Why are there so few and empty sessions

[Ginnungagap]

Is this just me? There's 100k people playing this game right now and still nothing.

[Beowulf47]

I tend to have the same issue. Online sessions are pretty hit or miss in general in my experience/opinion. I still enjoy playing the game despite being a bit of a noob. And there are various groups for connecting Monster Hunter players like this one: https://discord.gg/5kPvFg36

[HoneyDrake]

A) full lobbies are not shown to you
B) you only see lobbies of your own region (you can change your steam download region even while in the game, no need to restart steam or the game, and the search will adapt to the new region)
C) tons of private lobbies because people can not be bothered randoms joining their missions. I prefer not "wasting" a few seconds every single time when I start an hunt (well, you can always make it "accept only" or however it's called)

[Gadaven]

lol thats what I thought, like its constantly hitting over 100k and theres popular streamers also playing MHW wow the game should be popping off *logs in* only 1 and half pages of 1 person sessions welp

[Ginnungagap]

Originally posted by Gadaven:

lol thats what I thought, like its constantly hitting over 100k and theres popular streamers also playing MHW wow the game should be popping off *logs in* only 1 and half pages of 1 person sessions welp

Yeah, I wanted to get back into the game, doing Kulve and Safi sieges. But thats very hard in an empty lobby, or amongst people doing different quests. And its the fact that the game somehow is hitting 100k people that makes that so weird.

[Zombie.CCCP]

Noob's question: is there some sort of unspoken etiquette, and anyway, what am I supposed to do if I join someone's lobby — just do my own thing, start quests and see if someone joins for the ride?

[ominumi]

Online session should be a good indicator. SOS flares are more accurate. It shows who is active in quest and how many SOS pages goes to show the online activity of players. Back in the hey day, there would be two to three SOS pages of the new monster.

[Copai1]

That's why I left the game years ago. Now we have like 100k people and it's still the same

People talk sh*t about Rise but there I am always able to find available rooms and play with people easily. Not a fan of how World handled online play

[Whamarama]

What rank are you?
I'm in master rank and find SOS lobbies pretty easily in all the ranks lower than me.
I don't remember if the multiplayer is region based or not, but that could be why.

[Ginnungagap]

Originally posted by senshinotabi:

What rank are you?
I'm in master rank and find SOS lobbies pretty easily in all the ranks lower than me.
I don't remember if the multiplayer is region based or not, but that could be why.

Rarely for me. I'm HR 800 n MR 400. Niet, nada.

[Ginnungagap]

Originally posted by Zombie.CCCP:

Noob's question: is there some sort of unspoken etiquette, and anyway, what am I supposed to do if I join someone's lobby — just do my own thing, start quests and see if someone joins for the ride?

Short answer: Mostly, no.
However, if a questpreference is set on a perticular Monster (Alatreon, Fatalis, Safi, Kulve etc.) then usually people tend to farm that perticular monster together. Then It is kinda irritating when people take up space.

[ominumi]

Originally posted by Ginnungagap:

Originally posted by senshinotabi:

What rank are you?
I'm in master rank and find SOS lobbies pretty easily in all the ranks lower than me.
I don't remember if the multiplayer is region based or not, but that could be why.

Rarely for me. I'm HR 800 n MR 400. Niet, nada.

Ever notice how you some how just find SOS with similar rank as you do? This goes for Guiding Land SOS as well.

[NiamhNyx]

soft region lock op.

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Originally posted by Zombie.CCCP:

Noob's question: is there some sort of unspoken etiquette, and anyway, what am I supposed to do if I join someone's lobby — just do my own thing, start quests and see if someone joins for the ride?

If you quick joined with default settings, it's a general purpose lobby. You can do anything you want. You don't need to wait in the quest loading for people to join, just start and fire off an SOS.

If you searched for a specific type of lobby, like for a specific siege, then you should only do the relevant quest.

You can see the lobby info in the player list.

[Ginnungagap]

Originally posted by ominumi:

Originally posted by Ginnungagap:

Rarely for me. I'm HR 800 n MR 400. Niet, nada.

Ever notice how you some how just find SOS with similar rank as you do? This goes for Guiding Land SOS as well.

Yeah, but I'm also talking about joining sessions with dedicated people. Most sessions I can join are filled with lowrank people. Not anything wrong with that, it's just odd considering theres a 100k people online. Some must surely be veterans coming back during the Wilds-hype. I don't know, it's just weird.

[Ginnungagap]

Originally posted by NiamhNyx:

soft region lock op.

Maybe. Wasnt like that before though.