I've got mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I do like the idea of being able to go into a strike solo or with a friend without playing with randoms. With that said, I think it is beneficial to have Matchmaking in some activities as a way to get the Destiny community to play together, it's one of the things that makes Destiny great. My fear is that if you offer a Firewall mode, players would use that exclusively and miss out on the multiplayer experience. This would be my compromise: 1. Rework the bounties for Strikes to be more generalized and gain progress from teammates. Example: Instead of getting 10 Rocket Launcher kills, change it to 30 Power Weapon "kills", fireteam kills count for 1, your kills count for 3. This would help alleviate the stress of trying to fight for kills in strikes. You can gain more progress by getting the kills yourself, but can also get them casually complete during strike gameplay. 2. Add a Firewall option for all strikes, but cut rewards by half. The reason for doing this is to allow the option to go solo for quests and bounties, but to encourage playing with others for general gameplay. As I was writing this, I had a thought. I think a better system for Strikes would be to go back to the Challenge system from Year 1, that way, everyone would have the same objectives by default and could work together to get those challenges complete. I think you could improve upon that system by having challenges for each strike that would correspond to rewards at the end of the strike. For example, maybe one of the challenges is to get 100 fireteam kills in the strike, this would give an incentive for the team to work together to get kills instead of just speedrunning through the strike. You could also add strike specific challenges that give rewards at the end of each strike. The strike playlist definitely needs to be improved overall.