I had this happen on Saturday. Archon priest. I took off like usual, killing everything in my path. One guy left the game right away so I took my time fighting and waiting for the other guy to catch up. I got up to the point where dinklebot has to unlock the big door. I look for the guy I was waiting for and notice that his gt is staying in the same spot but twitching a little bit. He's afk'ing with the rubber band trick. Not in my game sir.
I ran all the way back to the beginning and there he was, a hunter having what looked like a seizure.
I usually run them off the cliff with my sparrow, sit down next to their ghost, and they leave. I decided to try something different. Solar wind is a beautiful perk, and apparently an effective anti-afk tool.
Launch, revive, launch, revive, launch..etc.
I must've thrown this guy off the cliff at least 30-40 times. He came back expecting a rewards screen, instead found his guardian getting murdered over and over again.
He actually had the nerve to teabag before he left.
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Had similar also on archon priest. They waited away from the fight of each area while me and another mopped up. This continued to the boss fight where he then crouched (hunter) and went invisible and was just spinning on the spot! What hurt even more were the rewards.....I got a Titan helmet (on my hunter) and bloodpact for probably the 50th time now, the other guy who played properly got polite denial (hand cannon) and a blue engram. The guy with FOUR whole kills got lunar elegy and yep you guessed it......a legendary engram!!!!! He danced at the end too, that did amuse me however haha.
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Same strike, similar thing for me. Guy ran up and sat at the back of each fight area. Waited until other player and I cleared, ran on again. Stood at the entry area to the boss fight until we had the Priest out, and started playing at that point. I realized he must be playing for the bounty on the Priest and messaged the other player to stop reviving the clown. (I had the bounty too, and I was working for it darn it!) Clown got stomped by the Priest for the third or fourth time and we left him there and finished the strike. Afterward I messaged the AFKer that I hoped he didn't get his bounty. Clown responded, "reported." Ha!
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These will be the same people who moan of repetitiveness and the grind without realising they are contributing to it. It is grindy, it is repetitive......doesn't stop me playing. I mean with a couple good players strikes are over the blink of an eye. Makes me wish there was no respawn counter on strikes.
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Your last line - like a Nightfall strike playlist? That might be fun. Another thread about weapons got me thinking about how I deal with the repetitiveness and still have fun. Using weapons I don't often use (Xur's new exotic, or an AR when I am unabashedly a Scout guy) makes a strike or a story mission fresh for me.
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Yes, exactly the same for me. I just try to level every piece of gear I've got. Some guns purely because I like the look of them. I'm not going to pretend I know about coding or anything like it, I would just like a more efficient way off weeding out afk players. How easy it would be to implement is something I'm not qualified to comment on, so I'll just continue on and let them just enjoy the things they clearly don't deserve.
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Feckin' bastid. I hope he got shards for it lol
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I know right?! Just shoot the fecker, he'd have got his engram quicker haha