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I think that this is pretty widely known, but lack of player count is not all just because of the current state of sabering, or some stupid hidden numbers. The game in general is just not at all new-player-friendly. Here's the perspective from one of my close friends who is really trying to get into the game due to my enthusiasm for it:
There are usually around two-three open servers with actual players at any time. So new players have to make a decision right away. Do I join the match with 20+ players and hope that some there are new enough that I'll be able to get kills and have fun, or do I join the match with 5 players and try to learn from them? This itself prevents more challenges.
If I join the 20+ player game ([TR] Deathstar) I get killed by everyone because that's where every experienced player goes to get their fix of the Open gamemode. There's so much chatter that I can't actually squeeze in my cries for help, so I'm stuck wandering around, getting saber'd, getting my arms ripped off by wookies, and getting TK'd. If this is not the case the only other option for this server is that 85-90% of all the players are playing as sith/jedi. Now I'm stuck in a team-duel server, with no saber experience at all.
So I join the 5 player server. I play soldier and go to play the objective, get some kills and have fun. I get sniped. Okay not a problem, I'll do better next round.....
Aaaaaand they've been fist fighting for 3 minutes, and I've been watching them/sitting on my phone when I could have launched any other game by now.
Obviously that's not everyone, but that's likely a majority. If they're not turned off of the game by that, they're turned off of it because there's no incentive to play gunners at all, and they suck at playing jedi/sith and they lose every duel they get in.
Maybe a tutorial would help, but I doubt it. No tutorial can match real player skill. And if you blast them with info in a short amount of time, they will not retain most of it.
All this being said, I have no suggestions on how to fix it. I'm no game dev, and I'm not very active anymore. This is just my two-cents.
There are usually around two-three open servers with actual players at any time. So new players have to make a decision right away. Do I join the match with 20+ players and hope that some there are new enough that I'll be able to get kills and have fun, or do I join the match with 5 players and try to learn from them? This itself prevents more challenges.
If I join the 20+ player game ([TR] Deathstar) I get killed by everyone because that's where every experienced player goes to get their fix of the Open gamemode. There's so much chatter that I can't actually squeeze in my cries for help, so I'm stuck wandering around, getting saber'd, getting my arms ripped off by wookies, and getting TK'd. If this is not the case the only other option for this server is that 85-90% of all the players are playing as sith/jedi. Now I'm stuck in a team-duel server, with no saber experience at all.
So I join the 5 player server. I play soldier and go to play the objective, get some kills and have fun. I get sniped. Okay not a problem, I'll do better next round.....
Aaaaaand they've been fist fighting for 3 minutes, and I've been watching them/sitting on my phone when I could have launched any other game by now.
Obviously that's not everyone, but that's likely a majority. If they're not turned off of the game by that, they're turned off of it because there's no incentive to play gunners at all, and they suck at playing jedi/sith and they lose every duel they get in.
Maybe a tutorial would help, but I doubt it. No tutorial can match real player skill. And if you blast them with info in a short amount of time, they will not retain most of it.
All this being said, I have no suggestions on how to fix it. I'm no game dev, and I'm not very active anymore. This is just my two-cents.