In the words of the famous Johan Cruijff: at the end of the soccer match, the team who scores the most, wins. So: Cap.The.Frikkin.Zones. Control is not Clash and unless you are the best Crucible Pro-team ever, you are going to lose if you do not Control zones :-) After that, try to understand which zones are the best and how spawn flipping works. Annoying as it may be, ppl who cap A on Blind Watch/Shores are probably rookies, so I can live with that. But running past zones and leaving other ppl to cap pisses me off the most.

Wait. People actually care about winning in Iron Banner?

Ugh, I was doing shores of time last night. We started off on C. We capped it and B quickly the entire match we held C and swapped B regularly. We were ahead a few thousand the entire match. It was looking like a win till these 2 noobs went and capped A. We had no chance after that.

It always amazes me how many games I see people with 0 zones controlled at the end of a match. Why play control if you are not going to capture zones and get more points for your team.

I know it's bad to capture the third zone, but what about just neutralizing it?

Shores of Time, C is the most important zone to control. You can defend B from C, but it is impossible to defend C from B. You MUST control C. If you hold B and C, NEVER try to take A, A is useless.

This thread should be renamed how to play control. I will include a how to dominate Iron Banner guide below. Step 1. Kill your connection speed. The golden motto for this is that if your teleporting they cant kill you! and you will see the effects emmediatly starting with a reduced number of hits landing on you with the added benifit of the enamy completly raging and lossing focus, quitting and paussing to send hateful messages. Method. Change to wireless and then toss a small amount of aluminium foil on your wireless access point for good measure. Additionally another method is to move to a country like North Korea or Australia and host the game from there. Step 2.Make a lag switch. Of cause teleporting around doesn't always work and the poor connection may also disadvantage you. If your tired getting killed by things like rockets and supers this is the one for you, simply flick the switch and laugh as you stroll through there puny rockets and feeble supers only to melee kill them once you switch back on. (Added advice; be sure to teabag when you kill them as this results in the raging, rage quitting or pausing to send you a creative message to express how you are not human and are a scumbag {for added rage send a message back saying something like "I am a God" or "get wrecked noob"}) Method. I probably shouldn't put this on the forums because I may get banned so just google it. Step 3.Stop them from spawning for heavy. An exremly brocken mechanic in Destiny is the fact thaf the other team can get heavy ammo, I know shocking it is so unfair. However there is a solution when heavy is about to spawn and you are host just turn your lag switch on and off (works best when most of them are dead) This wil km prevent them from spawning allowing you to snatch the heavy ammo and cap all thd points, finally a way to fixed this unbalanced mess of a system. Using these methods will almost garuntee a fair win allowing you to get that banner rep fast! [spoiler]This is satire in order to demonstrate how broken the servers are, running like ie. Ussing any of this methods means that you suck at the game and li c e in general I seriously suggest tha tf you re-consuder your life[/spoiler]

Thanks for this. So far, I've been having a really rough time with Iron Banner. As I've found out from this post, it's mostly because I've been playing like an idiot. Hopefully, when I get back on later today, IB will go at least a little bit better than usual.

This is good to know. I am playing IB for the first time this week and had no idea how control works. I dont typically stray from the group but I have been in matches where either we owned all zones or the other team owned all zones and then I was being spawned in right next to the other team. It sucked. It all makes more sense now. Thanks for sharing for us noobs. [spoiler]I surprisingly like PVP[/spoiler]

I'll play the way I want thanks.

Not 100% in agreement with this post. There's a number of valid reasons to rush the enemy's 'home zone' from distracting and easing pressure off zone b to flipping the home zone if you're team began the game on the unfavourable side of the map. Also, one huge tip is to send a majority (5 if possible) to zone b as soon as the game starts. Capping zone b is critical to getting an early lead and establishing map control and more than 1 person capping your home zone is a waste of man power.

Id like to add one more thing: You don't necessarily have to capture the "Bad" Zone to flip spawns. It's enough just to Be in the vicinity of it. If You're very close to A on blind watch, haven't captured it, and none of your teammates is near your C Zone, the Enemy will spawn at C.

Anyone who doesn't play like this needs to play like this. Good advice. But usually all the people I play with already knows this about the crucible

Bump. This is what this forum needs, useful, helpful advice. Obviously the uber-neckeards are gonna be all over this, to try and further their sense of superiority by calling you out saying its shit, but ignore them. A life of loneliness and rigid socks under the bed is the future ahead of them. Thanks man!

I'm an assault sniper. Especially on Shores of time map. If i spawn by A i rush straight to B and pull out my sniper and get a kill or 2 and I'll stay there and defend it (high risk/ high reward) but i play control like I played domination in COD. You control 2 points, you control the battlefield. You defend the points at all costs. It's not camping, it's strategy and good gameplay. If it were clash then yeah that's being campy. Best strategy is to have 3 on each point defending...if one point is being rushed send one from the point that's not being attacked to lend assistance then swing back when things cool down. Now if i could only get a team together that would do this lmao.