Halo: Reach Campaign Matchmaking to be Added Eventually, Held to Avoid Spoiling the Adventure

Bungie is so fucking clueless. Because of their bullheaded "no spoiler" idea, I wasn't able to find someone to play the first level with when I played for the first time in coop. Instead I joined a couple friends in my friends list for a coop game on level 4.

If they had an intelligent system, I could have been matched with the likely 200,000 players in that 15 minute time span who were also looking to play coop from level 1.

I don't think I'm that unique in my 360 & halo reach status. My real life friends either don't have a 360, halo reach, or aren't even in the same 5 hour time zone range. Thankfully I did manage to collect a bunch of random people in my friends list from Borderlands coop (great system there Bungie, take a good look, dumbasses) and the bungie forums where other people were upset back when Halo 3 came out with this same issue.

I bet a lot of 360 users don't even friend people they haven't met in real life, or just any random on xbox live.


And as for the playlists and lack of custom game matchmaking...

Thankfully, for the moment I don't feel the crushing urge to play vehicle ctf but if I tried in Halo Reach, I might spend a whole evening and never come close. Let alone being able to play vehicle ctf in blood gulch. Best ctf gameplay ever, and It's practically impossible to get a game of that going because of Bungie's inflexibility.


Thankfully I am only renting this game on gamefly and can return this game if/when Bungie takes too long to add coop matchmaking. But I might just return it in the meantime and stop wasting my time.

That's kinda cool, I suppose.

What I really want is drop-in-drop-out co-op support. But I gather that's complicated.

They really need to take out the Invasion slayer gametype. I love invasion but hate when people just vote to do slayer. If I wanted to do slayer I'd choose team slayer...

I think it would be a better incentive if this was unlocked when one completed the campaign.

I am totally amazed that anyone brings up Borderlands, comparing it Halo: reach. Reach must be REALLY bad cause Borderlands is Gamespy tom-foolery and its FUCKING RETARDED. (if you actually like gamespy, i would consider you not exactly the most discerning of gamers, which is fine!)

Related to Reach, I am playing through on Heroic for my first run, and (no spoilers incoming), got a kick out of Noble 6's groan of disgust and embarrassment as I threw a sticky grenade at something, not realizing there was a force field, only to have it bounce off the shield and land on my forearm.

I laughed, but was chastened, too.

They could have done an unlock progression for that feature.

Couldn't they have just added a option saying something to the effect "Don't join games out of order based on my progress". That way people that don't want to be spoil are maybe and the others that couldn't care less can play as usual.

Wow, I'm going to try that lame excuse the next time my boss asks why my TPS report is late.