I’m glad that Eruption seems to be landing well with some of Destiny’s more serious PvPers, too. It’s just chaotic, stupid, wacky fun where me and 11 other people fly around and shoot super powers at each other and shoot cool guns, and Eruption is the perfect catalyst for that. I love the Crucible and to my surprise, according to Wasted on Destiny, I’ve spent more time in the Crucible than Strikes and Gambit combined over the lifespan of Destiny 2. It’s the first PvP mode in a video game that I don’t get tilted about when I don’t perform well. It’s less serious than most PvP games, unless you want it to be. It’s the reason I fell in love with Halo in the first place and an extension of how I view Destiny’s Crucible, anyway. I compare Eruption to Halo, not because it reproduces the intense, hyper-competitive modern interpretations the more recent games have taken, but because it reminds me of the sillier custom games of old: This is Juggernaut meets VIP meets Fat Kid all rolled into one bonkers PVP match. I’m playing because I’m enjoying it, not because I care if I win. I’ve seen matches at 90-40 completely turn around and get blown out because of a team’s ability to effectively reset and sweep the legs out from under the other team, and since the mode is so much fun, I rarely even realized it happening. Not to say that’s not the case in other modes, but in Eruption, if you kill the player that has that Primed buff, that kill is worth 3 points, meaning that if you’re Primed and kill an enemy player that’s Primed, you’re scoring your team 6 points – plenty to help make up the difference in a match that starts off a little uneven. This turns Destiny 2’s Crucible into an even more chaotic, aggressive, place where everyone’s kills matter. Primed players glow brightly, they are marked with a waypoint visible to both teams, and their abilities gain an even greater amount of energy after each kill… Oh, and if you go 15 seconds without a kill or dying, you erupt. Once a player has achieved 5 eliminations (kills OR assists), they become Primed. In Eruption, players build stacks of a buff with each kill they get which increases the amount of points each kill is worth, the amount of Ability and Super energy each kill grants, and shares some of those energy boosts with their teammates. For the first time since 2018, we’ve gotten a brand new Iron Banner mode called Eruption, and it’s insanely fun. Of course, last season saw the return of Rift from Destiny 1, but it’s something we’ve had before. It’s been quite a while since Destiny 2 got a truly new PvP mode.

Me and halo reddit