Are SOS beacons broken?

[I AM BAYTOR]

No one joining, set to public.

[Rovera]

same

[Maelifix]

It's funny, when I set out a SOS beacon no one ever joins but when I don't there's like a 25% chance someone will join.

Definately broken at least from my experience.

[wyborne]

Cuz many people stop playing

[Dragova]

SOS can be SUS.
A. SOS can be used to bait for kicks. (literally)
B. SOS can be used to bait for carries.

But rarely is it ever C.
SOS can be used to clutch a win.

[Bucko]

Yeah there are 68k online now. 98k last week and several hundred K in previous weeks. Game is losing interest quick. Personally I'm just not having as much fun anymore

[Firelock]

Every single SOS beacon I try to join says "Private" and won't let me join, then when the SOS is gone, I can join again. Bugged?

[Arktic]

Same issue. Must be a server wide issue

[burp]

Originally posted by Dragova:

SOS can be SUS.
A. SOS can be used to bait for kicks. (literally)
B. SOS can be used to bait for carries.

But rarely is it ever C.
SOS can be used to clutch a win.

It's usually B in my experience. Lvl 20 - 40 SOS beacons on diff 9. Often times when I arrived they only have less than 7 reinforcements left. And they're not even through the main objective yet.

It's very chaotic. All panicking and running around into nearby patrols/base/nest. Won't join SOS beacons anymore. I'm not carrying players who ignore the basics of the game.

[Prowler™]

The beacon works, all it does is open your lobby to the public. You still have to wait for the system to pickup a random player, which can take a long time as its never worked correctly since launch and often returns connection errors when joining from different regions or using cross play lol

[27]

I've still never found out the way to join sos beacons specifically.