What's the point of a timer in FF ?

Games Halo 5: Guardians
1

It goes against the point of FF/Horde/Zombies type of mode. They’re all the same modes. Coop against waves of AI.
The entire point of this mode is players vs waves and waves of AI. The timer totally kills all of the joy of this game mode.

I don’t even mind that it’s hard. I get that. It’s ok. But the thing that makes it nearly impossibly hard is the timer because you’re in a rush instead of enjoyment.

If you’re not going to remove the timer at least double the time. Especially for the last round.

As it stands with the difficulty (which I’m fine with) AND the ridiculously short timer both don’t go hand in hand. Timer ruins the enjoyment. Not the difficulty.

2

I’ll admit it might have been appropriate to give it a different name like Escalation or something.

Firefight still works though, in the sense that its a PvE co-op mode.

3

They should give us a bit more time, I agree with that. Some of the bosses need a ton of firepower to take down and you do need time for that.

But I do like it that there is a timer.
It creates tension, excitement when you kill a boss in the last few seconds.