The problem with Trials, and always has been, is that Bungie tried to introduce a tournament style PvP experience inside a PvE game with an engine and servers that cannot emulate tournament requirements. It's like playing a world cup football final on the side of a hill. Another problem is the matchmaking. Instead of having a tier system where teams on equal rungs of the ladder battle it out, Bungie would rather keep the elite happy by matching them with lower skilled teams repeatedly. They tried something a while back, but the top players and streamers complained how sweaty the matches were, so they reversed the decision. This is what has caused the 3rd problem of lack of players. Most casuals who have any sense have stopped playing altogether. So, the small pool of remaining players is made up of the genuine top percent, cheats, and those who are chasing trials gear. You'll always get the "git gud" brigade, and the folks who say " practice and improve", but how can you when the entire experience is broken and one sided? If you are not naturally gifted or do not cheat, you will forever be cannon fodder in trials.

Lol, now the sweats are complaining. This is gorgeous.

[quote]I am a casual player. I can confidently consider myself to be above average, although I’m sure there’s plenty of sweats who will say otherwise. I only really play trials when I want the adept weapon so I have 36 flawlesses. This was the first time the prophet was the adept weapon since the archetype received a massive 30% PvE buff so I wanted to go get a cool PvE roll to make up for the lack of content. I loaded into trials, and I sorely regret doing so. Every single match I fight players with hundreds, sometimes even thousands of flawlesses. The only players I have fought are people who play trials constantly, and players who are cheating, and keep in mind most of these are on game 1. I couldn’t even get to win 3 without having to reset on a mercy card which allows 2 losses for your first flawless. Not only are the players in a complete league of their own compared to me, but this meta is also atrocious. Prismatic is all there is. Almost all of my matches are just filled with prismatic. I have enjoyed beyond light’s stasis trials more than this. Please do not play trials. Edit: people in the comments are proving my point. They’re just gate keeping trials, saying they had no issue going flawless and I just need to get better, meanwhile they have hundreds of flawlesses themselves. Bungie wants more players to go flawless. You shouldn’t need 500+ flawlesses to go flawless. That’s stupid and contradictory.[/quote] Get better just like the rest, there aren’t any handouts, put time in the game, half of yall crying for handouts are literally grown -blam!- adults

Yep. I manage to get thru my persistence card but then can’t play anymore. But I did get the adept outlaw explosive/headstone to drop on my card.

The balancing is terrible. Unwinnable matches so often.

Couldn't have picked a worse weekend to try. Warhammer early access, black ops beta, star wars outlaw early access. Plus there's still alot of players grinding first descendant and playing black myth.

i had a bad day today 😭😭😭 i lost my flawless in two diff cards in last game and i was the only positive with both teammates tanking

The reason it’s so hard for you is the games dying state Last week was one of the lowest weekly trials player counts ever this week will be lower less people play the game less people play trials simple as

Trials population is too low. I watched some streamers match the same team 8 times in 10 games.

I can't even get pass win 1 for two weeks now. Normally I could always get at least 7 wins.

[quote]I am a casual player.[/quote] I'm not quite sure why you're surprised this went the way it went. Lol