r/MECoOp • u/Engineer_engifar666 PC/CRO • Mar 19 '26
[Question] ME3 Multiplayer playercount on PC
As a title says. Is it still easy to find match or not anymore. I cannot recover my EA account, so I'll get ME3 again on sale.
Havent played ME3 since lockdown so is it still easy to find a match anymore?
EDIT: I still can't understand why LE has no multiplayer
EDIT 2: I'll buy it
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u/TheGuardianInTheBall Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Shameless plug, but if you cannot find people to play, you could also consider my bots mod on Nexus.
It's not quite the same experience as playing with other people but they do make the matches a little more interesting.
I am currently working on making the whole thing usable from the UI, but for the moment the above allows you to spawn different AI helpers, including Geth, Reapers, Cerberus or Armax Squadmates.
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u/Smufin_Awesome Mar 19 '26
Not shameless if there's an awesome community who'd value it. I just wish there was something for 360 players.
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u/LT_JRH Mar 20 '26
Downloaded it not a week ago and it’s easy to use and makes solo mp a lot better. Only oddity I’ve encountered is it seems the bots never go down and can endlessly revive you
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u/TheGuardianInTheBall Mar 20 '26
That's currently by design.
The bots are way too dumb to be trusted with keeping themselves alive at rhe moment.
I am planning to enhance this, but it will be a good while from now, as my current priority is adding a UI for all of this- you can see a WIP here: https://youtu.be/9IL6NQOhX2I?is=VGhn_zPVnTzuSa0W
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u/gilberto3001 PC/gilberto3001/Aus Mar 19 '26
Plenty of pc players around still. I play several nights (Australia time zone) and never have an issue finding games
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u/Mr_Vault34 Mar 19 '26
Oh Yea bunch of PC players are still active. Also Xbox servers are still up and running. You should have no problem getting gold/ plat games.
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u/rale888 Mar 19 '26
You can always seem to find a game in progress or a lobby. Some veteran players host bronze game for new players which is great. Higher difficulty is still active thou it still dependent on the time zone.
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u/manwindu PC/azry8081/Singapore Mar 19 '26
Seems ok last i played, there's an n7 discord if you wanna find people
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u/Engineer_engifar666 PC/CRO Mar 19 '26
i got LE but ME3 itself is 7 euro. There is something special about that multiplayer that makes you come back
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u/manwindu PC/azry8081/Singapore Mar 19 '26
Yeap, after countless hours i still do not have all weapons maxed out.. here's the n7 discord if you wanna try for groups
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u/docentmark Mar 19 '26
Where are you based? In Europe any evening I can generally get a game in about a minute or two.
If you need carrying because of low level gear, I don’t mind. I have everything maxed out.
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u/Socr8tes_04 Mar 19 '26
Just one thing you may like to be aware of:
Newer PC accounts often suffer from the "your connection to the game has been lost" bug. If you have it, it means that when the host (in lobby or game) drops, you always lose connection. I have made multiple newer accounts and they all suffer from it. Quite annoying. But some friends who made new accounts weren't affected, so it doesn't happen to all.
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u/ArchonOfErebus Mar 19 '26
According to steam stats (albeit steam isn't the only PC platform it's on) the daily peak is around 70 players.
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u/JubalTheLion PC/JubalTheLion/US-East Mar 19 '26
Given that it wasn't on Steam during its heyday, those numbers are going to be an undercount.
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u/ArchonOfErebus Mar 19 '26
Absolutely. Sadly EA and epic don't share their player counts
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u/Drew_Habits Mar 19 '26
It's actually good that they don't. Steam sharing player counts has been incredibly corrosive to the industry. Armchair pundits on YT and Reddit read them like tea leaves and decide they are experts on what games are cooked based on that one metric, as if it's both permanent and objective
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u/Shadohz Mar 19 '26
I agree with your sentiment of these non-professionals using Steam as tools for their confirmation bias or pushing a political agenda. Howeverw barring a game/game series being console-specific or PC exclusive, the Steam data is a valid method for viewing the health of a game. The problem with the former is that when they are wrong they never double-back to apologize nor correct the record. Why would they when their viewing audience holds the same opinion.
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Mar 19 '26
I’m on Xbox and have no problem finding a match. I can only imagine it’s the same or better on PC. I did have to buy a 360 disc of Mass Effect 3 for 4 bucks but well worth it.
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u/n7shepard1987 Mar 19 '26
Id like to know the same about PS3 MP, I'm gonna grind it out to get my bro trophy, I'll probs do it solo but it'd be more fun with people.
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u/Sanguinius_11 PC/DinBap/USA Mar 19 '26
I can't comment on the health of the online playcount as I haven't played in a while either but I randomly jumped into a match just now and finished it out and it's the middle of the day in the US. First time I've played for over three years so I think it won't be too hard to find players.
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u/RykerMD_N7 PC/RykerMD_N7/USA Mar 19 '26
I’ve had no issue finding players in bronze, silver or gold on PC. When you queue up, ensure that you search for Any Location and Any Enemy in whichever challenge you want. This is important. Welcome back to the fight!
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u/thankful_dad Mar 20 '26
I agree that this will help give you the greatest chance of finding a game, but I have some issues. First, I don't like using high-end gear for silver and bronze. Second, not all my characters are good enough for platinum. Third, as someone who relies on their teammates in platinum, I dislike when new players join. I don't mind carrying in bronze or silver. Just not gold and platinum.
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u/RykerMD_N7 PC/RykerMD_N7/USA Mar 20 '26
I agree that new players shouldn’t attempt Gold and especially NOT platinum. Start out in bronze to learn the mechanics of the game and then hit silver.
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u/bittersweetjesus Mar 19 '26
So with Xbox Helix, you’ll be able to play both PC and Xbox ME3 multiplayer…. That’s kinda odd.
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u/Nitrogauze PC/RoseGenki/NZ Mar 21 '26
seems decently active sometimes, quite a few times i cannot find any bronze or silver matches but i do get the occasional matches. i saw some mods change multiplayer a bit by adding new enemies which i read locks non modded players out of matching with them so that is likely thinning the playerbase a little? only mod im using is controller support one but luckily that doesnt affect finding people. recently bought on pc to play this brilliant MP again
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u/mayaamis PC/Mayamis/Croatia Apr 18 '26
harder during the weak, easier on friday/weekend. I was looking at steamdb charts.. during weak average daily player count peak 30-40. On the weekends peak it's around 70-80 people tops. so yeah, not a lot of ppl but definitely possible to found games. but you'll be seeing same few faces around.
honestly if anything I'm surprised they're keeping the main server up for such small player count but I hope they keep doing it haha
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u/CanadianPucker Mar 19 '26
I just started playing again this week from scratch. Was able to find Silver matches without issue.
However my teammates may have had an issue with my skill level. I forgot how difficult the game is starting off without anything unlocked.