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Why Do Division 2 Enemies Always Charge? In a lengthy post on Reddit, a user highlights the behaviors of enemies on the higher difficulties like Challenging and Heroic in the recently released World Tier 5 and Tidal Basin mission. On higher difficulties, the player notes that enemies are seemingly aware of their added hit points and durability, choosing to abandon cover in favor of charging the player’s location rather than flak or use cover when under fire....

Massive is aware of the problems that are currently impacting The Division 2 players, though it’s unclear just how many are currently unable to access the game. The Division 2 errors have been persisting since the Warlords of New York expansion dropped on PC, so it’s been going on for a few hours now. Luckily, it appears as though Massive has been able to reign in some of the problems, as it reported that more players have been able to login on PC....

Thanks to a recent interview with The Division 2’s associate creative director Chadi El-Zibaoui, new gameplay details have emerged regarding how the company plans to create a world that actually feels alive around the player as opposed to the empty streets commonly found in the first game. To help create that feeling, the studio is putting an emphasis on the survivors of this world, showing how different factions of NPCs can dynamically come together and interact with one another, sometimes with explosive results....

According to The Division 2’s Private Beta trailer, fans of the online third-person shooter who will be taking part in the testing phase will be able to take on two main missions and five side missions, explore the three different Dark Zone sections for PvPvE action, and play 4v4 organized PvP with Skirmish. What’s more is that players will also be able to try out a piece of the endgame content with an Invaded mission that unlocks on February 8, which will offer the chance for one to experience three different level 30 endgame Specialization character loadouts....

Game Rant chatted with Yannick Banchereau, The Division 2’s live content manager, about what the team is hoping to accomplish with the changes. According to Banchereau, the team is focused on making skills more viable in the endgame as well as making playstyles more diverse. “We really wanted to bring the skills back into the playstyles and into the viable options that are part of the endgame,” stated Banchereau. He added, " It’s really about, for us, adding much more diversity in terms of the playstyles and the ways that you can experience the game… All of this is really about adding more diversity for players to experiment with....

[HTML1] While most players are only just scratching the surface of Tom Clancy’s The Division, others are already thinking about the end game. As we have reported already, it doesn’t take too long to hit The Division’s level cap of 30, especially if players are smart about how they earn XP. But even as players grind for high-end gear, there is likely still a lot left for them to do in the game - side missions that still need completing or more of the story to flesh out....

Ubisoft Massive was caught slipping on its daily mission rotation a few weeks ago due to a missing files problem server-side, though this week’s gaff doesn’t come courtesy of any known server error. The studio was flexing the righteous banhammer yesterday after promising a massive crackdown on cheaters, and it seems Ubisoft neglected to ensure it paid as much attention to content delivery, too. Gamers who have been utilizing hacks and exploits may have received a notice from the studio yesterday informing them that Massive is on to their tricks....

In horror films that rely on jump scares and surprising visuals, silence is a common method of increasing tension. When a film doesn’t want to leave the audience completely without sound, a subtle option built from a single sound will do the trick. RELATED: Why The Music In Suspiria Is So Effective The Drone of Dread is a musical trope that uses a sustained note as the wholistic sonic experience to underscore a film....

However, there are some great reasons that The Elder Scrolls 6 should stick to the franchise’s formula, warts and all. Here are some of the best reasons that the next Elder Scrolls game needs to double down on Skyrim’s design philosophy, instead of trying to one-up it with experimental new approaches. RELATED: How The Elder Scrolls 6 Could Make its Main Quest More Epic than Skyrim’s Two Schools of Design Two major types of triple-A Western RPGs have emerged over the last 15 years....

Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) were suspended following the brawl out. After an independent investigation, developments were unveiled, with Ace Steel getting released, Colt Cabana’s return to AEW Dynamite against Chris Jericho, and CM Punk’s status in the company basically hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, vignettes involving The Elite were aired on the Wednesday show for consecutive weeks, showing them seemingly getting erased from the company’s history....

I never thought I’d feel that way. At the cusp of the ’70s, I spent four years at Radcliffe chafing at rules and assumptions that seem outrageously hidebound and sexist today. Unlike our Harvard classmates, we “Cliffies” had sign-ins and curfews. My freshman adviser pooh-poohed my plan to study philosophy and pushed for the girl’s major, English. Radcliffe wasn’t coed, and it wasn’t a full-fledged single-sex school; indeed, it had been founded by Harvard, in 1879, specifically to keep women at arm’s length in an “annexe....

The Evil Within 2 is a very interesting offering to start 2023, and it should be a sign of things to come for Prime Gaming. There are dozens of acclaimed horror games out there, and Prime Gaming should take advantage of the vast catalog to deliver a horror-filled new year. Not only would numerous Resident Evil games fit, but there are loads of other horror franchises that would help create an exciting 2023....

Now sporting his iconic purple mask from the comics, in the trailer, Zemo is seen looking at a memorial to those killed in Sokovia during Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), before resolving that he “had no intention to leave [his] work unfinished”. The work in question? Defeating the Avengers. Indeed, Zemo instigated multiple conflicts in Civil War (such a killing Black Panther’s father and revealing that Bucky Barnes killed Tony Stark’s parents), with the express goal of ‘destroying’ the Avengers (metaphorically – he wanted them to be arguing so much they could no longer work together)....

In pure storytelling terms, it could be said that the series’ third episode puts an end to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s set-up phase, its own first act. Prior to this week’s “Power Broker” episode, it was a complete mystery what kind of role characters like Sharon Carter and Baron Helmut Zemo would play, and while both did get a noticeable upgrade from their previous MCU appearances, Baron Zemo pulled off an acrobatic 180 from inconsequential villain to star of the show....

Currently Disney Plus has roughly half the amount of subscribers Netflix, sitting at just over 100 million households, and while the former projects to fully catch up in 2024 this still means it’s a bit tougher for Disney’s exclusives to reach the same number of viewers its rival has. According to Nielsen Consulting, the be-all and end-all of television ratings, while both MCU miniseries have done fantastically well, they still fall short of reaching the same appeal of The Mandalorian which pretty much carried the streaming service on its own for an entire year....

First, a little pragmatism: we will not eliminate money from politics or end a 200-year tradition of partisan eye gouging. But with enough public pressure, the networks might be persuaded to undertake a modest reform this fall that could have ripple effects in later elections. Paul Taylor is a former Washington Post reporter who grew disenchanted with journalism. Now he peddles idealism for the Pew Charitable Trusts. Taylor and five former network anchors (including Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor), five former party chairmen, four senators (Simpson, Bradley, McCain, Simon) and other assorted enchiladas grandes are trying to persuade the networks to offer two to five minutes of free air time each night to major presidential candidates this October....

But it wasn’t enough. Chicago still has the worst of the 3,400 housing authorities in the United States. Last week the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development seized control of the Chicago bureaucracy, which had grown increasingly corrupt as Lane focused on his big-picture agenda. The takeover was engineered by HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, who needs a success story to impress congressional budget-cutters, and Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wants to clean up dilapidated projects around the gleaming new arena where he’ll host the 1996 Democratic National Convention....

Of course, Justin Lin is still wrapping up post production on Fast & Furious 9, meaning there’s still a lot of time and unanswered questions between audiences and these final installments. Some have suggested that the final two films will tell a bigger overarching story featuring the main cast, similar to how other big series like Harry Potter and Avengers have handled their climactic installments. It’s a big decision, especially for Universal Pictures’ highest grossest property, garnering over $5....

Mohammed Hashan-Saad, the ambassador of the Northern Alliance government to Uzbekistan, said in Tashkent that commanders on the Mazar front had told him their forces have advanced to less than three miles from outlying villages and six to seven miles from the city itself. Saad told NEWSWEEK that U.S. airstrikes had been extremely effective in pounding the Taliban lines in advance of attacks by the forces of the Northern Alliance generals Rashid Dostum, Atta Mohammed and Mohammed Muhaqiq....