¿Multiplayer is dead?

[Totopap]

I started playing recently and I was very excited about the multiplayer aspect. So far I have unlocked Blue Heart Runner invasion, Shroud Alliance invasion, Dawnlight cooperation and Sheriff hunt. However in all my playtime I was only able to:
-Have 1 person join me as a cooperator
-Join 4 sessions as a Dawnlight cooperator (only one of those had a second cooperator)
-Invade 1 world as a Blue heart runner (and a sheriff showed up)
-Get invaded once by a Chaos Hunger
-No one appeared to help with the Chaos Hunger (I don't know what faction is supposed to deal with Chaos Hunger)
-No succes in trying Sheriff hunt
-No succes in invading for the shroud alliance
That's all the multiplayer action that I managed to get, and I managed that while actively trying to join worlds either by the candles in your inventory or by the portals in the lobby.

[ChonkyRat]

just fyi if you have a coop dawnlight join after using a yellow candle, you can use the candle again to get another player. 3 total.

maybe you were playing at an odd time. admittedly surprisingly ive been having longer and longer waits to join games.

[Bankai9212]

Simple op, the game is over a year old short of players waiting for the steam release(which is a year and 5/6 months after epic release). Most moved on or aren’t interested in the game anymore, plus the drastic difference from sanctuary turned fans off from it.

[Totopap]

Originally posted by ChonkyRat:

just fyi if you have a coop dawnlight join after using a yellow candle, you can use the candle again to get another player. 3 total.

maybe you were playing at an odd time. admittedly surprisingly ive been having longer and longer waits to join games.

Oh, I didn't know you had to use the candle a second time for another cooperator to appear. Thanks for the note.

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Simple op, the game is over a year old short of players waiting for the steam release(which is a year and 5/6 months after epic release). Most moved on or aren’t interested in the game anymore, plus the drastic difference from sanctuary turned fans off from it.

I use crossplay on, so there should at least be people from other platforms showing up. But even like this, finding a session to join is really dificult.

In my opinion, this is the dev's fault due to how multiplayer is implemented. You literally have to ask to be invaded and starting a cooperation is one of the ways to ask to be invaded, so a lot of people will opt to not cooperate at all to not be invaded. Add on top that using the cooperation board to play with friends bypasses the invasion system and this is where that brings us.
There's a hanful of things that could be done to significantly shorten wait time to find a session:
-Stop the cooperation board from bypassing invasions.
-Make it so being guiltless is enough to enable invasions.
-A more player friendly option would be giving rewards to the host every time a Dawnlight cooperator receives a token. This would encourage summoning cooperators, which will make it easier to find invasions and easier to find invaders to hunt, improving matchmaking for everyone as a result.

It's probably true that the player base is really low, but I think the poor design choices around multiplayer are at fault to the difficulty of finding sessions to cooperate/invade/hunt.

[Bankai9212]

It was on consoles at the same time as PC thy also moved on, heck outside of steam and twitter I doubt anyone even knows they released new content for it. I think the bigger issue is added MP to a game or series that isn't that big to begin with. Say what you will about Dark souls 2 being a black sheep it still has good online community. This game on steam charts can barely keep over 100.