In my experience solo is mostly friendly but in team it's almost full pvp. If you go in with those expectations you should be good
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Been my experience as well, solo for chilling, duos for ultimate uncertainty, trios for team deathmatches
Yup, solos is friendly as a default, duos is tense until someone talks, trios is just death around every corner
this is 100% why I won't play or even buy games that allow the general population into my sessions. friends only, or single player. I can't be bothered anymore. anything else is just frustrating or a waste of time even playing.
We're going to try to get on the same solo server, similar to how we do it with Sea of Thieves. Could provide us some relief and enjoyment.
Crossplay off, NA server, all click join at the same time. We'll use our private discord server. I'll let you know how it goes.
update for others, not me. if I can't password protect my servers i won't even purchase the game.
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.
This is my experience, if your friendly you get into friendly lobbies. Including teams!
However if your not friendly it doesn't take much to be cast into pvp lobbies! Go on a raid with a trigger happy friend....
It takes something like 10 non-pvp rounds to get into the friendly lobbies
And even one kos round will put you into pvp land.
So matchmaking is quick to put pvp people together, and slow to pull PvE people out of pvp.
But even the ideal PvE lobby isn't 100% friendlies. It's 85-95% friendlies, with one or two antisocial people for flavor.
When I spawn in I watch for raider flares and if I see more then I few I knows it's a pvp lobby and just exit asap
I'm level 46 and have never once initiated PVP. My kids were brand new to the game. YMMV but it doesn't seem to have matched us with like-minded players.
I was also a brand new player when I started playing with friends- probably should have prefaced that.
Yeah, it’s a neat concept and looks super polished, but the gameplay sucks. Unless you like ganking or getting ganked, avoid this dumpster fire.