They literally bogged down the game by increasing the frames between scoping weapons, aiming down sights, turning while sprinting, increasing weapon flinch, firing successive shots, and movement has always been clunky when you bump into some tiny piece of geometry and the physics breaks your momentum. The game feels like ass now compared to what it did when it launched.
Yep totally agreed, Bungie has done a lot in the past 3 years to slow down Destiny's gameplay significantly.
Starting with the increase of the general TTK, especially weapons which are meant for close quarters encounters. Then there's them rewarding long range combat and passivity after having a full year of fast paced combat. The slowing down of abilities' speed or their cooldown time (blink has become the laughing stock), the nerfing of exotic armor pieces which enhance the player's speed (Twilight Garrison, Gravitron Forfeit) and lots of maps are just simply too big for 6v6.
I just hope Bungie has their stuff together for the sequel, I liked Y1 (of course stuff like the Vex Mythoclast, SUROS Regime and the Pocket Infinity needed its nerfs) but all it really needed were some Y2 adjustments.
Their design philosophy of "every weapon needs its time to shine" is horrible, make sure everything is competitive, this meta thing needs to die already.
