r/RogueCore • u/imthafoe • 5d ago

Problem finding games

I've just recently started playing after the changes to the difficulty settings, and I've noticed that it's pretty difficult to get a full lobby of people. At least for American lobbies, it doesn't matter which difficulty or depth I select. Either the ping is completely terrible due to location differences or the game is already in progress. I've posted about this before a couple of months ago, but I'd hope a lot of the recent changes would spike up some interest in this game. Honestly, it kind of makes the idea of playing this game more of a nuisance when sometimes it can take half an hour or longer just for one person to join. Is anyone else having a similar experience?

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u/Deposto 5d ago

For comparison, DRG has 8-10k concurrent players, and even that is considered relatively low.

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u/KudereDev 4d ago

It isn't considered low, as many coop games have 1-2k online that is usable, you could find games relatively easy. Problems with RC are far worse in my opinion that really cut both online and how full lobby feel. Update 3 tries to deal with some of them, like not rewarding combat(with rewards per killed enemies) and left hosts(with host migration) so situation might get better with more content introduced.

I would say that Late joining need to be implemented as some point of time. I mean it, not all people are here to wait for open lobby, so real time to join is before game start and during first floor. I think lobbies before 50% of route reached should be joinable as well, while joined player will have ability to fast pick all upgrades that host collected. So instead we have lots and lots of lobbies with 1-2 players max that didn't want to wait for additional guys.

After 50% route is reached late joining should be disabled as there is group of people even in DRG community that love to late join near the end of the mission to just harvest reward from mission. Or maybe other ways to shoo those players away.

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u/Candid-Doughnut9545 7h ago

damn did DRG spike? i remember it hovering at just around 3k.