- SlashingArbiter
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I think a matchmaking system would be good for those that like playing Firefight but can't find good teammates to play with. I wouldn't use it though, because there is no way to know if the players with whom you're matched up are in to play for a long time, just to 200k, or just to mess with other people. Wouldn't it be completely horrible if you were playing for the Endure achievement and one griefer quit during the bonus round of set 4?
I don't think the mechanics of Firefight (shared lives, one person quits means that the mission is over) are conducive to matchmaking for random people. If there was time, Bungie would have found a way to work around this. Unless Bungie fundamentally changed how Firefight works in ODST, I wouldn't use a patch for matchmaking.
If you want to play Firefight with other people, there are many private groups on Bungie.net that still play Firefight on a regular basis. (I'd name them but that would be against the rules of the forum.)
[Edited on 03.18.2010 5:20 PM PDT]