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Subject: Matchmaking for Firefight

Man this sucks

  • 08.11.2009 2:09 AM PDT

Firefight will be a huge failure with out matchmaking

  • 08.11.2009 2:14 AM PDT

Don't take life too seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.

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Posted by: SonicJohn
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.


So true, if only we could filter out the lone rangers and immature players out there

  • 08.11.2009 2:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: SonicJohn
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.


So true, if only we could filter out the lone rangers and immature players out there

You can't, and that is why there is no matchmaking. Firefight will be infinitely more fun with friends than with randoms (GOW2, hint hint.)

  • 08.11.2009 3:53 AM PDT

Then you're the kind of person who wouldn't have used the matchmaking anyway, but some of us actually would - you get the choice to play it the way you want to but we don't.

  • 08.13.2009 3:49 AM PDT

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I'm not happy that MM won't be available, but at least they are talking about it now so hopefully future Bungie games won't have this limitation.

...it's meant to be a cooperative experience you have with friends.
So how do you get friends? Yep, you find strangers with similar interests and then you become friends. PvP players can meet plenty of new people in MM that obviously share similar interests, but us PvE players that don't enjoy PvP but will play Firefight won't have that option; at least not in this game.

"Meetup" threads just don't work as well as MM.

  • 08.13.2009 5:09 AM PDT
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They've had plenty of time to implement a matchmaking/search feature you think they would've learned with customs in halo 3 but I guess not.

MAJOR oversight on there part this will have to be a FREE update but I get this sinking feeling they are going to pull a capcom on us and make us pay for a search feature . (anyone who purchased RE5 "versus" mode will know what I mean)

  • 08.15.2009 8:30 PM PDT
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Capcom didn't make anyone pay for a search feature. They made you pay for a new mode (which was still a lousy move). I would be content if Bungie at least added a lobby list. Literally any other game in the market has at least that much.

In the end, I have a bad feeling we won't get anything, though. Bungie has buried their head in the sand.

  • 08.21.2009 6:43 PM PDT
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that would make things much more interesting

  • 08.21.2009 7:18 PM PDT

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Semper Fi.

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, I would like there to be matchmaking, but upon learning they simply can not do it, it makes sense as to why they don't. I mean... fans have been wondering why and asking for it to be implemented, but I guess now we know it simply can not be done.

  • 08.21.2009 7:32 PM PDT

"Undoubtedly this is the heretic's doing!"

I would've picked this game up on first day release if Firefight had matchmaking. Yes, it matters that much to me. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops looking for a firefight match, shouldn't have to browse on forums begging for people to join up. What if my friends weren't online to play or none of them got the game? I'd be SOL if I wanted to get into a Firefight match.

I can only hope Bungie sets up some sort of network, patch it in the game so we can just join Firefight matches, maybe drop-in drop-out style like in Left 4 Dead. It's really inexcusable on their part, setting it up like the campaign co-op party system. Like someone else stated here, Valve, Epic Games, even Treyarch got co-op done right, and got it done both ways, with parties set up, or match making done both ways, to make both sides happy and satisfied.

Bungie can easily do the same if they try and put forth the resources.

  • 08.22.2009 11:02 AM PDT

No. Firefight was designed for Custom Games only, not MatchMaking.

If it was somehow implemented, I would never want to match up with random people who may not even play correctly. (Betrayals, Random shooting, etc.)

  • 08.22.2009 11:06 AM PDT

"Undoubtedly this is the heretic's doing!"

Posted by: Big Vokes
No. Firefight was designed for Custom Games only, not MatchMaking.

If it was somehow implemented, I would never want to match up with random people who may not even play correctly. (Betrayals, Random shooting, etc.)


Does anyone listen to how reasonable we're being here? It doesn't have to be MM only. It can have both just like Horde in GoW2 or L4D. You can party up with friends, or matchmake to find others to play with.

[Edited on 08.22.2009 11:16 AM PDT]

  • 08.22.2009 11:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: GhostNXGSprite
I think Firefight should be played with friends, not random strangers you don't know.


Agreed.

  • 08.22.2009 11:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Big Vokes
No. Firefight was designed for Custom Games only, not MatchMaking.

If it was somehow implemented, I would never want to match up with random people who may not even play correctly. (Betrayals, Random shooting, etc.)


Once again, I agree.

  • 08.22.2009 11:24 AM PDT
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Hell yea

  • 08.23.2009 9:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: Little Bud
Well think about this. You go into FireFight Matchmaking and get 3 little kids almost everytime you play. They suck and just waste your lives and yell like little girls. You get mad and come to these forums and complain.

Now, would you like that?


MM should be an OPTION, so if you don't have friends who are obsessive about halo and play it 24/7 you can sit down with firefight for an hour and have a good time

  • 08.27.2009 10:07 AM PDT

WTF that's freaking retarded if they don't put matchmaking in firefight!
i might not even buy it now.
whats with bungie lately?

  • 08.27.2009 5:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sentry33
Posted by: SonicJohn
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.


So true, if only we could filter out the lone rangers and immature players out there

You can't, and that is why there is no matchmaking. Firefight will be infinitely more fun with friends than with randoms (GOW2, hint hint.)


Or WaW, hint hint.

  • 08.27.2009 5:47 PM PDT

If they were to add matchmaking ODST would have to come out 6 months later than it would.

I personally don't really care. Half the time I would just get matched with ppl who would just betray.

If you don't think that you will be able to find enough ppl to play then join a firefight community here on Bungie Net. I know that I have already received like 4 invites.

  • 08.27.2009 5:50 PM PDT
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Yes but if they implemented into ODST it would be delayed and would only come out next year.
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo that being said Bungie says that they will make this available in REACH.

  • 08.27.2009 5:51 PM PDT

"Undoubtedly this is the heretic's doing!"

Posted by: BIGFT 13
Yes but if they implemented into ODST it would be delayed and would only come out next year.
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo that being said Bungie says that they will make this available in REACH.


Got a source on that?

  • 08.27.2009 7:54 PM PDT

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If Gow2 can have horde in multiplayer why can't Halo 3 really what's the difference?

  • 08.27.2009 8:03 PM PDT

"Undoubtedly this is the heretic's doing!"

The difference is you can play with randoms. And I never had a bad experience in Horde Mode playing with randoms. Apparently you still can't matchmake in Firefight but I'm hoping that'll be changed on release or something. It's just stupid they set it up like Halo 3's campaign co-op and you have to get a party together by other means.

[Edited on 08.27.2009 8:11 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2009 8:10 PM PDT