Volge emergencies and other players.

When I first started playing, not long ago, I used to see several players working together at different emergencies, especially the Volge ones, then most would go their separate ways, so they were not grouping.

I try to avoid Volge, but if I see another player fighting them, I stop and try to help out. This hasn't happened often, as most seem to be avoiding them, as I try to do.

This weekend, several times, I clipped a few with my car, and exploded, forcing me to fight. So many players passed by in the few minutes that I attempted to fight them alone.

Each time, I ended up extracting or fast traveling. "Thanks!", to those of you who revived me
when I got there. LOL- embarrassing.

Keep in mind that I only play for prolonged times on the weekend. Is it that most of the players that passed by were just selfish kids laughing at my pain?

Do people not help random players anymore?

I play on XBOX btw.

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Originally Posted by Hope499

If I see a lonely purple dot fighting a battle, I always stop and help out.

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As do I, after looking to see that they are not farming and actually need help. I have been yelled at by enough players who resented my "interference" to take a closer look. It may be because of things like that, that some of the other players no longer bother to stop and help.

Sure wish you had passed me. Hope was all I had going for me, but alas....

I like to stop, turn around, drive up to the fight, honk my horn a few times and drive away. :P

I love stopping and fighting with others but sometimes people like to play on their own.

You might just have been on the same road that's leading to an arkfall.

I often drive by since there's often no easy way to tell if someone is just gung ho on fighting some volge (in which case they may not want help) or in your unfortunate case, "lost your ride". IF someone were to type in a quick 'help' or 'please help me' message, I'd jump in. Of course they'd probably die before getting that message typed out.

Yes, Maitreakow, I'd thought of that, but Volge, really? Also, there are plenty of Volge off the beaten path that people could "farm" without too much worry of random players, and there are so many of them everywhere anyway, that if that's what people are doing, there is always another right around the bend.

I generally rush from Arkfall to Arkfall, so rarely pay attention to other players. Most times, the other players won't even render. Radar only shows purple dots for those players in the cone of vision ahead of you.

As an opposite to the thread starter, I stop at pretty much every single volge emergency, unless I've got other plans. I usually avoid other emergencies unless they are in places I would like Volge to spawn :P

I will stop regardless of any purple people around. And often get terribly annoyed with purple people who stop to help. The reason for that is that the Volge then scale, and more often than not the people that do stop start using the most useless weapons ever, keeping me the primary target target of the Volge, as well as having to put in even more DPS.

And to anyone wondering, on The Volge Await the red special launchers aren't for the first three volge. Acceptable use is one shot in the bomber and three in the vicera :)

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Originally Posted by Hope499

If I see a lonely purple dot fighting a battle, I always stop and help out.

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Same here, depending on what enemies the lonely purple dot is fighting against. The last time I tried helping a lonely purple dot with a Volge encounter, he went into instant retreat mode just after I jumped into the fray to assist. D'oh!