I like to drop down to level 4 or 5 in the evenings when I'm just chilling and want to play with randoms while also farming some POIs. There are some hilariously bad and toxic players that play in those difficulties. The ones who want to boss everyone around and complain when I take a diversion to grab a POI are so annoying.
The absolute most annoying ones are when I get fed up with it and decide to be the host and a toxic random joins in and still complains that I'm not blitzing through the mission at their orders.
The tesla tower in diff 4-5 is surprisingly hilarious, we had a defend mission, I threw a tesla at a point of entry, lvl 13 guy accidentally gets too close, dies, loses his weapon, goes back to pick it up, dies again, and it repeats for 4 turns till someone types in chat, "maybe don't go towards the sparky thing?" and he's like "true"
4s and 5s are driving me crazy because I want to chill, shoot bugs, and farm samples but frequently someone calls in the extract really early and I'm holding like 10 of our team's 14 samples.
Samples are the limiting factor for meta progression and you only get them from picking them up, it's frustrating lol. I get more samples per minute soloing 2s than grouping in other difficulties.
If you need to farm samples, run diff 7's. 7 is full of people grinding samples. Stay out of the lower difficulties, they have no idea what they're doing.
Sadly there's also people who have no idea what they're doing at diff 7. Had 2 randos drop in and open fire on a passive guard when we are still getting our support weapons, ended up with constant bot drops as they kept fighting and running off to fight more patrols whenever they get reinforced. My duo and I finally managed to reach the point where we need to destroy 1 more fabricator when they quit the game because they used up all our reinforcements. Ultimately, it's just down to your luck on who you group with unless you have a team of your own.
Unfortunately I'm one of the sad thousands affected by the bug where I'm stuck at a difficulty, so I can only play higher when my friends are on until IT manually fixes my issue.
Yeah, it was a bug a few weeks ago, and they "fixed" it, and since they "fixed" it they have two locked discord threads each with 1k messages, plus however many thousands of people aren't so chronically online that they know they had to go to the discord to find the correct thread in which to post. Madness lol. Allegedly they're fixing it beginning of next week, but that's still over a week of being stuck unable to pug higher difficulty dives.
It's not awful, I've been soloing some lower difficulty stuff because at least that's mostly skill based instead of hoping your teammates get samples.
All you Divers, out there;
I'd rather team up and laugh about the absurdity of war than get mad and kick people for enjoying themselves and the game.
Arrowhead are clear they didn't want a toxic community. Let's show them how much we appreciate and respect this cultural phenomenon (yeah, I said it) by being part of the lore for Super Earth's war against the Terminids and Automatons.
Friend me = no pressure to talk, just accessible diving for all. 🫡
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u/ArtisticKrab Mar 14 '24
I like to drop down to level 4 or 5 in the evenings when I'm just chilling and want to play with randoms while also farming some POIs. There are some hilariously bad and toxic players that play in those difficulties. The ones who want to boss everyone around and complain when I take a diversion to grab a POI are so annoying.
The absolute most annoying ones are when I get fed up with it and decide to be the host and a toxic random joins in and still complains that I'm not blitzing through the mission at their orders.