A few dozen solo sessions this weekend. Overwhelmingly friendly; sharing tips, trading BPs, taking down larger ARCs and splitting the loot. I bought the game for my kids and was excited to have them experience what I did.

Sadly, 6 team matches, every single one with a toxic group not even trying to chat - straight to KOS and more often that not, deciding to make some asshole comment pre-knockout.

Play the game how you want, I get it, but if humanity was in this situation, wouldn't we want all humans working together against ARC?

Anyway, that's my rant and why I'll be slowly letting this game get dusty in my Steam library. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I heard that your playstyle is matched with others of a similar kind, not sure how true it is…

But I found after a while of playing with my friends we encountered more friendly groups generally speaking. It took a few days but it’s pretty consistently fair games now. We still get our asses handed to us but it rarely leaves me feeling bad.

We’ve had situations where we establish we’re friendly with others and walk away only to hear the fellow friendlies being attacked. We always run back and wipe out the aggressive squad until that lobby is mostly full of nice people.

I’ve also found how you respond to being attacked can improve your situation. We’ve been downed and praised the enemy party for a fair fight (when applicable) and been defibbed as a group and moved on with our raid.

I play a support role in our squad and that seems to have upped our chances of staying alive long enough to defend ourselves and give the boot to rude players.