It's all just bad and begs the questions: What did they think would happen? Why is the game like this? Will Cody's tell-all book ever be published?

Yes. But you know, conducting and sorting through 6,000 pages of interviews, hundreds of articles, posts and websites, as well as hundreds of hours of video takes a while okay?

I guess I was confused because you still are opening your map to orient yourself the first time, right? I don’t have to repeatedly open the map once I’ve done my initial orientation to whatever object I am after. I guess if you need to repeatedly open your map for that. /sheug

Lots of times I'm headed one way, get into a fight or public event, get turned around, and then need to re-open the map to see which way I'm facing again. Which is silly, because a compass would solve that problem right away.

Or a friend says "there's a chest over there!" "where?" "north" "where's 'north?'"

Again, it's a pretty minor thing, but if you have a map, I firmly believe you should have a HUD element that tells you which direction you're oriented relative to that map.

I just use my player icon on the map which tells me exactly what I am facing toward. I guess a compass might make it easier, but land nav isn’t super hard in the first place I don’t think. The only map problems I ever have are due to verticals.

It's no hard; it's cumbersome. You have to open the map to orient yourself when a simple compass on the radar would be more effective and more elegant. That's my entire point: This is a minor oversight that is detrimental to the flow of gameplay. it's a very simple thing, that we already know the game is keeping track of, but that is not reflected in the default hud and which requires you to stop playing momentarily in order to orient yourself, despite a perfect directional UI element already in place within the HUD.

Why do we have a map with up (north) and down (south) but no compass on our radar display?

Out of curiosity, if "up" on the map and "north" in the game world were not synonymous (spoiler: they're not, as your MIDA will show you), which one would you want your radar display to point to?

The radar display should match the map so that you can see on the map "the lost sector is northwest" and then use your in-game radar to point you northwest and walk that way and be confident that you will encounter the lost sector you're looking for.

It's really Trials where the MIDA seems prominent, and that is unsurprising to me given ToO was a snipe fest back in D1. The long range camp and pick strategy fits perfectly with that playstyle. Competitive is very hard on anyone trying to close with the other team.

Note that Uriels is still tied for #1 in Trials as well. It's the reign of the Suros all over.

Interesting enough, MIDA is the most used gun in PvP, but Auto rifles as a class far outweigh scouts. So basically, MIDA is the only good scout rifle :P

as an auto rifle guy, this makes me happy. It also makes me happy that there isn't entirely a dominating auto rifle in PvP.

Going off the numbers on Guardian.GG the Uriel's/Prosecutor/Origin Story archetype make up 36.78% of all PvP kills. The 450 RPM Auto rifles are currently too good. When you pair Uriel's with High Caliber Rounds it becomes a stupidly easy weapon to use. Not saying I don't enjoy using them though.

as an auto rifle guy, this makes me happy. It also makes me happy that there isn't entirely an dominating auto rifle in PvP.

https://guardian.gg/2/weapon-stats

http://db.destinytracker.com/d2/en/items/1331482397

http://db.destinytracker.com/d2/en/items/3762467076

MIDA is the second most used weapon in PvP Currently. You might not be seeing it nearly as much, but it's still widely used.

I would also guess that those stats started from the beginning of the game. What you need to see is a graph over time. It could be that the last couple months showing very little MIDA use, because they found different guns, where as at the start of D2 MIDA was used for everything because people hadn't found other guns yet.

I've been in some games where a team of 4 only gets kills with Uriels, power weapons and supers.

"Sorry we are continuing to develop and grow this game into something hopefully everyone can continue to or increase their levels of enjoyment from"?

I really only thought they'd say it with regards to two things, only one of which I care about.

"Sorry we haven't been more communicative with the fans". I don't care, but a ton of people are upset about this and I guess a certain level of communication is expected in MMO games.

"We know it’s frustrating when there isn’t enough of a dialog with the development team. You have our commitment that we’re going to do a better job going forward."

That's not specifically "sorry" but it sure as hell is a mea culpa, which is pretty close.

Not that close.

I think Bungie is still either acting as if everyone assumes this was the result of an honest mistake, or is choosing only to address those who believe that.

There are a bunch of people who believe that was an intentional change made to deceive people in a way that made it more likely they might buy Bright Engrams.

I think it's worth apologizing for the fact that it even looks like they were doing that.

Perhaps they're concerned that apologizing for it would be taken as confirmation that they did intend to do that.

No good choices here, really.