Is it worth buying Destiny? (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Friday, April 22, 2016, 15:39 (3381 days ago) @ Decom

Thanks for the anecdote. It's hard to find information about about any netcode changes made in the April update, but I did find some stuff about patches in January and March. I wonder if those things + the April update resulted in things being a lot better.

Kahzgul mostly plays Trials, which is worlds different (in most aspects) from other crucible modes.

In regular crucible, there's still lag - there's less cheating (I think), mostly because who the hell cares?, but if I play 5-10 games in a night, there'll be at least one in which someone with a seriously bad connection makes things wonky for everyone. It's rarely enough to ruin the game (unless you're really sensitive to that kind of thing - and some of the people I play with are), but it's definitely wonky.

I'm not even sure I could say it's really different from how it was 6 months ago, on average. (I see bigger swings in quality-of-game-life from the shifts from connection-based matchmaking to skill-based matchmaking and back than I do from the Damage Referee stuff., personally.)

This isn't really helpful to you in a 'It's better/worse/whatever than it used to be' way... I just wanted to make sure you understood that Kahzgul's anecdote probably applies more to Trials than to regular Crucible. ;)