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7/12/2020 10:14:16 PM
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Let's Have an Option to Turn Off Matchmaking
I know it's an old topic, but I'm revisiting it anyway (because nobody seems to listen, since it's not about the meta loadout for PvP).
How about an option to turn off matchmaking in playlist strikes? Or in all strikes generally?
I understand that the core experience is supposed to be a team of guardians doing things together. HOWEVER- some of us aren't in a clan, or aren't in a terribly active clan, or are in a clan that mostly is awake at different hours, or whatever. So we get stuck constantly with random players. By now we're all well aware of the problems with random players. No point rehearsing it all.
Instead, how about an option to go solo into strikes, just like we used to solo the Nightfalls all the time back in D1?
Then we don't have the frustrations of being stuck with a speedrunner while one person is trying to rack up kills for a bounty or a quest, the speedrunner can go on their merry way, the experts can run the strike while the noobs learn the mechanics at their own pace- EVERYBODY WINS!!!!
Throw us this bone. Come on. You know you want to.
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I just got a new Xbox. Remade my whole account because PlayStation didn’t save my character. Did everything over again from scratch. And I don’t even want to play anymore because I can’t solo. I don’t want to play with people, I want to play by myself like I did before. This feels like I wasted my time and should’ve just forgotten about playing again.
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1 ReplyWhy in 2022 isn't this even a thing yet! My girlfriend and I just want to enjoy doing the strike playlist together, and take our time, kill all the adds, maybe stop to do that public event that pops up, do strike specific bounties, or just ENJOY a strike at our own pace?? but it inevitably ends up being spoiled by some idiot speed runner on his sparrow, racing to the boss fight, ignoring adds, champions etc, and you get the "joining allies" screen when you're just opening that chest or nearly finished that event it's infuriating!! Give us this small thing, please!!
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It's 2022 and still no option........ Bungie failing.
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I've had this very issues in strikes unlocking stasis and even resently in astral alignment of a hunter that pushes past others just to grab the orbs when there is already a player ready to take over carrying pushing the carrier back so they whon't reach and then barely contributing kills. I've also had amazing time getting titans in my nightfall that helps me but anytime I see a hunter or a warlock it's a coinflip of speedrunner or just dead/refuse to revive. Stuff like this is why I struggle in other games learning healer or tank cus I cant take time with anything. Currently only way to turn off Matchmaking is to scale it up to insanity but that's not possible unless I can take time learn the mechanics.
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TL;DR: Randoms are cancer, add Solo Nightfalls, or Time Trials Nightfalls to remove speedrunners from the casual pool 1,000,000% agree, I am tired of getting paired with cancerous speed running randoms when I'm playing; They don't revive teammates, they just rush to the end and screw everyone else. I like to play the strikes because I enjoy them, not because i see them as a chore. I like to take my time. If they don't like it they can wait at the locked entrance to the boss room until all players are at the door. Put in a Time Trial mode for Strikes to remove those people from the casual player pool, because they are ruining the experience, especially for new players, who have all the dialogue skipped all because some impatient player cant play the game and enjoy the content, rather than just get everything done as fast as possible. Also, those people are the ones who burn out after 2 weeks and complain that there is nothing to do.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Not all of us want to be forced to hold hands with strangers to play Strikes. I cant stand it anymore, why wont Bungie allow us something so simple. Its f**king aggravating.
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100% agree. But as with every useful suggestion, Bungie will totaly ignore it. However, you have my upvote and support on this.
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[quote]I know it's an old topic, but I'm revisiting it anyway (because nobody seems to listen, since it's not about the meta loadout for PvP). How about an option to turn off matchmaking in playlist strikes? Or in all strikes generally? I understand that the core experience is supposed to be a team of guardians doing things together. HOWEVER- some of us aren't in a clan, or aren't in a terribly active clan, or are in a clan that mostly is awake at different hours, or whatever. So we get stuck constantly with random players. By now we're all well aware of the problems with random players. No point rehearsing it all. Instead, how about an option to go solo into strikes, just like we used to solo the Nightfalls all the time back in D1? Then we don't have the frustrations of being stuck with a speedrunner while one person is trying to rack up kills for a bounty or a quest, the speedrunner can go on their merry way, the experts can run the strike while the noobs learn the mechanics at their own pace- EVERYBODY WINS!!!! Throw us this bone. Come on. You know you want to.[/quote] 100% agree!! We need this already. Me and my bestie ❣️ like to take our time, kill all adds, finish bounties, pick up orbs, glimmer, engrams, maybe even stop to do that public event on the way! only for some guy to join, jump on his sparrow and speed to the boss fight, really sucks when all of a sudden you get a black screen with "joining allies".. They're not allies! Just give us the option to switch off matchmaking. Done, fixed.
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100% in agreement. This may be my biggest issue with this game. I am one of those players who would like to complete bounties or triumphs at my own pace, maybe find some secrets, lore, etc within the strike. Abs I want to know if I'm good enough to do it on my own. It's too difficult with strangers who simply want to finish as fast as possible. I'm trying to get a bunch of sniper kills in strikes and it's damn near impossible with the other 2 players running ahead and killing everything before I can get my sights locked on to an enemy. I've begged for this in D2 since release date. It's the only thing I want, and we all know damn well it would take the developers about 10 min to make it happen. Several of my friends are to the point where they're not going to spend any more money on this game for reasons like this. It's absurd. True Destiny players, like myself, and most on this thread, have forked over a good chunk of $$ for this experience, and Bungie can't toss us one little bone? It's crap. But I'm still gonna play because I'm an addict I guess 🤷🏻♂️
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Like your ideas
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1 ReplyI agree 100% with OPTIONS to turn on and off matchmaking for strike playlist! We've been asking for this since D1. I honestly don't know why they are so stubbornly refusing this request. Another thing I would like is to get rid of.... or at least tone down the "joining allies" when in a matchmade strike. Sometimes I'm scrounging for Heavy and "hey, there's a brick over there, let me go get it" but NOPE, teammate walked through a door and I'm snatched away from that Heavy Ammo I was running towards. Joining allies should be a question on the screen "do you want to join allies?" and let us just say NO and keep on doing what we are doing. Yes, some people will run off and do other stuff but so what. Why does speedy gonzalez get to dictate what I have time to kill and if I should be able to get that ammo or not? Some of the pull spots are SOOO ridiculous too. Tree of Probabilities for example.... at the end I can be 10 feet behind a player who goes through a door and instead of waiting for me to run through it yanks me in and I have to wait for the game to do the joining allies. I honestly HATE HATE HATE the joining allies functionality period. It's also what all the losers use to cheese the raids. Just take it out already!
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I've wanted this for a while tbh. Like how warframe has the option to play solo. Would make doing bounties exponentially more enjoyable.
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Yet another wonderful useful post Thankyou Yes give us more choice Nightfall ordeals and Strikes should have this The being force to use apps to find teams does my nut in some days There are plenty of more than capable people who can do master ordeal without the endless Palava of bloody matchmakng/team finding apps
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Optional matchmaking everywhere except for raids. This has been a feature in the Division since launch and it works quite well.
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They have it in Warframe, I love it. It's so nice having the option to close the mission or open it up if I feel like I need the help. Destiny really needs this option. Maybe they could even add in triumphs for soloing strikes? Get a new title in the game that revolves around doing things solo.
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1 ReplyAbsolutely! I’m going through strikes trying to finish bounties, there flat out isn’t enough adds for everyone. You get players racing you for kills and then they send you hate mail when you don’t revive them
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Agree... one of the many things I don't understand.... you can do a NF solo but not the easy version, you can do the Hard version of the NM Haunts solo but not the easy version, heck you can even do ( granted very difficult) but you can do a Raid solo.
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6 RepliesYes. But also have the option to enable it in harder difficulty activities that currently don’t have it. Like high power NFs, Hunts, etc. And why not in raids and trials, with a huge disclaimer shown to players that they need communication. (Either make it mandatory, or provide new emotes to describe raid elements, enemy positions etc.. This would be doubly beneficial as aid for less enabled players (e.g. with hearing disability etc.).)
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1 ReplyIf on PS4 you can change the date manually on your console, I set mine back a couple of months. Launch into whatever and you’ll be all on your own.
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Totally agree
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Its sucks bc I really enjoy strikes but they're really not fun anymore, obviously repetitive / stale but the bounty / un cooperative dynamic is awful and borderline toxic. Players running past everything, no team res etc ..
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For leftover strike bounties, I solo into one of the regular Nightfalls (not the Ordeal one) that starts in a patrol zone. From there, you have the entire destination available, including lost sectors.
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2 Repliesi want an option to turn options on and off.
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You are on playstation so you can achieve this by changing the date but a good suggestion nonetheless.
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Lets have an option to turn ON matchmaking.
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1 ReplyYeah sorry no one cares that you wanna waste time doing bounties.
