Gaming

I played Destiny 2 from launch up through a few expansions. I was used to the idea of buying new xpacs every time they came out, but the constant grind for new equipment was annoying since I mostly played for the pvp aspect. I also didn't like the way they dealt with balancing - they often caved to the community's whining, which meant a slow decline back to the state of Destiny 1... pvp dominated by shotgun rushers with no real counter except to also be a shotgun rusher. I found this an incredibly low skill ceiling and simply boring to me. I preferred high skill weapons like the single shot GL where you needed to understand trajectory and predict player movement... also one of the only counters to shotgun rushers. It was nerfed to no longer be able to kill on direct hit and thus shotgun rushing became the defacto strategy again. The only other possible counter at that point were the few single headshot killing weapons in the game which had the same ttk (effectively 0) but having two weapons with the same ttk but one with a much lower skill ceiling seemed like artificially handicapping myself and when you're playing competitively with people who are also looking to max their rank every season it's not worth it.

Lol the post is a year old, it’s just that this community wasn’t alive then so you can easily find it in sorting. Hopefully enough of us make this place more lively!