Unable to play solo. If "fill teammates" is UNchecked I will never find a game

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Unable to play solo.&nbsp; Anytime "fill teammates" is UNchecked I will never find a game.&nbsp; I will stay in matchmaking indefinitely.&nbsp; Days, weeks, months, literally infinitely.&nbsp; Player count will jump around random numbers from 10, to 400, to 40, to 70, and just keeps on for the duration, but a match will never be found.&nbsp; Want to play squads in duos? Trios? Go to the range?&nbsp; SURE!&nbsp; All working as intended.&nbsp; Buy stuff in the store?&nbsp; SURE! (that feature will never be broken)&nbsp; Want to play by yourself?&nbsp; NO!&nbsp; Want to run a game solo one time to finish a daily or something?&nbsp; NO!&nbsp; But, all jokes aside though, why is this an issue, and how to fix it?&nbsp; Been a problem for about 3 weeks now, before that everything worked just fine.

llcraigj0302 · Answer

I've been having repeated issues waiting for games to start and seeing the player counts rise and fall. Eventually I give up and do something else. While I've only been playing a few weeks, this is just as devastating to the player experience. All attempts to contact EA on this and other issues, has been met with the same copy/paste emails that I can't even reply to. They all direct you to the same page of "fixes" that don't actually do anything. My nephew got me playing this game and I've enjoyed playing when it works, but I'm honestly ready to call it quits with EA after the lack of respect they've shown.

priapus1337 · Answer

Thanks for all the assistance!&nbsp; Genuinely appreciate it, along with several of these posts, and a support ticket directly to EA (still with no response) and still cant play the game going on 4 weeks now.&nbsp; I guess uninstall then?&nbsp; Because idk what else to do and its obviously not going to be resolved, I had hoped the drop of the new season would see it fixed but, nope.&nbsp; Tons and tons of forums posts and lots of other reddit posts, support tickets, dev forum questions, all with the same issue.&nbsp; Ive even seen several where the poster didnt mention if the box was checked or not, and were specifically asked "did you have the fill option unselected?"&nbsp; So obviously they are aware its an issue, dont care its an issue, and choose not to respond to any inquiries about it.&nbsp; They made it very clear they didnt want a solo matchmaking option in the game to begin with so I can only assume this is their way of enforcing that without having to tell everyone theyre enforcing that.&nbsp; GGs

octopushy · Answer

I feel this frustration. Only salvation I have is that I can still play on my regular server with my friend (who is also cursed with the clearly untrue "unable to play online" nonsense), or alternately, endure the 2x ping of playing on a server on the other side of the continent. New York has provided a few good solo games, at least.

It really is a shame that the customer service experience leaves so much to be desired. To be told such things as: "I put you in the system as a PRIORITY", with plenty of other compliments about my long play time and clear dedication to the game, blah blah blah - only to never receive a response and watch the ticket get marked closed/fixed.

My only wish is that some big-shot Apex streamer gets hit with this bug, maybe it'd actually be addressed.

phantomdj · Answer

Same problem here.&nbsp; PS5.Devs, please fix this!&nbsp; I hate playing with randoms and would rather play solo vs. squads of 3.

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Unable to play solo. If "fill teammates" is UNchecked I will never find a game

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