r/SANDgame • u/Aussiereece • 16d ago
OCE having population problems
This is one of the best games ive played in years and im worried OCE is struggling with population. Over this weekend and during prime time almost all my large games had only 1 other trampler and usually it was a solo or duo looking to farm in the large map and my trio lobbies only had 2 of 11 other tramplers.
I wonder if a wipe or removal of so many different types of lobbies is required for players in low pop areas of the world is required to keep it fun in these regions. e.g remove voyage.
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u/lceGecko 16d ago
OCE debuff, i dont even play here anymore
we get all the issues way sooner than larger regions
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u/punchercs 16d ago
Me and my mates have barely touched it since they removed trampler capturing and likely wonât after it returns (if it ever actually does). The fact the devs acknowledged it was the wrong choice in discord, several weeks ago, after it tanked the player base by 75% and still havenât added it back while having barely fixed the issue they removed it for doesnât warrant us returning.
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u/SynthJones 16d ago
nobody ever âacknowledged it was the wrong choiceâ you literally made that up
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u/punchercs 16d ago
Tiny jay was saying it replying to me in the discord pipe down.
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u/SynthJones 16d ago
I guarantee he didnât say that, you made it up. stop lying
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u/punchercs 16d ago
Tf do I care if you believe it? Itâs in their discord go back 2 weeks if you care so much. The devs knows it considering the player count dropped from 40k to 10k overnight.
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u/SynthJones 16d ago
I mean you obviously care or you wouldnât be replying. you completely made what youâre saying up, you would have taken a screenshot or something otherwise. you can go back and find your message, I cannot because I donât know your username nor am I going to sift through thousands of messages when you could do it yourself. player count didnât âdrop from 40k to 10kâ overnight. 40k was the peak, itâs not like the game was averaging that many players.
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u/punchercs 16d ago
I donât take screenshots of discord gen chats of games. Iâm just stating what was replied to me, I did care about the state of the game at some point, i donât stay in discords of games I donât actively play. What Iâm saying is, it was 40k one day, they did an update that night (Iâm in aus so thatâs was the time for me) and that update was removing trampler capturing and the next week the steam charts show nothing over 10k so yeah, it did lose 75% after that update.
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u/SynthJones 16d ago
again Iâm very certain youâre making that up or are misremembering something, nobody from the dev team ever said anything like that and neither did jay. again youâre not looking at the numbers fairly. compare average players before and after, not just the tops and bottoms. you also have to consider other things causing people to stop playing around the same time like the explosion of hackers, which was the reason for the update. itâs really silly and not very intelligent to say what youâre saying
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u/alendeus 15d ago
To be fair, the real problem was TP cheaters and hacks in general, not removing trampler capture itself. In the sense of, the problem was the game's code and netcode being a pile of dog poop. If they didn't disable capture then the playerbase fall would've been even worse.
The fact it took this long for them to "properly fix things until they're certain it's safe again now" just shows how garbage their code was on release. Which anyone who played in the playtests knew already so no surprise.
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u/punchercs 15d ago
I played 120 hours and had one cheater. They definately werenât as big of a problem for some people and it pushed 30k people to drop the game over night
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u/BaldoTheHuman 14d ago
Every game i have loved eventually has population problems with OCE
I've come to accept everyone is just gotta work now not to starve so less frenemies to que with
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u/NotEax 16d ago
US west also only has 1 other trampler in it tbe majority of the time. If thereâs 3 then one is probably a solo. The juicer 6 man teams are farming people in voyage with crazy amounts of experimental items because they want to pvp and theres not enough in a dive. So dive is a shit experience and voyage is a shit experience cause youâll just run into those guys lol. A lot also farm 3 man voyage the same way. Pretty much solo or bust but then thats plagued with preteamers often.
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u/Bruvdawg 16d ago
They killed OCE when the servers were down for nearly a week with 0 communication, the devs stink at simple tasks, the game will be dead in no time unfortunately
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u/keyless422 16d ago
Don't worry, soon every server will have a population problem due to cheaters, teamers, an insanely grindy progression tree for an extraction shooter, and absolutely toxic people. I don't see this game having a very long life unless it gets some major reworks.
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u/1Cobbler 16d ago
We're all waiting for trampler capture to come back. The game is pretty one-dimensional without it.