Reduce the number of players needed to start a round

Good idea I usually play with crossplay off until about 2 am then I’m sure most PlayStation players go to there beds😂 then I have to turn on crossplay if I want to continue playing a bit longer.

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@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:
@RayD_O1There are some game modes that I never get to play because of low player counts in Oceania.

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Exactly, and this should help alleviate the problem.

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@A-RAF2019 wrote:
@RayD_O1I agree.

We also have a friend that gets kicked out of the match and party about 50% of the time. I'm sure he is not the only one. This change would increase his chances of rejoining.

After all, there is a long animation, plus 30 (infantry) or 36 (vehicles) seconds to spawn, so there is no point in aiming for 64/128 players if at this point and shortly after the round starts, people are just trying to get in a vehicle.

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Yep that is a good point you make.

I really hope this suggestion gets passed on to the team for consideration as I really feel it would help and I can't really see what the negatives would be.

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@mickey921 wrote:

Good idea I usually play with crossplay off until about 2 am then I’m sure most PlayStation players go to there beds😂 then I have to turn on crossplay if I want to continue playing a bit longer.

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Yeah I tried playing with crossplay off (PC) and had to give up on it, but I think reducing the player numbers required would help all round.

DICE would you please even consider giving this a trial go. ?

I'm surprised no one has realised yet but the counter for number of players needed to start the round is bugged

If you look at the scoreboard you can see that sometimes there's double the amount of people in the lobby than what the counter says

Time of day matters.  I am retired and like to play in the morning.   Phx AZ MTN time zone

Getting games to spawn, much less games not littered with AI is a problem.

Later in the afternoon, I "usually" do not have issues getting a game, even though AI may be in them.

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@InS_Hypno wrote:

I'm surprised no one has realised yet but the counter for number of players needed to start the round is bugged

If you look at the scoreboard you can see that sometimes there's double the amount of people in the lobby than what the counter says

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Yes that's something I have noticed, it happens regularly where the counter is showing  a lot less players.

It doesn't help matters as players get bored and leave, at least if it displayed correctly more players might hang around.

The thing is, if they lower the starting count of players, DICE are kind of admitting the player base is lower than they'd like.  So I'm not sure they would do it, even though it makes more sense.  In fact, I'd do away with the minimum count completely - just put me in a game with AI, and add other real players in while the round is underway.  Of course if we had persistent servers which carried teams from one map to the other, this wouldn't be a problem.  Would it DICE.  Stupid match making in this game.  I swear if these missing mechanics aren't in the next game there will be hell to pay.

@RayD_O1  Honestly, the game should just start with 1 player since AI is a thing, if other players are playing, they'll undoubtedly join the server before the match begins, that could give a purpose to the absurdly long match countdown.