Re: Add a server browser

So it’s been 5 days since season 5 released and the Middle east servers are already dead. The only thing I’ve been able to play in these 5 days is Reclaimed conquest. The matchmaking is so bad I haven’t even got a single Reclaimed breakthrough game. I mean how is this even possible? What an absolute joke! And please don’t ask about conquest 128 or rush, I’m the only player queuing up for those game modes in the Middle east.

This will be the first feature I will look for in the next battlefield. If there is MM and no server browser for the vanilla game I will keep my hands of. 

Super frustrating how they announce work on Console Matchmaking to ensure they are grouped together better, yet instead of putting time and energy into that, they could be working on a Server Browser. No one wants MM, no one wants to blindly join a match not even knowing what map they are on, if it is mid-match, what the score is, or what their ping is.

I would rather knowingly wait in a server queue for the server I choose to play on (if it is full) than to sit in MM queue while DICE's magic math tells me where I should play and who I should play with.

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@steirerhubsii wrote:

This will be the first feature I will look for in the next battlefield. If there is MM and no server browser for the vanilla game I will keep my hands of. 

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I think you will be one of many who adapt that policy going forward.

@ DICE/EA,

Can someone please explain why the choice has been made, not using a Server Browser from the beginning. And can someone please explain why after many post about this subject, there is no answer why you are still refusing to add one...even when it will help so many gamers connecting to a map/mode they prefer. And last....will there be a Server Browser for the next BF edition?

Thanks in advance for replying 🙂

We have a great time waiting 5 to 10 minutes in MM, for a crappy map we dont need to play..

WTF you were thinking dice?

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@Mackstan71 wrote:

@ DICE/EA,

Can someone please explain why the choice has been made, not using a Server Browser from the beginning. And can someone please explain why after many post about this subject, there is no answer why you are still refusing to add one...even when it will help so many gamers connecting to a map/mode they prefer. And last....will there be a Server Browser for the next BF edition?

Thanks in advance for replying 🙂

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Its almost certain that none of these questions will be answered by DICE. They've already been asked several times. If you do get an answer it will be corporate-speak. DICE, feel free to prove me wrong. I would love it.

Here is my guess as to the answers.

Why no server browser? (SBMM/DDA, ability to manipulate MM for future monetiziation and experience control)

Why no answer as to why? Because they know the community will not like the answer and silence is the lesser of two evils. The thread remains open only to contain the sentiment to a single location.

Will there be a server browser for the next BF edition? There will never again be a server browser in a BF game outside of alternate game modes with reduced or no progression.

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@cavoparadiso wrote:

We have a great time waiting 5 to 10 minutes in MM, for a crappy map we dont need to play..

WTF you were thinking dice?

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100% this, it is so frustrating / time consuming and has basically killed the fun factor for me.

This is my one ask in every survey. Give us a Server Browser in AOW and you will get players back and keep most of the current ones playing.

Nothing derails the gaming experience more than joining a game right now. I literally do no play solely because of MM, it is that bad.

Never had fun with this crappy MM COD game. Last fun was at BF5 !

I have already uninstalled until it gets back its full features.

Who needs new seasons and cosmetic, if we dont have the basics

I wonder just how many surveys were returned asking for a server browser. It would be interesting to know.

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@sk1lld wrote:

I wonder just how many surveys were returned asking for a server browser. It would be interesting to know.

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Count me in as 1..lol

All questions about weapons and stuff was not important for me..all my answers were Server Browser, Server Browser Server Browser...and don't forget the almighty Server Browser.

But for now i wait for a reaction from DICE or EA and see if @DigitalHype  is wrong with his guesses.

Or just don't answer and add a nice and shiny Server Browser to this game...

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@cavoparadiso wrote:

Never had fun with this crappy MM COD game. Last fun was at BF5 !

I have already uninstalled until it gets back its full features.

Who needs new seasons and cosmetic, if we dont have the basics

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I agree, all the improvements / new features / fixes etc mean absolutely nothing to the players who have no access to play the game.

BF2042 would be a far better experience for all players if they replaced MM with a proper Server Browser / Persistent Servers.

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@samboleary wrote:
@AdamonicI would rather play in a server with bad ping so I can play the game on full servers with no AI and people who PTFO, than be the sole player waiting for 15other people to join me with this stupid MM.

They should 100% be working on either overhauling the MM system or giving us the same Server Browser experience we had for every other BF title.

For me, it's a no brainer to add this feature in. Why continue to develop new content if people genuinely can not play it? Why does DICE think the player count is down? A lot of it would have to do with people not being able to MM at this stage of BF2042's life. It beggar's belief that this is still going on halfway through 2023!

I'm sitting in a lobby with 3 other people in my squad. Two of those players are ranked low at 27 and 13. What must these people make of BF2042 with their MM experience? They are obviously not long after getting into it, probably sucked in by a lot of the hype. Now they cant even MM in to play the game either. Those people probably wont buy or invest in the next BF title because this could be their first experience of BF and don't want to go through those same experience's for the next game. Does DICE not realise that these potential new players in the BF community are being turned off by the negative MM experience of BF2042? That buy not implementing a Server Browser that they are actually damaging the franchise?

I think the new content is good, and I can over look the specialist thing and play it for what it is. It's not a proper BF game, but there are still fun elements to it. I wish DICE would get with the program and upgrade the MM system to SB with persistent servers so it can bring more players into the BF community.

#BringBackTheServerBrowser

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I feel you pain, like you I genuinely find it very hard to believe this is happening in a BF title in 2023, it's like we have stepped back in time.

MM has been a major step backwards for the BF franchise and I really fear for future BF's because of the damage MM has dealt to the BF reputation.

Players did not buy BF2042 and expect to spend so much time hanging around in lobbies or in cases like yours be unable to access games.

Players expected to play BF2042 the way we enjoyed playing every previous BF with the tried and tested Server Browser / Persistent Servers.

DICE please listen to the community and replace MM asap.

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@Adamonic wrote:

This is my one ask in every survey. Give us a Server Browser in AOW and you will get players back and keep most of the current ones playing.

Nothing derails the gaming experience more than joining a game right now. I literally do no play solely because of MM, it is that bad.

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It really is that bad, I just wonder how many more players gave upon BF2042 because of MM. ?

DICE listen to the community and add a server browser to this game. I literally can’t play anything other than Reclaimed Conquest. No Conquest 128, no Seasons Breakthrough, no Breakthrough, no rush, nothing can be played at all! I got bored of the new map in just 2 days and yet I’m being forced to play it for 2 weeks straight.