Crucible - please kill me now. Too late, I'm already dead. (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Friday, July 25, 2014, 23:45 (3777 days ago) @ Jordan117

If you're talking regular multiplayer, I don't know what to tell you. I've shotgunned people in the face point-blank and still managed to die first. The only thing I can say is that maybe the beta matchmaking is not capable of reliably sorting people by skill given the short timeframe -- I've seen some awfully unbalanced teams and outcomes so far, even after just a few games.

(Also, is it just me or does the shield system seem much weaker than in Halo? There seems to be much less time to react once attacked before you're dead.)

All of the above resonate with me. I've gotten the jump on people with a shotgun only to watch them strafe around and kill me with an auto rifle within a second, with me having landed one good and two glancing shots. God knows if this was latency or just bad luck or what, but it's happened too many times. I've had kills where the other guy runs around a corner as I'm shooting and they've still dropped dead.

We need more health or shields or whatever to make sure combat lasts a bit longer, and so slower, longer-range weapons are still viable. But there's a lot to fix here if they're going to make it something I want to play a lot.