Endless Matchmaking - Waiting For Players
Hi, It started approximately 2 weeks ago, I click play on Breakthrough (128 players) and I could not find a game at all, I do get a game or two in Conquest (128 players) after long hours of queue. I ...
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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.....
@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.....
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.
@RayD_O1Don't get me wrong, I am not against any of the above and believe we should be able to play in parties larger than 4 with our online friends across the world.
Servers should persist or at the very least 'random squads' should be kept together until some one leaves as that is how online friendships grow.
The current system prevents that and is my biggest complaint about BF2042, the social aspect.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/There-can-be-only-4/m-p/10952944#M31852Cheating should perhaps have been in inverted coma's as I don't mean cheats as in wallhacks or aimbots but trying to gain an advantage through ping. High pingers can and do spoil a whole server for everyone.
All I am saying is that an 'open' server browser may fix one problem but then introduce others that have been long complained about.
It is a difficult balancing act I suppose.
@Trokey66 wrote:@RayD_O1Don't get me wrong, I am not against any of the above and believe we should be able to play in parties larger than 4 with our online friends across the world.
Servers should persist or at the very least 'random squads' should be kept together until some one leaves as that is how online friendships grow.
The current system prevents that and is my biggest complaint about BF2042, the social aspect.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/There-can-be-only-4/m-p/10952944#M31852Cheating should perhaps have been in inverted coma's as I don't mean cheats as in wallhacks or aimbots but trying to gain an advantage through ping. High pingers can and do spoil a whole server for everyone.
All I am saying is that an 'open' server browser may fix one problem but then introduce others that have been long complained about.
It is a difficult balancing act I suppose.I understand what you are saying and I don't think we are actually that far apart on how we feel about the impact MM is having on the social aspect.
I very rarely feel that I am part of a team in BF2042 in comparison to previous BF's.
It is as you say a very difficult balancing act and I don't claim to have all the answers but I feel strongly that MM is currently the greater of the two evils.
And I feel that the many disadvantages we are experiencing daily with MM pretty much negates any advantages it may have in countering the other problem which can arise when a player joins out of region with very high ping.
I genuinely feel sorry for the players who have no servers nearby and are forced to play further afield. They bought the game and are currently unable to play.
If they had a server browser I would hope that they maybe could find a server in a neighbouring region.
I would also say the players who deliberately play out of region to try to gain an advantage through high ping would hopefully be in the minority and not representative of the players on this thread / forum.
There is no 100% simple solution but I really hope that DICE revert back to the server browser system as I think MM is dragging BF2042 down.
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