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Jer
Community Member

Borderlands 3 matchmaking

Been playing this game with matchmaking going on for hours among days and never have seen another player once. Is the multiplayer matchmaking not working? My games are open to the public.
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Ivan
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

@Jer I haven't really been trying out the multiplayer option, but do people can randomly drop to someone else's session if the setting is public?

I found this article online on how to matchmake with others on BL3. Maybe you can try it out and see if it works?

https://www.polygon.com/borderlands-3-guide/2019/9/17/20871022/matchmaking-multiplayer-how-to-match-...

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Jer
Community Member

It started working last night after I fiddled around with loot options and network set to open instead of private by default. Maybe I wasn’t progressed far enough to matchmake with anyone.

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Nightcrow
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Or maybe you just hit the center of where most people are in the game at the moment :slightly_smiling_face:

But glad it started working for you i only tried multiplayer on tomb raider just for fun ( but gave up after a few minutes when nothing happened)

 

But i think a good way too see how many people are playing is using  the forum as a benchmark.

If a post can be on the first page and last reply is over 24 hours ago will mean stadia community still is small 

(X% of players do play and write on forum , so increase in posts means more people playing )

 

 


Stadia name Nightcrow#9757 :slightly_smiling_face:
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Stoked4Good
Founder
Founder

I can confirm campaign matchmaking works for me, but the lower player base probably is the reason for it's limited state.  Have not had any luck kicking off a Proving Grounds session, and for that, I'm sad, ha...

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Bluetooth
Community Member

It works like a champ for me. I'm unsure why you're not being matched. I'd go and check your settings again and then restart the Ultra. That's all I got. 

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Kelador
Community Member

Due to the low amount of Stadia users match making is an issue on most games from what little stats we have access too Stadia has around 20k users and not everyone would of brought BL3, I hear grid, xenoverse, tomb raider, ghost recon, red dead online etc all have very bad matchmaking due to this low number of users I'm currently not buying any game on stadia that has multiplayer as a staple feature for this reason. Destiny 2 that has around 9k active users daily on Stadia also has issue's as that small amount of players spread out over all its different activities and timezones makes matchmaking hit or miss.
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Raymond87
Community Member

@Kelador Interesting, where did you get the numbers from? It is very low and im affraid this wont sucess with so low numbers unfortantly. Very rough and tough start for a new platform. I have tried to matchmake in samurai showdown a few times without seen a single player, in ghost recon breakpoint i saw someone in the camp, but havent tried the online part but i will do. I want stadia to grow and become popular Since it working great, but if this is how matchmaking is going to be i would be very sceptic to buy online titles in future. Good thing is the 2 hour free refund we can use if we not are happy with the game. Maby we just need to give it some time and trying again later with the matchmaking.
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Kelador
Community Member

Destiny 2 allows you to access it's stats via API and as it's free with stadia we could look at the first few days after launch as most people would of tried it as it was free and it had just over 20k first day of stadia launch and now.has 9k players on stadia so that shows the first number was most of not all stadia owners trying it.

With 20k users spread out over timezones and games is what will cause bad match making.

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Stoked4Good
Founder
Founder

I saw a Twitter post regarding those stats, but never the actual source. Could you please point me in the right direction? Would love to take a look. Thank you.
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Raymond87
Community Member

I see, this match making making me be a bit sceptic to buy my next online game on stadia.

In tom clancy ghost recon breakpoint i have still not get to test the ground war online PvP mode. Stadia works great but the matchmaking thing make me a bit conserned for how many owns a stadia. What are Google going to do to get more customers? I dont think the comersial would make it better, some more game announcment or next plans would be better comersial imo.

The service is new and maby we have to wait a few more months to get more players online. 
I hope Google do what it takes to get new users. 

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Kelador
Community Member

@Stoked4Good Sure warmind.io is the source for Destiny stats their website gives you a small overview but their discord bot which is free to setup and use will give you better stats for example typing !pop stadia in discord with the bot will give you actual stats for the last 24 hours. The numbers flying around are from the first few days after stadia launched and a few snap shots over the last week we are assuming that most if not all stadia users jumped on Destiny 2 at launch to try out as it was free this gives us a good idea of total user numbers BUT due to the drop off being half the population we can not get actual numbers as the population could of grown or shrunk since then but we can assume its not grown much.
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Stoked4Good
Founder
Founder

That is neat! Thank you for sharing. What's the command for breakdown by platform? Still not exactly sure what Discord is, but I've been using it, lol.
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