is the game alive?

[fLARE]

been a few years since i last played and was considering reinstalling, but the player counts on steamcharts are kinda scaring me off. would I be able to get games at low-mid tier?

[3 Wire]

Steam charts won't give you an accurate count of the global player base since most people play on the stand alone My Games launcher, not the Steam launcher.

One of the mods at Discord once told me that Steam players represent roughly 15% to 20% of the global player base, so it's not a large number, at most it's 1 in 5 players worldwide.

You'll have no trouble getting PvE matches at low to mid tiers, I typically play at tier 3 to 6 and I rarely wait more than a minute to get a match to load.

[fawkee]

Originally posted by 3 Wire:

Steam charts won't give you an accurate count of the global player base since most people play on the stand alone My Games launcher, not the Steam launcher.

One of the mods at Discord once told me that Steam players represent roughly 15% to 20% of the global player base, so it's not a large number, at most it's 1 in 5 players worldwide.

You'll have no trouble getting PvE matches at low to mid tiers, I typically play at tier 3 to 6 and I rarely wait more than a minute to get a match to load.

don't forget, if you play in pve on hardcore it's actually always much faster

[3 Wire]

Originally posted by fawkee:

don't forget, if you play in pve on hardcore it's actually always much faster

I can only speak for myself but I never have to wait very long for a match at standard or hardcore either one...

[Tigger]

PvE is very much alive (most popular mode), when you get to tier three most move to hardcore mode and for me 30 seconds is a long wait (in UK so on during peak times)

PvE Spec ops can have longer times due to having to wait for a team on the same level as you (and many play as full 5 man teams so it may say 1 minute average wait but a random solo can wait much longer)

PvP is very time dependent and it tended to be slightly more Russians playing than the rest of the world (55% to 45% the last time I saw the devs post anything up) -

its particularly longer at mid tiers which is why bots were added to tiers 1 to 3 a couple of years ago and now go up tier tier 7 (much better than the pre server merge - matches were 3v3 and ruled by 3 player teams - but still not ideal)

On tier 1 its common to have one real player each side and 7 bots each side to make up the teams

PvP GLOP's while I find it much more fun than standard PvP it is played less so wait times can be longer than standard PvP