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Subject: Why isn't there Matchmaking for ODST?
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Posted by: XruriniX
It would be cool if they could at least show us who else is online in the Firefight lobby or at least who is hosting a game which has not yet started. Alas, that is no simple task.


All I need is a list with other players waiting, like Resident Evil 5.
Simple, but at least you won't feel like your the 1 person in the world that is playing the game.

  • 03.19.2010 11:28 AM PDT
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They ripped us off. We paid $60 for 3 maps. (And possibly Recon)

  • 03.19.2010 12:33 PM PDT

Your friend is not a reliable source of information

Posted by: Methew
I thought I read someone say because Firefight uses the same coding as Campaign and they couldn't take people off the Reach team to redo the code in ODST to allow for MM.

Quite literally as I suppose what happened:

Microsoft: Bungie West! Display thine works to be judged!
Bungie West: Oh humple and glorious master we offer unto you this taste of Halo: ODST.
MS: Mmmmmmm. It is indeed supple and delicious. It is a worthy product. You have done your master proud. Rejoice now for now we shall go forth and charge $60 per unit.
BW: But master, the community, they are expecting this as an expansion, $60 for such a game would incite them with fury!
MS: You DARE to defy your lord and master!
BW: No sire, we just fear for our lives. The fans, they would be livid! Rabid! They would storm into our homes and tear us limb from limb!
MS: You are forgiven for fear clouded your mind.

And so Bungie West was left with a dilema. With what precious time they had left they crafted the Mythic Disc and the Reach Beta placed it into ODST. They crafted Firefight and it too was placed into ODST. But they knew that none of it was enough to appease their fans. So they traveled to their second lord and master to ask for their aid in this, their darkest hour.

BW: Can we have some people to give Firefight MM?
Bungie: No. Busy. Reach.
BW: Oh...

And so this is how it came to be that Firefight has no Matchmaking.

I lold, but this is probably what actually happened.

  • 03.19.2010 3:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: SPARTAN 023
They ripped us off. We paid $60 for 3 maps. (And possibly Recon)

Uh-huh. Who ripped us off now? Please tell me who. I will respond again when you do so.

  • 03.19.2010 4:06 PM PDT
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Actually due to time constraints a matchmaking was probably never added. ODST was just a side project so we can hold over until Reach.

  • 03.19.2010 9:06 PM PDT

The strongest Rivals are also the strongest allies.

because odst is a campaign expansion running iff the halo 3 engine, halo 3 didnt have a campaign matchmaking so nor did odst.

  • 03.20.2010 1:04 AM PDT

I fail to see why people are complaining about the lack of matchmaking? I think they're just complaining for the sake of it. As someone already said, the servers couldn't handle matchmaking for Firefight. It'd take Bungie a while to add the functionality for the game anyway.

There'd be no point in Matchmaking for Firefight either way. Firefight is about having fun with friends, like a mini-campaign. You'd only want to play it with random strangers in order to get achievements (or Recon. Though that goes without saying).

  • 03.20.2010 7:41 AM PDT

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