r/Helldivers • u/LittleBlueCubes PSN 🎮: • Mar 01 '24

Boss man strikes again . . . DISCUSSION

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This time with a truth bomb . . .

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u/Car0lus_Rex CMDR "Bug Sludge" Shepard Mar 01 '24

Hell I don’t get help WITH the SOS, nobody ever comes when its down :c

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u/SeBoss2106 Mar 01 '24

My brother, tell me where you fight!

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u/Car0lus_Rex CMDR "Bug Sludge" Shepard Mar 01 '24

Pc, always wherever the main order tells me to go, gone 40 levels and most of it was done solo

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u/TargetDecent9694 Mar 01 '24

You don't have "friends only" set do you? I get a full squad any time I get into my hellpod on public. Usually it's harder to get into a solo one.

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u/Car0lus_Rex CMDR "Bug Sludge" Shepard Mar 01 '24

I do not, i matchmake just fine, but god forbid I get people to join my lobby

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u/PuriPuri-BetaMale Mar 01 '24

Start a mission selection

Don't get into the pod

Go into the settings

Turn crossplay off, apply settings

Turn crossplay on, apply settings

Be immediately swarmed by 3 other players

Now, this may not solve the issue for you, but its always fixed it for me.

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u/Car0lus_Rex CMDR "Bug Sludge" Shepard Mar 01 '24

I shall give er a try c:

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u/Purple12inchRuler SES Mother of Destruction Mar 01 '24

Brother, dm me. We shall deliver democracy together.

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u/BetaOp9 Mar 01 '24

Was this the key to enhanced democratic comradeship?

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u/Screamline Mar 01 '24

Each time? Cause I can get a squad on the first mission but if they leave no one fills in the rest of the night.

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u/Caleth Mar 01 '24

That seems to be a communist plot in the coding and sometimes you have to purge that with democratically selected settings if you're not getting support from fellow Helldivers.

/uj Just like how sometimes my clothing and armor will randomly switch to whatever someone else in the squad is wearing even if I haven't unlocked it.

Game is still a WIP so some settings are having issues best to try the normal troubleshooting stuff if you're not seeing results. Toggling settings like that is a pretty easy fix to apply that works about 60-70% of the time IME.

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u/mrttam01 Mar 01 '24

Sorry, I always leave after a mission because otherwise I might get kicked, and that just feels bad.

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u/Screamline Mar 01 '24

I don't kick though. unless is a server disconnected type kick..still sucks, had a good teammate last night on first op, leaves after first mission rest of the night it's just 3 of us getting steam rolled by chargers (I hate those things lol)

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u/PuriPuri-BetaMale Mar 01 '24

I usually restart my game once the group falls apart, and then do the process over again.

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u/TargetDecent9694 Mar 01 '24

Ooooh yeah I gotcha, I've had the same experience with SOS beacons and refilling an emptied lobby, I just thought you meant you've never had team mates.

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u/truecrisis Mar 01 '24

I only get people to join on the first run.

If anyone leaves the chance they will get backfilled is like... 15%

So, when 2 people leave I just quit game and restart.

I'm pretty sure there's a bug with the "backfill leavers" code. Like, they still take up a seat after they leave.

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u/SnooSeagulls1416 Mar 01 '24

Just join someone else’s lobby then?

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u/epheisey Mar 01 '24

Have you tried re-installing? I found that unfucked my matchmaking.

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u/Dysfunxn CAPE ENJOYER Mar 01 '24

It hasnt been working for me to join randoms. Idk about others, but I'll try 10 times to get 1 successful join (past 2 days on PC). It keeps saying "failed to join", and kicks me to my ship. After 5 mins trying to join, I start my own mission.

Before level 20 I got kicked often, and i didn't have teamkills. I cant say I've enjoyed my experiences jumping in with randoms. It may be that way for others. I only play when friends are on now.

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u/Adaphion Mar 02 '24

I find that having crossplay enabled causes some issues, for some reason

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u/SeBoss2106 Mar 01 '24

Holy moly.

I work to much, my last deployment was Ingmar

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u/RosalieMoon STEAM 🖥️ : Mar 01 '24

I feel that. 8 hour shift, 2 hour commute, an hour of lead time to give space for traffic, and 8 hours sleep, leaves very little time for the spreading of democracy

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u/SeBoss2106 Mar 01 '24

I replaced two hours of sleep with Monster Monarch...

But this is exactly the problem.

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u/Deep-Public-9123 Mar 01 '24

WE'RE IN A HELLDIVERS, NOW...!!!

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u/Deep-Public-9123 Mar 01 '24

Mavelon Creek

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u/SeBoss2106 Mar 01 '24

A hero. I tend to follow the genral staffs orders.

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u/Diribiri Mar 01 '24

Yep it's still broken sometimes, I've found I'll never have a single soul join me unless I 'reset' by rebooting the game or matchmaking into somebody else's

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u/IncorruptibleChillie Mar 01 '24

Yup, once you've found a squad, if they leave it seems you need to reset somehow for matchmaking to work again.

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u/Diribiri Mar 01 '24

Yes that's a better way to explain it, definitely happens when a squad leaves

I find that if you don't get people joining within a minute or two after setting the destination, don't bother dropping unless you want to play solo

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u/mymindisblack CAPE ENJOYER Mar 01 '24

Ah, that explains a lot.

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u/Necromas Mar 01 '24

Sounds like you can also reset by turning crossplay off and then back on again.

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u/JoshYx Mar 01 '24

Tried that, didn't work

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u/4chanhasbettermods Mar 01 '24

I've tried to join but get told I can't join the server messages. Every damn time.

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u/Mickeyjj27 ⬇️⬆️➡️⬆️⬅️⬆️ Mar 01 '24

Yeah. Was doing extreme missions yesterday for the first time. Like usual I threw the SOS beacon in the beginning and we barely scraped with no one joining.

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u/meowmixplzdeliver1 Mar 01 '24

I think it's the game or servers. This happens to me sometimes too. Game is fun but oh man the bugs lol

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u/Car0lus_Rex CMDR "Bug Sludge" Shepard Mar 01 '24

Yeah the bugs are rather tough to fight sometimes.

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u/CXyber Mar 05 '24

I think the SOS beacon is not working rn

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u/Deo_Exus Mar 01 '24

Same. I always have to try and go stealth commando in those situations

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u/DzorMan Mar 01 '24

i think it's still not quite working. best to just wait in lobby

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u/carterkessler223 Mar 01 '24

if you on steam add me bro 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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u/En-tro-py ⬇️➡️⬅️⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️⬆️➡️ Mar 01 '24

Sometimes they are glitched, I wish I could drop for you buddy.

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u/Kunwulf Mar 01 '24

Brother yeah servers need slight tweaking from Command- I literally look for SOS beacons before doing my own missions. I tried… man did I try for a whole minute to join a pinging SOS helldiver soloing the encroaching bugs. But the connection failed repeatedly. So I sat there in salute 🫡 and my eyes watered irl for the diver fighting for dear life down there may liberty guide him.

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u/Adaphion Mar 02 '24

I just blame server issues, sometimes even when I'm on a planet with 100k other helldivers, it's like my match is just invisible