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Edited by PapaSohan:
1/8/2021 2:46:37 PM
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Iron Banner Matches Are So Unsatisfying.
Most matches are over before you even get in a groove. Most end in a mercy rule one way or another. I want IB matches to be a battle. Please fond a way to extend matches.
Edit: After playing Iron Banner a lot so far this week, some thoughts:
Lockout is much too long OR gives too much of an advantage.
125 is too low of a score limit when lockouts are so common and give such a big boost.
Mercies seem to happen when one team is up by about 60 or so. In a game mode where lockouts give such a big boost, this is actually not that hard to overcome. One lockout followed up by some supers can close that gap easily. But again, with the score limit being 125, there's not really enough room for a comeback.
Award IB tokens based on the number of points you capture during the match. Give these dingbats some incentive to actually go capture zones instead of sitting in the spawn afraid to get killed.
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7 RepliesStasis, Fell winters, Hand cannons. In a game with so many options, how has bungle got to this??
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I been playing for years since D1 and IB was always one of my main activities. Haven’t touched the mode in many months. Iron banner not for me anymore. Also, I avoid pvp SOO HARD! Pinnacle grind is a filthy meme and ultimately pointless anyway. What is the point of playing? I have been asking myself, pinnacles? Nope. Pvp? Nope. Gear? With sunsetting? Nope. The easy new raid for noobs and blueberries? Nope. Europa? Nope. Gambit? 😂.
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I had been reading all the posts on Iron Banner and the lopsided matches and such and at first thought it was a bit of an exaggeration. Found out I was wrong the hard way last night. Decided to get back into it for the first time in months and since before the switch to cbmm. I was stunned at the imbalance of the matchups. While we won a few, for the most part we were mercied out. We had started to get a rhythm going with a streak and then made the apparent mistake of going to the tower to clear the postmaster and cash in a few things. The new lobby we matched back into was ruthless. Some of the highest rank numbers I've come across so far. Mid 300's. While frustrating, one does have to give props to how good some of these folks are. But at some point they should be fighting amongst themselves for superiority. On the upside it is possible to finish the IB bounties while getting pasted. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to figure out how to get all these boot marks out of my armor...
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Edited by [[BIG SHOT]]: 1/9/2021 6:14:03 PMDoesn’t help that team balancing is so extreme. No I cannot carry 3 people under level 1200 even if I try my hardest.
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I must be in a different reality because I don't think I've had a single genuinely lob-sided Banner match this week. Nearly every single one was relatively close and engaging. A very strange feeling from the usual Quickplay Crucible that feels more lob-sided. Pretty sure people can check my game history as well. This anecdotal experience doesn't really feel helpful for either side.
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Accidentally went into normal mode ....it was a stack of a well known toxic pvp clan, it was just me to start then people would join and leave . Freelance but too bad today
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3 RepliesThe freelance server seems to have made the mercy's worse.
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3 RepliesI actually played iron banana and the issue is a complete and utter lack of any skill based match making. I should never be the best player on my team, yet I was repeatedly. There needs to be at least some sbmm, when you get twelve players split them up into a relatively balanced team. But bungie literally don't care anymore so won't do a damn thing.
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4 RepliesRemember when all the streamers had SBMM removed. Welcome to reality.
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Unlucky. Most of my games are actually close matches. I've been loving it, and actually prefer it over quickplay.
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2 match's in walked away
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I had to drink 3 rum and Coke’s and smoke a bowl before I attempted iron banner this week and it was still an unfun horrible experience. It keeps getting worse. The lag is the worst it’s ever been and it’s in every single match. Every single match is 1 sided. Every single match has at least 1 cheater, 1 hacker, 1-2 guys with crap connections that are unkillable and 2-5 sweat lords exploiting every meta load out possible.
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I like the quick games. Either u stomp or u get stomped, onto the next game. What I find depressing are the rewards. Yes I know it’s rng, but I literally did all 4 of my pinnacle banner bounties only to get the same item more than once and even the tokens I handed in were exactly the same. It’s like as if Bite of the fox was the only item in my loot pool coz that’s all I got. Depressing to say the least.
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The amount of cheating is staggering on PC. It’s time they lose the PVP side of Destiny 2. All I’m seeing is new Steam accounts... It’s time we get legal. They either stop the cheating or remove PVP.
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Last night my friends and I found a way to actually make the stomp phenomenon go away. If you’re in a six stack, don’t capture any flags. Play the objective to prevent them from capping to get the hunt every time, but don’t give yourself the score boost. We had games where we almost lost because their flag advantage allowed them to put up a fight. Was a lot more fun even though games took a while
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Last night was tough. Actually tough.... usually I’m too three players but last night I joined to eat heavy, always 50+ points behind and eating supers. I had games where I couldn’t even pull 1:1 kd’s based on eating silence and squall and titans quakes for a minute before the game ended. They need to implement a super % based on players joining LATE <<<
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2 RepliesDont you love those 3 blues and tokens? /s
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And conveniently in IB they remove the column in the stats that shows how many zones you cap. Yet that’s a bounty.
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2 RepliesNot a single armor piece has dropped over 50pts. Ugh
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5 RepliesEdited by Dnew85: 1/7/2021 5:43:53 PMI’m by no means great at pvp but it is sad how many people play this game and don’t even try to capture zones. Lol
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Had a good run today, some really close matches. Got bored though, all it was stasis, fusions and GL .
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5 Repliesone of the problems is that dumb bounty of killing higher lvls, so you get half the people in their best gear and the other half in crappy blues and knowing they have to get final blows , not even trying for teamwork . this game has too many bounties throughout that have you play counter to the game
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1 ReplyI just play it for bounties. Iron banner isn't even a unique mode lol. Mercies and fast games get one of the bounties done faster though. Epical
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Provide a PVE option for Iron Banner and the problem is solved for all the normal people playing the game. But then all the streamers and sweatys would start crying about how all their fodder disappeared and that IB is now hard for them. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Just did over an hour of IB to progress the Bounties. Every single game was a Mercy. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. That to me says the MM is broken; either the skill-disparity parameters are whack or the thing is just not running at all. It's far worse than it was even a few weeks ago the last time it was on. What did Bungie break? And when are they fixing it? Some time before this run ends? Before next time it pops up? Or never? I'm not a PvPer in any way, but I can see why the people who are are quitting in droves.
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3 RepliesEdited by SolarCerberuS: 1/7/2021 1:42:07 AMIf team members actually contested zones they would be a battle. Never really been a sniping person but wanted to do the crucible skin for adored so for the first time in around 5 years I took a sniper into crucible I was rather inexperienced an missed many shots obviously but managed to get the task around 3/5 the way complete in one sitting. I find games are only mercies if zones are not contested often even had a few massive turnarounds last night purely by ensuring I contested zones constantly.
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