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tl;dr DRG NEEDS a player blacklist system.

I've posted about this particular individual before and I didn't expect I would be posting about it again. Never have I met anyone so pathetic in a video game that would hold a grudge for over one whole week. Let me run it down from the top:

A week ago some driller joins my game in progress and acts like a dickwad to everyone on my team. Kicked. No problem, we move onto the next mission. Turns out I chose the wrong no-life chode to boot from my lobby because he changes his username, rejoins my lobby and teamkills everyone before leaving a little turd of a comment before I kick him again. Except it doesn't stop there. He tries to rejoin again obviously with the express intent to f*ck with my game again, but this time he's changed his username to impersonate someone on my friends list! Wow. After I stopped laughing I was pretty much ready to confront him if he did man-up and join, but he didn't. So we finished the mission and I promptly forgot about it.

Fast foward to today, after a whole week of no griefing, a *Level 1* Driller joins my Haz 5 mission in progress. Lesser hosts would've probably kicked a low-level on Haz 5 but I gave him the benefit of the doubt, sure. He wait for us to be ALMOST done the whole mission before suddenly teamkilling us near the drop pod. Amazing. So now, not only is he intentionally scoping every single lobby out for mine to join and f*ck with me, he's changing his name AND using a fresh save to get under the radar.

What can I do about it? Three things:

  1. I can private my entire profile, change my lobby name every few days to make sure he doesn't get wise, maybe even change my own username. Still possible that he'd join by chance. No way I'm doing all of this just to enjoy my online DRG games.
  2. I can screen EVERY. SINGLE. PLAYER that joins like a crazed paranoid. Way too much effort, and this isn't even possible with people that join in progress because Steam tracks recent players only as they load to the rig.
  3. Make a post about it here and pray that somebody from GSG responds to my plight and implement some kind of player blacklist that syncs up with my blocked list on Steam. Or just ban him from playing, I'm not particularly picky, but I prefer the former because it benefits more than just me.

u/GSG_Jacob or whoever I have to mention to draw attention to this glaring problem: I can't even enjoy this game anymore without this lunatic following my lobbies everywhere. Add a player black list. Do something about it. I'm serious, the longer this issue goes unresolved, the more often this "stalker" is just going to ruin the games I host.

I made a post about this earlier hoping that it would gain some traction and someone from the dev team would see, but I also didn't think anybody in DRG was this petty+sad. I don't want to make a third post about it.

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over 2 years ago - /u/GSG_Jacob - Direct link

Okay, we’ll add it.

over 2 years ago - /u/GSG_Jacob - Direct link

Originally posted by FS_NeZ

You know what the real problem is?

Your game doesn't sit on 2000 players anymore.

1% shitheads out of 2000 is 20. Barely noticable.

1% out of 10000 is 100. That's a lot.

Exactly