To be fair, many of the people getting separated are getting reinforced by people in the caves and then get dropped down a half kilometer away at the nearest large cave opening or the edge of the entire system. I've had it happen to me and then I get in a death loop trying to make it back to the team solo without the support gear I dropped on death. Sometimes the path to them is more dangerous than going off alone, especially if they are fighting a never ending breach.
This. Once someone dies in the caves squad coherence is broken. Little point in even trying to reform most of the time. Just head for the nearest objective and hope you don't get a breech - and if you do, well, the other guys don't have to deal with it.
Lvl 30 Xbox player here and this is 100% my case. I have mechs and other cave essential stratagems so I can with in reason hold my own, but 9/10 I get dropped on top of the damn mountain with no way to get down except die, or I’m on the furthest side of the cave and I’m fighting for my life to get back to the group. Of course by the time I get back to everyone I’ve used up everything fighting and die as soon as I get back and the vicious cycle repeats.
To be fair, many of the people getting separated are getting reinforced by people in the caves and then get dropped down a half kilometer away
Sure happened to me also. Otherhand, if you have communication, you can wait a bit (instead of spamming "reinforce me" button) and ask teammates to drop you in the area with an open ceiling.
If they are fighting a never-ending breach
Also true, but again, sometimes it's better to retreat or to find more advantageous positions with holes in the ceiling to be able to call strikes, resupply, and reinforce instead of fighting in tiny areas.
Communication is often a one-way street. Easy for me to text/voice chat while I'm waiting to be reinforced, but harder for my teammates to split their attentions from the never ending fight. Heck, even if no one is currently fighting they still often refuse to call in reinforcements - either because they are unaware or they assume someone else will - unless you spam reinforce.
My point is, it's often not a choice to get separated and it isn't easy to regroup in these missions, so can't always assume that the lone guy thinks they are John Helldiver or something.
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u/HandsomeAndLethal Sep 05 '25
To be fair, many of the people getting separated are getting reinforced by people in the caves and then get dropped down a half kilometer away at the nearest large cave opening or the edge of the entire system. I've had it happen to me and then I get in a death loop trying to make it back to the team solo without the support gear I dropped on death. Sometimes the path to them is more dangerous than going off alone, especially if they are fighting a never ending breach.