What does Bungie need to do to freshen up Halo with Reach?

[JaggedSac]

nightsurge said:

JaggedSac said:

Shadowblind said:

I'll just say this; I hate the matchmaking system in Halo as bad as I hate the system in Gears 2. I WANT PLAYER MATCHES WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE THE GAME. They got it perfectly for Halo CE on the computer and Gears 1.

Sorry, but hell no.  The Party system and matchmaking are the best thing to happen to online gaming.  Microsoft liked Halo 2's system so much they made it a large chunk of the backbone of Live.  I enjoy the idea of a match.  Team vs team.  Dedicated servers are disorganized and less competitive.  In my opinion at least.

I think they need both, though.  Player matches you can browse/create and play in that are "unranked" and ranked matches that you get matched with with no choosing.

I used to enjoy Rainbow Six being that way because I could guarantee I was host and everyone would have a great connection to me.

Ok, I get ya.  Yeah, that would be nice.  Bungie thought about doing that, but they said that it divides the player pools and makes it hard to keep the matchmaking system working well when the pools are so distributed.  That is why they have a finite number of playlists and whenever they make changes, they have to think real hard about what it does in terms of pool sets.  But it seems like Halo has enough players to allow for that sort of thing.

LOL.  I am sure that you love being host.  Everyone does.