I find no satisfaction playing against bots.
Just trying to find a game is difficult enough.
When I do, it's half full of bots.
128 player game in Breakthrough and there are a couple of dozen players all up, and at least half are bots.
The game is dead.
Not enough real players in 2042. So what are people doing instead?
Enable cross play. Never had issue since..always in 128 player
game less than 1 min USA.
I'm on PC with cross play enabled in game... I didn't have any problems last week. I'm in Western Australia, but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
Ive seen my share of AI but was always in off hours like 12am -8am cst. Even then was limited to like 6 per side.
Edit: some matches would start 48 v 48 but fill quickly.
@LJBattlefield wrote:
@FlatChatthey're playing Battlefield? Go check out V and 4, even 3, servers are active.
True, I play V and can not feel the big difference after BF2042.
Trying out BF1 this weekend.
@SirBobdk wrote:
@LJBattlefield wrote:
@FlatChatthey're playing Battlefield? Go check out V and 4, even 3, servers are active.True, I play V and can not feel the big difference after BF2042.
Trying out BF1 this weekend.
Indeed @LJBattlefield & @SirBobdk ! 👍
Try next time you guys start up the BF2042 game and go into the Portal Server Browser. Try and observe how few servers are really there by now. And also note then how many real players you actually have on them. (you can see that as the first number before the slash, which then indicates how many total players the server could actually host if more came on). It is shockingly few servers we now have live there, just few months after launch.
I looked it up last night around 1am Saturday European Central Time, so also US East Coast should be coming on at that timeslot.
Please note that I am on PlayStation and have disabled crossplay. PlayStation is the most popular system for BF games, so should be a fair indicator on current state.
There were around 23 European servers live and around 16 in the US on the BF2042 Portal. And most of them had only 1, 2 or 3 players on them. Rest was AI bots filling them up. There were 3-4 servers in both regions with 5-8 players on them. But none with more.
Then I tried firing up the old BF4, and here I had over hundreds of various servers across Europe and USA to choose from. 1/3 of them maybe with less than 10 players or so, but all the rest were like full or absolute near full with 64 players live.
It is telling that a brand new game like BF2042 is already struggling to keep players interested just 3 months after launch, and then we have BF games like BFV, BF1, BF4 and even BF3 that still keep dedicated fans coming back for more, here many many years after their original launch.
@LJBattlefield @SirBobdk @CyberDyme
Yep, agree. Actually started to reinstall BF4, 1 and V yesterday after posting this thread. May look at 1 first as I loved the maps...just a shame about 2042...
I went right back to bf4 right after the 2042 beta.....It looks like I saved myself alot of heartache.
And they just stand around in a gaggle shooting up in the air... The pic below is not that bad, but I was just in a game with virtually the whole team of bots just in a gaggle, and that with the other team miles away...
