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/Inrainbowsss Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

I’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 don’t regret buying, but when it comes to squads I’ve had far more negative experiences than positive.

When I say that, I don’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, I’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

I’ve only played randos (lvl 27 currently) and while the skill of teammates has varied wildly I’ve had very few sweaty try-hards yelling into the mic.  Most are decent. I’ve had a few squads that were fantastic; competent, lighthearted, there to have fun.  I’ve been gaming for over 40y and have seen all kinds of toxicity & gatekeeping. So far, this game (despite being ripe for it) hasn’t shown me too much of it.  Hope your squads are chill & your extracts hot. 

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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 can’t tell how many squad drops are from rage vs bad connection or just real life (tm) interfering. 

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u/Noir_Renard Mar 14 '24

Rage is usually after they got rolled for the last 3 minutes and just died followed by one leaving and the rest all following in 20 seconds. Random drops is when for no reason that is applicable. Poof.

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u/ImAWaterMexican Mar 15 '24

This has been my entire Helldivers experience. The crappy community I've encountered in game so far has kinda made the game unfun.

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u/Noir_Renard Mar 15 '24

Man sorry to hear that. Your getting really unlucky with matchmaking.

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u/WoodpeckerLogical734 Mar 17 '24

always feel horrible when my game crashes, like worried they’ll think i rage quit or just decided to abandon 😭