I still regularly do PWO missions in Stonewood, Plankerton, Canny, and early Twine, and while you can find muppets in all areas of the game, my experience in public lobbies in high Twine is the worst. Way too much of the playerbase there are useless. (And that is the area of the game where it actually matters to have useful teammates)
Last night, for instance, I did the 160 four atlas mission for the survivor. At the end of the mission me and two others had building scores in the range of 3-5k. The fourth player? Well he literally had a building score of zero. 😑
The one glimmer of hope is the 160 RTS mission where you can easily get away without building anything other than walls and roof around the objective, so it doesn’t matter so much in that mission if teammates don’t help build.
My theory is that a key reason public lobbies in the 140/160 zones are so bad is because a lot of the good players really do just play solo or play on private with friends. I p...