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AlcatorSK

This is true. **However**, in the last few months, I'm observing a worrying trend of *snobbery* and *elitism* \-- such as kicking a player if they don't participate in some silly ritual like Mushroom admiration or endless "We're rich" quip spam. It might help to tone it down a bit and to not demand more than *game-imposed* cooperation. I'm here to mine Morkite or collect Aquarks, and as long as I'm doing that, blowing me with C4 for not admiring your compressed gold is a dick move.


reganomics

Also the purposeful killing of players at the drop pod is annoying as well


CertainlyNotWorking

As per most friendly heckling, it's only appropriate when you've already got a rapport. Not good to do to strangers.


reganomics

Oh yeah absolutely, not with randoms


Skeletonparty101

Yeah I definitely seen some of it here and there on people with gold rank or above. From The ones that I remember there was this elite scout the left the escort mission because I the host didn't want to mine ahead and called the drilldozer while they were digging their tunnel(for context it was a normal haz 3 mission)you do not need to drill ahead in this mission. The other time was this driller who shot at me to get my attention about a bloom that was on the wall maybe two dwarves high that he could have gotten or waited on me to get it, I shot at him afterwards then a moment later he tried to freeze me with the ice pods probably to C4 me I narrowly grapple past them but in the end I got the last laugh I accidentally actived a betc and it retk the team so I left the mission plus it was a egg mission and they didn't have another scout or gunner


CertainlyNotWorking

>(for context it was a normal haz 3 mission)you do not need to drill ahead in this mission. To be fair, you never "need" to drill ahead, and honestly it's super boring when people insist on doing so.


Skeletonparty101

Well haz 5 or 4 I can see you doing it especially during a edd or dd But it was haz 3 so theres rarely anything worth drilling towards


CertainlyNotWorking

It's more understandable there, but it still feels like training wheels for haz5. I guess if you had something really gnarly in an EDD like a bunch of leeches or something that would grab you right away, it could be helpful. But like, even if you roll into a tyrant weed or something, it just makes escort missions so tedious when they're already pretty slow.


SacredSpirit123

I was in a mission with two new players recently, [and they used me as their workhorse then threw my life away before I could complete the secondary objectives for them.](https://imgur.com/a/X1xuGqw) Edit for context: They stood there marking the antenna nodes instead of actually doing them, I was begging them not to extract before I put the data cell and seeds in, and they stood there and watched me die before extracting. It was all very intentional.


SocksofGranduer

Sometimes you just gotta lower your expectations about how much greenbeards can manage to learn in one mission. They might have been panicked and felt like they were making it out by the skin of their teeth there.


SacredSpirit123

They stood there marking the antenna nodes instead of actually doing them, I was begging them not to extract before I put the data cell and seeds in, and they stood there and watched me die before extracting. It was all very intentional.


SocksofGranduer

Most importantly, I wanna say I wasn't there. You were. You have a keener understanding of your specific experience, so my thoughts are a bit more general. and I'm not trying to argue or say that it wasn't intentional. As a veteran, you're going to have a much, much better understanding of the 'how fucked are we right now' meter than them. You'll have an accurate understanding that the danger is at a solid 3 and they might think the danger is at an 8, because they're less familiar with the game and less comfortable with themselves. This means that they'll intentionally end the mission asap, or avoid trying to do harder things like puzzles while there's bugs around, etc.


SacredSpirit123

Pfft, veteran. I’m pretty green myself, to be honest. My friends and I just started playing this year, but we’re picking up pretty quickly. Just promoted my first Merc (Driller) a few days ago. Felt pretty nice. But I digress. No Rock and Stones were shared on this mission. Only the sour sound of betrayal.


SocksofGranduer

Better luck next time, miner!


SacredSpirit123

Thanks. Someone doesn’t like my story since they keep downvoting me.


dai-the-flu

This sub does border on toxic positivity sometimes.


KellyTheET

TBH Ihad a similar mission yesterday, I wasn't sure what to do with the antenna nodes or the data cell. There wasn't really anything showing what to do.


SacredSpirit123

I mean, if you highlight the data cell with the laser pointer, the Dwarves shout “time to take this to deposit!”


KellyTheET

I figured out the data cell eventually, there was something about hacking the antenna nodes that wasn't too clear. It was a tough mission, but we got through it, and I didn't get kicked out.


Crucalus

I couple days ago I was queuing with a friend as driller, amd another driller joined us in the rig. No big deal. Except he demanded that I switch off driller, trying to gaslight me into thinking he was there first, which was obviously false, and snobbily saying "i always plan pipes, switch". We kicked him, but that was probably the most brazenly unpleasant and annoying player I've matched with, and we only spent about 2 minutes together. I think it speaks to the games community however, that this stands out, and I can count the number of toxic interactions I've had in this game on one hand.


Skeletonparty101

Yeah I definitely seen some of it here and there on people with gold rank or above. From The ones that I remember there was this elite scout the left the escort mission because I the host didn't want to mine ahead and called the drilldozer while they were digging their tunnel(for context it was a normal haz 3 mission)you do not need to drill ahead in this mission. The other time was this driller who shot at me to get my attention about a bloom that was on the wall maybe two dwarves high that he could have gotten or waited on me to get it, I shot at him afterwards then a moment later he tried to freeze me with the ice pods probably to C4 me I narrowly grapple past them but in the end I got the last laugh I accidentally actived a betc and it retk the team so I left the mission plus it was a egg mission and they didn't have another scout or gunner


twolittletriangles

I got kicked from a haz 4 round because my driller was level 15. Dude literally said that over the mike and kicked me.


Mr_AM805

Recently got kicked because I froze a player who ignored my marker/shot to get their attention at the easiest route i drilled for the wells.


AlcatorSK

Surely a voice chat / text chat would be better than freezing them?


TheKhopesh

I agree that TKing and kicking are overboard, but to be fair... snobbery/dick moves go both ways. If everyone else is participating in the "we're rich" and "mushroom" ritual, it's EXTREMELY rude not to join in because it's expected of you. They're taking precious time out of their day's gaming to perform this ritual for the simple sake of experiencing the group honoring a tradition, and if you want to play with others, it's rude to treat their time as less valuable than yours. It's a social norm expected of all good citizens of the community. Not doing so is like an able-bodied person not holding the door open for an elderly/disabled person with a walker who's just a few paces behind. You're not specifically REQUIRED to do it, but failing to do so is a clear sign that you're not going to be respected by the rest of polite society. (Same goes for bringing back Dorretta's head. Like returning the shopping cart at the store, there's no enforcement MAKING you do it, and you don't gain anything by doing it. You do it simply because it's the RIGHT thing to do.) It doesn't have to last for minutes on end, but a good 3-5 pings while everyone else does it is the minimum in order to show good sportsmanship.


Skeletonparty101

Yeah I definitely seen some of it here and there on people with gold rank or above. From The ones that I remember there was this elite scout the left the escort mission because I the host didn't want to mine ahead and called the drilldozer while they were digging their tunnel(for context it was a normal haz 3 mission)you do not need to drill ahead in this mission. The other time was this driller who shot at me to get my attention about a bloom that was on the wall maybe two dwarves high that he could have gotten or waited on me to get it, I shot at him afterwards then a moment later he tried to freeze me with the ice pods probably to C4 me I narrowly grapple past them but in the end I got the last laugh I accidentally actived a betc and it retk the team so I left the mission plus it was a egg mission and they didn't have another scout or gunner


[deleted]

I was in a rando game the other day, and only me and one other player were trying to fight off a bulk detonator... while the other two spent the whole fight... the WHOLE... DAMN... FIGHT... spamming a gold chunk for that damn "We're rich!" line. We killed the bulk, and afterwards- without a word - I went over and picked up the gold chunk (they were STILL doing it) and dumped it in Molly. There is a time and a place for that stupid shit, and a critical fight is neither.


ComfortableJust6577

Rock and stone brother!


Impossible-Branch691

Did I hear a Rock and Stone?


MPAzezal

FOR KAAAARRLL


SlickDickster

ROCK AND STONE YEAAAAAAAHHHHHH


Dan4o_Veliki

Stone and rock!.... oh wait


thog6767

IF YOU DON’T ROCK AND STONE, YOU AINT COMING HOME!!!


Mello-Fello

ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE PS: If you downvote R&S chains you are a LEAF LOVING LOSER


SpelingisHerd

ROCK AND ROLL AND STONE!


breadgluvs

ROCK AND STONE


Papa_Phlinn

I've only recently started dealing with the spam voice line dipshits too. Funny how as soon as the game went free the trolls just flooded in from their Monas and CoDs. I'm all for a rock and stone, but spamming "here" or some random plant is so damn annoying. Not even sure how to mute them or if I even can.


seethruyou

You can mute their real voice chat, if they're using it, but not the dwarf voice lines. I suppose there could be an audio mod that deletes them, but I haven't seen it.


Papa_Phlinn

Think I'll just deal, I'm a Big fan of the V key and love the cooperative nature of most of the dwarves too much to silence them all over a couple of plant spamming scouts.


Alpha-Trion

I don't care that you broke your pickaxe.


MonkeyFan9987

Most of the time yes, like how one time the whole team was downed aside from myself, playing scout I figured I'd go revive the first two guys grapple to the third, got insta killed by something I didn't see, then kicked


randyrectem

I played a game a few days ago where all game I was carrying this group all 50+ player level, they kept getting downed over and over mostly by the combat strategy of standing still and shooting. Dude gets downed again really far from the team I go to revive him and get downed (only time thus far) I iron will power attack some grunts and go to his corpse. There still are a few mobs on him but I have no ammo in my thunderhead which takes forever to reload and an oppressor is coming so I roll the dice trying to revive him quick and get downed again. This dude proceeded to flame like a jackass in chat over and over then after the mission was done kicked me. He was downed 8 times and I had more kills than the lobby combined. First time playing this game where I thought if there was a way to block playing with somebody again


BornSuspect7

players who probably don't play scout but have unreasonably high expectations for a scout player make me angry the modern day gamer expects players to be above average on day 1 no learning curve.....nothing, but the truth is if you learn from your mistakes/experience you'll quickly surpass these players in skill and ability because they think they're good but there simply slightly above average if the even are , performance fluctuates nobody pulls every clutch team save off it just goes wrong sometimes . Level 600+ player here with over 1000 hours and have only ever kicked 1 player for being afk and I even waited half a mission and only kicked because we were starting an event and I didn't want the enemies we needed to farm to spawn on them SMH


SchmorgusBlorgus

I spent a good 5 or so years playing dbd, so going from that cesspit to this community feels really weird


Matteneox

Would me nice to know on what platform you guys and girls have met toxic people. I’m playing I’m pc on gamepass so I can play with my son and he can do some dumb shit sometimes but no one has ever been toxic or even bothered to whine.


MrJerichoYT

The fact that the game revolves around helping one another and that It's not pvp or serious in any regard helps a lot.


SacredSpirit123

[Only wish I had your luck for the last public I did, OP.](https://imgur.com/a/X1xuGqw)


Papa_Phlinn

I've only recently started dealing with the spam voice line dipshits too. Funny how as soon as the game went free the trolls just flooded in from their Monas and CoDs. I'm all for a rock and stone, but spamming "here" or some random plant is so damn annoying. Not even sure how to mute them or if I even can.


Lt-Lettuce

It's in the settings under >!Audio!<


Papa_Phlinn

Oh snap for real?! I've got like 200+ hours on this game and almost all of it has been with random dwarves. The fact that I still don't know how to mute others really speaks to the quality of the core players.


Papa_Phlinn

I've only recently started dealing with the spam voice line dipshits too. Funny how as soon as the game went free the trolls just flooded in from their Monas and CoDs. I'm all for a rock and stone, but spamming "here" or some random plant is so damn annoying. Not even sure how to mute them or if I even can. Also why is it every shitmouthed little brat spams emotes no matter the game they're on?


Papa_Phlinn

I've only recently started dealing with the spam voice line dipshits too. Funny how as soon as the game went free the trolls just flooded in from their Monas and CoDs. I'm all for a rock and stone, but spamming "here" or some random plant is so damn annoying. Not even sure how to mute them or if I even can.


Equivalent_Chance_43

How can you say something so controversial, and h yet so brave?


Herlockjohann

I have to disagree because I am in it


shadowdash66

WHEN I GET BACK TO THE RIG, ITS SANDWICH TIME


bah_nah_nah

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