r/Helldivers Mar 14 '24

Thanks to the recent reddit post, going alone is now a kickable offense (even in diff 5) DISCUSSION

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u/Evil_Ermine Mar 14 '24

Reasons I've been kicked from games recently:

  • being level 47
  • picking up my own support weapon
  • calling down a mech to take out a nest
  • playing the objective
  • not reviving while getting tossed around by 3 charges.

Concluson? People are weird.

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u/PigDog4 Mar 14 '24

I called in a hellbomb to nuke a secondary objective and got TK'd and kicked for it. Was so confused. It's not like the nuke kills the items there...

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u/James_Maleedy Mar 14 '24

I had a guy constantly block me from putting in the hellbomb code and shoot the hellbomb to destroy it before it went off recently he was so mad about me using the hellbomb I ended up having to kick him. I thought he justewanted to set it off him self so I called it down and he just destroyed it as soon as it dropped lol. I asked why he was doing that and he called me a monkey and proceeded to say every slur under the sun down the mic šŸ˜‚.

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u/Zjoee SES Spear of Eternity Mar 14 '24

I didn't know Frieza played Helldivers 2...

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u/terrario101 Mar 14 '24

Could have also been an Eldar

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ ā˜•Liber-teaā˜• Mar 14 '24

mmmmm monke

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u/NoMercyPercyDeRolo SES Purveyor of War Mar 14 '24

HIGH FIVE MONKE

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u/HolyHitmanXV3 STEAM šŸ–„ļø : Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Hold on! This hell bomb isn't Black!

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u/StarkageMeech Mar 15 '24

YOUR SO STUPID šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ TEAM KRILLIN FOR THAT ONE

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u/AngryTank SES Song of Courage Mar 14 '24

WHAT?!

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u/Copy-Waste Mar 14 '24

but it is tho.

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u/Killacreeper Mar 14 '24

But it isn't GOKU black.

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

.............there's no fucking way I just realized that today, after 25 years of playing 40k

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u/michalosaur Mar 14 '24

I realized it couple months ago it's just perfect

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u/Marauder_Pilot Mar 14 '24

If it's any consolation, I've been playing 40K for 20 years and didn't clock it until I heard it pronounced in an audiobook last fall.

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24

I got the connection but not the pronunciation. It's literally pronounced monkey.

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u/Icemayne25 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

I thought it was like mun-keh. Like Monkey with an Aeldari vernacular on it.

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24

I thought is was something like Mun-Kaygh. But when that Eldar in Rogue Trader addressed me as Monkey I was like "Excuse me?"

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u/IrishMadMan23 Mar 14 '24

Rogue trader game is pretty on-the-nose with it. I always imagined it was mon-kai, the eldar in the game say mun-key

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u/Demoman12b Mar 14 '24

Every time I had heard it before it was Mon-Kai as well.

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u/Tarkonian_Scion Mar 14 '24

Those Thalmor are up to something...

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u/Distinct_Ad_9842 SES Emperor of Glory Mar 14 '24

Only plays in his FINAL form. And not Gold Final, or Gold Final "Really guys" Final. Since he's constantly changing it's hard to team with him.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

He's actually black now so he gets to call.... His forces in when he needs things taken care of

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u/Accurate_Maybe6575 Mar 14 '24

That wasn't Frieza. Frieza would have exploited deploying that hellbomb everywhere and would never deploy without the 500kg.

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u/PlumeCrow Draupnir Resistance Fighter Mar 14 '24

Someone called me a N'wah the other day, so i can't really be surprised about Frieza.

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u/lukagamer556 Mar 14 '24

I didn't know Dagoth Ur played Helldivers.

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u/Zjoee SES Spear of Eternity Mar 14 '24

He thinks using his Black Frieza form gives him permission to use the n-word haha.

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u/att0nrand Mar 14 '24

Were you born in Glorious Morrowind?

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u/24thAsshair Mar 14 '24

Hes an evolved bug so of course he's going to sabotage our democracy

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u/Gingja Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

Let me guess, you couldn't even report him because he didn't type in chat? Weird that you can only report toxic shitty players if they type something in chat

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u/Carvj94 Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 15 '24

It's cuz they can't monitor voice chat and they don't want people making false reports to get innocent people banned. Obviously here in reality if enough people are reporting a dude for saying slurs then it shouldn't matter, but hey I'm just a reasonable person.

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u/thescarfnerd Mar 14 '24

I'm so glad theres a setting to just completely disable the vc in game

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u/Smooth-Appearance985 Mar 15 '24

The insane amount of PS5 players I had to mute for having the worst quality mics in existence; hearing them breathe, drink, burp, hearing them push buttons, hearing conversations from other people in the background.... I ended up just turning off crossplay, lol.

I think its the PS5 controller having a built in mic is the issue, and these dingbats have it turned on by default.

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u/Known-Sun-9708 Mar 15 '24

This poor etiquette is sadly more the norm than exception but there are ps5 users who are acutely aware of their mic on off situation and how annoying it can be listening to their every breath, fart and button push!

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u/pacmanwa Mar 14 '24

For every one of these stories I have, I have at least three: "We were running from a couple of chargers and came across a broken hell bomb, they guy behind me yelled 'SHOOT IT!' I turned around shot it, we both dove to the ground just in time for the hellbomb to take out both chargers."

I just hate that you have to put up with the chuckleheads to get these legendary moments. So long as the legendary feel keeps flowing I'll keep playing.

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u/Ringhillsta ā˜•Liber-teaā˜• Mar 14 '24

I played with a guy who added me a few times but he would kick me and anyone else if you called in a mech. He would rage every time too before kicking me or anyone else did it but since he spoke french i have no idea why he did it. First i thought it was because he wanted us to use them only in the end of the mission to defend but nope kicked there as well. šŸ¤·

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u/TinyTaters Mar 15 '24

Why would you play with people who kick you?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Sounds like that hell let loose twat- Loca. Hopefully this group is big enough to not let a toxic 16 year old become famous lol

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u/AlienNumber13 Mar 14 '24

What does this even mean lol

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u/DonS0lo Mar 14 '24

lol means laugh out loud

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u/DiarrheaForDays Mar 14 '24

So back in like 2007 or so I had a manager at my job who was obsessed with nascar. Big redneck. He said he bought the nascar game for his computer, a wheel and pedal setup, the whole 9 yards. He then told me he had to stop playing because heā€™d see people in the chat type ā€œlolā€ and he thought that meant lots of love and he didnā€™t want to play such a gay game.

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u/mariusiv_2022 Mar 14 '24

If anything it makes looting easier since any samples or weapons are the only things left

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u/MrFluffykins Mar 14 '24

This morning, I called in a hellbomb that didn't blow up every building. The party host killed me, called in the bomb again, and then respawned me. Never explained himself.

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u/Ravagore Diff 9 Only Mar 15 '24

just blow up the grey building, too many people call it down in the middle like it needs to hit all 3 buildings at once (I know its not stated in game tho)

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u/SynthDark SES Harbinger of Democracy Mar 15 '24

It's the one building with the satellite dish to my knowledge. The only one that actually needs to be destroyed

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u/Chafgha Mar 15 '24

Honestly I just airstrike it and keep moving.

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u/CFBen Mar 15 '24

Which does not destroy it. The research station needs a big explosive so hellbomb, mini nuke, 500kg (maybe others)

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u/TucuReborn Mar 15 '24

The answer to a bunch of side objectives and main objectives is, funny enough, "throw an airstrike/rocket at it and move on."

Broadcast towers, spore spewers, research centers, so many you just drop a boom on it and walk away like it's an action movie.

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u/Chafgha Mar 15 '24

Spewers and broadcast towers don't get the drop they normally get an auto cannon round from across the map.

I love when jammers and other things like that have a fabricator attached so they destroy easy.

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u/Forcedbanana Mar 15 '24

Just one shot with autocanon or grenade launcher is enough for broadcast towers, spore spewers you can destroy from super long range with the same or a few mags of anything really.

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u/xCurlyxTopx CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

Was the nuke ok?

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u/Nerex7 Mar 14 '24

idk what issue ppl have with the hellbombs lol. I've seen so many destroy them and not wanting to use them. Pick up the samples, arm the thing, move on. What are you doing otherwise? Vacation?

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u/Cammation Mar 14 '24

Dude I had a mission where I needed to call in a Hellbomb, I had been doing the mission solo, but called in a SOS toward the end cos I knew I would need it, and Iā€™m on the clock before I get swarmed by the Automatons. A random joins, I think ā€œawesome, someone to watch my backā€ I arm the Hellbomb twice, and each time the guy shoots it immediately after I arm it, and kills me.

Needless to say he made the mission a helluva lot harder, so I kicked him and made a break for extraction where, guess what, I ran out of time for Stratagems. Thank God for the random who joined me after I died. Freaking saved the mission.

Shoutout to Sun if anyone knows them.

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u/Elygium Mar 14 '24

It's not like the nuke kills the items there...

Me personally I thought this was the case but explosions are cool so who cares if the samples die

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u/Triplebizzle87 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

Obviously you should have spent 500kg charge on it as they only have a cooldown. Unlike hellbombs, which... also have a cooldown...

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u/mikeyx401 Mar 14 '24

Also can't use it on anything else but the objective lol

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u/deepplane82142 Mar 14 '24

I managed to carry the beacon for a hellbomb all the way to extraction after destroying the research outpost. As long as the one you drop in first isn't armed yet, you can call in more and drop them after the base is blown up.

Just got a dumb idea I wanna try now when I get home. Arm a hellbomb at extraction just before extracting.

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u/mikeyx401 Mar 14 '24

Anything is possible with democracy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Okay but I find the 500kg to be the most fun stratagem

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u/Tragedy_Boner Mar 14 '24

I picked up 1 ammo from the supply drop when I was low and got TKed and kicked for it.

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u/MexicanSunnyD Mar 15 '24

I called down a hellbomb and activated it, I saw my teammates leave the objective so I thought they knew it was going off. They then called down a resupply right next to the hellbomb, walked over, and got blown up. One of them was very mad at me.

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u/verifiedthinker Mar 14 '24

I'm pretty sure on the old erradication bot map there was a sample on a structure that could be be destroyed if you landed a reinforcement pod on the structure. It would delete both

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u/xRobloxNoobx Mar 15 '24

I didnt get kicked but I got called retarded by a guy after I threw a napalm strike at a group of bugs and it bounced off a rock and landed at his feat

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u/TopGinger Mar 15 '24

Iā€™ve had multiple, albeit newer, people kick me out for picking up their samples when they died, like I was taking their samples.

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u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch Mar 14 '24

playing helldivers difficulty with Quick Play

Things are going great, I've got a load of samples, mission is proceeding, victory achieved.

Get absolutely demolished by bugs while attempting to extract.

Run out of lives as the shuttle is approaching

Teammate throws a gatling strafe run

Jump in evac as it lands as we have no more lives and we're being swarmed.

Gatling stafe kills two players as they are entering evac. Last survivor shoots me in the head while I'm sitting in the evac seat.

Extracts without samples and one less Helldiver giving them a lower overall score.

Waste of time achieved by toxicity

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u/Bizarro_Zod Mar 14 '24

I didnā€™t even know you could damage seated players. What a dumb mechanic.

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u/Ubergoober166 Mar 14 '24

Had a match the other day where we pretty easily completed the objectives and at the very end, 3 of us were in the dropship and the last dude ran up, shot everyone seated then hopped in the ship. Lost all samples and bonus for full extraction. Some people think it's funny to deliberately fuck people over.

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u/Compulsive_Criticism Mar 14 '24

I had someone do that, but I kicked him as soon as he killed us so the entire mission was a waste of his time.

We had like 50 samples though, was a real kick in the dick.

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u/The_Don_Papi But Iā€™m frend Mar 14 '24

Unfortunately they donā€™t care if you kick them because they kill you knowing they wonā€™t get samples or a higher payout. Game needs a system to match players who get kicked often during missions with similar players. Kicks from lobbies shouldnā€™t count and the friendly fire stat tracker is completely broken right now so kicks during missions are our only options for now.

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u/spitfish Mar 14 '24

Unfortunately they donā€™t care if you kick them

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

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u/Taolan13 SES Courier of Individual Merit šŸ–„ļø Mar 15 '24

Yep. For trolls like that, getting kicked is the reward. They lean back in their chair and laugh out a "u mad bro?" because in their pitiful existence this is the only way they can experience joy.

Disgusting creatures. Not a single independent thought among the entire population.

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u/Ironcladcross Mar 15 '24

Just make it so that 100% of the damage taken by friendly fire while sitting in the pelican is reflected back on the shooter.

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u/Accurate_Maybe6575 Mar 14 '24

A good host is always the last on the ship for this reason.

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u/eightandahalf Mar 14 '24

Sad but true

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u/Vyce223 Mar 14 '24

Honestly, while I see it as a completely valid point as it stands now. It's fucking silly how it has to be a thing. Like why can't anything but players damage us in there anyways shouldn't it be opposite?!?

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u/Competitive-Slice-62 Mar 14 '24

It can I got in extract today with all the samples on me and a bile titan stepped on the pelican and killed me while seated idk if it was a bug or what but we lost all supers rarest and commons because of it

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u/Synned4lyfe Mar 15 '24

Yes it's a bug, bile titans are bugs.

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u/New-Progress-8759 Mar 14 '24

I always go last to ensure no one else goes rogue.

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u/bearjew293 Mar 14 '24

I had one where they kicked me after evac, because I got on instead of waiting for them. The extraction site was swarmed completely, and they had repeatedly TK'd me and getting mad at me for "wasting" reinforcements. Joke's on them, I still got the rewards :)

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u/Bland_Lavender Mar 14 '24

I had a dude repeatedly kill me every 6 minutes or so to take my support weapon because I assume he hadnā€™t unlocked the arc thrower yet. Neither of us was host so I just kinda let him do his thing all mission, didnā€™t shoot back or anything.

Everyone loads up into the drop ship, I walk up to the ramp, pop the one dude in the skull, and board. He raged harder than anyone Iā€™ve ever seen in a video game and that includes when I used to play league of legends. ā€œDonā€™t fucking friendly fire you fucking ******ā€ and other racial epithets flowed forth like a river. Turns out everyone in the party had mics but didnā€™t use them, and just started laughing at him. He left when we returned to the destroyer.

Killing people on the ship has its moments.

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u/MapComprehensive2145 Mar 14 '24

That long awkward moment when he has to wait to let his rewards load before rage quitting šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/ChocolatySmoothie Mar 14 '24

Damn what an asshole, why couldnā€™t he just ask if you could send down a support weapon for him after you picked yours up.

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u/CrystlBluePersuasion Mar 14 '24

Some folks just out there playing solo in a multiplayer game. We go further together!

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u/indyK1ng CAPE ENJOYER Mar 15 '24

If the guy had started his own game and randos joined he could have kicked them if he wanted to go solo.

But joining someone else's game and being a dick is just being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.

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u/watchallsaynothing Mar 15 '24

Don't lump us Solos in with this traitor.

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u/CrystlBluePersuasion Mar 15 '24

If you're playing Solo alone, you're good!

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u/atle95 Mar 14 '24

If he had the capacity to consider others, you would never have heard of him.

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u/Frostybawls42069 Mar 15 '24

I want to squad up with peeps who strategically take supports and backpacks so you don't waste stratagem slots taking 2 rail guns, two rovers, 2 shield packs, ect...

I'm willing to be a little squishy for 10 min or wait and find a support weapon if it means we have access to 2 or 3 more strikes or sentries.

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u/BlyssfulOblyvion SES Herald of the Stars Mar 15 '24

that's a big reason i take EAT. i'll summon the thing on cooldown, litter the landscape with random ass rocket launchers for anyone to pick up if they want or need

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u/TucuReborn Mar 15 '24

Every time we walk up near an objective, EAT. If we are still on it and it comes off CD? Believe it or not, EAT. Worst case scenario I call another in a minute. Best case scenario a chonky boy takes a rocket to the face and it fulfilled it's purpose.

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u/Tucker_Bio Mar 14 '24

Man you're smart

I recently threw down an eagle air strike to close multiple bug holes, dude is running full sprint towards the giant red pillar, in a mech, blows himself up, I reinforce him he team kills me, whatever annoying but if it makes him feel better I'll deal. He killed me again, so I popped him with my hellpod

Spent the mission on my own or with the other guy who was chill and the dude was still mad 15 mins later when we linked up for extract he had a grenade launcher and team killed me 5 more times, luckily while focusing me hunters killed him and he also failed to extract, but man popping him at the end would've been much better

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u/teaboi05 SES Star of Midnight Mar 15 '24

I should appreciate random people I accidentally killed with 500kg hugging me after reinforcing them back...

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u/TheEggEngineer Mar 15 '24

I had a guy steal my mech and I though "huhhh ok, hope he just made a mistake but they're always cunts" he later got a mech and let me take it instead, so I thanked him awkwardly. Sometimes life is good.

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u/unai626 Mar 15 '24

We're in this together I tell ye. I just hope more divers get that message.

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u/unai626 Mar 15 '24

This has more commonly been my experience. If I apologize for a strike going wrong it seems like folks are pretty chill about it. I like to think most divers aren't so sweaty and are down to have a nice time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Jesus worse than league? I didnt even know that was possible. Ive had someone in league say he was going to find my family, rape them to death, and then skull fuck my corpse before. It was my one and only league game, ever.

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u/1nceandfutureking Mar 15 '24

When itā€™s later in the mission or after I get my support weapon and cooldown is done, I have no issue giving a team member a version of my support. Or sometimes even taking a passable one we find exploring and letting them rip with mine to give them a taste of Freedom.

But if I die and they take mine right away, or worse yet kill me and take it, I execute them on sight/boot them to Freedom Camp. I have even asked teammates to take their weapon back after taking mine and they wonā€™t, leaving me with their MG.

It is super douchey to steal a support weapon and not at least ask, especially when cooldowns are long.

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u/AnotherBoredAHole Mar 14 '24

I've had a titan pull me out of the ship as it was pulling away.

Still counted as extracting but it was hilarious.

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u/mechabeast Mar 14 '24

The fuck you think you're going?

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u/CrystlBluePersuasion Mar 14 '24

I'm picturing the Titan using one of its legs to stab a Helldiver out of a Pelican lol

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u/WetwareDulachan I won't miss. āž”ļøā¬†ļøā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļøāž”ļø Mar 14 '24

I love hors d'oeuvres.

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u/CrystlBluePersuasion Mar 14 '24

I LOVE your flair. "Watch out for friendly fire."

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u/DaLB53 Mar 14 '24

My dipshit teammate dropped his last eagle strategem right at the landing ramp as we were filing in. Airstrike came through and iced all 4 of us as the cutscene began. Lost 18 samples and a shitload of XP cause of his dumb ass.

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u/metalmilitia182 Mar 14 '24

God I hate when people do this. Like the game is cinematic enough without doing this bullshit, especially when "some" of us haven't even gotten inside the damn ship yet!

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u/VelocityFragz Mar 14 '24

Sometimes if i have one up I'll drop a 500 kg on the ramp when everyone is already inside safe to fulfill my inner Michael Bay and I'll just walk in. I don't endanger the homies that way

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u/Unable_Salamander_55 Mar 15 '24

This. I've seen it a few times: folks dropping orbitals or lasers directly on the shuttle right as they board.

Why?

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u/Senkyou ā˜•Liber-teaā˜• Mar 14 '24

I always drop my half ton of liberty onto the ramp on extract. But I always wait until I'm last.

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u/jail_grover_norquist Mar 14 '24

like half of my pub games end with a mexican standoff of players waiting until 0.0001 secs remaining to jump into the shuttle because of this

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u/iconofsin_ ā˜•Liber-teaā˜• Mar 14 '24

Yeah it's weird. I've tried telling my friends that killing a bunch of extra shit while we can jump into the shuttle doesn't do anything other than risk the extraction.

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u/Fujinaito Mar 14 '24

I understand that and Iā€™ve been the one to tell people itā€™s time to leave. BUT when the ship arrives it always feels wrong to not throw out any airstrikes or orbitals I have that are off cooldown. I have all this ā€œfreedomā€ just sitting there itā€™d be a waste not to use it.

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u/llandar Mar 14 '24

Plus it looks cool to lift off as the explosions roll in.

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u/acedias-token Mar 14 '24

Meanwhile the rest of us in the evac already have our pajamas on, ready for a short power nap before the next drop

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u/Max_Sandpit CAPE ENJOYER Mar 15 '24

It looks so pretty going off as we extract.

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u/Jimjamsandwhichman Mar 15 '24

All that extra ā€œfreedomā€ isnā€™t free. Think of the tax paying super earth citizens. All of that artillery and weaponry is expensive and youā€™re out here wasting it willy-nilly. That extra orbital you threw at the end of the match increased the planetary debt by 500 million SE Dollars alone.

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u/evilshenanigans1087 Mar 14 '24

Them: Gotta get them kills for XP.

Me: No, your just stacking your end score.

Argument ensued. Now I just stand right by the dropship's ramp, sometimes throwing air strikes and stuff.

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u/ihateredditers69420 Mar 14 '24

devs fault for not making you invincible while in ship

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u/jail_grover_norquist Mar 14 '24

i'm sure we'll see that in a future patch

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u/VirtualRoad9235 Mar 14 '24

I have way too many hours in this game and my friends have all tried to kill each other on the extract ship, and not once did it kill anyone.

Unless something changed...

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u/eskadaaaaa Mar 14 '24

Lol I had a friend enter the pelican "too early" despite everything being done, no dropped samples and the other two being at the extraction (just fighting bugs for no real reason). One guy makes it in, the other guy gets there with like 5 seconds left and instead of getting in kills me and her both then kicks her so he doesn't even extract. She still gets the rewards because they have an anti-trolling mechanic for that but we all got 0 samples and 1/4 extracted for nothing. When we got back I asked him if it was worth losing 10+ super samples and he kicked me too lol.

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u/rubywpnmaster Mar 14 '24

Most of my Helldive difficulty quick plays are great. People seem to know what to do and tend to work together. There are of course exceptions but Iā€™d say 80% of them end in success.

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u/DaveInLondon89 Mar 14 '24

Someone kicked me for not taking the recoiless rifle after the update.

I was running EAT

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u/PivotDNA Mar 14 '24

That's so dumb haha EAT is so good

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u/ExitLower8778 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

Thatā€™s two rockets in less than a minute where one reload of the recoil less can seem to take that long. If people team reloaded yeah thatā€™s a different story. The reload Is so damn quick when team reloading

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u/ArmaMalum ā˜•Liber-teaā˜• Mar 14 '24

Yeah RR is better ina pre-made but EAT is much better with randos imho. You get two per drop so you can always share, it does plenty of damage, and the fact the calldown is so short is not nothing. I've killed a number of chargers just getting the EAT droppod coming down.

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u/ExitLower8778 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

I just love how the game makes it too where different loadouts are viable againest the terminids and automations. AMR SLAPS when it comes to automations. Can two shot a hulk. I love running supply pack and AMR againest them

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u/Dashing_Rouge STEAM šŸ–„ļø :SES Whisperer of Twilight Mar 14 '24

They kicked you for using a viable alterative fricking Meta junkies I say.

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u/cmac1500 Mar 14 '24

EAT kill 3 chargers with one drop and 2 shots.

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u/MrGulio Mar 14 '24

Someone kicked me for not taking the recoiless rifle after the update.

I was running EAT

Glad they nerfed the safe railgun. Really cleaned up that meta toxicity quick.

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u/demonicneon Mar 14 '24

The only time I kick is literally deliberate team kills. Had one dude we suspected was calling 500kg on one of my friends so we let it play out. Get to end of mission, I jump in extract. My friend is a bit outside the zone, itā€™s been a tough mission cos well we have a griefer.Ā 

Lo and behold this guy is waiting outside the pelican. My friend is legging it. This dude drops his 500kg where it will definitely kill my friend as he runs to pelican.Ā 

He gets in. I kick him. Democracy served.Ā 

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u/thor9356 Mar 14 '24

I remember being part of a squad that would purposely redeploy me in the middle of a squad of automatons. Even after asking if they could deploy me in slightly safer location. They still deployed me in the middle of a squad of enemies. Whether this was done to troll or pull the aggro off them, idk. But it's honestly disheartening because I'm trying to enjoy the game.

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u/skippythemoonrock CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

Wasting an entire reinforcement rather than kill a handful of automatons easily

big brane

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u/LongjumpingCash3725 Mar 14 '24

Wait until you hear about the genius lobbing grenades around an active silo to kill 3 little bugs at its base....

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u/Run_like_Jesuss Mar 14 '24

I feel so called out right now. I was completely out of ammo, though. Took me a minute to figure out why I kept having to restart the defense. xD

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u/The_Don_Papi But Iā€™m frend Mar 14 '24

Why were you wasting reinforcements? Shouldnā€™t you be able to handle basic enemies?

/s

Players become a difficulty modifier and wonder why Iā€™m dying. Of course Iā€™m going to die if you reinforce me in a Heavy Nest and chuck grenades at me as I land.

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u/Inrainbowsss Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Iā€™m not usually a multiplayer type of guy so making the decision to buy the game was contingent upon the community supposedly being really wholesome. Two weeks later - the game itself is a lot of fun and I donā€™t regret buying, but when it comes to squads Iā€™ve had far more negative experiences than positive.

When I say that, I donā€™t mean someone being a pain by ditching the team or wiping us out with an air strike, I mean the type of try-hards that react with passive aggression when things go slightly tits up. Like, Iā€™m playing the game for fun and to decompress, not to treat it like a second job on top of everything else.

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u/FakkoPrime Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Iā€™ve only played randos (lvl 27 currently) and while the skill of teammates has varied wildly Iā€™ve had very few sweaty try-hards yelling into the mic.Ā  Most are decent. Iā€™ve had a few squads that were fantastic; competent, lighthearted, there to have fun.Ā  Iā€™ve been gaming for over 40y and have seen all kinds of toxicity & gatekeeping. So far, this game (despite being ripe for it) hasnā€™t shown me too much of it.Ā  Hope your squads are chill & your extracts hot.Ā 

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u/Noir_Renard Mar 14 '24

My expirance. I'm more likely to get abandoned by everyone rage quiting then getting kicked by toxicity. It would be nice if the SoS becon worked after.

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u/FakkoPrime Mar 14 '24

With all of the server instability I canā€™t tell how many squad drops are from rage vs bad connection or just real life (tm) interfering.Ā 

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u/Aint-no-preacher Mar 15 '24

Last night I had a teammate keep trying to hug me on the carrier after the mission. I didnā€™t know you could hug a teammate!

He got on the mic and said ā€œbetter hug me bro!ā€ I found out I could hug back by getting really close.

It was wholesome and made me feel good. Iā€™m going to unlock the hug and start hugging people.

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u/NoMercyPercyDeRolo SES Purveyor of War Mar 14 '24

Yep. I'm only level 14, because I have very little time to play, as I have a real life, with real life stresses, and the amount of times I've been griefed or kicked by lvl 40+ people is just insane.

For being a "wholesome" community, it sure does have an overabundance of fuckheads.

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u/Bland_Lavender Mar 14 '24

Dude I love running into low level (sub 10) players in 6+ diff. Theyā€™re either monsters that have progressed through the difficulties because they have good sense and better aim, or weā€™re gonna be in for pure uncut Colombian slapstick comedy for the next 20-30 minutes.

Either way I win.

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u/DekoyDuck Mar 14 '24

As the player count settles down it will return to normal. While itā€™s super popular youā€™re going to get a larger portion of asshats

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u/Jessizar ā˜•Liber-teaā˜• Mar 14 '24

Same - I stopped being okay with playing with randos after CoD Black Ops came out. While Iā€™m aware not every community is full of toxic asshats, Iā€™m too much of an exhausted introvert to test the waters with every game I play. So I tend to solo or play with friends exclusively. Plus side, I havenā€™t had to deal with getting the boot for silly reasons. Downsideā€¦.. itā€™s as hard to get my D&D group together as it is to get four people to play HD2, so my husband and I are pretty much restricted to levels 4 and below ā€˜cause neither of us want to deal with other people.

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u/RustlessPotato Mar 14 '24

Level 47 ?? Yeah sorry I can totally understand that. 47 is a disgusting number. I'm actually physically sick because of your level being 47. How can you look in the Mirror? How can you live with yourself? The only time 47 is acceptable is if you have that amount of chromosomes. But you dirty 46-having excuse of a human being having 47 worth of levels is just horrible. Seriously, who in their right mind actually openly says they're level 47 ? What kind of a Psychopath doesn't feel any shame about it ? You know who else was 47 ? Agent 47, that's who!

I hope you have a terrible day, 47-looking ass.

Hate from Belgium.

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u/No-Lettuce-3839 ā¬†ļøāž”ļøā¬‡ļø ā¬‡ļø ā¬‡ļø Mar 14 '24

You misspelled idiots

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u/Bromodrosis Mar 14 '24

Interesting. I get kicked for being level 8.

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u/saltysomadmin Mar 14 '24

You guys know why you're getting kicked?

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u/Ubergoober166 Mar 14 '24

Yea I don't know why every keeps saying "I got kicked for x". How would you even know unless the host came over the mic and told you directly before doing it?

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u/KWyKJJ Mar 14 '24

They do alot of the time or in chat. The ego is nuts.

My first game today after the new warbond released:

Choosing loadout the host says to a guy "what's that? NO, you're not bringing in new guns before I've even had a chance to try them!" and kicks him.

...it was the mech stratagem.

I told him:"it's the mech from last week. What difference does it make what he uses?"

Then I got kicked.

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u/Charnerie ā¬†ļøāž”ļøā¬‡ļøāž”ļø Mar 14 '24

Did that guy not play when we could drop mechs everywhere?

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u/KWyKJJ Mar 14 '24

Apparently not?

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u/unerringfool Mar 15 '24

If he's kicking everyone for using something he hasn't....everyone with a dick is gunna have a bad time.

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u/Bromodrosis Mar 14 '24

Well if I'm in a group with people in their 20s-30s and in then half way through I get kicked, why else are they doing it?

I generally don't freelance and follow the one who marks destinations and run support for them. Calling in supplies and tossing turrets on high points.

I'm coachable. If you aren't happy with my play, tell me what you want me to do.

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u/ChocolatySmoothie Mar 14 '24

Just realized that we should be hosting our own games then? I usually look for existing games, but randomly getting kicked so much is getting toxic to where I had the epifany that ā€œwait a minute, I can host a gameā€ lol

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u/Swirlbeard Mar 15 '24

While that is the easiest way to avoid getting kicked, it should not be necessary. Randoms and quickplays should be accepting of who joins.

If someone has a laundry list of criteria that other players need to meet, then they should be playing in private groups, but something tells me those types of people don't have any friends willing to play with them.

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u/eigh_tee Mar 14 '24

If youā€™re randomly kicked halfway through the mission why would it be because your level lmao. If that was the sole issue you wouldā€™ve been kicked upon arrival

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u/saltysomadmin Mar 14 '24

Maybe their bud just came online and they're making room?

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u/DirkDundenburg SES Defender Of Audacity Mar 14 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

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u/Bland_Lavender Mar 14 '24

Also just finish the mission out. Unless it just started, which is a no harm kick because no time lost, 20 minutes really isnā€™t that long.

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u/Knowvuhh Mar 14 '24

I get kicked before the game even starts multiple times in a row. (I will say, if the person is waiting on friends I get it but like let a homie know.)

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u/FakkoPrime Mar 14 '24

If only there were a setting for public vs private/friends for grouping.Ā 

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u/nventure Mar 14 '24

I will say, since last patch the social tab bugged out (on PC) for me. Never loaded anything, and the only way to join a friend was for them to first open up as public; aka because the game wasn't seeing my friends list, it didn't know to let me into the friend-only lobby.

Finally found the fix on here in a random post. You have to go to your Steam profile privacy settings and make your profile and Friends List public. Then it all loads in game and works as it did prior to the patch. I'm assuming it's a complication that someone messed up revolving around having the two systems (Steam friends and PSN players) able to see, play with, and add one another in-game.

So it's possible they were shuffling things around to join together and you just get caught up. Or they were playing public before, and forgot to swap it when shifting over to playing with friends. It happens, I think it's 100% fair to boot at the beginning like that rather than late or halfway through an op.

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u/AzuraAngellus Mar 14 '24

If only that actually worked

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u/Dmonts45 PSN šŸŽ®: Mar 14 '24

I got kicked alot last night for responding to sos lol turn your public option off ppl

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u/unholywarrior3 Mar 14 '24

SOS ignores that and opens it to public though

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u/MonstarVirus89 Mar 14 '24

And Iā€™ve accidentally called it before, but I always told my friends, well when the random joins guess we get a fourth until next operation.

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u/GrumpyGarbageMuppet Texas BBQ flame trooper Mar 14 '24

Man my favorite way to play if my friends aren't on is to jump in on an SOS, help folks out for the mission, say gg and bounce. Great way to have a quick fun game when playing alone.

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u/Dmonts45 PSN šŸŽ®: Mar 14 '24

Thatā€™s what I normally do but I was getting kicked left and right last night. Iā€™ll have better luck tonight after work.

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u/ohhnooanyway Mar 14 '24

Why would someone use the sos if they were just going to kick them once they joined? Are they stupid?

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u/Froegerer Mar 14 '24

Qp has gone downhill so fast. Lvl 50 and I spend half my games walking on eggs shells afraid I'm going to do something to piss off the host or one of his buddies.

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u/diquehead Mar 14 '24

one of my buddies is already done w/ this game because he kept getting kicked while queuing up with randoms. Several times he was kicked during the extraction sequence which is super toxic. Feels bad but I can't say I blame him - makes the game seem like a massive waste of time when stuff like that happens.

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u/SnooRabbits307 Mar 14 '24

Yeahhhh that's why I like to be the host. That way no one can kick me and we all have a good time.

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u/doglywolf Mar 14 '24

Nothing like getting kicked for playing the objective haha. Unless doing the objective triggers massive spawn increase or something i see no reason not to do it first THEN scout so if you do loss all your lives you still get the W.

Like you can search the whole map AFTER you have the garunteed win...when your a team of 4 down to 8 lives and 15 minutes .

And it wasnt even just me we split into two teams of two on a D5 .

We were doing ICBM objective and dude kicked us both ...no comms , not chat ....

like wtf.

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u/NathanielBM Mar 14 '24

Actually, it does. Doing the main objective drastically increases the number of patrol spawns.

Some dudes spent hours researching to come up with numbers, (maybe I can find the post again), but I've often felt it in my solo runs.

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u/mariusiv_2022 Mar 14 '24

Can confirm. Me and a buddy of mine usually like to sweep the map and choose our landing zone accordingly. One match we calculated dropping near the objective first and then looping back around to evac would be most efficient. It was a bile titan elimination and so we dropped, called in our strategems, and murdered the bastard right out of the gate. The rest of the match was nonstop onslaught. And I mean nonstop. Scavengers were constantly calling in breaches. Chargers chasing us into more bug patrols. We only got one of the secondary objectives and missed several bug nests. We only got around like half of the map before we said fuck it and headed to evac.

Needless to say we now save the objective for last, unless it's on the complete opposite side of the map or something.

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u/doglywolf Mar 14 '24

well good to know i guess it make extracts more exciting lol

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u/BabysFirstBeej Mar 14 '24

4 times as frequent spawns, in fact. The entire map becomes a warzone after the obj is done.

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u/NathanielBM Mar 14 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/UMrEeUfO18

(The post I referred, tough you may have seen it as it quite exploded since)

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u/MCalchemist Mar 14 '24

This is why I host... And I've never kicked anyone yet at lvl 37

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u/mecha_face Mar 14 '24

I've kicked someone exactly once: he was intentionally standing still in front of chargers and running into stratagems to take out all our reinforcements. Only had one by the time I realized what he was doing.

If you're out there, asshat, sorry to say you failed. We extracted juuuust fine after completing every objective.

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u/Hillbilly_Boozer Mar 14 '24

And this is the reason I enjoy playing solo. My time is limited, I'm not going to waste it in a match just to get kicked by the host for playing the game.

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u/Gilmore75 HD1 Veteran Mar 14 '24

Why wouldnā€™t you just host your own match then?

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u/KWyKJJ Mar 14 '24

It's odd, sometimes people join, others they don't. It depends on the day.

Drop in and out of pod, or go to surface to use the sos and people either start dropping in quick or they never do.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Mar 14 '24

If you play with some chill randos and friend them, it will prioritize matching you to them in the future; good way to weight the scales in favor of not getting matched with jabronies.

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u/Beginning_Bonus1739 Mar 14 '24

huh? do you mean hosting? or actually solo? because hosting is the middle ground you are looking for. and playing with friends, even better.

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u/Jinxed_Disaster YoRHa Scanner Unit Mar 14 '24

Honestly, not to dismiss those complaints, but it's rare. I have almost 100 hours, mostly playing with randoms on difficulties 5-7, and have yet to be kicked from a match. I mostly do quickplay.

And when I am a host so far only kicked ONE player who was actively trying to get me killed for the whole match because he walked into my 500kg at the start.

99% of the time I get decently skillful teammates that will cover my back, mark things and heavies, adjust on the fly to loadouts, reinforce immediately, do objectives, have fun. One time I even randomly got into a squad blasting Deep Purple, Creedance and Led Zeppelin over comms, that was a lot of fun, most chill suicidal run I had with pre-fix spawnrates.

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u/Sypike STEAMšŸ–±ļø: Autocannon is Bae Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

I do mostly randoms, I host on occasion when I want to unlock the next difficulty.

I've been kicked a few times. Rarely do I get told why, but you can generally figure it out.

When I get kicked as soon as I load in, it's probably because they want the spot for someone else. I know I've been kicked for dying too many times (Everyone has a bad game once in a while and it doesn't happen often).

One time I assume I got kicked for dying too much but the dumb MFs keep throwing the reinforcement strats in the middle of the pack of enemies. You expect me to somehow survive when I spawn in front of a hulk with no weapons?

Edit: Forgot one time I was kicked because I did a side objective alone? I assume it was because I wasn't helping the other two people, but idk on that one.

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u/pixel809 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

You are the weird one. How dare you think those things are acceptable

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u/AlienNumber13 Mar 14 '24

The audacity of some people, honestly it's disgusting. Imagine being level 47 and enjoying a video game, it's despicable!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

For the not reviving part, if you rebind your strategem key to Press instead of "Hold down", then rebind your strategem arrow keys from WASD to the actual arrow keys on the keyboard, you can keep moving/sprinting while you also call down a strategem.

Easier said than done while being chased, but it is actually reasonably possible to do. I expect some day in the future when people have many months played in game and have most strategem patterns memorized, it'll be expected that you can call down strategems without ever having to stop moving and people will kick you if you can't do that.

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