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Spiritedmushroom
New Traveler
2 years ago

Matchmaking broken

Eversince the newest update I'm constantly, every day, running into this same problem.

I launch the game, search for a match, get into one instantly. Play that to the end, search for a new match, get into one within a few seconds. Play that to the end.

Then when I try third time all of a sudden I can't find more than an maximum of 40 players and usually the amount is only 4-10 (this in Rush XL, so majority of the "players" are bots). No matter how many times I keep searching.

After 15-20 minutes, or if I just close and relaunch the game, I get connected instantly again. It is so frustrating. I play when there are thousands of people online. I play from EU region which is one of the most popular regions, if not the most popular. I have crossplay enabled all the time. I have over 700 hours in this game, and I'm one of those poor *beeps* who preordered this piece of work, so I've seen "it all". This is a reoccurring "bug" or "feature" which keeps coming back approximately every half an year. Literally no other game out of 300 I own suffers from this issue. No other EA title I own has this issue. I've never had this issue with any other Battlefield either.

When I finally get into a match, is it after a relaunch or that certain time period, I usually get into a match that's been going on for over 10 minutes. So it's not that there wouldn't be any players out of who knows how many thousands who for some reason wouldn't play this gamemode at this certain time. If I stay on that lobby which has like 12 players, the player numbers can climb up to 24 but after the match starts no new players will ever join. If I wanted to play against bots I'd play against bots, but I don't enjoy that at all.

Why this keeps happening? It'll go away eventually, maybe the next update just makes this issue disappear like always. But it's been coming back for almost 2.5 years already. I know I'm not the only one suffering from this because there most of the time are those 1-40 people in each lobby like me.

5 Replies

  • Anobix's avatar
    Anobix
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @SpiritedmushroomDoes it only happen with Portal-mode items [like Rush XL] or the two mainstream choices like CQ and BT?

    I imagine this is a bug that prevents new players from getting into an existing game/queue and only funnelled to a new one, rinse and repeat.

  • Spiritedmushroom's avatar
    Spiritedmushroom
    New Traveler
    2 years ago

    It happens on modified Breakthrough versions, like Infantry Breakthrough and Breakthrough Chaos, but also Control and the Rush XL I mentioned.

    "Actual" portal modes (like the weekly "community spotlight") are never affected by this, not even the Squid Games Rush XL type of mode.

    Don't know about Conquest because I don't really play that mode. But if I had to speculate I'd say it's likely that mode's "modified versions" act the same way.

  • sk1lld's avatar
    sk1lld
    Legend
    2 years ago

    Sounds like a bug, have you put this in the bug forums?

  • Spiritedmushroom's avatar
    Spiritedmushroom
    New Traveler
    2 years ago

    At least once over the years. Maybe twice. You reckon I should do it again? So far nobody has obviously cared enough.

  • DMGG1994's avatar
    DMGG1994
    2 years ago

    @Spiritedmushroom 

    For a simple reason, older Battlefields had a server finder so you could see how many people were on a server and join it. BF2042 has matchmaking which causes the game to die out faster (Call of Duty games are proof of this), by 3 years old 70% of the modes are dead because players change the game and MM can't find enough players at the same time as you search for a match.

    Until the server finder comes back, that's the way it's going to be, all companies are going for cash and not consumer welfare (doesn't matter if it's a corporation writing a game or designing cars - the market is going that way and that's it).

    Still check you don't happen to have NAT closed or a firewall or something else, read post #11 at this link, maybe it will help.

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/BF2042-Matches-Not-Launching-Since-12-26-2023/m-p/13356559#M57084

    GL

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