After a 3 year hiatus, I feel like I'm ready to get back into first person shooters. It's on sale for PC for 10 bucks right now, but I'm worried that no one will be playing the campaign portion anymore and that I will therefore be locked out of some of the unlockables.

Would the lack of being able to find players in the "campaign" negatively affect my enjoyment of the game?

The campaign is totally irrelevant. Well maybe for unlocking the Styder and Ogre, but I thought I heard they restrucutred that.. Even if they didn't I've been going with mainly Atlas for my hundred or so hours on PC..

At this point, I would say no to Titanfall on PC though.. The players numbers are SO low.. Even worse than what Brad was saying on that quick look.. When I'm on there are typically about 500 people playing attrition, some people doing that weird co-op mode, and every other playlist has 0 players worldwide. So you have enough people to play attrition, which I would say is by far the games best mode, but it's such a small number of active players you are going to be playing with the same people all the time.

So I've been revisiting this game after 4 months or so. I'm on gmt timezone and on PC for the record. I've been mainly playing frontier defense, hardpoint and attrition ( team dm, domination and horde mode basically ), and it generally takes MAYBE a minute to get into a full lobby or an ongoing game. Player count is barely around 2000 ( judging by the ingame counter ), but since the matches are 6v6 it apparently doesn't slow matchmaking in any way. Just tried campaign today for kicks, since I've finished it at launch already, and it again took maybe 2 minutes to put me into a full game. But the titan types are apparently now unlocked through leveling, it used to be tied to campaign progression at launch.

Most of the people I've seen around had been newcomers, especially in attrition. Didn't encounter any untouchable uber players or teams during my 6-7 hours since my reinstall. I'm writing this because I've pondered whether or not to reinstall since I've also feared the player base would be too small to casually get in games for quick sessions. But that had never been the case for me. Very surprised about it actually.

sorry to necro- but titanfall is $5 on origin right now. still worth it?

it's a fun game. for 5-10 bucks, it's a steal.