Follow up for me:
First major mission was to save a doctor being held captive in Madison Square garden. I've been there, the way they recreated it, is well, just plain stunning. The mission is a take back scenario so as the player inches forward, objectives are achieved and if the player dies they re-spawn at the last objective point. I got about 1/3 in and was overwhelmed and had to team up. So I went to match making and got it going. it took about a minute or less to match me up with someone. Now the weird part. I am already in the instance, I am loaded into the other player's instance and I appear in the city, no where near Madison Square Garden. The other player is already at the mission. I ran about 5 NEW YORK blocks which is roughly a mile dodging roaming gangs and other hostiles. I get to the mission site and we proceeded to do it. Now this mission is listed as a level 4 mission which is what we start at in the beta and our gear is mostly starter stuff.
The guy I was with was your average "head on, shoot it out" type while I am more of a stick and move sort and I will always look for a way to flank. He kept their attention and I was able to move in behind and we got the enemy in a brutal cross fire. the final battle was on a roof top and the boss was a 'bullet sponge" until I was, once again able to get in behind him.
Ok mission success and lots of cool loot that is there for all team members so its not a grab session.
Now the 2nd main mission is listed as level 6. I wasn't in the mood for a partner so tried it solo. Now my gear was better, I had a heal skill and I managed to get to the end of the mission with only 1 death. The enemy faction is called "the cleaners", they feel the disease has to be burned out and they are setting fire to every living thing and allot of real estate. They use flame throwers mostly with heavy tanks of fuel on their backs. Needless to say a few well placed shots and the tanks explode taking the wearer straight to hell.
Final boss appears: I hit the tanks on his back which blew up nicely and took off >< much of his health! Then 3 frag grenades, 1 sticky bomb, 300 rounds of assault rifle ammo, 250 rounds of sub machine gun ammo and then he killed me, using the flame thrower that I just blew up the fuel tanks on
I posted this event on "The Division" official forums and the response was "you need to gear up" to do a boss. I was like "its a level 6 mission, shouldn't I be able to do it with level 6 gear?"
So bottom line to me is: The game is a pseudo realistic setting with the trappings of a military combat simulator. But actually its your run of the mill RPG like WoW, or Rift, or Terra.
Its just not as much fun to me as I expected and like Defiance its ok for a few hours of letting off steam but its not a keeper and at $59.99 PLUS all the usual Ubisoft "BUY BUY BUY" and "Sorry but that will be DLC that you can BUY" crap just like Destiny makes it the usual moeny grab. Its a shame that the developer has to market it through another company.