Anytime I try multiplayer, nobody joins

[Captain_Kaiju]

It's kind of killed my excitement for 6, it's mostly been a solo game for me for whatever reason. Everyone I see hosting is only playing the 100+ missions and nobody seems to want to join anything else, I'm on 90 so far and I've maybe played with others for 2-3 missions tops. Granted, I could just join those higher level missions but wouldn't that leave me under equipped and kinda useless? Plus I don't think that would actually progress me any.

Could just be ♥♥♥♥ luck, but I've never had this issue with 4.1 or 5 even playing them after 6 launched. Since half of the fun in EDF is the co-op mayhem, it's pretty disappointing that this has been happening in this game alone.

[HHH]

You can blame the launch mishaps that led to this game having mixed reviews. The crashes for a large part of the player base also led to a large drop-off in concurrent players.

Supposedly, your lobby can also become glitched and become impossible to connect to. You could try remaking it until someone joins.

That being said, it's not impossible to get an online lobby going with randoms, but you're gonna have to tough it out for a few missions solo online most of the time. Solo online is scaled to 4 players so it's quite rough if you aren't experienced or have a poor selection of weapons. After a while, someone might join mid-mission, at which point you can acknowledge them with a greeting and ask if they want to join by retreating. In my experience, once you have a person in tow, others will join much more easily.

The only other thing you could do is try to get your friends in on it, but that's a big ask at the current price and with the aforementioned questionable reviews and issues. It's a regrettable situation all-around.

[Widget]

I had same issue with EDF 5, there are way too many lobbies of 1 people, the answer is to join other lobbies with 1 player, they get full fast. Didn't finish the game yet? Finish it solo or with friends and then join random missions of other randoms.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Make sure the lobby setting to make it visable is on for sure, and set it to describe your game. But I imagine it's gonna be harder to find people in lower lvls of play now, cuz people are gonna be in higher difficulties.

[Captain_Kaiju]

Originally posted by Widget:

I had same issue with EDF 5, there are way too many lobbies of 1 people, the answer is to join other lobbies with 1 player, they get full fast. Didn't finish the game yet? Finish it solo or with friends and then join random missions of other randoms.

I'd join people if any of them were playing even remotely near the mission I'm currently on. I'm not about to join a 110+ lobby when I'm only on Mission 90

[Craig]

Add me, I'll play with you sometime.

[Yandere]

Originally posted by Captain_Kaiju:

It's kind of killed my excitement for 6, it's mostly been a solo game for me for whatever reason. Everyone I see hosting is only playing the 100+ missions and nobody seems to want to join anything else, I'm on 90 so far and I've maybe played with others for 2-3 missions tops. Granted, I could just join those higher level missions but wouldn't that leave me under equipped and kinda useless? Plus I don't think that would actually progress me any.

Could just be ♥♥♥♥ luck, but I've never had this issue with 4.1 or 5 even playing them after 6 launched. Since half of the fun in EDF is the co-op mayhem, it's pretty disappointing that this has been happening in this game alone.

double check that the room is set to "everyone", playing on higher difficulties increases your chances of people joining along with removing armour/weapon limits if youre able

if you see me in game, drop by, im down to help you progress

[LArc7thHeaven]

Open lobby with hard difficulty, nobody plays normal except offline because progress now carried to online and hard immediately tick all difficulty below it. Now everyone probably move to hardest or DLC with next month going might be mostly switch to inferno

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

Open lobby with hard difficulty, nobody plays normal except offline because progress now carried to online and hard immediately tick all difficulty below it. Now everyone probably move to hardest or DLC with next month going might be mostly switch to inferno

Hey me and my friends played normal first! Lol

Altough me and my brother had a wnd playthru on hard first 😂 but I cater to my friends lvl of challenge.