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I've been playing since about a month after release and have since reached lvl 81 (just to show I put in quite a lot of game time since I started). In my first month of play I came across ONE single griefer who TK'd people on purpose. Considering I'd played hundreds of games I thought this game was a shining example of a great community.

However.

The last three(ish) weeks or so, I feel like I'm playing a whole different game. About 1/3rd to a quarter of my games involve randoms with really toxic behaviour. Training mobs on you, throwing barrages on the group for fun, destroying our own sentries in defense missions...

But there's one thing that is apparently suddenly a "fad", I guess? That is kicking someone from the game right before extraction. Seriously, I've run several full 40 minute rounds, usually on decently high difficulties (7-8), with no real communication with any players whatsoever, let alone tk's or toxic shit, and then you suddenly get kicked as soon as the Pelican is on the ground.

WTF gives? I don't know if it's a reportable thing, I doubt it, but I sincerely hope it's just players getting somewhat bored while waiting for more content and that it'll pass, because if this is going to be my regular experience from here on out, I'm going to look for something else to play. Not the devs' fault in any way.

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[–] renrenPDX 9 points 6 months ago

It was bad for me a month ago but I really haven’t had it happen recently. The worst lately is just being kicked shortly after matching or diving in. Other than that it’s just crashes at the end. It’s frustrating for sure especially spending all that time to ultimately get nothing. I can’t control how others behave, just me, so I try not to get bothered.

The worst back in the beginning was clearing the extraction site, and as we’re about to board, a guy dies to a flamethrower. No prob, reinforce. Only to see the same guy with the flamethrower to turn me into ash. The remaining two extract then start gaslighting us ver sarcastically for dying and how we lost a star because of it.

To be clear it does say Kicked when kicked. Other wise it’s a crash or host left.