Found a reddit video showing the difference between 45Hz and 20Hz servers. It's brutal.
@T0TALfps Is this a bug or what? 20 Hz servers for Solo/Co-op play - for real?!
@Adamonic
I think that netcode in general is rather bad for BF2042. Not sure if it's because of the 128 players only or because they reduced the tick count to 45Hz. But dying around corners or not being able to hit moving targets are definitely the more annoying aspects of this game.
That being said, I just tested a Solo match and for me it also says 20Hz, but as those bots basically never shoot at you and themselves remain stationary for the most part, acting as cannon fodder to level up your gear by letting you shoot them from behind, I think for that purpose 20Hz is completely OK and sufficient.
If they WOULD change the main game or Portal, then this would be unacceptable, but for Solo matches I won't complain.
@Adamonic wrote:
@ForumUserI mean why change now? Is the 100 players a day using it for 30 minutes really going to save that much? Normally there is a cost-benefit analysis done and someone actually had to propose this change for whatever reason.
They are wasting manpower and dev time on trivial stuff like this that not only takes away from other fixes but makes the game worse than before.
Again why make this change?
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Hi @Adamonic ,
Despite that some individual players here and there are actually having some fun in this game still to this day does unfortunately not make it a profitable game anymore for EA to support.
There are simply too few players around and they do not make any substantial additional purchases of game features/seasons/skins to make up for the daily run-time costs that EA have to pay to keep the servers running and the support staff around.
Essentially for every single extra day that EA keeps the BF2042 servers on, they sink in yet again another lump of cash that they will not get back.
So the question is simply how much they can cut down on, without loosing too much of the fanbase, so we are still 'OK' to buy the next BF license when the next BF game in the franchise comes out. And if the daily runtime costs are too high and the day for next game release too far away, then they will take drastic measures to cut their overall looses despite the negative implications for the remaining active player base (as its too small to matter in the bigger picture of things anyway).
