Hi all,
I’m wondering, is there any way to play firefight with 2 people and still work on the commendations? Me and a roommate like to play ‘Classic’/‘Limited’ gametypes, but in matchmaking people usually vote Arcadefight, or yoink up and lose all lives in 10 seconds… We can just go into firefight instead of matchmaking, but the commendations don’t work then. And I can play score attack when I’m alone, but for two — anything?
I’ve tried turning on the good connection, language and skill search restrictions, but I still get matches (-Yoink!-, it works too good xD).
In fact, I don’t understand at all why you can’t get firefight commendations offline. Why force people to match up via online? I see mostly downsides, teamwork is harder (no headsets), sometimes lag, etc…
Thanks.
If the network conditions are poor or it takes a while to find a match, then you’ll sometimes end up in a lobby with just two players, but there is no way to force that without breaking any rules that will get you cR banned.
There used to be a Firefight Doubles playlist but it was removed in the August 2012 consolidation as it wasn’t popular enough to warrant its own playlist anymore.
The best you can do is just keep playing with other people and hope you run into some good players and once you do, team up with them.
As for why you can’t get them offline, it encourages cheating to get them which ruins the whole point of them.
Hm yeah, I’ve started preferring players with similar likes & style (and avoiding early quitters and trolls) – wonder how much effect it will have! Just ran into one of them again last night so that was nice. =]
Firefight sounds like what I would’ve wanted. I can maybe see why there no separate playlist anymore, but then why not make it possible to enter score attack playlist with more in your party or something? 
Nah, whatevah.
If I find a few to friend and just make 3-4p party’s then it’ll be ok I guess.
How would one cheat in Firefight, btw? I know it’s easy in campaign with the checkpoints and all, but in Firefight? Still wouldn’t explain why you can’t just play them without matchmaking (like you can with Spartan Ops – you still need Gold though, so they make the same money, I don’t see the problem (about the only good thing about SpOps btw xD, well relatively good, would be better if it was available to silver as well))