[quote]The 50 year old guy isn’t your “honey”... ..and no it didn’t. Bungie has been constantly changing this game’s MM algorithms throughout the life of the franchise.[/quote] Whaaaaa its not fair PvP isnto hard for me reeeee Suck it up princess. This is how the world works. The cream rises and people like you are the meat in the grinder Stomp stomp stomp

The sandbox was solo friendly because: 1. Primary weapons killed at a more reasonable TTK relative to player movment speed than currently. Legendary weapons in pvp are nearly as weak as they were in vanilla D2.....while the Go Faster update made most subclasses functionally much faster. Which further cemented the need to team shoot to keep enemies from escaping to safety. 2. Abilities were more powerful. You had supers that you got twice as often...and melee and grenade abilities that were potential OHKs. So as a solo player you had the ability to take on multiple oppoenents, and kill them quickly enough to keep them from leveraging their numerical advantage if you were quick enough, and made good enough decisions. 3. Special weapons and ammo were more widely available (until the Special Ammo nerf). Like point 2, this allowed solo players access to weapons that suppressed team fire, and could result in rapid multi-kills upon teams that carelessly clumped together and/or lost situational awareness. 4. Heavy weapons. Use properly, these weapons could fuel killing sprees that would force teams to spread out to avoid multi-kills....and served as a rubber-band mechanic that could permit losing teams to fight their way back into a match. All of these things were taken out of the vanilla D2 sandbox....and most are having to be added back for Forsaken. [quote]greg maddux would use the back side of the plate not just the front corners. and with umps come human error, so what the hell does this have to do with making a game better for solos?[/quote] Greg Maddux was a master pitcher who used all parts of the plate....and human error is part of the game. The ORIGINAL point is that there is a difference between a game having a NATURAL advantage for one side or one play style.....and a game having a MANUFACTURED one because someone is putting their thumb on the scale specifically to create that advantage. A better analogy is the rule changes that the NFL made specifically to disadvantage defenses, and to allow for more effective offense and higher scoring games. Namely the liberalization of blocking rules that allowed offensive lineman to use their hands, and pass block more easily....and the "Illegal contact" rule which disallowed defensive backs to initiate contact with receivers after 5 yards downfield. As opposed to being able to continue to beat up on them right up to the point of the release of the forward pass. The point is that both what Weisznewski did and what the NFL did were calculations to enforce a particular style of play. I agree with what the NFL did...because it brought the defense and offense into better balance...and opened up play and made for more creative and entertaining play. But what Weisznewski did had the opposite effect. It shut down play...closed off options...and forced it into a very narrow, very predictable mold (He Who Has The Most Guns Wins)

Is this satire?

...and that’s how games die...

Also the longer it takes to kill, the more time their team has to save them.

You didn’t need oks for what I’m talking about though. A few TLW shots here, a grenade there and a melee could be all you need. In this game every one of those things is weaker so you need additional time or teamshots to kill effectively.

Yes you are exactly right.

Go Sportsball! Do the thing, win the points!