Destiny’s 6-Person Raids Will Not Have Public Matchmaking

New details of Destiny’s 6-player raids have surfaced in a new preview, which details how the mode will only be playable with friends as players won’t be able to matchmake their groups with a larger base of public players.

Speaking to IGN, Bungie writer Luke Smith said: "Raids are a really big bet for us. It's a bit of a risk because the activity requires you to have a group of five other friends to play with.”

"We don't adhere to any of the standard rules for the rest of the game. Like, raids don't have waypoints, they don't tell you where to go, they don't tell you what to do.

Smith added that each raid session would take several hours to complete and players will most likely have to go through multiple attempts to succeed. 

"Obviously we're going to have big cool bosses," Smith said. "I think that we've given people a taste in Strikes of what the bosses are and what they can do. 

“The raid bosses are different: they're still big monsters, much like what you're going to see, they're still scary, but they have a bunch of abilities that are unlike anything you've really experienced in a shooter before.

"I don't say that to be a douchebag and I don't say it because it's a cool bullet point, I say it because when we were building this thing there was nothing that any of us could go home to play to try and learn from. I mean we were – as we were going – building and learning and failing along the way to find cool mechanics and occasionally we'd succeed."

Destiny is set for a PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One release on September 9, 2014. 

Activision recently disclosed that Destiny’s beta attracted over 4.6 million players.