Here's how you guys can improve your win rate in rift: 1. Improve your social skills. Rift is a team objective game and requires communication. In order to play a team game and have a good chance of winning, you need actual teammates in a fire team. If you're a reclusive weirdo with no social skills, team modes may be harder for you because no one will want to party up with someone who isn't fun to play with. 2. Focus on the OBJECTIVE, not your KD. When I play rift, often times we will win by 10k points, and I'll still have a negative KD because I know that we HAVE TO rush the spark and put pressure on the team trying to take the spark. There is no place in rift for lone wolf no land beyond tryhards sitting in the back of the map hardscoping a doorway trying to pad their KD. It's RIFT, not CLASH. 3. CONTROL THE SPARK. You DON'T have to score with the spark every single time. The victory will ALWAYS go to whichever team can maintain spark control throughout the game. So if you put all your pressure on the spark area and team shoot enemies, you will have a great chance of winning. 4. Every team needs ONE guy who is 100% focused on running the spark. I'm not saying you only need ONE runner. Anyone who is by the spark and has a chance to grab it should obviously grab it. But you will notice that the teams winning all the time tend to have one guy who ALWAYS grabs the spark. This is the guy that's going to get your team all the points you need to win. I am usually this guy during rift, mostly because all my teammates always think we're playing clash instead of rift. So by all means grab the spark every chance you get, but having one guy who is completely focused on the spark and nothing else will help keep everyone focused on the main objective. 5. Communicate. Remind people constantly that you need to keep pressure on the spark. Give callouts. If the the other team has all 6 guys on the spark, your team needs to know so they can put as much pressure on the spark as they can. 6. Be a strategic runner, not a blitzer. I'm not saying that you shouldn't run the spark straight to the rift if you have an opening. I'm saying you shouldn't be stupid and sprint straight into 6 guys who are guarding their rift. Assess the situation. Let your teammates get in front of you and clear a path, or at least let them create a diversion so you can slip in undetected. Be smart. And if you don't have the spark, PROTECT YOUR DAMN RUNNER. Put pressure on the rift and clear out enemies AS A TEAM. 7. The more bubble Titans you have, the better. I ran rift with 6 bubble Titans once and didn't lose a single match. The bubble is CRUCIAL to spark control, just drop that bad boy on the spark and pass out those orbs. I'm not saying all 6 have to be bubble Titans, but trust me, bubbles can change the course of a game. Titans: run crest of alpha lupi so you can get your team extra orbs. If you have multiple Titans doing this, you can eventually start chaining supers and obliterate the other team. 8. Know which subclass you are running, and use it appropriately. - bubble: use ONLY on the spark. Run armor of light. - striker: use ONLY on other bubble Titans on the spark, or use to stop a runner. - hammers: do not use. If you REALLY have to use it, use to clear ads when scoring, but it really sucks. - Bladedancer: probably do not use, but ONLY use it to clear a path to the spark. - golden gun: Use ONLY on bubble Titans on the spark. Can be used to stop a runner if necessary. - nightstalker: use on the spark to keep enemies away or to prevent enemy supers on the spark. Can be used when trying to score, but use wisely. Probably wouldn't use in rift. - nova bomb: use ONLY on bubble Titans on the rift or an emergency situation to stop an enemy runner. - self rez: do not use. - storm caller: use ONLY when clearing out enemies in order to score. This is the ONLY time you should use it because it is so valuable to scoring. Don't use on enemy runners because it is such a waste of the best super for scoring.

With the extra damage resistance on spawn I can take a Nova bomb so you must be doing it wrong

I personally have never had much problems with rift spawns and getting rid of the extended spawn time would make it igniting a rift way too hard with people constantly respawning near it but that's just my opinion

They added an extra couple seconds of very high damage resistance to help counter spawn kills and tbh it kinda works. even golden gun shots with deadeye only deal 80 odd damage to people that have just spawned in.

I wanna like ur post..can't find how to "like" any posts...people have liked mine? Maybe I'm having a brain fart, sorry. Anyway, I agree with u 100%!!

Invincibility frames don't exist on blink, they removed it in the beginning of year 2

yes i too want to spawn on the other end of the map when the enemy runner is nearing my team's rift. great logic. If you get spawned camped they honestly your team is shit and deserves it

I would have to look back and may be incorrect on this. I could have sworn that at some point Bungie stated that IB would never be rift ever again. I and 3 of my friends were thinking the same thing is the bad part. We hate rift and it is horrible for IB not to mention how bad the lag has been. I really hope they take rift and supremacy off the IB play list as they both are horrible for IB. I have been spawn killed multiple times and even had guys glitched into the map on one where they could kill us in our spawn the second we spawned yet we had no chance to kill them cause you couldn't shoot through from our side. We reported them for cheating but I doubt it will ever get looked at or anything done about it.

Let's also fix the amount of people that go into a match, just entered a math that was 2v5 in the beginning

Stop being a pussy

they should just get rid of rift. or at least only have larger maps in the circulation (bastion, cathedral of dust, first light... well i guess those are the only large maps... nvm just get rid of rift lol)

Agreed. Has happened to me a couple of times but just today I was playing Vertigo and spawned right in front of someone with a fusion rifle. Of course he got me and I think even the other guy was shocked to see such an easy prey.

They really need to remove Pantheon from the rift rotation. It is the worst map ever for trapping