Disagree (Destiny)

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Sunday, July 26, 2015, 09:50 (3645 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

The issue, as I stated in one of my other posts, is that if I take my Felwinter's Lie and go toe-to-toe with another guardian using their own Felwinter's Lie, and they kill me, I have no way to know if I got out played or if they just have better perks. I'm defending a capture point. I see an enemy on radar. I know they're coming. I switch to my shotgun. They charge face-first into me. We both pull the trigger at the same time. I hit them full-on, center mass. I die, they don't. I had superior positioning, anticipated their move, prepared accordingly, and lost because they happened to have more range on their shotgun than I do... even though we're using the same shotgun. In a competitive game, that situation is 100% BS... and it happens all the time.

This never, ever happens to me, and there's an easy way to make sure it doesn't happen to you - use a better shotgun. I already have the best shotgun roll, so I know if the other guy beats me it's skill or luck. There's never a time where I'm left wondering if it's the roll or not. I get the complaint that shotguns are broken right now, or that it sucks that you have to play into the meta, but that's how competitive games work - play the meta or die. (Caveat: You can still have a lot of fun by not playong the meta. MIDA Voidwalker is my new favourire thing. But I get killed more often by others who are playing the meta)

If 2 guardians are having a Thorn duel, the deciding factor will be skill 99% of the time. If you loose, you know why. You can learn and adjust. But right now, too many of the gunfights in Destiny come down to a dice roll. I might out-snipe an enemy sniper and land a headshot for the kill, but they hit me with a final round body shot at the same time and kill me back. I out played them, displayed more skill, and my actions were nullified by random perks.

There's not many perks like that though. Final Round is the big one, and it's going away.