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I have not been able to play a game on Battlefield2042 for the last 3 days. No servers on Portal and not able to get into any Dice servers at all with players in them.
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Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number Nvidia 3060 Ti
Enter RAM memory size in GB 32GB
Are you using any software with an overlay? Yes
If yes, can you list them here? NVidia GEForce
If you disable this software, does that have any effect? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? Conquest
Please select your region North America
On which server did this happen? Any
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 31.10.22 19:55
Summarize your bug For the past couple of days, I have not been able to find any populated servers. I am always the only person in the lobby. Since I am playing on PC in the west USA region in the evening time, I would assume that there are others playing. So I think this is a bug. This happens for all game modes. The cross play option for me is greyed out (says "Off') and I cannot change it.(I am not sure if this normal or not for PC)
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Select any game mode and wait.
What happens when the bug occurs? I am the only person in the lobby (1 of 64 players, 1 of 128 players, etc). The lobby remains empty.
What should be happening instead? I should join servers that are already populated or servers that others will also join.
For the past couple of days, I have not been able to find any populated servers. I am always the only person in the lobby.
Since I am playing on PC in the west USA region in the evening time, I would assume that there are others playing. So I think this is a bug.
This happens for all game modes.
The cross play option for me is greyed out (says "Off') and I cannot change it.(I am not sure if this normal or not for PC)
So I cleaned out the cache in C:\Users\<name>\Documents\Battlefield 2042\cache and I was able to turn on cross play (no longer greyed out).
And I see populated servers now.
Not sure if deleting the cache files did anything or if it is just a coincidence but it is working now.
@McGinterI have been having a similar issue in Australia. Playing regular Conquest mode puts me into an empty lobby. Exodus Conquest can usually find results (just the one active server, it looks like) so I'm guessing the freezing game/crashing server issues plus the launch of COD has bitten into the player count pretty hard.
We're at a 24 hour peak of only 4500 players globally - it was towards triple that a month ago. 2042 has lower player counts than either than BF1 and BFV (which has twice the players).
It's pretty heart breaking. Wish they would be more communicative about the issues so players struggling with it had more of a reason to come back after various updates, instead of bailing to other games right as we finally start getting decent gameplay fixes.Edit: Correction - that's on Steam alone, which I think has been estimated to be about 25% of the player base for BF2042 but is probably a smaller proportion of BF4, BFV and BF1 which released on Origin first. So can't really be sure about player number comparisons - but the real 24 hour peak might be closer to anywhere from 16k - 20k players. Which would put the player base at something similar to RDR2 or Civ 6, at around #30 of top games for players. Which isn't that bad. Hopefully with the crashing fixed it'll go back up higher too.
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