Reduce the number of players needed to start a round

I think the situation is deteriorating, it is harder to get into matches now than it was previously.

I checked the current Portal Official Experiences :-

Conquest of Ages - now requires 8 players to start, it used to be a one player start

2042 Tank Superiority - now requires 4 players to start, it also used to be a one player start.

I maintain that  we need to get the servers started asap and backfill with AI (1 player starts),  and then the AI bots get replaced with humans as more players join, it worked perfectly well before in the POE's  so I don't see why it wouldn't work in AOW also.

@Lancelot_du_LacI feel you. I’m lucky to be in a densely populated area (Western Europe) so I can still play with crossplay off. But that is also for the main game modes like Conquest and Breakthrough. Finding a game of rush, no chance ☹️
And now that there will be no more new content I foresee the population will drastically drop once the season is over.

On the issue of multiple servers running with one person; How difficult would it be to put anybody that starts a search for a game into an existing running server with real people, backfilling AI? I was under the impression that it already works like that.

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@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:
@sk1lldNot sure how much 'value' I put on a game that I can't play when I want to.
Full disclosure - I am in Oceania, and haven't been able to play any game mode, except Conquest (and only in peak times), for months. If it wasn't for Portal...
If EA cannot guarantee a reasonable level of player support, they shouldn't launch it into smaller markets.

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It is imperative that all players have access to BF2042 at all times.

Imho this could be simply achieved if we had one player starts in all modes in both AOW and the Weekly Portal Official Experiences.