No matter what I do. No matter how long it takes to find a match. Round starts with a raider flare almost immediately, rats everywhere, even players who first help end up shooting you in the back. It started today.

I haven’t shot at anyone previously, for several months. I just want to do my quests/trials, for fuck’s sake. Literally impossible.

I’m supposed to do damage with pop triggers. To even have a chance to achieve a decent total damage, first you have to collect ~10 stacks. That means several rounds of preparation. Then you finally get your stuff, start a game and get shot in the back from nowhere. Now you can start over and try again (or watch as you’re dropping out of your rank).

This was my 3rd attempt. All three ended like this. I did literally 0 damage to other players to get this. Now I can just stop playing, get 0 points for the expedition and lose all my trials progress, OR attempt at them and lose all my items for the constant ratting.

Is it just me, or are you experiencing something similar?

  • inlandempireEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I don’t experience this so sorry I can’t really relate or help

    Few questions to maybe pin point why this is happening to you:

    • do you play with crossplay on or off
    • console or pc
    • what times/ region
    • how long have you been playing
    • which map(s)

    These could influence your matchmaking

    • Dicska@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago
      • Crossplay on, AFAIK
      • PC
      • 8-10PM EU
      • This is my ~3rd expedition
      • Buried city was sus, and I’ve seen way more raider flares, plus I suddenly got a lot of players semi-follow me literally everywhere, but the absolute blood bath was Blue Gate.
      • HONEYBADGER517@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        29 days ago

        Turning off cross play on pc immediately reduced the amount of pvp I ran into. You run into more people who also have their cross play off, usually for the same reason. I’d recommend giving that a try.

        • Dicska@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          26 days ago

          Wow. I’m still not sure whether it was turning off cross play exorcising the servers, or it was a weird Saturday evening pentagram-full moon event (most likely the former), but BOY it went back to peaceful so nicely! Thanks for the tip, I think I’m slowly regaining my sanity (and my 4 lost Hullcrackers).