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During the Destiny Beta I usually had more than 2 friends that want to play with me at a given moment. This made things awkward when we wanted to do something like a mission as the maximum fireteam number was 3. This is somewhat understandable as the levels appear to be built for 3 players and if more were playing the mission at the same time it would make the mission too easy. However, it was a surprise to see that the Explore mode also has a 3 player fireteam limit despite there being no missions, besides the much smaller beacon missions, that needed to have an appropriate amount in a fireteam.
I was hoping that this could be changed to a larger number which is clearly possible as Crucible fireteams could have up to 6 players in the Beta. Seeing as the Explore mode doesn't need to have a balanced amount of players doing the same thing as there are no grander scaled missions so it would probably be an improvement to have more players in a fireteam for Explore mode as it would give people with more than 2 friends an opportunity to meet up to do something together in-game.
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If you can meet up with lots of random players duing explore mode, [i]surely[/i] it would be possible to have more than 3 players in an explore mode fireteam. I hope this feature will be added in the full game but im not that confident to be completely honest. A game such as Destiny (large-scale, social-based, RPGFPS) shouldn't force friends to split up and play in smaller groups. It just seems like an odd design choice as I pictured exploring the game with a large group of friends like in MMO's. I know the game isn't trying to be an MMO but it isn't an MMO exclusive feature.