It's just sad. People atm are complaining more about a grind they don't need to do than the actual state of PvP. It's a shitshow. In D1, power would spawn for everyone like once a game and they would all have fun with the craziest weapon of their arsenal and it would end pretty quickly, then the game would go back to normal. Now, you don't know who is gonna have heavy until they shoved hammerhead bullets down your throat. Not to mention they can hold onto it for the entire game and you'd never know. It's downright unfair to other players, on the team or not, for one person to get heavy and only him be allowed to reck house while everybody else suffers, including his team. People have things they need to do and their teammate just kills all the people they need for quests or etc. objectives. It's a 1 in 12 chance to get heavy and that lucky player is the only one who has fun while everybody else has to follow his every whim (or run from...).
Not to mention supers....let's face it. Orbs give way too much super and supers last way too long. It was a mistake to add "every kill gives back super" because the whole point of a super was to be a quick rally to a team so they can fight back a possible losing game. The whole point of a shutdown super is to stop that rally or suppress it so you can stay winning, not kill the man who just ran in and knee'd 4 of your teammates while you're panicking in the corner with a tether.
Weapons at this state are balanced enough (with small exceptions) to where the gunplay is smooth and fair, but with power and supers everywhere that said gunplay is hardly ever happening while people are jumping off the map just to not "feed the demon" which is a slam titan or dawnblade warlock. The problem with slam titan was once a tale of a gwisin vest, revisited.
Shadowkeep has a chance to fix everything, if not that then D3 so Bungie...please....
Make PvP Great Again....
***Before focusing on the future, look at the past and present***
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The new "team balancing" sucks. QP seems even worse than IB. Just loaded into a match against 2 teams and both were Japanese. And I'm from Finland...