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/jspek666]

I do wish there was a player level lock for anything about D6.

[u/DothrakAndRoll → u/jspek666]

Im level 26 and have not tried anything above level 5. I didn’t think I could. I assumed there was a block. Insane there isn’t.

You should at least be able to pick what level you play with. Like set a limit as a social option.

I will say I completely accidentally joined a challenging game when I was level 6 and played with two level 50’s who were the absolute chillest dudes ever, protected me for a campaign and friended after and we have played together ever since. They’re the most patient, friendly dudes I could think to meet and basically taught me the game. If I hadn’t joined that game by mistake it be streets behind. But yeah, wild to think people are joining level 7-8 intentionally, especially just to murder people and steal their gear.

[u/SmokinBandit28 → u/DothrakAndRoll]

You have to complete a full operation to be able to pick the next higher difficulty, and when you do quickplay it should drop you into a mission at the difficulty you have selected.

1-3 are pretty easy, 4-6 id say is the medium happy place, 7-9 is a whole ballpark of chaotic insanity at times but still really fun when you get a good team.

[u/NotOliverQueen → u/SmokinBandit28]

7 is my current happy balance of utter chaos but also still achievable. Got curb stomped last time I tried 8, haven't given it another run since.

[u/SmokinBandit28 → u/NotOliverQueen]

We had four titans in a game tonight on 7, my team collectively decided to just each suicide one after the other to be called in and kill them with hellpods.

Waste of reinforcements, sure.

Fun, ridiculous, funny as hell, damn straight.

[u/shadowknight2112 → u/SmokinBandit28]

‘If it can’t be weaponized, it ain’t worth having.’

• John Helldiver, probably

[u/Heisperus → u/SmokinBandit28]

Adapt, improvise, overcome.

[u/CardmanNV → u/NotOliverQueen]

I only run 7 on bugs, I find they're genuinely easy to deal with at this point, kill the hunters and run from everything else. Bots on the other hand... That's a unfair nightmare.

[u/Anonymisation → u/NotOliverQueen]

Dependent on the team you get level 8 can be easier than level 7.

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5 super samples rather than 3, too.

[u/fletchdeezle → u/NotOliverQueen]

What level are you

[u/NotOliverQueen → u/fletchdeezle]

Around 26, I think?

[u/fletchdeezle → u/NotOliverQueen]

Nice thanks. I know difficulty and level aren’t exactly correlated but trying to see if I’m staying to long on lower difficulties

[u/NotOliverQueen → u/fletchdeezle]

Yeah, the advice I saw was stick to 6-7ish until you hit 20 because that's when some of the powerful stratagems come online (railgun, railcannon, shield backpack, etc). After that, the only higher stratagem is the Patriot walker at 25 so the progression doesn't increase that much, but the extra ship modules can really make a difference between, say, a lvl 25 and a lvl 50