Stopped playing in September. The player community at the time was so small that I could not matchmake for incursions on even the lowest difficulties. So my ALTS were unable to progress. At the time the best loot was locked behind the hardest difficulties and you had to complete hard mode to even attempt the harder difficulties.
That wasn't the only issue, of course. I was pretty pissed at the whole dev team for their amateur behavior and some of the things that I saw on the PTS server did not forebode well for the 1.4 update.
I'd ask if the dev team has pulled their heads out of their rear-ends but they are still probably trying to convince everyone their stuff doesn't stink.
So question is, has the playerbase recovered enough to matchmake for incursions?
I matchmake for incursions and legendary missions without too much trouble. You can now get geared to 256 anywhere, so you don't have to complete the mission to get gear to complete the mission. However, there are some people who can just not be helped by gear. My success rate has been around 80/20, with around 20% of groups being too bad to be carried, and 80% ranging from "hard work to carry" through "actually able to participate". Luckily, you can tell the groups who are too bad to be carried because the first fight will take 20 minutes and they'll all be hiding behind the same piece of cover.
On the bright side loot is no longer locked behind content as it once was. You can gear up a character using any activity of your choice. Still have to fight RNG on the piece you want and then RNG on it being the set/HE you want and then RNG for each roll it can have....
I remember rushing my 3 alts to lvl 30 for the twice a month supply drop and underground 1-10 (or so) using my highest pieces earned on my primary since I got sick of match making and being booted for under geared stats.
This is making me recall my first 4 piece set at a reasonable level; Lonestar. Which then was replaced with Alphabridge and a pair of perfect G36's. Maybe I need to run a Lonestar for nostalgic reasons... maybe the twin Valkyries.
Originally Posted by MAJ0R_K0NG Go to original post
Player base got up there a little bit during December from a 24.99 sale but 2 months after was back down, it again got another boost 2 moths back at 24.99 sale but this time half as many people bought and that is on its way down since then, if they don't do a 9.99 sale or free in month or 2 we will be back around September numbers.
Another thing that is making Legendary harder and Incursion harder to find people to play is most people went to Last Stand, with rest of people spread out over Survivor, missions, Legendary, Incursion, DZ and 1-30.
I get on in morning and 10pm and at first I was doing 2 to 3 Legendary missions a day, now I have done 2 in 5 days as nobody has been on in match make.
unless some huge game play mode hits its not looking good, seems most things are little fixes and add on's that have nothing to do with new game play and the bugs 1.6 brought aren't even being talked about so that's not great 2 months later.
Good luck, I'd try 5pm to 8pm at night and Saturdays.
Last week thought I would try Underground not been in for a while, I like how they made a new emote especially for matchmaking, skip to 2.05 to view it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geu9HUHWdeA