[quote]This week has brought us two seasonal challenges and a FotL triumph that actively force us to compete against our teammates to complete. One seasonal challenge requires Ruffian kills, so you have to sabotage your blueberries to get them to actually spawn. The other requires you to summon your first mate in seasonal activities, leading to everyone camping the summon flag during boss battles instead of [i]actually playing the game[/i]. Then there’s the FotL triumph where you have to kill all 15 headless ones in each haunted sector. Which is essentially impossible if you have even a [i]single[/i] teammate that just wants to burn the boss. Just… stop. With this design. Make your activities conducive to teamwork instead of forcing matchmade teams to sabotage each other to achieve personal goals. It’s tiring and frustrating.[/quote] It’s glitched anyways. Just did all 15 and had a random team but no credit was given on the gilded triumph!

I can ever only get three Bosses to spawn because nobody understands. Maybe DNT put a challenge into a Matchmaking random mode?

My favorite is when blueberries see there are 2 more flags to be captured and decide to hang with you at A while B and C are about to run out of time and disappear. Common sense isn't that common anymore.

Having teammates that summon multiple headless ones and melting them before others get the chance to even get one shot on them is seriously starting to piss me off.

Their response? "But....but how else will we make you constantly run the same activities over and over again ?"

Sorry if this seems a little off-topic - I agree with what you're saying, making random team-mates compete with each other to complete stuff is just... well it's NOT a team activity then is it! But taking in the larger picture, this just seems to be the way that Bungie does the game in general: Players are forced to 'team' up with (and compete against - for kills/bounties etc) random people for the easiest content that could for the most part be easily solo'd, but for the hardest content unless you have a group of friends for a [b]pre-made[/b] fireteam you're up that foul smelling creek with no means of propulsion ... sure you can try to solo [i]some[/i] of the activities, but that's likely about as much fun as (seasonally appropriate metaphor incoming) bobbing for apples in the aforementioned creek, without goggles or nose-plugs! The reason for this (I assume) is that if players were simply allowed to solo basic Strikes etc. then they would be able to farm bounties too easily, the act of pitting "team-mates" against each other in a co-opetitive manner is a means to achieve the desired balance of 'game-pacing'. For all the hype about 'LFG' [i]finally[/i] coming to D2 in an official capacity (and after how long? Seriously!) when there is already an effective mechanism for matchmaking fireteams in-game just smacks of WTAF ... wwhhyyyy? Just allow players to play the easy stuff solo (if they want to) and extend the existing match-making to include Dungeons, Raids, GM Nightfalls and basically everything else that currently says "Don't have a clan or D2 friends? Sorry this activity is not for you!" - You built a wall that wasn't needed that just kept (solo) players out, which forced third-parties to build a path that went around the wall, and now you're building a door in the wall... just knock down the damned wall!

Bungie is utterly inept. They keep doing the same stupid crap over and over again.