Destiny Concern - Friends and Fireteams (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 02:34 (3805 days ago) @ Blue_Blazer_NZ

Basically, the concern is that you are not able to team up with more than two friends even in the explore mode, which is strange given that explore mode instances can actually hold more than 3 players - random other people are matchmade into your instance after all.

I brought this point up in the Alpha. While it's far easier to find two friends to play with, the fact that it's removing the almost-standard four-player co-op from focus really knocks things out of our comfort zone. You'd think that they'd either be able to replace one of the randoms in your game in favor of a fourth, or they'd have matchmaking prioritize grouping you with friends.

I can see that being a problem if 8 coordinated people that know each other end up in a single game, though. The four-man fireteam is something that I really hope they're able to patch in, even if we have to wait for a fourth class to be added.

I understand strikes etc likely have a cap of 3 or six because they've been designed that way; but explore mode? That is designed for more than three people...but not more than three friends it seems.

Bungie hasn't explicitly stated that explore mode would be limited to three, have they? Might just be an Alpha thing to test as many different connections as possible, but that's just me being an optimist...

What do you guys think? Is this a problem? Have Bungie considered this?

Nobody who interviews them ever asks important things like this, it's just whining about PS4 getting more attention or asking when the Beta releases...