Same for Gambit, faced a full team last night with teammates o my side quitting at the start. We lost big time and faced that same team in the next match to loose big time again. And this repeated three times more until i quit myself and rejoined Gambit a few minutes later. To face that same team again....

The mechanics of crucible in all ways is just broken and terrible. Naps are to small and base dmg to shields is way way too low. Lower crit dmg and raise dmg to shields. Take away the mini nap in all crucible modes. The mini nap system is the worst part and the most way way to fix pvp. Weapon and talents are extremely imbalanced and the base of how crucible works is forcing you to basically duel OK corral style. Taking away mini maps will prevent an entire team that just stacks and team shoots, taking advantage of the broken aim assist that forces you to change targets, often right when you're during a kill shot. The mini maps worked in D1 when the maps were large but when you can warlock or Titan boost across an entire map in less than 10 secs and everything is built to funnel you, having a mini map breaks any type of pvp. In short lower shields in crucible to prevent super cheap tactics like charging at someone because you know the impossibility of them getting enough rounds off to kill you before you can slide and 1 shot from 15m away. Taking away mini maps would provide so much more balance in crucible because you can't charge around corners Willy nilly thinking you can just shotgun and shoulder charge. Not knowing where you opponent might be is competitive. Forcing people to have high noon duels when there's 3-5ppl behind your target with the reticle changing targets in it's in takes away your ability to play skillfully and strategically. It does leave you having to rely on metas and broken mechanics that haven't been fixed since D1.

Sbmm is only good for solo playlists. You could still face stacked teams. And depending on the fireteam leader's skill itll either be a very fun match for the rest of the team or extremely aggravating. That also goes for the team they're facing as well. If the fireteam leader on a stack of 6 has a low skill but the rest of the team is high it'll end up being a pubstomp for the other team. Because sbmm only matched the fireteam leader's skill. That's how it was in d1 and it wasn't fun playing pvp with friends. I played solo more. In d2 it's the opposite. Solo can be fun and frustrating but playing on teams is fun. I want the solo experience to be better but I'd like to keep the experience with friends fun as well. We need more solo playlists besides rumble.

How about some skill consideration in matchmaking? That’s the real issue. Almost every match is a blowout.

I play solo so I know how it goes but it changed almost drastically this Tuesday. I was running pretty much a 60 percent win rate then all of a sudden the matches just got ugly. My KD average over the last 25 games dropped from 1.6 to 1.4 and my last 11 games I went 1 win and 10 losses. And the ELO spread was from 300-500 every match with me being randomly selected to be on the losing side nearly every single match. And most of those losses are quickplay. Nothing like knowing you are going to lose before boots hit the ground.

Quit blaming mm for your solo experience just stop you're going to fight teams a lot. Use lfg or join a clan or whatever and get your own team this is ridiculously annoying at this point

Honestly, I feel your frustration. We’ve all been there. There’s an easy way to fix it and Bungie never has to get involved. Just plug a mic in and join game chat. I don’t mean you specifically, I mean all of us. I’ve complained about the same thing in the past, but then I thought about it and there’s absolutely nothing stopping us from talking to one another. It’s 2018 and it’s safe to say that the overwhelming majority of us have headsets, we just never use them. We all did it in the first COD games and Battlefield but not in Destiny, and that’s always kind of baffled me. If we all did that then it wouldn’t matter in most matches. Bungie gave us the tools to communicate we just don’t do it. Maybe if we all start preaching this, than we can fix our own problem.

played a match last night where we were 6 randoms going up against, wait for it.... 1 guy! after a few minutes there were three people on the other team and the match finally ended in a mercy (20 - 90) and they still only had four people. it wasn't fun, spent most of the match running in circles not even being able to find the poor bastards. awhile back bungie said they know about a bug where skill and connection aren't being factored in when matchmaking and that they would monitor the health of the playlist and maybe fix it. then they try all these ways to force people into the crucible with clan bounties and what not, then since player numbers go up because of it they think the health of the playlist is fine so they don't bother fixing anything. either that or they just don't know how to fix the bug, both seem pretty plausible to me. Edit: if you look at my game history it looks like the enemy team had 8 players lol thats because people would join the one lone player then leave right away... i know i would.

Still haven’t seen this matchmaking and I play a lot. If you are being matched with god tier 6 stacks so much then you have to be pretty good. But clearly you aren’t. There is an inconsistency or two in your story

I almost always play with a full squad and ive noticed that whenever I do we play mostly against randoms but whenever were missing 1 or 2 people we play full clans???