The narrator wasn't kidding when he says "Show them no mercy!" Iron banner is not for noobs (not calling you a noob, just speaking in generalities). Iron banner is also not for random teams The shining stars of iron banner are the well rounded players who have both a sharp aim and a armada of gear to back them up. The shining stars aren't just the individual players, it's the organized groups and clans that form to absolutely crash their enemies. The bounties themselves are made to fan out the weak. "Kill 10 Guardians without dying" "Receive the highest score in a match" "win 5 games in a row. Losses restart the counter" "Earn 15 headshot killing sprees" "Earn 25 triple kills" "Hold a node the entire match without loosing it". The list goes on. Iron banner isn't meant to reward the weak, it is meant to crush them. Only the most competitive survive here. Even deeper into it, only the most hardcore players thrive here. If you do not like the no rewards, then maybe iron banner isn't for you.

[b]No mercy in this dojo. [/b]

I both agree and disagree with you. Given that it's a hardcore event, it makes sense that you should be trying your damnedest to win, and that you're being rewarded for displaying that you're the best of the best, baddest of the bad, and most powerful dude. It rewards the skilled and the strong, and crushes the weak and the inept. That said, I'm getting utterly drained beyond all belief to the point of not even wanting to play this event because I don't have incredible gear, I'm not very good, and the mechanics of Destiny generally make very little sense to me. I can't hit someone with a shotgun from five feet away and even do respectable damage, while someone ten feet away utterly annihilates me or power-slides into me and blasts me partway through. I don't know very many people so I don't have a team to assemble, and playing with random people is setting yourself up for failure. Nobody seems to understand how important the Control points are, so I'm left running around trying desperately to retake as many of them as I can, essentially playing a game of Ring-Around-the-Control-Points as my team constantly loses them time after time, holding only whichever one I just completed taking-- Or started, in some cases. It's nerve-wracking and honestly makes me just sigh every time I die because none of my team is anywhere near me, they're not attempting to complete the objective, or they're incapable of completing an objective. I spend fifteen minutes trying my hardest for that win, and my team just isn't good enough. More often than not, I'm not the best player in the world. I'm usually mediocre and I'll admit it. I'm only playing because I desperately want the Iron Banner equipment. Honestly, if there's any good players out there who're winning consistently and don't mind having someone who's not incredible but tries to hold their own and would let me tag along, I'd gladly accept an invite from them.

What really bugs me is it's Control, and that gametype really punishes you if your teammates don't know what they're doing. Two games in a row, on Firebase Delphi, my team kept throwing themselves at Zone B, basically just feeding the other team kills. Not once did they consider going for Zone A, or Zone C, both of which were completely unguarded. I ended up trying to take those zones by myself, only to lose them when two guys from Zone B jumped me... while the rest of my team played cannon fodder. Lost by nearly 10,000 points both times. Idiots. My point? I wouldn't mind the rules in Iron Banner so much if my teammates weren't so g**damn stupid.

Maybe we wouldn't lose so much if people didn't quit 2 minutes in because they are behind ... Because there is nothing for losing.

So you should get stuff for losing now? Is this a serious post?

These public events are becoming a joke. Same bounties, rewards that are probably not better than your current one, and just the pure repetitiveness of it makes me sick. I hope one of these public events can redeem itself by actually adding new content into the game that is actually worth doing.

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