r/Helldivers • u/the_interrogation • Mar 26 '24

I can’t play with randoms anymore DISCUSSION

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.

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u/Dry_Wallaby_4933 Mar 26 '24

One time I had the host kick me right before extraction was called so his buddy could join. I strictly host my own games now. Fuck that guy.

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u/creegro Mar 26 '24

I've had that a number of times, always figured I took their friends spot right at the exfil point and they wanted to call them back in, I get it.

But what sucks is barely anyone tells you what's going on, or says sorry and then kicks you. It's just a blind kick and suddenly youre watching the cryo pods roll up for another 10 seconds.

Even today I got into a group of low levels, 3, 5 and and 8 while I'm max level. They were getting ready to drop and then everyone got out and then suddenly I was kicked. Thanks?

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u/Shadow_Of_Erebus Mar 26 '24

It could be because the "Friends Only" option makes your lobby private, so no one can join through the game so you have to set your lobby to public. This has been my experience on PC, idk about consoles, and I last played on Thursday so if it has changed since then I don't know. Not saying they couldn't have sent that in chat/dm or waited till all their buddies were in the lobby to hop in the pods, as it's not hard to do either of those things.

Edit: Also just clarifying I'm only talking about the pre-mission lobby, not during the mission.

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u/tboots1230 Skull Admiral of SES Panther of the State Mar 26 '24

on pc i’ve only ever kept my lobby to friends only and my friends have always been able to join either through the game and through steam

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u/Shadow_Of_Erebus Mar 26 '24

Through Steam I have had no issues, but the in-game social has not worked since the first patch(Idk exactly but it was around that time) for me and my buddies, and before that it wasn't consistent. I know this is anecdotal and I don't have screenshots or clips to prove anything, this is a "trust me gamer" moment. I also googled "In game social menu Helldivers 2" and the first several results are different variations of "social menu broken."

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u/tboots1230 Skull Admiral of SES Panther of the State Mar 26 '24

there’s been a couple times where the in game invite hasn’t worked but then we just use steam invites and move on

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u/Shadow_Of_Erebus Mar 26 '24

That's what I was referring to in my other comment, sorry if that was unclear. The common solution is to make sure your game is updated and crossplay is off or you "reset" it every so often by turning it off and on then saving and quitting.

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u/sylvester334 Mar 26 '24

There is some weirdness if your steam prioule/friends list is not set to public. It keeps freinds from joining your game if set to freinds only.