Lets realize Servers browsers is Useless in AllOwarfare its only good in Portal

Server browser is essentially a necessity in less populated regions.

My experience playing in Australia is its random luck if you can find a game.

If you were in a round previously it will generally be able to start a new server quickly as it is pooling together the players from the previous round.

However, if you start match making whilst all the servers are in the region are currently in play it will generally try and start a new lobby rather than joining a game in progress.

When this happens, it can sometimes take 15 to 20 minutes to get enough players to start a new server.

This isn't because of an infinite loading bug, its because the lobby hasn't gotten enough players to start the game.

You would think that the system would work efficiently in splitting up players from previous rounds to populate lobbies which do not have enough players / merging lobbies together.

Unfortunately this is not the case, and because the game prioritizes creating new lobbies over joining existing games, it can be a long wait.

Sometimes it can be quick, sometimes it can take such a long time it's pointless, because the wait is longer than the round time. Furthermore since the game disconnects / crashes a bit it makes this experience of trying to rejoin only for a new lobby to be formed all the more jarring.

The efficiency of the match making system could probably be improved to make this better, but if a server browser was available I could simply see what games I could join.

Simply put; match making might work fine for Europe and North America, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world finding a game is a roll of the dice, and we don't have enough players to quickly start new servers.

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Darko

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@Stew360 wrote:
@ragnarok013And how exactly ?

AOW matchs are matchmaking base as soon as a player quit he is replaced either by a player friend trying to join etc.. Servers are always filling up at full capacity super quick a server browser will be totally useless ..

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I think there are a lot more reasons why a server browser will not be totally useless as I pointed out in my previous reply :

MM may be working in AOW as DICE intended and it may suit your needs but imho it is no substitute for a proper server browser. (Portal is not an option in it's current state and no one is using it).

In BFV and previous  BF's I was able to use the server browser :-

To see the server name and  location. 

I was able to find a match in seconds which suited my requirements that I was able to specify using the browser filter.

I knew how many players were on the server before I joined.

I was able to stay on that server for a few hours or longer if required.

Importantly I was able to play through the whole map rotation uninterrupted.

Play with friends or build a rapport with a squad round after round.

In MM :

I am put in a lobby which then puts me in a server with an unknown number of players. I then wait for players to join.

Sometimes it puts me in a server where the round is almost finished and I then get dumped back to the lobby to start the whole elongated process all over again.

I have had to play the same map several times in a row, so some days i only get to play 2 or 3 off the 7 available maps which gets boring very quickly.

There is no rapport with squads as you get put back to the lobby after every single round.

All in all I find MM very frustrating and spend too much time waiting in menus in comparison to using a server browser.

You are obviously happy with MM and it suits your needs, but I much prefer the traditional server browser, so we need to agree to disagree.

It would be nice if we had the option to use either one or the other methods and then that would keep everyone happy.

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@Stew360 wrote:
@ragnarok013 And how exactly ?

AOW matchs are matchmaking base as soon as a player quit he is replaced either by a player friend trying to join etc.. Servers are always filling up at full capacity super quick a server browser will be totally useless ..

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@Stew360 They revert the system back to the traditional Battlefield system where servers are able to be filled by both quick match and people manually joining and/or queuing for full servers instead of forcing this Battlefront/Apex quick match stuff on us. They would also have to stop scrambling the servers after each map - something which the community largely dislikes.  The tech is there or we wouldn't have a server browser and quick match in Portal.

BF1/5 are on AWS like 2042 is and BF1/5 use the traditional Battlefield system so this is 100% possible from a server perspective.

Theres also a problem now of being trapped going back into the same game over and over if you want to leave that game you are stuck connecting back to it unless you pick a different mode.