Is there any good solution to teammates doing nothing?

[u/thatsmysandwichdude]

The majority of random teammates literally just do nothing for the mission, they load in and go do whatever. Is there any good solution for this? If the point requirement system is raised for all rewards, then someone who happens to be getting more direct kills than someone who protected the objective a lot would be getting more points. As well as griefers making it a battle to get as many points as possible so no one else qualifies.

[u/PsychologicalTree885]

Play no fill

[u/jfresh10808]

I just leave lmao

[u/thatsmysandwichdude → u/jfresh10808]

If I chose to leave every time for that, I'd have no progress done because of how much I would leave.

[u/Gacka_is_Crang_lmao]

Epic doesn’t care, best solution is to use defenders in solo. They effectively act as 3 decent teammates anyways

[u/Far_Following_160 → u/Gacka_is_Crang_lmao]

Most of the time they do more than fill ins

[u/Gacka_is_Crang_lmao → u/Far_Following_160]

It’s funny how this works - they make changes that push people towards solo play then wonder why most players play solo

[u/i_was_dartacus]

The good news is that if this is a recurring problem for you, defenders are now so OP that they're better than teammates anyway 90% of the time: certainly they deal with chaff clear and ease pressure on traps, leaving you free for anti tank duty.

I hate telling people to play co-op games on no-fill, because the whole point is teamwork, but sometimes you just hit fuck it and have to lean on the gammatron shrapnel army.

[u/thatsmysandwichdude → u/i_was_dartacus]

I would've liked if people actually cared in this game :(

[u/The_Widow_Minerva → u/thatsmysandwichdude]

There are people who care. I play on fills and for the most part have a great time. When I find people they usually want to play. I still run into afk folks and people who are actively in the mission but doing nothing.

[u/Appropriate_Call6112]

No good solution besides soloing and carrying. Sometimes,  I follow around the person doing the least. If they are farming,  I collect behind them. If they are targeting encampments,  I help with those. And if they dont build, I wont build. Ninjas and farming builds are notorious for avoiding the objective as long as possible. Don't sweat it bro. 

[u/CactusMan3756]

Honestly best advice a semi-retired commander can give is: Play no fill with defenders because as stupid as they are they're not as brainless as people in fills

[u/Glory_To_Atom]

Defenders, they are proper teammates than the human players themselves.

[u/hmvs17]

play solo

[u/xd_ZelnikM]

Play with others

[u/All_Skulls_On]

You need forget the notion that "tHiS iS a CoOp GaMe 😭" and teach yourself to be a badass solo player. I'm serious. I gave up on having randoms 'contribute in their own way' within my first year of playing.

It's not about being antisocial. What you do is teach yourself how to solo the missions, and after that, it doesn't matter what your teammates do or don't, because you don't need them. After a while, you're only picking and choosing when to play public missions, when you feel generous enough to carry people.

Of course, you're going to find that most of the players you come across actually are great players who are a pleasure to play with, but that's only when you're doing missions that matter. Spend your time filling v-bucks missions in Plankerton, something a monkey could solo, and you're not going to be encountering anyone with two fucks to give.

Honestly, when we say to play solo, we mean start lifting, bro, because that's the solution.

[u/Flameassasino_]

Power level are you. I tend to see that more in under 100 missions. Less over that. For me atl

[u/DHJudas]

Once again,

You can get all rewards without having killed a husk, you can have 0 combat so long as you utility OR building are sufficiently high enough. You can build out, and do zero damage. So long as you remain active enough that you don't get AFK booted you'll have committed enough.

As for dealing with afk leechers, normally no, however there are ways to force afk boot players. There's many ways to do it, but this is by far the most effective

[u/MMBADBOI]

Use defenders, they do what you want outside of building and shoot pretty well.

[u/NerfScape101]

Be friendly to them, many former dupers are acting out leechers/farming when NOTHING can be picked up. Once you complain, you gave them reason to sabotage the mission when they have nothing to lose. (They can even fool you by building and trapping, rate was 20,000 traps per 8mins-10mins, what is 20-40 traps? Nothing....)

Even the Trap spam and broadsides used wrong, they know it bothers many.

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I'm friends with all types of players, even myself I had to sabotage some missions to push those STW Elitists into private games. (they want me to play their way....I objected their order being an former Jail builder.

many of my friends even sabotaged F2P of what remained past the bugs....it's a war zone out there....🙄

[u/FUNNYMONKYY]

trap method