What do you think kept objective game types? (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, April 12, 2015, 23:04 (3319 days ago) @ stabbim

I do agree that something like Salvage should probably be scored based on... yeah, the salvage... instead of the killing. :)

I wonder if any of this has to do with the the fact that in Halo, at least in matchmaking, many players tended to play slayer all the time regardless of what was going on? We've all been there - some asshat just sits in a corner with a sniper rifle, but not in a corner that's actually helping their team control anythign useful. Perhaps Bungie saw that happening, realized how frustrating it was for those peoples' teammates, and just decided to remove the frustration. It sort of worked - with Destiny's current setup, those players are still contributing whether they're paying attention to the other objectives or not.

Could be. But maybe the balance is emphasizing kills too much? What if instead of ~100 points for a standard kill you got 10 in a Salvage game? I suppose the risk is the people who aren't getting any points because all they can do is kill will just go off back to the other game types...