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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@samboleary
That is a very sad state of affairs, no one should have to go through that just to play the game.
And the sad thing is. you and I and everyone else knows there is a solution available which would resolve all these frustrating issues and allow all players access to all maps at all times.
That is a very sad state of affairs, no one should have to go through that just to play the game.
And the sad thing is. you and I and everyone else knows there is a solution available which would resolve all these frustrating issues and allow all players access to all maps at all times.
@RayD_O1 It is. Last night I was only able to MM into one full round of Exodus Conquest, so I ended up playing solo against the AI in there instead for one round, got bored and switched it off.
There must be a lot of other players out there at the moment with similar experiences as I am having who are also turning the game off. This is having a negative effect on the player base as well as pushing people away from the game and into other games. Once they are in other games they are not really returning to play. We will likely see a mass exodus when MW2 launches shortly.
A Server Browser would allow people like me in regions which have a low player count to change our region and join in with the rest of the BF community that are playing in regions with higher player count.
This region option which was in the filter of the original SB should also be brought across to Portal. I dont know how good Persistent Servers are going to go in there with regions with low player base. Will work great if we can change our region.
#BringBackTheServerBrowser
#PersistentServers
There must be a lot of other players out there at the moment with similar experiences as I am having who are also turning the game off. This is having a negative effect on the player base as well as pushing people away from the game and into other games. Once they are in other games they are not really returning to play. We will likely see a mass exodus when MW2 launches shortly.
A Server Browser would allow people like me in regions which have a low player count to change our region and join in with the rest of the BF community that are playing in regions with higher player count.
This region option which was in the filter of the original SB should also be brought across to Portal. I dont know how good Persistent Servers are going to go in there with regions with low player base. Will work great if we can change our region.
#BringBackTheServerBrowser
#PersistentServers
- @samboleary
Yeah it is not acceptable that you and many other players have been abandoned and are left with a game that you can't play.
DICE have a responsibility to ensure all players have access to the game they paid for and this should be their number one priority.
As you rightly say this is having a negative affect on the player base and imho is doing long term damage to the franchise.
I genuinely feel really sorry for all you guys who are left without the ability to even play BF2042, DICE definitely needs to step up and sort this asap. It still amaze me that the decission were made not to have a server browser from the start in this game. And then deciding not to add it later while alot of players can't play because of this missing feature..unbelievable.
And that's not all what is missing and broken...my goodness.
- @Mackstan71 And they won’t even address the issue of players not being able to play. They are just Quiet and do not care.
- @Mackstan71
It just means that they either cannot do it or that they are not allowed to do it due to orders from above. - @UP_Hawxxeye And that is a real sad state of affairs.
@Mackstan71They need to fix match making then since there will be no server browser. For players not to be able to play is ridiculous in all measures of gaming. We all are getting screwed over by this company. I wouldn’t care if I did play with Ai because atleast I would be playing and I don’t mean solo where there is no progression. I mean let me play AOW until players join and even if they don’t join let me progress in the season.
@Mackstan71a lot of the entertainment industry these days seems to give me the same vibes as those fantasy stories referring to an advanced Atlantis-like civilization that the humans that came later lost and cannot replicate.
Is this what the decline of a civilization feels like?
Just like how western Roman rule in the provinces deteriorated from something positive into something negative to the point that the locals were happy to see the barbarian invaders replace them.
@Sc0tch_Whiskey wrote:@Mackstan71They need to fix match making then since there will be no server browser. For players not to be able to play is ridiculous in all measures of gaming. We all are getting screwed over by this company. I wouldn’t care if I did play with Ai because atleast I would be playing and I don’t mean solo where there is no progression. I mean let me play AOW until players join and even if they don’t join let me progress in the season.
Exactly this mate. !!
You paid good money for this game, access to play it is the minimum requirement anyone expects.
@RayD_O1 wrote:
@Sc0tch_Whiskey wrote:@Mackstan71They need to fix match making then since there will be no server browser. For players not to be able to play is ridiculous in all measures of gaming. We all are getting screwed over by this company. I wouldn’t care if I did play with Ai because atleast I would be playing and I don’t mean solo where there is no progression. I mean let me play AOW until players join and even if they don’t join let me progress in the season.
Exactly this mate. !!
You paid good money for this game, access to play it is the minimum requirement anyone expects.
Indeed, and yet they leave you out in the cold. No explanation...nada..nothing. how bizarre is this.
@Sc0tch_WhiskeyI think that this is a fundamental problem to their current attitude. I think at the very minimum that they should allow players to change region so they can get a game or update MM so that it allows this to happen.
We should all be able to play the game we paid for. If it's fixed, then more people can play it. They owe us that much in the short term at least.I think it will be poor form on EA DICE if they dont continue to deliver content after S4. They are making better content now, and there are elements of the game that are enjoyable. They should focus on keeping their Skeleton crew working on BF2042 in the background at whatever the cost until the new BF title is being released. This would allow things like the SB and a couple of new maps etc. to be worked on.
They owe us that at the very least, we should be able to play the game we payed for to keep some sort of interest in the Franchise. If not, they are doing themselves no favor's. I expect to be able to play in a multiplayer experience.
#BringBackTheServerBrowser
The matchmaking is a huge bottleneck to enjoying this game.
#BringBackTheServerBrowser
- @jakerock71 The bottleneck seems to be getting worse. DICE & EA need to rectify the issue as soon as possible
#BringBackTheServerBrowser Your absolutely correct in everything. I don’t see how they can keep letting this happen. They don’t see how important a server browser is. The players want to play and they are not letting us. It all comes down to the team working in this to step up. I feel like the team working on this don’t play games. If they did they would know our frustrations.
@Sc0tch_Whiskey wrote:Your absolutely correct in everything. I don’t see how they can keep letting this happen. They don’t see how important a server browser is. The players want to play and they are not letting us. It all comes down to the team working in this to step up. I feel like the team working on this don’t play games. If they did they would know our frustrations.
True that!
Maybe it's like what Up_Hawxxeye said, that it might be a decision from above. Maybe a person who's realy persistant to put his stamp on this game...even if it's a big mistake....just a guess.
- @Mackstan71 Well whom ever is the top dog needs to make a statement and tell the BF community what’s going and why there not fixing these issues. But I’m sure they are to busy rolling around in our money like Scrooge Mcduck.
@Sc0tch_Whiskey wrote:Your absolutely correct in everything. I don’t see how they can keep letting this happen. They don’t see how important a server browser is. The players want to play and they are not letting us. It all comes down to the team working in this to step up. I feel like the team working on this don’t play games. If they did they would know our frustrations.
100% this, ALL players have the right to be able to play the game and MM is not providing access so needs to be replaced.
A server browser / persistent servers set up is the only viable solution, it worked for every previous BF and it would work in BF2042.
No one has the time to hang around in MM lobbies in the hope of getting into a match, this should not be happening in 2022 in a BF title.
All this frustration and time wasting could be ended if DICE implemented the server browser that BF2042 so badly needs.
- @Sc0tch_Whiskey 100% upper management taking the leg's out from underneath the Dev's I think. It's happened in every aspect of this game. They have started to turn it around to "redeem themselves" but only to a point. They are not going that extra mile to potentially save this game. All right, it's not a BF game, but it's still a game that until now has not started to get better. They should be looking to put out more than 4 seasons in BF2042 and either fixing MM or introducing the Server Browser into AOW. They owe us more than 4 seasons, they owe us content to fill the gap while we wait another 1.5-2years for the next BF title to come out. They owe us the ability to be able to play the game.
They owe us.....
#BringBackTheServerBrowser I also came across this tweet from Lossy, he asked everyone if they appreciate BF2042 more now after playing the MW2 beta. I was surprised by the comments. There seem's to be more support there for BF2042 than I thought. I think the Dev's should take a look and see it's worth putting more time into BF2042 and deliver more content and introduce a Server Browser into BF2042. @Straatford87 any change in the mood in camp for this now?
- @samboleary
Thanks for sharing, it would certainly generate a LOT more support if they do what you suggest. - @samboleary Yea it will be a long time before the next game. If they want to keep players playing they need a server browser. Newer games are coming out and players will eventually move on. Smart move is to keep players interested and still paying with 2042.
Yeah, it seems that there is a lot of comparison YT videos between BF2042 & MW2 Beta coming up now and doing pros and c o n s. Will be interesting to see how this space develops. I guess the launch of the game will tell more than just the Beta, but it seems to be a positive response to the Beta currently. But yeah, surprised with the amount of support BF2042 is getting. I guess, if your a BF fan, it's hard to cross back over the COD. I used to play a lot of COD but once I stumbled onto BF3 I couldn't play it again. It's more realistic. I also didn't like the direction COD was going with multicolored camos and guns and it started to feel a lot more like HALO which I couldn't really get into either. This could be a good thing for BF2042 with more people potentially coming back to play it with it's new content. It will be interesting to see what the introduction of the class system and persistent servers in Portal is going to do for the game. Only time will tell I guess.
Still pushing for a SB to be brought in. I think more people will be able to enjoy playing it for what it is while we wait for the next BF title to appear.
- @samboleary
If they introduced a server browser / persistent servers to AOW it would give BF2042 the boost in player count that this game desperately needs to survive.
It will be a long haul having to play BF2042 using MM until the release of the next BF, I am not sure that many players will hang around that long. - @RayD_O1 I am concerned that if they do not put a SB in, that the player base will keep taking a weekly hit and it will reach a new low where nobody will be able to play it.
- @samboleary
Exactly, the fewer the players the longer the wait which in turn leads to more players leaving out of frustration at not being able to play.
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