Originally posted by kolorotur:

If there are no friends around to help, there is also nobody to shame you for cheating a bit:
<F5>, devcommands, <Enter>, debugmode, <Enter>, <F5>, <k>

So this^
If you are not having fun, change it so you do. As a solo player I use ghost command to get my corpse a lot. I find corpse runs stupid and outdated, but that is what the devs want. But I won't let that ruin my fun.