"Looking for Group" is a recent feature on Xbox that lets you make posts looking for people to play with.
For example, I've been playing tons of Gears Of War 4 Horde lately... and I've pulled off 50 consecutive waves TWELVE times in the past two weeks, with 5-man groups that all have microphones, just based off finding randoms via "Looking for Group". And FIVE of those twelve sessions of 50 consecutive waves of Horde were done on Insane difficulty. And a couple more on Hardcore difficulty.
To me this is unprecedented and demonstrates the intrinsic value of this incredible feature.
There's no way I would've met the same number of proficient and like-minded players going through normal matchmaking.
Looking for Group is basically saving Horde for me. Not that it needed saving but I'm a really impatient person and I didn't want to have to deal with random people on matchmaking. But Looking for Group let me find people immediately (no waiting) who have microphones, want to do certain maps, and want to play 50 consecutive waves of Horde.
It's amazing - one time our group was playing hardcore difficulty and we were struggling on wave 38. So I made a Looking for Group post saying "On wave 38 on Impact, need 1 engineer". And within minutes some good Samaritan responded to our post, joined up, and helped us out big time all the way to Wave 50.
And remember - that person didn't respond to some forum post outside of the Xbox. This was all within the Xbox OS. Pretty crazy. Love this feature.
For example, I've been playing tons of Gears Of War 4 Horde lately... and I've pulled off 50 consecutive waves TWELVE times in the past two weeks, with 5-man groups that all have microphones, just based off finding randoms via "Looking for Group". And FIVE of those twelve sessions of 50 consecutive waves of Horde were done on Insane difficulty. And a couple more on Hardcore difficulty.
To me this is unprecedented and demonstrates the intrinsic value of this incredible feature.
There's no way I would've met the same number of proficient and like-minded players going through normal matchmaking.
Looking for Group is basically saving Horde for me. Not that it needed saving but I'm a really impatient person and I didn't want to have to deal with random people on matchmaking. But Looking for Group let me find people immediately (no waiting) who have microphones, want to do certain maps, and want to play 50 consecutive waves of Horde.
It's amazing - one time our group was playing hardcore difficulty and we were struggling on wave 38. So I made a Looking for Group post saying "On wave 38 on Impact, need 1 engineer". And within minutes some good Samaritan responded to our post, joined up, and helped us out big time all the way to Wave 50.
And remember - that person didn't respond to some forum post outside of the Xbox. This was all within the Xbox OS. Pretty crazy. Love this feature.