I’m very close to dropping a negative review on steam, and this is coming from someone who has played the original for many many years, I’ve played this game since 2006 until ESO closed the servers and many years after on voobly and I have in my many years of playing online games not encountered a worse lobby/multiplayer browser than this. I’m legit trying for hours on end to get a game together and it’s impossible, whenever I host a game nobody joins, I can be hosting for an hour and I won’t see a single person.
I downloaded some maps from the ‘‘mod’’ section to play online, and ever since I downloaded I believe a zelda map and some mythodea maps I get a pop up whenever I go to the multiplayer section that says I can only find players that have my ‘‘data mods’’ enabled. What? I downloaded some MAPS from the mod section, I didn’t download anything that enhances or changes the values of units or changes the data, why is my lobby getting borked because I downloaded a scenario type map??
Also, both the chatting system and the ‘‘joining games’’ system are extremely delayed and slow, whenever I join a game that’s like 2/6 full it will put me in a loading loop for 2 minutes and then say that the game I’m trying to join is full… Then I refresh the page and it’s still on 2/6…? I’m writing this at 21:45 and I’ve been hosting a game from 21:00~ish and NOBODY has joined, on a fresh release, with supposedly 20000 people playing. Right, I remember the early days of ESO and my lobbies would fill in a matter of seconds with only 1200 people online. I hope we get fixes to this really soon, because I’ve just about had it with this client.