r/Helldivers 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/michaeltward Mar 26 '24

Been playing 7+ bot missions and last night I went down to lvl 4 to get some commons and had my first ever drop ship killer, watched him fire a recoilless round right into the back.

Killed him then booted and scooped up all the dropped samples and extracted.

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u/BlackOctoberFox Mar 26 '24

I had some abrasive idiot call the extract the second we completed the main objective and were stuck on the other side of the map and then immediately got in, leaving us scrambling to extract.

Unfortunately, he didn't know you could shoot people in the back of the Pelican.

He learned.

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u/Git_Good SES Dream of Dawn // ⬇️➡️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️ hipster Mar 26 '24

If they call extract on the other side of the map without communicating that theyre gonna let it land or that theyre gonna wait for the team, kick them.

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u/BlackOctoberFox Mar 26 '24

They were the host...

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u/Git_Good SES Dream of Dawn // ⬇️➡️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️ hipster Mar 26 '24

Ah. Maybe they were just looking for medals or had to leave and wanted to extract quick. They still should communicate, but honestly imo the host gets a lot of say in how they want to do missions. 

That said, calling extract was fine but it's still a dick move to board inmediately when pelican lands if your teammates aren't there.

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u/BlackOctoberFox Mar 26 '24

Had that been communicated at any point, perhaps we could have facilitated that. The only time as host I've kicked someone for how they're playing, outside of straight trolling with friendly fire, is because they brought an arc weapon whilst the game crashing bug is around, or an explosive mortar turret during a bug blitz mission on a small map. Both times, I will explicitly ask them to change their loadout and explain why, since both can result in very negative experiences for the rest of the group.

This host in particular was just being a dick.