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Subject: Matchmaking for Firefight

Poll: Do you want matchmaking for Firefight?  [closed]
Yes:  84%
(2133 Votes)
No:  14%
(367 Votes)
Firefight sucks:  2%
(53 Votes)
Total Votes: 2553

Firefight is built on top of the campaign networking model. There's no matchmaking functionality.
That's from Urk, posted on page 7 of this thread. Looks like there won't be any matchmaking, although I am absolutely at a loss to explain why. Hopefully Bungie will reconsider.

Edit: Kotaku Australia asked Curtis Creamer why there wasn't any matchmaking. He gives a little more detailed explanation than Urk does in this article: Clicky

[Edited on 08.12.2009 7:25 AM PDT]

  • 06.04.2009 2:17 PM PDT

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Totally. Most of time, you won't be able to get 3 friends who want to play it.

  • 06.04.2009 2:17 PM PDT

yes

  • 06.04.2009 2:18 PM PDT
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good idea this would be great

  • 06.04.2009 2:18 PM PDT

Yea this would make Firefight even better! :)

  • 06.04.2009 2:18 PM PDT

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its a must especially when they make an achievement for it (not saying there will be)

  • 06.04.2009 2:19 PM PDT

Yes, but I hope it has 4 player splitscreen too. In addition, I want it to be atleast 6 player coop not 4.

  • 06.04.2009 2:19 PM PDT

Definitely, though I'd personally only play w/people who had microphones. Its just polite to use them on something like that and damned hard to play if someone doesn't have one.

  • 06.04.2009 2:19 PM PDT

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Absolutely!!!

  • 06.04.2009 2:19 PM PDT

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It would make things easier considering my girlfriend and I really don't have two other people to play with.

  • 06.04.2009 2:21 PM PDT

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uhh yeah

  • 06.04.2009 2:21 PM PDT

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I'm trying to think about how that would work. Sounds pretty intriguing though. I'd quite like that. Apart from it may end up being like Left 4 Dead, where nobody sticks together.

  • 06.04.2009 2:24 PM PDT

Speaking from personal experience in the Tom Clansey games, many of which have some form of matchmade co-op, while the idea seems interesting enough in theory, in practice it usually ends up with 4 guys all trying to be the hero at once with each one independantly dying and failing in that attempt, which ends up being no fun.

For something like firefight to really be fun you need some sort of mutualistic cooperation in mind when you set out against the covenant, something that is very hard to foster with only a few seconds of familiarity with your buddies if they've been put into your game through some sort of system, rather than your own efforts to build a team you actually want to play with.

  • 06.04.2009 2:33 PM PDT

I've actually had quite a few cod 5 zombie games with randoms where we all had mikes and all worked together. Obviously it won't be quite as good as actually playing with your friends, but I'd rather play with three other people with no mikes acting like idiots than be stuck by myself wandering around the campaign.

  • 06.04.2009 4:26 PM PDT
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"Firefight sucks"

i lol'd

  • 06.04.2009 4:27 PM PDT

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"Firefight sucks"

i lol'd

Glad I could make someone's day.

  • 06.04.2009 4:32 PM PDT
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Yes, I want MM for Firefight. Getting three friends to play with is going to be a pain otherwise.

  • 06.04.2009 4:33 PM PDT

they freakin better, and campaign co-op for matchmaking too

  • 06.04.2009 4:34 PM PDT

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Wow, the fact that nobody has picked the "Firefight sux" option says alot about how much people want it. On topic, If achievements are associated with firefight, and the only way to win in firefight is with a team, the IMO it just makes sense.

  • 06.04.2009 4:35 PM PDT

Posted by: Tank Buster G89
Yes, but I hope it has 4 player splitscreen too. In addition, I want it to be atleast 6 player coop not 4.

I'm pretty sure they've already confirmed that you can't have more than four people playing. I think it also works the same as the Halo 3 campaign, in that you can only have two people per console.

  • 06.04.2009 4:37 PM PDT

Yes!

  • 06.04.2009 4:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.

Yes, that would be cool. Of course, I would only go into the matchmaking if I didn't feel like playing alone.

  • 06.04.2009 4:37 PM PDT

Posted by: Viper Skills
Yes, that would be cool. Of course, I would only go into the matchmaking if I didn't feel like playing alone.

That's what friends are for :). Hopefully a party system would be integrated as well where you could go in with one or two friends and match up with one or two other randoms.

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Posted by: III COLTON III
Yea this would make Firefight even better! :)


Yeah! and that's pretty hard considering it's already the best!

  • 06.04.2009 4:47 PM PDT