Social is NOT working - friend online but says Social [0] 80% of the time!

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Product: Battlefield 2042Platform:PCPlease specify your platform model. PCAMD or Nvidia Model Number 4080Enter RAM memory size in GB 32Are you using any software with an overlay? NoWhich part of the game is the issue happening in? MultiplayerWhich part of the mode? ConquestPlease select your region EuropeOn which server did this happen?When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm)Summarize your bug The social online friends feature is buggy as hell. Does not see my son online in same game as me in next room.How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a friend online - can see them online in EA app - then start BF2042 and it will say Social [0] and your friend is not online. No matter how many times I restart game.What happens when the bug occurs? No friends onlineWhat should be happening instead? Should be able to see friend playing BF2042‌The social friends feature is broken - it does NOT detect your friends being online and playing game.My son is in next room on his own PC and we are both logged into EA and playing BF2042 at same time. About 80% of the time it says he is not online... Social [0] in game.And then to make matters worse, when he is NOT here and playing... I have seen it say he IS online.. says Social[1] and I can see his name on page.... absolutely ridiculous. Even though I ask him is he playing right now... and he says no.Both PCs on same local network in house. Mine is 5950X / 4080 his is 3900X / 3070This has been happening months now - I see others complaining about it here too.I tried the workaround of running entire game as administrator and that appeared to fix it - but today again, he is here playing, I am running game as admin, and yet I STILL CAN'T SEE HIM in game.Its really pissing me off because he is not here very often - and every time he is here we can't play same game together.The actual EA app IS working correctly and can see when he is online/offline correctly 100% of the time. So whatever BF2042 is doing is broken.Can you get someone to look into this bug?

sungodsrevenge7 · Answer

idk why\how big game companies like this cant get a simple friends list to work

dogtronic · Answer

I have the same issue. Regardless if the computer is on the same network or if another friend invites me from another network location, I receive zero invite notifications and can not join their games. Also can't send any invites.I have tried the mentioned work arounds and nothing works.

Have you managed to get any workarounds?

giowgan · Answer

No... I did try running game as admin account, and it appeared to make some difference, but then would still randomly not see him online the next time. Seems to be pure random. No idea whats going on with the code behind the scenes or how they figure out which friends are online or not. The terrible thing is... Battlefield will say "no friends" but if you use the EA shortcut to open the social/friends panel in-game, that will see your friend as being online !

drth-gr8friknap · Answer

Having same problem.&nbsp; Did all the reboots, restarts, checking equipment, updates, drivers and, finally, uninstalled and reinstalled program.&nbsp; Still no joy.&nbsp; Social shows no friends online when we ARE online.&nbsp; Then, when we try to squad up it will not connect.&nbsp; Shows me in squad and never connects.&nbsp; It's all mucked up.&nbsp; All my other games are unaffected.&nbsp; Did you get any answers yet?&nbsp; I don't see any replies from EA on here.

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Social is NOT working - friend online but says Social [0] 80% of the time!

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