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The new changes to Trials maintain the flawless requirement but do away with a lot of other stumbling blocks for the majority of players. First, your Trials Card, the item you buy that lets you participate in the event, no longer tracks losses. Previously, if you lost three matches, your card would need to be reset before you could continue to play. With rewards dished out at three, five, and seven total wins, it meant that most people never got most of a weekend’s Trials rewards, even without taking a flawless run into account.

Next, Bungie is instituting a matchmaking system in Trials, so you no longer need to find two friends to join your team. There’s even a new “freelance” mode that lets you hop into Trials matches solo, teaming up with whoever else is searching.

Finally, the way Trials rewards are dished out has also changed. Wins for earning various Trials guns and armor are no longer decided by how many matches you win, but how many rounds you win. That means that even if you’re losing overall, you can still make progress toward taking home Trials gear. You can also visit Saint-14, the Trials of Osiris vendor, to spend Tokens earned during the event. Bungie has adjusted Saint’s inventory so that you can now work to earn specific gear, rather than spending your Tokens to pull from an overall loot pool.

All those changes mean that, if you haven’t been playing in the Trials of Osiris up to now, you really should start (although one thing to note: You’ll now need to own the Beyond Light expansion to access the mode). It has some absolutely phenomenal guns, including weapons that dominate in the Crucible, such as the Igneous Hammer hand cannon or the Shayura’s Wrath submachine gun. This season is also introducing a new Trials gun, called Reed’s Regret. It’s a linear fusion rifle that sounds like it can roll some perks that will make it an interesting gun in either PvP or PvE scenarios. Fusion rifles of all sorts have seen a big boost this season thanks to mods on the Seasonal Artifact, so this is a gun worth grabbing.

Even if you’re a player who’s convinced you’ll never go flawless, these changes (along with Bungie’s new push with anti-cheat measures) mean the Trials of Osiris is a mode that’s now more inviting for everyone, not just Destiny 2’s top-tier PvP players. After years of feeling like Trials was a segment of Destiny 2 where only the elite should bother even showing up, this sounds like a great new approach to the mode.