Still debating if I was the idiot or the random guy in Fallout 76 who followed me for 20 minutes

I was looting a train yard near the Rusty Pick, just grabbing steel and screws. This level 30 marches up and starts shooting at me, not to kill, just to get my attention. He keeps pointing at the roof and spam-pinging some random spot, then drops a bag of fertilizer and screws on the ground. I assume he wants me to help him build something, so I follow him to a workshop like 5 minutes away. He immediately starts the defend event, then runs into a herd of super mutants and dies. I had to fight off the whole wave alone while he just laid there. Was that his idea of asking for backup, or did he expect me to read his mind? Has anyone else had a player try to communicate through violent gestures and it made zero sense?

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wesley_hart5d ago

Did you check his mic icon when he was pinging? A lot of low level players just don't realize their voice chat is muted by default in this game. Probably meant to tell you "I need help with the defend event" but couldn't actually talk.

fiona3323d ago

Three out of five matches last night had someone pinging like crazy with zero callouts. I get it, the default mute is dumb, but at some point you gotta check your own settings before you spam pings for fifteen minutes straight. It's not that hard to press options and look at the mic icon once. Honestly, I just mute them back and move on.