Ridiculous. It's by far the worst thing. The maps are crap and the game is fundamentally unbalanced and broken. Most of the weapons are redundant, barring the few that can one-shot people. It's dire.
I disagree substantially, but that's ok. You don't like the PvP and I do. In my experience I have not come to see any fundamental imbalance, let along "brokenness." It isn't balanced in the sense of starting every combatant on a level playing field- you can
clearly enter with some objective advantages over a brand new player- but it's fun and feels different than either Halo or competitive military shooters, and accessible to someone who isn't that hardcore about it. I also like some of the maps quite a bit, and am actually starting to love two or three of them. It's not a big deal if you don't find it enjoyable.
Anecdotally I also don't feel you've adequately represented the weapon spread. The weapon type that has been responsible for the majority of my deaths, by a substantial margin, is the Auto Rifle. Why would anyone use this weapon if there was no reason to? Fusion rifles require you to both lead and follow your target which becomes more difficult over distance; shotguns are useless outside of close range. Auto Rifles have neither of these issues to contend with and frequently tear me apart from across the map.
Fusion rifles and shotguns certainly both kill in one hit and dominate close range (fusion rifles also being amazing at midrange). But farther out the options are taken advantage of with Pulse Rifles really being the only marginalized/totally useless weapon class in my experience.
As far as I can tell, anything negative in this thread is ignored, and there isn't really any discussion going on. It's like a constant stream of individual thoughts with nobody bothering to respond to them. What's the point?
No there aren't and no it isn't. This isn't "Destiny: Put your fingers in your ears and sing "la la la la"" the thread. This is the OT. A discussion thread. Good and bad. This is a discussion forum. It's hilariously childish that people refuse to engage with attempts at discussion about the blatant negative aspects of this game. I've seen countless references in this thread to "urgh, don't go into X thread, they're being negative and mean about Destiny". Seriously, you should be ashamed of yourselves!
Ironically enough this kind of statement isn't really conducive to discussion; don't paint all of the participants with the same brush. Lots of individual questions are being answered. Lots of information is being given out. There is a deceptively sprawling amount of stuff to know about tucked into this game and a lot of the discussion is centered around that while people work stuff out.
However you're also crazily wrong. Tons and tons and tons and tons of posts even on the last few pages are complaints or even outright derision at the game's loot system and shallowness of content. The "refusal to engage" that you mention is also illusionary, as these complaints have been circled and underlined many times.
If you were trolling, well done as I bit blindly and without remorse.
