Caboose The Ace

^ Can you expand on this idea? It has really got me interested.

I am more mild than my brother, recovering from the suns barrage of heat. Make a fire and bring the drums, under the stars we make a beat. Having it rough from the start, suicides and raids. All culminating in my kidnapping. My former masters will reclaim me one of these days. The grunt on the final mission of Halo 3 ?

Banned for being an Assassin.

Mendicant Bias ?

Bungie recently confirmed that unlike strikes of the Crucible there shall be no matchmaking in Raids. Raids are Destiny's endgame content, and are extremely difficult, six-player, missions that may take hours to complete. Bungie defended this decision saying they want raids to be a difficult but fun, sociable experience and wants to get player together So what do you think of this? Should Destiny have matchmaking for Raids or not ? My thoughts : I am finding it really difficult to put my thoughts into words and explain them so here is a post on Bungie.net I saw that sums up what I was going to post and improves it. This is a Wow player posting about why matchmaking is bad for raids The complaint back then was that more time was spent looking for a raid group than actual raiding. To be fair, a part of that was because the raid group was up to 40 players in the beginning, now it's 25. After a few years, Blizzard eventually introduced LFG (which, like I said, is just like MatchMaking). The initial result was what we expected, faster setup times pre-raid... but that had an undesirable effect that a big portion of the community did not anticipate. You see, raids used to be a HUGE deal. They took hours and hours to setup, and even longer to progress. It was a grueling trial of not only skill, but leadership. You could have the talent and gear necessary in your group to complete the raid, but without some level headed leaders directing the group you would be destined to fail. Finishing that hours/days/weeks long raid? That was the ultimate feeling. Finally, after all that time spent forming a group, training a group, making all those friends and enemies after nights of failure... you down that last boss. Nothing beats that feeling in gaming, nothing. Now? The raids feel watered down. You log on, click that "find a group" button. Wait 10 minutes. Teleport to the raid, no words are spoken, just throwing 25 random players at a raid that most of the group has done 100 times already. No friends, no enemies. Just a sea of nameless, empty players grinding away at this now trivial Raid. Failure no longer means waiting a day to regroup because half the team had to go to sleep. Failure now means waiting another 10 minutes for another tank to queue up for the raid. What used to feel massive and utterly rewarding has now become a chore. A chore that you must perform over and over again until you can find no enjoyment short of getting that occasional gear upgrade. Blizzard addressed this by lowering the difficulty of "LFG" raids, and made "Normal" and "Heroic" modes that you HAD to group up for. But still, the damage has been done. You never enter a raid with your friends anymore. LFG has become mandatory to gear properly for the "Normal" and "Heroic" modes, but by then you've done these fights dozens of times. There's no thrill of exploring, no thrill of learning the fights and the map. Just a different type of grind that has already lost its appeal days/weeks before you even needed to find a real group to do it with. Look, I know I said was going to try to remain unbiased, but the truth is MatchMaking ruins raiding. Raiding SHOULD NOT be something you do easily. Raiding is a test of your skill against PvE as much as it is a test of your communication skills. But when you allow for a "fast track" method to access the raids, you turn it into a chore that you simply throw yourself at until you arbitrarily find a group that has the DPS/HP numbers on their side. Back to Caboose.... So overall I am on Bungies side on this one I want to raids to be a difficult and challenging experiences that stay that, that take so long to even begin but when you are finished you are given tons of rewards, and you don't get that kind of stuff in games anymore.

Banned for having to make it.

You are a Derpen dolphin.

^ You wont be in the next chapter. But you will be soon......

^ We also know there is a Flood spore on the Spirit of fire so that could also play a part.

Awesome to see you back.

Okay, Im back so work on chapter seven is back on....

343 Guilty spark?

Your an "it"

Banned for making a bad pun.

FIRST !!!!! edit Second. Anyway, Self destruct you serve this, why? Sure you may not do anything amazing for the forum and stand out that way...... But you are on here everyday giving your best, writing new posts, and just being a nice member of the forum and that is all anyone can ask from a great member. Enjoy your month of lightish pink.

Hey, nice to see you back on the forums Orbis, cya around.

Banned because you are not a rubber band.

Banned for the sake of being Banned.

If you have read Halo the fall of Reach the next two you should read is Halo the Flood followed by Halo first strike. In that order.

From the looks of it the chapter is not going to get done until at least Saturday. I leave to an outdoor camp thing away from home for three days.... and I get back at night on a Friday. The next chapter is a biggy though.

Anyway is should depend on a number of things. But really look at the console as a whole, a whole console not just one thing but the whole package. I will admit Halo is about the best reason I can muster to buy a Xb1, apart from Titanfall, but you have a Pc so that does not matter? Unless your Pc does not have decent specs and cannot run Titanfall. Personally a Ps4 is enough for me and a Pc would be even better. You don't need a Xb1 from my viewpoint but.... Maybe you do ? I don't know much about you so only you can decide that. Right now based on the info you have given us I would say No.

Nope, that was the same store you just robbed, I can see you running away right now.... Give the guy a break. Oh yheah.... almost forgot.... Banned.