Helldivers 2 Devs Seek Solutions for Toxic Player Kicking Epidemic
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Players in Helldivers 2 are frequently getting kicked by hosts for not conforming to their preferred meta strategies. This is frustrating for players and the game's developers.
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Arrowhead's CEO asked players on Twitter for suggestions to solve this toxicity problem. Popular responses included a playstyle queue, forking instances instead of kicking, better blocking tools, kick penalties, vote kicks, and limiting kicks.
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The CEO seemed interested in ideas like playstyle queues, instance forking to avoid kicks, and better blocking tools to avoid rematching with kick-happy players.
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Other suggestions like vote kicks and kick penalties could help but may be technically challenging or open to exploitation.
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Arrowhead seems committed to finding and implementing a proper solution to curb unwarranted kicking, but it may take some time.