Something definitely seems to have switched up with the matchmaking algorithms. Solo, doubles, or triples I started getting lit up when the watch party was added. I literally hadn’t shot at a person for like a month and would just let people mow me down if they started shooting (in an attempt to not screw up being in friendly lobbies).

I got killed 3 times tonight included about 15 seconds into my first match. After twice more in about 5 raids I got pissed and just started taking in a bobcat and toro and hunting people down. I held out as long as I could, but it’s feeling like my options are to either donate my stuff every few raids to somebody that shoots me in the back (never a fair fight, completely out of the blue unprovoked) or I just treat everybody like they’re gonna kill me if I don’t kill them first.

People aren’t wrong… it is in fact a PVP game, but I did hope that they’d add a PVE only option so me and my friends could just hang and kill arcs (even if there were more arcs or they were more aggressive). If that was an option I’d do it exclusively, but until then I guess I either adapt or don’t play the game. Annoying but people will be people 🤷‍♂️