I just got a chance to listen. Great podcast. CL, as an IT professional I really appreciated your "soup cans and string" comment. Made me laugh! My post is about a week late, so I don't remember much about my IB experience (my wife also had our second kid this week, so I'm not sleeping much and can't remember what I even ate for breakfast lol) But I remember being surprised at how easy it was to get to rank 5 (I only played Sunday and Monday) that boon is no joke. I was also surprised at the amount and frequency of high level post game rewards! I never ever leave an IB match, and here's why: (and it's not because I'm an awesome human being lol!) •1) I want the medallion. If I leave the match then I have legitimately wasted my time. But in order to keep that as viable and adequate motivation Bungie needs to remove a medallion limit!!! Don't limit the number of medallions collected, just limit the effectiveness. 1-5 medallions 5% rep reduction, 6-10 medallions 10% reduction, etc! Always make us [i][b]feel[/b][/i] like we progress. •2) I want the reward. Now that Bungie has apparently fixed the loot tables I want to get to that end game reward screen as much as often as possible. I actually love getting put into a game that is almost over! I get an extra shot at an exotic (3oC), an extra shot at a 335 legendary, and a medallion! 3) in my head when I leave a lobby I "reset" my smart matchmaking. I feel like the longer I go without leaving a match the better quality connections and opponents I get. Source: none, just a gut feeling. Moving on I actually don't think damage referee is real. I think it is a sugar pill. *takes off tin foil hat* There has been a marked change from CBMM to SBMM. The crucible team said in a podcast their goal was to get everyone as close to "1" in KD and win percentage. That has definitely been true for me. Year 1 I was a solid 1.3 overall KD across all 3 toons. I felt like I won way more games than I lost. Now, and in less time my KD is near 1.15 across all characters and I win maybe 50% of the time. This SBMM has resulted in far more lag, for obvious reasons. ANY filters or restrictions you put on searches creates more delay. So it takes longer to find matches. Now that the priority for matches isn't regional or connection based, the quality of connections is worse. ESPECIALLY ToO after 5 wins. Keep up the good work!

Ooooh man, bump. Only thing that kept me playing IB for the short period of time I did was the loot, matchmaking…sucked. Not sure If SBMM is still active but Its making me hate pvp again(only just started playing and liking pvp when ttk dropped.lol dk why). Than there was the Imbalance teams, 3 times It was me vs 6 in the beginning or end of a match, wth bungie? Smart Loot, how smart is it?….mines Is brain dead, I've been getting greens….GREENS! in CoE. Favorite Destiny moments last week was when I somehow killing the same full fire team twice trying to get heavy( two different matches) and getting inboxed being called a hacker XD. Most of the kept coming after me instead of trying to get the flags, and for the most part I shut them down but when they got me the tbagged me. It was funny a hell. Played a drinking game with a few friends, every time we lost we took a shot, also fun.

Sols, I see your still on here. And doing a podcast type deal for destiny too. Good shit man. Just started playing again but figured I would hop on the forums and check things out. Good to see your still here bro. Keep it up man. You and carnival.

Another good podcast like always.

First off when I go a 2 kd plus and I capture two zones and I'm hitting 25+ kills are you still going to call me a pleb and bitch because I'm carrying and not capturing?

Damage referee does work. Cause it shitted in my face the whole Iron Lag. 3 shotgun shots and 3 punches later he's still alive and shooting me.

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#bumpfortruth "Smart loot" please... for destiny 2 I honestly think they have to gut the rng elements entirely. They have had so many chances to fix it but it is still so damn unforgiving.

Love the Truthcast! Loved the shout out! Loved the support! Love you guys! Great job as always!! [spoiler]Great job on correctly pronouncing my gamer tag, Sols![/spoiler]

Okay while I do agree with a few things I don't think bungie will ever take down destiny just to fix it. Bungie works on the old p2p system where as soon as matchmaking is done it when picks a random person/console to be host and connection to and from that host depending on how far it has to go or how much traffic it incounters causes lag for the rest of the consoles sending and reviving it's messages. My time in iron banner has been about 70 % good some matches were bad I had a future move Titan which was smashing before going though the animation of the Titan smash which I have not seen before and one which we killed before he landed and he still smashed which should not of happend but two prime explames of lag. Destiny put in skilled based match making in year 2 to make trails harder like it was surrposed to be and they discide to put this in everything and although you are right to say skill based matchmaking put us with red bar people some times but The most fun time I had play this game this year is causeof those sweaty matches where it was so god dam close and we still won nail biting stuff where in the dieing seconds we pulled it back and we won it was great fun to do that and I have to say I love it when that happens. On another point I hope destiny 2 will have deicated severs cuase even games like doom, garden warfare 2, and battle born run on those so for bungie not to give us deicated severs for destiny 2 when a kids game can be brotherd to run dictated severs tells us what Kind of company bungie is. In my view the damage ref does not exist I have seen no poof it exist unless it's the gilitch of disappear ing bullets in my hand cannon or why my auto rife stops firing even though I'm holding down the trigger but I do not think it actually exists and have not seen any proof in my game that it does cuase red bar still win the game sometimes. Although I agree that ingame matchmaking for raids may very well be like you say useless cuase their is not enough people on but another problems it will Incounters is afk players, players who are evil or rude and looking to ruin games, and players who don't speak English or have mics and unless they give us a kick button which they can't be brotherd to do in strikes or matches this will just deterr people from playing even more. The heavy gilitch needed to be fixed straight away, I did one control match where within 10 seconds this guy got a rocket and blow all 4 us off the flag that just defeats the point of even playing a game just cuase some people who are lucky enough to have a rocket luach er with clown cartiage have a unfair advantage over the people who don't. Some cheese I agree with this one I don't it needed to be fixed straight away shame it took them until Wednesday to fix it.

Huh, I didn't have many problems in Iron Banner with lag, I only ran into one guy who [i]might've[/i] been lag switching, I guess PS4 has less lag. My main issue was spawns being 10 times worse than normal and me not getting many rewards.

Finally getting that raid done, and the challenge was awesome! Big thanks to everyone that lent me a hand (carried) lol It's very much appreciated. Iron Banner was definitely more sweaty this time around than others. Is that due to SBMM vs CBMM or just the player base getting better? I can't say for sure but some matches were just an ass kicking. Not like I am good at PvP but yeah.. brutal. Drops seemed steady and good for post match rewards. My 3 o coins returns were none exsistant. Which has been this way since the April update. When I do finally get one it's The Last Word or Boots.. what does a Warlock need with exotic boots? Hmm. If they only had exotic boots for Warlocks... Still say an in game LFG or options for matchmaking on all levels of PoE and CoE would add some more interest and replayability to those modes. Nightfalls as well. Strike specific loot... Other than the Helm of the Dark blade or Threads upon Stars I never seem to get. So much so I just don't bother with Strikes. Another awesome show everyone. Keep these up. Probably the most honest assessment of Destiny right now.

Bump. Another good time talking destiny with friends. :)

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It was great chatting to you guys. I had a blast, thanks for having me!

Bumping for when i get done with work :p

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OK so my thoughts. (Might want to read later) A) I can confirm that bungie DID implement skill based matchmaking in December 2015. So its about 6 months recent but 3 months after Launch of Taken King. http://gamerant.com/destiny-skill-based-matchmaking-implemented/ B) Have you ran into issues regarding being max light but getting 334 loot? You stated that Your loot was higher than your light, but what about max light? C) Should I grind for an Iron Banner fusion rifle? I don't have marks to buy one. All my characters are rank 5? D) I think shutting down Destiny would be a great idea. Could fix things. All and all, Great podcast, I rate 8/8, longest podcast so far, best one since the family episode. If possible, anyone of you want to do Trials later? Most of you are on Xbox One. My gt is XxUltraNoahxX [spoiler]Salt was thrown at the end for going to beach lol.[/spoiler] Edit 1: RedWingGirl, you probably saw most of the lag coming from people starting Summer Break. (Mines started Thursday after Graduation).

Listening. Bumped