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7/10/2021 8:37:24 PM
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Trials is not for casuals in any capacity
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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16 RepliesEdited by michael: 7/11/2021 10:44:43 AMFor the people who say "ITS NOT FOR CASUALS GIT GUD!" you have to realize that if you abandon casual players the playlist dies, plain and simple. Why was trials so good in D1? Because sooooo many people played it. Any slightly above average player could go flawless with some luck and good teamwork because the whole playerbase was playing every weekend so 90% of your games were against other average players. In d2, there is truly no reason to step foot in the playlist if you cant go flawless, so every game is against stacked sweat teams, service streamers, recovs, people who use meta, or cheaters. Not often do you match people who are truly average at the game and are a free win because people like that just have no reason to play. If trials is ever going to improve it needs to have more appeal to casuals in order to populate the playlist more and make the matchmaking more reasonable, which makes the experience better for everyone. It is a self fulfilling prophecy. The more people who play, the better the matchmaking is and the more fun the mode is.
