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

by snakegriffin , MD, Saturday, July 26, 2014, 09:06 (3773 days ago) @ yakaman

Let me count the ways:

1. Super fast death because cool effects.
2. How many times can I die without seeing who was even shooting?
3. First seen, first dead.
4. God help you if you run into someone in a vehicle.
5. I need to get spawn killed more on the moon. It amazing fun.
6. People complained that ordinance drops in Halo 4 created rolling momentum - holy balls, this is 15 times worse.
7. I think snipers should be more one-shot somehow. Like, maybe if you get sniped you die, respawn, and then die again.
8. I love the Scout Rifle. Too bad everything under the sun (or moon) is one-shot. It sure sounds nice and feels satisfying until I take a sniper bullet to the chest and die super-amazingly.
9. More blowouts than I can count. I'd love to have a close game.
10. I've dominated a few games by camping with shotgun, waiting for heavy ammo, waiting for super. Rinse, repeat. And then stab me in the eyes because that's a god-awful way to play.
11. I need more sequences where I get golden-gunned, golden-gunned again, nova bombed, sniped, sniped, sniped, and nova bombed.

I absolutely love Story, Strike, Explore, etc, but the Crucible actually makes me not want to get this game. It's like they purposefully set out to make the most annoying MP experience possible. My friends and I had the most fabulous time in the Stirke, but the Crucible was like someone tossed a dead skunk into our party. That shit cleared out the room before I could blink.

I've stuck it out, gone back again for more because I'm some sort of glutton for punishment - I can't put the words together to express how negative my MP experience has been. Yikes.

I have played one match so far, on the Moon map. And I have about the same sentiments so far. Yeah, maybe it's a different *kind* of matchmaking, or something. But I have yet to understand how it's supposed to be... fun. I don't particularly understand how I am supposed to know how overpowered the enemies are in order to strategize. Plus I was horribly spawn killed 5-6 times from across the map. I shouldn't have to do research before jumping into a game and enjoying it, but after that first game I'm like "WTF, am I missing something?"