Product: Battlefield 2042Platform:PlayStation 5 Digital EditionPlease specify your platform model. Sony PlayStation 5 Digital EditionAre you using any software with an overlay? NoWhich part of the game is the issue happening in? MultiplayerWhich part of the mode? BreakthroughPlease select your region OtherOn which server did this happen?When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) Happens everydaySummarize your bug Cannot find a breakthrough lobby with crossplay off on PS5 in Middle east region. I am stuck in the lobby waiting for other players to join but the round never begins. I should be able to get a full 128 player breakthrough server regardless of crossplay being turned off.How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try to search for a breakthrough lobby on PS5 with crossplay off in Middle east region.What happens when the bug occurs? Cannot find a breakthrough round on PS5 when i search for a match with crossplay off in Middle east region.What should be happening instead? I should be getting a full server regardless of crossplay being turned off.Please fix this issue because I am unable to play breakthrough with crossplay off in Middle east region. I am sure this is a problem with other regions like Oceania and South America too. It is frustrating to wait for players to join the lobby only for the game to send you back to the main menu because it could not find any players. This issue will be fixed if you add server browser’s DICE.

@DanielRicciardo This has been resolved and now there is a toggle switch in the menu. But, regardless, we still cannot play. We can connect to a server but the match never starts.

I am having this exact issue as well. I am an Xbox Series X user in the Pacific region of the United States (Washington state) This issue was present from the moment Early Access began. It seemed to be resolved for approximately 36 hours, 2 days into Early Access. But then reverted to this same issue and has not been resolved since. It is now December 3rd and three patches later this game is still incredibly broken. I cannot begin to express how long I waited for this game and how excited I was for years looking forward to the release of battlefield 2042. I am now in such a state of disappointment and disgust that I refuse to play it. This needs to be fixed!!

Yeah I definitely get the feeling it's done on purpose. I had crossplay off(Xbox series x) and it never happened, then one of the updates happens and it started happening. Makes no sense why it would happen, I thought thats what the bots were for. Stupid.

@DanielRicciardo Same issue on xbox. Can't find xbox only lobbies at all in CA

@BeltzClan6 I see so the better option would’ve been to have crossplay between the PS5 and Series X/S.

No players in lobby when crossplay turned off

20 Replies

reezilient1
4 years ago
I am having this exact issue as well. I am an Xbox Series X user in the Pacific region of the United States (Washington state) This issue was present from the moment Early Access began. It seemed to be resolved for approximately 36 hours, 2 days into Early Access. But then reverted to this same issue and has not been resolved since. It is now December 3rd and three patches later this game is still incredibly broken. I cannot begin to express how long I waited for this game and how excited I was for years looking forward to the release of battlefield 2042. I am now in such a state of disappointment and disgust that I refuse to play it. This needs to be fixed!!
JayB_2103
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
@reezilient1 I think you won’t find Xbox only lobbies because of how difficult it is to turn off crossplay on Xbox SX/S. I think you have to go into a lot of settings just to turn crossplay off. It is much simple on PS5 because there is an option to turn off crossplay in options in the game but still I can’t find matches. I think they should’ve just gone with crossplay between both the consoles tbh, would’ve turned out better for everyone.
reezilient1
4 years ago
Yes, the turn off crossplay option is buried deep in the Xbox UI settings. You have to go into account, then privacy, then Xbox privacy, then communication and multiplayer etc. I don't know if this is done intentionally in order to promote cross-platform integration or what, but in any case it is a dirty trick and is unacceptable. I wouldn't have as much of a problem if it actually worked when you DID turn it off. But then again the majority of this game doesn't work as intended anyways. I guess that is what you get when you hire a developer lead who's last major project was Candy Crush! Are you kidding me? What a joke.
DanzigsMISFITS
4 years ago
@DanielRicciardo Same issue on xbox. Can't find xbox only lobbies at all in CA
BeltzClan6
4 years ago
@DanielRicciardo This has been resolved and now there is a toggle switch in the menu. But, regardless, we still cannot play. We can connect to a server but the match never starts.
JayB_2103
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
@BeltzClan6 I see so the better option would’ve been to have crossplay between the PS5 and Series X/S.
C1AY70N
4 years ago
@DanielRicciardo Confirmed this happens on PC as well. Sat in 5-6 different servers yesterday waiting for players to join and the game never started. Finally went into settings and found the cross-play was turned off, turned it on and immediately got into a server and played a game. It's broken.
DanzigsMISFITS
4 years ago
Yup same ...can't find xbox lobbies in Norcal.... Unless this gets fixed I think this game is dead and I'm done with it.... I was so excited for a new BF game too.
reezilient1
4 years ago
It seems as though the devs added "a crossplay button" in the options menu and that's all they did. The button appears to have no functionality whatsoever. I believe they did this just so they could say they "fixed it" while they can still come out later and say oh it didn't work as expected. I don't think they ever intended it to be functional when they added the button at least not right away. They wanted to quiet the crowd so that they could go home and enjoy their Christmas while we were left with this mess. Really sucks.
AuggiePOP
4 years ago
@DanielRicciardoI'm just outside of Los Angeles and this is happening to me 99.9% of the time. I actually remember a game starting and it was 1v.1... on these epic maps!
For all their hard work, the devs underdelivered on this one. I'm done. I may revisit it in a couple months, but this is the last EA game I'll buy in a while, if at all. Playing CoD for now. I like BF much more, but not enough to deal with the sweaty mouse players and especially this forced cross play bs. You did it to yourselves EA!