We're now only playing against bots due to the lack of players.

That is a bug, no idea why it happens but the lobby have a cap of players with this bug, often on prime numbers, 8, 12, 16,20, you can know for sure because once inside one of those lobby's when the player cap is reached, if you try to get inside the game it gives you an error,

so far that bug is persistent trough the game, and there is nothing to do rather than ending the game quickly or just leaving the server

it is a bug so someone should do a formal report, its not for the lack of players, we are not quite there, maybe when bf6 launches the playerbase will drop to the point of actuall empity servers

xoxo