Okay, so I've been seeing a lot alotalot of discourse on the topic already. And I quite enjoyed Trials last weekend, and I enjoyed it for the first few hours of this one. But after that, it's really... Poor. And it's a complex web of problems stemming from this idea, of having people who've gone flawless this weekend, only go against other flawless players, who made it to the lighthouse this weekend. First off, let's identify how you go flawless. Simply put, you have to match against a team, that is weaker than your team, seven times in a row. Statistically speaking, if every single match is a dead even team, who's always going to be exactly as good as your team. Then winning seven matches in a row, is impossible. (Statistically speaking, the chance is very low, as you're flipping a fifty fifty coin, seven times, and need it to land on heads every time.) So in order to have people who aren't the top ten percent go flawless, the game mode needs a large player pool, of varying skilled players. This was maintained last week, because weaker players, who had trouble going flawless before, were able to do it because of the increased player pool, that was the biggest change, that made it so popular, and gave it so much success, the revamped reward system led to more players. Trials literally, cannot survive, the concept of flawless cannot survive, without lower skill players playing the game mode. I am not the best (I'm certainly not the worst, there are some... anomalies, out there) but last week I managed to go flawless (for the first time), know what ai did after that? Kept playing trials. Why? Because even after I went flawless there were still great rewards to be earned, and I managed to match up against weaker teams and get those extra engrams you get for winning at seven wins, and enhancement cores and xp. I still had fun, going against casual teams and shooting the -blam!- with my fireteam while we played, we had already gone flawless, and now that we could relax, we could just play, enjoy the game mode, and even end up being the stepping stones for a team to go flawless themselves. So because the rewards are still good, last week, even after reaching flawless, weak and average players, still kept playing, the population of the game mode stayed high,a and players who played later into the weekend, still got flawless, because the weak and average players were still being matchmade against them. With this new flawless matchmaking, bad and average players have NO incentive to keep playing after going flawless. Because they are matched into 0-5 stomp fests against the higher tier players. To simplify, when a weaker, or average player went flawless, they went back in to grind for more engrams, or fill up another card for extra adepts. This weekend, when a weak or average player reaches flawless, they stop playing trials, the pool of average and weak players is smaller, making the chance of "other" weak and average players going flawless, smaller. So you understand how this flawless matchmaking negatively impacts weaker players? It's taking away the casuals, they need to be matchmade up against, in order to win. Not that wins should be handed out, but winning seven matches in a row has a heavy amount of luck, of you not running into a stronger team. (Part of a whole other issue about how obtaining adept pvp weapons is a much more difficult ordeal than pve adepts) Now, onto the sweats. I've seen way too many posts about people ragging on higher tier players because. "They just wanna pubstomp cause they're selfish" don't act like if you could what they do, that you wouldn't. Get off your high horse. Sweaty players do indeed enjoy a challenge, it's why they sweat. I myself enjoy having my skills tested, my limits pushed, and I'm brought to the brink where I have to use everything I've learned to win a close match. But doing that EVERY. SINGLE. MATCH. Is freakin' tiring. Your brain is a muscle, using it, thinking, consumes calories. Having to leave a puddle under your chair from perspiration every match. Is exhausting. Remember how I said that after I went flawless last week I continued to play, because I didn't need to sweat, and could casually farm rewards with my friends? Believe or not, sweats are human beings too. They also want to do that, the problem is, with flawless matchmaking pools. They can't, they can't play casually. Because if they're not giving their one hundred percent every match, they will lose. And because weaker and average players stop playing after flawless, the only people in flawless matchmaking pools, are other sweats who are also suffering from the same thing I just described. How do you avoid this problem, where every game is a crusade against the enemy team that drains all your mental resources? Oh right, don't go flawless. Enter the big problem. Every time a weak or average player goes flawless, the player pool decreases, because they don't want to keep playing after flawless. So because there's no weak or average players in flawless matchmaking, what do sweats have to do in order to play casually? Play in the kiddie pool. And don't tell me that they sweat every match, there's no way that's casual. I played Titanfall 2. There was a point, where I got good enough, that while casually playing, and watching a YouTube video, and texting a friend on the side. I'd absolutely mollywop the entire lobby without even paying attention. And I got hatemail calling me a sweaty try hard, but I wasn't try harding, the game had become second nature. That pubstomp was me going easy. I'm not trying to brag(Though please feel free to be impressed. Or just don't believe me idrc). I'm trying to say, what looks like training for the destiny Olympics and basement dwelling goblins who's hands are glued to their input device, might just be someone not even trying very much. That's not to insult anyone, that's just the facts, some people are "that" good. I'm saying this to give perspective, because I hate seeing unnecessary toxicity, and bs, ina game I love so much. But back to my point before I started talking about Titanfall. Those really good players who want to play trials casually, don't go flawless, so slowly, as the weekend goes on, and weak, and average players go flawless, the population pool in non flawless matchmaking becomes less filled with casuals who have trouble going flawless, and more filled with sweats who "could" go flawless, but don't want to because then they can't play the game mode casually anymore. But they still want the casual trials loot, like reputation and engrams Tldr:Flawless matchmaking lowers the amount of people playing trials, which in turn, lowers the overall quality of the game mode.