This game seems to be slowly degrading into an unplayable mess. Teleporting enemies and rubber-banding enemies in every activity is getting more common. Ridiculously long load times for the tower are becoming the norm. Long pauses just to see the stats on a weapon or view a shader happen more often than not. DIM gives the message "bungie.net is slow right now" almost constantly, making the loadout feature unusable unless you want to take a five-minute break while your loadout changes. All this is happening with a dwindling player base, so I just know it will get worse with the new season and much worse when the new expansion hits next year. Is Bungie even trying to improve things?
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Firstly, Bungle's reliance on Halo Era 2008ish Peer to Peer Networking is showing it's age big time. The lack of properly Tuned Regional Dedicated Host Servers that almost every other developer is making the game a wet stinky Fecal mess of lag, rubber banding, unkillable bullet swallowing enemies and very poor load performance. Secondly, Bungle has hit a new low on average players for the month on steam: https://steamcharts.com/app/1085660 which are the only real published population numbers we have. We are now 10% lower than the lowest level before. So instead of SBMM or CBMM it's ALPMM (Anyone Left Playing Matchmaking) now and you will be matched against anyone on the earth now, regardless of their Skill Level or what flavour of Potato you use for a Modem.