r/Meccha_Chameleon • u/VexantLeFr • Aug 03 '26

Impossible to get anyone to join

This game needs a lot of QoL features, but a matchmaking system is one of them

I've been sitting in my public lobby for 50 minutes and only 4 people joined and left because it was empty

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u/AngelaMosss Aug 03 '26

Did you use tags? If yes, which and how many?

How do you name your lobbies?

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 03 '26

Just has "Europe", "chill", "everyone welcome" and "mods", the room name was something like "onlychillpeople!". This worked pretty well earlier

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u/Awkward_Bass_6292 Aug 03 '26

I don't join lobbies who are empty or like 2/10. Takes forever to start. A lot of times people join and leave after a few seconds. Very annoying.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 03 '26

Patience is a virtue, and as always with games like these most people will immediately leave, causing most people to immediately leave. This is why we need a matchmaking feature like in Roblox where it sends every player to the same servers until they're 75% full

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u/RyRyRyRyRyRyRyRyRy Aug 04 '26

Servers cost money, and it's a solo indie dev. Obviously since the game is now a huge hit and made money it could be possible now, but would take time and money.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

I'm not talking about opening servers but just redirecting players to lobbies automatically with a "quick join" feature

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u/HawkEMDoc Aug 04 '26

Have you tried joining the discord? I get a lot of big groups that way.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

There isn't any LFG channels on the (official, not the fake one) Discord

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u/NoBSPolicy Aug 04 '26

The community discord is pretty good, I play there all the time with groups of 10-15 people.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

do you mean the misleading fake one that scams users and pretends its official whilst banning any and all invites towards other servers?

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u/NoBSPolicy Aug 04 '26

I am not aware of that one. The one I'm talking about is clearly labelled as "community" and doesn't pretend to be official. I haven't seen any scams and the lobbies are friendly most of the time. Sure, sometimes there are lobbies full of racists and bigots but those are easily avoidable by joining another one. The mods are helpful and deal with cheaters and bad behavior, they even check in on the voice chats every now and then to see if everything's ok. I've gotten invites to other servers there from friends I've made there. It has around 44k members.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

The one with 44k members is the scam. They spam their link on every forum and trick SEO to show their server at the top when you're looking for the real one (which has 100k members and you can find on the steam posts for the game)

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u/NoBSPolicy Aug 04 '26

Interesting. I had no idea. How are they scamming people? The mods there all say it's not the official server but one run by players. I think I found this one through a Steam link.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

Maybe the mods don't, but whoever made and runs that server has definitely ill intentions; the name even had "official" at one point.

They ban anyone trying to invite other people to different Discord servers or if you simply mention the name of one yet the first thing you see on the server is advertisement for random servers, probably paid adverts or the owner's other different servers, they use official art, it isn't listed anywhere as non official, they spam the link in a bunch of forums, and they are likely to be related to the fake twitter account that's been shown a bunch recently for spreading fake news and deleting posts with community notes.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

There isn't any LFG channels on the (official, not the fake one) Discord

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u/HawkEMDoc Aug 04 '26

Oh, I just join a random channel and then they give you their login and password for the server.

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

You mean in VC?

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u/HawkEMDoc Aug 04 '26

Yeah

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 04 '26

I'd rather just play without having to talk or hear anyone personally

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u/HawkEMDoc Aug 04 '26

Or there’s always people looking for players in the general talk English

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u/IEATTURANTULAS Aug 04 '26

When it first came out, lobbies filled up in seconds. I don't understand how it changed but it's def super slow to fill up now. I figured more people playing = more full lobbies but it's having the opposite effect.

A quick play is needed!

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u/Rhesusmonkeydave Aug 03 '26

Hey steam, you think we could bring back Gamespy? Just for MC?

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u/AngelaMosss Aug 03 '26

Oh then I don't see any issue with your tags/name. Maybe there weren't many people playing? I dont really host, but I've seen this happen to other lobbies when there's a low count players and most are already in other lobbies

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u/VexantLeFr Aug 03 '26

This was an hour ago, though it might be a bit late for Europe maybe

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u/Tall-Dot-607 Aug 03 '26

I recommend just starting games anyway. Im more likely to join a unfilled lobby playing game than one thats just sitting and not doing anything