No Matchmaking for ODST Firefight...WTF?

[Mendicate Bias]

JaggedSac said:

Mendicate Bias said:
Do you actually use the matchmaking for Horde? The entire point of the experience for both Horde and Firefight is to replicate the LAN feel and just to be able to jump into a game without worrying about meeting the usual d-bags you see so often online. I have not once used matchmaking for Horde and so this news doesn't change my opinion on the game at all. I guess if you heavily used matchmaking for Horde it will effect you but I just can't see myself enjoying the mode and experiencing the comraderie I have with my friends with total strangers.

I agree that playing with friends with Horde is better, but I rarely have 3 friends online who have Gears 2, let alone want to stop what they are doing and play. I have actually played 95% of my Horde matches through matchmaking. I have found 80% of the matches are entertaining and you meet some nice people playing that way. I imagine it will happen the same way with ODST for me. I will never have 3 people online who are available to play Firefight. Especially after CoD MW 2 comes out. They should have given gamers the choice, but from what I have read, it would have been a massive code change due to Firefight using the co-op engine.

Then I can see no matchmaking being a problem for you. I rarely have a bunch of friends playing the same game as well which is why I make a private party send invites to a bunch of my friends and see if they want to play Horde or Halo 3 together. I don't know how close you are with the people on your friends list but I never have trouble finding 2-3 people to play games with.