After the long install times of the patch I strolled into the crucible, expecting a relatively shotty free game, and indeed, my vision became reality, but as I go to pullout my beloved LDR I noticed that my usual sniping playstyle was doomed because of the scarcity of special. Each crate gives only 4 shots, and usually are found once a life (for me anyway) and there are usually only four crates on the map that take about 1.5 mins to spawn (again, for me anyway) making all special weapon gunfights a rare instance. Some of you may rejoice. Yes! No pesky blink-shotgunners! No preadeth's revenge's body shotting me to death! A more primary based Pvp environment. But wait a minute, what is going to dominate crucible now? More than they ever have before? Cough *thorn* cough *last word* cough *pulse rifles* cough *no land beyond* jk but the others are valid. I know bungie are trying hard to fix the crucible, and I know there will always be whiners, and I regret to say it but today I am one of said whiners. I think that overall bungie are definitely going in the right direction, but snipers needn't have got nerfed and the potency of the exotic hand cannons, pulse rifles ( and nlb :P) need's to be addressed.
Happy hunting guardians
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Sniping is not dead, I am an avid sniper and crucible is much better now. It prevents clowns from sitting back the whole game camping with their sniper. Now those players have to actually go into the fight and use the sniper more situationally. Same goes with the shotgun.