Can't watch as I have to leave for another event from Wednesday to Sunday

Trailer for tomorrow's stream:

So I haven't been on 2p2 in forever, don't post in much in general and hadn't checked out the Destiny thread. I came across this post and those "props" posts following it and it kind've made me cringe. I haven't read through the full thread but are we now bragging about doing well with final round? And giving props for emptying two and body shotting? Pretty sure I read someone say "textbook sniping" and it made me LOL...really guys?

And that's why you chimed into this thread about a video that was made months ago? Why don't you share with us your Trials strategy and results so we can all learn from it?

I really look forward to your 18th post.

On the phone but pretty sure the YouTube video is titled "scrub using final round" or something like that but a good effort nonetheless

I was legitimately curious if you guys were all cool with exploiting final round like that.

To answer your question 39suited, I've been flawless a few times. I'm solid, not great by any means. If I'm sniping my strategies involve shooting them in the head or 2x in the body, ya know, kind of like how the guns were designed? Getting a 1 shot body kill against a full shield with a snipe is a broken mechanic and is widely considered the scummiest form of PvP in this game outside of connection manipulation. This is especially true in Trials where that first kill gives you such a huge advantage.

Anyways the static I received from my post is hilarious. Go anywhere else on the internet Destiny related and post how you went 15-1 shooting 2 at the beginning with a Final round spear and see how many "sick game bro's" you'll get. Answer is 0.

Why don't you go there then.

No one is stopping you.

I'm there. And I'm here too. Whatup.

Quick edit, its funny how nobody has actually commented on Final Round. So why don't you offer up some opinions on that instead of posting cute gifs and maintaining the 2p2 circlejerk.

Why do I care to interact with you, legitimately curious?

Gotta hit 33k somehow I guess

OH SNAP! He's busting on you for having so many posts! He's busting on you for having so many posts on an internet forum about poker! He's busting on you for having so many posts on an internet forum about poker because a video posted of one the regulars game sessions isn't good enough for him!

what a dick

I'll be glad when Final Round Spears are no longer a thing after the next patch, but while they are and it's pretty likely your opponents will have one too it is the most +EV to use one imo. It is currently working as intended, even if that intention was short-sighted.

Even still, a 15-1 game on Trials week 4 or so was worthy of compliment, to me.

I can't argue with the +EV argument for sure. I also didn't take into account how young Trials was at that point. I'm pretty sure I was losing 5-1 or 5-2 regularly the sporadic times I attempted to jump in there, until I found my solid teams I run with and decided to focus on PvP.

That's the main reason I brought that post in particular up.. I was curious if the group's outlook on FR had evolved at all since nobody mentioned it when it was posted.

FWIW, saw quite a bit of FR this past weekend and nobody was shooting to the last bullet. Pretty map dependent though I guess.

Pretty sure the gun was designed to kill someone with one shot. It does that. Is it stupid? yes. Is it unethical or scummy to use? lol no

seems as good a time as any

tryin to clear out my vids to make room so gonna post a few good ones

i mentioned this one in chat a few times... 42 kills but felt like i shouldve had more with all the chokes and unleveled secondaries

shotguns are far more annoying to me than final round... just my opinion though. Sniper's should be designed to 1 hit kill... Shotgun's should not be designed to shoot someone 20 feet away and 1 hit kill.

All the ranges are wacky, you shouldn't be able to be counter-sniped by a pistol either.

Shloss

I don't disagree that burning bullets to get to final round is cheezy/easy mode but there's no doubt that the perk currently functions as the developers intended (one hit kill body shot). If you think the fact that it is being removed from the perk rolls in the next patch is evidence that it's not functioning as intended then there's another couple dozen guns (thorn, medium impact pulses, etc) that fall into that same category yet everyone uses those too.

As far as your point that people on other forums (guessing you mean reddit) wouldn't approve of my sniper, really couldn't care less. That 0.2% of the player base is more than welcome to spend their playtime staring at their dead orb and losing while I run around having fun and collect sweet loot from the lighthouse.

Final round is really only an issue in trials due to the nature of the game type (where the first kill is so important). Burning bullets in any other crucible game mode is almost certainly -EV which is why nobody cared about it until trials became a thing and people couldn't get to the lighthouse. Shotguns, thorn, last word are much cheezier than final round snipers imo.

Thorn final round tlw shotguns are all stupid and cheesy and take not much skill. No difference between any of them. And yes I use them all

Final round trials snipe show come get some

This. And why the **** does this guy care so much? "I wanted to see if your outlook has evolved on FR".... No, you wanted to bitch about someone posting a video where they were using FR. And I'm sure no one in your group is blink shotgunning, using FR, or any other unbalanced aspect of the game.
The irony of pointing out someones post count is off the charts.

So the new content drops on Sept 15.

Anyone else interested in taking some time off that week for that, I'm thinking 15 and 16 at least

diskoteque,

first of all, very nice game (your recent post.)You really turned up around 5:00, nice sequence, you for sure missed out on some shotty kills with your un-upgraded branches. Your team held down B very well and thats always GG on Anomaly. Can't figure out why the other team kept charging you 1v1, bad plays for days.

I agree the biggest overall problem in PvP is shotgun range, its whacky for sure and definitely the most imbalanced aspect of the Crucible. I agree with pretty much everything you just said too, FR is ONLY an issue in Trials, to me at least, for the reasons you mentioned. It gives you way too much of an advantage, not even comparable to the other weapon balance issues. Again, I'm referring specifically to Trials.

Those of you who are throwing FR into the same category as blink shotgun or Thorn LW etc. are flat out wrong though. Entirely different levels of imbalance there.