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The Division 2’s first raid is impossible for console players, apparently

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Two days after Operation Dark Hours went live, no console players have managed to beat the first raid in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. Many are howling for Massive Entertainment to help them out — or even try to complete their own creation on a console.
Raids are meant to be hard, but the first one in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is so hard that so far, no players on console have managed to beat it. PC users managed to do so within hours of the raid, Operation Dark Hours, going live on Thursday. But more than just a handful of frustrated voices are saying that the raid’s expectations are beyond the capabilities of twin-analog gamepad gaming.
Kotaku went into extensive detail about the raid and what’s behind the difficulty spike yesterday. But this is well more than some issue of gameplay criticism or someone’s impressions. The Division’s subreddit is alive with complaints about the raid’s difficulty (and condescending counter-complaints about the complaining) with a thread demanding the developers themselves try to beat the raid on the console doing most of the talking.
“I am not whining here,” says the original poster. “I have seen many top Twitch streamers (with great builds) try to complete the raid on console and no matter what they try [they] cannot finish the final boss.”
Suffice to say, at publication time the raid’s leaderboard on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One had zero (0) entries. From Paul Tassi, of Forbes, earlier this morning:
Am I seeing this right? No one has beaten the raid on Xbox? #TomClancysTheDivision2#XboxSharepic.twitter.com/4PEti91Ps8
Simply passing the first boss, a weed-out experience at the hands of Boomer, is bragging rights enough for console gamepad users.

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