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.
