Reading the article, the Hick and the two gays were in a group together, one gay said something about the other being cute, the Hick left and returned with more of his faggot friends and attacked them, saying homophobic shit. Anyhow, fuck the dude, he's a faggot who isn't even willing to admit to hating gays, this while "I'm going to be offensive for the sake of it!" bullshit has gone a bit too extreme for my taste, and I'm a cunt.
And it's not the auto-level system, Fallout 76 has it so when you're attacked, if you don't fight back, your enemies do negligible damage to stop griefing. If I'm honest, that's the biggest shitty thing. It's post-apoc, joining up with the strong to hunt the weak is where it should be at.