Add a server browser

Battlefield bulletin just tweeted Dice say they have no plans at all to add a server browser but they are looking at adding persistent servers. Then they deleted the tweet 10 minutes later

Yep, at least they finally came out and said it:

https://twitter.com/MrProWestie/status/1564643952137220096?t=SD8BDOr_F7nwGuJv4Yu4aA&s=19

However, that's all I needed to hear. I hope everyone on here enjoys the game. I am not wasting any additional time playing as they clearly are only going to give the community the bare minimum.

Thanks to all who kept trying in here. It was worth a shot. 

They might as well lock this thread. We got our answer. 

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@RUMPLE9 wrote:

Battlefield bulletin just tweeted Dice say they have no plans at all to add a server browser but they are looking at adding persistent servers. Then they deleted the tweet 10 minutes later

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Yes, for portal. They consider persistent servers for portal only, but not for AoW.

@Adamonic @RayD_O1 @Sc0tch_Whiskey 

Welp so much for that I guess, they fooled me once with 2042 not having a server browser, it will not happen twice.

Time to uninstall guys.

So they say they not adding a server browser, like one of the most requested features.......................absolute joke. BF NEEDS A SERVER BROWSER.............

Bring back Dice of old days, its obvious the current Dice know nothing of Battlefield, well not like 2042 didnt already show that.

This is not a BR game, it NEEDS browsers

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@Spinner1981 wrote:

So they say they not adding a server browser, like one of the most requested features.......................absolute joke. BF NEEDS A SERVER BROWSER.............

Bring back Dice of old days, its obvious the current Dice know nothing of Battlefield, well not like 2042 didnt already show that.

This is not a BR game, it NEEDS browsers

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What I don’t understand is that they say they aren’t being in a server browser to all out warfare. 

but they are interested in exploring persistent portal servers.

Am i mad, but aren’t they basically the same thing? 

all we need are persistent portal servers that allow admins to define map rotation. 

Seriously. What is wrong with everyone. 

I hope no one took this crushing and demoralizing news personally. DICE has been ignoring community feedback for decades. That's how the "working as intended" meme started.

They've ignored my feedback for over a decade. They've ignored Battle(non)sense's feedback so he shut his YouTube channel down. Heck they even ignored feedback from fellow co-workers in DICE's Slack chat channel.

I give DICE credit for straight answers recently. Such as no mouse support for consoles, no server browser, no persistent servers, no map rotations, and detailing their plans for specialist.

I'll be playing the MW2 open beta September 26.

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@Cucobr wrote:
@FlibberMeisterIt's because BF 2042 is your first Battlefield game... And that is ok. That's why you said "What is wrong with everyone."

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Er not my first battlefield game. But ok.

By the way, having watched the rest of the update on twitch, there are actually some interesting improvements. 

two rounds per match is almost/nearly enough for me to try it out again. But still, more community based quality of life improvements would be a good thing. Perhaps season 4? 

@Dice I'm playing since 1942. You can google me up.

https://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/Cucobr/stats/246903952/pc/

You can check my time spent playing BF1, BFV and BF 2042 on Origin.

***** you.

What the hell is wrong with you? What happened?

Managing my expectation on server browser? What expectation? The implementation of the server browser is ******* basic. There is none-zero-nada expectation about that. Only disappointment.

I think one reason is the senior DICE members who made older BF games have moved on to other studios (Embark Studios being one of the latest).

If it wasn't for portal I would have stopped playing long ago. CoD is matchmaking only and it killed the game for me. I'm to the point that if a game is matchmaking only I'm going to pass on it.

Portal could have been much bigger but it took way too allow full xp for anything outside of the official experiences. It still lacks in some areas but I don't think it will be updated to a point that people come back to it.

If DICE doesn't want to add the browser to AOW then add Breakthrough to portal so we can at least make our own games with the server browser there.

It's blatantly obvious just reading these posts just how much of an own goal DICE have scored by refusing to implement a Server Browser/ Persistent Servers in AOW.

It will do nothing for the good of BF2042 or future BF titles, imho MM is unacceptable and unworkable in a BF multiplayer game.

It's like they sitting in a nuclear shelter with fake windows, showing sunny beaches with palm trees where everybody is playing in the sand and are swimming with dolphins...how nice and relaxing...life is good. Just ignore the rest of the world.

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@Adamonic wrote:

Yep, at least they finally came out and said it:

https://twitter.com/MrProWestie/status/1564643952137220096?t=SD8BDOr_F7nwGuJv4Yu4aA&s=19

However, that's all I needed to hear. I hope everyone on here enjoys the game. I am not wasting any additional time playing as they clearly are only going to give the community the bare minimum.

Thanks to all who kept trying in here. It was worth a shot. 

They might as well lock this thread. We got our answer. 

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Thanks to you too for all your support, sorry to see you go, take care mate.

Of course, they weren't. We were never going to get it. 

I know this isn't the answer you were looking for. But you've asked us multiple times in this thread and elsewhere, and you did deserve an answer.

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@Straatford87 wrote:

I know this isn't the answer you were looking for. But you've asked us multiple times in this thread and elsewhere, and you did deserve an answer.

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I agree that we needed an answer and as you say it definitely wasn't the answer we wanted to hear.

Personally I just find it hard to comprehend the logic behind the decision and I find it hard to accept that we now have to  play the remainder of BF2042 without a Server Browser in AOW.

It just doesn't feel like a battlefield title without it and as I have said before I think it's bad for this game and the whole BF franchise.

Lets just hope they get on doing persistent Portal servers as soon as and add Breakthrough to Portal. Wont even need AOW then. Been spending most of my time there recently anyway and found some good normal and hardcore servers, because the state of AOW MM is atrocious. They just need to be persistent so they can be played at all times.

So sad, but it will take alot before i go for an EA/DICE game again, they will need to prove alot before my money goes to them

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@Straatford87 wrote:

I know this isn't the answer you were looking for. But you've asked us multiple times in this thread and elsewhere, and you did deserve an answer.

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And the reason we asked had a logical reason while the answer we got was given because of lazy, no resources , incompetent team, or I donno you tell us. "We are currently not pursuing this" without a reason while it's the most asked feature demanded by the community is laughable.

Let's say I love to play on Renewal, with the current MM in place I might have multiple play sesions across several days and never play it or even worse in my case, to play Hourglass 3 times in  row, or queue up in an already ending mach more than once. Persistent server with a browser would fix all of this. I mean DICE bragged that they will live service this game for AOW, Portal and Hazard Zone when it launched, currently we get 1 map 1 specialist and some weapons in AOW while beeing denied basic features. I dont even dare to think how the next game will end up if you say that "all hands at DICE are working on 2042" and this is what we get with a game already launched. 

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@Straatford87 wrote:

I know this isn't the answer you were looking for. But you've asked us multiple times in this thread and elsewhere, and you did deserve an answer.

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Hi Tom

First of all, I still can't believe I can actually answer to your post in this topic- kudos, that you finally came out to us at least, thank you for that.

Now what I want to say:

As you can read from our posts, it would be much easier to try to understand/follow your feedback, if you gave as ANY reasons for this. WHY? Is it because some technical or financial reasons? Or is it because the low player count, which would be even more exposed using the browser? 

Or, you don't believe that this would bring back enough players to justify the costs/effort and you rather want to keep the re-introducing of the server browser for the next bf title, where you can advertise it properly, build the marketing around this and make the people come back and buy it despite the last experiences?

If you said "A" with the decision, just say also "B" and tell us the reasons behind. That would be highly appreciated, and a first step towards re-gaining our trust.