is public CO OP dead?

[Bloodrider]

it takes forever to join a game like 10m and when i finally do im immediately kicked by the host.
is the playerbase gone now?

[Bloodrider]

Originally posted by Zoiyya:

99% of games you join you immediately get kicked by the host... Seriously they should play in singleplayer instead of wasting others time! And most times they kick you while you load their game so you can't even see their name to blacklist them so you don't land in the same lobby 10 times in a row...

yeah it really pisses me off, i usually end up alt tabbing and playing another game.

[DreamScape]

Job griefing killed Co Op. Join Discords and ask for friends here. Randos do more damage than good anyway.
Game is awesome with two workers and a scout or two. But be aware. If you make friends with potato pcs. Disconnects will be abounding.
Each player needs a system with pretty much same RAM config.
Ive found if someone has like 2800 mhz and host has 3600 mhz the weaker ram will get dropped over and over.
Core and card seem to have nothing to do with drops. But RAM seems to be the main problem.
So look into your RAM. and ask what possible friends are running. Have it equal as possible on both host and player side.
and youll be able to have 4 player runs for hours.

[Bloodrider]

Originally posted by DreamScape:

Job griefing killed Co Op. Join Discords and ask for friends here. Randos do more damage than good anyway.
Game is awesome with two workers and a scout or two. But be aware. If you make friends with potato pcs. Disconnects will be abounding.
Each player needs a system with pretty much same RAM config.
Ive found if someone has like 2800 mhz and host has 3600 mhz the weaker ram will get dropped over and over.
Core and card seem to have nothing to do with drops. But RAM seems to be the main problem.
So look into your RAM. and ask what possible friends are running. Have it equal as possible on both host and player side.
and youll be able to have 4 player runs for hours.

i dont have friends who play this game, and on discord people wont play with you if you dont have a mic. i dont want to chat i want to play snowrunner.

[MegaDave]

Originally posted by Bloodrider:

Originally posted by DreamScape:

Job griefing killed Co Op. Join Discords and ask for friends here. Randos do more damage than good anyway.
Game is awesome with two workers and a scout or two. But be aware. If you make friends with potato pcs. Disconnects will be abounding.
Each player needs a system with pretty much same RAM config.
Ive found if someone has like 2800 mhz and host has 3600 mhz the weaker ram will get dropped over and over.
Core and card seem to have nothing to do with drops. But RAM seems to be the main problem.
So look into your RAM. and ask what possible friends are running. Have it equal as possible on both host and player side.
and youll be able to have 4 player runs for hours.

i dont have friends who play this game, and on discord people wont play with you if you dont have a mic. i dont want to chat i want to play snowrunner.

Perhaps it's small talk you don't want to engage in, but voice chat related to a contract that 2 or people are working on is very beneficial. The best you are going to get with randoms with absolute zero communication is playing in the same lobby but doing different jobs.

But I agree that I don't necessarily want to talk either; I do enough of that at work. So when I'm at home It's largely peace & quiet. If I join up with someone from Discord, typing is the best they're getting from me.

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Bloodrider:

it takes forever to join a game like 10m and when i finally do im immediately kicked by the host.
is the playerbase gone now?

It's not gone. There's some kind of problem that was introduced by the last content update and the matchmaking has been a mess ever since.

Add to that the idiots that open up public matches when they don't really want anything public (which funnily happen to usually be from consoles). And the other idiots that join multiplayer to ignore everyone else and do solo.

[Rragar]

Originally posted by MegaDave:

Originally posted by Bloodrider:

i dont have friends who play this game, and on discord people wont play with you if you dont have a mic. i dont want to chat i want to play snowrunner.

Perhaps it's small talk you don't want to engage in, but voice chat related to a contract that 2 or people are working on is very beneficial. The best you are going to get with randoms with absolute zero communication is playing in the same lobby but doing different jobs.

But I agree that I don't necessarily want to talk either; I do enough of that at work. So when I'm at home It's largely peace & quiet. If I join up with someone from Discord, typing is the best they're getting from me.

If you are mindful of other people and they are mindful of you, you get plenty of nonverbal communication. I've had lots of meaningful communication happen in this manner; I also don't have friends who play regularly and almost always go with randoms.

You can also tell which contracts they're doing by seeing which contracts are active and then observing which vehicles people pick, which direction they travel to, or which cargo they are carrying. If you have some notion of what the route is like and you observe the vehicles they're picking, you can also then determine if they could benefit from an assistance vehicle (which you could then pick).

And if you just land in a lobby with 3 people who are already doing the bulk of the work and/or doing recurrent cargo runs (like those logs missions) and they have trucks that are particularly fuel-hungry or if they have to travel long distances, it's generally helpful and appreciated to bring them some fuel.

[Bloodrider]

Originally posted by Rragar:

Originally posted by MegaDave:

Perhaps it's small talk you don't want to engage in, but voice chat related to a contract that 2 or people are working on is very beneficial. The best you are going to get with randoms with absolute zero communication is playing in the same lobby but doing different jobs.

But I agree that I don't necessarily want to talk either; I do enough of that at work. So when I'm at home It's largely peace & quiet. If I join up with someone from Discord, typing is the best they're getting from me.

If you are mindful of other people and they are mindful of you, you get plenty of nonverbal communication. I've had lots of meaningful communication happen in this manner; I also don't have friends who play regularly and almost always go with randoms.

You can also tell which contracts they're doing by seeing which contracts are active and then observing which vehicles people pick, which direction they travel to, or which cargo they are carrying. If you have some notion of what the route is like and you observe the vehicles they're picking, you can also then determine if they could benefit from an assistance vehicle (which you could then pick).

And if you just land in a lobby with 3 people who are already doing the bulk of the work and/or doing recurrent cargo runs (like those logs missions) and they have trucks that are particularly fuel-hungry or if they have to travel long distances, it's generally helpful and appreciated to bring them some fuel.

i have 300 hours on steam and 750 on epic and this is exactly what ive been doing almost exclusively. many many times ive had pc players add me and thank me for being such a big help. sometimes if i saw a new player struggling with their unupgraded vehicles, id park all my cool trucks outside their garage so they can try them as they please. now that i cant find any matches, i can just no longer enjoy the game...