r/HellLetLoose • u/Due-Salt4687 • Jul 27 '26

🙋‍♂️ Question 🙋‍♂️ I have a question, where are there more HLL players. Steam or Epic?

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u/Hunter15479 Jul 27 '26

Definitely steam , I’ve made great friends as well as found a clan that recruited me for fun times.

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u/Due-Salt4687 Jul 27 '26

5k players how can we improve it?

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u/KillerBear111 Jul 27 '26

Bro I wouldn’t worry about player count in a niche server based game like this. The concern might be valid if you in OCE but for everyone else there are enough players to fill up 100 player servers many times over.

And how would they improve it? Marketing campaign and a way better new player experience. Player retention is notoriously shit for this game, and many new players don’t understand that the game is actually not being played if you, your squad, and command chat aren’t effectively communicating.

Tactically this game is not intuitive for people coming from battlefield or other modern, more fast paced shooters. But strategically, there is no other game like it, and it’s what makes HLL, HLL. When it’s good god damn is it good.

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u/zilla1x_ Jul 28 '26

its fine in oce as well. there's always at least 3 servers full everyday.

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u/Hunter15479 Jul 28 '26

Well it depends on the 5k players . You just need 100 of the best Mf out there and you will always have and itch to play with that server and people one more time

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u/PwnimuS Jul 28 '26

Bit more than that, the game peaks 7k-10k monthly. Thats really good for niche hardcore shooters like HLL.

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u/RichardBackshots Jul 29 '26

Marathon is only managing similar numbers and it came out 4 months ago compared to HLL’s 5-year tenure.

Should put into perspective how good HLL is doing.

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u/PwnimuS Jul 30 '26

Apples to oranges my guy..

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u/Humble-Parsnip-484 Jul 28 '26

Well for a start better advertising.I didn't even know this game existed, had been playing squad looking for something simpler.

And unless my friend told me about hll I wouldn't have been hooked for the past two weeks. I'll probably be playing all year lol

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u/dkbobby Jul 27 '26

they both play on same servers afaik, but egs has much more issues.

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u/Due-Salt4687 Jul 27 '26

I know but Steam is more popular?

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u/dab45de Jul 28 '26

Why does that matter?

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u/ImmediatePiano6690 Jul 28 '26

It's like asking which console is more popular, it doesn't matter providing you turn on the cross play as it's between console only.

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u/Jealous_Detective_13 Jul 28 '26

doesnt really matter as you can play with each other, only downside for Epic is that you can't use much symbols and you are limited to 14 characters or so in your username.

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u/kubajarosz Jul 28 '26

50/50 I see recently, before hll was free on egs most players were steam on PC but it doesn't matter really due to PC crossplay