Do You Need to Find Your Apartment in Division 2?

Just want to say before I finish the video that I am absolutely on board for more content that consists of just Lawrence being a nerd.

really liked this deep dive. 🙂

Super interesting stuff. I'm so happy that I can listen to a coherent, serious thought from Lawrence without the rest of FH interrupting with dick jokes and stuff (which is 100% ok in a FH video). Keep up the good work! I liked The Know before, and I love IG now. Y'all guys rock.

Now that I’ve finished I do have to say though, that while I agree that it isn’t something that I think really any other game needs to worry about, I do disagree that the 1:1 recreation of DC didn’t add a lot to this particular game. You say that it restricts creativity, and I say that sometimes restrictions breed creativity. I think it would be cool to be a designer who gets to go into my own city’s science museum and map out a kickass shootout in a faithfully recreated version of a place I’ve been visiting since I was a child.

And it’s not just a simple novelty either. It’s refreshing to navigate a city that was arranged by actual city planners instead of game designers subconsciously designing cities specifically for the player.

Man this video is great. Lawrence is such a gem and truly is the people’s gamer.

As someone who visited dc not long ago, I found myself really enjoying the accuracy. I would avoid fast travel just so I could run by some places I knew in real life just to see how they faired.

Lawrence I absolutely loved this! Also as an aside, hearing FH talk about LiDAR and GIS is insane. I simulate floods for a living so this is literally my day job

As realistic map of the city not being the most playable. I think the city map gives the designers a simple framework where they build the flow into. Being able to say, let’s lock down this street with fire trucks and bodies, or open up an area with a fallen crane or exploded building allows just as many creative choices

The 'european town' is actually my home town! :D Cracow, Poland ^^

This was a great video! Personally, the novelty of being able to fully traverse a real city is still very interesting to me so i am willing to accept the navigational compromise (within reason). I think someone soon will figure out how to pair both a realistic layout with interesting traversal/interactivity and then we can have the best of both worlds ideally. That's not to say that original map design is in anyway less interesting, of course. I look forward to more of these 🙂

I want my games to be so realistic that I can find my house, walk into it, sit down at my TV, and play other games I own.