Why are our XBONE 6-man fireteams so bad? (Destiny)

by DreadPirateWes, Monday, May 04, 2015, 19:14 (3736 days ago)

I played ~5 hours spanning the last two nights with 5 or 6 DBOers in the fireteam, and our group went 8-14. My all time W/L is 54%, so this was pretty unusual (sad). Worst of all, we had lots of not fun losses... 20k-10k sorts of games. We had one particularly bad streak where we went 2-9. Zero had 32 kills in each win and the rest of us were our normal, miserable selves.

I was a bit fed up at the end of each night and went off on my own to try to get a little more rep. With no fireteam I went 8-4 and my K/D over those games was better than my normal 1.6. This is a small sample size, but I noticed this in the last Iron Banner also (though I didn't tabulate the results).

MY THEORY: I worry that playing with people spread out all over the West is hurting our competitiveness. One or two DBOers are getting a good quality game versus 6 people with good connections, and the other 4-5 DBOers wouldn't normally get matched with that group if we weren't already in a fireteam together.

MY HOPE: I really hope Trials of Osiris' 3-team fireteams will make this a non-issue.

WORST CASE: XBONE DBO fireteams are not good enough to compete with other 6-person fireteams under Bungie's current matchmaking system.