people keep joining me

[Uncle BuLLee]

first time playing destiny 2 ever, not sure how to stop randoms from joining my game, google was so vague and most of the answers in threads are so vague and useless.

Anyone can guide me here how to stop randoms from joining me i want to play solo

[Uncle BuLLee]

please someone let me know, this is ruining my first hand experience they keep joining no matter how many times i quit the game
I keep reading firearm or what not I am not sure what this means but I am at my very early stage just started my first few minutes and people are already joining my game I want to solo this

[Antvietnam]

What’s wrong with you?

[EckyThump]

Activities with matchmaking will always fill your fireteam with randoms, there is no in-game way to disable this.
The 'patrol areas' (open areas on each planet) are public areas so you will often see other people, but Lost Sectors are instanced and it will only be yourself.

Players will not be added to your team in Story missions but you may still see them if the mission goes through a public area.

[the.angelhunter]

If you go to Director - Roster (Shortcut: U), you wil see an icon on the left called Fireteam Privacy. Here you can set who can join you for general activities, like lost sectors, missions, starting activities.

As EckyThump said however, some activities have matchmaking. Meaning if you don't have enough people on your fireteam the game will add those.

[Uncle BuLLee]

Originally posted by EckyThump:

Activities with matchmaking will always fill your fireteam with randoms, there is no in-game way to disable this.
The 'patrol areas' (open areas on each planet) are public areas so you will often see other people, but Lost Sectors are instanced and it will only be yourself.

Players will not be added to your team in Story missions but you may still see them if the mission goes through a public area.

Originally posted by the.angelhunter:

If you go to Director - Roster (Shortcut: U), you wil see an icon on the left called Fireteam Privacy. Here you can set who can join you for general activities, like lost sectors, missions, starting activities.

As EckyThump said however, some activities have matchmaking. Meaning if you don't have enough people on your fireteam the game will add those.

thanks guys, so it is part of the game that they join.. however I am getting matches of level 130+ and it is really ruining the experience of shooting and killing enemies I can barely get to them without experienced players demolishing them. how do I stop that?

Also I pressed Tab for that menu, I see no such thing as firearm yet, maybe I am too early in the game?

[Theblaze]

You can change your privacy settings in the roster tab.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2558595699

Again, this does not apply to public places and activities that has matchmaking turned on, such as strikes, battlegrounds, overrides.

[EckyThump]

Your effective power level is capped at 50 power above the recommended level for that activity. Strikes and most locations are scaled to 1,100, so you fight it at the exact same strength in that activity when you are 1,150 as when you are 1,320+. So power level doesn't really matter in this case.

A more experienced player knows the spawn locations and may have picked up better crowd control weapons. If you've seen groups of enemies explode into a burst of sparks, or melted by a puddle of swirly matter on the ground, that's due to two popular ones, Salvager's Salvo and Witherhoard. There's nothing you can really do about that, the game has no real concept of new player/veteran when it comes to PvE. But ultimately these players are not necessarily doing anything you can't also do or will hopefully soon learn how to do.

A 'fireteam' is Destiny 2's equivalent of a party. When you enter matchmade activities, random players will join your party, but if you have friends who also play, you can form into a fireteam by joining each other, that lets you move around as a team, and play things that require multiple players but do not have matchmaking.

My suggestion, look for Lost Sectors on the open world maps. They are marked on the map by a little arch symbol. They are mini-dungeons with a boss enemy at the end. Random players can't follow you in, it'll just be yourself. They're pretty fun for a starting player, I think.

[R A Z E R]

Originally posted by BuLLee:

Originally posted by EckyThump:

Activities with matchmaking will always fill your fireteam with randoms, there is no in-game way to disable this.
The 'patrol areas' (open areas on each planet) are public areas so you will often see other people, but Lost Sectors are instanced and it will only be yourself.

Players will not be added to your team in Story missions but you may still see them if the mission goes through a public area.

Originally posted by the.angelhunter:

If you go to Director - Roster (Shortcut: U), you wil see an icon on the left called Fireteam Privacy. Here you can set who can join you for general activities, like lost sectors, missions, starting activities.

As EckyThump said however, some activities have matchmaking. Meaning if you don't have enough people on your fireteam the game will add those.

thanks guys, so it is part of the game that they join.. however I am getting matches of level 130+ and it is really ruining the experience of shooting and killing enemies I can barely get to them without experienced players demolishing them. how do I stop that?

Also I pressed Tab for that menu, I see no such thing as firearm yet, maybe I am too early in the game?

Level 130 means season rank 130.

[zeus]

There are two things here, as other people have mentioned. You have:

1) Activities with matchmaking, these activities will always put you with other players to do the activities, there are ways of starting some of these activities solo (PVE ones), you can google that if you want, keywords that might help you for example are: "how to launch strikes solo in Destiny 2". If activities involve any sort of PVP aspect, you obviously need to play with a team. (examples: battlegrounds, strikes, lower difficulty nightfalls, gambit, crucible, some seasonal/expansion activities with specific difficulty settings like nightmare hunts or empire hunts, the two highest difficulty settings usually require you to make your own fireteam)

2) Activities that do not have matchmaking, so you either do them solo or make your own fireteam by inviting people from Destiny 2 LFG discord or clans/friends. (story missions most of the time as some can put you in public spaces in the world along with other guardians doing the same mission, raids, endgame content like legend/master/GM nightfalls, trials of osiris, higher difficulty versions of seasonal/expansion activities)

People rushing through missions is completly normal. If you play this game for like 100-200 hours, you will likely attempt to do the same and want to rush everything to the end, this hurts new players initially but... there is nothing stopping you from redoing the same mission again. You will eventually find people doing things slowly, not everyone rushes. You can always try searching for other new players to play with aswell.

[Bobert]

Just part of the game.

Once you start doing nightfalls and such your gonna be glad for having a warlock with a healing rift on your team

[ZeroKelvin]

People here aren't really getting what you're asking. If you're in a matchmade activity, you get matched with people, and there's nothing you can do about that. Strikes, Gambit and Crucible are matchmade.

If randos are joining your FIRETEAM, on the other hand, you can set it to closed, clan only, friends only, etc. Pull up the roster screen (with all the names on it), and click your fireteam settings. It should be above your name.

[Uncle BuLLee]

alright so i got the hang of it so far. I guess I cannot control open areas at all, people still join and kill enemies.

Question is, the loot that drops, ammo, etc.. is it shared? or if someone picks it I miss out

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by BuLLee:

alright so i got the hang of it so far. I guess I cannot control open areas at all, people still join and kill enemies.

Question is, the loot that drops, ammo, etc.. is it shared? or if someone picks it I miss out

No everything is on your end.

[Bobert]

Originally posted by BuLLee:

alright so i got the hang of it so far. I guess I cannot control open areas at all, people still join and kill enemies.

Question is, the loot that drops, ammo, etc.. is it shared? or if someone picks it I miss out

Client sided.

[Maxine]

It's online game idk why you so mad about it. But if you really desperate just use this https://github.com/DrNoLife/Destiny-2-Solo-Enabler