Today's update included a major overhaul for Firefight. Instead of just one round lasting 6-7 minutes, you play an entire set of 3 rounds + a bonus round. A single game can take over 20 minutes now. I was playing it earlier today and it was exhausting! But I got 4000 credits, with over 1000 credits from working towards Commendations. Seems like this might be a pretty good way to level up, even though it takes a while. Anyone else try it out? What do you think?

Nice! I saw it on Bungie's site but I haven't tested it yet. Going to try it after I get some sleep, it's 01:47 o'clock in the morning here. :)

That's nothing. The achievements in ODST took me about 2 hours a map.

I feel like this is how firefight in matchmaking should have been from the start. Maybe they started them shorter to help ease people into it? 
Either way, I couldn't be happier.

" I feel like this is how firefight in matchmaking should have been from the start. Maybe they started them shorter to help ease people into it? Either way, I couldn't be happier. "

I had no idea about the update. I thought Matchmaking was broken and taking me to custom games.

" I had no idea about the update. I thought Matchmaking was broken and taking me to custom games. "

Well it must of been how they planned to do it because did you ever noticed when you finished a firefight it said par 50,000 now way in hell you could do that before. 
 
 
*** But how are you supposed to beat it without dying now O_o

I played a match of Sniperfight with some friends today to get the daily challenge for Firefight kills, and it is much more fun to play a full set even if it is more time consuming. Though, my bonus round was nothing but Hunters, so that part was lame. I'm more interested in playing today's other new addition, Team Snipers, but I might jump into Firefight more often now that they've made it more tolerable.

" I played a match of Sniperfight with some friends today to get the daily challenge for Firefight kills, and it is much more fun to play a full set even if it is more time consuming. Though, my bonus round was nothing but Hunters, so that part was lame. I'm more interested in playing today's other new addition, Team Snipers, but I might jump into Firefight more often now that they've made it more tolerable. "

I'm so glad they finally fixed the firefight stuff.  I don't think I'll be playing score attack anymore now that the bullshit betrayal booting stuff has been taken out.

Holy crap! I'd love to try it out, but all the fuckers I get matched with pick Rocketfight and don't pick anything until it shows up. 

i have yet to play a full round yet. it just sits at the matchmaking screen for 10 mins and then tells me to go play another game type.

After finally playing a couple of "real" Firefight gametypes, it is indeed very awesome. Never got as much as 4000 cR though, but then again never unlocked a new Commendation anyway. 
 
I got the exact same awesome feeling playing Campaign Co-Op, it's truely awesome. I can see myself playing both Firefight and Campaign matchmaking a lot of the time, if I keep getting games that NEVER lag.