"We’ve seen you backing out of matches on final approach in your ships because you saw formidable opponents on the other team. That tactic could earn you a restriction from future Trials of Osiris events. Please stick it out and fight – even if you know you’re about to be visited by tourists from the Lighthouse." - DeeJ, Weekly Update 6/4/15
I don't give a -blam!-. I don't owe that other team my time. I don't owe them my ass to stomp.
If [i]your[/i] matchmaking system pushes me against a group that severely, [i]obviously[/i] outclasses my group of guys that has yet to get to the Lighthouse, I don't - nor does anybody else - [i]owe[/i] them our deaths.
Our penalty is on our card in the form of the loss we take. If you have a problem with people backing out of these matches, [i]then don't count them as a Win for the other team[/i].
Trials of Osiris has some serious design flaws. [i]Solve them.[/i]
UPDATE: I should have edited this sooner, I apologize. I am aware of the Change Character exploit some folks may have been doing to avoid a loss. I was admittedly fuzzy on this issue when I initially posted. I believe a lot of my argument still stands, however, and, as others have noted in their replies, Trials of Osiris needs something done to its matchmaking. A simple step in matching Lighthouse Veterans to other Lighthouse Veterans, for instance, would do loads of good in evening the competition by placing the Proven against the Proven, and the Aspiring against the Aspiring.
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What's worse is I'll be on a killer streak and have all of the Trials supplies. My team will be confident and strong and then we get matched with the sweatiest MLG Mountain Dew drinking Dorito eating kids I've ever seen. We'll take the loss like men. They were obviously better and it doesn't go on our scorecard anyway. However, the next match will be just as bad. We lose, we're beaten down at this point. Then the next match is as if we got paired with people who hold the controller upside down. It's like Trials is designed to make my team fail. I hate stomping noobs all day, but I hate getting MLG720NOSCOPED even more. I want a fair trial. I want fair matchmaking. My team hasn't given up on Trials yet, but I feel like I already have.