. There's nothing on the market like it in terms of atmosphere and game feel. It's also not mandatory to PvP (to the point where there is a PvE only mode) which I appreciate as a filthy casual and because PvP in the Division kind of sucks.
God damn looking at the footage, the vibe really IS that good, makes me just wanna experience the older titles that have been forgotten as we move on to the new stuff
I’m so glad someone made a video about it, I loved it the first time I played, and I never played it again because I couldn’t find a server.
this s*** went so hard, I remember getting to the extraction ahead of the timer and then the Rogue Hunter COOKED me literally at the end. 10/10
I have been pleading and begging for survival 2.0 for 4+ years. If it’s not in Division 3, then the devs have no clue what they are doing. I used to reply it every night for about 8-10 months. Me and a friend. We loved it. It was amazing. The presence of danger. Others trying to steal your supplies. Then once you get to the dark zone it gets just crazy. Omg it was so good. The need for meds. The need for warmth. The thirst for a good gun early. I remember so many Amazing memories playing this game mode. And yet… they didn’t add it to div 2. I will never understand why. I figured it was because they had “heart land” coming. Until they cancelled it. Now all I can hope is they just added heart land as a game mode in division 3
im so glad someone else remembers this and loves it as much as I do. and congrats on this blowing up!
Survival was one of the best goddamn expansions to any game of all time: the gameplay, the mechanics, the environment, the enemy design, the soundtrack - all an absolute masterpiece. I will never forget and try to play every now and again.
25:24 This whole video I waited for this reference. Thank you for including it :)
And the Pacific Drive shoutout, I'm subbed
Division 1 atmosphere is timeless, the snow and white/grey mood looks like it could’ve been released yesterday. The environment design is probably the most detailed rendition of NYC in any game ever made.
I haven't been crazy about division since it was announced in 2013 or extraction shooters in general but after finding out about this game mode (thanks to you) and both the division and the survival dlc being on cheap sale for 8 dollars. I'm going to buy the game and play it, it honestly looks fun and something i probably play for 100 something hours. The gamemode is very balanced, no pay to win content and has a great atmosphere. Thank you.
Time didn't forget this game. Ubisoft gave up on it before it could get anywhere. You can't make a good extract shooter if you're trying to make everyone happy all the time.
I played this with a friend during the pandemic. Shit was great
This video was AMAZING. I've never thought about replaying this game in 2024... But maybe i will...
Excellent and honest review Great unbiased ,detailed video
Bro this gamemode was my favorite back in 2018 when i was playing the game. Im glad someone finally did it justice
God Precinct Siege and Queens Gold are so stupidity good they make me bust every time
This video just reignited my passion for Div, and Div2 and i am going to play them again this summer :)
Division Survival still holds a soft spot for my friend group. Glad to see others remember it as well
10 years of support my arse lol. Just as the game got to a good place with Piers update, Survival etc, they moved on to 2. Ouch! The atmosphere in Division 1 is still one of my favorites of any game. It's unmatched imo. I played a lot of Survival. It sucks most people slept on that mode. It could have been HUGE and Ubisoft didn't carry it on. I would play an entire game structured around that game mode. SO much fun.
I covered it when it came out, thanks for keeping that torch burning!
This is such a good video, I can tell you're passionate :) I loved it
Survival being the absolute best part of the first Division and then being completely abandoned immediately after is such a textbook Ubisoft move and its agonizing to me that they're the publisher who got to make this series.
God ive missed this game mode so much, it was one of my fav things to play after i got bored of farming god rolls, I stopped playing it a few years back because queue times just took so long i thought it was dead, despite all its flaws, I miss the days I played Division with my friends
Like your vibe that is throughout the whole video, remember's me the old days with Marcostyle (the one who did the most videos about div1) I played over 4000 hours in div 1 and 2. Left it now because it went a path that is way of the original. I wait for 3 now end of this year and hope survival will return. To be honest I never noticed the great music because I lowered the volume to chat with others. For sure I going to listen to the album now. Division was for me the best game ever, despite of how much the dev's fu... It up. Thanks for this great video. It reflects a lot of what I experienced in my Division days.
I enjoyed The Division and the Dark Zone was so cool to experience back in the day, but Survival was definitely my favourite part of it. The atmosphere is top notch and there's some great ideas in it, it needed a little bit more polish and it could have easily been it's own game. As always though a game mode being DLC is always going to have a low player base which is a shame. If it was one of the default modes in the 2nd game, it probably would have gotten more traction with how extraction shooter and battle royale titles were gaining popularity around the time. Great video on this awesome mode!
So glad you’ve revisited this GEM of a game-mode! Honestly thought I was the only one that played/enjoyed it