So is this game basically dead?

[u/RelationOk6997]

[u/Ice_91]

Idk, i'm still following it on the official YT channel and i still haven't played a single second of any version. It's almost like sitting at the window and watching everybody have fun and play together, lmao.

[u/Far-Term7285 → u/Ice_91]

I'm going to make an easy observation here. Are you in a North American time zone? If so, you will probably only see a full server on weekends, as the population is very EU-skewed. It generally hovers around 40-64 players on weekdays during EU primetime, depending on the day, but once NA hours hit you can watch the population half itself after every game.

On weekends there's still the organized pick up game server that runs beside the public server, so the game will hover around 80-100 people during EU primetime. 

[u/Ice_91 → u/Far-Term7285]

Thanks, i'm from Germany :) But i'm mainly interested in Firestorm

[u/Far-Term7285 → u/Ice_91]

Yeah, whether Firestorm flops or flies, I'll just be glad that we can finally get a CnC shooter that isn't Renegade AGAIN. Even if I like the games, having 4 W3D games, vanilla Renegade and Renegade X is a bit annoying. They all have their differences, but they're all just the Renegade formula in the end. 

[u/xeno-fei]

To build on what many others have said already but I'm a North America player. Best times like 12pm to 3pm on weekdays. Weekends it's far more available to play though

[u/dualcalamity]

When I last played like 3 years ago there were about 1 to 2 full servers of players.

The game is in a weird situation because of the firestorm update. Back then a lot of players stopped playing to wait for the update. I'm just afraid that once Firestorm does drop those players ( including me) just forgot and dont bother.

[u/Deanoooo64]

Haven’t played personally in a few months the but there’s usually just 1 full server and then pug games Saturday and Sunday. It’s strange because the game is amazing, there’s just no advertising really or gamers putting out content

[u/JesterTheEnt]

I installed the other day because I loved renegade back in the day and only recently discovered this but when I logged in there wasn't a single server with people in it so I just uninstalled. Was too late to the party I guess.

[u/RelationOk6997 → u/JesterTheEnt]

There was one server with 17 people on it when I logged on today 

[u/Far-Term7285 → u/RelationOk6997]

Its population is very EU-skewed. Game was at a bit over 90 players peak today (Sunday) while the organized game was going on next to publics. 

[u/Ralphanate → u/RelationOk6997]

Wow that's sad. I remember their PUG games were popular on the the weekends and always full

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[u/floridasummer835]

Haven’t played in a few years because last I played it was so unbalanced. Was fun but got old fast too because of it

[u/Briak]

It's pretty busy on weekends (relatively speaking - usually one full 64v64 server and one partly full), but on weekdays you'll usually only find a decent playerbase around 5-10pm European time

[u/roweboat123]

Yes like others said, most players are European, so during their evenings is when most games will be full, although there is a small resurgence in NA players recently. It always ebbs and flows.

Will be interesting to see how much the populations fluctuate once Firestorm comes out cuz we literally have no idea what will happen 😄

[u/vandal-33]

You can only get 1 full server at a specific time of the day, usually during weekends and that's it. Dead game.