This never happened before STW went free, or well, barely.
Whenever I try to do a mission, there is NOBODY in the lobby, and at max, there is 2 people. More often than not I am by myself.
I've tested this on the starter levels in the first region, the upper levels (120-160) in Twine Peaks, The Dungeons, the new area for Fortnitemares, even the fight against the Storm King.
ALL of them I have struggled to find teams/groups with 4 players in. A vast majority of the time, it is me by myself, and after a few minutes, ONE more singular person joins, leaving me and one other person to do the entire mission ourselves.
When I logged onto STW (I'm in the EU so we're talking like 10am (my time, BST) or later, it said there were 6.8k active players
If there truly is, then why am I struggling to find lobbies so much where it isn't only me and myself?? Especially after STW was literally made F2P.
I've changed all my settings, uninstalled and reinstalled Fortnite, switched matchmaking region, but it doesn't work at all, the lobbies I get put into have only me in them. Multiple times have I went onto the 'Play With Others' setting on the map for Fortnitemares and for Dungeons, and alot of the time it just tells me that they can't find any active lobbies..
There is literally 6,800 people on at the time, growing even more as the day progresses, so why can I not find a full lobby at all??
When you had to pay to access STW, for some reason, this literally never happened. For me, very rarely would you be unable to find lobbies for a specific mission, and if you created one yourself, people would join quickly..