The lonely drive up 77 was all #feelsbadman, missing the fam as the car radio offering a steady diet of depressing presidential campaign antics and equally depressing twang-pop passing as "country." Time ticked away on the first night of Iron Banner.
The practice and the Halo. Let's get to it, guardian, I thought. The time away from family, though sad, was time I might spend improving my game. And I did. To start, I reached Iron Banner level 15 for the first time. And on Friday, no less. And I worked at NLB/sidearm. No surer way to improve aim, perhaps.
Another thing that helped: being gently dragged over to Halo 5 by catstacheinc. Something about the pace, reticle placement and maybe even the framerate of that game, although wildly different from Destiny, helped when going back to Destiny. Plus there's the focus Halo provides. I mean, I'll get matched now and then in Halo against some players who are really good at movement/flanking/coming from strange angles/team movement/etc., but mostly the matches are about shooting well and using spatial awareness to create one-on-one engagements. All very good practice for leaving behind all those loadout, super, ability and kit concerns and instead getting to core gun skill in Destiny.
But what about those loadout, super, ability and kit concerns? Destiny is more than just a core shooting mechanic, of course. And that's what makes it something to think about damn near 24/7. Always something to try, something to strive for, to grind for. Because sometimes, you get one of these:
So after working up some NLB/sidearm/shadestep skill, I went the other direction and worked on closing out my clash and control grimoire wins on my titan. Because if I learned one thing getting matched against Texas Prod in Free-for-all one time (with my utter failure apparently broadcast live on his twitch stream), it's the answer to that age-old question: can juggo/matador/eyasluna Titan can work quite well?
Yes, yes it can.
Since that time alone with the game, I've slipped in direct proportion to my reduced playtime. And what time I do have is low-quality, coming late at night when I ought to rest my medical merry-go-round ridin' ass. And I feel my slippage turning algorithmic as the Rise of Iron end-game content passes me by, light-level-wise.
But there was a moment, there. I had it. Consistency. We shan't see its like again.
Another thing that helped: being gently dragged over to Halo 5 by catstacheinc. Something about the pace, reticle placement and maybe even the framerate of that game, although wildly different from Destiny, helped when going back to Destiny. Plus there's the focus Halo provides. I mean, I'll get matched now and then in Halo against some players who are really good at movement/flanking/coming from strange angles/team movement/etc., but mostly the matches are about shooting well and using spatial awareness to create one-on-one engagements. All very good practice for leaving behind all those loadout, super, ability and kit concerns and instead getting to core gun skill in Destiny.
But what about those loadout, super, ability and kit concerns? Destiny is more than just a core shooting mechanic, of course. And that's what makes it something to think about damn near 24/7. Always something to try, something to strive for, to grind for. Because sometimes, you get one of these:
So after working up some NLB/sidearm/shadestep skill, I went the other direction and worked on closing out my clash and control grimoire wins on my titan. Because if I learned one thing getting matched against Texas Prod in Free-for-all one time (with my utter failure apparently broadcast live on his twitch stream), it's the answer to that age-old question: can juggo/matador/eyasluna Titan can work quite well?
Yes, yes it can.
Since that time alone with the game, I've slipped in direct proportion to my reduced playtime. And what time I do have is low-quality, coming late at night when I ought to rest my medical merry-go-round ridin' ass. And I feel my slippage turning algorithmic as the Rise of Iron end-game content passes me by, light-level-wise.
But there was a moment, there. I had it. Consistency. We shan't see its like again.
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