Trials is the Worst It Has Ever Been

[Aurummorituri]

Almost 20 hours of grinding trials and never got past three wins as a solo, duo, or LFG fireteam. Cheaters with random roll snipers taking your head off point blank, stacked clans every first match, and toxic paid carries bagging us because their e-hookers got the kills for them. There are no "easy" games ever. My decent fireteam lost eight first matches in a row, half of those were 0-5. Check their stats? Dozens of Flawless runs. Just chilling in the NFP pool to farm noobs.

What the f is this mAtChMaKiNg?! We were destroyed by the same cracked toxic carry freaks twice in a row. Face it: there is NO matchmaking other than flawless/non-flawless. Go in solo and you aren't against other solos. You face duos. Go in as a duo face cracked duos and full fireteams. Go in as a fireteam and get rolled by sweats reset farming their cards to stay in the non-flawless pool instead of getting their gun and pissing off. All that for some lousy 59-stat armor and a few "meh" guns. Still not high enough to claim the "free" SMG. You only get 4XP for getting destroyed instead of 40XP.

This really needs a rework. Bring back actual FREELANCE matchmaking with no cancer carry services infecting it and maybe some of that MMR to stop LFG buddies from matching Frostbolt-level buddies. Also a guaranteed Adept weapon for completing the XP track(hundreds of lost games) to incentivize the meat to stay in the grinder would be a nice touch. Otherwise I and many others will not touch this cancerous game mode ever again. It's not worth it in any way. It's only frustration, disrespect, and hours of wasted lifespan.

[Darth Bane]

Trials is just a poorly designed game mode. Seven teams have to fail for one to win. It's just begging to be abused as much as possible by the players.

[Vanessa]

I've found it super easy, i've managed to go flawless both solo and duo 4 times with relative ease.

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I mean, what do you expect? Trials is horribly designed. It relies on being unfair to function. Think about it - if every match was a fair 50/50% chance of winning the chances of you going flawless on a non-mercy passage is an incredibly low 0.781% chance. A passage of mercy raises this to 3.125%. Combine this with Destiny pvp already being a complete joke only taken seriously by the most delusional of individuals and you have a truly terrible mode where people dip out the moment they get the items they want.

[Oku]

Y'all begged for years for Trials, an end-game PvP mode designed around coordinated groups playing together in voice calls in a skill gauntlet to see how many matches they could consistently win in a row before they needed to improve as a team more in order to advance further and was largely considered to be Crucible's equivalent of Raiding, to have matchmaking added in so you could get the shiny black and gold guns without having to work together with people.

This is what you get.

Be thankful that god rolled trials weapons and gear drop via engrams now regardless of winning or losing.