joshuawnscratchhthe beta was really fun but right now atleast currently for me every lobby is glytched and empty or lagging to the point of unplayability so hopefully ill just wait a few days and itll be fun again
i had to do a few things to get the party functionality to work & to be able to queue into games in the first place, and that included updating my embark tag (https://id.embark.games/id/profile) & enabling crossplay. i have a feeling that crossplay-enabled servers run better than pc only ones -- i played about 16 hours without empty servers or lag -- so i'm curious if that alone fixes your problems, since i don't think crossplay is enabled by default if you played the betas & didn't delete your old config file.
thankfully I think it was just basic launch hiccups, because I played yesterday and it felt great so thats nice. It is a really fun game for anyone reading i recommend trying it out,