Unable to find games in Australia now
Yesterday in the daytime i thought i would have a couple of quick games at lunch time, i tried every game mode however got stuck in the waiting for players screen, and always was in Assassin squad me...
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@Tank2042Man Yep, the xbox one / ps4 population is healthier, and hasn't had the problems as bad until recently.
I had to switch to playing xbox one version because it was so hard to find games crossplay on series X.
In regards to player numbers in Australia / smaller regions; apart from announcements, game design choices and so forth affecting player numbers, I think a lot of it on next gen / PC has to do with the number of players needed to start for 128 player servers with match making.
For 64 players I think you only need 16 players to start the game (or maybe even less?). Whereas for 128 players, I think you need 32 players.
Now this shouldn't be an issue if there was a healthy player population.
However, if there are only a couple hundred players in a region or even less, and most of the players are already in an existing server, then there are simply not enough players to start a new game until another server closes and players are transferred, and the matchmaking system seems pretty stuffed in regards to transferring players to fill up existing lobbies that don't have enough players to start.
So if your on next gen in Aus, you may get lucky and get into a server, or you could be in for an infinite wait.
If there was a server browser for AoW it would solve most of these issues.
@Ga-Knomboe_BoyYep we need a server browser.
Battlefield had a very healthy BFV population right up until 2042 released and that was just on Xbox One so I'm sure it was similar on PS4.
If we had a server browser we could just sit in the queue and join a full server.
MM only which is just an inferior Quick Match, is just one more reason why the playercount is suffering.
@Tank2042Man wrote:@Ga-Knomboe_BoyYep we need a server browser.
Battlefield had a very healthy BFV population right up until 2042 released and that was just on Xbox One so I'm sure it was similar on PS4.
If we had a server browser we could just sit in the queue and join a full server.
MM only which is just an inferior Quick Match, is just one more reason why the playercount is suffering.Exactly, and you could stay on that server you joined and play through the map rotation.
MM is definitely a contributor to the ever decreasing player population as it is just so frustrating in so many ways.
@Tank2042Man wrote:@Ga-Knomboe_BoyYep we need a server browser.
Battlefield had a very healthy BFV population right up until 2042 released and that was just on Xbox One so I'm sure it was similar on PS4.
If we had a server browser we could just sit in the queue and join a full server.
MM only which is just an inferior Quick Match, is just one more reason why the playercount is suffering.I never had any problems finding a game using the server browser in BFV,
I never expected BF2042 to be any different, how wrong was I. ☹️
Xbox One Australia.
After joining yet another new server with around 20 players I decided to leave and find another server. The map was Hourglass.
Joined another Hourglass server and again only about 20 players, I checked the names and confirmed it was a new server.
Ok, so left the game and clicked play and another Hourglass server! So as I'm waiting I'm thinking it's one of the other 2 Hourglass servers I'm going to end up in, but it wasn't, I was now in a full Hourglass server!
Decided to leave and try again. Got put back in the same server.
Left again then got matched in to a Breakaway server, half full.
This was all in the space of about 5 minutes.
So often a game ends, the server is full and then the game puts me in a new server with about 20 players again.
However a lot of the time now it will not add new players for the entire round.
Something is clearly not working with the MM. Maybe they have been doing something behind the scenes because this only really started happening about 3 weeks ago.
- @Tank2042Man Now that is weird isn't it, definitely
sounds as if MM is bugged or broken as you say.
If they are tampering with it and trying new options it doesn't bode well for our hopes of a proper server browser if they are wasting time working on MM.
All very strange......
