Its definitely looking like the speed is one of the biggest factors that was holding the game back from truly being what their target audience wants. It does somewhat seem as though a reduction in speed combined with tunings around ligamentary synchronizations could possibly produce the game that their target audience desires. The only question that remains is whether them adjusting such things will do much to combat the fact that people have become very adept at complaining and smothering any answers to their complaints with more complaints. Unfortunately that is also a hallmark of their target audience.

I would be the first one to complain about 0 skill bs like prismatic hunter and autos. Where if you can press 3 buttons and don’t have severe arthritis you can tear up a lobby. IMO it’s a good thing to implement systems that are detrimental to bad players because the good players can leverage those systems. Perfect example would be the ae system. It was detrimental to the bad players who couldn’t look up so it was an advantage to people who had the skill. Now if I two tap someone and they are literally one shot they can chuck a smoke and a swarm and guess what ??!!! They suck at the game and they got caught lacking except the tables turned because they don’t have arthritis. Not because they had to “aim” the swarm use some movement tech. The best part is now you can’t even leverage the movement you have practiced because guess what - you are slowed. GREAT DESIGN BUNGIE If the bad players complain about the fact they can’t look up. Womp womp. They would just play cod anyway so what’s the point.

Its amazing that this was once a game where some people were really good at shooting while jumping.

Burger Joe couldn’t look up so bungie dummed down the game for them

Yeah, this game has run into a lot of issues like that over the years.

Like accuracy while sliding and sniper handling

Accuracy while sliding is definitely another one of those. Some people were just really able to maximize the potential of their slides.