Soooooooooooooo…..I did something….I completed my solo grind for the notorious Luna’s Howl. Yes, an average PvP player such as I solo’d the whole questline and finally got it after about a week. With all the stacked pre-made fireteams and the many losing streaks, all the blueberry frustrations and my rank points fluctuating so much, I felt like every step I took forward, I went backwards 20 more. However, with some patience, a little luck, and keeping at it, I am now a proud owner of this hand cannon. I know I know, many probably think I’m full of it, but I really don’t care. This was somewhat of a journey that I wanted to take alone, and so I did. I mean, I guess you can look up the stats, but it will show you nothing but days of solo grinding, and a decline in my overall efficiency rating lol. I was constantly monitoring my rating as it plummeted but somewhere along this awesome experience I stopped caring and just played for the purity and fun of PvP, and honestly it helped me play better, and started to play the way I play and not be so passive. So to answer your question, Comp right now IS doable for an average Solo PvP player. I will say that you lose more than you win running solo. Suggestion for Bungie: Make a solo competitive lobby. But we all know that probably won't happen.

If solo players used ingame chat ....... problem solved.

[quote][quote]1) Of all games I play Destiny is advertised and clearly is designed for group play in every aspect. I’m a ‘loner’ player myself and never play with friends or clan mates I just use the Xbox lfg for everything. I do it to raid, you can do it for your team too, it literally takes minutes. 2) Same reason you cant choose your playlist-Destiny has serious problems with lag. The more fractured the player base the longer the match times and the worse the connections. 3) It’s not quite as simple as solo cue vs teams because what do you do with groups of 2 or 3? If you match them against premade teams how is that fair by the same logic? In fact it will discourage people from playing with their buddies to avoid stronger competition. If you allow groups of 2 r 3 in solo then it will encourage teams just to run with 1 fewer person. You don’t want to make the main way to grind punish people playing with their friends. 4) There are terrible teams and good teams why should the raid group playing a few pvp rounds have to face off against those grinding wins? 5) I’ve seen such a playlist added in other games, even D1, and it never fails too well population wise. —- The solution is have skill matchmaking. Just like halo and gears and overwatch and basically everything. It doesn’t even need to be fancy, just basing it on win/loss is good enough. You climb the ranks until you top out and then that’s your skill level and you play people in that same bracket so you are winning about 50% of games and most are close. This way you won’t be getting stomped by anyone and if you do, it’ll be just once as they climb higher above you. The rank doesn’t need to be visible or anything just you have to match people on skill to get even matches. Even this solution will strain the load times and the connections so it’s not a simple fix to a problem. Honestly you can get better or join a team. I solo in destiny and halo and I did in gears too- you can still play with your teammates and if you’re getting frustrated you need to realize you can fix the problem on your end very easily.[/quote][/quote]

People just want Comp to be like Quickplay just because they want Lunas Howl or Not Forgotten.

A. Please, tell me three games with a solo queue B. [i]Teamwork makes the dream work[/i]

Let’s be real here- your KD suggests that you wouldn’t do any better in 1v1. You would immediately start crying about how sweaty it is, just like you’re crying here.

Correction: How many think comp should be doable for [b]trash[/b] solo players? If you're competent, you can do pretty well as a solo competitive player at least until mythic. After that, well, if you don't have a team, there's this resource known as LFG that Bungie created for people that don't know anyone or have friends to play with. If you have social anxiety or some other pathetic crap like that, well sorry, tough luck. Not everyone is meant to get their hands on Luna's Howl.

Raids are the pve equivalent of competitive, they require a communicating team for the optimal experience so why shouldn't comp?

There should be a solo queue playlist. Either that or have team chat auto-enabled instead of having it so players have to opt in.

A guy grabs three mute strangers from the park for a pick up game and can't understand why he repeatedly loses to the local club team. The game is clearly biased against solo players, lol

It should be doable as a solo, but the reason it’s not is more to do with matchmaking than anything else. I get that solos will inevitably have to fight a team, but it seems like it happens way too often for it to be fair. If that aspect of matchmaking got tweaked a bit, I think it’d totally be possible to solo at least to 2100

You cant blame people for taking advantage of being in a fireteam and communicating to each other. It is a team playlist. However if u want true solo player skills. There should be a free for all game mode. Im a solo player and i personally dont care that i go up against a group of players in a fireteam. Just adds more of a fun challenge. I dont care about winning just shooting at people

This may offend some people or be an unpopular opinion, but that’s because the majority of these poll votes are from people who will never reach Legend in comp. Of course, the comp playlist should be difficult for unskilled solo players. Comp rewards are End game rewards for dedicated and skilled pvp players. Teams are basically required to reach Legend just like teams are required to earn pve Endgame rewards. Some people just will not earn these rewards because of skill.

I personally think there should be a solo queue for comp and quickly.

Is it really that hard to find a team?

Isn't the whole "problem" a case of problem solving on the players part? Let's say you wan't the Luna's Howl and you don't have people to play with, you are not skilled enough to go in solo and you are not willing to LFG (which i perfectly understand as most people are toxic as hell imo); so what do you do? Do you recognise your mistakes in the crucible and actively try to get better? Do you look for a clan that can aid you in your pursuit? Do you accept that the Lunas Howl and Not Forgotten are reserved for people who can and/or are willing to commit to the grind? I know that matchmaking isn't always fair and that you get potato teammates occasionally, but the best place to start is usually by looking at yourself. I'm not a top tier player, and by some people on this forum i would probably be called a bad player, but i grinded for Lunas Howl for the last 3 weeks both solo and with teammates. Finally, i just saw on the Charlemagne bot that Luna's Howl is ranked as the fourth most used energy weapon this week in crucible - so i doubt it is as hard to get as some people claim.