Im greatly disappointed that Bungie lied a few weeks back when they said Checkmate wasn’t going to replace the base PvP experience since they are now going back on their word and forcefully implementing checkmate across the board. I believe checkmate has a place in pvp, but it should not be the standard crucible experience! As a dedicated pvp player, my opinion is that checkmate should only be featured in competitive playlists (3v3, trials, comp). For regular quickplay playlists (ie: control, clash, rumble) it should stay as we know it - just standard/regular crucible. Here are some specific checkmate related feedback: - special ammo implementation is extremely flawed since it results in snowballing issues. Just make it so that you spawn with special ammo, and when you kill someone you can pick up their brick. I dont see the need to mess with this at all. - limited special ammo, abilities, higher HP, and longer time-to-kills encourage passive team-shooting and lane-ing. This will result in extremely boring 6v6 games. This is why control, clash, etc should not be checkmate. - checkmate destroys player expression and build-crafting. Players will default to either movement exotics (tranvsersive steps, dunemarchers, peacekeepers, stompees, etc.) or exotics that grant extra ability charges (armamentarium, sixth coyote, starfire protocol). We should be able to mess around in a 6v6 game with fun wacky builds. The only thing I like about checkmate is the reduced ability usage, however I want to emphasize that this should only be in competitive settings (3v3, trials, comp). For regular quickplay, we should be able to have fun with our abilities on regular cooldowns.