Do you remember 3v3 Generator defense from the Reach Beta? What ever happened to that idea; it seemed like it could be a stellar game - kind of like a smaller version of Invasion. Of course it doesn’t matter now, but I was curious as to what happened to it. I remember it being a good time.
Here is a video in case you forget/didn’t play it:
Also, playing those firefight maps as actual multiplayer maps would have been nifty.
No one played it is what happened. I tried it once and felt I’d rather spen dmy time in Firefight, Campaign or MM.
In the beta you mean? Of course not now, because the max players is 4 as opposed to 6 if that is what you’re saying. I just think it could have been cool to see in Invasion types or something.
Generator Defence was a Network Test for the Firefight & Campaign netcode, it’s rumoured that Bungie originally wanted 6 player Campaign co-op, each player being a member of Noble Team, however, it was cut down to four player co-op and the idea never happened.
Generator Defence has ALWAYS been a Firefight Gametype, ever since Beta, it is something that is not possible to be put into Matchmaking Multiplayer.
It seemed like a fun idea to me, but in the beta, I was very much turned off to the gametype because of the extreme lag I experienced. I don’t really like playing firefight or co-op campaign because of said lag. Hopefully for future games they’ll have that part figured out.
I know right that was like the ONLY thing I played in the beta and was sad to see it go but it need to be fixed like how spartans can lock genraters RIGHT before they die so they have time to respawn before it starts and spartains can camp in the room the genraters are in maybe make like 3 genraters that are FAR away or something to change up the pace of camping
Ah yes network test 1, fun times.
Its a shame, but adversarial gametypes using the coop netcode jut dont work very well. Id still like to see firefight versus make a comeback though ;_;
its not the gametype i miss its the map. imagine if you could play firefight AND multiplayer on the same maps.
was there ever a firefight versus in matchmaking because that would be fun…maybe.
> was there ever a firefight versus in matchmaking because that would be fun…maybe.
It was, twice, in 2010 both times, Bungie decided to keep it out due to it was incredibly hard to balance because of the lag.