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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@RayD_O1 wrote:As mentioned above, where would you guys rate a Server Browser / Persistent Servers in your list of priorities, both for BF2042 and subsequent Battlefields going forward. ?
I think everyone would have to rate a server browser as the number one missing item from 2042. It would solve the majority of the ongoing issues we experience after all the updates. That and a ping limiter to prevent out of region players logging into a server. If you have a 300 ping you should not be able to play on servers. I’m done playing with a 27 ping and a 165 ALAT. It’s not the players choosing to do that, it’s the horrible MM they’ve created.
Do the devs even look at these forums?
- @RUMPLE9 They used too and commented in here up until they made the no server browser announcement. Its been radio silence since then.
- @samboleary
We can only hope that our voices will eventually be heard and be rewarded with a Server Browser and Persistent Servers.
Imho BF2042 and all future BF's cannot function properly with MM. To be honest, I don't think that they are taking all our feedback onboard. I think they are taking some of it but still putting their own spin on things because "that's what we want". If you look at what's happening now, the guy who invented the Battle Royal mode has been in DICE HQ on twitter and signed his name on their wall. If he was in there, you can only assume that he has been brought in to comment on the the new BF BR experience, not Hazard Zone. The community doesn't want a BR but it will be pushed on us for a third time now after both Firestorm and Hazard Zone were complete flops.
All we want is an original game like BF3, BF4 and BF1 with a Server Browser, Persistent Servers, Clans, Squads, Classes, No Specialists or hero's, Decent balanced vehicle mechanics, Solid gun play and weapon proficiencies, great maps for vehicles for ground air and sea combat, great maps for infantry combat and to build on their community again, oh and lests not forget, CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT!.
If we look at what they are doing with all the new studios, they are creating a "Battlefield Universe". I don't know what that means but would assume it is going to be an expansion on Portal and all eras of BF and weapson's and maps being brought into it, probably the specialists from BF2042 as well.
Also the other big thing you will see is that the BF Community is asking to be involved constantly with the development of the next BF title, and asking for details. What's concerning is that we are not being told anything or consulted on the direction of it whatsoever. All we know is that there will be a single player campagain and a multiplayer side to it. Nothing else. Its well over a year and a half now since they have been working on it in earnest and we have not been able to have a say in it at all. All DICE and EA are doing is cherry picking from our feedback on BF2042 with what they think we want and what they want to do. Why are they not getting BF community involvement with the next BF title, so that they don't end up doing a whole load of abortive work so its more cost effective to resolve and fine tune the BF experience with our involvement? You would think that would be the right thing to do if you are going to build back up the BF Franchise to it's former glory days or am I missing something? But the whole BR thing as mentioned above is saying to me that they are going down that route again and its just going to kill BF. It's not the game we want.
#BringBackTheServerBrowser
One of the biggest gripes is how impersonal MM feels in most games. I hate that I can't group up with the same team or be on the same server for the next games.
- @samboleary
My sentiments entirely, I have never had any interest in any BR game, it's just not my thing.
You summed up my feelings when you said :-
All we want is an original game like BF3, BF4 and BF1 with a Server Browser, Persistent Servers, Clans, Squads, Classes, No Specialists or hero's, Decent balanced vehicle mechanics, Solid gun play and weapon proficiencies, great maps for vehicles for ground air and sea combat, great maps for infantry combat and to build on their community again, oh and lests not forget, CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT!.
If we had all that we would have our Battlefield back.
DICE please make it happen.
@SushiiCombo wrote:One of the biggest gripes is how impersonal MM feels in most games. I hate that I can't group up with the same team or be on the same server for the next games.
With MM taking us back to the lobby after every round there is no continuity which as you point out means squads / teams are disbanded.
I notice when I play the Official Portal Experiences (World Tour etc) how much better my whole gaming experience is.
Being able to roll over from one map to the next, getting to see all the maps in rotation and staying with my squad etc is much more enjoyable and a lot less time consuming.
That is why we really need a Server Browser / Persistent Servers for AOW so we can enjoy playing BF2042 the same way we played all previous Bf's.
- @RayD_O1
Why can't EA/DICE be more transparent in their game, why can't they talk to us?
We have been asking about this from day one and nothing but crickets.
We need a way to get into matches quickly, not at the end of a round. We need a way to stay in matches with our friends. A way to pick what map we want to play on.
We need a Server Browser/Persistent server. - @RayD_O1
It's realy a sad state of affairs. This game could have been a blast from the get go, but yet they decided to leave out so many features that made Battlefield the Battlefield we all embraced in the past. To bad that someone took the wrong decision and sticks with it. @Mackstan71
It is indeed very sad, because I like you and so many others only want what's best for the BF franchise
I long for the days when you could jump on one of your favourite servers, meet up with buddies and clan mates and spend the day on that server.
The whole community aspect / banter has been something I miss most with BF2042.
MM does not cater for communities and as a result BF2042 is only a shell of what we had in previous BF's, which imho is a real shame.
The resolution is out of our hands and all we can do is help keep this thread alive by posting our thoughts regularly, in the hope that we will eventually see the decision reversed and MM replaced with a SB / PS. 🤞- @RayD_O1 It will be interesting to see how this new patch sorts out AI in MM. I still can only MM into conquest, no other game mode.
- @samboleary
It will be very interesting.
This should not be happening in a BF title in 2023, players in all regions should have regular access to all the main modes.
Players should also be able to play all the maps in rotation rather than having only random access.
As I have said previously there are no tangible benefits to having MM but there are a lot of negatives compared to a proper SB / PS.
