Returning to Iron Banner after a Month Off... And I'm salty. (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, April 30, 2015, 14:37 (3749 days ago)

...sigh. Salty post incoming...

Last night I played 9 games of Iron Banner. I had above a 1.0 K/D ratio in every game but one, which is normally the mark of a good night. And yet I found the whole thing incredibly frustrating.

The netcode in Destiny is simply infuriating. Before you say my connection must stink, I get 50 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up (and I checked many times last night because of the reasons I'm about to enumerate). Three times I fired a golden gun blast into a guy who then (after my shot) charged and shotgunned me. I died, he lived. Several times I wasted golden gun blasts on a guy who just took no damage whatsoever and then teleported behind me to melee me to death. I got killed by a guy with a shotgun through a wall, and in my death view cam I saw him walk around the corner and fire the shot that must have killed me.

It's stupid how bad the multiplayer interactions are. CoD, Titanfall, Warframe - I have no problems whatsoever with multiplayer in these games. If I shoot at a guy in my crosshairs, I hit, ever goddamn time. Sometimes they lag and blink across the screen, but - again - if it looks like I hit them to me, then I actually hit them. I never get killed before the guy fires a shot, and I never get killed by guys who haven't actually moved into my line of sight yet. If I get above a 1.0 K/D, I feel great and I feel like I did really well.

In Destiny, I feel frustrated, because I should have had 5 more kills that game, or 3 fewer deaths, but for some reason my guns fired blanks and the enemy was firing magic JFK bullets.

I'm concerned about Trials of Osiris. Instead of being "who is the better team" it's going to be "who got luckier with bullshit lag glitches."

Damn it Bungie, I want your game to be good. If this was a game by literally any other studio, I'd never even have bought it.