‘Destiny 2’ Is Finally Raining Loot On Casual Trials Of Osiris Players

Destiny 2 is repeatedly hitting all-time low playercounts in the post-Final Shape era, which is of course not great in general, but specifically, for some game modes, it’s producing big problems for player population to fill them.

One of those modes is Trials of Osiris, the most competitive PvP mode Destiny 2 has had, which spans all the way back to Destiny 1. It has had many tweaks over the years but fundamentally the goal has always been to “go flawless” by winning seven games in a row.

As such, it has mainly only attracted higher skill PvP players given that any “normal” player is likely to get stomped. And while Bungie has attempted a few tricks to get more players, loss forgiveness, some rewards even for repeated failure, now they’ve simply opened the loot floodgates to everyone.

As of Episode Heresy here, this first weekend of Trials of Osiris is positively raining loot on everyone. Not just top players, but ones getting even minor win streaks, ones winning any games at all, and even when losing. And if you make it to seven wins period, with any amount of losses, you can even get top “Adept” weapons now. The type of players who used to, and still do, go flawless are mostly rewarded with unique cosmetics now, in addition to a mountain of loot.

It’s a little bizarre as now suddenly Trials is the mode to farm mass loot, more so than basic PvP, competitive rank PvP or Iron Banner (farming drops there is especially painful).

Is this too rewarding? Has Bungie casual-ified the mode and diverted it from its intended purpose? To that I say, who cares.

If there is one thing I preach in loot-based games it is generosity. There is often far too much focus on making sure players grind endlessly for drops for “engagement,” but this can easily backfire. Destiny has often missed the mark on this, and still does in some activities like the aforementioned Iron Banner and dungeons, especially, which are currently the worst farm in the game.

But Bungie is “getting it” now in some instances. Trials, here, certainly, which is honestly quite a bit of a surprise. But also in this season which is dumping weapons on players in lieu of crafting, something that echoes what Into the Light did with focusing and mass drops. This is when Destiny is at its best (I’ll save more anti-crafting rants for another day, which is a sloppy fix for loot drop problems, at best).

I think this is great and yes, I definitely am going to hop into Trials for this deluge of drops when I’ve avoided it the past few seasons. And with more and more people there, maybe I will run into other teams that don’t absolutely crush me. Looking forward to that.

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