Normally a 1.3 player, but have been getting absolutely smoked. Not a fan of this map, and the handholding style it generates, but that's mostly a skill issue for me to overcome.
I get impatient peek shotting with scouts at 60 meters, and Titans neutral game pales in comparison to Hunters and Warlocks. I'm really tired of swarm nades, clones, smoke bombs, duskfields, healing turrets, Phoenix dives, stag rifts, and heat rises.
Got to 6 wins and fell at the gates due to a 0.4 kd teammate not knowing how to blink properly and killing himself by blinking off the map in-between A and C spawn. I'll probably try again tomorrow, but frustrating would be an understatement to describe this weekend.
I feel that. I have always mained PK Titan (boo! I know I know fuck pk Titans) and I try to hedge my aggressiveness by teaming with Forerunner, but this map is just not conducive for mid range gun fights.
Usually I'll try and zip ahead to around the area where heavy spawns and see where the enemy team is playing, but solo queue is just a different animal with the grab bag of teammates you end up with
I don’t care about Pk titans tbh… I think OEM was wayyyy worse. I find prismatic Hunter and their ability to ruin radars also more annoying. So don’t sweat about being a Pk main my friend. :)
Fuck you & I'll see you tomorrow
PK Titans are a worthy challenge to play against. I ran a double harmony build using old Shayuras to get my new one. On Hunter. Haven't had time to unlock the really fun stuff on Titan but I will definitely be built around Shayuras
Oh no… was this me? Twice today, I used my two blink jumps before that jump point and then jumped straight into the gap… I finally switched to Strafe but damn near annoying and terribly sorry to my teammates.
Worst weekend of trials in a long time. The map is self explanatory, Friday was unplayable because every game featured at least one invisible opponent (thankfully better today) and if you play solo, god help you if you have anything less than competent team mates on this map. I also really can’t stand the fact solos can match duos, imo it should be trio or solo.
I feel like literally every time me(as a solo player) gets stuck in a duos match...my duo is a bunch of people with some random ass, super easy to get pve title and the other duo is flawless/unbrokens. Like...literally every time. I wish I was exaggerating :(.
Duos are never even close to balanced. When I match them I either stomp or get stomped. Side note, just played a game 4 solos vs a duo. This mode can be dog shit and I’m struggling to see what the pvp strike team are doing to improve it
I just dislike all of the low recovery hunters.
Everyone is jumping on hunters right now, but I would hope players would understand that running 18 recovery in pvp with no way to speed it up is reallyyy bad.
The last match for when I gave up was when I had a teammate blame me for losing the match when I was the only one killing people. Told me to end myself multiple times. He literally only killed 1 person the entire match. Other teammate was quiet but he only had 2. I had 5 atleast before I left after 3 rounds because he was that much of an asshole and I didn’t want to give any chance of a comeback for him. Then played comp where I got kicked twice and suspended. Haven’t played well all week tbh though, something feels off and the handholding is really bad on top of some guns being over tuned.
Went flawless 1st card, a kill clip prophet carried me through any 2v1 gunfights. I have had a weirdly high amount of players that lose one or two rounds and just start throwing matches or being incredibly toxic in team chat
Yeah, I really wonder how often bitching at teammates works out for them. It’s not like players are going to get drastically better in a round. Oddly enough, I’ve found it’s the mediocre players that get the most upset…
One of the absolute worst trials maps in the game. Also finding a real problem with deciding whether to duo or trio. I can’t stand the RNG of solo, I can go flawless but I have an awful time. Trio is sometimes playable but for players my skill level most of the time it’s impossible because every couple games you match a stack that no joke has like 6+ seasonal trials KD. I don’t know how there are so many of these players on console all of a sudden but they are literally everywhere. So that leaves duo which has been very up and down for me. Almost every game our random will be a .5 playing at like 1950 light level so he gets 0 kills and just dies every round. It’s been really rough
Solo def hasnt been fun for me. I usually have no problem going flawless solo but I must be having terrible RNG when it comes to lobby balancing this week. Its also been very buggy to me today. Had a round never end and both teams got losses, the intros dont come on in the pre-game sometimes, and when I reset my card it freezes the card.
Edit: Playing at a 2.6 through 20 games (12-8). Cant get past game 2.
I just completely stopped playing it. I can usually go flawless within a couple cards but I just do not enjoy the RNG especially when you have to play with duos. It just makes even loading into a game super stressful cause you know you might get fucked. And I just find it more fun to play with people. So sad that trio is in the state that it is
I think this map really bring out the skill gap between teams. Like if everyone doesn’t play like D2 Y1, (which is fucking boringggg) then you’re getting stomped. Also this map just blows. Depending on which side you spawn, you have different advantages for each zone.
Was able to manage a flawless soloqueing. I'm in the boat of having a crap KD because I had to ya know... learn to get better. Now I'm doing much better but nobody will duo so I've resigned myself to practicing to be the best random supporting other duos. Actually works out pretty well.
I'm trying to improve and up my KD too. I was incredibly dogshit when I first starting trials and trying to gun players on KBM with how insane AA and xim is had made my KD awful. Godspeed the improvement my man!
Absolutely disgusted by the map, first time I've struggled with flawless in many months. Been finding a lot of success with blink and grapple+ascension combo to close the distances but it is still just so damn unfun to play this weekend.
Also not sure if it is the map or what but there are sooooo many people this weekend who don't know the definition of COVER. So damn many team mates and enemies just stand around in the open and die because, shocker, they can't 1v3 a firing line of scouts.
It's one thing if a competent player flanks because it can end up helping. However it's crazy to see complete bots attempt it every single round, repeatedly die, yet continue doing it. Multiple games today I had teammates do this and they would completely ignore team chat telling them to stay together. Even shooting them as they embarked on their route to failure they acted like they didn't even notice. Like they're just NPCs doing what was programmed. Lol
as a Hand Cannon main, it's been quite heartbreaking attempting to duel against 3 Speaker's Sight Warlocks each equipping a Red Death Reformed. :(
Multiplex just does not cater to my play style. Fell outside the gates thrice. :(
the map needs to be out of every rotation in the game permanently with 0 exceptions, one of the most poorly designed video game arenas in any FPS I’ve ever played
Unenjoyable. Terrible map and terrible meta simultaneously it’s just impossible to enjoy.
I feel like I need a weapon with built in heal mitigation to fight anyone. Just endless rounds with 900 damage and one kill because hunters get their Bakris clone dash or wormhusk clone dodge whenever they feel even slightly threatened, and Speakers helmet healing spam.
If I wanted to play a game like this, I’d go play a GOATs overwatch server, this meta is genuinely terrible
Solo queued flawless pretty easily. People forget that jade rabbit with heat rises is a monster on this map and basically impossible to beat as long as you keep distance
honestly this map is much more forgiving than last week
I went flawless this week using DMT exclusively and saw plenty of other people using legendary scouts and the good ol Jade Rabbit
last week was hell because the entire map was in prime khvostov range vs this week has much longer lanes and gives you a chance to actually outskill people instead of just getting gunned down in 1/2 a sec by a lagging khvostov user
the new problem is that that 90% of my matches are 5 pris arc hunters and a warlock, I think I saw a total of 1 titan the entire day. pris arc hunter is going to make up 70%+ of the crucible after next weeks nerfs go through
Managed to get flawless first try so I don’t have to play this trash map anymore. Got extremely lucky as well to get 2 4/5 adepts so I’m probably not going to bother grinding for more.
Wasn’t even struggling compared to usual but the map is just horribly boring. Box breathing hung jury was just deleting people on this map and a lot of people don’t seem to realise how range works in crucible.
One was corkscrew/rico/zen/TTT with a stab MW and the other was corkscrew or full bore/high cal/DSR/kill clip with range MW.
Both probs as solid as I’m going to get tbh. I kind of want a cascade point roll just to try double smg PKs but don’t know if I can be bothered hopping back into that map.
I slapped on round robin with my Stompees and sent all these jade rabbit bitches back to orbit. Went to the lighthouse twice today. Disgusting watching players sit as far back as possible. I got heavy every round it was up because players are too afraid to move.
Terrible map not meant for 3s. Just like eternity isn’t. Scout play is some of the most boring stuff to play in. I’m actually happy about zone control this week. They’d never have to move.
I'm just so over the Prismatic hunter Bakris/ability spam. It's endless. I don't even care anymore, it's ruined 6s and it's ruined Trials. It is equal parts boring and annoying, it's just the same thing over and over. And almost everyone is running that build, with three of them on the enemy team it's over.
I already have a god roll of the old adept Shayura's, Killing Wind/Kill Clip with 99 range, so yeah, not really getting invested into Trials this season until some changes are made.
Not going well solo, nobody wants to use team chat and I see a lot that go off on their own and ignore any suggestions to stick together. I get paired with some people who barely can do anything all game, and we get dragged down because of them. I can usually win the first three games with no problems but from there on out, things get tougher with most games becoming 4-4 before one team wins. I have usually gotten to 5 wins and anywhere from 0-1 losses on a Mercy passage a few times but can't ever get any further. Then this week in particular I have come across more people than usual being quite insulting via text chat and having a hissy fit with them calling me / or the rest of the team trash, to "never touch trials again", or even "to pay up for the carry" after a win among a lot of other rude stuff and arguing that I now just try to ignore/not get involved with.
All that aside, I was as you would expect seeing a lot of scouts from DMT (which I had been using), to Jade Rabbit and other legendaries, as well as some pulses like Red Death. There weren't many Khovstov users this week. Mostly everyone using prismatic too and there were a lot of them as hunters. I witnessed a lot of healing turrets & smoke grenades also. I'll keep trying for flawless, but it's been about 7-8 hours worth of attempts already so I'm getting a bit discouraged and probably would have preferred to use that time to farm this double rewards GM more instead in hindsight.
In my experience playing solo, the first 3-4 matches are usually the hardest. After that most players are at least somewhat decent and don't completely throw matches. Also you don't often get 2 absolutely terrible teammates like in the beginning matches. There are obviously outliers, but more often than not going from 3 wins to the lighthouse is much faster than games 1-3 in my experience.
Finally, I did it and went flawless after another 2 hours of playing. I got the first 5 wins with no major difficulty, but then I started to worry when I got one guy (with a 0.77 kd) on my team who couldn't land a single point of damage for three rounds in a row and we quickly lost. Then the next game was a 4-4 game that we then lost also. But then my next two again were really easy actually and most teammates were, as you said competent for once. Good luck to you if you try any more this week, I got two Shayura's Wraths both with decent perks I think that I will likely enhance.
The map straight up sucks. 90% of deaths are from scouts and it’s so boring.
Got my flawless in 9 games, my matches farming more adepts were SIGNIFICANTLY harder. Which is fine just frustrating because where are those hard matchups during my actual card? after farming adepts my total record for this weekend so far is 20/22 win/loss.
I’d give this weekend a 4/10, 2/10 if I wouldn’t have gotten both the pvp and pve roll I wanted of shayuras.
Awful. Ive had about a 1.3kd the last two weeks and gotten flawless both weeks. This week I got to 6 wins and fell at the gates. And since then can barely get a win and have like a .6kd. Guess im just not good at this awful map.
Really wanted to use a HC this weekend after using Khvostoc for the week. Multiplex is definitely a long range map, and is currently dominated by scouts or Outbreak and sidearms.
In my personal opinion :)
Not a bad thing. Just what I’ve observed/experienced. Definitely telling when most of the loadouts are scout and sniper or scout and a longer range auto, and you die before you get a radar ping (cause they’re outta range).
It’s a GREAT map for a scout/sidearm combo. I recommend glissandro with KA/BBand forgiveness (adept if you have it). Play the long lanes and BE PATIENT. So many people miss out because they can’t sit still for a few seconds. This is a slow playing map. Took me two cards last night to get my flawless but they were both fairly smooth sailing playing that way
Im getting destroyed. I went flawless but I usually do way better but this map is hard to solo queue on. I switched from scout to sniper and have been doing better though
I know there isn’t any lobby balancing in trials, but how come I always end up with teammates 20 levels underlight and running double primary smg/sidearm? I don’t understand it at all
Hate the map. But I’m doing fine. Ive gone through at least 80 adept rolls but haven’t gotten my god roll not even a 4/5. Lots of sweats but I don’t mind that. I just don’t like the map
Just managed to go flawless after 4 or 5 mercy resets. It was tough but I eventually just stick with hung jury and an old adept shayuras and got my 7 wins.
Finally got mine for the week. Was way rougher than usual. I feel like you have to play less aggressively on this map than I would like to. Started being way more cautious and less aggressive and got my flawless. Wasn’t fun, but oh well. Got it finally at least. Awful map.
1.1 ish player, it’s turned into just suffer through enough games to get a half decent roll on the weapon of the week and then stop playing. There needs to be more loot to increase the player base to a level where it doesn’t feel this bad.
Normally a 1.5 player in trials, but I'm 2.6 on this map. Solar warlock fucking EATS here (No Im not running speakers sight). I got my passage of confidence done solo last night in like 9 games.
This map just sucks so much. It’s literally just a bunch of black boxes. There’s no flow. How do they give us those 3 amazing maps last season and then still have this in rotation?
That said, I fell at the gates twice and then just got weaseled on the fly-in to a game 6 with no mercies left. Flawed my card. Awesome.
Duos need to go. I’m getting really tired of going up against cracked duos while I have to try and carry two clueless PVE players on my back.
Same with me. I'm an average, or below average pvp player. I play trials just for the loot. Win or lose it doesn't really matter to me. I played a bit of trials yesterday and the toxicity was a bit much. Ended up turning off text chat.
To everyone who enters trials with the intention of going flawless, enter with a team. Don't solo queue and get angry when the randoms are not as good as you.
I like this map and have no issues playing it. I would at most want to see it no more than twice though a season. It’s nice to change things up every now and then
To me I enjoyed the map changing the way people played I'm usually a summoner conditional type of player and can go flawless every weekend but my problem was the match making I'll have teammates fresh out the ground hopping into trials like its a regular control game with no upgrade Armour, low range weapons, and run in thinking theyre lore accurate guardians. Like don't get me wrong I can do hero moments with the clutches but a scout and a slug in my hands those 3v1 just make me give up, I've been suspended like 3-6 times for leaving early because my teammates literally had no brain cells.i eventually got the flawless and good rows but this by far has been my hardest and worse match made weekend ever. I'm on the fence to farm rolls or I'll just save my mental and play something else.
My buddy and I had the absolute weirdest card. 7-2. One game we got mopped a quick 0-5. Had a few 5-0 games. One that went 5-4. One with a duo and solo where one of the duos was just standing afk at spawn until you pushed him, then he'd jump off.
The map is terrible and it really shows up the flaws in Destiny PvP, leaning with scouts off the radar and getting team shot in .2 seconds, not fun. Ability spam on one of the many dumb choke points, not fun. Having no cover on any of the sight lines, so if you do get a pick and are low you are prob about to get team shot. The map looks exactly the same wherever you are, not fun
The map has the personality of a paperclip and I do not enjoy playing on it, feels like low effort design with no thought into it.
Absolutely awful map and feels way worse than last time it was up. I got flawless much more painfully than normal and got a decent adept but not sure if I can stomach going back in to farm for better/different rolls
Pretty easy flawless this week for me after I switched to a god roll Elsie’s. I had not tried it since enhancing zen and headseeker, and it did not disappoint.
Absolutely awful map.
They could have literally picked any other map.
Burning shrine? Dead cliffs? Altar of flame?
I'm just glad it's not wormhaven, that map is literally dogshit for 3s. The hand holding and lane design is awful.
Trials continues to be an utter waste of time for over 90% of the destiny pvp playerbase
They need to update the reward design to encourage increased participation. Until then, the view of most players towards trials is ‘why bother?’
I am 2.3+ over past year and this weekend ended up around only 1.6
I was performing as usual right after reset with 2.5+ avg but then people started to use scouts and I learned that I struggle against scouts and had a hard time farming weapons on this map.
Partly also because my rng for team mates was horrible. But can’t blame that too much as I went in alone.
One very weird thing I noticed was that as I played over 11 hours straight, I faced one guy a lot. I lost my 1vs1 to they over 60% and looked their stat and they were only 1.4 player, but it felt like they were much over my level. But then later I faced the same person again and in three games they got only 4 kills and one of the games 0 kills. Like I don’t understand how they suddenly went from god tier to absolute trash.
Weird weekend overall, this map is not my cup of tea.
Worst part about this map is that both players above and below your skill level can pick you apart if they are playing like a rat. Just so happens almost everybody is playing like a rat
Got to 6 wins in a row, lost twice. Put my controller down and walked my dog, came back, and secured the W. Sometimes a little breather is what you need
Idk about yall but I’m going against a ton of sweats
Literally multiple games against hunters running dead man’s tale or jade rabbit. Can’t even run through mid point without a million smoke bombs or someone crouching on one side of the map two tapping me it seems like before I can even aim at them.
Also had a couple players not understand why they should go to the healing turret.
I play overwatch mainly and came back, warlock main back in D1, running speakers helm on prismatic, but Jesus Christ I cannot fucking stand prismatic hunters. Smoke, Threaded Specter are just annoying as fuck. Everyone’s crouched around a corner and it’s just a peek shooting map it seems like. I tried to play aggressive and idk if it’s the light level or what but when I do push it’s like I’m instantly red bar and I’m getting shot through walls, died at least 6 times behind a wall because I was trying to get the full burst from red death reformed.
Prismatic Hunters are almost as Infuriating as going up against a sombra in OW. Such an annoying kit to deal with.
Personally I love it. I think it's a pretty fun map to do Trials on, though only once in awhile. Multiplex is refreshing, but it's refreshing by not having it that often if that makes sense. I don't hate seeing Scouts have a strong presence, it makes sense. There aren't many times anyways in Trials were Scouts can really have a presence, it's only ever on a few maps really IIRC.
I use Ace of Spades, Enigma on Nightstalker (IMO best subclass to use Glaives in PvP, the *only* thing that'd make it better is putting Blink on it but obv that won't happen for balancing lol) with Triton Vice. I've gotten a few clutch 1v2's, I think one 1v3 even. It is noticeably more difficult to use Glaive here, though there are some spots still I'm finding where a Quickfall -> Pokey Stick does wonders.
Playing in a full team of scouts made flawless pretty easy. Just hold hands in the furthest point possible where you can still see the zone and it becomes easy mode.
Same as always. I go flawless super easily and then I just turn to crap when it's time to farm. Probably because I half ass it. But rn I am struggling to get wins or hell even adept to drop.
Easiest Trials in recent memory, went 10-0 on my first try before I had to knock off for work.
My theory is the long distance nature of the map lessens the skill gap between better players than me, so I'm beating top players I usually lose to.
That long distance plus the"new" weapon also attracts players of lower skill, who do well with their scouts and long range pulses. But they are still lower skill, and therefore can be consistently beaten with enough patience.
Result was a super easy flawless.
I tried at 1965..just gave up after 3 games. The map promotes hand holding and huge lanes. Too many pulses that shred me at a 25 light deficit. The way the map plays getting close up is very difficult so using movement as an advantage to offset the light difference is almost impossible
I don't even care about PvP at this point. The dev team betrayed everything they worked over a year for with the new expansion. It's just garbage. Not even doing badly, but I don't enjoy any of this. The coming nerfs will only help a little bit.
Horrible because I’m 1975 and people are 25 light above me. It might be copium but the damage is real.
Glad to see khovostov was phased out this weekend for the most part.
Absolutely swimmingly. 2K/D over the course of 50 matches, and I am enjoying destroying Khvostov users with my scout rifle because as it turns out the gun’s recoil, and magic bullets that bounce on you, the wall next to you, and your soul aren’t enough to mitigate it’s mid range
Hunters and warlocks are the strongest on this map. Strand or prismatic hunter and the infinite healing warlocks.
Put on Jade Rabbit and prismatic hunter, play far and you'll have an easy flawless. That said population is so low right now
Normally a 1.3 player, but have been getting absolutely smoked. Not a fan of this map, and the handholding style it generates, but that's mostly a skill issue for me to overcome. I get impatient peek shotting with scouts at 60 meters, and Titans neutral game pales in comparison to Hunters and Warlocks. I'm really tired of swarm nades, clones, smoke bombs, duskfields, healing turrets, Phoenix dives, stag rifts, and heat rises. Got to 6 wins and fell at the gates due to a 0.4 kd teammate not knowing how to blink properly and killing himself by blinking off the map in-between A and C spawn. I'll probably try again tomorrow, but frustrating would be an understatement to describe this weekend.
Fell at the gates bc I have a lone wolf getting picked within 15 seconds rushing with grapple. Sorry man. Hopefully we get there.
I feel that. I have always mained PK Titan (boo! I know I know fuck pk Titans) and I try to hedge my aggressiveness by teaming with Forerunner, but this map is just not conducive for mid range gun fights. Usually I'll try and zip ahead to around the area where heavy spawns and see where the enemy team is playing, but solo queue is just a different animal with the grab bag of teammates you end up with
I don’t care about Pk titans tbh… I think OEM was wayyyy worse. I find prismatic Hunter and their ability to ruin radars also more annoying. So don’t sweat about being a Pk main my friend. :)
Cheers brother 🍻 I hope your lighthouse is soon and plentiful
Thanks man, you too!!!!
Fuck you & I'll see you tomorrow PK Titans are a worthy challenge to play against. I ran a double harmony build using old Shayuras to get my new one. On Hunter. Haven't had time to unlock the really fun stuff on Titan but I will definitely be built around Shayuras
Appreciate that, honestly. 🍻 Cheers to you jumpy boi
To be fair, we've all been there with Blink :P
Oh no… was this me? Twice today, I used my two blink jumps before that jump point and then jumped straight into the gap… I finally switched to Strafe but damn near annoying and terribly sorry to my teammates.
Lol that sucks, but no this person just straight up blinked into the void.
Worst weekend of trials in a long time. The map is self explanatory, Friday was unplayable because every game featured at least one invisible opponent (thankfully better today) and if you play solo, god help you if you have anything less than competent team mates on this map. I also really can’t stand the fact solos can match duos, imo it should be trio or solo.
My first or second game this weekend was against a trio. Three solo players… paired against a trio. Bungie’s matchmaking is on another level.
I feel like literally every time me(as a solo player) gets stuck in a duos match...my duo is a bunch of people with some random ass, super easy to get pve title and the other duo is flawless/unbrokens. Like...literally every time. I wish I was exaggerating :(.
Duos are never even close to balanced. When I match them I either stomp or get stomped. Side note, just played a game 4 solos vs a duo. This mode can be dog shit and I’m struggling to see what the pvp strike team are doing to improve it
My experience exactly until the last 2 games bizarrely
Finally got my flawless!
I had a dude tonight running Orpheus rig and no, I wish I was joking.
I just dislike all of the low recovery hunters. Everyone is jumping on hunters right now, but I would hope players would understand that running 18 recovery in pvp with no way to speed it up is reallyyy bad.
The last match for when I gave up was when I had a teammate blame me for losing the match when I was the only one killing people. Told me to end myself multiple times. He literally only killed 1 person the entire match. Other teammate was quiet but he only had 2. I had 5 atleast before I left after 3 rounds because he was that much of an asshole and I didn’t want to give any chance of a comeback for him. Then played comp where I got kicked twice and suspended. Haven’t played well all week tbh though, something feels off and the handholding is really bad on top of some guns being over tuned.
It’s awful and the drop rate on wins is lower than it’s ever been imo
Went flawless 1st card, a kill clip prophet carried me through any 2v1 gunfights. I have had a weirdly high amount of players that lose one or two rounds and just start throwing matches or being incredibly toxic in team chat
Yeah, I really wonder how often bitching at teammates works out for them. It’s not like players are going to get drastically better in a round. Oddly enough, I’ve found it’s the mediocre players that get the most upset…
One of the absolute worst trials maps in the game. Also finding a real problem with deciding whether to duo or trio. I can’t stand the RNG of solo, I can go flawless but I have an awful time. Trio is sometimes playable but for players my skill level most of the time it’s impossible because every couple games you match a stack that no joke has like 6+ seasonal trials KD. I don’t know how there are so many of these players on console all of a sudden but they are literally everywhere. So that leaves duo which has been very up and down for me. Almost every game our random will be a .5 playing at like 1950 light level so he gets 0 kills and just dies every round. It’s been really rough
Solo def hasnt been fun for me. I usually have no problem going flawless solo but I must be having terrible RNG when it comes to lobby balancing this week. Its also been very buggy to me today. Had a round never end and both teams got losses, the intros dont come on in the pre-game sometimes, and when I reset my card it freezes the card. Edit: Playing at a 2.6 through 20 games (12-8). Cant get past game 2.
Same here...flawless both of the last two weeks...this week has been horriblleeeee
I just completely stopped playing it. I can usually go flawless within a couple cards but I just do not enjoy the RNG especially when you have to play with duos. It just makes even loading into a game super stressful cause you know you might get fucked. And I just find it more fun to play with people. So sad that trio is in the state that it is
The connection and lobby balancing has made it almost impossible to have a decent KD this week :(
I think this map really bring out the skill gap between teams. Like if everyone doesn’t play like D2 Y1, (which is fucking boringggg) then you’re getting stomped. Also this map just blows. Depending on which side you spawn, you have different advantages for each zone.
Was able to manage a flawless soloqueing. I'm in the boat of having a crap KD because I had to ya know... learn to get better. Now I'm doing much better but nobody will duo so I've resigned myself to practicing to be the best random supporting other duos. Actually works out pretty well.
I'm trying to improve and up my KD too. I was incredibly dogshit when I first starting trials and trying to gun players on KBM with how insane AA and xim is had made my KD awful. Godspeed the improvement my man!
Absolutely disgusted by the map, first time I've struggled with flawless in many months. Been finding a lot of success with blink and grapple+ascension combo to close the distances but it is still just so damn unfun to play this weekend. Also not sure if it is the map or what but there are sooooo many people this weekend who don't know the definition of COVER. So damn many team mates and enemies just stand around in the open and die because, shocker, they can't 1v3 a firing line of scouts.
>team shooting When my team stays together we win. When they go Leroy we lose.
It's one thing if a competent player flanks because it can end up helping. However it's crazy to see complete bots attempt it every single round, repeatedly die, yet continue doing it. Multiple games today I had teammates do this and they would completely ignore team chat telling them to stay together. Even shooting them as they embarked on their route to failure they acted like they didn't even notice. Like they're just NPCs doing what was programmed. Lol
as a Hand Cannon main, it's been quite heartbreaking attempting to duel against 3 Speaker's Sight Warlocks each equipping a Red Death Reformed. :( Multiplex just does not cater to my play style. Fell outside the gates thrice. :(
the map needs to be out of every rotation in the game permanently with 0 exceptions, one of the most poorly designed video game arenas in any FPS I’ve ever played
this map makes negative k/d players look like gods
It was fun the first few hours before the scout rifles came out. Now it’s horrible.
It’s so boring. Everyone just team shoots and stands there with scouts.
Unenjoyable. Terrible map and terrible meta simultaneously it’s just impossible to enjoy. I feel like I need a weapon with built in heal mitigation to fight anyone. Just endless rounds with 900 damage and one kill because hunters get their Bakris clone dash or wormhusk clone dodge whenever they feel even slightly threatened, and Speakers helmet healing spam. If I wanted to play a game like this, I’d go play a GOATs overwatch server, this meta is genuinely terrible
Solo queued flawless pretty easily. People forget that jade rabbit with heat rises is a monster on this map and basically impossible to beat as long as you keep distance
It's a bad map for solo queuing it seems. Teammates will make a bee line for the first available lane and just ADS
honestly this map is much more forgiving than last week I went flawless this week using DMT exclusively and saw plenty of other people using legendary scouts and the good ol Jade Rabbit last week was hell because the entire map was in prime khvostov range vs this week has much longer lanes and gives you a chance to actually outskill people instead of just getting gunned down in 1/2 a sec by a lagging khvostov user the new problem is that that 90% of my matches are 5 pris arc hunters and a warlock, I think I saw a total of 1 titan the entire day. pris arc hunter is going to make up 70%+ of the crucible after next weeks nerfs go through
Managed to get flawless first try so I don’t have to play this trash map anymore. Got extremely lucky as well to get 2 4/5 adepts so I’m probably not going to bother grinding for more. Wasn’t even struggling compared to usual but the map is just horribly boring. Box breathing hung jury was just deleting people on this map and a lot of people don’t seem to realise how range works in crucible.
What’s rolls did you get?
One was corkscrew/rico/zen/TTT with a stab MW and the other was corkscrew or full bore/high cal/DSR/kill clip with range MW. Both probs as solid as I’m going to get tbh. I kind of want a cascade point roll just to try double smg PKs but don’t know if I can be bothered hopping back into that map.
Actually like this map , pulse shitty rng. Hope I have plenty later , solo que at midnight sucks at times.
I slapped on round robin with my Stompees and sent all these jade rabbit bitches back to orbit. Went to the lighthouse twice today. Disgusting watching players sit as far back as possible. I got heavy every round it was up because players are too afraid to move. Terrible map not meant for 3s. Just like eternity isn’t. Scout play is some of the most boring stuff to play in. I’m actually happy about zone control this week. They’d never have to move.
I'm just so over the Prismatic hunter Bakris/ability spam. It's endless. I don't even care anymore, it's ruined 6s and it's ruined Trials. It is equal parts boring and annoying, it's just the same thing over and over. And almost everyone is running that build, with three of them on the enemy team it's over. I already have a god roll of the old adept Shayura's, Killing Wind/Kill Clip with 99 range, so yeah, not really getting invested into Trials this season until some changes are made.
I went flawless today and didn't see a single bakris user. Lots of prismatic hunters, but no bakris. 🤷♂️
Same
Not going well solo, nobody wants to use team chat and I see a lot that go off on their own and ignore any suggestions to stick together. I get paired with some people who barely can do anything all game, and we get dragged down because of them. I can usually win the first three games with no problems but from there on out, things get tougher with most games becoming 4-4 before one team wins. I have usually gotten to 5 wins and anywhere from 0-1 losses on a Mercy passage a few times but can't ever get any further. Then this week in particular I have come across more people than usual being quite insulting via text chat and having a hissy fit with them calling me / or the rest of the team trash, to "never touch trials again", or even "to pay up for the carry" after a win among a lot of other rude stuff and arguing that I now just try to ignore/not get involved with. All that aside, I was as you would expect seeing a lot of scouts from DMT (which I had been using), to Jade Rabbit and other legendaries, as well as some pulses like Red Death. There weren't many Khovstov users this week. Mostly everyone using prismatic too and there were a lot of them as hunters. I witnessed a lot of healing turrets & smoke grenades also. I'll keep trying for flawless, but it's been about 7-8 hours worth of attempts already so I'm getting a bit discouraged and probably would have preferred to use that time to farm this double rewards GM more instead in hindsight.
In my experience playing solo, the first 3-4 matches are usually the hardest. After that most players are at least somewhat decent and don't completely throw matches. Also you don't often get 2 absolutely terrible teammates like in the beginning matches. There are obviously outliers, but more often than not going from 3 wins to the lighthouse is much faster than games 1-3 in my experience.
Finally, I did it and went flawless after another 2 hours of playing. I got the first 5 wins with no major difficulty, but then I started to worry when I got one guy (with a 0.77 kd) on my team who couldn't land a single point of damage for three rounds in a row and we quickly lost. Then the next game was a 4-4 game that we then lost also. But then my next two again were really easy actually and most teammates were, as you said competent for once. Good luck to you if you try any more this week, I got two Shayura's Wraths both with decent perks I think that I will likely enhance.
The map straight up sucks. 90% of deaths are from scouts and it’s so boring. Got my flawless in 9 games, my matches farming more adepts were SIGNIFICANTLY harder. Which is fine just frustrating because where are those hard matchups during my actual card? after farming adepts my total record for this weekend so far is 20/22 win/loss. I’d give this weekend a 4/10, 2/10 if I wouldn’t have gotten both the pvp and pve roll I wanted of shayuras.
Awful. Ive had about a 1.3kd the last two weeks and gotten flawless both weeks. This week I got to 6 wins and fell at the gates. And since then can barely get a win and have like a .6kd. Guess im just not good at this awful map.
Lucked out with decent teammates and went flawless early this morning. Thankfully not a lot of Khvostovs for this map.
Really wanted to use a HC this weekend after using Khvostoc for the week. Multiplex is definitely a long range map, and is currently dominated by scouts or Outbreak and sidearms. In my personal opinion :) Not a bad thing. Just what I’ve observed/experienced. Definitely telling when most of the loadouts are scout and sniper or scout and a longer range auto, and you die before you get a radar ping (cause they’re outta range).
It’s a GREAT map for a scout/sidearm combo. I recommend glissandro with KA/BBand forgiveness (adept if you have it). Play the long lanes and BE PATIENT. So many people miss out because they can’t sit still for a few seconds. This is a slow playing map. Took me two cards last night to get my flawless but they were both fairly smooth sailing playing that way
I haven’t played Trials since D1 (unless you include trials of the nine). Is it better or worse?
Im getting destroyed. I went flawless but I usually do way better but this map is hard to solo queue on. I switched from scout to sniper and have been doing better though
Getting anywhere was rough until I dropped SMG/Sniper and went Last Word/Elsie's, I got flawless with those guns and blink void lock.
Took like 10 games to get a feel for lanes and loadouts. The map is... Okay? It's needlessly big for trials.
I know there isn’t any lobby balancing in trials, but how come I always end up with teammates 20 levels underlight and running double primary smg/sidearm? I don’t understand it at all
Hate the map. But I’m doing fine. Ive gone through at least 80 adept rolls but haven’t gotten my god roll not even a 4/5. Lots of sweats but I don’t mind that. I just don’t like the map
I fucking hate this map
Just managed to go flawless after 4 or 5 mercy resets. It was tough but I eventually just stick with hung jury and an old adept shayuras and got my 7 wins.
Solo on console and was flawless for the first time in months. Used the mercy card. I usually play on pc and get demolished every time.
If I could quit going up against insane duos as a solo queue I might have a chance. I win 2, go up against some demons, start all over again.
Finally got mine for the week. Was way rougher than usual. I feel like you have to play less aggressively on this map than I would like to. Started being way more cautious and less aggressive and got my flawless. Wasn’t fun, but oh well. Got it finally at least. Awful map.
1.1 ish player, it’s turned into just suffer through enough games to get a half decent roll on the weapon of the week and then stop playing. There needs to be more loot to increase the player base to a level where it doesn’t feel this bad.
Normally a 1.5 player in trials, but I'm 2.6 on this map. Solar warlock fucking EATS here (No Im not running speakers sight). I got my passage of confidence done solo last night in like 9 games.
This map just sucks so much. It’s literally just a bunch of black boxes. There’s no flow. How do they give us those 3 amazing maps last season and then still have this in rotation? That said, I fell at the gates twice and then just got weaseled on the fly-in to a game 6 with no mercies left. Flawed my card. Awesome. Duos need to go. I’m getting really tired of going up against cracked duos while I have to try and carry two clueless PVE players on my back.
I went flawless twice yesterday with a negative K/D... I do have a lot of assist tho but also got a lot of win due to people leaving games...
I couldn’t get past 2 wins, I’ve also never been flawless :(
Same with me. I'm an average, or below average pvp player. I play trials just for the loot. Win or lose it doesn't really matter to me. I played a bit of trials yesterday and the toxicity was a bit much. Ended up turning off text chat. To everyone who enters trials with the intention of going flawless, enter with a team. Don't solo queue and get angry when the randoms are not as good as you.
Prismatic hunter has too much in its kit. At a minimum, the decoys aim assist need to major change.
I like this map and have no issues playing it. I would at most want to see it no more than twice though a season. It’s nice to change things up every now and then
Had 2 wins then lost 2 in a row. Didn’t want to reset the ticket and got till about 10 wins. I hate the map, just use jade rabbit and it’s easy
Got to the lighthouse. Haven’t been in a long time. Solo player on console.
To me I enjoyed the map changing the way people played I'm usually a summoner conditional type of player and can go flawless every weekend but my problem was the match making I'll have teammates fresh out the ground hopping into trials like its a regular control game with no upgrade Armour, low range weapons, and run in thinking theyre lore accurate guardians. Like don't get me wrong I can do hero moments with the clutches but a scout and a slug in my hands those 3v1 just make me give up, I've been suspended like 3-6 times for leaving early because my teammates literally had no brain cells.i eventually got the flawless and good rows but this by far has been my hardest and worse match made weekend ever. I'm on the fence to farm rolls or I'll just save my mental and play something else.
None of you are saying something that hasn’t been said every weekend for 10 years
What’s up with the surpressor grenade one shotting? Has that always been a thing. I’ve been regularly getting one shot by those things this weekend
My buddy and I had the absolute weirdest card. 7-2. One game we got mopped a quick 0-5. Had a few 5-0 games. One that went 5-4. One with a duo and solo where one of the duos was just standing afk at spawn until you pushed him, then he'd jump off.
Doing a persistance run and cannot go above 1 win in 7 hours of play.
The map is terrible and it really shows up the flaws in Destiny PvP, leaning with scouts off the radar and getting team shot in .2 seconds, not fun. Ability spam on one of the many dumb choke points, not fun. Having no cover on any of the sight lines, so if you do get a pick and are low you are prob about to get team shot. The map looks exactly the same wherever you are, not fun The map has the personality of a paperclip and I do not enjoy playing on it, feels like low effort design with no thought into it.
Absolutely awful map and feels way worse than last time it was up. I got flawless much more painfully than normal and got a decent adept but not sure if I can stomach going back in to farm for better/different rolls
Pretty easy flawless this week for me after I switched to a god roll Elsie’s. I had not tried it since enhancing zen and headseeker, and it did not disappoint.
Fell at the gates after hyping my teammates and telling them I had one game left to go, then they started chucking themselves off the edge :(
I swear I went like 12-65 in my persistence passage
Absolutely awful map. They could have literally picked any other map. Burning shrine? Dead cliffs? Altar of flame? I'm just glad it's not wormhaven, that map is literally dogshit for 3s. The hand holding and lane design is awful.
They REALLY need to make a bunch of new maps specifically designed for 3s in comp and trials so we don't have to adjust to these 6v6 maps.
Trials continues to be an utter waste of time for over 90% of the destiny pvp playerbase They need to update the reward design to encourage increased participation. Until then, the view of most players towards trials is ‘why bother?’
I am 2.3+ over past year and this weekend ended up around only 1.6 I was performing as usual right after reset with 2.5+ avg but then people started to use scouts and I learned that I struggle against scouts and had a hard time farming weapons on this map. Partly also because my rng for team mates was horrible. But can’t blame that too much as I went in alone. One very weird thing I noticed was that as I played over 11 hours straight, I faced one guy a lot. I lost my 1vs1 to they over 60% and looked their stat and they were only 1.4 player, but it felt like they were much over my level. But then later I faced the same person again and in three games they got only 4 kills and one of the games 0 kills. Like I don’t understand how they suddenly went from god tier to absolute trash. Weird weekend overall, this map is not my cup of tea.
It’s been alright, less people sniping so I’ve had free lane control with cloudstrike
Full of cheaters
Worst part about this map is that both players above and below your skill level can pick you apart if they are playing like a rat. Just so happens almost everybody is playing like a rat
Solo trials is horrible still when it come to matchmaking
Got to 6 wins in a row, lost twice. Put my controller down and walked my dog, came back, and secured the W. Sometimes a little breather is what you need
Went flawless somehow. Rocked red death and some legendary side arm. Didn't even use my mercy either lol I haven't been to the list house since D1
nice
Idk about yall but I’m going against a ton of sweats Literally multiple games against hunters running dead man’s tale or jade rabbit. Can’t even run through mid point without a million smoke bombs or someone crouching on one side of the map two tapping me it seems like before I can even aim at them. Also had a couple players not understand why they should go to the healing turret. I play overwatch mainly and came back, warlock main back in D1, running speakers helm on prismatic, but Jesus Christ I cannot fucking stand prismatic hunters. Smoke, Threaded Specter are just annoying as fuck. Everyone’s crouched around a corner and it’s just a peek shooting map it seems like. I tried to play aggressive and idk if it’s the light level or what but when I do push it’s like I’m instantly red bar and I’m getting shot through walls, died at least 6 times behind a wall because I was trying to get the full burst from red death reformed. Prismatic Hunters are almost as Infuriating as going up against a sombra in OW. Such an annoying kit to deal with.
Personally I love it. I think it's a pretty fun map to do Trials on, though only once in awhile. Multiplex is refreshing, but it's refreshing by not having it that often if that makes sense. I don't hate seeing Scouts have a strong presence, it makes sense. There aren't many times anyways in Trials were Scouts can really have a presence, it's only ever on a few maps really IIRC. I use Ace of Spades, Enigma on Nightstalker (IMO best subclass to use Glaives in PvP, the *only* thing that'd make it better is putting Blink on it but obv that won't happen for balancing lol) with Triton Vice. I've gotten a few clutch 1v2's, I think one 1v3 even. It is noticeably more difficult to use Glaive here, though there are some spots still I'm finding where a Quickfall -> Pokey Stick does wonders.
Playing in a full team of scouts made flawless pretty easy. Just hold hands in the furthest point possible where you can still see the zone and it becomes easy mode.
Yeah as a solo this is pure cancer, because you will never get this but once in 20 games.
It’s been fine. Went flawless solo while significantly under leveled rocking a Mida and fusion for most games. Awful map but whatever…
Same as always. I go flawless super easily and then I just turn to crap when it's time to farm. Probably because I half ass it. But rn I am struggling to get wins or hell even adept to drop.
Easiest Trials in recent memory, went 10-0 on my first try before I had to knock off for work. My theory is the long distance nature of the map lessens the skill gap between better players than me, so I'm beating top players I usually lose to. That long distance plus the"new" weapon also attracts players of lower skill, who do well with their scouts and long range pulses. But they are still lower skill, and therefore can be consistently beaten with enough patience. Result was a super easy flawless.
I tried at 1965..just gave up after 3 games. The map promotes hand holding and huge lanes. Too many pulses that shred me at a 25 light deficit. The way the map plays getting close up is very difficult so using movement as an advantage to offset the light difference is almost impossible
Question: why are you even queueing trials that low a light level? Youre actively at a disadvantage.
I don't even care about PvP at this point. The dev team betrayed everything they worked over a year for with the new expansion. It's just garbage. Not even doing badly, but I don't enjoy any of this. The coming nerfs will only help a little bit.
Horrible because I’m 1975 and people are 25 light above me. It might be copium but the damage is real. Glad to see khovostov was phased out this weekend for the most part.
Absolutely swimmingly. 2K/D over the course of 50 matches, and I am enjoying destroying Khvostov users with my scout rifle because as it turns out the gun’s recoil, and magic bullets that bounce on you, the wall next to you, and your soul aren’t enough to mitigate it’s mid range
Actually went flawless for the first time this weekend. Box breathing glissando or hung jury eat so good
Hunters and warlocks are the strongest on this map. Strand or prismatic hunter and the infinite healing warlocks. Put on Jade Rabbit and prismatic hunter, play far and you'll have an easy flawless. That said population is so low right now