No matter what I do. No matter how long it takes to find a match. Round starts with a raider flare almost immediately, rats everywhere, even players who first help end up shooting you in the back. It started today.
I haven’t shot at anyone previously, for several months. I just want to do my quests/trials, for fuck’s sake. Literally impossible.
I’m supposed to do damage with pop triggers. To even have a chance to achieve a decent total damage, first you have to collect ~10 stacks. That means several rounds of preparation. Then you finally get your stuff, start a game and get shot in the back from nowhere. Now you can start over and try again (or watch as you’re dropping out of your rank).
This was my 3rd attempt. All three ended like this. I did literally 0 damage to other players to get this. Now I can just stop playing, get 0 points for the expedition and lose all my trials progress, OR attempt at them and lose all my items for the constant ratting.
Is it just me, or are you experiencing something similar?


Thanks, my safe slots are obviously full all the time - too bad I don’t have 10 of them when someone rats me while I’m doing the trial.
I’m in hotshot with the other 4 being 3 stars already (I’m aware that scores still matter regardless of stars), and the indicator is still saying I’m in the bottom half, potentially dropping out.
Don’t even get me started on Stella Montis, though… At this point I literally only go there when there’s a quest there, and I either go buck naked (with the occasional quest item being shoved up my butt, because a naked build gives me a safe slot while a non-free green augment doesn’t), or I only take a hairpin and laugh at the rat before they start looting me. Otherwise I don’t set my foot in Stella Montis.