Bad player base

[BENN-EE5]

I dont know what happened, but so far this seems to be one of the worst player bases I have encountered in years. I have been playing quite a lot of the original mod and a bit of the standalone. The player base was alright or actually pretty good.

I am playing games where the player base has a reputation of being toxic and stupid on a social level. Games like Six Siege or Overwatch. But none of these games get close to the experience I have in Insurgency Sandstorm.

Every game now has badly parented 12 year olds, or people who are physically older, but behave on the same level. People burping into the mic, making noise or just being idiots in voip and game in the chat.

This pretty much kills the game for me since you cant really mute voip or chat. You can mute people, but they get unmunted after each round. Apart from that

[Meister. Yoon]

Did you perform either 1 kill 17 death or did you not capture a point where everyone was dead in your team? ;)

[Touch Me]

Uh, that just might be your experience. I personally haven't encountered such antics since playing it on and off. So far I have a noticed mostly mature playerbase in most of the matches I have been in, but that could be due to playing mostly at night and therefore bypassing such behavior from some of the toxic part of the community.

[Beyond.Celsus]

Mostly when I play online people are very rude and nasty toward me, because of my high ping (nothing I can do about it) but so far with this game, not a peep. Decent so far.

[bezem]

Dude MilSim games like these are the worst. It's full of salty neckbeards that are too fat for airsoft so they go on here to larp as the soldier they'll never be.

[Styxen]

How one experiences a playerbase varies wildly from person to person. You could have been unlucky. I haven't seen any toxicity yet.

[Sadistic Sweety]

Originally posted by Styxen:

How one experiences a playerbase varies wildly from person to person. You could have been unlucky. I haven't seen any toxicity yet.

^ this. Been very lucky to have nothing but great teamwork people. It's day 1 for most. Be patient.

[Touch Me]

I can see mostly a chill response aside from Bezem. So there are actually a lot of us that are decent people that just wanna play the game. You have just been unlucky so far. Maybe reach out to some other players and get a small group going to play with you.

[=BB= Pudfark]

Running the name 'MeFirst'...implies a certain attitude, which likely evokes a certain response.
I much like a name....like 'Whiskey'...which promotes warmth.

[Halkoja]

You are an idiot

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Whiskey:

Originally posted by Kaano:

Maybe reach out to some other players and get a small group going to play with you.

A subforum for players to promote and find groups would be nice.

I can’t wait to see all the miserable ♥♥♥♥♥ who troll the subforum by pretending to be nice and then teamkilling anyways.

[BENN-EE5]

Originally posted by Meister. Yoon:

Did you perform either 1 kill 17 death or did you not capture a point where everyone was dead in your team? ;)

So funny.

Note that I am not talking about how "competent" people are. I would say I am average and when I have a good match of firefight I end up on the upper end of the scoreboard. I am also not talking about people may react to me and mroe about how people act in this game in general.

[-Easy-]

The toxic people will eventually wipe themselves out.. Just wait the game is just out kinda gets messy people buying and about 50-70% wil never touch or even refund it in the first 2 hours of playing. Eventually the people who stay and play this game will have more respective attitude towards other humanbeings. Do not pay attention to those who are toxic. Treat them how they treat you ..

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by MeFirst:

how people act in this game in general.

From my experience in the beta, you would be matched into a game that would go something like this:

1. Everyone was quiet. No communication and rarely any teamwork

2. Same as before but now you have two ♥♥♥♥ buddies alternating between teamkills and nobody is able to kick them

3. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, everyone here is communicating and working together. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, we won! *gets booted back to main menu and never finds that great team again*

It’s so stupid that NWI decided to get rid of the feature that allowed teams to carry on into new maps and modes. Yet another great thing the last Insurgency has that this doesn’t

[Alex]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Originally posted by MeFirst:

how people act in this game in general.

3. Holy♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone here is communicating and working together. Holy♥♥♥♥♥♥ we won! *gets booted back to main menu and never finds that great team again*

It’s so stupid that NWI decided to get rid of the feature that allowed teams to carry on into new maps and modes. Yet another great thing the last Insurgency has that this doesn’t

So true. There is so little teamplay in the game and this burries it even further down.