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2/19/2015 2:54:01 PM
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Iron Banner brings out the worst of Destiny PvP.

I do actually enjoy IB, but my god, does it showcase every flaw of Destiny PvP perfectly: - The same few weapons being used by everyone (Thorn, Vex, SUROS, Last Word, etc.) - Unbalanced Control maps where one spawn is at a huge disadvantage. - The same few maps repeated over and over and over. - People lagging all over the place, leading to endless kill trading. - People quitting the second their team begins to lose. - Being put into a match on a team whose score is being trippled by the enemy and have no chance at victory. - Crappy rewards that either give out nothing, or give underperforming players the best items. - Repetitive bounties that contribute to the overuse of certain weapons. - Being stuck on the respawn screen for a good thirty seconds or more.

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  • I hate iron banner just because of level advantages being enabled. It makes it even more unbalanced

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  • + final round sniping

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  • I use my vanquisher always unless it twlight gap I hate that map and use my last word to keep up with the shotguns.

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  • I agree with most of your points but. Just think of other fps most of the time in PVP there are one or two guns that everyone is using. The repetitive maps is annoying even if it simply just went through a straight rotation and wasn't random would be fine. The uneven spawn points is the real deal breaker for me though. I have had a bunch of people just quit if we spawn at a rather than try to overcome the deficit.

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    • Yep

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    • Edited by The One And Only: 2/19/2015 4:36:01 PM
      The bounties being the same is what really grinds my gears. It's been what, 3 or 4 IBs now? They've all been the same bounties. Always. Talk about laziness. No wonder people keep seeing Suros, what do you expect if that auto rifle HS bounty is there every day? Perhaps consider putting a 20 HS with pulse for a change? Lazy designers.

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      • Edited by Hooligantuan: 2/19/2015 9:35:39 PM
        The Iron Banner isn't drawing much of a crowd this time - or last time. I'm consistently being matched up with people with poor connectivity. The Iron Banner asks too much to sustain this sort of play. It needs to go to 2000 points per rank cap, and it should consider alternatives to Rank Reset to better incentivize playing it at all. They need to ditch this stupid Medallion mechanic, too, and award straight points for straight effort. [i]Participation[/i] matters, regardless if you come out on top.

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      • I got to about rank 2 and decided reaching rank 5 again really isn't worth the frustration of crap that goes on in iron banner. Even if I don't it doesn't matter they will just release it again 2 weeks from now and when the house of wolves comes out(if there is still anyone playing) they will just make you grind it out again just to get the weapons with the upgraded level. Iron banner is crap and I wish they would change it up. Or just remove it entirely for about a year(because for a "special" event they seem to do it waaaaaay to often for it to even be considered special. The way I see it there are 1,000+ people asking for change in events There is one person saying "hey alright Iron Banner hell yeah" And #Bungie is over here thinking "yeah guys! Everyone is loving this event, let's bring it out again, and again, and again!

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      • Edited by Silly Sod: 2/19/2015 4:06:32 PM
        Perpetuating the myths...... There is a great deal of variety in weapons. I use IB auto rifle and have seen Shingen and Black Suros and others hardly ever see Suros Regime. Unbalanced map - perhaps that is intentional so teams have to fight over it instead of camping their original spawn. Few Maps - better to be good on a few maps than suck on them all. Lag - get your internet sorted I don't have this problem at all. People quitting - they get replaced by better players and you win and also more competitive for other team. Crappy rewards - how do you know they did not deserve it. It's not about k/d maybe they connect late and get compensated. Also seen exotics. Bounties - I have not seen a hand cannon bounty so your first point is now invalid. Respawn - likely that you have no respawn point available i.e. enemy sitting in all areas? Certainly not 30 secs. What is the game to do. Put you behind an enemy player...sounds like BLOPS Myths busted There are no problems with IB just with players being lemmings and not engaging brain before heading for B.

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        • I would like to thank Iron Banner for leaving all the really shitty players in normal crucible. I was able to complete my Thorn bounty last night! lol

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          • You can blame a great deal of the nonsense on the autorifle headshot bounty. It basically removes the high rate of fire autorifles from reasonable contention, in a game where they are already subpar. It encourages the use of Suros over anything else because, hell why not? 20 headshots takes a long time with other autorifles. If it was a 20 headshots with scout rifles you'd see far less incentive to run Suros, Vex, or TLW since those weapons don't fare well in the long game against scout rifles and holding the points comes down to shotgun wars regardless of the bounties. People quit far less often now and I'm pretty sure it's just the try hards who always quit to preserve their win ratio. The maps being unavailable is inexcusable. This IB is dlc only there is no good reason to not have the DLC maps included in the playlists, no reason to not include the full roster of maps. I can't believe they aren't including Bastion and First light to open up the goddamn game to anything other than fusion rifle and autorifle spam. Give us maps where sniper rifles are not only viable but preferable. Where scout rifles can actually be dominant in controlling the map or rockets actually have enough travel time to be avoided. Hell vehicles are even fine, this is a spiritual successor to Halo let's get some vehicle whoredom to be angry about. Or just remove the vehicle spawns in IB, that's cool too, just give us some gameplay variety. We spent 80 dollars to get 15 maps and only get to play 5 that matter for shit. The rewards have sucked in the crucible since day 1. I haven't seen an exotic drop in the IB for 3 straight events and I've rank 5'd every one of them, on 2 different characters most of the time. I can accept some shitty matchmaking decisions, that is a result of the game trying to even teams and being thrown into a lost cause from time to time is the fallout of having three quitters replaced promptly to make it a game on other occasions. The lag. Well I've been devoutly hoping whoever decided not to employ dedicated servers gets ass herpes, hemorrhoids, and nothing but concrete chairs to sit on since launch. The lag just makes the game unplayable. It's not worth it. The frustration, the anger, the bitterness. If you are going to make one of the IB bounties get 10 kills without dying, you should better goddamn well have netcode that can allow for it. I cannot describe to you the fury of an 8 or 9 kill streak ended by a goddamn melee kill trade when I sneak up behind someone and punch them 3 times in the head just to get blinkstruck 5 seconds later by what could have been none other than the zombified corpse of the guardian I killed. I'll kill people and start blink jumping out of the room just to prevent a -blam!-ing shotgun lag kill from turning it into a trade. Destiny has the worst performing pvp connection I've ever played. End of story. This shit lag is also probably the reason for the respawn screen bug which makes me want to throw my playstation off a satellite in orbit to watch in burn on reentry and hopefully kill a bungie employee while they're picking up other bungie employees at a birthday party for yet more bungie employees. Goddamn, I'm boiling just thinking about it.

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            • Remember when first light and bastion were control maps? Good times.

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              • Yeah pretty much

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              • you nailed it!

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              • I had the same map 80% of the time.

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              • Biggest problem is full party and SSDD bounties

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              • I can't understand why people enjoy doing pvp in this game. I'm only playing Iron Banner for that Scout Rifle, all the while wanting to rip out my hair while doing so.

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                • This is all correct

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                  Pay for your internet that'll fix your re spawn issue...

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                  • Hasn't been too bad tbh. A few rough matches here and there but my clan's pretty decent and I hold my own. Just getting the boots for collector purposes and calling it quits.

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                  • That shotgun... You could reforge it to make it have full auto

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                  • The only kill trading i notice is by fighting another player with guns. My bullet is still traveling when i die and still hits him. So I have no Idea what your saying there.

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                  • YES SO MUCH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am stopping at rank 4 so I get the armor and then I don't have to deal with this pathetic tournament that rewards broken things.

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                    If I had a close ranged legendary hand cannon, I wouldn't be using Last Word. I want to improve with snipers, so I carry Last Word for close combat.

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                  • I really hate Firebase Delphi when my team has C and we spawn the same spot every single time.

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