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’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
What this person is writing is something ea should listen to.. he seems very calm about it. And I am NOT close to as calm as he might seem... I am just just pissed
Im in Norway,. And I why did I spend 1000 NOK on this game, when it not even playable for me. I don't want cross play on, for any of my games. (Thats around 100€), and I haven't been able to find a game since I bought it, with crossay off!! I am starting to consider asking for a refund. You know what, I will be demanding a refund! 😡 I don't want to play against PC players where there are tons more cheating/hacking,. Not to mention mnk having a slight upper hand on controller players... This is really starting to * me of honestly. I can hold my own against mnk, bit hackers, you don't have a chance against. Getting killed within seconds is just laughable.. never seen anything like this in other games before. Same * in cod and rainbow six. At least Ubisoft with rainbow six, was smart enough to not mix pc & console at all. Due to this. They even said it themself, that they might consider it in the future, but then players will need to turn it on by themself. The mnk issue is to big for casuals as it is on console with adapters. They did t.want to add to more problems to the mix, by having console.players going against hackers as well.. But EA doesnt seem to care about their players at this point imo.. that is litterally my experience with ea at the moment (from my 2 last purchase from them). And it might end up being my very last purchase ever from EA honestly. No joke.
As I am writing this, I have been waiting for a match for about 10min, just to see if it is able to find one. It found 2 players during 10min. And they ofc left due to having to wait long. Cross play needs to be turned off by default. What a #$#@#* decided that cross play should be enabled by default ???? Casual gamers do t think about turning off cross play, as they don't know better. And people that Want to play with their friends on PC, trust me. They will know how to do so!
I am starting the process of getting a refund, if this is not fixed.serioualy.
I didn't buy the game at launch. Due to very bad reviews and it was a broken game. But a I was stupid enough to buy it now. Definetly going to spread the message on all my social media groups, about this issue. Most people on console (the ones wanting to go against PC players are the ones with friends, or the ones that are using mnk on console, with or without adapters). So I hope I will warn as many people from making the sameistake I did, thinking I could matchmake with Xbox/PS5 players.. or only Xbox for that matter. *THANKS* very much for ruining the experience on yet a other EA game 👎 when I bought the NFS Heat, it wasn't even playable for 4months (litterally couldn't start the game at all and play. Couldn't get past the "press A to continue" in tht game for 4-5.mkths). So I am really starting to wonder.
And no, no chance in hell if I am waiting that long again. This time I am getting a refund, if this is not fixed asap.. This should not even be a problem to begin with!!!!
Western US and haven’t found a game since thanksgiving, I’ve tried all times of day/night, no luck. This needs to be sorted…
