Helldivers 2 you have been kicked from the game 

This is why I host my own games, so I know I won't be kicked, and nobody else has to worry either.

We also need "disband the party" function to refresh team or make room for friends

I joined a difficulty level 8 game and we spent the entire time literally hitting every sub objective on the map. We collected tons of samples, maybe around 30-40. The 2 other randoms and I were kicked as the shuttle was landing. The host kicked us at the end of a near perfect match. That pissed me off. I host my own games, or join only friends now.

They could do it like Deep Rock Galactic where you can no longer be kicked oncd you finish the main objective.

The really dick move is when someone shoots you after you've gotten into the dropship so you alone don't extract and then they kick you. There should be a punishment that kind of behavior in particular I think.

Bro I got kicked like an hour ago,I’m lvl 50 completely topped off on medals and materials.So I try and help low lvl players out.Misson was launch icbm,they kept on fighting patrols so I did all the objectives alone,even found the rare materials..then got kicked by the host right before boarding the pelican.Toxic behavior for sure..that needs to stop.

The more often you kick people, the less frequently your SOS beacon/matchmaking will be answered.

Getting kicked after a 40 minute game, right before extract and not getting any rewards for it is the biggest bullshit ever... Here are my points on how to solve this: 1. Give kicked people all samples, medals, credits and slips you have found so far 2. You cannot kick people the moment extraction phase has started 3. You cannot invite friends to your game the moment extraction phase has started (some people use this to quickly kick a random player and invite a friend to get all the rewards of the mission instead) 4. As the kicked person make it so you are never queued up with this host again (blacklist) 5. Flag people that tend to kick a lot with a small symbol (like a skull that gets increasingly more "red" the more they do it.

One good suggestion I've seen is to add "kicked by whom" data to recent players menu . Then you can see who kicked you and block the f**ker

Sometimes it says that someone killed you, when in reality they didnt. Also end screen might often show 0 in team damage, even though youve seen a person kill you several times. Those bugs might get the host to kick someone, if the text says a person killed him, maybe even several times, when they didnt.

My suggestion as a solution is to monitor the people who kick repetitively. Put them in different lobbies with people who kick. Set the condition as an average kick over a period of time. If it's above a certain percentage, then they go into the kickers group. If they stop, they will be let back into the overall pool. If they persist, they stay in the group. It will at least reduce the frequency of trolling. I also think a lot of people just genuinely don't know that samples, medals, credits, and super credits are shared. I had a level 17 ask me that. CEO needs to put out a statement to explain how all that works.

They should add a second layer to the kick menu. You can’t just kick. You have to select a reason from a pulldown menu as to why. If someone is being careless and TK’s multiple times you can use that option. If someone is AFK or kiting enemies into the red of the team you can select that. If you’re a toxic elitist kicking for load out or level reasons you are basically flagging yourself.

the game is too popular and popularity chasers are toxic bunch. once it loses its popularity it's gonna be fine

Suicide diffuculty mission, everyone loads into hellpods. They're all under level 20, and im level 22. Host disengages hellpods and starts screwing around looking at other planets. No big deal, I just walk back to look at strategems and suddenly the host gets off the mission terminal, stares at me, and then kicks me for having the audacity to go do something else while they waste everyones time.

there is a bug going around where u get “kicked” from a mission. has happened to my friend while i was hosting

I think there needs to be a better designation of "kicked" vs "disconnected". I've dropped from the game twice as we were running to extraction. The pelican hadnt been called yet. Both times I was booted back to my own ship, played the unfreeze animation and everything but there was no yellow "you've been kicked" notification. Im wondering if either the game doesnt always notify you if you're kicked or there is something happening with game stability for people near extraction?

I've experienced this. One time I'm certain it was because I joined a match that was almost over (even tho on the map it said they were 6 mins in) and they prob just didn't want me to benefit at the last min. Still lame. Another time it's because I dropped into complete chaos and immediately died. Then they respawned me directly into the middle of chaos and I died again, so I was never able to get any strats called down. Kicked. I kinda get it, but if they'd called me farther out so I could actually live more than 30 secs, I would've been able to contribute. Their poor decision got me killed that time, not me.

Yep, was playing with a friend earlier and we QP’d into a match. Got to extraction and the hosts friend was constantly blowing me up with a grenade launcher then proceeded to kick me when I asked he dude to stop. Friend didn’t get kicked so he killed them both, lost all their samples and got revenge for me.

I got shoved off a cliff as the Pelican was landing by the rando Super Citizen who ran the lobby. He then dropped a 380 on the ramp, hopped into the shuttle, and waited for me to die trying to get back on. It was shenanigans and I get it, but kicking me right afterwards did have me wondering if I was truly that bad at the game for a few minutes. Then I remembered that I dwarfed his kills in the prior Eradicate mission by simply walking off the top platform and holding an entire side with an Arc Thrower and a few Eagle strikes and it all made sense.

I've been kicked twice tonight. Each time I had collected plenty of samples and cleared out many enemies without team killing. It typically happens AFTER the objectives have been completed.

one thing I would suggest is a kick limit. It's a bit on the risky side but it would cause some to weight if kicking you is a good option. Your kick limit would of course would reset after some time but if you are reaching a high kick rating then your limit of allowed kicks will be reduce. The goal of this is so people only get kicked for good reasons and not because they just feel like it.

It's quite sad how communities are really vulnerable to these kind of folks. I'm glad that the developers are actively trying to solve it, because it's a problem that, if it gets too prevalent, will just push nice players away and increasingly you'll be left with just the toxic ones.

I think there are two things they can do to help improve the experience, make it a vote and not host only option and make it more clear there is a way to keep randoms from joining your game, some people kick for a friend or they don't want others in their game but don't realize you can go toggle the privacy to "Friends Only". You have to make those sorts of options front and center for people.

Kicking from games is why I was only willing to play Left 4 Dead with friends. Seeing as it is in Helldivers 2 has made it so I will *only* play with friends on Helldivers.

I've only kicked people when I forgot to change the visibility from public to friends-only when in the ship. If I notice it doing a mission, I will not kick them, as they are already in the mission at this point. Personally I don't care if people are new or experienced, as long as people don't grief I don't care what happens. If we loose, we loose. It's all fine. I'm not playing to win every time, I play to have fun.

You've been kicked to make room for a friend that just logged in

Well, I am facing a new problem. I always host my own games, but now toxic players have a new way to piss me and everyone off. As soon as I am in the aircraft with two other players, one guy shoots us out of the airplane, losing all the samples. After he kills us, he enters the airplane alone without taking the samples. He probably doesn't need the samples and think its funny taking it away from players.

Had a game where we loaded onto the map. Jokingly said “nothing like a fresh cup of liberty in the morning” as we got out of pods. 5 seconds later I was kicked.

Easy way to solve the kick on retrieval trolling is make it so that once the Pelican is called, no kicking allowed.

I got kicked because the host stupidly ran their mech into a bug swarm and got insta-killed. I said, "Ha! Wow!" When I reinforced, the host tried to land on me, failed, and then kicked me. Considering I was the only one on the team who was doing anything to further the mission, I don't think it ended well for them.

From my personal experience when i join a random activity, ill load in and then get kicked before i can even move in the host's ship. if it was for a friend wouldn't it be better to wait for them before you launch something? idk

I never get kicked unless the host was saving spot for friends, non of kick was because of my gears or builds. I never kick anyone for being low level or whatever they use. I welcome every soldier coming to my ship to fight for FREEDOM, every fighter is a champion.

1:56 This might be just them thinking that you were afk or still buying things The 4th guy immedietally was teleported into the pod

I remember when I was level 5 and very new to the game, (I just didn't know all the features or that several pieces of loot don't spawn naturally in the middle of no-where) with another teammate who was level 2 and a third who was 10. The level 10 was the only one with a mic, and while we were clearing a Mpoi, I threw a strategem and accidentally killed both of them. I did immediately attempt to redeploy before going over, while he was saying "don't take my stuff". The thing was that I didn't know it was his stuff at the time, I thought that it was just normal loot that spawned because we were at a Mpoi. Well the level 2 did the same and then he teamkilled the level 2, then me to get his boostpack back, then refused to redeploy us for the entirety of the mission saying how "oh I can't trust you guys anymore to not take my stuff. I'm not going to redeploy you because of that". I would've kicked him if it was my mission but sadly it wasn't. Thankfully he wasn't as smart as he thought he was and didn't know how to do it and I just sat their in the dead screen until the mission ended so I still got some reward.

I noticed also that sometimes when i get dc from a match it will say kicked from the game but I was not as I'm able to rejoin again from my friends so it could be that and my friends did not kick me. This was happening when the servers were all overloaded from high pop so IDK.

idk if this is true, but if you join a lobby that is full and are insta-kicked the game may have kicked you so that someone's friend can join in. just played earlier and invited my brother to play and selected a mission. as soon as i did 3 people joined pretty quickly, and a few seconds later one just left and my brother joined. i didn't see if they were the last to join, but this MAY be a reason you get insta-kicked from a lobby. a friend is late to join and you get it and the game just decides to kick the last joining player to let someone who was invited to join.

I was carrying the game as a lvl 35 in a difficulity 5 mission with some newer players. Never TK'ed them, always called in reinforcement immediately and early. Barely died but they still kicked me when the extraction arrived. Fk them. Terrible people.

With the level of disconnects that have been happening I think a notable portion of these random kicks is because you've been thrown onto a team where a friend has just DC'd. Happened to me just last night, buddy DC'd and before he could reboot the game a new player was dropping in.

When selecting or searching game modes, they should have these options with Kick optional: Public - Kick Friends - Kick Prioritize Main Objectives - Kick Prioritize Samples - Kick All Objectives Clear - Kick

I've noticed that the community has changed significantly when it comes to team playing. Leaving samples, dropping bombs on your head, not bringing you back in, shouting down the mic and many many more. I love playing as a team as well and when you get a good team, man it rocks

The option to make your match friends only should be well in sight on the planetary table 😅

I just started today on level 2 and when i click quick play i got kicked ASAP. Maybe they should give host power to manage what level did they expect from random

I think just having it up to a vote would solve the issue but also making it easier to decide if a game is friends only or public

"Vote Kick" system is the best option for now.

sometimes I swear I've been kicked for playing too well even when I'm the same level as everyone else

Something funny I did notice is that the frequency of me getting instantly kicked damn near stopped once I reached max lvl (50, before newest update). Like some people don’t even give you a chance if you’re not above at least 45 lmao. And I mean instant kick, like before I could reach the ground in my hellpod instant.

How do we know that the host is even kicking players? Could it not be a disconnect between the host and the other players, thats not a complete disconnect from the server? Like is there a "lost connection to host" message, or is the closest thing "you have been kicked from party."?

To solve devastator rockets just release armor with a scramble perk that reduces their accuracy

I was in one of those games featured in your vid eo. I was also kicked but 3/4 through the actual mission. There are some bad eggs out there. Whilst I don't proclaim to be a ninja at the game, I pull my weight as spread liberty as much as the next guy. There definitely needs to be a system in place to stop this.

Yeah, this is crazy tonight. I was playing highest level in the group had all up All the samples and was kicked at the last minute. 40 minute spent all that hard work and kicked.

I have been kicked multiple times, and I have no idea why. It has happened in game but mostly before the game starts and I get to the hellpod/in the hellpod selecting stratagems. It might be for stratagems I have chosen, they are waiting for a friends, loading times? I am level 50 btw.

I don't think you are physically getting kicked from other players but disconnected and the game is telling the wrong reason. At least not all the time. Happens sometimes. I got DCed from a game while playing with friends static and it said I got kicked. After I restarted the game they invited me again and told me. Kicking other people also doesn't help. You just lose firepower and samples. And on higher dif, finding more people to join is rare. Each player also gives 5 revives (6 with booster), so just positives.

The fact that you can't report people is causing huge issues.

All I ask is that if im kicked or disconnected, that my character spawns back at the mission selector and not the cryopod spawn entrance

the only way to group with friends sometimes is to the lobby on open but if you have a mission selected random's will join and keep filling the slot that you have people to fill already, its a bug with private games

Best solution for it is to become the host of the game. So u have full control. For me the best solution in case u get kicked from a game is to give portion of the round's reward to u for ur contribution (Depending for the objective complete, friendly fire rate and enemy kills), so u dont literally come out without being rewarded at all. Well I guess Arrowhead need AI analytics help to make this metrics XD

For the solution i think you can put the form after the match so the host that has kicked people would explain why they did it. You might think thats nothing but players would see the form and do a self reflection on why they kick and will more likely do it less if they won’t see their reason option on the screen. Also it would be annoying the more you kick. P.S. Also you can find people that actually grief during the game

Perfect video length *chef's kiss*

To be fair, I've had several situations where one of my friends crash or disconnect and before they can get back in a random has taken their spot and sadly I'm forced to kick them to make room for my returning friend. We have tried to set the matches to private, but then no one can join, not even my friends, despite them being my friends on both Steam and in game.

I only kick people who have a hot mic and I can hear their kid bashing their toy trains together in the background.

the only times ive had to kick is when someone is consistently throwing stratagems up our ass cheeks and losing all our reinforcements

Most of the time we kick it's because we wanted to play with friends and left the lobby public by mistake "Because you have to make the game public for the steam invite to work". They need more loby options with maybe some text telling people what you expect if you want to join. It would help to avoid certain groups also.

I honestly think that the biggest problem is the session options. I keep my options on friend only most of the time, but even with friends trying to join me it doesn’t seem to work and constantly tells them that I’m in a private session, despite that not being an option. Then, when I said it to public where my friends can join some random shows up and I have to kick them. They need to fix the lobby options, and/or add more.

One guy kick me out of the game for the samples, basically we were in an automatons game. we were practically flooded with enemies, almost at the extraction he asks me to help him recover some common samples from the other side of the map. so I told him no, I had some super rare samples with me. I asked for an extraction, and he kicked me out of the game. by the way I completed the main mission alone while he wasted time with the bot outposts

It’s used to be the same issues in Outrides get kick out by the host at the end of the mission as a result the dev has made it were once the mission started you longer can kick players out anymore. You can only kick players out before the start of the mission.

Introduce a find group system like overwatch 1 where people can list there specifications

I personally wouldn't mind if the stronger robot enemies pulled a Gears of War, and had some of the unit say a phrase/do an expression to indicate they are about to fire

I've only been kicked a few times but it's always after the mission ends and we're back at the ship

Could be that they're trying to get their friends in the lobby, but any time we've done that we've been sure to communicate that

Same happened here probably my low level.. The lobbys around the planet need to be marked with something like "welcome all" "Rank X required" "Stratigen X only" Discord/teamspeak required" etc. vote kick when extraction is enabled. every body loses what they've collected.

I have people wait till we are about to extract and then they kick. Happend twice in an hour.

Simple solution- Make each kick cost a small amount of xp, like 40xp or so, from the mission rewards. That will mean that a host won't simply kick someone for stupid reasons. Or alternately, make each kick a vote, so the other two also have to vote yes.

I usually kick when I play private with my friends and the game doesn't make the lobby actually private for some reason, it also sometimes says you're kicked when the host disconnects. The bugs are contributing to this alot

Maybe allowing the host to add "Tags" to their ship? So if you highlight their destroyer on the map you see things like: Going Loud, No Mortars, Stealth Only, Mics only, Levels 25+ etc.

I have been kicked multiple times from 30+ minute games where I am litteral heading towards evac ship and get booted. I dont know if it was a person trolling, but wasting 40 minutes on a mission and then getting no medals and samples has killed my desire to play this game, which is sad cause I really enjoy it but just I keep having my time wasted.

keep in mind (devils advocate) with the amount of crashes this game has, im willing to bet a percentage of these kicks are a group of friends lost of friend to a crash, and you filled their spot before they could load back into the game. granted if thats the case they should make the lobby with “friends only” idk im just trying to make sense of it.

My group has been running into the situation where in panic situations trying to call in a reinforcement, we accidentally do the sos beacon. You only need to miss the second to last stratigem key to do this. Once the sos hits the ground it doesn't matter what you do or what your privacy settings are, ontop of it it lasts for the entire mission chain. You have to quit the game entirely to disable the sos beacon. Any group of people who dont like playing with randoms will them have to kick until the mission is over if they want to continue to have a private game. Personally i think you should have the option to switch off or remove the sos beacon entirely, as people who only plan to play with friends have no need for it.

I'd like to think I just get kicked because the host wanted to bring a friend in. Like you've mentioned in the video, it is quite noticeable maybe 1 in 20 games for me.

host the game and you wont get kicked just select a mission when youre the only player on your ship and get the pods ready then people can join in

Playing with low players makes one really appreciate the kick feature. Had one dumbo limbo take all my samples including the supers I found, away from extraction where I dropped them off. We had a few obj’s left and I typed in chat, “don’t pick up samples on extract.” Guy picks them up, runs across the map, and so I kill him. Then he kills me and starts typing… yeah maybe I shouldn’t have shot him, but I didn’t want to risk my samples in the hands of a monkey on the other side of the map.

I one of the games i played, i had assisted with two of the three main objetives and while three of my teamates headed to clean up the third, i was collecting samples, one of them started to die again and again, and suddenly i'm kick out out the game with over 30 samples on me

I always host and the times I kicked people can be counted in one hand , they either have to very toxic or trolling for me to use the kick button.... Or , on rare occassions if they're just reaaaaally bad ,example... being on spectator mode for 10mins and not getting reinforced kinda bad , fighting and triggering breaches 24/8 , which actually happed quite a lot lately , batteling my kick demons.

Whenever i get level 5s and 10s I usually keep them but when they have wasted more than 10 reinforcements they are getting kicked.

I've been kicked for no apparent reason a couple times righty before extract on a 30-40 minute mission. Very frustrating. I've also been kicked shortly after dropping like you did in the video.

Maybe If host kicks a player that spot can not be replaced by another.

Not too long ago i got kicked for carrying the mission i slightly got annoyed cause they stood still on a level 6 difficulty so you must start moving or they keep spawning so i left them to finish the mission got kicked after lol like what must i do stand and die with you?

Make it a Vote Kick option that requires a longer Stratagem-like code for the "Yes". If you are kicking someone who is malicious or AFK, people will take the time to enter the code and vote for "Yes". Otherwise they'll probably ignore it and in turn vote for "No". Bonus points if the code is generated randomly for every vote.

They could add a ban list for the host for equipment and stratigems. And kicks themselves could have prerequisites like X amount of deaths and/or teamkills. They should definitely make it impossible to kick someone after the mission objective finishes or at the very least load up an new instance of the mission instead of getting booted back to your ship

The kicking is still an issue.. Im new and accidently killed my whole team with an explosion and not even seconds later the host removes me without any warning or second chances

First experience in this game I had no idea what I was doing. I followed the host to a bunker, helped him open it, he shot me in the head then kicked from the mission. I was mad at first then laughed my ass off, but it set the tone for other games I would randomly join if I could even join.

Oh so people kicking players is still an issue despite nerfing a "meta"? Wild.

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They could label host (who kicked you) to you in recent players. So that blocking makes it so they cant join you and that you can't see their games. There shouldn't be a vote kick (since abusers can have friends). Like they should just label people who are known for kicking others often.

A couple of suggestions but once the primary objective is complete, kicks should be disabled full stop. At that point nobody should lose rewards and have their time wasted. Additionally you could also have a one-off, 2-3 minute grace period when joining someone else's game, effective immediately after stepping out of the hellpod for the first time, that makes you immune from getting kicked. Gives the player joining the game a chance to either prove their worth and endear themselves to the host + other players, or on the flip side - enough time to know that everyone on that team isn't on the same page and it's best to part ways via a vote kick or by simply leaving the game yourself.

What about game crashing all the time nothing said there

I host my own games with friends and we have issue with the invite system, sometimes we have to switch it to public and people join in when we are trying to get another friend in. Ususally it is as soon as they join and it is nothing personal.

Feels like one the things they might want to consider implementing is to disable the kick function once the shuttle has been called in for extraction. That'll at least hinder the toxic kickers ability to kick others right at the end of a mission. (assuming they haven't already.)

For the people claiming it's "making room for a friend", then they should notice the matchmaking options, and the option for "friends only" matchmaking. Quick band-aid fix: Along with making "friends only" matchmaking option more obvious and noticeable, send a message to the kicked player with the reason they were kicked.

Sty getting kicked?! Blasphemy

I think this is inevitable when playing with randoms. At some time it will happen to somebody. I believe that the problem could be minimice by fixing the friends list insted of implementing new features.