Hey everyone, I have poked our teams on the issue.
A quick question what game mode are you trying to do it in? Also can you try over the weekend and see how tits working would help a lot if you can note down when you are trying.
Marking this as solved to highlight that we are investigating.
/Atic
Add me to this list as well, I am on Xbox Series X. If I turn off crossplay, I cannot complete joining a game. It always looks like it is about to but never proceeds. Crossplay should not be mandatory in a game like this without a console only or input only option. I am in the United States.
I still can't play since Nov 11. It seems PP29 recoil is more important than non-gaming users ???
DICE TeamSince the launch of the game I have not been able to find a match with crossplay turned off in my Xbox's privacy settings. With crossplay off, I start a match and am perpetually stuck in the "waiting for players to join" screen. I tried again tonight after patch 3 and I still cannot find a match. With crossplay on the Xbox set to "aloud" I get into matches quickly and consistently. The problem is I don't want to play crossplay, it is not a fair game against PC players and I don't think I should be asked too. Also, BF 2042 is not the only game I play, and changing my Xbox settings constantly to acquiesce EA or Dice is honestly ridiculous. Please allow console players to toggle crossplay on or off through the game menu; perhaps in the meantime find a fix so I can get into a match with crossplay off in my Xbox settings. Thank you.
No changes after the patch. I don't see Error 2: 2600J but I still can't play with CrossPlay turned off. Search and find a server, but after several minutes it returns to the initial menu. Since early access I can't play. I'm already tired!!
Is anyone else getting totally frustrated waiting for players. ?
Sitting waiting and not knowing how many more players are needed is just unacceptable IMHO.
The longer it goes on the more players leave the queue which ultimately makes it worse but you cant blame them as it is just so annoying.
It wouldn't be so bad if you could even stay in the same server once you get in and allow us to play through the map rotation. Instead we get dumped back to the lobby to start the whole frustrating saga all over again.
IMHO We need the server browser back like we had in BFV and previous battlefields.
If you agree that it is unacceptable can I suggest you add your weight to this post in the hope that something gets done about this.
Yep. Its Saturday morning, West coast, and NO games could be joined. 3x I tried and all I could get was Waiting on Players.
How many more players do we need??? Where is the AI to fill up the empty slots???? I don't care if its 20 on 20, use the AI!!!!!!! Let me play the game I bought!
So glad I bought the Standard for $49 off of Green Man. This game might be dead for a while, until they fix it.
Oh and then I go to BF V, 6-7 servers with 14 ping, FULL. One had 63 and I joined right away and played some Pacific Storm. Other servers with 65 ping, some full and some with a few slots.
Not sure how they messed this up so much. BF V is in good working order, just re skin and that would have been better. Isn't that what COD does.
Agree, nothing a good cup of tea, a Bex and a nice lie down won't fix...
I have Xbox Series X and if I turn off Cross-network play to avoid cheating PC players my games will not load at all anymore. They did when the game first came out, but the past 2 weeks or so now, it absolutely will not load with cross network play turned off. I will sit in the waiting for players to join screen showing my player card along with potential 3 squad mates for a few minutes until the game eventually kicks me back to the main menu.
Why is no one reporting this and why is it it seems to only be happening to me and no one on my friends lists etc.
I've tried every setting under the sun and I've even deleted and reinstalled the game. No dice. And yes...that means no luck and no help from EA or Dice on this matter.
I wasted $150 pre-ordering the best version of this game with all the "perks" and I can't even play the game like it's designed and supposed to work in the manner in which I want to play it. Honestly, I've loved and bought and played all the battlefield titles since Battlefield 3 (with the exception of Battlefield One), but honestly...I doubt I will ever buy another one again. I definately will never ever encourage friends to buy a Battlefield or EA/Dice game again.
Has any one encountered this problem and is there any fix for the problem or is it time to just permanently give up on Battlefield?
I've reported it also, Series X here same exact issue. This is a problem because console against PC is zero fun. We basically have no choice but to play cross play at this point. Wonderful.
I don't get why it's all or nothing also. Cross play against other consoles like PS5 would be fine.
I play on Series S and have been having the same issue with cross play turned off for about a week and a half. I have been looking for people who have been reporting this as well, and have not come across any other reports, which is definitely strange. I don't know what to do differently, as playing against PC players just ruins the experience even more. Hopefully more people are oticing this issue and report it so we get some type of resolution from the devs.
My advice is to have anyone you know who's having this issue, post here with details. I'm happy to provide any details and do specific tests also!
I love the game when it works and just want to help improve it.
Issue #1
I have noticed that after update #3 I am experiencing significant choppiness / lag in many of the AOW maps. It will last for maybe a minute then smoothen out for a short period than happen all over again. It gets so bad that the game is rendered unplayable.
Issue #2
Waiting for other players.... It seems it hangs in this matchmaking lobby for an unacceptable amount of time after you play your first game of the day. The only way I've been able to circumvent this issue is hard quitting the game and reloading it. Than the cycle repeats
Issue #3
For the first time last night I was in a match where my weapons disappeared along with all the vehicles. It was comical for a minute but holy hell.... what is going on??
Fourth patch and I still can't play since Nov 11. On PS5, with CrossPlay off. I really couldn't be more disappointed in this generation of Battlefield. And I refuse to activate it, I want a solution. How much longer will I have to keep waiting ?January?
Search for server, find and then go back to the home screen.
Wow where do you live? looks like there are no servers where you stay.
Since Nov 11 with the grosplay off, I haven’t been able to play a single match in any game mode.
I already made hundreds of posts and there is no solution.
I no longer have hope, is a shame.
Version ultiamate for early access and I can't play from 11 Nov
‘Waiting for Players to Join’
I’m in the western North America region using Xbox Series X and have been having a very bad experience because I cannot find a game when I turn off crossplay. This was an issue at launch and is still an issue today as of the 3.1 update.
I have heard that many, many other Xbox Series X/S and PS5 users are also having the same problem. Some regions report better results, but my region is absolutely broken.
I can’t say for sure why, but it seems to be because crossplay is enabled by default. Because of that, the game can only find others who have opted out of crossplay and that was a very big problem for Xbox players until recently when it was mandatory for a person who wished to turn off crossplay, had to go into their Xbox console settings and turn it off on a global level which in turn affected every game, not just Battlefield 2042. Dice has recently made it easier for Xbox players to now turn off crossplay as of the 3.1 update by simply using the in-game settings but the problem of finding a game still remains because it seems to be dependent on many other players also turning off crossplay.
Console players like myself, who like to play competitively should not be playing with mouse and keyboard inputs. It’s inherently wrong to mix multiple platforms on a more competitive level. It’s also not fun when you’re more than just a casual player and truly see the disadvantage of using a controller vs mouse and keyboard. I’m not going to get into the specifics of why mouse and keyboard is advantageous over controllers but if you look at the statistics between the two inputs when it comes to kills and top player performance I think it would be clear that one dominates the other.
Furthemore, although I think crossplay should be “off” as a default for all players, I only mean to say controller players don’t want to go up against mouse and keyboard. The adjustments can also be refined to at least make the default option be that both consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X/S still match together but just not PC. Or handle it in a way that matchmaking is input based and it the game only matches players who use the same input type. As you can see there are a few ways to handle this.
As it stands right now I don’t even want to play because I feel alienated because I chose to buy a console, I did not choose to buy a PC. I want an experience that is fair and since turning crossplay off right now is not solving the fairness problem, I feel like my experience is very poor. And it is in fact broken when I turn crossplay off and can’t get into a game.
so you complain to play with the very owners of the platform the game was initially created for?
... way bigger problems with this game. Even when turning cross-play off (the bug fix for patch 2's initial like 6 hrs.) to be able to play period, found matches easily on PC. Idk.
I think what you ask for makes it impossible to play with 128 as I've seen plenty people say the cannot find matches when on console turning it off. I feel like BF has always been a PC game first.
my friends, who are all really solid at every game, don't choose this fps on their consoles. They roll with COD
I know you’re right about it originally being a PC game. I don’t have an issue with that. And because of that PC should be able to stand on its own.
Here’s a fact. I’ve been a loyal battlefield player and fan since Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (2005) when the series was first introduced to console. Since then I’ve only played on console and when playing multiplayer, crossplay was not a thing only until this installment. We should easily be able to have crossplay off by default and both versions stand on their own.
I think it’s great that crossplay is available. It’s really nice to be able to play with friends on other platforms but I firmly believe it should always be off by default for fairness because of the differences in inputs.
I have commented on this topic in other threads. But I’ll reiterate here as well.
DICE, if you are reading this, please consider the following:
I hope you have a great Christmas holiday.
More examples here, same issue
