Sooo, for those people who tell those on Console to turn cross-platform off, here's some evidence for you all. Playing on Xbox Series XThe game on Consoles is DEAD, the only community being supported is the PC and that seems a stretch.Sorry to say EA/Dice, but from being a long time lover of the Battlefield series, 2042 (Not a true BF game) is the biggest disappointment in this series and the biggest fail in FPS history in the past 10 years easily. This is what happens when you try to do too much and listen to executives in suits who just want to see a fat pay check in their pockets.For those wondering, X Logo: XboxController: PS5Monitor: PC

We tried to tell DICE that we want console only crossplay but they didn't listen.Actually, they did listen very carefully to our feedback and then they said no.

@BigShottt That is interesting, it seems like we both have issues, those screen shots were from the base game not portal.Buts it is interesting that portal maybe console heavy but base game is PC heavy.

@BigShottt Either way the game is pretty much dead, I only ever see spikes above the 8K on steam charts around when there's updates, but even then, for a game as big as BF title, that's incredibly low numbers.But Modern Warfare 2 could be the final nail in the coffin not just for 2042, but also many other low player FPS games that could of been better from launch to now. Halo, 2042, COD Vanguard and a few others.

@BigShottt Actually the "crossplay off" issues apply to all platforms.Either you are in the big regional "crossplay on" matchmaking pool, or you are in one of the tiny regional platform specific matchmaking pools.The reason why the platform specific pools are so small is, that the BF2042 client always enables crossplay permanently, when you join a crossplay party.eg. you have crossplay disabled and join a friends party that has crossplay enabled, your client changes your setting from disabled to enabled. And this setting stays enabled, even after you left the party, until you disable crossplay again.But this change isn't obvious, so many player just stay on crossplay on.

@OskooI_007 I agree, but the console community also wanted Mouse and Keyboard support for cross play with PC players, we partially had it in beta (Keyboard only), then full release it was gone.

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Cemtexx
3 years ago
@kregora I live in the UK on EU servers, trust me, find none crossplat lobbies on other cross play games is no issue, its only 2042 that this happens on.

The games I have both tested Cross play on and off are obvs 2042 and then tried the same test on MW2019, COD Cold War, Chivalry 2, Halo Infinite, and all those games there was a good amount of people on, 2042 is a dead game with virtually no players for what this game could of done. Its a shame that a game series I have played since 2002 (BF1942) is now dead and thrown in the gutter by EA.
kregora
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Cemtexx And the reason is, that the BF2042 kinda forces the settings to "Crossplay On".
But this change isn't obvious. And since it isn't obvious most people don't turn it off again.

So after a time, most player have crossplay enabled.
What you need to understand is, that crossplay player only play with other crossplay players.
So a XBox player with crossplay active will never join a XBox only game.

I don't say this is the smartest way to do it, it just is, as it is.
chgid2301158
3 years ago
Crossplay console vs PC killed the fun for me as xbox user. I don't want to use mouse and keyboard for FPS. I've wrote this in the forum, at Amazonreviews, Gamestopreviews, MediaSaturnreviews (biggest Elektronicmarket in Germany), per email to dice... not even an answer. I'm glad that I only paid 15€ for battlefield 2042. This was the last battlefield. Back to ACTIVISION.

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