I have not been able to easily find an active match/server for 128-player Conquest in All Out War since the last update when DICE made the incredibly stupid decision to make 64-player Conquest the default option.
There is a great TED Talk by behavioral economist Dan Ariely discussing the consequences of basic opt-in vs opt-out systems. The main point is that whichever choice is made the default will always be the one most often selected by the super majority of people because they're either lazy or simply unaware that there are other choices available.
This is what is going on with 128-player Conquest now. Most everyone is simply queing into the 64-player version by DEFAULT. This makes even less sense considering you need more players to start a 128-player server.
The main selling point of BF2042 was the increased scale for this next generation of Battlefield. That DICE are now completely walking back on that design choice is a major disappointment, and I will not continue playing this game. If I wanted to go back to 64-players, I'd just go play an older Battlefield.
STOP TRYING TO CATER TO PLAYERS THAT CAN'T EVEN RUN YOUR GAME ON MODERN HARDWARE. (I.e., old gen console players.)
AND STOP TRYING TO CATER TO HATERS THAT WERE NEVER COMING BACK.
They phasing out 128 player modes by moving the playerbase to Exodus Conquest.
Once the 128 player modes have been completely removed, the server tickrate and client update rate can be increased to 60hz.
Game becomes worse and worse with every update.
Seriously, I enjoyed it much more on release date with all bugs and crashes. Now everything is ruined
Weapon balance is no more
Game modes completely destroyed
They keep "balancing" things with every patch and every time it becomes only worse
Played today to see 10 mins rounds with 64 players using LCMG
Days before it was K30 everyone
SFAR-F now trashed. AK trashed.
The release version with decent noticable recoil on guns and 128p maps was much better
Yup I agree with you too! Every update has ruined AOW experience. I had more fun playing 128 conquest on release up to update 4.0 minus the bugs.
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I also enjoyed the game much more on release, even with all the bugs. That's because the game and modes were better balanced, and were more designed for a combined arms experience. There were more vehicles, less ridiculous nerfs, and better balancing. Now they have gone in the wrong direction. Making all out warfare into an infantry only type mode and took out a lot of the fun that vehicles provided. What's the point of adding new helicopters or new ground vehicles if we can't ever use them due to such a small vehicle count..
@thepuppetmaster7 wrote:I also enjoyed the game much more on release, even with all the bugs. That's because the game and modes were better balanced, and were more designed for a combined arms experience. There were more vehicles, less ridiculous nerfs, and better balancing. Now they have gone in the wrong direction. Making all out warfare into an infantry only type mode and took out a lot of the fun that vehicles provided. What's the point of adding new helicopters or new ground vehicles if we can't ever use them due to such a small vehicle count..
I agree the game was much more enjoyable upon release in terms of scale and action. Now all we get are infantry only players with their stupid bushido code complaining about the combined arms aspect of battlefield. There's plenty of counters to vehicles in game, but the majority of the players don't use them and just complain.
