first rule of salvage (Destiny)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 03:23 (3268 days ago) @ Claude Errera

::shrug:: maybe it's a coincidence. Or maybe it's a new thing. :(

Definitely not a new thing. I don't PvP much (at all), but I've heard people talk about the don't-capture strategy almost since the game came out. My guess would be that the teams you played previously captured out of boredom, or that gamer impulse to complete the marked objective that's right in front of us even if we know better. Or they were matchmade teams where not everyone was in on the plan.

Edit/addendum: It seems to be widely known that playing salvage the way it's intended is a good way to lose. Surely Bungie must know this too, right? Couldn't they just change the amount of points you get for a capture vs a disable? Wouldn't that appear to fix the problem? Is there something I'm not considering?