Ok, I know dmg responded to this.
https://youtu.be/liCwNA2btTI
We also have honest and thoughtful feedback from Paul tassi at Forbes.
https://twitter.com/paultassi/status/1244262724059742210?s=21
The average players are deserting trials, yes it’s an end game pvp mode but the game mode is dying. I implore you to come out especially in this week at bungie but also on every social media platform and let your community know your working on a fix.
Look, no one is expecting free loot or easy visits to the lighthouse, but as the company has said many times in its history “we need to respect players time in the game” asking players to compete vs the top 5% of players and get nothing for there time investment is the core reason of why players are quitting trials.
With that out of the way, solutions.
1. The token problem.
The number one fix in my humble opinion is to do one of the following.
• let players carry over tokens from week to week AND remove the three win requirement to turn in tokens (same issue as the iron banner token turn in problem). OR.
• completely remove the token system and go back to the d1 system of complete RNG end of game drops.
If we’re going with the token system, by all means reward flawless players by giving as many tokens from the lighthouse chest as you like, I suggest 60 (x2 engrams worth) and give 4-5 tokens for a game win and an rng 1-3 for each match lost. Rewarding players time.
Next. I doubt it’s fixable but anti cheat on pc needs looking at, the complaints from pc players continue to role in daily, just from my personal Twitter alone I can see it’s an issue with many of your favoured twitch streamers calling out problems each week, I more than understand how challenging this situation must be but more needs to be done, at the very least come out and let the community know how many accounts/players you’ve banned so far for example, if players see, let’s say, 2000 bans have been made since trials came out I think players would respect how big of a task it is.
Next. A solo only playlist just like the hugely successful comp playlist.
While it could hurt the matchmaking times for fill teams Im positive it would be a net positive over all. Solo players come in, branch out and at least get tokens then some of those form teams and go into the main player pool. Does your data support this with comp? If not, let us know why a solo playlist won’t work in the TWAB. Communicate with us.
Matchmaking.
Always a touchy subject but if you want more players to take part, it’s time to address the huge issue with lop sided matches. Currently (especially with 3 won farming high skilled players) the game mode hugely and disproportionately punishes lower skilled players, high skill teams cruise through the opening 5 games and then get 1-2 intense matches on the back end of the card. Lower skilled players have to “sweat” every single game/round. It’s an unfair system.
Changes. Each day I’d want the first card players have to be a free for all just like now, match anyone play anyone. But once those highly skilled players have gone to the lighthouse they are removed from the general player pool for that day. At reset it starts fresh until flawless. The reward for making the lighthouse from the second player pool of only flawless players would be adept weapons. (I know bungie is worried that sbmm makes win streaks impossible, but put it out for a three month season as a trial, gather feedback and have this system in place to help)
Brand new system for trials.
This system would work alongside the current one.
Win 7 game= lighthouse.
But on top there is, call it a catch up mechanic, there is a point system 0-100, every game awards you 5 points. If you win even one round 1-5 from a skilled team then even though your team looses the game, you can still play on and earn rewards. If over the course of a trials weekend you play enough games and take enough rounds from more skilled opponents then you could still unlock the 3-5–and 7th win reward, but not the lighthouse. This point system could then be used for the flawless vs flawless matches as well.
Over all please address these issues.
Thanks for your time.
Jelly x
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1 Reply[quote]The reward for making the lighthouse from the second player pool of only flawless players would be adept weapons.[/quote] Then what would be the point of Flawless the first time? If they did that; forced me to go Flawless not once but TWICE then I'd absolutley not play the game-mode.