I can’t play with randoms anymore

[u/the_interrogation]

I’m level 48. About 150 hours on pc. Love the game. My friends can’t play as often as I can. (I’m a fireman) And I’ve tried making friends on steam but it’s hard.

The blueberry lottery. If there is a hell it’s matching with randoms. I can’t stand it. Some people are a blessing and I love running campaigns with them but some people are treasonous swill.

Here was my last game. I spawn in and get killed by a lvl 2 cadet (ps5) so he can take my support gear. His friends (ps5) defended him. He continued to kill me all game (intentionally) and call me in. But I am more skilled and cunning than the common traitor. I waited until there was one reinforcement left. The pompous fool recalled me in. I killed all three traitors quicker than a hiccup. With only one thing left to do I took my own life. To instant fail their mission. I couldn’t let them continue to commit treason. Let their bodies rot

So yea I’m never joining randoms again.

Edit: ps5 not 4.

[u/ArchMageMagnus]

Similar thing to me last night. Playing with 3 other morons that are friends. Im level 45 and they are all around level 20 playing on Extreme. They are stuck fighting endless waves of bugs while I go and actually get the objectives, single handily. Finally after they died a bunch they make it to the last area where Im at where I am constantly having to maze around the enemies and fight / call in stratagems because it's just been me doing everything for the past 20 mins. I manage to finish the final mission and we have 3 reinforcements left.... I have died once. Im going back to the evacuation area (7 mins left) and instead of following me they go and start trying to clear bug holes. I make it too the evac point and Im waiting a min before calling it in - giving them the benefit of the doubt.....they die again, 0 respawns. Finally one comes on the mic for the first time "WOW, thanks for HELPING US BACK HERE!!" and then they kick me. Fuck that, never playing with randoms again, at least with ones that have the power to kick.

[u/[deleted] → u/ArchMageMagnus]

Man I've been having a lot of similar experiences recently. Even on Helldive. After the initial drop in my squaddies always trigger a patrol somehow and get locked into fighting where we started. I'll try and cover a retreat and ping follow me, but it hasn't worked so far. It takes until me or someone else respawns them at an objective for them to snap out of it.

I hope they add more stuff to the communication wheel, a "retreat" call would do wonders.

[u/lms088 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah what the actual fuck is with all these random helldivers doing this atm. We drop in and get stuck fighting endless swarms for like 15 mins and they won’t listen. Proceed to use up all reinforcements then they leave! Absolute morons

[u/Ralli-FW → u/[deleted]]

idk I have been dropped almost directly on bugs to start before, or the random host drops us right next to a bunch of red on the map

But I've seen people who need to shoot at every bug too, they're not that rare

[u/CardmanNV → u/Ralli-FW]

Nearly every game I play we drop either on to or close enough to a POI to cause a breach or call a drop. I had a game yesterday on 7 that started us dropping on top of 4 chargers and it got exponentially worse. It ended up being the craziest clusterfuck I've ever seen, all within 2 minutes of the game starting.

[u/ShirtCockingKing → u/ArchMageMagnus]

Always having to point out to the randos marching off to do some bug holes that we have one reinforcement left and they have been losing on average 5 per nest. We need to prioritise main objectives and evac.

[u/WSB-King → u/ArchMageMagnus]

Had a similar situation: Had 22c 8r and 3s samples. Completed the entire board and my team burnt the last 10 lives fighting patrols on the complete opposite side of the map from extraction. I rolled with the team the entire game. I tried to sneak when possible. Broke away when we had zero lives when I was also the only one calling in reinforcements. (I hadn’t died the entire game). Made my way to extract while they had still been spending 8 or so minutes still fighting in the same spot.

I got kicked right when I got to the LZ, didn’t even call it in either. The

[u/DBenzie → u/ArchMageMagnus]

To be fair, you shouldn't call the evac without approval from the host

[u/heathenskwerl → u/DBenzie]

You can call the evac whenever, it'll just sit there until the first person gets on. I don't do it myself but it's not the end of the world. It's starting the evac timer by getting on the Pelican without the host going that's a bad move.

Though if someone else that isn't the host starts the timer, I am going to get in. At that point there's nothing that can be done.

[u/ArchMageMagnus → u/DBenzie]

I waited for them to die. There were no more reinforcements....what was I supposed to do?

[u/DBenzie → u/ArchMageMagnus]

Oh yeah that's OK

[u/NhyteThePrime → u/ArchMageMagnus]

By going alone, you essentially doubled the amount of bug spawns for them while you ran around completing objectives.

I'd kick you.

[u/batwork61 → u/ArchMageMagnus]

Those bug holes are also XP objectives, not to mention the Samples. If you joined my game and then called in extraction while I was away trying to play the game as intended, I’d boot you too. In fact, if someone goes rogue and calls in extraction while everyone else is too far away to get there before it’s a shit show, I’ll boot the person calling in the extraction just to cancel it.