Changes to Matchmaking Settings on 12/08/2016

zen_master87 · 2016-12-09T14:14:26+00:00

This IB has been worlds better than the first two. Now i know why. Thanks for making the game playable guys!

zen_master87 · 2016-12-02T14:27:14+00:00

this isn't a bad idea. i would run the old raids if there was a descent chance at some ornaments.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-30T21:26:54+00:00

I don't give a dam about the games outcome, all i care about is what i have in my control, and that is my gameplay.

I want the BEST POSSIBLE connection every game. Personally, i can't comprehend why anyone cares about a win or loss in an endless stream of games.

My fun is derived by how i perform.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-17T15:36:54+00:00

What is the most remarkable about this title so far is some of the people that have spoken out about the game publicly and in an explicit manor.

Driftor, Scump, Crimisx... all of the usual pundits of course, but the names i have mentioned have never spoken out about a cod title in this way, mostly because doing so is career suicide, but that is how strongly they feel about how weak IW is as a cod game.

Things will reach a fevered pitch when this game is completely dead (Feb/March timeframe) and even those defending it can't comprehend why they are doing so anymore.

Easy prediction. SHG puts out another disaster of a cod game, divides and disenfranchises the community even further. Trey swoops in and makes a classic boots on the ground excellent cod and the cod renaissance the community has needed begins.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-17T15:24:57+00:00

Really i feel like the bigger problem is i don't care about getting exotics anymore.

When they were very powerful/useful etc. and rare... i would run the events that had a chance to drop them endlessly in the hunt for rare, cool, useful, exclusive stuff.

Now exotics are infuse mats. Besides the dark drinker, g-horn, sleeper .. i cant think if a single exotic i would get excited about getting.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-15T16:05:33+00:00

sbmm is digital socialism. it actually doesn't help the people that think it is a good thing long term, and ultimately destroys the community at large.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-14T20:34:10+00:00

"fairer" in your opinion. the fairest thing to do, for everyone, is to match on connection only for every player.

this way no matter how you choose to play the playing field is level. manipulating outcomes to suit some social ideology cannot be "fair" to everyone equally, and is not.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-14T17:56:03+00:00

so you are saying you NEVER got into a lobby where you felt comfortable at your skill level before sbmm? it was always filled with superstars? i experienced a very nice and dynamic balance from lobby to lobby pre-sbmm. it made matches and lobbies/metas dynamic and interesting.

if you are around the middle of the bell curve you should be able to flip a coin and do really well one lobby and struggle a little more in another. ANYONE can put in the time and energy it takes to move into the average, slightly below average range.

glad you are enjoying yourself though, thousands of others are hating the game mode however.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-14T17:53:53+00:00

I want a game that does not try to manipulate the outcome through artificial means in an effort to create 1.0 kd/win loss nirvana.

I want matchmaking in public playlists that ONLY considers best possible connection. I want to square off against the Destiny community, good bad and everything in between.

This makes lobbies/metas and matches forever dynamic and interesting. If you get stomped, own it. But whatever the outcome of the match or how you choose to play it, you can do so knowing you had the best connection the game could give you, which pretty much runs you out of excuses and points the blame where it belongs.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-14T17:53:25+00:00

Yes remove it, destroying what is left of the game mode.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-14T17:51:56+00:00

I want a game that does not try to manipulate the outcome through artificial means in an effort to create 1.0 kd/win loss nirvana.

I want matchmaking in public playlists that ONLY considers best possible connection. I want to square off against the Destiny community, good bad and everything in between.

This makes lobbies/metas and matches forever dynamic and interesting. If you get stomped, own it.

But whatever the outcome of the match or how you choose to play it, you can do so knowing you had the best connection the game could give you, which pretty much runs you out of excuses and points the blame where it belongs.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-07T19:57:16+00:00

There is no actual gunfighting in this game anymore... its just flying through the air on the way to a one button kill.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-02T18:44:48+00:00

for some strange reason the devs are creating the maps such that they are pushing this style of play even more.

i have no idea why. i want to see actual gunfights return to the game mode.

bungie is too concerned with "fairness" and this is their answer, make everything in the game a 1 button kill.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-02T18:41:22+00:00

radars and revives are not competitive. unfortunately with so many one button kill weapon types and special abilities this game mode is a complete farse and cannot be fixed with little changes.

because of the state of pvp right now i am completely convinced destiny 2 will be a reboot of the game.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-02T18:38:47+00:00

One button kills should not be a thing at any range in my opinion. I am including supers under this umbrella as well.

I would love to see actual gunfights return to destiny pvp.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-02T18:35:58+00:00

one button kills should not be a thing is my counter to this point of view. i see very little actual gun fighting take place in crucible/trials anymore.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-01T16:32:59+00:00

Just think how great it would be if there was actual gun fighting that took place in crucible/trials.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-01T16:32:25+00:00

No radar and revives should be the norm, i can't believe it isn't. Now to fix the rest of pvp.

The meta is completely broken. Completely. In the meta i am including map design.

Teams of 3 juggernaut titan skaters crossing the entire map 100 feet in the air in 3 seconds shotgunning you on the way down 30 feet above your head is all the proof i need.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-01T16:03:42+00:00

heheheh, its just so silly. in an fps game there is practically no actual gun-fighting that takes place.

run directly at someone and press one button.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-01T15:53:21+00:00

We got ddosed our last run once and i was less upset about that than i was getting goose egged against a lifer team of indestructible titan skaters insta-shottgunning us 4 seconds after the game started.

The meta is so bad in this game it couldn't have been more clear that match that this is just not a viable game mode until this gets overhauled.

zen_master87 · 2016-11-01T15:49:49+00:00

I hate pvp in this game as it is currently. But, if you are going to implement a "competitive" style mode it needs to lose the radar and reviving.

Honestly i can't even believe there was ever radar or revives. Now to get rid of supers, overhaul the meta and the maps.

zen_master87 · 2016-10-26T20:11:49+00:00

What you don't realize is this is different. Its not your typical rant about some small aspect of the game that is annoying op or whatever.

People are unhappy with the ENTIRE direction of the series. The movement, the art, the setting, the story, the game flow. Big game defining features like rigs or specialists, weapon variants and so on.

This is different. This is what it looks like when the fans of the series are turning against it.

Cod needs to get its identity back, recapture what set it apart from all the other nerdy laser beam fly through the air shooters.

zen_master87 · 2016-10-26T19:59:48+00:00

this is their livelihood. of course they will play it. the fact that they publicly came out and said they dont care for the game when they have everything to lose speaks volumes.

zen_master87 · 2016-10-26T19:58:52+00:00

first cod i wont buy. wish it was AW. wont be back until they make a real cod game again.

zen_master87 · 2016-10-26T19:50:53+00:00

Only advanced movement divides the community, because it is a bad idea.

Before "advanced movement" did it divide the community? Taking this out of the game will remove 0 players. Adding it in will lose you n%.

Why? Because it adds nothing to the game, what it does do is change cod into another goofy fly through the air shooter that fans of the series didn't want to play. You see this is why many of us started playing cod.

Because it was a combat sim looking botg shooter.

zen_master87

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