I know a guy who won't play any crucible without a six stack. He wins 93% of his iron banner games and only averages 7 kills a game. It's pathetic honestly.

It's because of the mode itself with the hunt after all zones captured. Let iron banner be clash can't stand control

Once again bungie cocked it up and gave in to the top tier players...iron banner and crucible is a complete joke...supposed to be fun and not about winning....tell that to the top players who come in armed to the teeth and stomp all over you...i am not best but I wld like to enjoy crucible..but its like a trials match in there...unless you run a meta load out.. you have no chance..how is that supposed to be fun....iron banner....lol...spend more time loading into games...I'm calling it...seems to be the line of the week...get ur shit together Bungie...and stop abusing the players that have helped u get to where u are....

Cheater mess

It's been a long time running joke that the player base complains that every iron banner is the worst one yet. The sad truth is that in reality this isn't a joke, it's a fact. Every single iron banner is worse than the one before it.

First match we got beat 7-80 ya mercy came in a little late. What a sh!t show crucible has become. Makes me sad. Not even gonna bother with IB or Crucible till they bring back sbmm anymore.

I picked up the bounties, played two matches then abandoned them. I realized that with CBMM is probably going to take me 20 matches to complete them and its not worth my time.

Yeah it's a shit show this season. Just mercy after mercy. Bungie thinks this is fun? Whomever at Bungie handles PVP is completely inept.

Admittedly, IB has felt more sweaty than ever before so far to me this time around lol. Me and a friend love to throw on weapon loadouts we aren't comfortable with just to have fun and mess around. That's not even possible this time around. I'm over here armed like I just started a brand new Trials card. I faced a team that I'm pretty sure had 6 unbrokens. That was my first time ever seeing that lol! Time to change the name to Iron Trials of Osiris.

Hey man I feel ya. Played most of the day yesterday and had about 85% of my matches become one-sided affairs. Only a couple ended up kinda close. It's because of dang CBMM putting 3-6 stack teams with Trials emblems, Flawless titles, and Unbroken titles up against a bunch of randoms half of the time. Had a match on Rusted Lands where a Trials team was on the other side and one of those jerks thought it would be funny to rush over to C zone at the very start and throw a vortex grenade on it while everyone was emoting thinking we were safe since it was the initial zone capture and most of the time you can just capture the nearest zone unopposed at the beginning of the match. That jerk went on to getting 23 kills and apparently no one could kill him since his KA/D at the end was 23.0. I kept looking for the jerk cause I knew he was on a Trials tryhard rampage but I could never find him behind his teammates and the blueberries on his team. The only time I found him is when he jumped in my face, activated his Spectral Blades, and killed me. He only killed me 2 other times, the grenade kill at the beginning and once he sniped me at A zone when I was too busy looking a completely different direction trying to kill someone else. But I know he killed the blueberries on my team multiple times and they were having a really bad time. SO yeah... I feel you. You can't even have fun with these kinds of people running around in your matches, farming people for stats. Not even letting you emote for fun at the beginning of the match. It's ridiculous. Especially if you are of way lower skill. That's why I think they really need to change the matchmaking. I came up with a really good middle ground idea for matchmaking in the Crucible. It'll give both sides of the subject some options. I put it in a post on here. Please give it a read. https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/256771993?sort=0&page=0

First 3 IB games (early this morning) 2 lasted less than 90 seconds between them.. 1st match was mercy within 40 seconds 2nd game, spawned in with less than 30 seconds left on clock 3rd match wasn’t so bad .... but STILL it wasn’t great IMO - the broad stroke activation of CBMM has just wrecked PvP in general (with random folk from Ecuador/Russia/Indonesia & USA getting 40+ kills in matches, yet you [b]never[/b] see them - wandering/lagging around the maps like Casper the fvcking Ghost) Bungie, you’re achieving greater disappointments in every season/update Congrats - digging the cesspool deeper!

In my opinion Iron Banner needs a complete overhaul. In it's current format it is boring, unbalanced and unrewarding. We've had control for 6 years now, why not introduce a new unique game mode specifically for Iron Banner that only comes around once per month. There needs to be a greater loot incentive, for a special event it amazes me how dire and stingy the the loot drops are. If i think back to the end of year 3 D1 it felt as though you got a drop every other match. I feel that the game needs to return to this format, I just don't get why it is so stingy with the loot drops and tokens. Enough with the reskins! Give us unique items to chase. We've basically had the same pool of weapons and 3/4 sets of armor for 3 years now. instead of devoting so many developer hours to creating new Ghosts, sparrows and ships they make something people actually want.

Honest feedback from me is....yes, iron banner has become hot trash, it has ZERO fun factor in it and I will not be doing any IB bounties on my other 2 characters. Huge fail on the devs for these changes. Either they make so much money from this that they have lost touch with reality and no longer have a concept of having fun while playing a game or they don’t make enough for their efforts and therefore don’t care and the only enjoyment they get is from trolling the fan base.

Why was my post about the pinnacle drops deleted? Literally said 3 out of the 4 IB bounties gave me arms, at the same light level.. and that warrants a deletion? ok..

Best iron banner so far

Must admit after my first night in this week had a blast only saw 1 six stack over 9 games and yes they steamrolled our team but hey they worked together and capped zones while my team ran off in all directions we even had a 4 stack on our side and 2 solos (myself being one). Out of 9 games won 6 with a couple being really close and fun and was able to counter the gnawing hunger and summoner users easily enough with older weapons started seeing a few sniper campers toward the end but was able to out manouver them more often than not. You can be successful solo que just have to play smart and if seeing too many stacks contantly drop out the que and give it 2-5 mins before joining up again. Best of luck

Iron Banner is incedible. Played amd won about 40 games so far. 430 token earned I https://destinytracker.com/d2/profile/psn/Rappo000 Feels good man