Why is multiplayer so empty?

[Leon]

Hey guys! I see 11,646 people playing the game right now, but there are under 10 mp battles ongoing, and none open for joining. I usually play single player, so I'm not really accustomed to the multiplayer rooms, so I wonder how comes there are so few in multi? Is the room I'm seeing limited by location? (like I see only Europe where I'm from?)
Watching online battle of popular youtubers I was under the impression that the multiplayer scene is really active.

[Kinja]

Because the vast majority of people playing Total War titles play them exclusively in singleplayer. Some years back CA said that only 5% of the playerbase actually played Shogun 2's much acclaimed multiplayer.

The youtubers you watch all play either quick battles or play with their own communities via discord/streams.

[Kaaz]

i mostly play single player, only playing multiplayer/coop with people i know, i imagine a lot are the same.

[Wh♂♂par]

Quick battles are more active than server-skirmishes, campaign is a lot more active than quick battles.

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by Kaaz:

i mostly play single player, only playing multiplayer/coop with people i know, i imagine a lot are the same.

It's this. That aside, too many disconnecting sore losers in multiplayer means the MP scene died early on and never had a chance to take off.

[☕ Grüntherspöth 🍟]

Originally posted by Wh♂♂par:

Quick battles are more active than server-skirmishes, campaign is a lot more active than quick battles.

Actually I dont even picture how multiplayer works (didnt try, I'll only play such type of game with people I know, I'm not planning to do 5 1st turns of a campains 10.000 times)...

I mean the turn by turn part, ok I get it

- But what about battles that doesnt concern you? Are you forced to watch it? IF not, what are you supposed to do during those?

[The Notorious GSB]

Originally posted by ☕ Grüntherspöth 🔪:

Originally posted by Wh♂♂par:

Quick battles are more active than server-skirmishes, campaign is a lot more active than quick battles.

Actually I dont even picture how multiplayer works (didnt try, I'll only play such type of game with people I know, I'm not planning to do 5 1st turns of a campains 10.000 times)...

I mean the turn by turn part, ok I get it

- But what about battles that doesnt concern you? Are you forced to watch it? IF not, what are you supposed to do during those?

If you're playing co-op, the 'not involved' player can spectate, or they can be given troops by the 'main' player to help out with micro and whatnot. It can be a huge assistance, actually.

In a head-to-head campaign, the 'not involved' player can drop in and take control of the AI 'enemy' army, if they want to. Or they can spectate and help out the 'main player' as above.

[☕ Grüntherspöth 🍟]

Originally posted by Tomb Raider:

Originally posted by ☕ Grüntherspöth 🔪:

Actually I dont even picture how multiplayer works (didnt try, I'll only play such type of game with people I know, I'm not planning to do 5 1st turns of a campains 10.000 times)...

I mean the turn by turn part, ok I get it

- But what about battles that doesnt concern you? Are you forced to watch it? IF not, what are you supposed to do during those?

If you're playing co-op, the 'not involved' player can spectate, or they can be given troops by the 'main' player to help out with micro and whatnot. It can be a huge assistance, actually.

In a head-to-head campaign, the 'not involved' player can drop in and take control of the AI 'enemy' army, if they want to. Or they can spectate and help out the 'main player' as above.

Ho... nice, but... can you do that with more than 2 players?

[The Notorious GSB]

Originally posted by ☕ Grüntherspöth 🔪:

Originally posted by Tomb Raider:

If you're playing co-op, the 'not involved' player can spectate, or they can be given troops by the 'main' player to help out with micro and whatnot. It can be a huge assistance, actually.

In a head-to-head campaign, the 'not involved' player can drop in and take control of the AI 'enemy' army, if they want to. Or they can spectate and help out the 'main player' as above.

Ho... nice, but... can you do that with more than 2 players?

Sadly not... which is a shame, cos I love it. It's a really nice chilled way to spend an evening with a friend (playing co-op. Head to head is crazy stressful...).

[☕ Grüntherspöth 🍟]

Originally posted by Tomb Raider:

Originally posted by ☕ Grüntherspöth 🔪:

Ho... nice, but... can you do that with more than 2 players?

Sadly not... which is a shame, cos I love it. It's a really nice chilled way to spend an evening with a friend (playing co-op. Head to head is crazy stressful...).

You manage to spend just one evening? I mean, The fastest campain I did was probably 40h or so... (and I skipped most of the battles)

[Beta Ray Jim]

Try entering Quick Battles and you shouldn't have a problem finding a game. Just make sure all of your mods are disabled.

[Maschinengewehr]

Originally posted by Tomb Raider:

Originally posted by ☕ Grüntherspöth 🔪:

Ho... nice, but... can you do that with more than 2 players?

Sadly not... which is a shame, cos I love it. It's a really nice chilled way to spend an evening with a friend (playing co-op. Head to head is crazy stressful...).

H2H is heaps more fun than co-op. Its a shame that theres so many ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around that only want to do co-op though.

[jdersh]

Originally posted by Kinja:

Because the vast majority of people playing Total War titles play them exclusively in singleplayer. Some years back CA said that only 5% of the playerbase actually played Shogun 2's much acclaimed multiplayer.

The youtubers you watch all play either quick battles or play with their own communities via discord/streams.

thats y im so alone ;(

[Kinja]

Originally posted by jdersh2005:

Originally posted by Kinja:

Because the vast majority of people playing Total War titles play them exclusively in singleplayer. Some years back CA said that only 5% of the playerbase actually played Shogun 2's much acclaimed multiplayer.

The youtubers you watch all play either quick battles or play with their own communities via discord/streams.

thats y im so alone ;(

Most of the bigger youtubers have community discord servers at this point and have LFG sections in said servers, just join a few of them and i'm sure you will have a much easier time finding games.

[☕ Grüntherspöth 🍟]

Originally posted by jdersh2005:

Originally posted by Kinja:

Because the vast majority of people playing Total War titles play them exclusively in singleplayer. Some years back CA said that only 5% of the playerbase actually played Shogun 2's much acclaimed multiplayer.

The youtubers you watch all play either quick battles or play with their own communities via discord/streams.

thats y im so alone ;(

When I was your age (13yo I guess: "2005") Everybody was "alone" when playing games (except for local MP, but it was almost exclusively fighting games), and no one cried about it

[SmokeyMcP]

Originally posted by ☕ Grüntherspöth 🔪:

Originally posted by jdersh2005:

thats y im so alone ;(

When I was your age (13yo I guess: "2005") Everybody was "alone" when playing games (except for local MP, but it was almost exclusively fighting games), and no one cried about it

because comparing standards from 13 years ago totally make sense...dingleberry, lol.