The Division's Dark Zones are more DayZ than Destiny

We're standing in two rough semi-circles around a helipad, their trio and mine, and nothing's happening. I can tell one of them has some valuable gear on him by the little yellow knapsack strapped to his back, and he can tell the same of me. There aren't any emotes in Tom Clancy's The Division right now (Ubisoft is working on some) and local voice chat is disabled in this version. We just shuffle around