Strinova was doing fine in the first 2 seasons, but then they decided to change the most fundamental systems like matchmaking and rank ladders. And now the game is on lifesupport.
I dont get the impression that the company really cares, so it might as well be dead.

Got outplayed by higher rank opponents, ragequit, the circle continued until no more players...

It's not dead. I play it every day and I still have many friends on here too.

NA is ded, APAC and EU keep the game on life support.

i was grinding hard when it launched till like about 5 month after launch, the game started its downfall, just poor management and fking cashgrab by the devs. huh guess its time to head back to valorant...

I still get games with people on NA. 2200-0200 EST is when I get the most games. (People logging on before daily reset) I will sometimes get some games around 1200-1400 EST on days I have off, but less frequently than at night

On Thursdays when I play with my brother-in-law and his friends around 1930 EST we'll also get a few games with people since we are queueing as a group

Originally posted by Cal Thang:

Got outplayed by higher rank opponents, ragequit, the circle continued until no more players...

Pretty much, every new player i got into the game quit because they have to play against veteran and pro players. Never getting to learn and enjoy the game how it was intended.
And even most veteran players left, since the matchmaking is so bad that you already know your ''role'' after the first round. And that mostly means having to carry the team.

The only benefit of this all, is that i was forced to try other games. And i often play Apex now, and with friends its actually fun most of the time.

game is alive and it has content

Every new player are forced to fight against bots until they get pass lvl 10? 15? forgot.

Originally posted by Luxaeterna:

Every new player are forced to fight against bots until they get pass lvl 10? 15? forgot.

No you only get bots in every first time you play a gamemode, after that it depends on if there are players.
Ive had players with 3 games total in a lobby with me against Electron players. So as long as you play Demo like everyone els, you will find players most of the time. But other gamemodes are only bots.

Im downloading again. It seemed like I always got super sweaty teams or straight bots so It was hard to get better at the game. I did like the game though just seems like poor advertisement.

I feel like there has been 3 stages.

The first stage was people joining, and the difficult mechanics making casuals leave and only hardcore people sticking around and anime fans. Over time the try hards weeded out themselves because they want to win and hate to lose, but 50% of them have to lose. They also weeded out the casuals.

Second stage was revamping the mechanics so it is much easier to aim and appeal to the casuals. Which made even more try hards leave, while did not really bring in many casuals since the game was a few months old by then and not very visible in the store.

Third stage was solving the long queue times with tossing in bots, leading to game modes that had 4 minute wait times, for a game with full human teams, to turn into 1 min wait time for a match with mostly bots. Making even further people leave because what is the fun with playing with stupid bots?

I think the most likely stage 4 would be that they actually get the bots to be balanced and fun. At which point it wouldn't really matter if the game was single player or online. But a more fun stage 4 would be that people somehow found their way back and we got more human players to play with.

Originally posted by Aimee:

Originally posted by Luxaeterna:

Every new player are forced to fight against bots until they get pass lvl 10? 15? forgot.

No you only get bots in every first time you play a gamemode, after that it depends on if there are players.
Ive had players with 3 games total in a lobby with me against Electron players. So as long as you play Demo like everyone els, you will find players most of the time. But other gamemodes are only bots.

Make a new account and see for yourself your forced to only fight bots at low levels, most online games made in 2020+ eras does this. Old games adopted this.

It's like a standard game feature at this point to shelter newbies from veterans when they start. Where they only fight bots for new accounts.

It's not quite dead (at least in APAC), but it is very gradually dying. I stopped playing because of the horrific matchmaking in both unranked and ranked demo, which is caused by rank inflation and lack of players, and they have done zero advertising to bring in new players. The game will slowly bleed players until it will EOS within a year.

EU servers are alive, infested by ogres and clankers tho