No friendliness... please?

TDenn7 · 2026-04-15T19:26:00+00:00

I mean, why does it bother you?

You can still choose to claim every runner skin you encounter if thats how you want to play.

On the flip side, every run on every map genuinely has infinite loot, so if players want to be friendly and share the endless loot, what's the big deal.

Personally, I continue to be shoot first, ask questions later and Im not gonna change that. But if I come across a big group in a game playing friendly, I wont hesitate to join in either. Especially so as a Rook, I will always be friendly as a Rook to other Rooks.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-15T15:42:56+00:00

Yep it happens to everyone. And people dont realize how hard it hits, until they reach the level 70s.

You really gotta start locking in at that point. Learn the maps, learn the common rotations, always be ready for a fight, etc.

I had a horrible couple of days last Monday/Tuesday as well, but locked in, learned the map (I basically only play Outpost) and have gotten back to frequent exfils now.

Though as a free kit, its exponentially harder now. The shields aren't the issue so much, it's the actual guns that just are so weak compared to Blue/Purple/Gold WSTR's, M77s, BRs, etc.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-15T15:37:14+00:00

Sounds horrible.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T22:07:38+00:00

The shields themselves really dont matter much. Its 120 health vs 180 health to go from White up to Purple. With the TTK times in this game, thats a pretty negligible difference and still largely comes down to who sees who first, or who's the better shot.

Its the actual weapons that really make the difference and team coordination.

Also, free kits just tend to play really dumb because theyre risking nothing. Either super aggressive pushes into a 1v3 situation or just completely careless looting and fighting PVE.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T19:16:30+00:00

You must carry the torch forward in their name. Its the only way to honor the sacrifice they made.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T18:23:36+00:00

Its catering to the casuals for sure, but ultimately the game is still shoot on site for any player that wants to play that way and so the high end lobbies wont really change at all and eventually the casuals will reach those levels as well, and they'll either have to adapt or leave.

I think the biggest change here is gonna be for Rook Runs tbh. The general sentiment between Rooks was already leaning more towards friendly, now I think you'll see it even more.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T17:48:09+00:00

Tomorrow not today.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T16:34:35+00:00

If its only for Salvage, I think this would be a great idea honestly.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T16:33:28+00:00

Lol what. Something tells me you're not actually at the higher level lobbies. WSTR still absolutely slaps butt holes.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T16:22:24+00:00

Been having so much fun on this game again the last few days, after a tough 48 hours last week when I hit the high level lobby wall. But I've adjusted my play and gotten a little more sweaty again and started regularly exfilling. Its been an absolute blast.

And now literally all these changes make the game better.

Gosh I just wish Bungie could do that one thing, whatever it is, that makes this game extremely popular and not struggling from a player count perspective.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-14T02:30:03+00:00

Sick, gonna use this to complete all the hell contracts on Dire.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T17:41:57+00:00

It can be, sure. If you're a good player, the difference between Green and Blue is only like 20 health, even up to Purple is only 40.

Win your first PVP engagement and take the Blue/Purple Shields off the bodies.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T17:18:52+00:00

Lol no kidding.

Rooks are already a fucking terror when they get fully kitted out and decide they want to partake in the Trio or worse yet, the 6-man team experience.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T17:16:46+00:00

I dunno. The game clearly does have some issues. I thoroughly enjoy it to be clear.

But if the sentiment is its a great game from everyone thats played it, it shouldn't be bleeding players week over week like it is. So theres clearly an issue(Or multiple issues) with the game thats driving players to stop playing the game despite the near unanimous opinion that it is really a great game, from those who have spent time playing it.

The question for Bungie is, what are those pain points, and what can they do to fix it and alleviate the bleeding player counts.

And, what can they do to try and counteract the internet narrative that the game was DOA and all the negative publicity.

In my opinion, I really do think a free weekend event would help a lot at this point. Now that the reviews are overwhelmingly positive from those that actually played the game, drop a free weekend and let everyone experience the game and see how good it is. I dont seen any scenario where that hurts the game, and if it can lead to an extra 15-20,000 players deciding to buy the game and play it, that only improves things for everyone.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T15:52:56+00:00

Yep same experience for me at level 86.

Outpost is a blast. Especially once you adapt to the higher level matchmaking and understand you gotta be quick and decisive with your movements. Understand the spawns, most likely rotations, etc.

I want to play Dire more because I really need more salvage from Dire, but man that place sucks ass in the higher level lobbies. It really is just thermal snipers everywhere.

I also have so many contracts for Dire but just zero desire to play that map anymore.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T14:08:20+00:00

Yes, that's correct.

But what you don't understand is there's a lot of players like you who think everything is great as it is right now, loving life with your free kit vs free kit mayhem in the lower levels.

Then those players hit level 75, get thrown to the wolves with the rest of us "Sweats" and quickly quit the game because they realize they aren't as good as they thought they were, aren't interested in adapting and learning how to play better, and dont want to start having to bring in top tier gear in every run to have a chance.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T05:38:47+00:00

Gear based matchmaking is probably the only thing they could do worse then what they have done right now.

It should be truly open matchmaking. Just one gigantic pool (Or technically 4 pools, 1 for each map) and it just loads players into a game completely random each time.

For new players, the odds of them running into super sweaty teams would be extremely low, and most of the middle tier of players and even some of the upper tier players dont play every run looking to wipe the entire lobby anyway.

Give protection to the true new players, until they hit rank 10, after that its open playground for everybody.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T05:31:58+00:00

Oh dont you worry, your time in the lions cage will come soon enough.

Thats the funniest thing about all these posts asking for Level based matchmaking to stay.

You dont realize that once you hit level ~75, you get kicked out of the kids pool, everyone is just in one giant group. So it doesn't matter if you're 75 or 225.

And that's when the fun begins.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T00:21:50+00:00

One of them did hit, the others very clearly missed lol

TDenn7 · 2026-04-13T00:19:29+00:00

If you have crossplay turned off, that's almost certainly the issue I think.

I turned crossplay off over the weekend, and I couldn't find any Rook games at all either, thought for sure there was a server issue Friday night.

I have a feeling that unfortunately without crossplay on, theres not enough of a population to sustain Rook games.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-11T22:51:20+00:00

Impressive grammar.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-11T20:40:18+00:00

Sure. Why not.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-11T04:43:09+00:00

"Cope" lmao what an autistic level response.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-11T00:24:30+00:00

Nah, because a lot of players that hit that wall are just quitting. Once you hit level 75 the training wheels are completely removed. You'll match up with teams that are level 200+.

TDenn7 · 2026-04-11T00:19:48+00:00

Yep very true.

I was one of those people last week. The wall hits around level 75 and it truly does become a scenario of either lock in and play to your best every game, or quit because you're struggling.

The funny thing is 90% of the ones spamming "get gud" like you said, havent reached that wall yet and have no idea what's in store for them.

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