How are you supposed to play this game without friends?

I want to do the daily and weekly strikes but there's apparently no matchmaking for those. But since this isn't a PC game with a keyboard like real MMOs I can't exactly go to the tower and chat people up asking to group up.
How do they expect people to make friends and play the game? Why the hell isn't this on PC? Why is the matchmaking so limited?

This is all quite baffling, and is really killing my enjoyment of the game. How am I supposed to play it by myself?

Anyway, I'm on PS4 at SolidSnake3035 if anyone else has similar issues and wants to actually try to play the damn game.

Posted Oct 19, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC

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ZannX•

I solo the weekly heroic strike/nightfall on both of my characters. For the raid, lfg.net/com and r/fireteams.

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Oppis•

No! You can't play the raid with a random pick up group! This is a bug, and you will soon only be able to play the raid with people that have been on your friends list for longer than a year /s

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YogiDestro•

In all honesty I have found doing the weekly heroic/nightfall strikes to be a lot easier to solo. It scales enemies to how many players are in the instance, so the less players you have the more concentrated your dps which is massively beneficial. Really all you need a group for is raiding and if you're looking for raiders, we have a decent clan.

Add me: Yogidestro2

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Erbsenkopf•

Find some groups and a clan on bungie.net. i've found a lot of people there to play with. Feel free to add me: psn: Erbsenkopf

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TheGMan323•
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F8L-Fool•

You can roll the dice on DestinyLFG and occasionally find some pretty awesome folks. I actually did two runs tonight on there because my buddies are out of town. The first group did well up until the Gatekeeper and there was no hope. Everyone was too negative.

The second group absolutely crushed the entire clear and everyone was quite nice. Two guys in particular were quite skilled and really fun to play with. I added them and then we did a partial run up to the labyrinth for alts. Now I have two new buddies that I will probably do at least one clear with after the reset.

However, the best move I made was adding this guy I randomly played with, back when virtually no one was doing the Tiger Strikes. He was the first person I saw use he Bladedancer stealth to salvage a wipe and I was impressed. He accepted, we partied up, introduced our friends to one another and made a clan.

Next week the raid came out and we smashed it that same day. Fourth PSN group to do the clear and all thanks to a random encounter during a Tiger Strike. He's now my best friend in Destiny and we've done over a dozen clears together, leveled our two alts to cap together, and do all the weeklies.

You just have to be on the lookout for skilled people that impress you and see if things click. It's how I've always approached online gaming and I've been pretty happy thus far with the results. Being positive, open, and sociable can lead to some great experiences.

P.S. The social mechanics in the game are crap. It has nothing to do with the fact it is on a console. Bad features are bad regardless of the platform a game is on. Don't blame it on the console exclusivity.

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goddamnitobama•

join a random clan on bungie.net ; i've added about 20 people, and I recently completed the nightfall strike with a couple of people off there.

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FlyFishn•

Getting into a good active clan is big in this game.

Search for a large one and hook up with them.

Game changing.

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Terakahn•

You sound like you're speaking from experience. Any recommendations? I'm mostly a PvE guy

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FlyFishn•

You'll just have to search through bungie's site and find a decent sized clan with a clan objective that sounds good to you.

That's about the best way of picking one out.

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SilResBlaze•

The daily quests are usually pretty easy to solo, the weekly and nightfall can be soloed as well but it's a pain in the ass so using one of the lfg sites is good for that if a bit tedious. They will add matchmaking soon, and eventually a pc version will exist, until then you need to be flexible. I'll add you later if you want someone to play with but I don't chat too often, name is same as on here.

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paveric•

You're not. I honestly don't think they considered it.

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ImSoReactive•

I just Solo the daily mission and the weekly strike, aswell as the Nightfall. With one person all enemies have lower health, two players it gets more difficult and with three even more so.

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igornvidal•

Whenever I play any strike I immediately add the other randoms as friends so we can strike again later.

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Systm_admn•

destinylfg.net its essentially lfg or party finder. This isn't on PC because.......... Hell we don't know! No one really does. Bungies response was basically "Too Hard!". But we all know the real answer in our hearts...... This game would of been so much better on PC where we can choose what hardware we use.

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Lord_of_Rain•

Like a boss. I play 90% solo. I'm level 29, I do all weekly activities alone. I'm not some crazy "no-lifer" is just have utilized my time efficiently as I've played, planed out weapon and armor. May not be for everyone, but it can be done. I only hookup with a fire team for a raid, and still, I could probably solo that if it didn't absolutely require a team.

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IRLpowerranger•

How about you stop looking for reasons to reassure yourself that PC is the master race and just go play games on that instead of consoles.

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Voldemosh•

destinylfg.com Do you people even look, or just complain straight away

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DevonCMOP•

You shouldn't have to use websites to play a console game. This wouldn't be an issue in any PC game, either.

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Ragnorrak•

You can chat with people, it's called sending a damn message.

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Ragnorrak•
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