Rant ahead, TLDR: It is unfair console players may disable crossplay with PC players but PC players cannot
Since the release on X-Box and the influx of new players on console the quality of the community has ‘suffered’ to say the least.
My first encounter with a console player was a lv 23 priest on Heresy who died and was rescued no less than three times, afterwards when I attempted to compliment him, I was told to ‘Suck it nerd’.
It’s only gotten worse since.
Whenever I see someone running ahead, ignoring the group, attempting to speed run like it’s CoD it is almost always universally a console player. Usually a zealot but that’s another rant for another day. More often than not they are also rude, greedy, little ammo hogs with no regard for team play.
Gentle corrections, roleplay, and advice is often at best outright ignored, at worse trashed.
The two most recent offenders that have sent me here were exceptionally annoying. I had a psyker who died no less than five times, when his buddy refused to drop ammo at the finale of the run and I asked in character if he was holding onto it for luck, I was met with ridicule and told I was on my last two mags as a support ‘cover fire’ build was a ‘skill issue’ by this little twerp I had just carried through a run.
The second was when a zealot with a relic ability that they used ONCE the entire match blamed me for the wipe after my psyker got ‘spike hit’ and downed causing cascade failure among the rest of the trio who all decided that +1 wound curios on Hersey wasn’t needed at their meager low 20 levels. I was clearly at fault for not smiting enough, yes, clearly.
This is getting absolutely obnoxious. It has gotten better since this game went off gamepass but the amount of ignorant little karkers still remains high. Ever since crossplay was implemented I have also noticed the amount of times I get ‘spike hit’: being hit for multiple hits in one attack has gone from occasionally to almost every other hit. Let’s not even talk about the fact you can clearly tell when someones on a controller from the amount of input lag they suffer.
The fact two that console players can choose to disable crossplay is the icing on the cake. They are allowed to decide if they don’t want to play with us, but we have to carry them. Period.
I understand new players is always a good thing, more money for the devs and such yes, but for the love of the throne, at least give us the option to opt out if we choose.
I love your game, I really do, but I don’t love little CoD Timmy’s telling me to ‘Git Gud’ after I rescue them for the sixth time in a match.
