+1 (Destiny)

by slycrel , Wednesday, December 23, 2015, 18:28 (3353 days ago) @ TheeChaos

Agreed. You've got to commit, and commit hard. Also, don't be terribly wrong or you'll die in a bad spot. =)

This week my biggest problem was going into frontier blind. I was switching up weapons all over the place. Not knowing the map + snipers all over had me much more hesitant than usual in trials. I quickly found that I can't compete with at least half of the snipers at that level, and I also can't compete with TLW up close. There's a middle ground that I'd wanted to exploit, but I have no good weapons for that range. So I ended up getting owned by TLW or long range shotguns up close or nailed with good snipers from a ways off. There was very little middle ground.

The pulse nerf hit my red death hard enough that it's got to hit with 2-4 more bullets depending on headshots. Which means basically another burst, making it not as effective at countering snipers than it used to be. Nirwens is in the same boat, a little better at range, but much harder to use close range.

To that end I did some testing of fusion rifles in the rumble playlist last night. I still have 1-2 more to test with, but in general the damage falloff is close enough that fusions just aren't worth using. I can't 1-shot people from far enough away (short medium range at best, consistently) to justify using a Fusion rather than closing a little more and shotgunning with a longer range shotgun.

All that said though, my biggest problem was just time on that map in trials. More comfort with the general usage in trials would have helped a lot with my comfort level. More comfort there would have led to more decisiveness, which leads to more victories.

The tough balance is sometimes it's best to wait rather than rush. The key is being intentional about it though -- you want to be the hunter, not the hunted. If you're in the hunted mentality, you're going to do stupid stuff that seems defensive but is just really what the hunter wants. I'm about 40/60 this now probably. Much less than I used to, but I let reactionary thinking defeat me more often than actively controlling the situation, regardless of who has the advantage.