Add a server browser
DICE, please add a server browser. I cannot find matches in my region(India). I am just stuck on the waiting for players screen and the match never starts or there are only 20-30 players in a match. ...
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@Tank2042Man wrote:
@ExxInferis wrote:
@RayD_O1I presume you mean 'Match-making'? If so then it is handled like other previous BF iterations regardless of whether you have a server browser.
You click 'join' and it finds you a server based on region and ping. It does not look at your stats until it has already assigned you a server. Once in the server, then it looks at your skill simply to see what team to put you on for balance purposes.
Yes the BF2042 seems to have a bug/feature which puts you in the same map over and over and over. Namely Kaleidoscope for me. Maybe this is because the game is trying to get me to play the maps evenly, and I drop out of Kaleidascope 90% of the time it puts me in there.
Why have they gone this way? I think it is a way to dynamically scale server requirement based on demand. This way you never have servers sat empty which would cost EA money for no net gain. It's all about the Benjamins sadly.Yep, all about saving money and also why portal servers close down if all players leave.
Permanent servers have been on the chopping block since BC1.
They only brought it back for BF3 and have always made the previous quick match option more prominent when looking to join an online game to try and push more players to quick match / mm.
I've always wondered when they would do away with it and 2042 is the game they chose to cut out the server browser.
As I've previously advised the OP, the community feedback that EA listen to and fear the most is the reddit main sub which has 200,000 members, the most a battlefield game has ever had on reddit, and unfortunately they aren't too bothered about a missing server browser.
Their pitchforks are out for:
Removing specialists
Scoreboard (lol)
New Infantry chokepoint maps
This forum has far too little interaction to influence anything.
I hear what you are saying and obviously reddit has a lot more users, and as you say more clout.
As I said previously I personally do not want to participate on reddit, but if you or someone else are willing to put the case on Reddit for a server browser / server system on behalf of this forum then that would be a good help.
You may be right that we are wasting our time, but I know I will continue to post and request for changes here on the Official Forums in the hope that DICE will eventually take note.
For a MP only game that had a development cycle of 3 years, 2042 features are pathetic. Sorry there's no other way to say this.
Explain to me how it makes sense to REMOVE all features that made BF just that and think this is ok? Do you think its "brutal" to ask for CAN I SELECT THE MAP I WANT TO PLAY? What about server rotations? Bookmark fav server. I mean the list goes on. Im so at the end with my patience and this incompetent developer.
- @Buzzfunk It`s painful in many aspects. I had no choice but to uninstall the game. The complete lack of Community. No possibility to play with the same people on the same server. It feels like the same three maps in rotation wherever You go, it`s just a terrible experience in Conquest. And all of this happens because of MM and Lobby.
The game needs one additional year of development instead of XP zombie farm events. It`s probably EA with its brutal monetization expectations instead of delivering a solid game day one. Do You think that DICE is responsible for the release cycles or employment of the project manager or EA?
Studios have to develop their games in secrecies otherwise the final product will resemble a Frankenstein with a dollar sticker as a logo.
@Buzzfunk wrote:For a MP only game that had a development cycle of 3 years, 2042 features are pathetic. Sorry there's no other way to say this.
Explain to me how it makes sense to REMOVE all features that made BF just that and think this is ok? Do you think its "brutal" to ask for CAN I SELECT THE MAP I WANT TO PLAY? What about server rotations? Bookmark fav server. I mean the list goes on. Im so at the end with my patience and this incompetent developer.
I totally agree, my patience ran out a long time ago too and I continue to be frustrated daily with the issues you relate to.
Bring back choice, let us decide how we want to play BF2042.
@Twordy wrote:
@BuzzfunkIt`s painful in many aspects. I had no choice but to uninstall the game. The complete lack of Community. No possibility to play with the same people on the same server. It feels like the same three maps in rotation wherever You go, it`s just a terrible experience in Conquest. And all of this happens because of MM and Lobby.
The game needs one additional year of development instead of XP zombie farm events. It`s probably EA with its brutal monetization expectations instead of delivering a solid game day one. Do You think that DICE is responsible for the release cycles or employment of the project manager or EA?
Studios have to develop their games in secrecies otherwise the final product will resemble a Frankenstein with a dollar sticker as a logo.You are absolutely right there is a complete lack of Community in BF2042 and it's all down to MM / Lobby as you say.
And I agree it is a nightmare experience and a far cry from previous BF's.
