ded game

[September]

Wanted to play a game that actually has some population. Found this on steam charts, currently ranking at 7 which is very high player count, thought I'd give it a shot.

Then when I actually play the game it takes 15 mins to join a freaking bot match.

A BOT MATCH.

Are you fkn kidding me? What kind of bs is this. How can this game be top 7 with supposedly nearly 150k ppl playing and it can't even find a bot match within 15 min.

What are these player numbers, just Chinese AI spam bots to inflate the numbers?

Really regretting my purchase so far.

[September]

Forums seem comparatively dead too. Not nearly the activity you'd expect from a game with supposed 150k players, wtf.

[Chandrix]

Peak of players is with chinese plague. Anyways I guess nobody plays bot games, it takes me 1 minute to find a game in casual

[Sol4rSky]

what lvl are u in game, from what i gather like most such games the first 5-10 levels put you in bot matches with some players so you get accostumed and don't quit straight away

[BubbleTea]

Almost all games get such stupid post about being "ded".

[⚡Xellaz⚡]

Solo bot matches are instant. Ranked co-op matches of duo/trios takes less than 5 minutes for me even at late hours. Usually only takes 1-2 minutes.

Never had any problems with lag or connection issues recently even playing at 4K/240Hz. I have a beast PC set up though and a very stable Internet connection with low jitter & good ping to Naraka US servers.

[Chandrix]

Originally posted by BubbleTea:

Almost all games get such stupid post about being "ded".

I've seen this thing on rust being the survival game with more players, and even in big servers with 400+ players when night comes, everybody goes to sleep and the server population downs to 200 players.

[Neon Robot]

The game has three populations now:
1. A small contingent of Western players - No more than 5000 total. Likely a lot less.
2. Chinese whales - These players are the ones spending the majority of the money on this game and are what currently keep it from dying. There is a good number of them but they aren't the largest population of players.
3. Third-Party Bots - These are bots used by players looking to farm gold, complete dailies, and otherwise do things "in game" without having to actually play it.

You can see that the player base is unhealthy and suspicious because of the unusually wide margin that player counts swing by every day.

[Neon Robot]

Originally posted by UwU:

Wanted to play a game that actually has some population. Found this on steam charts, currently ranking at 7 which is very high player count, thought I'd give it a shot.

Then when I actually play the game it takes 15 mins to join a freaking bot match.

A BOT MATCH.

Are you ♥♥♥ kidding me? What kind of bs is this. How can this game be top 7 with supposedly nearly 150k ppl playing and it can't even find a bot match within 15 min.

What are these player numbers, just Chinese AI spam bots to inflate the numbers?

Really regretting my purchase so far.

Look at the steam chart more closely. The game actually varies between 160,000 players and 18,000 players * daily *. That is not normal.

[blackyCL]

this is a chinese game, player ccounts are easily 70% bots

[Aluvian Darkstar]

Are you perhaps trying to queue for trio bot match? Duo and trio bot matches are dead, people fight against bots mainly solo or in premade groups to farm quests and challenges.

Do quickmatch and Herald's trial. Also shadow surge and bloodbath are quite popular.

I never had more than 5 minutes queue, party or no party

[September]

You're not allowed to queue solo if lvl too low.

[Aluvian Darkstar]

Originally posted by UwU:

You're not allowed to queue solo if lvl too low.

that's true. but you can get to level 10 really quickly, just do some non-bot matches. trust me, it's not much different from bot matches when you just started on Bronze, as people, just like you, don't really understand the game. plus, when you're newbies, many player slots are also filled by bots, then gradually get reduced in number as you gain levels

hopefully they will remove this restriction at some point, but for now it is what it is. it's a pvp game first and foremost

[JamieLinux]

Honestly a lot of the western player-base migrated to playing it on xbox gamepass. Because you can turn off steam match making and just play against xbox pc version and xbox.

[Neon Robot]

Originally posted by JamieLinux:

Honestly a lot of the western player-base migrated to playing it on xbox gamepass. Because you can turn off steam match making and just play against xbox pc version and xbox.

That's...really clever.