For anyone worried that these changes to Checkmate will permanently change a fun mode you enjoy, we wanted to clarify our intentions for the current round of Checkmate tuning:
While it is not our intention to make the original Checkmate into the core PvP experience, we are experimenting with the current iteration of Checkmate to gather data, lessons, and feedback we can use to eventually tune the base PvP sandbox.
Things like primary weapon balance, special ammo economy, and ability uptime are easier to alter in a single modifier, which gives us freedom to iterate quickly. The goal of all these changes is to make a more skilled, more deliberate sandbox that retains the Destiny magic.
Later in the season, once we have tuned the base PvP sandbox, we will continue developing Checkmate as a standalone modifier. We plan to lean further into its identity as a more tactical, gunplay focused mode going back to no starting special and higher reduction of abilitie...
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