Recent updates to the MCC have been very promising. We had a lot of fun playing MCC at the Superior Lan back in October! I love that the recent updates added the "match composer" (mixtape matchmaking). It's great being able to choose what you want to play rather than relying on curated playlists.

I was going to testify that it was fun at that LAN (not that I was actually there, but I still had fun). It was also a highlight of the Kansas
City LAN (and I was there).

Didn't know about Malagate's MCC night (I see how it is, Malagate ;)) but it looks like the last Friday night Customs Night over at HBO was back in August. Hope it's not gone forever.

Kerm

What the hell has Bungie done with the PvP experience!? It went from "Yay, grab your party hat" to "ok...get your sweat rag."

I found this interesting... I'm totally on board with the sentiment of your post. But in this one regard, my experience is very different. Specifically, I always found Halo multiplayer to be just as sweaty as Destiny. Is it just me?

Also, I've been thinking a lot lately about Halo multiplayer, and what made it so different from Destiny PvP… I keep coming back to friendly fire. The ability to blow up not just myself, but my teammates as well was a constant source of comedy. Heck, I made an entire montage series dedicated to it :)

Aside from the laughs that it provided, there is something to be said for the tactical considerations that come along with the ability to harm your teammates. I can't help but wonder if the rampant super-spam and heavy weapon BS that so often dominates the crucible would be reigned in to a degree if players had to worry about team damage. I know there are plenty of downsides that go along with enabling friendly fire, but I'd love to try it in Destiny, out of curiosity as much as anything.

I get where you are going, and it would be fun for a couple games, but so many supers would be rendered useless in the small spaces. I would basically stop being a Titan.

First I’ll jist say to keep in mind that you play at a higher level than a lot of people here. That probably naturally makes your games more sweaty.

That said, yeah, Halo matchmaking was just as sweaty, in my experience. High level Halo play is probably more sweaty, to be honest. The flip side is that I spent huge amounts of my time in Halo (Halo 2, especially, which was my peak engagement with Halo PvP) in custom games playing Zombies or Fist Ass Extreme or Warthog Joust or just generally screwing around.

Destiny’s sandbox perhaps doesn’t support those custom options as well as Halo did, but they’re still sorely missed. Custom matches hold no appeal for me. I’d honestly rather 6 of us group up and hit Quickplay and make progress towards something than 12 of us group up and face off. It’s just not that compelling with the ridiculous options that Halo had.

What the hell has Bungie done with the PvP experience!? It went from "Yay, grab your party hat" to "ok...get your sweat rag."

I found this interesting... I'm totally on board with the sentiment of your post. But in this one regard, my experience is very different. Specifically, I always found Halo multiplayer to be just as sweaty as Destiny. Is it just me?

Oh yeah, I got plenty sweaty a lot too. But the "action sack" game types are just down right fun for the sake of fun! And it was refreshing to play a game solely because it was fun, not because I was trying to earn something.