I guess I don’t understand why Bungie would try anything other than skill-based matchmaking. It helps maintain the balance, there’s a lot less rage quitting and/or quitting in general. Skill-based matchmaking allows you to go up against people your level or a bit higher so there’s still a challenge and you’re able to learn and grow as a pvp player. I don’t know about the pvp gods out there but for a fairly average (or below average 1.5+/- k/d) player like myself, I personally learn a lot more and have a lot more fun in the game if I’m not being obliterated by players that have no business being in an average player lobby. It brings a person down when they start to feel like worthless trash simply because they’re being matched with players way above their skill level. It takes the fun out of playing pvp. For those above average players (2.5+k/d) being matched with players of a 1.5- k/d, there’s no challenge for them, no way to improve because they’re not exercising the extent of their skill. They’re just happily mowing down a bunch of clowns that have no idea how to put up a fight against them because the clowns lack the skill and ability. Anyways, I finally picked up the game again and had been happy to play pvp for the first time ever and since then I’ve run into mostly ‘testing’ with other matchmaking systems that just do not work. Please keep it skill-based Bungie, it’s one of the few right things you can do with this game.