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Edited by jubba the hutt: 9/17/2025 2:09:38 PM
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Biggest issues with Iron Banner

Game performance simply isnt good enough. Even after finding 12 players it's taking 2-3 mins for games to start, black screens, other screens taking forever to change, stuck before flying in just sat in orbit floating, forced into staying in mm after the game because you can't leave, are the biggest ones but there's more. Loot, the loot is god awful, & manipulated/weighted. After 15 games I've gotten 11 armour pieces, every single one was arms, of this continues it's going to take 100 games to get the set - on 1 character, so potentially 300 for all 3 characters. Having the 1 gun drop nonstop too, is mindnumbing, alongside low tier portal guns I've deleted thousands of times already. I don't use hand cannons so essentially all gun drops are insta deletes. It's also all below power, so I'm failing to do any of the power grind whilst I'm doing all this, it's just bad design. Matchmaking, again feels manipulative, do well & win, then get punished by being given 5 players who shouldnt be in PvP, get destroyed so next game you get a win, repeat. My team's have sometimes been that bad I've topped the lobby & only gotten C grade. Crossplay is STILL a huge issue, PSN & Xbox have serious desync issues, that's on bungie who've ignored this for 4 years. It affects both sides equally but when every lobby has 10 PSN & 2 Xbox you can see the issue. Getting killed in 1 shot by a hip firing scout from 3yds away shows how broken it is, or casting my super & dying 3 secs later & then respawning still with my super, or the game ending & everything stops but there's still 4-5 PS4 guys on WiFi still running round for 10 secs because their incoming data is coming via dial up - shows who's got the issues here. Connection errors are high too, weasel, bat, kite, anteater, contacting servers every few games, not my internet I'm on business fibre. If it was true weasel I'd be booted from the game but it orbits me, or puts me back into the same game after a black screen. All in all, it's just another mode thats been neglected, not been tested, is heavily manipulated & weighted to push engagement time, from a company who's morals seemingly fell through the floor. Shocking bungie, shocking.
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  • The drastically decreased player count is probably a major contributor to these issues being amplified.

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    • Edited by Grim: 9/18/2025 10:01:19 AM
      Yeah, the gamemode is dead in more ways than usual and the loot sucks. It's honestly disappointing, the least they could do is add more guns to the tier system cause right now there's zero incentive to play this crap game mode anymore. On another note even the season pass stuff sucks this time around. Also has anyone else noticed they removed the free shaders from the vendors no crucible,vanguard,gambit, or iron banner shaders now there's only the paid ones, which is really sh!tty of bungie to do that.

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      • Agreed, especially with regard to the loot table. Grinding for IB weapons used to be so much more meaningful, and some of them had a ton of utility and would perform well in both PvE and PvP modes. Now there are two sub-par hand cannons and a crossbow 🤦🏻‍♂️

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      • Edited by FENIX: 9/18/2025 9:19:00 AM
        Did you play on this account or your other one? But either way, this might have been your experience, even if I doubt it, but this post is kinda sketchy. 11 arms out of 15 games? I got the whole set in 15 matches. Constant network errors on "business fibre"? Haven't got a single one and my connection is wireless. All below power? I've been getting 1-2 drops higher than my 430 lvl after every match, also got three prime engrams in 15-20 games. Idk. Experiences may vary, sure, but idk.

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      • Where as I have had a good spread on armour, the dsync,/lag/shenanigans and frankly boring weapons really make it difficult to play. On top of that some games are not winnable. I generally think there is only 20 people playing right now. I just got out of a game again a 6 stack playing on xbox/PS (i play pc) -- and then it put us against them again!.

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