Wound up reaching rank 4 IB in a day, so I have all the +rep shit for the next time. Which I find funny because there is absolutely nothing in game that tells you these items give you extra rep gain and I have no idea if any other emblems work the same (aside from the required ones to get faction rep that nobody bothers with?) I didn't have the glimmer or the care left to buy the fusion rifle that everyone was one shotting me with though, but at least I have lv30 boots to go with my one raid drop (gloves) And I really hadn't bothered with PVP much up to this point so it was something different.
It started out great but the last hour or two was really rough. Like, constant games against clan groups that actually didn't suck, or games starting 6 v 4, or 5v5 with one guy afk, or 5v4 that we almost won anyway, and so on. I shamefully capped out on loser tokens and ate another loss on top of it. I don't think IB win/loss is tracked but I'm sure it was pretty horrific.
Overall I'd call PVP a laggy unbalanced mess. Hey, we punched each other and only I died. Hey, my grenades just tickle people but theirs one shot me through a wall. Hey, every type of fusion rifle everyone else has one shots me yet mine (the calling) doesn't even fully take down shields. Luckily I nearly never lose a duel with primary weapons, but I have no auto rifle for the bounty. Oh boy, dead during the ridiculously long nova wind up again. Oh, shotguns. Why don't my sniper headshots kill people, because theirs sure do. Odds of any teammates coming with me when I assault a control point: about 1 in fuck you. Hey, if I'm pinning down 5 enemies at C by myself, how come they are still holding B, isn't that where my entire team's skull icons are hanging out? If I hang out at A or C, nobody will ever show up. The moment I leave, captured. You know what, their supers are up and they are using them on me. Always. And their heavy ammo never runs out. They ALWAYS punched first, no matter how long ago you thought you meleed. Autoaim WILL make you 180 grenade/rocket/nova bomb yourself in the face, because fuck you. Your target is one shot from dead? Well how about I swing your gun to point at the guy who just ran in instead. No, you can't disable this. Hey look, the guy with 2 kills and 18 deaths got the legendary again. Congrats on being first place on the loser team, you get nothing. Ten kill streak bounty, when there's a million goddamn things that can one shot you? Good fucking luck with that one, better find yourself a good pussy perch. (if getting 5 streaks counted I'd have it 50 times over, sigh)
But the rest of the time it went pretty well and was a good time. I just got worse and worse as the day went on because I was trying too hard to force a win that wasn't happening because it was that or just stand there jerking off. I'm just too aggressive and even hundreds of hours of battlefield didn't fix that.
But hey, at least I have a few things to actually level again since VOG gives me nothing.