I just bought the game on XSX and am trying to find servers to play via the Portal section, but there's literally none when I have cross play turned off. I have to have cross play turned on in order for any servers to show, which means I have to play with PC players, and as a complete newbie to the game it's sort of throwing me in at the deep end. I tried just using quickplay as well with cross play turned off, but it searches for a while and then just puts me into a lobby where I'm the only player there, and then have to wait for ages for the lobby to fill. Is this normal? Surely the game isn't THAT dead on console is it? I really hope not.

@ElliotLH They need to remove the 16 player start limit. I thought that’s was the ai back fill was for.

@SilverJackal96 It would be helpful to have the AI kick in at a lower number of human players. There are also players who have trouble connecting because of where they live, and changing it so there was a lower start limit with the AI would help them out.

Hi @Vanch333 It's very tough to find a match with crossplay off unfortunately. It's a combination of things like the limited pool of players with the console, made even smaller as it depends on others who also have it turned off, time of day, gamemode and so on. Best advice I can give you, assuming you have the digital version, is to try the Xbox One version instead. While it's slightly limited by map sizes, player counts and a bit rougher around the edges, at least you'll only crossplay with PS4 players.

Yet you can hop on BF4 on Xbox and via server browser find a match 24/7.

@Vanch333There are a few reasons that cuased the current garbage that is 2042 on next gen consoles.1: crossplay is defualt most games have you opt in2: the aim assit is garbage it doesnt work. There is no effective snape aim. All aim assit does it creates a slowing bubble around the target that makes it damn near impossible to keep on target.3: Series X in particular got screwed as the abilty to toggle cross play off was disabled for the series x at release. Then when they addressed three months later the servers wouldnt start even with players in the server and it took another 6 weeks to fix. By that time a huge part of the series x player base quit do to effectively forced crossplay with PC players by Dice.4: Dice doesn't care about console issues. We have repeatedly called for only console crossplay, to fix aim assist for console (for some reason pc players say aim assit works for them. Though when asked to show video proof they never do), to address the horrible controller imput nor do they address the massive framerate and hit registration issues on console. Ignoring requests for input based match making. Hell Dice wont even give us mouse and keyboard support for consoles.Pretty much Dice screwed over next gen consoles. So far they have ignored us no matter how many threads we have made. Some of the largest forum threads were about next gen console issues and Dice didnt have the courtesy even once to address the issues on the forums or even a blog post.

XSX: No servers on console when cross play is off?

16 Replies

ElliotLH
Hero+
4 years ago
Hi @Vanch333 It's very tough to find a match with crossplay off unfortunately. It's a combination of things like the limited pool of players with the console, made even smaller as it depends on others who also have it turned off, time of day, gamemode and so on. Best advice I can give you, assuming you have the digital version, is to try the Xbox One version instead. While it's slightly limited by map sizes, player counts and a bit rougher around the edges, at least you'll only crossplay with PS4 players.
CantGetRight
4 years ago
For the first couple of months, I had cross-play turned off. Since then it has always been turned on.
SilverJackal96
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
@ElliotLH They need to remove the 16 player start limit. I thought that’s was the ai back fill was for.
ElliotLH
Hero+
4 years ago
@SilverJackal96 It would be helpful to have the AI kick in at a lower number of human players. There are also players who have trouble connecting because of where they live, and changing it so there was a lower start limit with the AI would help them out.
Pitt_Slayer89
4 years ago
I can't even get any servers on pc. I can't even use the battle pass i have paid for as i can't get any games. Im going back for round 2 of trying to get a refund on this game
Psychopski
4 years ago
Yet you can hop on BF4 on Xbox and via server browser find a match 24/7.
Anobix
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Pitt_Slayer89 Out of curiosity what region are you in and I assume you have crossplay on?
kregora
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Vanch333 Sadly everything defaults to crossplay, and in a way enforces crossplay. For example, when you want to join a friend that is on crossplay matchmaking, your client enables crossplay, but then stays that way.
This is not the case the other way around.

So everyone at one point will have crossplay enabled.
Pitt_Slayer89
4 years ago
I'm in OCE (australia) yea I had it turned on
MouseKeyboardPS
4 years ago
@Vanch333 Have a simple solution to this Dice, let us (PS5 here) use mouse and keyboard, only on crossplay, then its fair game.