Helliquette - a gentleman's guide to the galaxy

Someone (edit: regmyster) brought up the idea of an proper Etiquette thread and since I have seen none, here it is. Most things should be common knowledge in the real world like "Don't take other peoples stuff unless they offer it" but I am pretty sure we all have seen otherwise.

Anyhow here are some of my behavioral points:

• Don't step in your pod before the host

• No matter how hard the mission or how unskilled your mates are, don't abandon the mission

• If you mess up/suck over and over again and the host does not kick you - commend him/her

• Greet/seeing off your fellow divers with a few capespins

• If you drop in a running mission don't stall the game, assess the situation and drop in your stuff only if your group has to wait anyhow

• Don't make your group wait for your equipment if it is not absolutely necessary

• Don't obstruct the line of fire. If you do (it can happen) hit the deck.

• Don't go over dead bodies for kills. Shooting through a teammate for some kills is not worth it.

• If you are the last man standing, escape, reinforce, resupply, try again.

• There is no in-game need to rush, as a group, take your time preparing

• Commend your fellow divers if they play and behave well

• Specific situation: Don't take the ammo drops from the guy carrying a supply pack. The supply guy taking the ammo gets his own weapons refilled AND his pack too, which in return you can use

• If you don't carry a backpack (shield, drone, supply pack) and someone calls down a recoilless rifle/commando, offer to take the ammo for him to make use of the assisted reload (when playing with randoms it is really hard without voice chat but standing next to it, pushing wait, grabbing, pushing affirmative should work too)

• Don't take other people's stuff

• Don't try to "drag" your group with you because you want that sample unless your group is sample hunting anyway

• Try to maintain a formation where you have a clear line of fire while obstructing none

• Don't report noobs for being noobs

• Please upgrade your reinforce to mk3, a cooldown of just 30 seconds might often safe the mission

• Don't drink and drive

• When reinforcing in combat, don't throw your mates inside the enemy group. Yes, the pods might squish one or two enemies or even the tank but they will be standing in the middle of enemies and in your line of fire, which will result in another quick death and no reinforce for the next 30 seconds

• Don't take too long upgrading your stuff on the bridge

• If three of your mates are distracted with a cluster of enemies, don't butt in and secure the unguarded flanks

Updates:

• Stop all running in front of the escort; they die when off camera, and you're leaving them exposed in the rear. Let the guy leading the escort run ahead with one player as backup; at least one 'diver should be pulling up the rear

• The important corollary here is to resist the temptation to aim backwards. It seems cool to "cover" the guys by aiming backwards but this prevents the camera from moving forwards and can be infuriating and dangerous for the diver at the front who cannot see what's right in front of him

• When you need to move, if you are in the front, cover your teammates at the back who are still engaged with pursuers. Get some bullets down there or throw a stratagem they can scoot past to block enemies from following. Pinning yourself to the far end of the screen and spamming "move!" is not going to make them go faster

• Lead the team back around to reclaim abandoned equipment between objectives and/or before extraction

• If you do not want to play with randoms, set your privacy setting on FRIENDS or PRIVATE

• Before the mission starts, don't immediately confirm your loadout if other people are still making their loadouts. If everyone's in a rush to confirm their loadout the last person gets stuck with a bunch of useless strats because they ran out of time. Just make your loadout and then patiently wait at the bottom to hit confirm, that lets everyone else know you're ready to start. If the remaining people are just playing around or not paying attention, then hit confirm and start, so the timer begins. But ideally, try to give everyone in the group ample time to put together their load-outs.

• If there is no objective require you to kill a certain amount of enemies then never stand around trying to kill that one bigass bug. Always running toward the next objective.

• Always be on the move. Two Helldivers fallen in combat? Start running with the other one to the next objective then call them down and wait for them to arrive, securing their arrival.

• IF YOU CAN safely call the res beacon, absolutely do it. If you can then stand around until it pops, do that too. If at any point you become genuinely concerned that it's a choice between successful mission completion and getting the second star GET ON THE SHUTTLE. Everybody will be a tiny bit sad if they are not on the shuttle, and majorly bummed if they have to repeat the whole mission.

Useful tips:

• When you're on the ground, you can still call in a reinforce beacon.

That's it for now, tell me what you think and I will gladly add your suggestions.

Wow thank you all very much for all these ample suggestions and critique. I update some of my old points and rephrased some new ones. I will order these suggestions properly (General Etiquette/Gear/Reinforcements/etc.) at the moment it is a bit hard to read.

Special thanks to u/jophur who pointed out (not in these words) that some of my points are arbitrary and condescending. I hope I corrected/deleted these points. This thread is supposed to provide proper etiquette for a gentlediver not pushing the supposed playstyle onto others.