Shoulder charge is back? (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, August 09, 2018, 10:19 (2375 days ago) @ Harmanimus

Query: If you don’t want a near-instant TTK, why are you running a build designed to play into natural reactions to net you a near instant TTK?

Because I think there should be several synergistic builds you can aim for that demonstrate a mastery of load out and skill. By starting with a long TTK and allowing players who understand the game the best to lower it significantly by both their gear and actions you create a more nuanced and adaptive game.

If you just set all TTK's to almost 0 you don't do that. It starts to almost not even matter what gun or armor you are using when every melee battle ends before the enemy can react. When every gun battle ends before the enemy can even aim down the sights what does gun selection even matter?

Strategy, adaptability, retreat... all will be much less possible when your enemy's first attack instantly kills you. Take my The Wall Upon With EVERYTHING Breaks video. Under the new rules, the Titan I shoulder charged might have very well traded kills with me (generally if I'm low on health with the current rules, it probably means I'd be dead under the new Forsaken ones) meaning the next three Guardians I killed based on knowing my armor, weapons, and abilities would not have happened.

It's that kind of thing I'm very much afraid of. That the game is going to move much more towards dying instantly over and over again to someone with a shotgun rather than more protracted battles where things like skill, map knowledge, and load out actually matters.