lack of servers and players

There don’t seem to be many people playing and just few servers, am I missing something? Is there some place where most people play that has to be accessed by special means or is this really everything to the multiplayer community right now?

Small playerbase, it’ll hopefully pick up once the game’s out of EA.

The multiplayer is kind of a meh attempt at an arena shooter at the moment.
The problem is mostly due to how movement works (not a lot of depth) and it has a few balancing issues too.

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