I am finding very few (none) servers with ping set to 150, and showing full rooms is checked. When I set to empty, I find a number of rooms, but are completely empty. Has the player population really dropped that far? :|
There are hardly any people playing nowdays, I find myself with probably 1-2 playable servers in the evening (GMT). I know quite a few people left after the assault nerf and the bugs and what not.
*sigh*, it's the same with all the online games I play. Combat Arms turned into a PoS, Eve Online I couldn't continue with the subscription whilst becoming too time consuming to even do well, Call of Duty has those accursed gamebreaking killstreak awards I hate so much, and now MNC. I have no wish to take up another online game after MNC. Too many changes done over time, or otherwise require too much time on my part. Just not worth it.
Just join an empty server. Many times I have joined an empty server and before the first match is over it's full.
Most ordinary players won't do that as finishing a game with no or hardly any kills loses star rating a lot, like .5 or .6 and it seems that and kill streaks are all people care about in this game.
You can get current and peak players for the day from here. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ You'll have to view top 100 and search... but it should be listed there.
I haven't been playing much since the last patch, but that's because it murdered my FPS. I intend to get back into it once I get a new graphics card.