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5/5/2017 3:22:07 AM
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The Current State of the Crucible (By someone totally not qualified to play Crucible)
As many of you have seen, last week about 36% of kills last week during Trials were ability kills, the majority of those being stickies. I know my friends are very frustrated, I know the community is frustrated, and I'm certainly frustrated as well. Now, the community as a whole is screeching for some sort of nerf to stickies. "Nerf them to hell and back," we say, "This meta sucks!" Here's the problem with that. Stickies are not overpowered. They weren't before, and literally nothing has changed sticky wise. I can hear the pitchforks. Its not stickies being overpowered, its simply that there are no viable options available left. The problem isn't the meta, whether it be snipers, hand cannons, shotguns, or stickies. The problem is that Bungie is trying to perform brain surgery with a sledge hammer. We as the community keep asking for these blanket nerfs, but all we're doing is making the meta worse and worse. I swear, I've heard my one friend say, "I wish we could have the old meta," so many times. As a whole, Bungie needs to start working with a scalpel, rather than a hammer. Make the small, tiny fixes that the game needs rather than beating a class of weapons to the ground with the nerf bat in order to please the crowd. I've linked Holtzman's video on the topic. He does a phenomenal job explaining the problems here. Much better than I could.
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Edited by WulfPak666: 5/8/2017 12:56:56 PMCurrent State of Crucible from This Guy. Ever since RoI, I've only played Crucible for either a bounty/quest or IB. The patch that came with the Matador nerf that brought autos up and handcannons having Y1 shots felt incredibly amazing to me. I played almost everyday. Then the AoT update came out and they nerfed Handcannon range again (and they must've hit something else too) I haven't been able to just sit back and relax in PvP ever since that update. I'm dying to people when I'm behind walls and they couldn't possibly see me. I'm putting 10-20 bullets into someone just to have them turn around and seemingly 1 shot me.. then after I die their health magically just drops to like 4% :/ Funny thing is this "destiny lag" only happens in Destiny. I can play CoD, MK, or even Conquest on BF1 and have no issues whatsoever. Heck, I can even hop over to Xbone and play Gears and Halo without any issues.. Every match I've played has been at least 4-6 red bars. My bullets are not registering on people even when I'm practically hugging them. Sides arms are butt. The only thing that seems to consistently get me kills are grenades and supers (sometimes not supers. I couldn't tell you how many times I've literally dropped a nova bomb onto someone's head and it does absolutely nothing to them) All the Handcannons I used to have fun with are basically useless because they don't have ranged and rifled. The range that I need to be in to even see dmg popping up is sidearm land so you can bet I'm losing almost all those fights. :) My autos and pulses are ok, but they fall Into the "putting 20 bullets into someone and nothing happens" problem. Scouts are the only consistent gun for me, but I need to be far away from all the crazy to get kills. Mind you this is not happening to me every single match, but it happens so often it feels like for ever 1 good match I have, there are 5-6 bad ones right after. So now I only run 1 game of crucible a week for the AoT box. If anyone happens to see me. I'm either running around tossing axion bolts and Lighting spikes like it's no one's business or dropping stickies and surpression on people. Just know it'll only be for one match and you'll never see me again (until next Tuesday)
