How to Limit OP People from Joining You?

[Nox Tenebris]

I just started anew and want to keep my quests open for people to join. However, someone over powered always joins and nearly insta destroys the low level monsters I am fighting at the current point I am in the story. It really isn't cool, I want people at my level to join, not some loser that has to come and get his ♥♥♥♥ hard by destroying some noobie quests.

[J.M.]

? No one is destroying your quest. They are trying to help. Also, it sounds to me that you are still quite low rank so people at your rank are trying to level up as fast as possible and no one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about joining your quest. If you really don’t want OP people to join you, you should turn on the manual acceptance for sos signal in the first place, not blaming them for “destroying” your quest.

[Senpai]

If this is SOS, you can set it so that you can manually accept join requests. It's set to auto as default. If they're in your session, you can set a password in your quests so only your friends can join.

You can also kick people who joined your quest if you think their gear is overpowered. Go to player list -> select player -> remove from quest.

That being said, please inspect their equipment before kicking them. Some Master Rank players gear down to the appropriate rank equipment when joining lower rank quests.

[mewlynx]

Manual accept, check equipment to see if they have powerful stuff (or just glance at their HR/MR but some people do use appropriate weapons for whatever they're fighting so idk). If you don't like what you see, just don't let them in.

Also, people are literally encouraged to go back and nuke stuff because you get rewarded for doing so by the game. Personally, I'll use my normal gear on everything but assignments, where I'll opt for Defender stuff as to not obliterate things (but it really doesn't matter anyway because someone else with Shattercannon will join anyway).

[myhr2]

Maybe, you know...talk in chat in-game and explain what you want, instead of going on Steam forums complaining to random people?

[CourtesyFlush09]

Originally posted by Senpai:

If this is SOS, you can set it so that you can manually accept join requests. It's set to auto as default. If they're in your session, you can set a password in your quests so only your friends can join.

You can also kick people who joined your quest if you think their gear is overpowered. Go to player list -> select player -> remove from quest.

That being said, please inspect their equipment before kicking them. Some Master Rank players gear down to the appropriate rank equipment when joining lower rank quests.

What this person said.

[Keagian]

Most people that are joining LR or HR from MR is doing it for the pendants so you can probably expect that most will try and blitz through it to get their pendent.

Only option is as someone else has pointed out is to have manual accept active, hunting alone or just having to deal with it. It sucks but most people don't want to go back to the lower ranks once they've gotten to MR.

Those of lower ranks are also trying to blitz the content to get to MR so the likely hood of finding people at your HR, joining your SOS is pretty slim unfortunately, but that's the nature of these types of games.

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Keagian:

Most people that are joining LR or HR from MR is doing it for the pendants so you can probably expect that most will try and blitz through it to get their pendent.

This.

Also, if you're here on the forums, rather than complain about random OP people you instead ask if someone will join your lobby? Send out a friend request, communicate. Rather than using the in-game voice chat you can use the Steam voice chat so load times don't get in the way. Lastly, if the above isn't an option, don't use SoS and instead play solo until you hit a hard wall.

[𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒶𝒶𝒶𝒶𝒶]

Originally posted by Nox Tenebris:

I just started anew and want to keep my quests open for people to join. However, someone over powered always joins and nearly insta destroys the low level monsters I am fighting at the current point I am in the story. It really isn't cool, I want people at my level to join, not some loser that has to come and get his ♥♥♥♥ hard by destroying some noobie quests.

Players using master rank gear will demolish any low/high rank monster within mins but it's not because they are trying to ruin your experience, there's an achievement and a pendant for helping SoS players that don't have a master rank.

Go into settings and under sos, change it from automatic to manual, then pick who joins or doesn't. This is the only foolproof way to stop master rank players from destroying your targets.

Like others have said you can also ask them to switch to a low/high rank gear as you don't want to be carried but this doesn't guarantee they will do it.

[Nox Tenebris]

Originally posted by myhr2:

Maybe, you know...talk in chat in-game and explain what you want, instead of going on Steam forums complaining to random people?

That is a ass stupid comment.

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

Originally posted by Keagian:

Most people that are joining LR or HR from MR is doing it for the pendants so you can probably expect that most will try and blitz through it to get their pendent.

This.

Also, if you're here on the forums, rather than complain about random OP people you instead ask if someone will join your lobby? Send out a friend request, communicate. Rather than using the in-game voice chat you can use the Steam voice chat so load times don't get in the way. Lastly, if the above isn't an option, don't use SoS and instead play solo until you hit a hard wall.

By the time I'm done taking my time to make such a request, they are already halfway into killing the monster. And if what everyone is saying and they are trying to kill stuff as fast as possible, then why would they run back to swap their gear? What a dumb suggestion.

Originally posted by Senpai:

If this is SOS, you can set it so that you can manually accept join requests. It's set to auto as default. If they're in your session, you can set a password in your quests so only your friends can join.

You can also kick people who joined your quest if you think their gear is overpowered. Go to player list -> select player -> remove from quest.

That being said, please inspect their equipment before kicking them. Some Master Rank players gear down to the appropriate rank equipment when joining lower rank quests.

Thank you for actually answering my question. This sounds exactly like what I was looking for.

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Nox Tenebris:

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

This.

Also, if you're here on the forums, rather than complain about random OP people you instead ask if someone will join your lobby? Send out a friend request, communicate. Rather than using the in-game voice chat you can use the Steam voice chat so load times don't get in the way. Lastly, if the above isn't an option, don't use SoS and instead play solo until you hit a hard wall.

By the time I'm done taking my time to make such a request, they are already halfway into killing the monster. And if what everyone is saying and they are trying to kill stuff as fast as possible, then why would they run back to swap their gear? What a dumb suggestion.

I underlined the correlation you are clearly not understanding. Then again, I get the feeling that you'd be too toxic to play with from your reply.

[Vandals[UK]]

Player A: Why no one join my SOS?
Player B: I got over powered people in my SOS!


Anyway, you best option will be manually accepting players:
In Game, bring up the menu -> Systems -> Options -> 3rd from the top, mission acceptance setting

I would suggest you accept players that were similar ranks. Which I'm sure it will take a while to get one. You'll probably rejected tens of player at that point, because seriously, most players just want to rush to Master Rank fast. They wouldn't replay previous quest UNLESS they needed specific items from specific monster.

In fact, at some point, you may find it less frustrating to just play it solo. Or simply open up the game to everyone else regardless of their Ranks.

[jrubz]

Originally posted by Nox Tenebris:

I just started anew and want to keep my quests open for people to join. However, someone over powered always joins and nearly insta destroys the low level monsters I am fighting at the current point I am in the story. It really isn't cool, I want people at my level to join, not some loser that has to come and get his ♥♥♥♥ hard by destroying some noobie quests.

Sorry to break it to you, but Capcom actively made a mechanic to award stronger players for helping lower rank people.
If you don't want them joining, set your join request to manual and remove them if their gear is too strong. But you probably won't get many SoS's after that.

[Fraktal]

OP should just learn to kill the EZ mode monsters solo instead of asking to get carried. Yes asking other LR players for help is getting carried.

[Haggis]

I played 90% of the game solo. Hit end game and do some quests with IRL friends for fun, and when I'm grinding a monster I'll sometimes join another group or make an SOS as its usually a fair bit quicker doing 4 man than solo (maybe I'm just bad).

I really do think the game is more fun solo. Obviously there's a lot of fun to be had playing with your friends too, but if its just randoms that you are playing alongside; skip that and play solo. You miss so many of the monster's mechanics when you play with other people that it is ridiculous; even if you are managing to put out the most damage, you are still getting 'carried' in the sense that the monster targeting other people makes the fight so much easier, gives you so many opportunities to attack and makes it so that you miss a lot of the nuance of each encounter.

In a lot of ways I really do feel like making multiplayer the standard was a mistake. It's like playing on easy mode, except its not JUST the enemy health values that drop; its also that their deadly combinations rarely seem very deadly as they switch who they are attacking frequently, that you don't have to learn their animations to find the best opportunity to attack, and - having seen quite a few other people in my grinding sessions - most people do not even know how to use the clutch-claw and just rely on me to do all the wall-bangs and tenderising. It makes the monsters feel worse and it makes the players genuinely worse.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Senpai:

That being said, please inspect their equipment before kicking them. Some Master Rank players gear down to the appropriate rank equipment when joining lower rank quests.

What does this even matter anyone who's played g rank should be crushing low rank regardless of equipment.

I completely understand OP people might see themselves as helping but he's trying to learn and he doesn't learn anything if an experienced player drops in and treats his monster like a the training post