I got on to play crucible last night, and played for about 90 minutes. I could count on one hand the times that I WASN'T killed by Prometheus Lens. Everyone I played had 4x Prometheus Lens, and the 'wide beam' kills insanely quickly (even at long range)...only power weapons appear to kill faster than this.

Prometheus has a story that I'm feeling playing in Crucible:

Prometheus
Have your intestines eaten by an eagle
Zeus heals you up
Repeat until the end of time

Me
Have your intestines cooked by Prometheus Lens
Ghost heals me up
Repeat until match is over

There are some common Crucible weapons, but up until now no one weapon has dominated play. 100% of people are using this for crucible, and it's just not fun right now.

Is there a counter for the lens short of power weapons or hunkering down? If so, what is it?

https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=143934

It'll be massively nerfed come the next hotfix, don't worry.

Yep, it's been crazy! There were some stats showing 90%+ of the kills in Crucible over the past few days have been with the Prometheus Lens! Fortunately, that should end today as Bungie is decreasing the gun's power until they can properly fix it early next year.

it was like playing some crazy-ass Halo custom game with sentinel beams and no shields.

people were ignoring heavy ammo b/c you'd be dead before you could get a shot off anyways.

I played 4 games with Narc, Blackstar, and Golfer (who plays golf, turns out), and somewhere during the second game I had an existential crisis. It's on YouTube if anyone's interested.

I was sitting there with my sentinel beam and started talking to myself. "What am I doing? Why am I here?" Like, WTF was that. I don't like crucible, I don't like competition, I don't like Blackstar. I wasn't having fun.

At some point we sentinel beamed out a few wins and it was technically better than doing nothing, so there's that.

I’ve never been so happy to get a sword kill

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This is the type of fun I have wanted in the crucible for a long time. Grifball was one of my favorite Halo game types. Just let us have stupid amounts of fun in crucible.

This is the type of fun I have wanted in the crucible for a long time. Grifball was one of my favorite Halo game types. Just let us have stupid amounts of fun in crucible.

Exactly!

Is the Crucible bound by lore? Why is everything so flatline? Make it weird and crazy and ridiculous and fun. There can still be regular lame crucible too...but give us something silly.

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This is the type of fun I have wanted in the crucible for a long time. Grifball was one of my favorite Halo game types. Just let us have stupid amounts of fun in crucible.

Exactly!

Is the Crucible bound by lore?

Actually, yes. It's to train us against the darkness. So technically, we shouldn't be goofing off in there.

Yes, but dancing on the corpses of our enemies while your fireteam kickflips their sparrows off whatever jumps they can find.

Also sparrow jousting is implied to be something that they anticipate Guardians would try because they can.

I'm glad they will be nerfing it, but it was fun for a short period of time. That said, it's not that hard to counter. Just extend your engagement distances and use a scout rifle or other longer-ranged weapon. One of the games we played where we were all using it for fun, we found that MIDA was destroying us rather quickly so long as the MIDA player kept their distance.

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So he could totally be telling the truth.

...you were just joking, but it wasn't hard to find:

https://destinytracker.com/d2/pgcr/1196202191
https://www.bungie.net/en/PGCR/1196202191?character=2305843009262698822

Crappy game, but there's a melee kill in there. :)

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I swatted a fly once with my hand, so I'll count that as a melee kill also.

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