Foxhole's #1 Issue - Reading Negative Steam Reviews -Toxic Clans 

its my face

Foxhole needs a tutorial, with some advice and a short list of things to be discouraged

I have 1600 hours in Foxhole and I still remember back when I played for the first time. I was doing things that I shouldn't have been doing which could've been seen as alt behavior. I then met one guy who helped me learn and understand the basics of the game like logistics and basic combat and made myself useful very quickly. He was very patient with me and it was a very positive learning experience. When I see a new player that doesn't know what they're doing and is potentially and unknowingly harming their teammates, it's important to assume that they're just a new player and not an alt. I could've stumbled into the wrong guy when I started playing and it could've gotten me banned and made me quit the game before even playing. Those first interactions with new players are extremely important and is what makes people want to keep or stop playing the game. Great video btw!

Simplest solution seems to be hiring someone at siege camp who's only job is interacting with the community via dev blog, discord, and through the in-game reporting system. All those negative reviews about toxic vets and clans are 100% true, and completely deserved. The only people who are able to fix the mass reporting situation is siege camp. They NEED to be reviewing these automated suspensions, removing the suspensions that are erroneous, and then suspend EVERYONE who filed a false report for a full week. The only way to fix the problem at this point is to actually punish the people taking advantage of the in-game systems to grief another player(s). Taking the game away for a week for these vets will immediately have a positive effect.

Honestly there should be some kind of mentoring system where regiments can volunteer to become a mentor regiment and when new players log in they get given the list of these regiments on their side, what they do and a link to the respective regiments discord. This would help get new players in touch with experienced players who are willing to teach them

11:10 Just a note here for any new player, some logi clans or even just normal clans are gonna be happy to give you their outdated vehicles such as tankettes or scout tanks during late game, they don't cost that much resources and sometimes newer clans overproduce them and just get a huge stock of vehicles that they probably wont use.

One thing I find is that the revolving door of new players will grind away at your patience. You can explain the same 8 hours of information only so many times to people before you just have to stop. Its bloody exhausting that the devs rely on us to be the game's tutorial.

I’ve had a fair few really bad experiences sadly with my 200+ hours so far starting back in war 108. The worst was the start of 109, my group claimed and found a good spot for our base. Then, Russian clans within the area all decided in a private discord call that one of their clans claimed that land and all proceeded to evict us without warning a week into the wipe. They just showed up and with broken English we managed to figure out what they wanted. Eventually we compensated if they helped us move and gave us stuff but it sadly broke the morale for most of our group and we were less than half the size as we started because no one could be arsed grinding again from the ground up. Apart from that, still fun. There is in game politics between clans and I’ve now joined 27th this current war with a bunch of our original group. It’s…. Interesting to say the least, looking at the clan/regiment perspective.

In my 600 hours of playing foxhole I can count on 1 hand the amount of toxic interactions I have had in foxhole.

I can honestly say, I played with a group of friends and we spent 5 days farming and assembling 3 trucks of artillery and ammunition, we took them to a city on the front and for those who know how artillery works, you can't use it anywhere due to the wind , distance, etc... We had information that an enemy convoy would pass carrying resources and the only area we could hit them was next to the city's respawn, we had about 30 seconds to get there, aim and fire, in this rush we ended up that we ran over a person because the city was busy, this person spent the next 4 hours following us, trying to steal our ammunition and vehicles and cursing us in the voice, after that we started to simply report anyone in their first "troll" attitude, then a few weeks ago we reported a guy who had entered our truck and after that he said in the chat that he was a newbie and didn't know how to play, FoxHole's biggest current problem is exactly that the line between a "newbie" and a "troll" is so tenuous that without dialogue it is impossible to differentiate, and this is caused exactly by the lack of a learning curve provided by the game to newcomers.

damn that kronus pic looks like a mugshot lmao

The list of Do's and Don'ts can be expanded upon by distinguishing what is considered a logi town from the start of the war and those which are not. Then make said list always appear before they spawn in the hex, and make the list toggleable on the settings to not annoy vets. Like the TF2 tips system when you connect into a match. Just make it nice and short, like most good introductions should be.

New player - I've gotten plenty of help from vet pleyers who are happy to help with any questions I have to ask, the only negativity I've gotten or toxicity from other players is from the opposing enemy side. Which I mean, *we're at war* of course they're gonna tell me to "off myself." I don't think there is as much toxicity in the game as the reviews believe, more that it is a communication issue. I mean everytime I respawn at a bunker there's always that one vet player being super helpful telling new players what to do and how they can help. Right now my biggest issue with the game is the logistic delivery's, bringing a bunch of guns but no ammo for those guns. Nothing makes me realise that we've lost a frontline foothold then seeing 200+ respawn tickets but having only 42 rifles with only 20 something ammunition for those rifles. For any logistics players reading, if your gonna bring respawn tickets for players bring as many rifles and ammo for those players to use, we're not gonna win this war with sidearms alone😂

Some good advice here for new players. But ultimately this community issue is just a symptom of the bigger problem of how poisonous alting is to the community. I made it past the new player experience but ultimately quit the game when I realised that the chronic level of alt facilitated partisan strikes just made building high tier facilities not worth the effort.

Man, I feel bad for those new players who happened to cross paths with those sweaty vets

Yeah, I'll fully admit that I wanna pick up foxhole but all the negative reviews about the community have given me pause. I've been banned in New Worlds due to an erroneous mass report. I cheered in GC for another company when they took a region. The company that lost that region mass reported everyone that cheered. Couple that with social anxiety, I find it hard to relate to civilians after my military service, and I'm just happy to live foxhole vicariously though youtube. Keep up the good work mate.

my rank is OCdt. Recently, at the end of the war, we were surrounded in breakwater, me and a few other colonials were guarding the northern road, then a warden ran and instead of shooting at him, we started larping, that we were a free republic, we were talking about the new update and stuff, then a major ran and he started shouting at us, he tried to kill us, but we defeated him, and literally 10 seconds later, he started yaping on world chat that we were giving out Intel to our enemies, teamkilling, and generally being alts, luckily, my clan found out about it and we were spared. sorry for my english

I'm new and never had this issue. I say for new players to just join a clan. There is no negatives and only positives. Join a more laid back clan that doesn't care about rank or playtime and wants to teach people. But also make sure the clan is still structured and has power and has veterans. For me I joined the 27th. They take as meny new players as they can and teach them. They also have alot of vets. They have lots of operations, and it's a huge clan. I don't have to worry about being on at sertant times unless a operation is happening. My first day in the game I was able to be in a massive tank fight with them. We had like 15 tanks in a line pushing up on the enemy. A new player would never get the chance to be in a tank or even a huge fight like that. They would just be brushed to the side. But since I was In a regiment they invited me to be in there tank. I was in all roles for all day in many different tanks. Then, I helped transfer 30 tanks from 1 clan to our clan through the sea. So in 2 days I did so much that a new solo player would never be able to do. Just join clans guys

I’m not sure what the devs have done to mitigate alting but I’ve definitely still seen it even in this most recent war. My clan’s solution was to essentially have a “guard” if we had a vehicle we really didn’t want stolen that we couldn’t put in the seaport. We had our fair share of “hey do you need help?” With low ranks wandering our facility and some would just be looking for the front or something and we’d help them but most wouldn’t reply and just run away. We’d never know if that was just some younger player scared of some random person talking to them or an alt potential scouting our base. So yeah the alt paranoia is real

I followed general etiquette by not taking what wasn't mine, but starting toward the beginning of the war in the backline may have helped. I asked questions then anounced I was new to the game. I usually always got help, and people told me about their fear of alts. Many of my starting questions were whether or not I could take things, because I knew it took time and resources to make everything. Joining the game for logi may have affected the way I approached the game. I think I went on a rant, but this time it felt right.

0:30 YOOOO. That guy, DVSwhitescar, have 5 accounts in Foxhole and you could often see nicknames "DVSwhitescar" and "DVSwhitescar5" in the list of players on server. He just used them to flagged, if some building was in the way. He won't cooperate, he talk less and he wanted only what he needed and he dont care. if someone wanted to give him access to resources and use factory, he refused because he wanted to do it his own way. What's why "community in it are awful" Hard to say, play 5k hours in foxhole - that's wild and cool

My worst experience which is 50/50 split in chat was half the people thinking it's "part of the game" to have other players take anything they want from your private base and if you don't have everything you own in a private stockpile instead of a private bunker base on your own island then it's your fault and everything should be free. Had my base I work for so long for on partisan island basically destroyed by friendlies who believe they could take whatever they wanted. When posted in chat 50% said this was okay while the other half backed me. The good thing was 2 nearby clans basically tried everything they could to help get me back to speed but I was kinda done after that and am on a long break from the game.

My major issue with Foxhole is the weird current cult of personality surrounding SecretBismarck. For those new to Foxhole, Bismarck used to be a seemingly helpful member of the community, writing up manuals to teach new players and whatnot. However, as is the case with various "vets" (people who play foxhole for too long begin to suffer from brain rot, and actually believe they've experienced war from playing a video game), this took a turn for the worse. In an attempt at misguided vigilantism, Bismarck has taken it upon himself to "uncover" building exploits/glitches/bugs for the devs to fix. Well, that's what he tells himself anyway. Instead of finding said exploits for the pure purpose of removing them, he instead deploys them to his regiment's advantage, in active combat zones, and to the very least of my knowledge, has done so for the last 10 wars (well except when NEP quit because of Warden Bober exploits, ironic doesn't begin to cover it). I'm a builder in Foxhole, and I'll be the first to admit it is wank. However, creating new forms of glitches (Bismarck Cores, as he has so humbly named them, gravel foundations surrounding BB, making it nigh unkillable) isn't going to improve that.

Players are a little uptight about stuff in this game. I think the most important thing to remember is - the map is huge - so if you aren't jiving with a group, go queue up and go to another front somewhere. You can always go far into the back to a seaport town, and ask someone to help you get a truck and load it, then take it to the front. I started in foxhole driving b-mats and shirts. Just a huge truck load of shirts and drive it somewhere nearby that needs it.

RU-vidman bad. Now seriously... it's the broken window theory. There's toxicity yes, but the biggest issue is not the toxicity itself but the fact that it goes unpunished, so victims either quit the game or become toxic themselves. It used to be that the large coalitions of players (and clans) were the actual enforcers of civility within this game, not the moderators (which were really few and some... well... you know what they say, power corrupts people). At some point they started caring more about winning the war that about keeping the game civil and free of cheaters, and this is where it led us.

Love the name and shame idea for folks abusing the report button. I don’t consider it “witch hunting” if you have the receipts or proof to back up your claims. Unfortunately, folks who are community mods don’t agree with that sentiment. Last time I made a video name and shaming a salty player, the FOD community mod team gave me a warning and removed the video from the discord channel lol. I will say they also timed out the salty player but it’s weird that calling out toxic behavior can get you in hot water too. Great video Rob!

Most annoying thing sometimes is seeing rankless or low rank players running around, try to reach out to them in both chat and voip to ask if they need help, and they just run away without communicating. Although i and my acquaintances have some success stories, sometimes training and introducing players to the game is pyrrhic, because once they learn the logi system they'll log out and never return.

When we first returned to a game recently with friend (Cpl's), while was figuring what to do and wondering around in process, inspecting surroundings for ourselves, we instantly was suspected as alts. Our luck was: suspecting guys discussing that in hex chat, and me who can communicate on ENG despite we both RU; so i managed to notice it in time and kindly convince guys that we are just noobs yet. And for us its not something exceptional, we understand why this happened and took it really easy, but sad fact majority of new players may be offended, or just being blindly reported as they dont clue about chat or can't communicate on ENG or at least same native as suspecting guys.

Regarding Regiment-mass reporting practices, I would propose that whenever a case is proven that the system was abused by a regiment, the whole regiment loses 10% of their commends (Yes, including new members). That would disincentivise both people from joining or remaining with them, and regiments as a whole from promoting such behavior.

I think the biggest source of this problem is facilities, facilities are too hard for new players to try to learn as they can do a lot of damage from not knowing how the game works, facilities do not allow for collaboration

Everyone is an alt! Except for me 😎

Gotta love when randoms just strips your base of resources instead of spending hours farming. Learnt the hard way to keep everything in factory until I need to use it.

I built a base and had an org turn up and obliterate the whole thing, to build their own base which was almost identical to what I had built. I also spent hours fucking around figuring out how to collect materials, how to refine them, how to use those materials to build a truck so I could transport more materials, then how to use those materials to build a tank... Just to have a bunch of nosey tossers abuse me over comms to tell me to get out of the tank i'd built because I was a new player. Like... I hit the magnifying glass and these pricks had never collected resources, and barely had any kills.

I just started so far. It's been awesome crazy that it's one big war that last a month that blows my mind

I honestly have a hard time getting into this game. One thing that would really help is if these large clans that have the resources specifically targeted new players for recruitment and took them under their wing.

I got band by a clan when I was a new player. But I was being purposely disruptive. Not caring about other's stuff, hard work in the game. As are these other new players, they don't care about other's stuff. You cannot mess with other people's stuff NEW PLAYERS.

I got mass reported for scrooping, they had "claimed" the node and decided that it was a good thing to mass report players for just trying to help. It IS the number 1 issue and it is an issue with the mentality that clans are their own faction.

I can truly say that Foxhole has, on the whole, one of the best communities of any team-based multiplayer game that I've played in recent memory. If you ask for help, you will receive it. Old players love teaching new players (partly because new players have no preconceived notions about what to do, so they're down for whatever) because having another well-informed, invested player on your team only increases your chance of success 😐7

Lock out " similar to weapon lock out 20min" what there should be instead of only banning we can lock out a players abiliy to do something and give them the reason example i steal someone vic like a tank they report me then i cant take or use that kind of vic i get a small side window tutorial stating the reason "you stole a players vic and got reported for it, every thing in this game is made by a player please understand that unless you made it ask if its ok to take. communication is key in this game." this can be done for new players for clear alts you still have the option of being kicked out of the game by players that banned you Zone message popup + when it comes to player made facilitys there should be area claim were as soon are you go into the zone there are popup message example messages like: "dont take vic or you will be shot" " this facility is for clan members and friends only... " abit like when you enter a new zone you get a notification about it. the messages will stating it will be semi locked into your screen unless your part of the clan or seen it for a while or click yes i understand on the message it will be auto translated for each language Highlighting when hovering over something states message + there should be high light marker that should state on the vic if i hover over it and its claimed by a clan it should state "private dont take" or "public free to use" each player can place it on there vic and leave a small message for other players to be aware this message gets specialy in faciliys or in private parking lots over all warning is key

27 seconds in and paused it to say I'm going to rush over an put in a positive review concentrating on how helpful and cool the players have been. 1st night.. someone spent about an hour or so teaching me all kinds of stuff. Day 2, same.. it was almost like they knew where they other left off and continued the help.

In my opinion, the best thing the dev's can do is mitigate the damage griefers can do and give players better methods of protecting their stuff from griefing. Removing the griefers ability to grief is often better than hunting down the griefers themselves. It's the main reason why we have reserve stockpiles, it's also the reason why we can lock our vehicles. It's also the main reason the facilities have the friendly fire immunity with the 5 person flag requirement to remove them. These are all countermeasures designed to mitigate the potential damage of griefers by limiting their ability to get away with their actions. Having more logs and information tends to help reduce the amount of paranoia we need to express. Currently our best "behavioral" solution that we can do is to attempt talking to the player first before jumping to conclusions. Most griefers and troll's don't respond to chat, so once they refuse to respond in both voice and text chat, then you can safely escalate as needed. But most of the time if you talk with the individual you can clear up misunderstandings and get things taken care of. It's much harder on an active front where resources are limited and someone just so happens to suicide the last very important asset your team had left. Like the last push 68mm gun that was holding the enemy tanks back suddenly got flipped around or pushed directly into the enemy to get captured or killed. But the unfortunate best way to avoid losing your temper with these individuals is to just bring more equipment so it doesn't matter if they lose them. Extra logistical work ends up being the most passive way of addressing the problem. Create such an overabundance of important equipment that neither the griefers nor the new players could expend the critical equipment faster than you bring it in. Though, it can be difficult to keep up when the new players coming in outnumbered the logi players providing, as you have seen from the interview with me. But it's either we suffer more, or the new player experience suffers more. I just hope more people learn logi coming in because the information helps alot for what you should do on the frontline.

First time I ever played it took me 2 hours to get a Halftrack to the front, only for someone to place a mine behind me and laugh as I died on it.

Being still newish, I’ve had my share of uh-oh moments, but I’ve also had my share of willing vets show me the ropes from both sides, I’ve accidentally team killed on multiple occasions, but I’ve also been killed for it on multiple occasions, however I’ve never gone out of my way to seek revenge, at the end of the day communication like you said is key, take everything that happens with a grain of salt, sometimes people get out of hand because they cannot cope or choose to be jerks, sometimes stuff happens and people recognize that, others may not, all in all I’m happy for the experiences lived and learned thus far, just remember you get to choose how to act or react regardless, some people are slow to learn and others are fast, it comes down to who is willing to teach and those who are willing to learn, respect your enemies and your allies and the game is that much more fun for all around, my number one rule is just don’t be toxic.

I joined 3 days ago and have had so much fun, come across some lovely people and everyone have been very welcoming in all aspects

I'm a new player joining my best friend who's a huge vet in this game. They were showing me Logi stuff cuz that's more my thing and while he was teaching me how to move things to personal storage we had been in a huge logi-depo kinda area so lots of people were waiting to use the crane and I felt so bad D: I was stuck in a menu so I didn't know people were asking tf i was doing and at first thought I was trolling. But then they realized I was with my friend, who was in a well known logi team so they were like "oh, that makes sense. They're being taught logi. It's okay guys!" And while we drove off, I got bombarded by commedations ;u; I was fortunately luck enough to not be mass reported for preceived trolling but i deadass would probably be yeeted into a sun if my friend hadn't been there as a sort of protection of sorts.

Sadly it happens way too often. I hear people say "I don't trust no rank players" or "I don't trust a clanless person." I heard this yesterday while in reaching trail.

Toxicity is actually a symptom of the problem, not the actual problem.

The devs are unfortunately not that concerned about the quality of life in this game. I know they've been busy introducing naval warfare, but that has introduced many more balance issues that the game is seeing now. There is still so many issues this game has, and I wish they would communicate more about smaller changes that help new and veteran players. The next changes should really look back on all the content that was released and introduce balance/quality of life changes, so this game can be more enjoyable for everyone.

so there are more problems as a non clan affiliated person, clans will also tend to claim a are and resouces especially component spawn areas making it nigh impossible to make anything above basic supplies and clans also tend to hoard materials that could very well mean the difference between success or failure in a nearby battle. I remember running logi to origin and passing multiple pallets of arty shells and could not access them to bring to the front and there were the clan members online at the time ignoring origins pleas for arty shells. Clans get rather elitist as well and can sour the experience for those of us who cant spend more than a couple of hours in the game a week.

their should be a training shard where the noobs of both teams could learn to fight and build that is about1-3 hexes big center for fighting with uncontestable space for a few vets to test BB construction methods without pressure that gets wiped weekly to reduce memory issues going there would be less embarrassing than the training zone currently is

Just a couple days ago I logged on in some spare time. When I did I saw "vets to X to help with an op". So I, a Warden with 4800 hours and Lt. Col rank whose never been collie, went to help. Not going to get into details but the op got qrf'd quick. I was then accused of being an alt by a certain regiment and killed even. I chose to go find the accuser and speak to him. After I explained my hours and commitment to Warden they then said "this is our front go somewhere else". I told them I paid the same amount as you, and I'm here to help. I was agitated by this point and kind of RP'd out of it by saying "I'm a Lt. Col. Alts are no ranks or low ranks. I have better stuff to do than prove my innocence to you." And walked away. The moral of the story is nobody is safe and the fact as a "medium" rank Warden I shouldn't be accused of it but it does happen. I just so happen to not have a clan tag either. Just thought I'd share another story. Most of the community is great though. Always bad apples here and there. Also, miscommunication. I forgot to mention the regiment above spoke French and I don't.

Should be noted, I had 100 hours of foxhole with nobody on discord to play with, and my Hotspot being used as my internet meant I couldn't access ANY communication system in game, no VOIP, and thanks to "Disconnected from voice channel" and "Connecting to voice channel" spammed into the chat log so I couldn't communicate via text either....so making everything be based on PLAYERS teaching you is madness. The tutorial island SUUUUCKS and should have useful advice, not just be a deployment zone.

All you have to do is say your new and ask for help. Worked for me

You can't get in any vehicle or build anything you want in Squad. Most servers have rules to ensure resources are used effectively.

Thid video really helped, I've read a bunch of negative reviews that said things about toxicity and didn't know if I should buy it.

Each side are nice to each other when not fighting

Yeah, I first bought the game about a year ago. I found a base next to a scrap field and spent many hours just filling the bases resource transfer station with scrap using their vehicles. Then I got banned for stealing their vehicles. Gave up on the game entirely and only came back a couple days ago to give it a second shot

I started playing foxhole last war and I can check off every item you listed about new players (except the banning part). I was blamed and reported for TKing a teammember who was stuck in a building and thus asked me to shoot him. Another occasion I was accused of suspicious behaviour when I was wandering around the map trying to understand logi. On the frontlines it is quite common to be yelled at for small mistakes. Of course in the heat of battle people get emotional, I very much get that. But I would definitely say that the amount of salty comments to new players is quite high in Foxhole compared to other online games. This however didn't stop me from playing Foxhole for 100 hours already. It is an awesome game with an awesome community. But still, how good the intentions of the majority may be, I feel that a salty minority do not leave enough room for new players to make mistakes and learn. In my opinion this is partly a community issue, party a development issue (tutorials are certainly outdated). For now: why not mark a region as "logi training"? Vet players could hang around if they like to teach and new players can learn and still contribute to the war effort.

In my experience, Foxhole is the least toxic game i have ever played, especially with such a big community. As in every game, and the real world too unfortunately, there will always be toxic people. However, in this game i can count on one hand the toxic experiences i have had. The amount of positive experiences greatly out-shine the toxic ones.

I spend 8 hours one night with a small group defending the front by ourselves. It was getting heavy artillery striked nonstop. We had to repair and rebuild it back like 5 times but it was a huge build. When it was finally over, me and the small group were rebuilding when a clan came through. Started destroying our rebuilds all so they could set up just ONE artillery cannon. I watched as they made all those people who defended the area rage leave and I was left alone with them to continue the defense. They were extremely uncoordinated, not even getting their cannon firing until like a half hour later. When they finally arrived with shells, the immediate crashed into sand bag bunkers, armed with mounted machine guns and launchers. Destroyed it. I confront them for destroying all the stuff earlier and then just now and they start TK'ing me. I asked them, do you know how easily I could screw you over? Just be a dude and say my bad so we can move on. They doubled down ssying f you and TKed again. So I came back shot the remaining mounted cannon at their crane so they couldnt unload. Got killed again. Came back got in their unlocked flatbed full of shells and I drove it off the bridge. Clans that think they run this game just because they threw away their life prospects to play it are the lowest on the totem pole. Hope you remember me BB. When I see you again, it's going to be round two.

The new player mass reporting problem ties into the Alt cheating problem. If a person makes an Alternate account and uses it to hand over a whole bunch of materials from a collie supply depot to the warden side whats to stop them from claiming "Oh im r nub, I make mistake."

I remember that within my first hours of playing that I A. Accidentally stole a truck full of R mats B. Nearly stole a train from the same clan as it was full and I believed it needed transport to the front C. Killed a guy and his team in a colonial tank as I thought they were some sort of spy class. Fun times.

Went through tutorial area, spawned onto the front, walked behind a tank to pick up an injured player when a tank crew started yelling at me, dismounted and tk me for" Walking behind the tanks". Came back told them I was new and didn't know that was a thing so they killed me again, told me they would report me if I came back so i quit.

6months into release of the game their were Regs entirely focused about teaching the game up intill last reg quit when flamethrowers were introduced. You now have 0 people in spawnhub actually teaching people. That what I think went down hill for Foxhole the lack of mentors in community driven by mafia type team work is not the best environment from my view.

Salty veteran players can be pretty bitchy, and clans absolutely can and do abuse the reporting system to temporarily ban certain players, but I don't think it's a significant issue in the game. I think the most common thing that a new player can get chewed out for is building random stuff in an area a clan might be building. Even after 2000hrs in the game I only build if I'm helping a higher rank build.

I'm OCdt rn and I'm still paranoid that players might think I'm alting, I'm so careful with my every action. Also the reason why I rarely touch the building side of the game which sucks because I actually like the building aspect of the game.

PSA if a review says they were perma banned by mass reporting, they are lying. Only devs can dish out perma bans, so any review of that nature is a troll or an alt further sabotaging the game

These Reviews really had me like "Hm maybe not" after i was interested in this game. I really love the concept , but im too old for the younger tryhards , who only have fun while playin to perfection or some sort of meta. Hurts many games and i just want to have fun 1st and progress 2nd

The report system should be overwatched. Someone at siege camp should review, especially mass, reports, and if reports weren't for a good reason, their reporting strength should be diminished, while players with good reporting habits should be more influential in reporting.

Newish player, 95% of people are great. Unfortunately I had a run in with the 5%. I killed an enemy, picked up his flamethrower to take it back to BB. But having never seen or used one before, I decided to give it a blip - I fired for half a second at nothing just to see the effect. A salty vet appeared out of nowhere immediately, screaming STOP WASTING FUEL!!!! It's like, dude. I captured this for the team, I'm bringing it back. I literally tapped the mouse to witness the fire. Muted him and moved on.

I'll be jumping into foxhole today and keeping this in mind, I personally just really wanna learn how to logi good!

when I was a noob I saw a mine in the road if friendly and just as I was about to disarm it when a tank drove over it. I got blamed for laying the mine. in rage at the insult I barely manage to type "it wasn't mine" they insult me for trying to claim it wasn't A mine.(and reported me)

I can speak from experience about being friendly and helping people is the best way to go I remember fondly in my first war I wanted to help make tanks and stuff so I wandered into a facility in Kalokai and tried interacting with some garages and looking at materials and this dude walked up and was like oh hey what's up what are you doing, I explained I wanted to help and such and he said it's all pretty complicated and I should go kill wardens for him to help him out, now here I am sitting my friends down and teaching them how to make facilities to make their own tanks :D

I couldnt decide on buying the game mostly because of these damn reviews. Then I watched your 1000 hours video and immediately purchased. So far Im very pleased

I actually really considered buying and playing foxhole but the reviews save me from it, it’s not just a couple they’re a ton of negative reviews and toxic to new players is always good to avoid. Especially since it’s a team driven game if you can’t get by in a positive community your motivation will dwindle quickly

I remember when i first played. I mean it really wasnt that hard to blend in. I head straight to the Frontline. Asked how to equip stuff and bayonet and they answered. Easy peasy. I slowly started to branch out to logi just by observing or looking up how to online.

I genuinely think you cannot do significantly better than the current system without investing a lot of resources into moderation for minimal returns. Also, I think its pretty telling that you specifically mention that situations where people COULD HAVE gotten banned but don't because they talk. Funny thing, you don't tend to get randomly banned if you explain yourself. New players are willing to communicate, and if they aren't in a team game? Well then it sort of becomes their fault.

T3c loves to do this. Did it to me because I accidentally did 3% to a logi truck with a grenade. They are a garbage regiment.

Hmm.. They could look into putting in a volunteer moderator program. Some players who love the game would probably be willing and be mature enough to moderate the game.

I got an idea! When u report someone u are obligated to write an 100 word essay on why that person should be banned

in 141 we regularly give courses

I got banned for like 12 or 24 hours from a mass report for building a trench some clan member didn’t like. Edit: I quit the game for months after this and eventually came back. I definitely left a negative review and made a seigecamp ticket and got that general email the next day saying I could play again. Didn’t help me at the time though because I play games like once a week, so banning me for a day is like banning me for a week. Needless to say I was salty and didn’t return for several months. And even now I’m distrustful of the population. I’m a casual player that does mostly solo but some regiment events.

I was in the Krieg regiment, the big one. And that Avitus guy just banned me from the reg just because I was 'a noob' even tho my idea on the strategy at hand was better than his. Even in regiment the game is not that fun to be franck. I liked it more when people used to be togather and play as a team on each front rather than coordinating on discords.

Witch-huntinting killed many times more organisations than witches themselves. Never had any problems with mass reporting but i can see where reviews come from. Just a few days ago i suggested a quick plan to a big clan on a frontline. Said plan included the use of barges and certain equipment in the inventory. Clan organised very fast, and in minutes we were ready. Except we couldn't move because one "random" player jumped on a barge exceeding its transport limit (6 people). Since inter-regiment comms become quite hectic, instead of spending a lot of time to explain the situation, clanman just killed the guy. Were they wrong? Probably, but the guy retaliated, team killing multiple clanman. Clanman then mass reported the guy.

As an Ocdt frontline player, I always try to encourage new players to not be scared of dying and the focus on fun. But important stuff like arty teams I'll try to explain why they shouldn't interact with it unless they are invited to join in.

There is one "funny" story of mine back from War 109, my first war... I and my friends just started out playing the game, mostly played together in the Linn of Mercy front on the Warden side... i set up a very small faci to allow me to make 150mm shells when the others wanted to arty (before anyone start panicking about newbies with arty, we very rarely hit our lines, we always looked up how something is supposed to be done before doing something). When the collies managed to achieve their "day 1 objective" all of a sudden i had 4 pallet of 150mm pallet to evac and 2 150mm mm arty piece... i tried to pull stuff from our small faci in Moors back all the way to Howl temporarily... issue was, while doing this i ran into a small problem: there were exactly zero public vehicles available in Howl seaport, so i tried to find an abandoned one... while doing so i got yelled at from left right and center to "get out of the way" and "bugger of, im doing important logi here!". I didnt knew at the time to i could just redeploy mind you or i could store away the 150mm arty pieces in the seaport or about reserve stockpiles, so i literally tried to keep everything on squad locked flatbed trucks. Looking back, it was incredibly stupid on my part, but what does that say about basically half of Howl then... The players at that hex were INCREDIBLY hostile towards anyone who was not a vet., and honestly, i never ever experienced ANYTHING like this in Brodytown, Reaching Trail(where i did 90% of my scrooping and supply making). Fortunately i was not banned or anything like that (i guess one of the benefits of doing logi mostly as a new player is by that point i was already OCdt, so i guess a lot of ppl. didnt instant reported me i guess assoonas someone cried "alt"). By the start of this war (War 110) i learned almost everything, but when i started making my own ACTUAL faci which was more than an ammo factory for shells i got a taste for why everyone was so paranoid... my train got stolen, 2 random cpt came in and "suited themselves" with my hard scrooping materials to upgrade their tank in front of me etc. etc., but istill honestly dont get why take that frustration out on ppl. completly unrelated to any of faci related stuff still. But maybe the funniest bits (which happened in this war) was when i got yelled by a large clan for going in the exact oposite direction they wanted with their train on the same track (while i announced my heading in both logi and region chat, unlike them), and its happening on the tracks i built. I honestly often got the impression during war 110 to the few large clans think theyare the only ones playing the game and everyone else is supposed to fit into THEIR game. Not just to play it the correct way, but play it as THEY want you to play as. And the sad part is, those exact same clans are also pretty chill and easy to get along when they dont do something "important" (from their perspective, that is), but as soon as they do something "important" they are by faaaaar the most toxic group i ever encountered (and by the record, i played many online MMO's, toxicity is nothing new to me, so to be on the top of it is quiet something).

Ive watched some of your videos time to time and as a foxhole vet (not rank wise, time Ive had the game) I wholeheartly agree with these issues layed out. From what Ive seen lately is that the reporting problem as a whole has calmed down unless you want to build a facility. In which case, you are better joining a clan and slapping signs saying this is the property of this clan. Usually it deters the other clans away from it. Now I do believe the Wardens have more of a problem when it comes to mass reporting new players due to certain Warden clans. Collies in my opinion are a lot nicer to new players if you ask around generally anywhere on the frontline. The backline players can be a bit more stingy but ask them anyways for help, they won't get mad to the point they will mass report you. I am apart of NEP (takin a short break) and everytime I see a new player on our frontline/backline. I will take the 5-10 minutes of my day to explain what they want to do and how to do it. These players make up most of the random conflicts and battles that happen on the frontline, they are truly needed. That's also where people that are incredibly egotiscal begin to have problems with new players. A lot of people think only clans are needed, but if you remove all the clanless. It is gonna be a one sided war 10/10 times. They are fundamentally required in the current state of the game. (Frontline that is, backline is usually made up of major clans and they got their own system set up. Now with that out of the way

It’s been a few years since I played in any consistent manner but I remember almost everyone being friendly and helping new players any way they could for the most part. Although I do remember that sometimes people would harass anyone without a rank, because of this I would always commend any no-ranker to be at least a private. I would also help out any new medics the best I could since I was usually the most experienced medic in my areas of the front. If this issue is as rampant as the steam reviews suggest then that absolutely sucks and it needs to be fixed as soon as possible.

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So far, I haven't had a negative experience. But I've only been played for around 10 hours so far. I also ask questions and see what needs to be done that I either can do so far, or follow someone to learn what I don't know.

I did the mine thing where i placed mines with friendly tanks nearby. I got chewed out for it. I assumed since my logi truck wasn't trigging the friendly mines that tanks wouldnt have that problem either.

the idea that a single clan can ban someone by reporting instead of a simple votekick by all the team is ridiculous stupid

I've learned only very recently that friendly mines didn't damage friendly vehicles, im pretty new to the game but still!

When i played this game i was afraid of the report system so i just keep myself on the front with rifle and anything else, just constantly dying to the meat grinder or be a medic. I didn't took anything and stayed away from every vehicle or even weapons. I left the game because i downloaded it in first place because i wanted to do logi, but my mind went to every thing is occupied and even if i build something some clan could just report me or destroy what i build. So i just refrain to do it Btw i was more paranoic because even when i understand and i can talk english, im not fluent enough

To be fair when I joined I had no such hate, but is good to talk about. Whenever I see I private I don’t scream at them (I ban them for being an ALT) jokes aside I try not to get annoyed with new players, the one exception being digging T2 trenches

Ive been reported (back when report votes would show up in chat) for submitting 20 rmats to a townhall back in war 82 time (on shard 2). I wasnt banned but someone felt i was greifing by submitting 20 rmats to a logi towns townhall and clicked the report user button on me, still one of the funniest things ive experienced

i started 3 weeks ago and everyone was super nice and helpful. i never encountered toxicity, every time i asked about something someone just took me on a tour and explained stuff in detail maybe im lucky but i feel this game is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar far less toxic than any other pvp game.... like smite, league, for honor, apex legends all full of realy disgusting people, in this game everyone is just chill and joking around.

Siege camp needs to do a better job on handling alts and instituting a successful and helpful turorial instead of the jump in follow deploy written on ground then chaos ensues.

I have about 1k hours in foxhole and I personally think the devs should just have less opportunities for team killing. Like maybe you can’t take out 10 cutlers in 50 seconds

I got 2000 hours in this game and have never gotten banned. The players that are leaving reviews that they got banned deserves it.