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MULTIPLAYER - HOW TO ACTUALLY CONNECT TO GAMES
By Regolith
This guide is meant to help people find multiplayer games in the current year.
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Preface
For one reason or another, you probably wanna play Doom 2016 multiplayer. Fear not, it is still possible and still has an active playerbase, as shown by this recent video.


However, the playerbase is small, and you will most certainly see the same people playing day after day, so you will have to time your play sessions accordingly. This guide is meant to help prospective players do so.
How to connect to active servers
Most current regular players, if not all of them, play on EU servers.
If you're not located in Europe, you'll need to manually switch to the EU servers. To switch to the European servers, navigate to the bottom or press R by default, and then click Europe.

Please note: You will have to do this every time because the game defaults to AUTO.




On top of this, there are peak times for playing. An easy way to figure out the best time for you to start playing is looking at the player charts on Steam Charts[steamcharts.com]. Below is an example of the peak times, which I utilize to play multiplayer.




What gamemodes are active?

Simply put, Team Play is the most active section, as it contains the most gamemodes.

Steam groups for finding games
When I was first starting my journey of completing all the multiplayer achievements I searched the Steam Community for groups dedicated to playing DOOM 2016 multiplayer, and the two best sources for arranging matches that I've found were the following:

NEX Legacy of Slayers

The official DOOM 2016 group chat[//] (you might have to open this link in your browser outside of Steam)

These both still have a few active people in them, and you can usually check the member lists to see who is playing DOOM.
Conclusion
Hopefully this helps you start playing multiplayer, as it would be nice to see the playerbase inflate a bit.

Have fun and happy fragging!
13 Comments
Regolith  [author] 16 Mar @ 6:19pm 
Updated the guide with links to both NEX Legacy of Slayers steam group as well as the official group chat from the DOOM 2016 game hub
Regolith  [author] 24 Feb @ 5:13am 
Drygorment, I don't think Doom 2016 is hosted on any other PC based platforms, but as far as I can tell, the servers are hosted by id software and not steam.
Drygorment 24 Feb @ 3:56am 
Does this work for all ports or just steam
Cubist Ideology 10 Feb @ 6:08pm 
I wish I knew this back when I first got this game, spent hours waiting in Asian servers only for one game.
Alucard 4 Sep, 2023 @ 1:34pm 
If any of you damned souls come across a slayer by the name of Butt Widener, prepare your anus. That man has over 10,000 hours on DOOM 2016 multiplayer alone. He doesn't have a single campaign achievement
Dr. Shooty Jones 30 Aug, 2023 @ 2:36pm 
thanks man! hopefully this post revives the multiplayer at least a little. I remember trying to get into a multiplayer match earlier this year (i had just bought the game) and was sad (but not particularly surprised) to find no one to play with :(
Gus 30 Aug, 2023 @ 1:52am 
Since GeForce now added doom I wanted to play online with little help. This guide will increase my chances. Thank your for your input:steamthumbsup:
taimelapsed 27 Aug, 2023 @ 1:05am 
yo thanks man! this mean a lot to me!
krhomebot 22 May, 2023 @ 12:57am 
Hope this helps improve the player base. Nice little guide.
Don't be scared to try Asia server, reverse the ping advantage/disadvantage for a change :)
4 from bfdi real 18 May, 2023 @ 5:04pm 
doom