@killCAMPERS
I actually play on PC, but in answer to your question the easiest way to test out crossplay off is to join an official Weekly Portal Experience, that way the server will start and fill with bots.
As you play other humans should join at least that's how it works for me here in the UK on PC. By afternoon / evening the servers are usually populated by at least half humans and the rest bots.
This weeks Portal experiences are All Out Superiority and Tactical Conquest, at other times you get World Tour and Rush XL playlists etc.
If I want to play AOW modes like the Discarded Rework Map I have to wait until the afternoon before the server fills up/ starts (as there are no bots to help start the server in AOW. it takes 32 players to start a 128 player game)
@RayD_O1 wrote:@killCAMPERS
I actually play on PC, but in answer to your question the easiest way to test out crossplay off is to join an official Weekly Portal Experience, that way the server will start and fill with bots.
As you play other humans should join at least that's how it works for me here in the UK on PC. By afternoon / evening the servers are usually populated by at least half humans and the rest bots.
This weeks Portal experiences are All Out Superiority and Tactical Conquest, at other times you get World Tour and Rush XL playlists etc.If I want to play AOW modes like the Discarded Rework Map I have to wait until the afternoon before the server fills up/ starts (as there are no bots to help start the server in AOW. it takes 32 players to start a 128 player game)
Hey @RayD_O1 so it got better with the hitreg and all that junk with crossplay off? I'm on PC as well so if that's what helped you ill do the same.
@killCAMPERS wrote:
@RayD_O1Thanks. I'll try the weekly Portal Experience.
Hope it works out for you š
@killCAMPERS
Did you get a chance to try the Official Weekly Portal Experiences.
On PC, the servers will auto fill with bots to get the server going, and then should fill with other human players to replace the bots over time, does the same apply to consoles. ?
I personally would also like to see the numbers of players needed to start rounds in AOW reduced from 32 (in 128 player modes) to say 8 just to get the servers going. So many players join and then leave as they don't want to wait so long for 32 players to join.
Once servers get going they fill up fairly quickly so I am not sure why the level needed to start is set so high at 32.
@killCAMPERS wrote:
@RayD_O1That would be awesome.
I don't play COD anymore because their servers are garbage. BF has always had superior servers despite having a fraction of the player base of COD. As much as I have issues with BF, COD is way worse.
BF is the one and only FPS war game I like playing. So, I hope the console side gets more love now and in future BF releases.
BF is the only series worth playing IMO. I may dip a toe into a Star Wars game (not trying the new one on PC anytime soon thatās for sure) but for good multiplayer action you just canāt do better than a BF series game for fun. Maybe 2042 will finally make it on the list if they help at it, but Iām not sure if theyāre even still working on PC optimizations anymore. Even if vehicle warfare isnāt your thing, the goal was to try the game with Crossplay Off and see how it feels for you. Iām curious how impactful it is on consoles? 2042 was designed for consoles and ported to PC as are all AAA games now, if you folks get any more love over PC theyāll just be ghosting us in our texts š
@ATFGunr wrote:BF is the only series worth playing IMO. I may dip a toe into a Star Wars game (not trying the new one on PC anytime soon thatās for sure) but for good multiplayer action you just canāt do better than a BF series game for fun. Maybe 2042 will finally make it on the list if they help at it, but Iām not sure if theyāre even still working on PC optimizations anymore. Even if vehicle warfare isnāt your thing, the goal was to try the game with Crossplay Off and see how it feels for you. Iām curious how impactful it is on consoles? 2042 was designed for consoles and ported to PC as are all AAA games now, if you folks get any more love over PC theyāll just be ghosting us in our texts š
IMO, it's not the clients that need fixing any longer; it's the servers - my boy used to get less than 60fps at 1080p with a 3060. He now gets ~120. CQ128 is just awful, in terms of performance at busy times like the weekends. Double XP events don't help either.
Turning off crossplay helps it, but we still have the issue of lower rank players getting a rather obvious boost, which often feels like playing against console players. The lock shots, the instant death, the bullet sponge players. Always low rank. They have zero recoil and rapid fire on some of the worst weapon setups for close range, most often the SVK with stock 4 power scope and high power rounds, which are atrocious for accuracy and speed at close range against a moving target. Yet they always miraculously manage it.
@RayD_O1I did. I played mostly with bots. The wait time was about 2 minutes before connecting to a match.
They really need to work on the cross play performance. It shouldn't be as bad as it is.
The cross play on COD was better. Unfortunately, their servers got worse over time. At release I would get on COD servers with a 24 ping. Three months later, I can't get on anything better than 75. Which means lots of lag and insta-deaths. That's when I uninstalled COD and vowed never to return to COD.
Was in the room between C1 and C2 covering the hallway. Wildcat drives by and missiles me through the walls.
There are several disturbing things about this
DICE still catering to the Short Bus players
This is still one of the worst things plaguing this game. No wonder the player count is trending right back down to 2022 levels, it is borderline unplayable.
@ATFGunr
The other major benefit is the fact that you only have to wait to join a server once.
Then you just stay on that same server for as long as you like playing through the whole map rotation. No more back and forth to the lobby which wastes so much time, and no more getting put into the same map.
Playing in the afternoons on PC (UK), I regularly see 10 to 20 humans per side and the rest bots. Some regions may not yet have many players with cross play off.
