Bungie considers adding matchmaking feature for Destiny Raids

Bungie might add matchmaking feature for Destiny Raids

The Vault of Glass, Destiny’s raid, requires a group of six players who are of level 20 or above to team up and face the challenge. It is considered to be most challenging and requires unassailable teamwork, which the players can tackle by combining a team of friends who know each other well, rather than matching up with strangers. But for the players who don’t have level 20 friends in the game to team up, there is no match-making scenario and this has stirred a controversy among fans.

The Destiny team seems unconvinced, that six strangers can form a group and tackle the challenges of the raid. This raid provides tough scenarios where teamwork plays a vital role, in their weekly updates, Bungie’s community manager ‘DeeJ’ mentioned that “...raiding parties who have emerged victorious from the Vault of Glass have sworn that one weak link would have doomed their chain....” . The match-making feature for the raid seems forthcoming as he also said, “We’re having conversations about how Matchmaking might support the more challenging activities in Destiny”.

Here’s what ‘DeeJ’ said in the weekly update,

You don’t need to sell us too hard on the value of Matchmaking at Bungie. It’s something we helped to pioneer. Yet, we understand its limitations. In the recipe of a Bungie game, Matchmaking has always contributed the ingredient of a team built to play one match of competitive multiplayer. As you’ve probably witnessed in recent weeks (or years), many of those fresh allies have failed to go the distance together.

The Raid was designed for solid teams of killers who have made a commitment to solve a dense and explosive riddle. Most of the raiding parties who have emerged victorious from the Vault of Glass have sworn that one weak link would have doomed their chain. There have been other stories, of course. We’ve heard tell of Guardians who met each other just outside the door that leads into that vault. Strange tales have reached our ears - tales of total strangers who have banded together to see the Raid all the way through to a triumphant finale.

Those stories surprise us, but the players of our games always have. The best I can do to answer your question is to let you know that you’ve been heard. We’re having conversations about how Matchmaking might support the more challenging activities in Destiny. It’s a start. Keep sounding off about it, and maybe someday some matchmade Fireteam mates will hear you, too.

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