So many bots...
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 play...
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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.
@FlatChat wrote: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.
That has a lot to do with it.
It's not clear what the criteria for finding a game are but I'm pretty sure that latency is one of them.
There are far fewer people playing than at launch, and you're in a region that is pretty removed from others while also not having a large population.
I'm in a game, some problem finding one, IF being in Australia is the problem, then I don't know why that would be. Particularly when I have NO trouble getting in game in BF4, BF1 or BF V. I have a fast connection.
The major problem is the lack of players in 2042, with lobbies full of bots to compensate. I'm in a game now, but frankly it's not fun playing against a team that is 80% bots...
@FlatChat I'm in WA too, Xbox X player and have massive problems (cross-play on). After about 9pm Perth time, I'm waiting for players to kick off a game (I'm waiting right now and have been for half an hour - hence on the forums digesting the hate from the BF community). When I do get in a game it's populated by around 70% AI. I just don't understand why when they have no problems filling up a game with bots they don't just kick it off with a few players and replace bots as players join? (actually, there is so much I don't understand about this game)
@Squiddles5312 Good to see a fellow Groper on the forum (keep 'em guessing...lol).
Actually I was playing from 8PM to 9PM (my bedtime...5AM rise) last night (31/1). I got into a few 128 Breakthrough games pretty well straight away, and there didn't seem to be any bots. I know there were players from Oz from the chat. But on other nights, there were clearly players in the US which I could also tell from the chat.
The times that I find lots of bots in 2042 are weekdays, at least in the mornings until early afternoon, which is kind of surprising, as I would have thought that is when there would be more players online in Oz. Certainly that is my experience playing BFV when the server browser showed Oz games full at those times (not so much early morning), leaving only Indonesian servers (more of them and lower ping, in Perth anyway due to geographic proximity). The Indo servers were actually pretty good, plenty of them and fast, no lag and heaps of players (mainly Indonesian) who were usually pretty good solo, but lack team play skills (no reviving at all). A cultural difference I think. I know many Oz players who preferred the Indo servers, despite the team play and language/communication issue in chat. They just wanted to PLAY HARD.
Apart from the really poor sterile maps, I really miss the server browser so that I know where and who I'm playing. That was a BIG mistake for DICE/EA not to include it in 2042.
I certainly agree that we shouldn't be waiting for games (sometimes I have to quit and go back to the lobby and try again several times) and that the fillers (idiotic characters and their lines, animations etc) in between games are HUGE TIME WASTERS. People just don't have time to sit there waiting to get into a quick game...very frustrating.
So having the ability to jump into a game, even if just full of bots would be far better than sitting there waiting and not knowing whether you will get into a game at all. I imagine that no more than 50% of my time in 2042 is actually playing the game. That is a pretty poor state of play. In BF V and 1, I could always find a game, if not in Oz, then in Indonesia.
On a side note: As much as I enjoy posting here on EA Answers, I find it extremely frustrating that this is all in vain in regard to making the game better. I have yet to hear any devs on this forum. It's as though we are offering up all this rich dialog and feedback that the devs could use, but alas there is not the slightest hint that is the case. Hello?
