Just how the cookie crumbles.

Seriously how the hell do people get their feelings hurt by him.

Grow some thicker skin seriously.

You should try playing dota 2 with the Glados announcer.

At least Shaxx is happy when you win

Some of the Twilight Gap spawns are now truly awful.

I've spawned three times in a row in the line of fire of a sniper camping the bridge to Bravo. The barrier they added to cut down the sniper corridor is still just short enough that someone can aim over it while presenting only their head as a target, and for whatever reason, the fact that they are watching the spawn point doesn't override the spawn.

Yeah, Shaxx is supposed to be "motivational", but all it does is piss me off. And the respawn bullcrap...just last night I was in a Clash match--we were neck and neck, but I had the highest amount of kills, and I was obviously helping out a lot. The other team got to the Lord Shaxx "near-the-end-of-the-game" stupid thing right as we did, and I had died during that message. We were only two kills behind. The little X fills up, and then I am just SPAMMING my X button, trying to get back in and help. NOTHING HAPPENS!!! So while I'm furiously smashing my X button, I can only watch as teammate after teammate after teammate after useless teammate dies, and it takes an additional thirteen seconds to spawn. Yeah, I couldn't even make the Auto-Respawn timer. I barely could materialize before--

"Defeat is not surrender."

Oh, fuck off.

There are options to report cheating players in the menus--how come we can't report Bungie?

[*] Hitting X to respawn, and having a delay before you can press it. Not that bad, but it just reiterates the fact that I am now dead and I have to acknowledge my death by pressing a button.

I've always seen this as a good feature. There is an autospawn if you don't push the button, and the delay gives you a moment to adjust your equipment, if you need to.

• Time-to-kill is WAY to low. I'll admit, this might just be my preference because I know a lot of other respected games are similar. But honestly, entering a room and having NO way to turn around and leave before you are killed is ridiculous. Yes, getting the jump on someone should be beneficial, but it can get ridiculous. And especially after spawning, getting spawn killed in under 2 seconds is far worse.
  
• Spawn locations are occasionally horrendous. I don't notice this too often but when I do, it is bad. On my death cam I have seen allies spawn feet from enemies or in a room with 2-3 enemies.

Last night I felt as if I were playing Halo 2 multiplayer at a time when I was ranked higher than I should have been. Losing 4 & 5 games in a row many times. Spawn, die, spawn, die, spawn, die. Apparently I am not very good at destiny pvp.

[*]Time-to-kill is WAY to low. I'll admit, this might just be my preference because I know a lot of other respected games are similar. But honestly, entering a room and having NO way to turn around and leave before you are killed is ridiculous. Yes, getting the jump on someone should be beneficial, but it can get ridiculous. And especially after spawning, getting spawn killed in under 2 seconds is far worse.

You need to lean heavily on your radar to avoid such situations. You need to know where the enemy is, and delay engagement until you are on equal footing or you have the advantage. See tons of enemies on your radar in said room? Don't enter with out preparing!

[*]Speaking of the above scenario, if a team has momentum they are rewarded with more one-hit-kill attacks. This serves to dump all over the losing team and actively prevents a come-back. In Halo or other games preventing a comeback what generally reliant on map and weapon control. In Destiny those things help, but then the game hands out overpowered attacks like candy. When I am way up on the winning team it rarely feels satisfying because it becomes simple.

I find controlling the heavy ammo has a larger effect on the game than does super management. Good times to use your super are when enemies have heavy ammo. Yes, by doing well you get your super more often, but I feel that doesn't have as much of an effect on the game as you seem to. It's a small advantage, but if you can get it, you deserve to have it.

[*] You have to face ammo to open it. I have to turn my back to a room just to get ammo?

That is the idea. Grabbing heavy ammo should make you vulnerable.

I think Destiny is a superior multiplayer experience to Halo in just about every way. Except of course NO OBJECTIVE GAMETYPES like CTF, Team Oddball, and Team KoTH.

I counted tonights session. 6 Rusted Lands, 7 Firebase Delphi, 6 Twilight Gaps 3 Blind Watch and 1 Shores of Time.

And of those 4, the latter two are horribly designed maps - whoever grabs C&B first can easily stand well back and kill everything that crosses their path. I thought control was supposed to minImise camping, but Blind Watch and Shores of Time actually make it even more efficient.

Where are the rest? Where are my large maps? Hell, where Is Exodus Blue even?

What I have really noticed today is some sort of lag(?) related to melee animations. I was trying to go for that bounty to get 10 melee kills and I would constantly watch my Warlock finish his punching animation and then drop dead to what looked like a shotgun or that Titan shoulder thing. Being up close and personal isn't worth the network(?) issues.

I have to say, going for bounties in the Iron Banner can be a miserable experience. Just playing the games to win can occasionally be enjoyable, but hitting on one aspect over and over tends to draw out the weaknesses.

Having read most of this thread, a couple apropos of sorta something thoughts:

Like our friend Half-Jaw once said, just because you're dead doesn't mean your threat has ended.

Thankfully, with respawning, you can use the tactic more than once. ;) Control is a points game, and if you've got two control points, you can trade kills for deaths 1-1 and win the game. Alternatively, if you've got one point, a well timed suicide attack can push the other team back just enough to let your buddies in. Jump in shotguns blazing, toss that grenade, and hope for the best. If you can trade your death for two kills or even one kill a critical time (say knocking out a guy who just got heavy ammo or popped his golden gun), do it. Got that Titan to waste his Fist of Havoc on killing you? That's a win, because he didn't use to wipe half your team from a control point.

Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good, especially since fortune favors the bold.

Second, Supers are all about WHEN you use them. As a Defender Titan, I see this most clearly as one tactical Dawn deployment can change the flow of an entire match. Take yesterday - Lawnmower and I were on Shores of Time, near the "T" hallway in front of B. You know the one, everyone likes to camp there. Lawmower tossed up a Ward in the middle of it, and he and I proceeded to wreck face. Before long, our close match became a runaway.

So, I mean ultimately, step back and put on your critical thinking cap. Think of the whole match, start to finish, not the moment by moment battles.