The blueprint to fix solo PvE already exists. The legendary campaigns are the level of difficulty the rest of the game should be solo. And then when you add more people to your fireteam it gets progressively harder. But they don't want to do that because their original vision was that people would learn to group up, make friends, join clans, etc. They wanted a social game. Unfortunatley social and gaming don't go together. That's why they have literally never done a single thing for clans. Because hardly anyone is in them and the even the ones who participate in them are in mostly dead clans. It's why they never bothered making in game LFG and social tools. Because the vast majority of people don't want to group up. I don't think it even has anything to do with toxicity. It's the simple fact that most people don't care to have random, meaningless conversations with strangers on the internet while they play a video game. But given that Bungie's ego is massive, they will never just admit the game failed socially, and just build it out properly to support solo play which is what everyone is already doing regardless. Honestly, joining and LFG team to do a dungeon or a raid a few times a week isn't really even being social either. The people who do join do so begrudgingly and the goal is to get whatever the activity is done as fast as possible. As far as PvP goes, it's mostly about making sure people win enough to feel incentivized to stay in the playlists. They have all but admitted this. As a solo player you can't overcome the 50% win ratio. Even the best players in the world can't. Whether or not this helps that dying list stay somewhat afloat, I don't know? It will be interesting to see if Marathon pulls away PvP players and what Destiny could look like without them. I don't think Marathon will be successful though and I think all those PvP players who try and leave will be back shortly. And they will just continue to play and complain about Destiny's PvP which hasn't really been touched with any level of significance in years. All that to really say Destiny is NOT worth playing solo. If you don't have actual friends who want to play and play a lot, this is a terrible game to get hooked on by yourself.

Its always been a problem, they dont care and are not fixing it. I play solo as well and all the good stuff requires a fire team and 5hrs of free time. Dont get me wrong good stuff should be hard to get but not take hours on hours and a fireteam to get. I just stopped playing hahahaha

I hate to break it to you, but you just need to get good. Based on your stats you die almost twice as much as you kill. As a solo player myself I don’t have this problem that much. It is truly a skill issue. The good news? If you get better, crucible won’t be so horrible. [spoiler]nibbles crayon[/spoiler]

First, I agree with you on the loot. There needs to be better loot incentives for below average players in trials. This has long been a request and it’s sad that Bungie won’t truly address it in a meaningful way. Second, sorry man but if you have the time to go through a whole trials card, you absolutely have the time to interact with other people or find a clan of people to play with. You complete raids , dungeons, and grandmasters in the same amount of time as a trials card. This “I don’t have time” excuse isn’t valid. Third, on the matchmaking point, hard disagree. Sorry bud, but if you aren’t good enough to go flawless that’s ok. It’s not for everyone, and it shouldn’t be. If you aren’t good enough to get out of silver in comp, you aren’t good enough to go flawless. Bungie already hands out participation trophies like candy, and it has to stop somewhere. It’s the same in PVE. Not everyone is good enough to complete a grandmaster or solo a dungeon, and that’s okay, too. You need to invest the time to get better at PvP or honestly just stop expecting to go flawless. Play to get to 50 round wins, and then do something else. Or heck, pay for a carry if you want to. However, stop whining at Bungie because you aren’t good enough to compete something in the game. Imagine doing this in real life: “Hey, I pay for a ticket to my pro sports team’s games, so I should be able to suit up and play!” It’s honestly ridiculous. I don’t know where this entitled attitude comes from I. This community, but God, does it suck. Just because you buy the game, doesn’t mean you should be handed end game stuff.

"Not interested in LFG" then it's a YOU issue. You have the means and decide not to use them, your problem, get lost.

Dont like it, dont play it. Otherwise keep playing it and getting -blam!- e d

Matchmaking is terrible. Example of one of my last 6v6 matches below. Matchmaking for 10 solo players along with one team of two that was put in my team. Combat Efficiency scores below. Opposition Player1 2.0 Player2 2.8 Player3 7.0 Player4 2.13 Player5 2.4 Player6 2.5 My Team Player1 0.69 Player2 0.8 Player3 0.67 Me 2.67 Player5 1.33 Player6 0.5

Matchmaking almost strictly enforces that 4-6 stacks play against other 4-6 stacks but that enforcement doesn’t apply exist for duos/trios for some reason. And in 3-man pvp modes, sweats that are too scared to play against sweaty trios will instead play strictly as a duo. Solution to this problem: -Ban duo queueing in 3v3 modes -Ban 5 stack queuing in 6v6 modes -Strictly enforce that both teams have equally sized fireteams (after extended queue, smaller fireteams can fill such as 2 duos instead of another 4 stack) *This is a superior system compared to freelance or how it currently is, for 6v6 at least. *Practice pool in trials and sbmm in control/ib also needs to go

In pvp solo players do suffer, sweat teams don't want freelance because they dontvwant to keep facing people just as good as them

Play hunter use a shotgun

If your win rate isn’t under 30% you are not a solo pvp player