Are you all still using this excuse as to why you suck at the game? During freelance weekends, everyone who cried about “stacked” teams suddenly started crying about unbalanced matchmaking. There will always be an excuse you kids use for sucking until you realize you are the problem.

They should just get rid of fireteams. Everyone is solo. You get randomly matched with 2 others. There's your fireteam until you leave it.

Freelance like the flawless pool both need to be never considered again. It's not a question of stacks vs solos. It's a skill issue.......one that can mildly be compensated for (if you're relatively fragile) with a MM system that would work. But here's the wrench in the cesspool works. Bungie refuse or can't remove the algorithms that cause that MM system to fail. It's a simple fix on paper. A mental breakdown to pull off in practice no doubt. If anyone's wondering I'm referring to SBMM.....because there are worse options to call for like Freelance and the Prison pool.

I disagree, this will end up having a negative affect on the game mode overall. Trials has always thrived when the playerbase is high, and anything that reduces the player size ends up with sweatier and sweatier matches, this is part of the reason Trials gets to be unbearable towards the end of a season for example. Freelance will incentivize more casual players to play this game mode, which will make non-solo play a worse experience. While this looks good on paper for the solo players, it will ruin the game mode overall. Here's what you want to do to keep Trials fun for all players: 1. Remove the flawless pool. All this does is incentivize casual players to wait until Sunday to play to go flawless ONCE then never again for the weekend. 2. Remove the ability to reset a card that doesn't have a loss. This will remove the ability for sweaty players to farm 1-win cards (or at least require them to intentionally lose games in order to do so). 3. Shower the game mode in loot, not just for wins. Normal Trials loot should drop relatively frequently as a way to incentivize playing the game mode, even if you lose. 3-5-7 wins should be a guaranteed normal drop every card. The fact of the matter is that 50% of players lose their games, and there needs to be an incentive to keep those players playing. 4. Have more Flawless loot. The system from Destiny 1 was great, having an armor set that was exclusive to going flawless for the year, then rotating that armor into the normal loot pool the following year. Just like there needs to be an incentive for casual players, there needs to be an incentive for more hardcore players as well, especially loot that incentivizes going flawless.

If only there was a way you could make a fireteam to play trials with you so that the excuse of solos vs stacks would go away

Agree on all counts, although I will say it doesn’t always put stacks against solos. Only like 80% of the time hahaha. No idea why they don’t just make solo queue permanent, they worry about the matchmaking being slower when I think that every one on the planet would rather have a longer queue time then a poorly match made game. At the very least they could make solo queue more frequent, like every 2-3 weeks instead of every 2 months.