Helldivers 2 Players Kick Teammates Over Loadouts; Devs Seek Solutions
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Helldivers 2 players are kicking teammates who don't have "meta" loadouts before games start, which the developers see as a "hard to solve" issue.
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Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt asked the Helldivers 2 community on Twitter for suggestions on how to address this problem.
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Many players responded with ideas like adding a "kick reason" prompt, highlighting recent kickers so you can block them, preferred playstyle matchmaking filters, and tracking/limiting how often a player can kick.
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Pilestedt said the ability for hosts to kick is important so they "own the experience", but also thanked the community and said they'd look to them for inspiration on improving things.
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Separately, mechs were recently added to Helldivers 2 via a patch, but they sparked some backlash that Arrowhead later responded to.