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Friday Fun Thread for August 22, 2025

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You can teamkill and there are no guardrails against it.

Some of the most fun moments I've had with friends in HD2 involve hilarious team kills. From the accidental "Uh oh, got sniped and dropped the orbital bombardment on our present position" to the intentional "Why does someone always call a bombardment on our extract point as they get in the chopper, sometimes hitting stragglers?"

My buddies get extremely frustrated by teamkills, so I maintain the best trigger, stratagem and comms discipline I can manage. I try to lead by example and take my friendly fire deaths with good grace and cheer, but so far it isn't rubbing off. Hell, they even get prickly when they smell a whiff of gas or have to take five slow steps through an EMS field, never mind the fact that it just saved their lives! They'd rather get eaten by bugs than accept that sometimes danger close is the correct response, and good luck getting them to take cover. No, they'll stand out completely in the open, on the wrong side of a chokepoint, with me calling out to them to just take ten steps back and not get mulched, but they'd rather magdump and then complain about running out of stims and ammo.

I like my friends, I like playing with them, but they really don't want to think about what they're doing. To them (nominally very intelligent people), play-time is brain-off time. And they will absolutely, every time, die trying to get back their support weapon rather than just call in a new one.