Trials is flooded with top tier players(streamers, recovs, 24/7 grinders) and it feels like that’s the only player base . If you are 1.3kd or below you have almost 0 chance to go flawless. The casuals jump off the map now they don’t even try no more. Some are incentivized to pay real life money to pay recovs because the playlist is so hard. I think it’s real crazy that I can match a team with players who have been flawless 334 times on game 2. Casuals also have no incentive to play long term past endgame bounties. Tokens are too scarce for them, a lot of them can’t get past game 3 and the rewards at the bottom of the card are too little to warrant going in for a second try. Card based matchmaking is a joke. Pushes casuals out and leaves top tiers to all the loot.
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Edited by Artisan: 7/11/2021 4:49:04 PMNot just Trials, there are in effect no casual feeling PvP modes in the game. Comp/elim are the only skill based modes and they are not fun game modes. The Quickplay modes are all without exception, without any SBMM. If Bungie wants a balance of connection priority and actual matchmaking then currently there are no casual experiences available. Skill tiers are of course coming for Trials and then potentially for IB - but the wording was very ambiguous, Bungie-speak, on the latter.