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I've written before about how much I enjoy Destiny, and I still do! But a lot of people struggle with the competitive multiplayer. Some even avoid it altogether. I wish that wasn't the case.
The reality is that competitive multiplayer is hard, much harder than the missions, because players don't hold back. In the missions, you can take all the time you want, fail as many times as necessary and still come out on top at the end. But in multiplayer, it's not just your rewards that are on the line--it's your reputation and confidence. Failing in the Crucible can be very upsetting after taking so much time honing your skills. Repeatedly failing makes it worse. Besides, most of the rewards you wanted were only attainable through things like raids and strikes. Why bother?
My struggle
The first time I played multiplayer in the original Halo on Xbox, I got my butt kicked over and over again. It seemed like everyone I knew could play this game and I was missing something. It wasn't until I picked up Halo on PC and really applied myself that I learned the strategies that worked. I really studied what people were doing versus what I was doing, and tried to do what worked more often. Part of it was just learning how to aim and move at the same time, which got easier the more I played. The other part was knowing how to move, what guns to use, when to throw a grenade and when to melee, how to outsmart players, and also how to keep calm under pressure when I was losing. Over time, I found myself winning more often, and eventually became a leading player in most of my matches.
When Halo 2 came out, I got back together with the friends who beat me before. After getting kicked around while I learned the new guns, maps and physics, I found myself using those same strategies in slightly different ways to match how the new game worked. And I started to win. It was awesome to see my friends bewildered that I was doing so well when I didn't even own an Xbox yet. When I did get my own Xbox, we must have played Halo 2 on Xbox Live for over a year.
Competitive multiplayer in shooters is one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences gaming has to offer. Nothing validates your skill like winning, and building that skill offers a more satisfying challenge that no mission against computer players can match. Taking my skills online in Halo 2 remains some of my favorite gaming memories in my life. But I had to earn them first.
Ten years later, Destiny builds off of what Halo started in gameplay and added a massive variety of customization and incentives to make the multiplayer and campaign a cohesive experience. But people still struggle, and unlike Call of Duty or Battlefield where multiplayer is silo'd into preference, players actually have a reason to give the Crucible another shot because it is part of the full experience.
But if players return to the Crucible and are only met with more frustration, more losses, and more blows to their egos, they're not going to continue, and they're going to miss out on one of the best parts of the game. In fact, competitive shooter multiplayer is, in my opinion, one of the best experiences gaming has to offer. I don't want people to miss out on that.
And while I had the perfect storm of free time, social pressure, novelty and determination on my side, not everybody feels as patient to self-teach the way I did. And there's nothing wrong with that.
So here I am, sharing a video in the hopes that it will motivate some Destiny players to get back out there and give it another go. I also have some less structured Let's Play videos walking through more specific tactics and aspects to build an a la carte learning resource, and I'm building on it regularly. If you struggle with the Crucible, or you are too nervous to try, I hope these will inspire you to get out there and fight. It will be worth it.
