There are still a lot of people playing the game, but most have already moved beyond Normal. The "normal" difficulty is Nightmare, with Cataclysm for bragging rights.

That said you really should've started on Easy, people usually don't hop into Normal until level 10-15 (map layout, basic dodging/blocking/parrying abilities, etc).

Hosting isn't really an issue. My internet has a 10mbps upload speed and I can, in Portugal, host games with people up to Russia without them lagging (or so they say when I ask).

And about >nor do i want to play a multiplayer game with bots, that is absurd

You're right. Thing is, everyone at that level goes to their map, picks a map & difficulty and just stands there. That only matches you with games in-progress, since it defaults you as a host. If you actually start the game, you get people join into your game. Other than that, lobby browser and sort by difficulty or map or #of players, and check if they're in-progress or in-inn.

The browser is still a bit slow, it does keep games already finished because they can always go back to Inn and play another, parties stick together after each map, and the lobby only refreshes itself every 5 or 7 minutes so you have to do so manually.

The only "legitimate" in my view complaint is the host disconnect issues, if the host D/C's everyone gets thrown back to the Inn or to the start of the mission and that blows, but you can change/swap hosts with a party formed @ the in..

Then the only thing I can tell you (about matchmaking):

A) You're too overleveled for the difficulty you're trying to match

B) You're too underleveled for the difficulty you're trying to match

C) Some maps aren't played. People hate them, they're ridiculous or ineficcient. Until Nightmare/Cataclysm (aka, fun), most people just farm Horn of Magnus, Black Powder and Wizard's Tower for quick gear, so all other maps take longer to match because there's less people wanting to play them.

D) You can always start your own; it fills up with bots and if it's in progress (aka, in the map rather than the inn), it gets priority for other people matching. I've waited for 10-15 minutes in the Inn for a group to fill up, launched it and had it fill up after launch in 20-40 seconds.

There are still a lot of people playing the game, but most have already moved beyond Normal. The "normal" difficulty is Nightmare, with Cataclysm for bragging rights.

That said you really should've started on Easy, people usually don't hop into Normal until level 10-15 (map layout, basic dodging/blocking/parrying abilities, etc).

Hosting isn't really an issue. My internet has a 10mbps upload speed and I can, in Portugal, host games with people up to Russia without them lagging (or so they say when I ask).

And about >nor do i want to play a multiplayer game with bots, that is absurd

You're right. Thing is, everyone at that level goes to their map, picks a map & difficulty and just stands there. That only matches you with games in-progress, since it defaults you as a host. If you actually start the game, you get people join into your game. Other than that, lobby browser and sort by difficulty or map or #of players, and check if they're in-progress or in-inn.

The browser is still a bit slow, it does keep games already finished because they can always go back to Inn and play another, parties stick together after each map, and the lobby only refreshes itself every 5 or 7 minutes so you have to do so manually.

The only "legitimate" in my view complaint is the host disconnect issues, if the host D/C's everyone gets thrown back to the Inn or to the start of the mission and that blows, but you can change/swap hosts with a party formed @ the in..

ok.

like it or not, it's true. Well played ulti is the only thing that makes her somehow useful, but that's it. Tentacles are super easy to dodge and she does bad without them.
I'm diamond, that's why I say she's up. She might be OP in bronze-gold, where people can't even dodge that slow and super predictable skillshot.

Indeed. Is it based on something or is it just some nice concept art? I imagine the latter but hope for the former.

Indeed that is really awesome.