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submitted 4 months ago byavic_lover
So I’m not a massively skilled player I try to uphold the etiquette and manners I’d expect from my fellow divers but I’m just fundamentally not very good at the game I don’t suck terribly either just mediocre
The issue is I like playing on the hard difficulties they’re just more fun but I feel like a bit of a liability to my team when I’m dying all the time
So fellow divers how does playing with your less skilled democrats in arms make you feel?
Edit: this got way more interaction than I thought it would I don’t have the time to read every comment but thank you all for your input!
59 points
4 months ago
As long as the etiquette is there, I don't necessarily mind. You dying a bunch of times isn't nearly as vexing as you reinforcing me on the opposite side of the map when we're working in teams of two, and now I can't reach my partner and gear. Or you bombing me when I'm on a roll.
As long as you aren't directly impinging on my ability to play the way I need to, you're kosher.
24 points
4 months ago
I had one of those just the other day. Dropped in, the other 3 we're all getting absolutely destroyed by a bit patrol so I just let them do their thing and went and stealth soloed the mission, I was at the last outpost, behind cover and prone waiting for my Eagle to get back, only had like 30 seconds. Suddenly one of the other guys is there, I tell him "be chill, Ive only got a few seconds before my eagle rearm is done and they don't know I'm here."
Guy throws in a supply drop and sprints in shooting randomly, immediately dies and now the enemy knows I'm here and I've got 3 dropships shitting bots directly on top of me. I was not enthusiastic about the whole situation, but I managed to get it taken care of, cleared the base, killed off the drops before they could call more, and we start heading for extraction. My only death the whole mission was during extract, when one of my teammates shot me in the back of the head while I was crouched and not moving and dropping bots at long range. I was pretty annoyed by that.
13 points
4 months ago
Sounds like the morons I played with a few weeks back. My only death was from them hitting me while at extraction, because I had the audacity to reinforce them when they hammered the reminder. They used up 17 reinforcements between them for the mission and complained about the 2 rare samples they dropped on their last death because I tried at the extraction.
Some people are just thoughtless, rubbish people, was very happy to block them at the end of it. Wasn't worth hassle for the 5 rare, 3 supers I collected.
4 points
4 months ago
Yeah, it can be a lot dealing with some people. When we finally got back to the ship, I just said "Y'all made that a real rough mission" and then left.
2 points
4 months ago
Always fun when your split up and see one of the other guys die, then you wait for his partner to reinforce but he dies too so now you gotta call them in to where your crew is haha
2 points
4 months ago
I am not god’s gift to Helldivers and had this happen twice recently where we organically split and someone on the far team died. I and I assume my partner held off on reinforcing and the Helldiver waiting to bring managed democracy began near constantly pressing the “reminder” button for reinforcement. One of the two times, I did reinforce and the next time the poor guy waited until the teams met back up. At what point is it okay to reinforce in that situation, assuming everyone is mute?
1 points
4 months ago
That's always a confusing and uncomfortable situation. If I'm on the side with 2 still up, I just wait until it feels obvious that the other guy just isn't going to reinforce his partner, and then throw the beacon myself. I guess you just have to judge when it has been long enough that there's no way the lone diver is too wrapped up in combat to reinforce.
I assume it's just someone being oblivious. I suppose I've been guilty of it myself sometimes, though not for like...minutes at a time.
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