Endless Matchmaking - Waiting For Players

They could have introduced something in between though right. 

the whole point of a server browser is to easily and consistent key bring players together. 

to be able to easily find the same players, again.

Portal has it? So why doesn’t AOW? Hell it’s not a hard UX problem to say create a Psuedo browser, perhaps based on a real world map, that reflects the in game world. players being able to select a region, brigade or faction. That essentially pools players into a populated rota of Exisiting MM servers they currently have. 

there are all sorts of cool and clever ways one could create an experience that works for the story, the team play and the real world players in difficult to connect regions of the real world. 

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@Trokey66 wrote:

I have very sympathy with players being unable too find games through MM and of course, should be looked at as a priority but this seems to be region related.

Perhaps DICE has listened to one of the major complaints on here and included a region/ping lock in MM.

A return to a Server Browser would negate that and we would return to "why won't DICE put in a region/ping lock because the game is unplayable with out of region players cheating!".

Of course, I may be wrong but we don't know how MM works exactly.

All I'm saying is, be careful what we wish for.....

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I hear what you are saying and of course I realise that there have been players cheating in previous BF's both from within and out of region it has always been a problem.

My ultimate wish is for ALL players to be able to play the game they paid for.

I also strongly believe that all players should be allowed to play BF2042 the way they choose. To be able to join a server and stay on it and play through the whole map rotation.

So many players complain that they are sick of playing the same maps over and over or are denied access to their fav map for days because of how MM works.

Coupled with the fact that we spend so much time in menu's / waiting for players etc  I personally just find MM very time consuming / frustrating and quite frankly not up to the job. 

If DICE decide to replace MM with a server browser system, then imho it is up to them to also address / control the cheating issue.

Imho denying players a server browser and forcing us to use MM to control that particular issue is the wrong way to go about it.

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@Trokey66 wrote:

I have every sympathy with players being unable too find games through MM and of course, should be looked at as a priority but this seems to be region related.

Perhaps DICE has listened to one of the major complaints on here and included a region/ping lock in MM.

A return to a Server Browser would negate that and we would return to "why won't DICE put in a region/ping lock because the game is unplayable with out of region players cheating!".

Of course, I may be wrong but we don't know how MM works exactly.

All I'm saying is, be careful what we wish for.....

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I wish that was indeed the case @Trokey66 , but I have myself confirmed at multiple occasions now to be placed into games with players both from Japan and South America.  And I am myself based in Europe.  (when playing on PS5 and cross play disabled, AOW Breakthrough 128 players game mode).  Confirmed by simply messaging some of the other players you see in the game via the Sony PS5 messenger service.  But yes, I assume they were honest in their messaging on their locations.  The lack of hit registration was the reason I tried to message some of them, and in most cases they were far out of region players...  (this was back in mid January 2022)

The server browser and the scoreboard need both to display the latency rate.  Both to the servers and also to the individual players in the game on the servers.  Just as the PC players have had it for many years when renting BF servers.