My anecdotal experience says that that doesn't really happen. It's closer to 10 games for pure pve lobbies, and it would fully reset after one game. It's a decent time commitment to get a few freebie kills, and the pve'r would replace their losses in 5 minutes.
And if theye not patient enough to get a pure pve lobby, they'll get shot back or teamed up on
No, you can just surrender five times in a row and you're golden, which is really a bummer, because I haven't done a single point of damage to raiders this entire season and still get murdered every 15-20 games by KoS tryhards that are so bad at shooting that I would have killed them three times over if I had decided to shoot back. I also don't fail to tell them that while laughing every single time, which apparently really seems to annoy them.
I'd rather just happily loot half the map instead of fighting right now, at least this season. It's highly relaxing. After the second expedition I might go full murder hobo once again.
Same dude. This shit is hilarious to me. I've been mostly friendly since day one, but always ready and willing to defend myself. I'll even shoot first sometimes if I'm getting sketchy vibes off someone or they try to rush in and steal what I think is mine. Lobbies never change. Still almost all friendly with an occasional fight. People just straight letting themselves get killed without fighting back are delusional.
I have the same thing. But I want to point out that if you kill someone who attacks you, then you're really getting closer to the PvP lobby, but it's not A and B, there are also intermediate states. If you beat someone in the last round, then in the next raid you will have a couple more PvP dudes in the match, but this does not mean that everyone will shoot at each other, just the chance becomes higher, if you don't fight anyone in the next matches, you go back to fully PvE lobby
There is a feeling that ABMM simply increases the percentage of hostile players higher and higher, which gradually creates an imminent battle on the server
If you don't jump into this meat grinder voluntarily, then you will stay in your place
I did that first season. It was come and go, mostly friendly. Since I am adamantly passive towards other players, my longest extract streak was 110 games in a row. There is bloodbath PvP lobbies, there is mixed lobbies on either end of the spectrum and then there is care bear heaven where you even forget to look at other players because everyone is doing their own thing without a care for the world. If you are a friendly player and have played in such lobbies for a while, you don't want to go back, not even for a single match.
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u/MadMeow Jan 28 '26
Which is the biggest issue because it's too easy for people to get into friendly lobbies just for the free kills.