Yesterday we were 13 people online on a server - 13 people waiting, while staring at the screen:
13/16 players necessary to start the round
(or whatever the text on the screen says)
Is it completely impossible to get through to EA/DICE about having this changed, if nothing else to 8 players necessary to start a round?
I wonder if it’s because the matchmaking algorithm needs a certain amount of players to give a - in EA/DICE’s eyes - satisfactory result.
It’s pure speculation of course.
But that could explain why they appear to stubbornly refuse to lower the required no. of players to start a round.
@VOLBANKER_PC wrote:Yesterday we were 13 people online on a server - 13 people waiting, while staring at the screen:
13/16 players necessary to start the round
(or whatever the text on the screen says)
Is it completely impossible to get through to EA/DICE about having this changed, if nothing else to 8 players necessary to start a round?
Sadly this scenario is becoming increasingly common and can only get worse once the Season 7 ends.
As I have said previously one player starts worked perfectly for the Official Portal Weekly Experiences such as World Tour etc and imho should be introduced for all AOW / Official Portal modes asap. (I notice they have recently increased the Portal Experiences to 4 players needed to start which was a backward step)
With a dwindling player base anything that can be done to allow faster access for players should be a priority, we spend way to much time waiting to play rather than actually playing which is an unnecessary frustration which could be easily resolved.
There is an easy way to play with less number of needed players: Portal.
You can create your own server with your own rules. You can disable the operation system, you can have team skins (eg male vs female), you have a server browser, you can have a good map rotation, you can kick/bann players when they are cheating, you can adjust the damage between weapons vehicles and aircraft, you can remove the minimap and spotting system to improve the squadplay.
But the problem is: When you add Ai for not to have a empty server, than you get only restricted XP, no masteries and you cant earn the tier 1 skins.
Please EA/DICE remove the xp restriction from ai filled portal games and let us play the better Battlefield 2042. We realy want to play your game and spend money, but only for changed game rules!
@ScamSimulator wrote:There is an easy way to play with less number of needed players: Portal.
You can create your own server with your own rules. You can disable the operation system, you can have team skins (eg male vs female), you have a server browser, you can have a good map rotation, you can kick/bann players when they are cheating, you can adjust the damage between weapons vehicles and aircraft, you can remove the minimap and spotting system to improve the squadplay.
But the problem is: When you add Ai for not to have a empty server, than you get only restricted XP, no masteries and you cant earn the tier 1 skins.
Please EA/DICE remove the xp restriction from ai filled portal games and let us play the better Battlefield 2042. We realy want to play your game and spend money, but only for changed game rules!
I agree.
I understand the sentiment, but when you can gain full experience and T1 skins in a setting where you can add AI at will, it becomes easier to gain T1 skins, and their relative rarity drops. With that in mind, you can't change it easily.
One player starts are needed in all game modes.
@SharpGoblin wrote:One player starts are needed in all game modes.
Agreed and the sooner the better if we want to retain players, so many will leave the game in frustration at having to queue endlessly in lobbies.
DICE please make it happen.
@VOLBANKER_PC wrote:I wonder if it’s because the matchmaking algorithm needs a certain amount of players to give a - in EA/DICE’s eyes - satisfactory result.
It’s pure speculation of course.
But that could explain why they appear to stubbornly refuse to lower the required no. of players to start a round.
Not sure whether its an MM issue or not but I am fairly sure that if we don't get one player starts in all AOW / Portal modes the player base will continue to shrink rapidly.
We all want to spend our time playing the game not endlessly queueing in lobbies waiting to play.
Dice please make it happen so we can all get the best out of BF2042.
I'd rather play than wait.
The calculation is very easy:
With the xp restriction in ai filled portal games, EA/Dice dont want, that the players play Portal.
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In AoW with the rule: "number of needed player for matchstart", EA/Dice dont want, that the players play AoW.
=
EA/Dice dont want, that the players play Battlefield 2042.
@SharpGoblin wrote:I'd rather play than wait.
Yep, more time playing and less time waiting to play I say.
The AI is good enough to fill!
I can't play World Tour anymore because my region exclusively plays on a single Portal server.
There's now no way for me to enjoy other factions without sacrificing my own "concept" of progress in 2042 since playing with other factions in Portal and enabling AI results in restricted XP.
World Tour was the only way I could play other factions without feeling like I was cutoff at the knees.
@S3SSioN_SoL wrote:The AI is good enough to fill!
I can't play World Tour anymore because my region exclusively plays on a single Portal server.
There's now no way for me to enjoy other factions without sacrificing my own "concept" of progress in 2042 since playing with other factions in Portal and enabling AI results in restricted XP.
World Tour was the only way I could play other factions without feeling like I was cutoff at the knees.
I fully understand your frustration.
As I have said many times, I firmly believe that we need to have single player starts in all game modes in both AOW and Official Portal Experiences.
Imho all players in all regions should have access and not be locked out of the game.
In my own experience, I enjoyed playing World Tour on many occasions when it was single player starts, and the servers actually filled up fairly quickly until the AI were all replaced.
Get the servers started and get people playing I say.
No they will not do anything, I’m sure they are hoping to regain the server space before the Christmas season games are released. They even admit the game is bad but somehow skirt around legally being responsible enough to give everyone refunds for this scam of a game. Matchmaking is so broken and they already ran off with our money leaving no one that’s actually gonna do whatever it takes to implement this change. It will be hard to scale xp and damage and all sorts of other coding other then just flip a switch to make it work. Personally I don’t like pvp ai games because the ai is sandbagging whether to compensate for the mass amounts of terrible players or decent players and then I don’t want newbie from game pass getting boosted xp there’s already so many reasons more I can point out why not refutable contradictions regardless if opening the game up is a good thing. New Gen games sell you games they don’t guarantee will work or function at all today. Completely irrelevant what we think, we are just the cash cows. Policies can’t keep up or the players have their heads in the sand in the current market. Hope you find they post about any updates as updates are supposedly over for 2042 realistically one more would be to ensure the server space is reduced or a fancy publication stating optimization.
@Lancelot_du_Lac
I feel your pain, all players should have access in all regions.
Single player starts would allow this to happen and imho should be implemented in both AOW and Official Portal Experiences.
With the current player numbers the sooner we get one player starts, backfilled with AI in all game modes in both AOW and Official Portal Experiences the better, so all players have access at all times
DICE please introduce one player starts for all modes in both AOW and Official Portal Experiences to eliminate the frustrating waiting times in lobbies and allow access to all players.
@sk1lld wrote:
@RanzigeRidder2
In the west coast US here and feeling the crunch. Ether, I get into a server with 5 persons endlessly waiting or to the last minute of a match.
/Sigh
Very frustrating and time consuming and something that could be easily rectified if they implemented one player starts.
