This just in, Ubisoft has apparently cancelled Heartland as of today. That aged in a hurry, didn't it?

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

No one that fully played Div 1 has forgot a thing! Unmatched

As a Division addict having this randomly popping up into my recommended made me extremely happy

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.

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.

The original dark zone was soooo much fun.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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'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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I still hop into Division 1 every now and again just to play survival. Unparalleled.

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.

I’m so happy this video is shedding light on the survival mode. God I miss playing it

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.

I was planning on making a video like this, but you took the words right out of my mouth! Awesome video!

Div 1 Survival couldve been a game in its own right and Im glad its getting the recognition it deserved

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.

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

im so glad someone else remembers this and loves it as much as I do. and congrats on this blowing up!

yeah i played it, almost extracted, but lost to the final fight. this game mode was fantastic. every fight was a tense battle that left me sweating and holding my breath.

This is such a good video, I can tell you're passionate :) I loved 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😢

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!!!

Fantastic video man, keep up the good work

25:24 This whole video I waited for this reference. Thank you for including it :) And the Pacific Drive shoutout, I'm subbed

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 video just reignited my passion for Div, and Div2 and i am going to play them again this summer :)

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.

good video, man nice gap you got there between this one and the last haha keep up the good work.. if you keep at it

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 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.

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)

excellent work man! You deserve allll da viewz

I miss Div 1 Survival so much, thank you for this!

"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.

the OST hits hard, makes me feel like an Agent stuck in a warehouse with 4 other agents in a planet plunged in an endless winter, while a bunch of scavengers come in waves to try and kill us. someone should make a game about this one day... for real though, Division Survival is something i really wanna play, though i have no clue if the gamemode's still alive, if the GAME is still alive, or if it's worth paying full price for it.

Running to an active extraction and finding 5 or more hunters was one of the most exciting things. Still looking for that high Survival used to give. Favorite game mode of all time.

very cool video dude keep going you deserve the visibility

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.

im so glad that someone finally mentioned this dlc, it was actually fun af

back to my childhood you can't imagine how hype we was me and my all team

love the roguelike approach of The Division's Darkzone that gave birth to the genre of extraction shooters. its like soulslike w/ metroidvania masocores. its cool we still get new genres from its amalgamations, its really welcome in times of saturations.

BRO the amount of nalstagia 24:15 gave me. Spending 2 hours right after work just in the recap table planning out how tf I'm going to get these classified Nomad Keepads......dude goosebumps man, thank you

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

Man, what an incredible game essay for such a small channel!

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.

This made me replay Divsion 1 and try for the first time the Survival DLC (bought for 2.5€). I haven't had so much fun with games for a while :) I loved the atmosphere during the storms in the normal game, and the fact that it's always like this in Survival makes it soooo good.

Holy sh*t, I haven't played div 1 in years. I don't have it anymore but thanks for showing the name of these songs, and I just subbed.

6:46 you can skip the cutscene it just took with a month or two to add that in, i remember that specifically for some reason

Didnt even know this existed, but looks so awesome, and wish ubisoft would have done something more with this. Would have love to see it in the Division 2. It is also cool to see that the soundtracks for it give alot of the vibes that the music of Escape from Tarkov does

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

Man, this is a great video essay. Good microphone quality and footage, man.

Man this is what iv been saying for years,iv been waiting for so long for someone to talk about this. this gamemode is one of only 2 cases (to my knowledge) of Ubisoft taking a heavily flawed game, making a dlc for it where they completely strip players of their main-game loot and launch them into a new game mode with a highly experimental concept and a one-life mechanic. The only other iv ever known to do that was assassin's creed Valhalla: forgotten saga, when i played it for the first time i just couldn't stop thinking about the division's survival. it's a completely different thing with the main concept being "what if our game was a rogue lite ?" Stripping the player of all their stuff and shoving them down a multipath road where each "level" presents itself as a challenge with a reward that the player can choose depending on what they value the most, things like permanent health upgrades, new weapons, new powers, merchants, mini bosses with increased reward, quest lines that span over multiple playthroughs and 3 main bosses to fight, it resembles in a weird way hades id say ? all culminating in an experience that is extremely short (around 1-3 hours) with a good amount of replay ability and presents itself as a vastly superior and more interesting concept than the maingame's overly safe concept ever was. I think you could do a great video on this game mode as well and who knows maybe this is a recurring thing in unisoft games and im just not enough of a fan of the studio to know more and it could start a great video series.

This video was AMAZING. I've never thought about replaying this game in 2024... But maybe i will...

Survival PVP hit so differently too, racing towards crash sites and seeing 'a player has entered the darkzone' was so exciting and always a brawl

man just found you channel, you're incredible! almost making me buy div1 rn

Wow, what are the odds?! I was JUST thinking about Survival a few days ago for the first time in years and then this pops up. I absolutely loved and miss this mode so much.

Division 1 will always have a special place in my heart, me and my girlfriend met in the beta and we’ve been together over 8 years now. Plus the vibes are simply unbeatable.

Bro this gamemode was my favorite back in 2018 when i was playing the game. Im glad someone finally did it justice

oh man that theme song is nostalgic at this point haven't heard it in a good while

one of the best gaming experiences i had. ever. i religiously love the div1.

I'm yet another sleeper div 1 survival madman... I even worked on the game while I was still at Ubisoft and convinced most of my friends to play it with me / for me. You just made me miss it very much so I will give it another go, but it is such a missed opportunity not to capitalise on that market slice, especially since the graphics and core gameplay is still relevant to this day.

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.

Hey, Mad. You mentioned about the atmosphere of Division and the gameplay of Stalker. May I enlighten you to Stalker Gamma modpack with the INVERNO Winter mod? You can change the weather to make it constantly have a snow storm by the way

This video is great, i love that you went in to the music too.

The Final Version on the original Division was one of the most fun I've ever had playing games. The setting, the snow, darkzone, survival, the broken builds that made pvp chaotic, even underground; everything about the first Division was sooooooooo good i miss it so much.

>Meet stragner in DZ >Clearing places after places together >Get what you want and go to Extract together >Helicopter arrives and you put ur loot in the extraction >*Warning, an agent in your vicinity has gone rogue* 10/10 would play this great game again

Me and my friends got this game after playing the beta and played since launch and that was by far peak gaming with the gang on the weekends. Going into the DZ taking out squads, fighting squads at extraction and then doing it again was so much fun I haven't had since then, maybe its rose tinted glasses or maybe I'm right who knows

Dude the atmosphere and just the way the darkzone played in Division 1 was just so good. I'm glad I got to play Division 1 in it's "prime"

i remember playing the closed beta of devision one on my crappy ancient laptop that could bairly handle it at 30fps on 720p, then playing it a little on my ok ish pc and being left utterly dissapointed by it thereafter and proceeding to never play it again.... so this was a mode from a dlc i had missed entirely, so its cool to learn about. i had seen the trailers and the cb test somewhat tried to emulate the vibe of the enviroment, which is the one thing from the Devision 1 that i actualy liked seeing this mode taking the admos and the vibe and turning the dial to 11 is awsome, and if it wasn't for how burned i feel about the Crew shut down i would consider the dlc just to play that mode based on this video's showcase of it

Div 1 Dark Zone was such a cool step forward in terms of game modes and innovation in the genre. But they cranked it up to 11 when they released the Survival gamemode and I miss it so much. Survival was so crazy and such a cool and novel innovation on their already innovative Dark Zone idea. Overall just crazy stuff. It’s a shame the game never really caught on like it should’ve once they fixed the issues.

The dark zone is one of the most unique things i've experienced in gaming and no other game has yet to top the moments and the feelings i had in the darkzone. No other game will be able to top the atmosphere or even the environment the game had and felt like. I truly miss this 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.

Keep making vids you’ve got something, was alittle upset to see that you had no recent videos

Division 1 is goated. Skipped a week of school to play the beta all day everyday then skipped a week again when the game came out. I’d love a remaster of this

I remember getting PS4 Pro for Christmas in 2016 together with Division 1 and the atmosphere at the time was surreal. 8 years later and I still haven't felt how I felt back then. I have tried playing Division 2 alone and with friends but it just lacks that atmosphere that Div 1 has even today. The closest game to The Division 1 for me was The Last of Us on PS3 that I got on Christmas 2015, together with the multiplayer mode. The remaster for PS4 was still good but I feel like the multiplayer mode had better atmosphere than the single player in that remaster. "Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol’ days"

I really loved Division man. Miss it all the time