Have you ever decided Hey Let's Do Some PvP and the moment you start playing you can't do ANYTHING right? "Ok let's try this loadout instead" you think to yourself, or you think it's just This Match cause of connection or player skill. That's a reasonable assumption. We all know PvP can be total pewp at the best of times. So you try again. And you figure Meh It's Just PvP. But it keeps happening. Different matches, different players, same problem. Players are two tapping you left and right. They're standing in your grenade without taking damage. You're hitting your crits, heck you can SEE the shots striking true, but there's no golden numbers anywhere. Now you've entered into what I call the Punching Bag program. Something that no Bungie employee would admit exists but there it is! And sometimes you can see when others are affected by this too. One opponent can't do anything to take you down and you slap em around like a wet noodle. Now why would something like this exist? My hypothesis is that in order for PvP to feel rewarding, and to continue to feed that Hero Moment and keep you coming back, others have to be weakened. Sure there are peak performance players that would argue that this doesn't exist, that by hugging the meta tightly and having MLG skill you can circumnavigate this problem entirely. But let's face it: most of us are not like this. If PvP were truly "balanced" the more "casual" player wouldn't play because they would get curb stomped consistently. The next best thing is to have one or two random players suddenly become the PvP equivalent of a red bar.