Shadow Price.

awwwwwwwwwww yiss

Due to the weekly marks cap I will have to wait until next week to buy Shadow Price. How much better is it than Doctor Nope?

They have not applied weapon balance changes yet.

It takes longer to kill people with upgraded armor and less time to kill people who haven't upgraded their armor, basically.

Play to your skills and you can help your team. If you know you're squishy because you're low level and/or don't have a Legendary weapon, hang back and harass/distract the enemy or follow someone with better gear and get assists, effectively helping them guarantee they'll bring down the enemies they meet. Only charge forward with your super active.

There are many games you could win by making yourself unavailable as a target and forcing the enemy to get their kills from someone harder to bring down.

Can you charge blindly forward into the Iron Banner? No, nor should you. Use strategy and the game mode will not feel locked off to you. Having a high number of Kills is not the same as having a high K/D ratio, and only one of those things actually helps your team to win.

That's my level 27 Titan with 1240 defense and maxed out 300 attack Fair and Square competing. :)

Interestingly, I was not killed by either gun mentioned... Some Grim Citizens but no Shadow Price or anything...

I'm a basic 24 with basic weapons, played 3 matches of iron curtain, got K/D of 3.00, 1.83 and .89. I really thought I would get destroyed but it was quite the opposite.

Seems most of the people playing think they are super powerful and just run head first into battle because they've "got a legendary weapon"

Hang back, be patient and wreck it up.

Don't bother, because everyone else does and you cannot compete.

I went positive using a blue-rarity Dämmerung, and my biggest problem was Invective, which is getting a range nerf soon, and the Monte Carlo, which is also getting a nerf.

The issue is that the game essentially becomes Hardcore mode for everyone, and casual players can't even. There are people who simply will never enjoy Hardcore gametypes, people who can deal with them, and people who thrive in them. Iron Banner is a good thing because there's no equal footing. It is essentially an MLG playlist that doesn't gimp the sandbox, so people who normally enjoy MLG gametypes might get their junk pushed in, while others who avoid that gametype might finally find something to like in a Hardcore mode. And like most pro gametypes, it's not for everyone, especially not for people who complain that someone else has a shinier toy than they do. But there's always the Crucible, and a round or two should give a better appreciation for what the Crucible does...

Sure, some weapons will fare far better than others, but the variety of encounters shows that it doesn't end up being a BR-fest like Halo 4, or a shotgun-fest like Gears. Every portion is equally unbalanced, but everyone knows that. I saw someone earlier this week whining that their low-level character could get steamrolled in the Iron Banner, completely missing the point of the whole dang thing...

tl;dr Yeah, Iron Banner is completely unbalanced, but that's the whole point. Does this mean you can't succeed unless you have specific weapons? No.

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