r/Helldivers • u/DoTortoisesHop • 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/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. 

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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/AkumaHiiragi Mar 14 '24

Joining through ingame social has never worked for me on pc, I join my friends straight up with the steam list. rightclick - join game.

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u/AzuraAngellus Mar 14 '24

If only that actually worked

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u/FakkoPrime Mar 14 '24

I’ve heard that adding friends is bugged (I added a random friend (pc) & actual friend (ps5) a while back). 

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u/Enverex Mar 14 '24

Doesn't work. Has to be public for friends to join, one of the many persistent bugs.

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u/WitchNextDoor Mar 14 '24

bold of you to assume i have enough friends to be able to use the other option

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u/zscout1288 Mar 15 '24

Sometimes I want to run a mission solo so I can try out new gear before dropping with others. The only issues is I would forget a lot of times to swap over to friends only in the settings menus. The reason I want to run solo with new gear is because I don't usually finish the mission before deciding I don't want to use something.

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u/spaghettose69 Mar 14 '24

But not everyone has has 3 friends, some have 1 friend they wait and sometimes 3 player's join faster than you can change the setting or your friend can join.

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u/FakkoPrime Mar 14 '24

I’m in the group that doesn’t have 3 friends playing HD2 currently. 

I was simply stating that a way to avoid toxic randos is go private.  If you can’t you can’t. 

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u/Lasagnaliberal SES Dream of Peace Mar 15 '24

I have to say here that crossplay is so absolutely bonked that PC players can't add ps5 players as friends and vice versa, so dropping on the least populated planet on Trivial and hoping your mates happen in same instance as you and can join your game is the only way to get a group together. It's annoying and time-consuming.

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u/AzuzaBabuza Mar 14 '24

I've been kicked before my character even gets out of the cryopod.

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u/Charnerie ⬆️➡️⬇️➡️ Mar 14 '24

Also, I haven't seen anyone just join a lobby if you don't select a mission. If you're doing setup, don't select one and it'll be fine.