Discussion thread: private/custom games (Destiny)

by SilverBrin, Sunday, July 12, 2015, 14:29 (3522 days ago) @ Avateur

Potentially. It would happen in the immediate term because of a brand new feature being implemented. People would naturally want to try it out, experiment, make fun things, etc.

Totally agree. Players are less inclined to exercise competitive experimentation when they have no private alternative. A big part of being competitive in Halo, was intimacy with maps, spawn locations, weapon spawns, etc. I don't play much PvP in Destiny because I feel bad going for a walk-about soul searching connection to my environment, while my team is getting murdered. Compared to Halo, Destiny's maps are more architecturally complicated and mobility greatly varies between classes. Studying maps and exploring jumps and locations is even more important to discovering advantages. A classic Halo ritual was loading up each custom map with a friend and running around it until I had we had great feel for it - kind of making a home in the environment before it became chaotic. Those moments you could spend 10 or 15 minutes here or there to see if you could make that jump, or where exactly that gun spawns constituted hours and hours worth of familiarity if you were to just learn competitively. There are still maps in Destiny I'm not comfortable in, and I don't take the risks to try everything I want to while being hunted. (I need to just man-up). The other casualty of course is local lans, the backbone of the halo social experience. I understand that there is a different focus in PvP and I think it is working just fine! But I'd love some customs and lans! =)