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On May 24, 2022, Bungie renewed Destiny 2 for Season 17 (Season of the Haunted). Following the release of Season 17, the Iron Banner event changed its mode from Control to Rift.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) While bringing back a mode from the original Destiny isn't the worst idea in the world, this event completely sucks out everything that made the Rift mode from said game fun and makes it a chore to play. For example, instead of continous play after a team scores, both teams now respawn back at their bases after a loading screen.
 * 2) Lots of balancing issues that are also in Destiny 2 entirely are rampant here. It's too easy to either get entirely crushed by an enemy team six-stack or be the one rolling faces, and to make matters worse, you can't go into solo queue if you want to play with another friend.
 * 3) Attempting to pick up the ball in the middle of a map is a chore. It has a long interaction button press that can easily be interrupted.
 * 4) Lots of bugs and glitches are rampant in this mode. The most notable examples are objectives disappearing and teams getting locked in a respawning cycle that makes a match unwinnable.
 * 5) The in-game messaging is so unclear that the player needs a guide to explain what an Iron Banner Daily Challenge is.
 * 6) It is easy to be stuck on step 5 of the Forging Iron intro quest with no progress being made towards the goal.
 * 7) The rewards are very overpriced, costing 100 Legendary Shards just to focus one item.

Reception
Upon release, the new event was met with extremely negative reception from players and Destiny 2 fans due to the lack of rewards and all of the issues above.

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