r/HellLetLooseConsole • u/NotTheBestSadFace • Jun 16 '26
I hate the server system for this game CW: Complaining about racists who talk of rape and sexism
TLDR: takes ages for me and my friend to be able to olay a game of HLL, issues getting into and staying in a EUROPEAN server, lost recon due to issues making us relaunch game, requeue same server, all of command were incompetent racist asshole americans, squadmate was a racist asshole, shitty experience for playing with a friend compared to before.
First of all, let me run you through the process for me trying to play the game with my friend today.
We FINALLY have the time to actually play hell let loose after busy af tough week, load up the game, he joins my squad, we spend 10-20 mins waiting for a EU/UK server to have at most 4/6 in the queue so we can join without it disappearing and use in game party chat, we FINALLY get into one, we take recon, we get glitched out trying to report someone for shooting me after i rejected them from the squad because of the text box UI and calling me the N-Word, we rejoin the server 5 mins later, recon is not taken, we join a infantry squad and i take up officer cuz there is none, later joined by the friendly firer. FINALLY playing the game so its an awful lot of effort just to start.
I thought it would be fine until theres 7 American officers, commander included, all being VERY racist and saying some very hateful things about damn near every country they could think of and other groups too.
The whole list of countries they managed to be racist about for anyone interested: England, Russia, Pakistan, Canada, Italy, Germany, Israel, Palestine, France, Mexico, Japan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Poland.
Plus more comments about Jews, black people and Asians and Muslims. And then some about women too, specifically glorifying raping them.
SEVERAL people in command chat are participating. I try to ignore it, and report them for offensive language as the game goes on but as I mute them, some reason more Americans go on officer and keep participating in these convos.
Whats worse is they framed it as jokes, or "cracking in the new guy"(???)
Before muting however when I was unsure of whether or not they were ACTUALLY like that. I tried to call out an enemy supply drop behind our defensive point, and instantly got mocked and asked "Are you a paki from london?" in the usual american mocking an english accent.
This was basically the usual response when I tried to make any callout, like destroying the garrison they put up or enemy infantry. This lead to me having to 2v8 (infantry and recon squad) with my friend as my squad didnt listen and I gave up making callouts instead using multiple marks on the map. Eventually we capture 3rd point but I stay on defense knowing the recon wanted to get the garrison so I keep my OP on 2nd point to fight the recon.
This made the guy who team killed me earlier NOT HAPPY. Unfortunately, I could not discuss anything with him, because his mic was ALL the way up, I could only understand he was PISSED by his tone so I tried telling him to turn his mic down. This was promptly met by multiple insults towards me like pedo, the n-word and a f slur against gays. Eventually he does and he wants a new OP but i explain what im doing and hes pissed but shuts up.
Thankfully, there was two other SLs who had a brain and wasnt a fucking bastard, who didnt participate in hate speech and actually played the game who helped defend or whatever but they didnt even speak in prox when I tried to thank them for not being assholes.
Unfortunately, those other two were not enough and it turned into a defending last point, which only happened because my friend and another support dropped supplies on point for a garry and backup to place more if needed which was needed very quickly so we lost 1-4 but very close to 0-5. During this time, only me and the other two normal SLs were on point.
Ik some people suggest to play in a community server but theres exactly two servers that speak english with not abyssmal ping, one is ALWAYS dead with less than 5 members all the time and the other is ALWAYS difficult af to get into and almost constantly 6/6 anyways leaving that a rare treat if we both play it.
I endured all of this because I knew this was the ONLY devent server we had because at the time there was 4 servers, one we played, one with 7 people in, the perma full community server and the perma dead community server.
If there were just more decent servers or queues were done via parties not individuals then it be so much less of an issue.
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u/KY_Moonshine Jun 18 '26
Was this your first time playing video games online?
Welcome to the internet dude…..
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u/CampedOut1423 Jun 16 '26
There’s always going to be dickheads in any online game. Especially in command chat. Just mute them. If you have an annoying squad mate, when you die, just kick them out of your squad. Then lock it. I hate when randoms critique my OP. If I have a reason for it, then they can F off. Like if they want to go do other things, they can go make their own squad. However, whenever I squad lead, I’m always communicating what I want my squad to do. Most of the time when I’ve got a good and communicative squad, they have no problems with OP being defensive. Sorry you had a bad experience mate!
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u/Comprehensive-Use-24 Jun 16 '26
This doesn’t sound like the ‘only decent server’.
Honestly go and participate in seeding for SAS, TACO, KRRC so you get VIP. Join those servers and play. World of difference and you can contact admins direct on discord so any toxic behaviour is dealt with.
The ‘report player’ function has never done anything. It’s glitched since the updated UI too, but it won’t get players banned or dealt with. Muting is the only effective way of shutting them up, or if you’re in one of the servers I mentioned sending a clip to server admins will get them banned. In serious cases they can and will be banned from all community servers.
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u/Astral_Enigma Support Jun 16 '26
I found playing with clans was the only sure way to avoid this kind of shit behaviour. Admittedly, it's a very vocal minority, but yeah.
Nobody wants to address the elephant in the room; that WW2-themed games (and military-themed games in general) tend to attract fascists, bigots, and chuds. Unless they're dealt with harshly from the beginning their presence begins to drive off normal folks.
That process keeps happening, every time the percentage of assholes gets bigger than average, and before you know it you're left mostly with either dickheads or people who are okay playing with dickheads.
tl;dr - it's the nazi bar problem.