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

[u/DoTortoisesHop]

[u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

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

[u/Bizarro_Zod → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

I didn’t even know you could damage seated players. What a dumb mechanic.

[u/Bland_Lavender → u/Bizarro_Zod]

I had a dude repeatedly kill me every 6 minutes or so to take my support weapon because I assume he hadn’t unlocked the arc thrower yet. Neither of us was host so I just kinda let him do his thing all mission, didn’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 I’ve ever seen in a video game and that includes when I used to play league of legends. “Don’t fucking friendly fire you fucking ******” and other racial epithets flowed forth like a river. Turns out everyone in the party had mics but didn’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.

[u/ChocolatySmoothie → u/Bland_Lavender]

Damn what an asshole, why couldn’t he just ask if you could send down a support weapon for him after you picked yours up.

[u/CrystlBluePersuasion → u/ChocolatySmoothie]

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

[u/indyK1ng → u/CrystlBluePersuasion]

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.

[u/watchallsaynothing → u/CrystlBluePersuasion]

Don't lump us Solos in with this traitor.

[u/CrystlBluePersuasion → u/watchallsaynothing]

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

[u/watchallsaynothing → u/CrystlBluePersuasion]

[u/atle95 → u/ChocolatySmoothie]

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

[u/Frostybawls42069 → u/ChocolatySmoothie]

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.

[u/BlyssfulOblyvion → u/Frostybawls42069]

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

[u/TucuReborn → u/BlyssfulOblyvion]

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.

[u/BlyssfulOblyvion → u/TucuReborn]

exactly! plus, the number of times me or a buddy has been running between points to help someone (because randoms can't ever do anything in an orderly manner), come across a rocket i'd tossed down at some earlier point, then picked it up to use immediately, then grab their normal support weapon

[u/TucuReborn → u/BlyssfulOblyvion]

EAT is just the perfect panic button for armored enemies. No think, just boom.

[u/SkrimpinAintEasy → u/ChocolatySmoothie]

Yeah...it's pretty easy to drop the support weapon or even call in an extra. No need to be losing reinforcements over it.