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9/22/2014 7:31:23 PM
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Matchmaking for heroic strikes and the raids?
First off, I have to admit that I'm enjoying Destiny quite numb. Not because of the story, because honestly, it's the worst story in a game I've seen in the past couple of years, there almost seems to be none at all. Also not because of the open world, since the world may be large, I wouldn't call it "open" in a sense I would've expected, the world looks amazing, but most of it is unreachable and thus un-explorable. I simply love it because the core gameplay is extremely well done. Well balanced weapons and gear, very nice pacing and an overall good feel. The classes could've been left out, they're more of the same than really different, display since the classes don't have they're own weapons they can wield. Still I love playing the Warlock class a lot.
But with all that said... Why no matchmaking for raids and the weekly heroic strike mission? Seriously? There is no decent way of interacting with other players in the world, yet there is no way of making a group via matchmaking for surgery of these, more end game, events? I'm really saddened because of this. I have nearly no friends with Destiny or the PlayStation 4 system, so I'm very reliant on the matchmaking system...
Bungie, please address this and at least make the heroic strike a matchmaking system. Also, please make interaction between players more feasible... Joining the same team via matchmaking should automatically put you into a fireteam making it possible to actually talk to one another and thus interact with your team mates during the mission your playing together.
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2 RepliesI completely agree, Matchmaking, or at least SOME kind of LFG system for this content needs to be a thing. I get where there might not be for raids, but why the weekly heroic strikes? I got an exotic weapon bounty that needs me to do it solo because I have no real means of finding a group. I don't exactly have a full social network and none of the contacts I do have play the game on the same console. I can't talk to anyone in game, I can't even throw up a LFG flag. All I can do is message players through the PSN, hope I catch them before the leave the tower, and hope they don't block me. And to show how successful that is, I haven't been able to get a single group together in the entire week. I got one guy, who bailed when it was taking too long to get a third... and I don't blame him, who wants to spend more time sitting around looking for players than they do actually playing the game. Seriously, if they're not going to have matchmaking for these features at least have SOME system IN GAME for trying to find players with similar goals. Without this, and with the lack of any in game public chats, there's no easy method to even communicate intent to other players in the tower to see if anyone is interested in joining up. At this point I'm honestly wondering why they bothered to have a 'social' zone at all when there's no way to actually socialize beyond waving, pointing, dancing, sitting down and sulking, and repeatedly hurl myself off the tower. It's just a little ridiculous when my best bet for finding a group is turning away from the game, booting up my computer, going to forum, and trying to organize a group at a later date, which is, quite frankly, dumb as hell. I'm trying to organize play time, not a doctors appointment or a work meeting. Please for the love of god Bungie make your actual GAME more social.
