Criticisms of the Crucible (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Saturday, November 22, 2014, 12:36 (3452 days ago) @ Monochron

Many times you made a bad assumption and correctly got beat down for it. If you are constantly walking into room alone and trying to face down three enemies then yes, you are blundering.

Stop making shit up.
My "bad assumption" was nothing more than "there is enemy(s) there". You are also assuming that I am "trying to face down three enemies". Nope. Sorry. Couldn't be more wrong. This goes back to how you misinterpreted my low time-to-kill comment. You die in less than a second if 3 people focus fire on you. You can't worm out of that one. Once they open fire, there is no escape because you will be dead in under a second.

Trying to control lines of sight is part of the game. Part of any FPS. I don't see the problem here. Perhaps you should play a bit more timid than you normal would and use the radar for the info it does give?

Unless the enemies are standing on top of each other it will tell you there's more than one person there by briefly lighting up two segments.

Which it also does for 1 enemy. If you are trusting that then you are the one blundering around because that is a simple game play mechanic that you have had months to figure out by now.

Not true. I just tested this in single and multiplayer on the chance I was misremembering. I wasn't. With one enemy you can only light up a single segment at a time. The inner ring does has a brief fade effect, but I can't find a way to keep two segments (inner or outer) lit no matter where I move or which way I face. Counting enemies via radar doesn't really work past two, but it can definitely tell you the difference between one enemy and more than one enemy.

You are complaining about blundering into a room because you made a bad assumption based on your radar.

You are really harping on this "blundering into a room" like you think I wander into the middle of room. Surely you have played Crucible and know that walking by a room with 3 enemies in it will get you killed right? Do you honestly play the game by just avoiding any red you see on the radar? I really don't believe that. I imagine you occasionally try to kill an enemy if you see them on your radar. If they there are more than one and they aren't terrible, you probably won't live.

I don't give a room full of enemies a line of sight on me if I can help it. I move cautiously and attack cautiously and immediately evade if there are too many enemies. Despite your protests, evading, withdrawing, and counter attacking are all very viable parts of Destiny. Really, the time to kill isn't much worse than Halo, and you have more, not less, options to fight back or evade.