If you haven’t read this week’s TWAB, stop sulking in the forums and read it. This is MAJOR news over crucible as a whole if you’re mostly a PvP player. I’m not going to address EVERY point in the TWAB since it’s beefy (and I can’t go back to it while typing this) so just either bear with me or talk about what you like about it or not in the comment section. First thing I want to talk about is their plans for Quickplay. Like so many major PvP players have said (at nauseam), control is supposed to be a “casual” playlist and it looks like Bungie agrees with you since they are supposed to be “pickup games at a park”. But they still kept the [i]loose[/i] SBMM in it since they want ALL players to have a good time and not just the really good players. I think that it’s great so far but could be better. Another thing is that they combined BOTH clash and control into ONE playlist WITH the loose SBMM. (I could only imagine the shitshow Twitter, Reddit, and these forums will become in the coming weeks!) I do like the new Seal. Seems like so far that it will easier to acquire than before but will still be a challenge to do so since you HAVE to go in competitive mode. Overall, it’s a nice change. Competitive. I just like to say that Bungie [b]FINALLY[/b] listened to people by adding a LADDER based progression ranking like every game on the market! I do like the added condition about when you lose or win enough to go into the next tier that you have to win 2/3 games in order to keep or go up to the next tier. I like to think that this is a way of PROVING that you have what it take to stay at your ranking or go beyond it. I ALSO like how they said that the TRUE reward for playing Competitive is NOT loot but the drive to test yourself against better players (so they say). They prove this by allowing the higher tier weapons to be acquired by only being “efficient” at playing the game and not just being at a higher rank! Thank God they decided that because I don’t want to go back to the days where pinnacle weapons were TERRORIZING the Crucible nonstop. (It COULD be back to that but at least lower-skilled players have a CHANCE of acquiring those weapons now to fight back!) Trials or Osiris. If you were a player that HATES freelance, Bungie is removing it BUT is adding Fireteam Matchmaking! Solos WILL be put against other solos and duos while full stacks WILL ONLY face against other stacks. Will it fix the lackluster mode? [b][i]No[/i][/b]. But it will at least be a start. With these changes, I will probably check out Trials myself and I SUCK at them. 😂 And finally, I am sad that Rumble is going to the weekly rotator. I like playing by and testing myself over what I can do on my own. 🙁 Overall, pretty good system in place (at least for me) and Bungie claims that this system isn’t permanent and could change over time. What do you guys think?