Yeah, I guess I did do pretty well in those games. I just don't get accused of being good at Crucible very often! :-)

I feel like on any given night, in 35% of games I have a decent k/d (ranging from 1.5-3.0) and finish in the top couple spots on the team, but in the other 65% I am too aggressive and finish with a k/d ranging between 0.35 and 0.8 and in the bottom half of the team.

This is weirdly encouraging.

From a personal standpoint, this was easily my worst IB week so far. It was my first bad one, actually, since IB is usually my favorite thing to do... I often found myself going negative. I can blame part of that on the heavy TLW/Thorn/Felwinter's presence, but for the most part, I was just straight up sucking... Before this week, I can't think of a day in IB where it took me longer than 2/3 games to get Iron Wrath, but this time, I think I only got that bounty three times at the most. It was rough, and I even gave up my vow to never use Fusion grenades because it was just tough to survive otherwise.

What a week...

Also the lag. Dear God, the lag... Why was the lag so bad in IB?

This is the first IB in a long time where the special/heavy ammo nerf had caught up with the meta, and I felt it. I couldn't use my PI-nuke-spray and my field scout Deviant Gravity, and it really messed with my mojo. I think strategically, that's probably messing with a lot of people's mojo.

And to my recolection, the lag is always awful. Sometimes that helps and sometimes that hurts. The coinflip was not kind.

More people playing because of the helmets?

It probably doesn't help that I don't have time to play anymore.

What a week...

Also the lag. Dear God, the lag... Why was the lag so bad in IB?

I feel like on any given night, in 35% of games I have a decent k/d (ranging from 1.5-3.0) and finish in the top couple spots on the team, but in the other 65% I am too aggressive and finish with a k/d ranging between 0.35 and 0.8 and in the bottom half of the team.

Said that if he ever needs to do another crucible bounty he'll do it on 360 or PS3 because he feels like the Crucible population feels less skilled on the legacy consoles (or something to that effect. Hope I'm not putting words in your mouth

Nope. That's what I said. I also tended to do best when I played by myself during iron banner. BTW, I got to five and I bought all the things.

Sometimes you just don't have complimentary play styles, and that does make a difference. The only way to change that is to get practice in together.

If you just cannot make a successful push into B territory (or better, their spawn), it's sometimes better to turtle uP somewhere safe and let them get greedy for kills. Like I said, the A building in Rusted Lands is great for this, as is the back room and hallway below C in Twilght Gap. It's not easy, but if you're entrenched it's totally possible to just outkill your opponents despite only having one capture point.

Doesn't work so well against full firefeams (they'll either coordinate a combined assault or figure out what you're doing and stay back), but against randoms it's a solid tactic - it only takes one person to feed you kills