I can hardly believe how bad the matchmaking for the Crucibke has gotten. Itonly seems to get worse. I've not had one single match-up where each member of my opposing team wasn't 5-15 light higher since the new settings were announced for Iron Banner. Let's not forget to mention the cheaters and their glitches, also. I saw one player finish a match with a 4.8K/D (24-5), which I have not seen the like of since I started playing last year. As far as I am concerned, there's no way that's possible unless you were somehow invisible the entire match.
More importantly, my light is barely 300, it should not even be a possibility for me to encounter a 315 or 320 in the Crucible and it has been a constant issue for weeks! It's an easy fix, weight classes - break the light into 10 point classes. Make it about player skill instead of gear. Make it less like Call of Duty, I'm tired of that some old song and dance.
I shouldn't be dumping a whole magazine out of my 307 shotgun and not killing my enemy or needing to melee twice (especially with a 297 Void Edge), that means his gear is too far ahead of mine. Story mode and Strikes are set up to avoid that, why isn't the Crucible?
It is beginning to feel like the only aspect of MMORPG that this "MMOFPS" took to heart was armor and unbalanced leveling.
For one very important example, every MMO has a message board and/or public message system built in, so that you can meet people within the game. That's how Raids are usually set up. Not through some "companion app." To make it worse, this thing doesn't interact with the game either! Third party apps do more for Destiny than Bungie's does!
There is no apparent balance to the matchmaking at all. A player should never be matched against players with 10 points higher light and/or 1000+ higher Grimoire score. Those alone tell me that person has alot more time in game and gear I can't rival. It makes one team cannon fodder. One more thing, what is up with the reward system!? Why have I gotten nothing food from a Crucible match ever? I get better rewards from Bounties than Strikes, Crucible, or Story mode! Seriously, what is your malfunction!?
I am pretty good, but not so good I can fight enemies that are essentially 10 levels higher than me. This garbage is stomping on my K/D. Fix our matchmaking so that we get some fair fights, please. Even aside from my own performance looking bad because of these crappy settings, I went from winning about 3/5 matches to about 1/7.
If a good update doesn't come out in the next week or so, I'm abandoning this game. Which is a shame, I fell in love with it an hour in and now it leaves me unsatisfied and often angry for feeling cheated when I turn it off.
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Unless you're in Trials of Iron Banner, your light level doesn't matter. I usually run at sub 300 because I like using my year-one guns and sometimes gear. Plus, being a 320 doesn't equate to skill level in the crucible.