@ragnarok013 wrote:
@Stew360Completely disagree. Server browser would allow you to join the experience that you want and that alone would drive additional player engagement. I personally hate playing a bad map 3 times in a row now that the server scrambles after each round. I'll err on the side of giving players choice - if you want to be at the mercy of the quick match Gods so be it, but the rest of us want to be able to find and play our favorite map.
Very well said. I agree let us the players have the choice to play the game the way we enjoy it.
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.
@Ga-Knomboe_BoyI guess you're on PC or playing during early hours of the morning?
I'm on Xbox One in Australia and during evenings and weekends from about 8am I have no long wait times.
However I'm all in on a return of the server browser with fixed map rotations and the option to play on US servers out of peak times.
It would make a HUGE different if we had rotating persisted servers. Nothing better than a revenge match with the SAME GODDAMN group of gamers. Throw in GLOBAL CHAT and color me happy.
This is how low things are. Id just be OK with those 2 ⭐LEGACY⭐ features by now. Since 2042 releases my brain cells been dying a slow and painful death. The fact that we all have to ARGUE about the most basic core function in a battlefield game is beyond pathetic. And yeah, its f Dice fault....
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