Says a few Reddit posts that are a very loud minority. It’s not the norm.
You can’t even dive in on difficulty 7 or above, which is where that’s happening, without first unlocking them through normal progression. The people you see complaining about that, in all likelihood, have friends that spiked them into those difficulties at low levels, whereafter they are now expecting random level 50s to care about their experiences in the same way their homies do, and carry them through hell dives when they literally have nothing to contribute. It’s a non-existent problem for most people who themselves aren’t toxic players. So again, kinda inaccurate, and just the everyday blah blah blah of videogame discourse— which don’t get me wrong this game suffers from to.
Also— as long as we are on the topic of pay to win, this game is wayyyyyy more pay to win than Helldivers. If you want to test that theory, try posting in here for a Trials LFG, or a master raid, and watch the bots roll in. They wouldn’t be there if people weren’t using and profiting from them.
If you’re really worried about it make your own lobby. Queue up something on the map and wait for some bros to join up on you before you drop. That way you’re in the hot seat and won’t get kicked. Matchmaking is working pretty good now since the update and server limit increase as of last Friday.