The PVE part of the game is fine, I really enjoy it, even though it has it's issues at times. But it is the PVP side of this game that really started to make me hate this game. Now, I want to start off by saying that I don't want PVP gone because I suck at it. I generally do alright. My problems with PVP come almost entirely rooted in how broken it is. I don't mean there are a couple of minor things that are wrong, that wouldn't frustrate me enough to pull my dinosaur laptop out and let it boot up for 7 minutes with while I deal with countless errors. I mean that PVP in Destiny is so broken I long for the atrocity that is Call of Duty Ghosts.
Let's get the nice glaring ones out of the way first. Hunters. Seriously, Bungie? Who gave the go-ahead to put, essentially, God Mode, in a player versus player mode? Because that guy needs to get fired. Sure Titans and Warlocks can be a bit broken, I don't see them wipe 5 people at once regularly. I have killed Titans and Warlocks when they use their specials, I probably die doing so, but at least I get the kill. Hunters? Not a damn chance. When 5-6 people are all shooting at a single Hunter, who bounces around stabbing people like a Call of Duty wet dream, and not killing the him, you have a problem. I've hit them with primaries, specials, heavies, legendaries and exotics, grenades nothing I have kills them. My Fist of Havok doesn't do a damn thing. I almost want to make a Hunter for the sole purpose of going into the Crucible and getting BS free kills, but my self-respect isn't so low that I need to resort to such means for kills. I would apologize if this seems a little like I'm attacking the Hunters of the game, but honestly, I won't. As far as I'm concerned they sit in the back of the map and snipe or hide around the corner with a shotgun or fusion rifle until they can turn into a speed addled Micheal Myers and go stab happy. PVP shouldn't be about super abilities, it should be about the guns and the skill.
The second thing you need to change is the one that everyone keeps bringing up, the loot. I was trying to level up a different character today by doing bounties, and I happened to be doing crucible ones. I was in the top three using all white weapons. The dude at the bottom of the team who had a KD of like 0.7 ended up getting a Universal Remote. That's awesome. Oh, what did I get? I got a nice shiny nothing. How, how, how does this happen? Why should somebody who gets one or two kills and then dances in the middle of the map, IF they even get those kills, get any gear, while those of us that are trying to get the W for our team get air for our troubles? Come up with a viable system to give out loot. For instance, the top two from each team get at least two items guaranteed, 3 and 4 get at least one (but not more than the top two), 5 and 6 have a chance to get something. That would be fair and, I think, would make people happy. Because as it stands, there is no incentive for trying.
Third, melee attacks. Got no problem with them being in the game, even the super melee. The only real problem is that people use fists as their primary source of damage too often, when it should be more of a last resort. You ran out of bullets in your mag, and don't have time to switch weapons, you should punch. I'm not trying to tell people how to play their game, but if you want to go around punching things, it shouldn't routinely beat guns, you know, those things that get little bits of metal going really really fast.
I could easily go on, but I'm exhausted, and I'd like to go pass out. That said, PVP in this game is so terrible, that it should really be removed from the game until it is properly fixed. I'd like Crucible to be fun, but it just isn't. You get screwed if you are anything other than a Hunter. If you happen to do good you don't get anything for it. Please just pull it until it isn't a joke.
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Edited by distressx99: 10/15/2014 12:05:12 AMWhat's up OP, I read what you said and reading the comments below it seems that everyone that read this felt they needed to bash everything you said. But, I get you. Everyone says that every other character type has an op move and it's true (in a way). FoH is a lethal asset if your stuck in a corner or jumping in the midst of a group in a control game. *SmAsH* everyone's dead. Same for the warlock, that nova bomb will end mostly anything it's anywhere close to, and linger to tax that ass for a few moments afterward. Hell I even heard it's capable of taking down a defenders bubble shield. This is the way that they made these characters almost entirely for PVP. That being said. Blade dancer is literally an unstoppable force of nature. I mean nowadays the only way I can make any sense to why the blade dancer has the ability to shrug off everything you throw at it is that it has some kind of shield to protect from damage. If this isn't true then we are all getting bent over and taken advantage of. How else could it be explained how a hunter arc blading around could survive a golden gun bullet to the melon. To be honest the only way I see your problem being fixed is to outsmart them. Run, grenade, flail, and scream until their arc blading selves are standing there with nothing but a thumb up that ass. There is nothing else to do. But its almost the same for all of the classes. I mean nova bomb hits you in the face, Screwed. FoH right in your mouth, Screwed. Just have to get more artful. The item distribution I heartily agree with, the person that sucks should get served up a hot helping of more suck and nothing. Finally, on the note of melee attacks. Come on bro, YOU ARE A TITAN. You are a titan and your telling me that you don't like to just punch people right in the face with your electroshock therapy fist of justice and boobs? That is like your primary objective man. Hunters and warlocks do have a teleport factor to them I know. But that should not stop you from going out and beating people senseless. I feel to melee someone in the game to the point that you actually get the upper hand is impressive. Especially with all the shotty toting douchefaces in this game. I mean that's like picking up any type of FPS and telling me that you think it takes no skill to melee someone. I mean CoD half the game I would run into melee happy freaks with tac knives and just get my whole world cut into ribbons. Until I sniped their faces off when they weren't lookin. XD Bottom line is. Adaptability. There is always going to be one thing or another in PVP in general that everyone is pissed off about. Play the game and adapt and make everyone abusing the cheat behind it curl up in a ball in the shower and rock themselves into their happy places because you made their trick something that is annoying and mediocre into something that is just a mild annoyance with your flying metal things and a bucketful of tactics. This is coming from a proud hunter, who enjoys using the bladedancer, but doesn't because the golden gun is more classy ;)